The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-11-13
OF THE GREAT GAME
Witnessed by Many Spectators at
Lynchburg Saturday.
Trinity Loses by Great Odds and Refuses
10 Finish the Game.

10 Finish the Game.
CLAIM THE UMPIRE INCOMPETENT
The Most Exciting Game of Football Wit
messed in the Southern States
This Season.
The Lynchburg News of Yesterday says:
Yesterday the dull thud of the punt as
the ball scared over the heads of the rush
line was heard in the land and the voice
OF the captain as he marshalled his squad
rOns to the onslaught. The University
of Virginia was there and In consequence
the skies were unusually blue with here
and there decidedly orange tinge. 1t
was great day for the lovers of college
sport for this was the first exhibition of
! the greatest of college games played by
skilled teams ever seen in Lynchburg
Trinity college, North Carolina, was
the opposing team, but they were over
matched and outplayed from start to fin
| ish. They came up from the Tarheel
state with hundreds of hackers and hun
drcds Of dollars, but they returned sadder,
wiser and more impecuniOus men, for
| they fell before the striped Varsity men
even like Lucifer, never to rise again.
They had overestimated their team and
their confidence led many to believe they
would win the game.
The Trinity team outweighed the Uni,
versity by about ten pounds to the man,
but their weight was above their waists
while the Varsity men were short and
stocky, with great bulgiag legs looking
all the larger from their striped stockings.
The Varsity team was the first on the
field and as they trotted out in single file
with "Old Pent" at their head, they
looked every inch athletes, Trinity fol-
I lowed few minutes later and at $3.50 the
teams lined up. Captain Penton won the
toss and took the ball, forming his men
for flying wedge, Harper holding the
ball at the centre Of the field At the
signal the striped tigers came bearing
down upon him and he touched the pig
skin OF his foot and passed the ball back
to Jones Down the field they came a
great rolling mass Of orange and blue, and
when the two teams unwrap the ball is
ten yards down in Trinity's territory.
$50 II A" shouted Harper, and they are
off again. Yard by yard they force the
ball down to Trinity's line and in a
crowning effort, Pope lands over the
line with the ball tucked under his arm.
Virginia scored In two minutes and Har-
per kicked the goal
And Sc the game goes. At one time it
looked as if Trinity would score. By
short rushes around the ends they forced
Virginia back to their six yard line.
Third down, one yard TO gain" cries
the referee, and Daniels drops back as
if to kick. Bull Early, though, rises to
the occasion. He remembers some of
his old tricks, and the ball goes back
crooked, and Daniels is downed almost
in his tracks, and Trinity's hope OF scor-
ing has vanished.
At the end of the first half the score
was thirty to nothing in favor Of Nir-
ginia. When the whistle blows for the
second half, Trinity refuses TO play un-
less the umpire (Mr Catlin, of the Wash
ington Y N. {. A. team is changed.
| This is refused, since Mr. Calln was
brought from Washington 10 umpire the
game Accordingly the game is declared
forfeited 10 Virginia. Had the game
been played through, the score would
probably have reached sixty points or
more.
Captain Penton, for Virginia, played
great game, frequently breaking
through and downing the man. Bull