The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-23
NORFOLK WITH THE BUCK AGUE
Foot-BaIIists Como Like Wolf on the Fold;
Cohorts All Cleaning Ia Purple and Gold.
tspecia, Dispatch to The Time

NORFOLK, VA, Nov. 22.-Norfoil1 has
the buck-ague to-day over the impending
foot ball game. We SHALL to appropriate
and twist the poets words, see the AS
syrian alias the University of Virginia
football player come down like Vol
on the fold, his cohorts cleaning with
purple and gold and use all our heads
for football. The store windows are
filled with the purplish blue and gold of
the University of Virginia "Pudps," and
the baby blue and lemon settler coors
OF the University of North Carolina.
Some sort of yeller, it seems, is a nee
essary accompaniment of football.
The 11:20 o'clock train from Rich
mond tomorrow is expected to haul
eleven coaches, instead of the usual
four. and the Seaboard Air Line
is preparing to depopulate Eastern North
Carolina. The Norfolk Railway and Light
Company will put all their big Ocean
View cars on the line between downtown
Norfolk and League Park. where at $50
o'clock the ''yeilers'' are to meet.
The colonists who landed on the Etr-
ginia Peninsula three hundred or so years
ago were met by the Indians with their
hair parted in the middle, also yelling like
foot-ballers and got at Newport News
the only reliable intelligence that has
been gotten from there in three centu-
ries-never dreamed Of such a reception
as the rival football teams appear likely
to receive here tomorrow.
He who takes either horn Of the Iii
lemna will be bored through and through
to q certainty, and the dilemma to-mor-
row promises to have many thorns. It's
a choice merely whether one shall have
his ears pierced by tin, brass. pasteboard
or the vox humana or a combination IF
all. The majority Of people apparently
desire that the Virginias SHALL win. but
Norfolk has many kinfolks in North Car
DINA, and the ''down homes arc not apt
to be without several thousand support
ers when they walk the chalk line to-
morrow. This town to-day is literally
wild over the approaching game. and the
silly smile greets the goo-goo eye every
where.
A flock of young fellows who Go not
appear to have sense enough to pick
pumpkins, but who know all about foot
ball. are visible in the Street. They seem
to pop up in Norfolk like mushrooms the
day before a football game.
AS the afternoon ,waned the bare of
horns. blown first by short-skirted mis-
ses, was heard in the street. and this
sound as the shadows deepened increased
In volume until the demand for tickets
to Williamsburg grew abnormally. Pret-
ty girls-and Heaven only knows where
murely about the streets wearing the
North Carolina or Virginia colors in all
sorts OF forms, ana wore the souls of
store-keepers to a fragile trying to match
the sky-blue and lemon CT the North
Staters and the ocean blue and orange
of the Old Dominons. 1t was worse, me
salespeople say. than selling tartletane
hy the quarter yard for doll dresses and
candy bags at Christmas.
Norfolk is at her liveliest, and there is
every sign of football about except
chrysanthemums, and .-lese will blossom
in the streets tomorrow, when the
shocky-headed and limb-padded assume
command OF Norfolk. Both teams ar
rived shortly alter midnightshrdlu cmtw
rived shortly after nightfall tonight, and
the bowling began.
The weather is ideal and is expected
to be Sc tomorrow. In some quarters it
is said that small bets have been MADE.
with odds of to 1 on Virginia.
1t is a question among business men
whether they shall suspend business or
the toot-ballers tomorrow.