In 1894 students on campus were anxiously awaiting word of the outcome of the baseball game between UT and Cumberland University. In the first recorded student prank, a student contrived to steal a blank telegraph form from the local telegraph office and prepared a bogus telegram announcing a UT victory. The news led to an impromptu parade and campus-wide jubilation. When the real score was received, and it became known that UT had not won the game, the students were enraged, held mass meetings, and threatened to put the perpetrators of the joke out of school. Only by the intervention of the faculty was the matter settled, after severe reprimands to the students involved. A similar incident occurred in 1897 when a bogus telegram announcing an out-of-town baseball victory set off a spontaneous parade on the Hill.