The Battle at Alumni Stadium

With apologies to William Shakespeare, King Henry V and St. Crispin:

…Then shall their names,

Familiar in his mouth as household words,

Fitz the Coach, Colter, and Smith,

Trumpy and Budzien, Dunsmore and Schmidt,

Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.

This story shall the good man teach his son;

And St. Gregory’s feast shall ne'er go by,

From this day to the ending of the world,

But they in it shall be remembered-

Those few, those happy few, that band of Wildcats;

For see! Colton to-day did shed tacklers at ease

Shall he be my QB; tho’ he no Dan Persa?

This day shall gentle such condition:

And NU fans in Chestnut Hill now a-couch

Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,

And hold their purple cheap whiles any speaks

That saw ‘Cats trounce Eagles on this fair day."