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[[bold]] [[underlined]] The Man Who Became a Riot [[/underlined]] [[/bold]]

[[italics]] [[bold]] First Rowbottom Hopes He's Seen the Last of 'Em [[/bold]] [[/italics]]

[[bold]] By Frank Brookhouser [[/bold]]
[[italics]] Inquirer Staff Reporter [[/italics]]
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[[drop-cap]] [[bold]] F [[/bold]] [[/drop-cap]] ROM the lips of none other than Joseph T. Rowbottom himself today came a plea to the University of Pennsylvania students to toss rowbottoms into the limbo. Rowbottom (class of '12), whose proper name threatens to become a common noun in the language through absolutely no fault of his own, is not concerned about his own legendary connection with every street skirmish that breaks out at the college.
But, being a loyal Penn man still, he is concerned for his Alma Mater and for Dr. George W. McClelland, president of the university, who once taught him freshman English and is "one great guy."
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[[bold]] " [[drop-cap]] I [[/drop-cap]] [[/bold]] T DOES me no good and it does me no harm," he said about his ghostline connection with Penn tumult. "But it's definitely not good for the university. And I can't make my feelings on that point too strong."
Rowbottom was behind his big desk in the offices of the American Steel Foundries at 230 Park ave. and it was the first time he had ever talked about... well, rwbottoms...for publication. Last week he turned down three magazine requests for interviews and--hung up on New York reporters.
"But," he said today, "if it might help the university, sure I'll make a statement.
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[[bold]] " [[drop-cap]] I [[/drop-cap]] [[/bold]] T'S this way. I get a lot of jibing from my friends about it (he has letters from presidents and vice presidents of companies to emphasize this), but I'm well able to take care of myself with the jibing. That's not the important thing.
"I'm absolutely dead set against the kind of riots that have developed from our old crockery smashes, which were altogether different. [[/column 1]]

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[[bold]] " [[drop-cap]] I [[/drop-cap]] [[/bold]] T DOES not do the city any good and primarily and first and last, it does not do our Alma Mater any good. It hurts our reputation and I earmark the thing as muckerism.
"I would be in favor of having expelled from Penn and barred from every other college anyone caught promoting wilful destruction. I mean the birds who give the thing its momentum.
"Hand a badge on those guys. Earmark them. And when they got home, their fathers would skim them alive. You need drastic measures."
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[[bold]]" [[drop-cap]] T [[/drop-cap]] [[/bold]] HERE have been two violent rowbottoms at Penn this year. Riots also developed in connection with the South Carolina-Slemson game and another one at Amherst, both of these disturbances in the newspapers, a traditional Philadelphia property like scrapple and pepper pot having extended into other sections of the country.
With a type of disturbance peculiar to the Woodland ave. environs becoming a nickname for any campus violence, rowbottoms have been a subject of national comment.
One New York sports columnist went so far as to call Rowbottom immortal, and thousands of other people no doubt have had the mistaken impression that Rowbottom, [[/column 2]] [[/newspaper clipping]]

^[[From Philadelphia Inquirer Dec.1.1946.]]