Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-04
TO BATTLE FOR GOAL.
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE THAMksciv-
ING GAME OF FOOTBALL
Progress a the Tsams-Ths Zvsat - u
One Unparalleled In This
Sport In Virginia


Richmond lovers Of athletic sports arc
looking forward to tho great Football
game to be played here on Thanksgiving
Day between the teams of the UNIVERSE
ties of Virginia and North Carolina Is
something marvellous This battle for
points will take place at west-End Park.
ard the capacity Of that familiar stamp
ing-ground Of Pop Tats and Reddy Foster
will probably be about half sufficient to
hold the crowd. 1t is to be distinctively
&C cial game. and OF course the ultra-fash-
ionable folk will be on hand to lend en-
couragement to Its favorites.
II the weather Is propitlous-and why
can't It be?-West-End Park will present
as glorious a feast to the eye on the after
neon Of the aforesaid Thanksgiving-Day
a. the vari-colored dining table. with the
predominating brown Of the turkcy-gob-
bier. will present to the appetite. the
beauty and grace and chivalry. all ar
rayed In their new winter clothes. Will
be on dress-promenade. Ribbons ana
streamers, hat-bands. and umbrellas VIII
indicate the sentiment Of the spectators.
and amid fiuttering orange and piue' anu
blue and white, the great Varsity teams
will struggle for supremacy.
The University Of Virginia mas done
some fine football playing so far THIS
season. A slight delay has been causeo
to the team because OF the retirement
from its management OF Mr.. NJ. \. Jonn-
sen, who has long managed the Varsl-
ties with splendid success. But now W:
w. A. Lambeth, physical Instructor OF
acting manager Of the team. and 1t -
getting in some fine work. The superb
manner in which Its boys held down
Princeton and the University OF Penn-
sylyania, and the fact that they van
quished several minor teams. speaks wei
of their chances for success with most
any eleven in the land.
ARRANGEMENTS for the Thanksgiving game
here are being made by Captain George
| AInslie, whose knowledge OK the sport
has placed him In the forefront In loot-
hall matters in Virginia. He predicts that
the coming event will be great succeSS'
both financially and socially.
THE TAR-HEEL BOYS.
The team from the University OF North
Carolina II also doing some splenuld loot
ball playing this season. Only once SO
far has 1t gone down before foe. and II
Is unsafe to prophesy that the boys VINO
fight under tho inspiring words, SIC
Semper Tyrannis," will be victorious 70
any largo degree IL at all.
Football at tho University or NORTH
Carolina Is not the game OF the few as
at some institutions but is heartily
Joined In by q large proportion OK the
students Each Of thu four classes nave
their teams and their Scrubs" and the
law and medical departments nave or
ganized also. The athletic-held cioseiy
adjoins the university buildings. so that
the students easily and naturally gather
there. On any of these bright OCTOBER
afternoons visitor would find the
varsity team diligently hammering away
AT the scrubs and learning their business
at the expense of those poor. nameless
and unhonored heroes. while three or
four class teams are playing In di1erent
parts Of the field. 1t often happens that
as many as sixty or seventy men In UNI
form are In the large enclosure at one
time The benefits Of this state or aHairs
are easily seen. The whole institution gets
the benefit Of the fine. manly sport, ana
material Is developed for the varsity
which could not be gotten out in any
other way. When old men leave new
men arc ready to take their places.
HAVE A FINE TEAM.
Thus this year the Tar-Heel boys
found il necessary to build up their team
almost de novo, SO many were the va
cancies caused by the failure OK last
years men to return. They have not peen
discouraged, however. but have perfected
and worked over the material on hand'
until the promise Is that they Will nave
ope Of the best teams in the history OF
the university.
Much of tho credit for this is due to
their excellent trainer, Mr.. V. X. Irvine,
of Princeton. Mr.. Irvine knows the game
thoroughly, and besides has a good deal
of personal magnetism about him which
wins the men to him and makes II very
easy for him to control and direct them.
He Is a member of the senior class at
Princeton this year. and expects to grad
uate next June. The Princeton faculty
have granted him leave Of absence dur
ing the football season with the require
ment that he attend lectures at the
University of North Carolina and so pur-
sue his studies there as If he were still
at Princeton. Mr.. Irvine is the best
trainer ever seen at the university.
PLAYED FIVE GAMES.
Tho team has SO far played only five
games. Two Of these were with tho Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College OF Ra-
leigh. The university won these by
scores Of a to 0 and 1S to 0. Tho third
game played by the university was
against their old foe. Trinity College.
The Trinity men outweighed them and
had had the benefit Of being coached by
an old University OF Pennsylvania player.
Newton, their end-rush Of last year.
Trinity has usually put out one or the
strongest teams In the South. and she has
this year many Of her old players: stu
the university took her very handily into
camp to the tune Of Is to o.
The fourth game playe1 by the pniver-
sity was on October 9th In Asheville
against the University of the South. The
sewanee boys played a plucky game. and
on a huke, a lost ball, succeeded in scor-
ing against the Tar-Heels. but the final
score was heavily against them, North
Carolina winning by SO to 4. The last
was with Lehigh University on Wednes-
day last, and In this the lads from tho
Old North State made points to "a by