The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-15
CREAT FOOT-BALL Games
WILL Be PLAYED TO-DAY.
Contests at Charlottesville.
and Norfolk Will Be
Watched With Special In
terest in View Of the
Thanksgiving Battle to
Take Place Here.

There will be played on Virginia soil
today two football games of the widest
results are known will enable the gridiron
enthusiast and football authorities to
draw line on the teams OF the Univer-
sity of Virginia and the University OF
North Carolina, which are scheduled for
the Thanksgiving Day game in Richmond.
to be decided as in tormer years the
championship of the South
These games are between Virginia and
W p l. at Charlottesville, and North
Carolina and Georgetown at Norfolk a
week ago v. P. 1. defeated by large
score the Georgetown eleven. Today
North Carolina gets a chance at the van
quished aggregation, while Virginia goes
up against the sitter proposition IN the
eleven from Blacksburg.
AWAITING THE RESULT.
Football authorities are waiting anx-
siously to see what Virginia will do for
". r.. I. and what the Tar Heels will ac-
complish against the Georgetown lineup
before they will be willing to prosnostl-
cate as to what will happen here on tne
9th.
From Richmond a crowd will go up 20
Charlottesville, leaving here on the WV
train over the Chesapeake and ONO anu
arriving at the University in good tine
to see the game. On the side lines at
Norfolk to-day the city will be repre-
scnted by dozen or more persons VINO
Will go down to witness the strugSle
there.
Many consider this will be the pref
tiest game played in Virginia this sea-
SON. and, Furthermore, they are anxious
to see North Carolina on the field be-
fore they flourish their long green In
the faces of Virginia hackers here on
Thanksgiving.
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personnel Of the Tarheel eleven. and again
this is cause for interest in the Norfolk
game.
FIGHT TO THE FINISH.
At Virginia battle royal will be
fought, and fought to a finish.
For SIX years v. P. T.. has trained each
season with the one aim in view and
that being to beat the University of Vir-
ginia playing football. but each year
they have gone down before the Orange
v until there is almost a superstition
connected With the great yellow letter
which ado11ls the chest of the Varsity
PLAYER.
Last year v. P. l., thought her chance
had come to win when Virginia Travelled
to Blacksburg to play her on home
grounds, but again the cadets went down.
This year Blacksburs evidently has the
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is an uncertainty about the strength of
the Varsity. which will have to be
wiped out TO-DAY or she will go down in
| ignominious defeat.
No greater calamity. In the opinion of
alumni and students. could befall the
VARSITY than a defeat at the hands of
the cadets to-day. and for that reason
| the struggle will be to the death.
VIRGINIA'S DEFEAT.
Since Virginia's defeat on last Saturday
al the hands of Lehgh, wonderful
| change has come over the spirit of the
Iteam At no time before have the men
entered into the game with such zest, and
| in the end the h5defeatwill undoubt-
| ed1y prove a blessing, instead of having
a had effect. Before the game in Wash
ington Virginia had met no team in her
own class, and the result was that the
| men put too high an estimate on their
strength by reason OF easy victories over
minor colleges. Now. however. they seem
| to realize that they must work for the
rest of the games on the schedule. and
every man is playing with vim and de-
! termination which makes the working OF
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