Cannon-Nappers Are Poor Sports, Say Rutgers after Stadium Holdup

Rutgers wants to know where it Little Red Cannon is.

The team brought it up to Cambridge last weekend, fired it a few times in the opening periods of the football game, and lost track of it between the halves when Harvard men whisked it across the gridiron into the murky depths of the colonnade.

The cannon is "a very important thing" to the Middle Three--Rutgers, Lafayette, and Lehigh--who win it from each other on the football field. According to Middle Three tradition, the Little Red Cannon should be around this weekend when Rutgers meets Lafayette.

The editors of the Rutgers Targum have called the theft "nothing but poor sportsmanship." Their editorial goes on to brand the men who stole the Little Red Cannon "poor losers."

The Little Red Cannon belongs to the Rutgers football team that won it the hard way," says the Targum. Mulling over the scores of the only two games the boys from the Raritan have played in the Stadium, they point out that Harvard can have no claim to the cannon as a victory trophy. The theft of the tradition-cloaked cannon "reflects disrespect on all students of Harvard University," concludes the Targum.

Thus far both Universities have remained officially aloof from the controversy with no angry diplomatic notes exchanged.