Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28

r,mi.ed, but SC lasted longer than many
anticipated With a wonderful show OF
determination skill and endurance, Vir-
ginfa kept mp the killing pace. not con-
tent with tie but determined 30 out
. strip It's opponents.
Ey trying all the tactics known TO the
veteran football generals. the resistless
virginians swept The powerful. vet tenn
porariy impotcnt Caro,ipiaGs back. stead
i,v back upon their own territory. Ham
mer md tongs they hit the blue and white
line. they crcled the ends. they tried the
double pass. and they sprang the success
fu, end over play and finally closed their
Supreme struggle by sending Harris for
touchdown after a brilliant 11-yard run
The same man kicked the goal. and NiT-
ginia score was double Cardinals.
The time was far spent. There was
gloom in the camp of the Carolinians.
and The bright blue and white triangular
banners that had been waved so Tigor-
ously. so triunlphantly. SO defiantly du-
ring the frst half now hung limp and
iifeiess. and the stirring .Yackety yack'
sounded fecby. But ii the followers OF
the sladiators from Chapel Hill lost heart
the eleven men In the panoply OF this
sturdy game Gid not. The necessity
showed the stuff the visitors were
made of. That never-say-die spirit which
has characterized the Carolinians in all
their struggles with Virginia, whether
badly or barely beaten. asserted itself
magnidccntly and well nigh won the
game for them.
Battle Against Time.
When the score was twelve to SIX
against them and the time cbbng swiftly
away within which TO snatch victory
from the yawning, capacious jaws of de-
feat, the visitors proved all the prophe
cies that they were no cutters. Like
John Paul Jones, when the British sum
moned him TO strike his colors. they re-
piled without bravado, but with a con-
sciousness of the steam left in their
;sinews, we have just begun TO fight"
They said that eloquently in their play.
No team ever made a gamer rally.
They went at that sturdy line with the
force of a battering ram: they mixed uP
every play in the catalogue OF football
strategy. and they hurled themselves
into that Virginia line or around the
end in machne-like formations that never
failed to gain. VirEinia's bolt had been
shot. Their supreme struggle had been
made. They deemed the game won, ana
could not keep UP the strain under which
they had doubled their opponents score.
With Iightping-like rapidity Carolina
lined up and dashed at the once fornida-
bic lines. which crumbled like paper
stubbornly. but surely. Back back, back
the sedge-hammer mass formations luri-
ed at its line until within four minutes
the boys in blue and white, whom every
- one a few moments before deemed surely
beaten. carried the spheroid ever the
white line that connecteu the goal posts.
and amid cyclonic enthusiasm added five
points to their score. The steady eye
and sure toe of Bull Jones sent the
uncertain oval whirling between the goal
posts and over the bar. converting the
grand stand into q Pelee of --ue and
white banners. and a deafening. roar OF
applause. The score was now tied. the
game safe for there could be but a few
moments of play. Night was fast gath
ering over the sodden field cut by the
cleats Of the sprinters and there was
little hope for another score.
CaroIininnx Were Not Done Yet.
The CaroIinians were not done playing
yet Capturing Iarris's long punt on
their own flve-yard line they began the
most brilliant assault on the Opposing
line ever seen in this city, and in less
time almost than it requires to tell the
story they had rushed the ball rapidly for
seventy-five yards down the field with
sure touchdown within their grasp.
When!
A shrill whistle sounded over the cheers
Of their followers and announced that the
record of the struggle of 1902 made
up. and that the best Carolina could Go
was TO divide honors with their brilliant
opponents The rally Of Virginia in the
beginning Of the half and Of the Carroll
mans at its close were the most remark
able ever seen upon southern gridiron.
But the game was over. with a score
Of - to Il. an even dozen from each
Team. and it had 10 go al that.
Before the end came the wildly enthu-
sfastic Down lIomers'' had surged
no ~, ,,riai
and We're cheering like madmen. Wne,
the two lines disentangled there
scene OF enthusiasm and of fervor and
rejoicing seldom witnessed at the close
of any game. Regarding the tie as a
virtual victory, the Carolinians went into
a delirium Of JOY. Like a great human
whirlpool. the thousands surrounding the
four sides Of the field whirled and surged
and charged and swept upon the battle
field and in the excess of their enthu-
siasm lifted aloft the eleven heroes who
had written their names high upon the
roll of athletic fame high upon Willing
shoulders and bore them in triumph from
the field.
Think of it. Those men. weigh
ing from 16o to 195 pounds each,
We're lifted aloft like SO many babes,
and. bubbling over in their JOY and pride,
were borne from the field to their bus
amid one of the Widest scenes of joy
ten years the two teams have met in
Just such stirring struggle Ii was a
wonderful and inspiring sight we'll cal
culared TO show what hold the great
college game has upon the hearts of the
students. 1t was a tribute to athletic
J,rowess, which eoquenuy attested that
there is much Of prim'eval man in the
male human, who is the evolution of
centuries of culture.
virginia EnthuSirSu
Let 1t not be supposed that the equally
great warriors in Orange and Blue We're
not given an ovation Fally half the
crowd that surged on the field reveled
around that group of sturdy men in the
familiar colors of Nirginias university
and showered congratulations upon
them. But the result did not call for the
spectacular display Of enthusiasm made
by the Carolinians. From the Virginia
standpoint the game was distinct dis
appointment.
The team, and every man of their ad-
herents. took 1t for granted that foot
aall history would repeat itself and that
Virginia would surely win.
1t was, they thought only question of
lhe size Of the score. To them the
strength of their opponents was rere-
Aation as undesirable as it was start
Ting. Practically, Virginia was beaten.