The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-21
West Virginia BOus
Licked The Marietta 1s,nIn The Same Of
Foot Ball Saturday.

team defeated the Marietta Col
lege team in a short game. six to
five, at Marietta last Friday. The
West Virginia touch down was.
made four minutes after the play
began. Marietta soon got the
ball on q tumble and fifteen min
utes hard work, aided by several
trick plays and Interference by
the crowd, made a touch down,
failing of the goal. Neither side
scored after this.
The game was called on &C,
count of darkness. Both halves
ended with the ball in West Vir-,
GINA University'sp possession. The
score does not represent the rela-
tive strength of the teams. Yea
ger was stepped twice by the
crowd when he had clear field
for touch downs. Marietta show
ed up strong, however. and has
the best team in her history.
The game here pext week
promises to be the best of the
season, and will no doubt bring
a large crowd to Clarksburg.
There is no game Of which the
spectators generally know so lit.
tie as foot ball. When the con-
test starts, the ball is kicked off
from the center OF the field.
Players on the side kicking have
to remain "on side until the ball
is kicked. but the Instant it is
kicked they start down field in
order to prevent their opponents
from carrying it back.On the other
hand, the man getting the ball
starts back with it generally fall
ing in behind players of his own
side, who shield him as much as
possible by BLOCKING off, those
Of the opposing side. After the
man with the ball is ''downed"
the teams line up and the real
| football begins. Kick offs from
the center of the field occur rare
ly-only at the outset of each
half and after touchdowns The
primary facts that the two goal
posts are 11oyards apart, that the
field between the posts is mark
ed off with lines five yards apart.
that one of these lines, parallel
with the goal posts, is the goal
line, and that it is the sole aim of
both teams to get the ball across
this all important goalline are of
course known to all who give
much attention to the game.
When the game is showed over
this goal line for a touchdown it
counts five points auds followed
by a try at goal, which, if made,
adds one additional point. In
trying for goal the balls brought
out to the Is yard line at a point
opposite the place where it was
touched down back ofthe line. If
| the touchdown was made near
the goal posts, the kick at goal is
easy, whereas. if the touchdown
was near the side lines and at
some distance from the goal posts
| it requires kick at goal from an
angle that is very difficult. That
is why some goal kicks are refer
red to as easy and Others as diff.
cult. However. the side making
a touchdown near the side lines
has the privilege of Kicking out
for position is, the man
with the ball designates some one
player in favorable position as
related to the goal posts into
whose hands he must kick the
ball. If he fails, the side loses
its chance to kick goal.
Perhaps no better place in
West Virginia could be found to
play this most interesting game
than at the Clarksburg fair
grounds, and the gamenext week
between the w. V. U, and Ma,
rietta College will be of general
interest as it is the first profes'
sional game that has ever been
played in this section ofthe State
The local reception committee
is preparing to show the boys 9
time. and if proper arrangement:
can be made a reception and bal