The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-23
THE ANCIENT ENEMIES
They Will Play For the Champion
ship Of the South.
THE GAME TAXES PLACE TOMORROW
These learns Did Not Play in 1899 Because Of
Bad Feeling Engendered in the Game
iai899, When the Tar Heels
Won By 6 10 z,

On next Saturday there will be played
at Norfolk, Va, one of the greatest games
| of the season. The contenling teams will
be the old time Southern rivaIs-the Uni
versities of North Carolina AMI Virginia
These two teams will again lock horns
and wage war for Southern supremacy.
This is the first game between these
teams since the Virginians were defeat
ed in 1898. The sccr, at that time was
to 2 in favor Of the Tar Heels.
Shortly after the game 1t WAS announc-
ed that all athletic relations between the
TWO institutions has been severed. Vir-
ginia claimed that North Carolina had
professional payers in her eleven and
gave this as her reason for declining 10
play with the North Carolina teams again.
The Carolinians Indignantly denied the
Virginia's assertions, and there were so
much recrimination that the institutions
were not on terms that admitted of the
usual Thanksgiving match i'll 1899. Vir-
ginia played against Lehigh while the
Carolinians took tour through Georgia.
However, a reconciliation has heen eff
fected and the teams will play against
each other at Nof.3ll-. Both teams have
made splendid records, ard they will put
up game worth going a long ways 20
see.
The teams will arrive in Norfolk today
| and spend the day getting ready. Neither
of them will have walk-over.
1t is said that at least four hundred
students will come down from Char
| lottesville; Chapel Hill will send fully as
large number; excursions will be run
on reduced rates from all over the two
| States-Raleigh Durham, Charlotte,
Richmond Staunton, Lynchburg, Lexing-
! ton Williamsburg, Petersburg, Newport
| News and Portsmouth will furnish large
crowds, and many smaller places will
| send out people to help swell the attend
| ance.
League Park will be the scene of con-
let. The alumni of Norfolk have about
completed all preparations for the game.
The field Of play will be fenced in, so as
to prevent any encroaching on the part of
the spectators The grounds will be well
policed and good order will be enforced.
A special feature of the day will be a
| reception rendered the players of both
teams at the Country Club during the
evening" and there will also be many
SIudlleF events given III HOHOr VI the
visitors.
The lineup" embraces sons of some
of the most estimable families in the
two States-sons through whose veins
course the same blood that has made
the Old Dominion and the Old North
State famous for the bravery and chiv-
airy of their people. 1t is needless to
add that no matter how strong may be
the rivalry between the teams, and no
matter what an amount of grim deter
mination to win may be stored in the
bones and muscles of the players, the
game will, without doubt, be played
as gentlemen play-fairly, honorably and
othe survival of the fittest.
1t is expected that the student body
of the two universities will back their
teams heavily and the betting will no
doubt be extensive. The odds are
about even.
The lineup of the teams will probably
be as follows: