Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-21

I'll. greatest football game OF the year
fine championship battle between ta!s
and Harvard. at New Haven. Is hooheu
to,. next Saturday. and 1t promises " os
hattie royal the result. OF. WhIch no
,,an can with any certainty forccas..
4 ~ oxer Two teams were evenly matcheo
=, .bn showing of their seasons work
those two teams are the Blue ana 'he
crimson. The New Haven men, fresh
from their hard-earncd triumph oNoI
their other great rival. Princeton. WI,
he playing at home ana "noer my a.hsr
ADVANTAGEOUS conditions. On the otnet
hand. Harvard comes the champions Oh
the past TWO seasons. with team ap
parentlv in no way inferior to the great
crcat elevens Of 1900 and 1901, which
wrestcti the honors from every rival.
Blu. there arc other great games booked
for Saturday. the most interesting IN tne
South being that at Norfolk. between u's
celebrated Carlisle Indian schoo'team ana
IN. University OF Virginia These Two
teams have played in former. seasons, ont
never before in Virginia. this beng tne
first southern trip Of the red men. IL
is generally expected that the lnoiafls
will win. but Virginians are hopeful mat
the Orange and Blue team VIII hoid the
score to is TO "a points. Virginia, WIN
Tho encoura cement OF 4, great crowd Oh
yirpinians and anxious to retrieve her
renutafion somewhat lowered by the
crushing defeat by Lehigh and the bare
victory over the Polytechnic Institute last
Saturday will play the game OF the sea
son The eleven has the beneht OF all the
experience Of the games played ana Is
conditioning for the supreme strugsie Oh
.ne season with North Carolina. Whlcn
comes less than a week later.
The Indian team has played an Irregular
and erratic game. having made alternate
liz weak and surprisingly strong shoWfnss
against other teams. Its games nave peeh
With the heaviest and strongest teams
of the country, however. and altogether
brilliant showing has been made. The red
men were beaten by Harvard. . to 0.
},,, this was in one OF their off games.
lint this was offset by their defeat of
Cornell. 10 to s. The Ithaca, eleven is
orc of the strongest ever sent out by
Cornell. as shown last Saturday by de-
featir.- the heavy and powerful Latayette
team by the decisive score of y 10 y.
1.,s, Saturday the redskins surprised the
1-rivcrs:.y Of Pennsylvania. defeating
them tx q score Of 8 to o. A number OF
minor games have been played. but these
are the greatest games OF the season Tor
the Carlisle team.
With the single exception of Lehigh and
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. the
University of Virginia has played no
teams that will rank with the strong
teams OF the north. Her defeat by Lee
high. by such a large score was sore dis
aopointment to the team and its friends.
hut Il undoubtedly saved them a more
,lumiliating defeat at the hands of the
men from Blacksburg Saturday But Tor
.I,e weak showing made against Lehlgh
the team would never have been
q frn1 Ia
husky Techs last week. As 1t is. not
a man on the team expects to beat the
Indians who. in addition to weight, are
a powerful team in offense, full of tricks,
and with heavy backs, who are powerful
ine-pungers we'll as fleet runners.
Above. all, stubornness- OF the Indian
team has enabled them to beat back
much stronger elevens when their deter
mination was thoroughly aroused. They
nave lost Hudson. their famous quarter
back and drop kicker. Bemis and Hawley
Pierce Cayou their fleet back, and other
of their mcst famous individual stars,
but they have a powerful team. MetoXen
and others of the old squad are with the
eleven. Their centre man is an Eskimo.
who rejoices in the cognonen Of Nikifer
Scheuchuk and who is as hard to break
through as his name is to pronounce.
Virginia may hold their team down to IS
points but it will be we'll if the Indians do
not score more than so. Special trains
will be run from this city to the game,
which will be played on the Lafayette
fed at Norfolk the finest gridiron in the
State The record Of the balls possession.
the gains made on every down and end
run the number of downs. and the score
as the game proceeds are recorded on a
large blackboard in full view of the
stands. and add greatly to the specta-
tors enjoyment The distance gained and
the changes in possession of the ball
are photographed to the scorer by an ex-
pert following the play. Richmond may
well initiate this arrangement for the
Carolina. game on Thanksgiving Day. 1t
will greatly assist the crowd if some en-
terprising score card or programme
maker will get out a cheap programme,
giving the list of players and positions
with the records Of the two teams to play
here.
Nirginia's game with Carolina here on
Thursday, the 18th, will attract the usual
enormous crowd No other game draws
SO well here. and this one promises to be
a brilliant one. Unless Carolina can make
some great changes in her line she is
toredoomed to defeat. her team being too
light. and especially her backs. The
Chapel Hill men showed in the George