Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-27

fun five minutes The Tarheels. who ar
rived about i've minutes later were re-
ceived with frenzied applause. without re-
spect 90 college sympathies.
A few minutes later and both teams
emerged on to the gridiron. stripped and
ready FOR the fray. or either side nearly
two thousand pounds Of flesh the teams
were superb specimens Of American man
hood. An weak spots we're elaborately
padded, and II was difficult TO understand
how IL was possible TO pierce tho armor
of the players. Clad in these strangely
appearing habilments. the game seemed
20 be as innocuous and twittering IS lawn
tennis. yet the fact remains that the
contest which. according to schedule,
should have lasted at most bu. an hour
and twenty minutes. was drawn out to
rather more than two hours. and that, on
account Of the numerous Knockout blows
received in the course Of the game.
a SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION.
There could be 10 more salutary remedy
for specimens OF poor worlG-worn
humanity than the enthusiasm that
is engencered willy nilly. by such su-
perb exhibition OF physical prowess as
that which was witnessed at Wost-End
Park yesterday afternoon. The game was
superb exhibition Of scientific foot
ball. and aboundcd in brilliant plays.
1t set tue pulses lesping and the blood
stirring. and never did the play lose its
grip of interest.
IL was forecOnc conclusion that the
home team would prove victorious. Bets
of 10 i against the Carolnians were
freely offered. but found no takers. and
even money was laid against the chances
Of Carolina's scoring at an, and but very
little cash changed hands on this ac-
count
LEAD FROM THE START.
After little preliminary punting ana
practice the teams lined up and the
match was begun at twenty minutes TO 3
o'clock. North Carolina had won the
toss. and chose 10 defend the goal in the
west end of the field.
Somoskeoy put the bah in motion for
the home team. and the Nrgnians
straightway began to press their oppo-
nents The Tarheels played with a dog
ged determination from the start. ana
each rapidly succeeding reverse seemed TO
add a vigor born Of desperation to their
work. The work Of the Charlottesville
boys was much cleaner cut than that OF
the CarOlinians added 10 which they were
much the faster team OF the two.
Some few knowing ones did not scruple
to say that the Tarheels were only hold
ing back for the second half. and it was
even limited that they were giving their
opponents little leeway. but would
astonish them q little later on.
False hope indeed, The Nrginians
scored their first goal six minutes after
the start Of the game. and their second
ten minutes later Their goal was never
I'm jeopardy, and only once I'm the course
Of the game was their territory invaded
10 any great extent. Albeit their oppo-
nents played a plucky game from start 10
finish, and deserve the highest need OF
praise therefor. They stubbornly resisted
every encroachment. but all TO no pur-
pose, and their supposedly impregnable
wall fell again and again before the COM
bined and brilliant rushes of the Virginia
boys.
BOTH SIDES WORKED HARD.
1t was one long wrestling-match. hand
TO hand. face 10 face. and neither side