Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-19
PLAY BUT ONE HALF.
RANpoLpH-MAcoN BOYS DECLINE TO
FINISH THE FOOTBALL GAME.
Richmond College Wins the Inning Played.
Kick About Decision-'The Pledge
iings Take n Hand.

IL was the same old story NJ isihhu
Park yesterday when Professor Puryears
Kicking Colts met tho Randolph Macon
football team, and Of course-tust as
should have been expected-the whole
thing ended in quarrel and grand out
hurst of collegiate indignation.
Whom the long-haired Richmond stu
dents. with their noses hidden In foot
hall armor and their invulnerable shins
encased in Bankruptcies. sailed forth
upon the arena 10 do battle with their,
mud-spa,tered, scratched-faced opponents.
r goodly crowd numbering at least 300
persons sat upon the bleacheries or clus-
tered eagerly around the ropes.
If * OF no use 10 describe the appear
auce OF the twenty-five sturdy athletes
who struggled in the contest. Just pic
ture two elevens Of sturdy, honest fellows
An once white canvas suits, wallow the
whole crowd IN the mud OF your tnagi-
nation and concluding the operation by
running "A rake through the hair OF 'heir
respective heads. you will have the TN
types" OF the contendng clubs. IL might
be added that the Ashland boys wore
black and yellow stockings, wniIe the
hosiery OF their opponets was black and
orange.
HOW THEY LINED UP.
The following Is the personnel OF the
two eleVens
Richmond College. Randolph Macon;
LLOYD .............. center............... Reid
Ouillen.........right guard. Clayton
Hoover..........left guard. .Garnett
SalIade.........riFht tackle.....,.......Best
NferkIe...........left tackle. .............D
G. Winston. right end .Blincoe
Turner...........left end......'..''. Eus,Ier
Bosher. half. Fletcher
II. Burnett. Capt left Newbill
J.. Harrison. quarter back.........W watts
W. Duke.........full back. Howison, Capt.
The kicking commenced even before the
game. Before the gladiatorial scrimmage
began the Ashland boys threatened 10
leave the field unless Richmond College
allowed them 10 have their umpire Chr.
Garnet Nelson, of the University for
both halves. Professor Puryear Coils
insisted that they should have their UNI
pjre for one half and their referee for the
other. but as the Randolph Macon re-
fused 10 play on these conditions, the
home eleven finally waived their rights.
The game then commenced with Mr.
Nelson AS umpire and Mr.. c. r. Burnett
as referee.
COLTS WON THE BALL.
The Colts won the ball. and started
with a double wedge. Randolph Macon
sfarted orf-sde. but Richmond College
gained several yards. Finally the pigskin
was lost on downs by the Ashlanders
and the visitors held the leather until 1t
was rocaptured on downs.
The Richmonders sent Burnett around
right-end for twenty yards; Bosher took
the ball and made a beautiful dash OF
sixty feet more. In the scrimmage when
cnsucd the ball passed TO w. Duke who
made a touchdown Burnett kicked goal
?fely. making the score 10 In favor
Of the Colts
on returning 10 centre Randolph Macon
started with a wedge. which was broken
by tho centre-nan Of the Richmond team
Finally after desperate struggle Bosher
capturcd the bail, and making a beauti-
fuI 3O-yard run. scored another touch
down. Burnett again kicked goal. and in
creased the score to Il in favor of the
purvearitcs.
RANDOLPH-MACO GOT MAD.
Before the first and only half terml-
mated Oor the second was never played
the Ashland lads braced up considerably.
ard lust before the inning ended a beau
tiful twenty -nve-yard run Of NewOiNs
got the leather within ten feet Of the
Puryoaritos' goal. At this jUncture Nh
Burnett called time. and the Ashlanders
were thus deprived Of an opportunity to
sc0r.. Mr.. Burnett says the half had
already more than expired, but the Ran
dolDh-MaCons didn't seem 10 think So
They were acknowledgements in
dicnant-1nd rumOr even says that IN
their wrath they tore the football to
pieces. What is more. report likewise
says that they insuted the dignity of
Richmond College by tossing into the
river the rubber guard hitherto used to