In the September 26, 1925 issue of The Blue Stocking, our student newspaper, we can find the first recorded details about Homecoming festivities at PC. The article pictured here shows that PC was scheduled to play Oglethorpe on "Home-Coming Day," Nov. 13th of that year.
You might notice on the football schedule that our first game of the season in 1925 was against Clemson. Our 14-9 win that day was reported the next week as “Blue Stockings tame Tigers for first time in history.” A few weeks later on October 24th (pictured below) The Blue Stocking reported that “Plans are fast taking shape for P.C.’s greatest Home-Coming Day. This year Home-Coming Day will be on November 13th and it’s a Friday … in addition to the football game, the Oglethorpe orchestra will perform in Clinton on the night of the 13th under the auspices of the Clinton Kiwanis Club. Reports reaching Clinton at present from the Georgia school are that they are going to come to P.C. in force, bringing a band and approximately 100 students. If this is the case, P.C. will need all possible support. Make your plans now, Alumni and be in Clinton on the 13th.”
Looking ahead in The Blue Stocking to the November 14 issue published the day after the Home Coming game, the headline reads: “BLUE STOCKINGS COMPLETELY OUTCLASS OGLETHORPE TEAM: However, Georgia Lads Win Hard Fought Game BY One Point Margin.” A detailed description of the game filling three long columns includes statements like, “the South Carolinians out drove, out passed, out punted and out-generalled the Petrels, but the lucky S.I.A.A. champions won on two bad breaks in the second quarter” and “the fact that the Blue Stockings garnered 12 first downs to 9 for Oglethorpe is only a slight measure indicative of how the charges of Walter Johnson played rings around the much-vaunted eleven from Atlanta.”
The Editorial column for Nov. 14th has numerous short statements including this rather interesting item, “College of Father versus College of Son-may they meet again.” This of course, is in reference to William Plumer Jacobs’ college, Presbyterian College, playing the college of his son, Thornwell Jacobs, President of Oglethorpe College for nearly three decades, 1915-1943.
This article about the PC Alma Mater was also found in the November 14th, 1925 issue of The Blue Stocking. The Presbyterian College Alma Mater in use in 1925 had been written by John Henry Townsend, Director of the Glee Club and other musical activities at the college. Professor Townsend taught at PC from 1923-1926 (PC Catalogs 1923-26). The words to Townsend’s Alma Mater as well as our current Alma Mater written by William Plumer Jacobs III can be found in the PC Archives and Special Collections housed in James H. Thomason Library.
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