Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-27
AGONY ENDS TO-DAY,
CLIMAX OF THE REIGN OF FOOT.
BALL IN RICHMOND AND
IN NORFOLK.
VIRGINIA AGAINST CAROLINA.
OId-Time VARSITY Rivals Clash mt
Broad-street Park.
ODDS ALL ON THE v1RG1N1ANs.
Betting About Three to One That
Charlottesville Lads Will Win the
Game-Both Elercns Renched Their
Headquarters Last EveninE-v. NJ.
I. and v. p. I. to N1ecct in Fierce
Contest at Norfolk This Afternoon.

| OF 1OOt-Dail III lHe oldte' hoA ~ ~
| city and in Norfolk the leading teams
of Virginia will show what weeks OF
| careful training have been worth.
| The predictions are favorable 1or 1alr
weather, and with a general holiday. there
will be a great outpouring of college men
| and alumni. as we'll as others interested
| in what may be termed the real amateur
game of the country. The Virginia Mill
| tary Institute meets the Virginia Poly-
| tecfnic Institute at Norfolk, and Saro-
lima and Virginia will fight it out in this
city at the Broad-Street Park. The local
game commences at 2:45 P. M.
In the leading show windows on Broad
and Main streets the co1ors OF Virginia
and Carolina are conspicuous. while on
the streets to-day there will be seen many
unfamiliar faces-tle students from
Chapel Hill and Charlottesville, and their
host of supporters, who have journeyed
here to shout for the orange and purple
or the blue and white. as they may
elect
There is no significance in selecting
Thanksgiving-Day for the big football
contests except that the day usually
marks the limit Of suitable weather Tor
outdoor games. In the North the old
plan of fixing the great games for
Thanksgiving-Day has been abandoned,
and with the exception of the Army and
Navy game to be played Saturday and
the Pennsylvania-Cornell game to be
played to-day, the season is over. 0ut
in the South and the lower portion of
the Middle Atlantic States, Thanksgiv-
ing-Day is the time fixed for the final
trials between the star teams, and VIZ
ginia will have its quota.
Spirit of the Day.
The college man has been watching
his college football team for a month
gradually emerge from. a state of raw ma
terial into the perfection Of the manu-
featured product under the skilled diree-
ton of the college coach. All OF the
pent-up speculation and enthusiasm OF
six weeks will be expended to-day. The
college man will be in town with his
college shoes and turned-up trousers. His
heart will beat quickly in anticipation or
the game this afternoon, and when the
referee sounds his whistle and the kick
off comes, the eyes Of the college men
will never leave their teams, as they bat
tie up and down the gridiron for the
coveted goals, and when time has been
called, there will be gadness in the
hearts of some and sorrow in the breasts
of others but pride In the hearts of all.
Before the hour Of midnight comes
there'n be little money in the pockets of
any for the average college man when
he comes to the city to witness the con-
test makes up his mind in advance that
he will be thoroughly cleaned up be-
fore he gets back 10 the routine of class
work.
Both Teams Have Friends.
Virginia and North Carolina have not
met in this city since 1888. While Vir-
ginia has the advantage of her alumni in
this city, Carolina will not be wanting
friends. There may not be as much or
ganiZed support for the visitors as for
Virginia, but in the big crowd that will
gather at the Broad-Street Park there
will be large minority favorable to
Carolina, who will urge her on to VIC
tory.
At Norfolk Virginia Military Institute
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute have
strong alumni following, and the game
there is apt to be marked by more parti-
zanry than the contest here. On form,
Virginia should win in this city, and the
Rlacksburg boys should be victorious at
Norfolk but in the uncertainties of foot
ball anything may happen, as In the case
of Virginia and the Indians last Satur-
day.
Captain Foust Talks.
Captain Foust, of, the l>orth Carolina
IL,
He spoke modestly of his team. but
there was an air of faith and confidence
in the ability of his team that was un-
nlstakable.
Our line is heavy enough. The team
averages 10 pounds and is snappy. We
realize that we have a hard game be-
fore us, but if Virginia thinks that they
will have easy thing of it. they will
be mistaken My judgment is that it
will be a close game. Graves is kicking
five out of every six drop kicks. and
from difficult angles, too. If he gets
within forty yards of Virgnia's goal
tomorrow, therell be something doing
for Carolina.
The game to-day will bring out the
merits of Yales methods of coaching.
Both De Saulles and Olcott who have
coached Virginia and Carolina, respec-
lively. are old Yale players, and they
have instilled into their pupils the ins
and outs of the New Haven style of play,
which has been demonstrated to be the
greatest system on the gridiron to-day.
The Virginia Team.
The Virginia team numbers several vete-
ran plays among the eleven, which has
made such reputation for the University
on the gridiron. Harris, as full back. is
one of the veterans of the team. which
last year defeated Carolina at Norfolk.
He is long punter and good lire
plunger, and all-round player. Harris is
CONTINUED ON FIFTH PACED