[Newsreel: Collegians Wage Vegetable War] (1930s)

Year Published: 1930s

Description:

title: Odd Bits in Today's News: San Francisco, Cal.-- Collegians Wage Vegetable War
students posing for camera with old and rotten vegetables
freshman and sophomores throwing vegetables at one another
residential neighborhood (and cemeteries), and sandlots, visible in background
narrator: "The Battle of Garbage Hill"

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Complete Record: title: Odd Bits in Today's News: San Francisco, Cal.-- Collegians Wage Vegetable War students posing for camera with old and rotten vegetables freshman and sophomores throwing vegetables at one another residential neighborhood (and cemeteries), and sandlots, visible in background narrator: "The Battle of Garbage Hill" We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

Transcription

[Music] elderly tomatoes and other ancient fruit grandfather eggs and such the ammunition for the annual brawl between the frost and sophomores at University of San Francisco it's a scene of Bloodshed and Slaughter a frightful toll of Carnage and destruction Brave young man advancing to an unknown fate that might be worse than death itself it finally finishes in a draw but it'll never be forgotten the Battle of garbage hill

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