No More Chariot

After their football team had beaten Phillips Andover for the third successive year, the boys of Phillips Exeter Academy one Saturday night last month trundled out their Chariot of Victory, went prancing and cavorting through the flare-lit streets of Exeter, N. H. Atop the chariot, a haywagon which three years ago replaced a famed old coach, perched the Exeter team. A bonfire blazed on the playing field and the chapel bell tolled madly until after midnight.

Amid the noise and jostle of the celebration an Exeter junior named Basil Orton, son of a Smith College professor, stumbled and fell directly under the coach's creaky wheels. Six days later he died of internal injuries. Last week Exeter authorities announced that the Chariot of Victory celebration, 20 years old, would probably be stopped.

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