Evening star., 1898-11-07
Tomorrow'S Contest Between George
town and Virginia.
SOUTHERN FOOT BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Recent Struggles on the Gridiron
Field.
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES

The foot ball game of the season will be
played tomorrow afternoon on Georgetown
field between the teams of the blue and
gray and the eleven representing the Uni
versity of Virginia 1t will be a game in
which more than usual interest Is centered,
and will practically settle the foot ball cham
pionship of the south. Each team has great
hopes of victory, which each will regard as
sort of vindication. The apparent neces-
sity for vindicatIon was the termination of
the game played about a fortnight ago at
Charlottesville, Va, between Georgetown
and Virginia. The score stood 10 to in
favor of the local players when the Vir-
sinians refused to continue playing on ac-
count of d decision of the referee, and the
game was given 10 Georgetown. There was
more or less lll-wf1l caused at the time over
the decision. After Georgetown returned
nome the Vlrginians sought another game.
Inc negotiations for the game eliminated
IN the arrangement for tomorrow afternoon.
The Firginians will be accompanied by d
crowd of several hundred students from
their university, while the Georgetown root
ers Will be out in force. The 300 400 stu
dents in the classical department will be
spectators and the 400 students represent
ing the law and medical departments will!
come out in numbers. The law students
VIII meet at their building at = O'Clock. They
have engaged the Gonzaga College Cadet
Band, and. headed by the music, will march
to the medical school, where the medicos
will tan .nto line and the two schools march
TO Georgetown field.
The game will also be quite a social event
and it is expected that there will be a large
display of fashionable equipages on the
held. There will be plenty of space on the
west side of the field for teams
The location of the gridrun has been
slightly changed for the occasion. Manager
Watkins decided that the location of the
grldiron did not allow the spectators in the
grand stand to see the fine points of play
ing. The gridiron has been changed to ex-
tend northwest and southeast. The view
from the grand stand will take in the entire
center of the gridron. with the edge of the
heid being as close as possible to the stand.
IN order to prevent recurrence of the
recent unsatisfactory result at Charlottes-
Vile officials have been selected who are
not interested in either of the teams. Richard
Armstrong has been chosen referee and Ad-
olson Kelly umpire Armstrong formerly
played half back for Yale and was at one
time captain of the senior crew. Kelly is
graduate of the class of '9S of Princeton,
and during the Spanish war served in a
Philadelphia battery. He umpired the re-
cent University of Virginia-Princeton game
ana mas ohiciated at number of other
events in the foot ball world.
Georgetown was once defeated this year
and then at the hands of Swarthmore Col
lege of Pennsylvania. The team was COM
paratively raw then and since then has
made wonderful progress under the direc-
ton OF Coach Donovan. When the game at
Charlottesville was played the blue and
gray team was comparatively raw The
games played after this event proved of
great value, and the team work is excellent,
Individual work being sacrificed by MANY
members of the team. The men play to-
gether with a will and make a fine showing
On the other hand. the University of Vir-
ginia is said to have improved much more
in playing form than Georgetown. The
game November at Princeton, in which
the Tigers were held down to II to o. show
ed that the Virginians played in good form
This is perhaps the only big game that Vir-
gfnia has played this season. Georgetown
has not met any of the big college teams
While not definitely settled the lineup of
Georgetown will be somewhat different
from heretofore. Walsh is expected to be
back in the game. and Captain Casey will
play the same position he did In the Villa
nova game, that of quarter back The line
up of both teams tomorrow will most like
ly be as follows: