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Latin football in 1907. "Eddie Crawford ['48] and I were the right and left halfbacks on the football team. We had a big game coming up, and on Friday we had what we called chalk practice. Eddie and I didn't go. We decided to go to the movies instead. On Saturday, we came out to the game, and Coach Hoffman wouldn't start us. Latin was losing horribly, and Hoffman finally sent us out on the field. We had a minute to go, and we were losing 63-0. Accidentally, we found ourselves on their 12-yard line. They dropped the ball – probably because they were so tired of holding it the whole time. Carl Leigh fell on it. Next thing I know, I have the ball. I look up, and what seems like 12,000 people are coming at me. I know we have a minute to play, we are 63-0, and we have another game to play next week, and I don't want to get hurt. So I go down. I just sit down. On Monday morning, I had to go to the headmaster's office. I was sitting outside, and I heard Hoffman telling J.O. Wood what had happened, and J.O. saying 'He what? He just sat down?' I got a huge lecture about playing to the end. But I kept saying 'Why get hurt when there is no chance of winning?' I didn't see the point." – Miles Berger '48 in 1914. Girls played tennis, field hockey, basketball and softball in Lincoln Park and in an empty lot on Astor Street. They could earn a golden "L" varsity letter. By 1923, girls teams were playing field hockey against North Shore Country Day School, basketball against Ferry Hall in Lake Forest, and softball against Roycemore School in Evanston. Also popular at the girls school was the Walking Club, which was started in 1914. Students would walk from the Scott Street building to Municipal Pier or the Lincoln Background: Men's 1907 basketball team. Park Zoo and there was an annual overnight trip to Wisconsin for those who earned enough miles. The Walking Club continued for many years under girls athletic directors Frances Davis, Alice Porter and Amelia Price. At the boys school, athletics suffered because of World War I and the effects of the worldwide flu epidemic, which canceled the 1918 football season. "Let us have more men out for athletics!" implored the yearbook in 1918. By the late 1920s, however, the school once again enjoyed a robust program, in LATI N SCHOOL OF CHI CA GO 61