The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-10-19
Range Champions
The Virginia Football Team
Defeats. Tower in Satur-
days Game.
SCORE OF S TO 0.

the Virginia campus for the final
game which was to decide the cham
pionship of the ranges. The day
was an ideal one, the sun shone
brightly and warm wind from the
southwest blew just hard enough
to give everyone the right kind of
"rooting" spirit and incidentally to
heighten the color of the many fair
spectators. Blue and white we're
everywhere, everyone was gener-
ously marked with huge streamer
and everyone was ready to see the
home team take in the visitors. And
they did it.
Promptly at 1:45 game was called.
Virginia won the toss and selected
the west goal. The kickoff was
caught by Johnson, who tucked the
ball under one wing and sailed
down the line for fifteen yards when
he was downed by the defense. Af-
ter the line up Donnelly hit the line
for two yards. Midget King bucked
it for one and johnson made the
next two. In this half the relative
strength of the two teams seemed
about the same; back and forth, and
all within twenty yards, the teams
struggled, neither side appearing
to have the better of the argument,
the longest gain being made by
Captain Owens of Tower in beau
tiful double pass. Picking his hole
very carefully he came round the
end like race horse until Stevens
gave him the hunch and brought
him to terra frma Toward the close
of this half the man playing oppo-
site Hudson Tanning asked the ref
cree if that was "Pudge" Heffilfnger
playing against him.
The second half was a different
story. 1t was Virginia's kickoff;
big Vic Peterson stuck his number
eleven under the pigskin and sent
it soaring toward Towers goal; a
Tower man caught it but was down.
ed in his tracks. The teams lined
up quickly. Towers ball first down
and five yards to gain. One double
pass. Hickey, probably looking for
chance to make a grand stand
play, ran back fifteen yards, when
the boys held him up. Second down,
no gain. Another play, and Don
nelly tackles behind the line. Third
down, no gain. Owens was sent
through the center, but lost ground,
Virginia retaining ball. At this
Donnel1y slams through guard and
tackle for four yards and King de-
cided to make a couple, acting ac-
cordingly. Griggs is handling the
ball like vet, the line is holding
like wall. Johnson makes three
yards through center and the Vir-
ginia rooters went wild, for foot by
foot the boys are forging toward
Towers goal, and our girls are yell
ing "Give 'em the axe" while the
Tower contingent of school ma'am's
try to revive their dropping spirits
by singing"Papa's Pants Will Soon
be Big Enough for Willie"
Virginia once loses the ball but
takes it from Tower again on downs.
They are on Towers four yard line
and the bleachers shrek for Joy. 1t
is the second down and three yards
to gain. Tower is off side. Instead
of penalizing them then and putting
the ball on their two yard line with
one to gain for Virginia, Referee
Chamberlain, in all spirit of fair
ness toward the Tower team, makes
decision similar to that made at
Tower two weeks previous, and the
Towerites appeared perfectly salts
fled. But all at once they awoke to
the sense of their great injury and
thinking it about time to call the
game off in order to avoid defeat
start trough house." While thew
are thus engaged the Virginia boys
pushed the ball over for a touch
down, making the score 5 to O. Tow
er now refuses to play the game
further, even after Virginia makes
the greatest possible concessions to
them and leave the scene of their
defeat in great gusto- walking from
the field like a bunch of kinderoar-
teners, rather than as gentlemen.
Virginia has since received anoth-
er challenge from Tower, but have
asked them to go and dig up foot
ball reputation first. Our boys will
undoubtedly line up with the Du-
luth High in couple of weeks.
| FOUL PLAY SUNPECTED