Annual Thanksgiving game almost canceled  From The Register
Mail: In the early years of Knox College football the final game
of the season was played against either Lombard or Monmouth
colleges on Thanksgiving afternoon. Regardless of weather
conditions the games established record attendance figures.  In
early November 1910, Lombard College administrators informed
Knox College that the Thanksgiving Day game would have to be
canceled. The late notice made it virtually impossible to find a
substitute opponent.  Initially Lombard administrators declined
to reveal why they could not fulfill the Thanksgiving date with
Knox, but the truth leaked out. Several members of the Olive &
Old Gold football squad had been unceremoniously dismissed from
further participation in college activities.  It was found that
the guilty football players had become much too hilarious and
did things around the domains of the institution of learning
which greatly offended Lombard College authorities. It was
determined that the offenders