The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-03
GOSSIP OF THE GRIDIR0N
Four College Teams Claim the
Southern Championship.
Georgetown. Gallaudet, Virginia.
and North Carolina All Assert
Their Right to Head the Ltst-The
Central High school Victory Over
Eastern. Business, and Western.

| Much to the dissatisfaction of lovers OF
football in the South the past season mas
resolved itself into the most puzzling kind
of an enigma, and the question that wor-
RIGS impartial observers is, Who Is the
champion of the SOUTH" AS far as the
supporters of the various teams are con-
cerned the matter is pretty well settled
for there are at least four colleges that
mstily affirm that they have sent out dur
| ing the past season football teams mat
are superiors of any south OF the Mason
| and Dixon line.
I! Two weeks ago the situation was COM
! paratively clear, and indications pointed
70 a definite decision before the close of
the season The strongest teams in the
South were then admitted to be George
| town. North Carolina, and Virginia, and
il seemed certainty tina, to one of these
the championship would fall.
On November 8, in this city, Georgetown
| University administered a decisive defeat
| to Virginia by score of 10 to D. ms
| seemingly put Virginia out of line in the
| championship race, great relief to the
supporters OF the blue and grey for the
sons CT the Old Dominion mad by their
| excellent showing against the Carlisle
Indians early in the season gained
| formidable reputation. week later, at
Norfolk, Virginia met North Carolina, and
the result of the game was watched for
with great interest.
| The Tarheelers tasted defeat-l7 to 0.
| This would have cleared up the situation
still more had it not been for one thing.
While Coach Bull, of Georgetown, was in
! Norfolk endeavoring to get line on
hat tic
might be better able TO administer de-
feat on Thanksgiving Day and thus settle
beyond a doubt their claim to the cham
pionship of the South, the blue and the
grey were played to standstill, and an
other asprant, not before considered
factor in the race for championship hon
ors made its appearance. Gallaudet play
ed a tie game with the overconhdent
GEORGETOWN eleven. and on that game they
laid claim TO the Southern championship.
Many hold that the mutes are not up
to tie standard of Georgetown, and cite
the fact that they were defeated by Vir-
GINA But at time when nearly all
claims have for their basis little else than
comparative scores, il is hardly strange
that Galiaudet should set up a claim for
championship honors. But even with the
blot of the Gallaudet tie game on their
record Georgetown sun seemed 10 nave
the hes tgrounds for assuming they were
the best aggregation of pigskin chasers
lined up in the South during the season.
Many whom experience had not taught
to shun competitive scores as UNRELIABLE
reasoned that inasmuch as Virginia had
defeated North Carolina by score Of II
to 0, and Georgetown had defeated Nir-
ginia by score of 10 to 0, therefore the
blue and grey should easily yanquish the
Tarheelers. Never did such calculations
receive a worse backset than on Thanks
giving Day. when North Carolina kept
Georgetown from scoring in game that
ended with the unsatisfactory score OF
0 to 0. And by that one tie game the
whole situation became very much con-
fused. AT present there is n lusty cry of
victory going up from the bailiwick of at
least three colleges. and each one seems