Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-05
Our. BOYS WIN
ANOTHER GAME
This This Time ID e. I Fortress Monroe
Team the Victim.
BY SIXTEEN e TO NOTHING
The Visitors rlnyod a shnrp, Rr,sk
Gnn,o but ihe Exoellcns Work OF
Porssmouth'. Clover Eleven Prov.
ed 100 Much for Them and Their
CoIors Were Trn,ied in tho Dust o.
Deroat-A Detailed Account OF tho
Game Given.

Yesterdays game but added addition
al laurels to Portsmouth's football
team.
Never a more perfect day for foot
ball dawned than that of yesterday,
when, with an absence Of wind or
cloud, the sun shown brightly and with
the mercury sufficiently low to make
the blood Of the spectators Jingle in
their veins and to keep the combatants
from becoming overheated.
The average weight of the Artillery
boys was several pounds above that of
Portsmouth's team, and for the first
time this season Portsmouth has met
sure gains through center. They were
undoubtedly the strongest team that
has defended goal against Ports
mouth, and had they had the advant-
age of better training and a fuller
knowledge of the game the result Of
the contest would probably have
been different.
The game was as follows:
Portsmouth wins the toss and takes
the ball, with the soldier boys defend
Ing the north goal. Langhorne starts
off with a good kick, and Merger
catches the ball and makes 10 yards.
Hoth teams line up for the first scirm-
age, with the ball in Artillery boys pos
session. Patterson takes the ball
around right end for yards gain.
They attempt center, but make no gain.
Robbins gains one yard through left
tackle. third down, With four yards to
gain, but Patterson makes no gain
through right tackle and the ball goes
over. Portsmouth has the ball for the
first time. and Peckham carries it
around right end twice, gaining five
tfrt,4 ~
takes 1t around the other end for four
yards gain. The next play the ball is
iumbled, but Watts downs 1t, losing
four yards. Peckham gains six yards
around that right end and Dashields
four yards through center. Lang
horne makes two yards around left end
and Peckham the same gain around
th l other end. Dashields saves tho
Dali from going over by making the
one yard required, going through CEN
Ter. The ball Is one yard from the goal,
but Ianghorne attempting to go
through left tackle loses one and a half
yards. Peckham only gains one yard
around right end, and the soldiers gel
possession of the ball again within q
yard and a half of their goal.
MI. Marshall takes Mr.. Turney'e
place as referee.
Robbins goes through left tackle
| gaining two yards, and Portsmouth fol.
lows 1t through right tackle for six
yards. Mix makes one yard through
center, but on tumble loses two-third
down, with six yards to gain. Pat
terson attempts to go around right end
but Peckham gets through and tackles
throwing him back for loss of eight
yards. The ball goes over, and the
Portsmouth boys have 1t within three
yards OF the goal. Peckham goes
around right end and scores the first
touch down. Langhorne kicks goal sin
and half minutes before the end O,
the first half.
Mix. full-back for the soldiers. sends
the ball nearly to the goal-post for q
Kick off, when Langhorne catches Il
and, leaving his interference as we'll as
most OF his opposition behind him, car
ries the ball flying to within 10 yards
OF the-6oaf5 making -n-rt1n of nearly
the entire field. DashIelds goes against
center twice, gaining only one yard
each time, when Langhorne takes II
around left end for six yards. Peed is
replaced by Judkins at left end Lang
horne tries left tackle, but is showed
back half yard. Capt. Parrish now
uses his favorite play, putting his right
tackle and right end on the left end and
Langhorne takes the ball behind their
interference for eight yards. scoring
another touchdown. The ball is ac-
cidentally placed on the ground and de-
clared dead, so that no goal was kicked.
The second touchdown was made
within three minutes from the time the
ball was kicked off.
Mix again starts the play with n
Kickoff. and Dashields who gets the
ball. gains 20 yards before downed.
Langhorne drops back and kicks for a
gain of 20 yards more.
The soldiers take the ball, gaining
oh, u
half' O. yard through right tackle, and
ATTEMPT a kick, when the referees
Whistle sounds for the end Of the first
half. Score, II to 0.
Frazier goes in as right end instead
of Watts.
The Artillery Boys have the ball.
which Mix puts In play by Kickoff
!Judkins gets 1t. but is downed before
he gains anything. The formation of
left tackle and end on the right end.
Peckham attempts the right end but
does not gain. The same play ex-
peeted, and Peckham gains 80 yards.
Langhorne gains s yards around left
end and Peckham around the other.
Langhorne tries left end but falls to
gain. and then with the end and tackle
formation on the left, Langhorne only
gains half a yard. Small getting
through and tackling. Peckham tries
right and loses two yards. The ball
goes over to the soldiers.
Robbins attempts to go through left
tackle but fumbles the ball and makes
no gain. and loses the ball. Lang
horne tries left end but does not gain.
The game all along has been fought
fiercely and roughly, and ut this point
accusations of smuggling are entered
on both sides and 1t looked as though
the game would be broken up. How
ever. after being cautioned by the ref
cree and umpire that smuggling would
not be tolerated in any one, the game
was resumed. Peckham goes around
right end, gaining two and half
yards, and Langhorne around left for
six. Peciiham again goes around right
end for gain of four yards. The lns
Two plays were with the double tackle