Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-12
FOOT BALL SATURDAY
4 NUMBER OF GREAT GAMES TO
DE PLAYED.
v. P. i. AND U. VA. THAT DAY.
Thi. will BE one of the big Games
Of the neutrality-suspicious. md
North Carolina viii Meet at Nor-
fol1s-other Big Games.
TX OF GREAT GAMES
DE PLAYED.
v. p. /. AND u. VA. THAT DAY.
.Thix will Be One of the Big Games

North Carolina Will Meet at Nor
fo1ls-Othcr Big Games.
with the great game Saturday at
Princeton beiweeh Yale and Princeton.
and the games at charlottesville between
tho Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
the University Of Virginia, and at Nor
folk between Georgetown and the Uni
yersity of North Carolina, three OF the
most interesting of the seasons battles
will be fought out. Only exceeding them
in interest in this city and section VIII
be the games a New Haven on 5NoVe1npei
ed between Harvard and Yale 1or ,ile
Championship of the season in the NORTH
and those between the University of Viz
GINA and the University of North Caro-
lima in this city on Thanksgiving Day.
and in Norfolk on the same day between
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute ana
the Virginia Military Institute.
There are but few really important
games besides these, among them being
the annual contest in Philadelphia pc
tween Pennsylvania and Cornell, ana at
PHILADELPHIA on November 29th between
game at Norfolk on November ed be-
tween the University OF Virginia and the
Carlisle Indian School teams will be one
of great interest in this section, for
the reason that it is the first southern
tr., Of the famous team of red men.
YALE-PENNSY GAME.
One of the four great games of the sea-
son was fought out at Cambridge last
Saturday when the great Harvard eieV-
en-, champions of last year. with fine
chance of winning that honor again this
season, defeated the University of Penn
sylvania eleven in a brilliant game by
II to 0.
The only thing surprising about the
game was the unexpectedly strong show
ing of the Pennsylvania team, and that
the score against them was not larger It
was expected even by the adherents Of
the team that they would not hold the
veteran Harvard team, superior in weight,
training and experience, down to such a
small score. That score is an indication
Of the present strength of Pennsylvania,
not OF the weakness of Harvard, though,
but for several fumbles the crimson team
might have crossed their opponents line
at least once. if not twice more. All the
critics. thought from the showing Of the
two teams in other games that the Cam
bridge men would win by u points, at
least.
FOOTBALL SURPRISES.
Last Saturday was a day of football
surprises all around Perhaps the great
est surprise of the day was the University
of Virginias feeble showing against Le-
high team in their game at Washington.
/, was expected by the admirers of the
Virginia team that it would win by at
least few points. though there had been
little opportunity to compare them. The
way the Pennsylvanians smothered the
Virginans was simply heart-breakng to
the followers of the orange and blue.
There was little difference in the weights
Of the opposing lines and Lehigh had
been badly beaten by Princeton and Penn
sylvania, and tied by the Naval Academy.
Second raters like GEORGETOWN. Dicllin-
son, and Penn. State College had beaten
Annapolis. which tied Lchigf. The foot
ball critics Were not prepared for the
slaughter tie Virginia team underwent.
after they had estimated and calculated
on these scores. 1t adds to the bitter
ness Of VirGinia's decisive and hopeless
defeat. that on the very same day the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute fairly
slaughtered Georgetown (2S to o., while
l<orth Carolina recently tied the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. These figures would
seem to indicate that Virginia will have
a hard road to travel when she meets the
Blacksburg virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tutc) team at Charlottesville next Satur-
day.
THEY NEEDED DEFEAT
The defeat is The very thing the orange
and blue eleven needed to fit them for
the brace they must take if they hope
to defeat their old rivals. the University
Of North Carolina, and make any sort OF
showing to compare with their other rival
Georgetown. not to mention saving ner
reputation by winning from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute next Saturday. It
is difficult to figure out how the Varsity
is going to manage to defeat that game
bunch from the Virginia Polytechnic IN
stitute, even on their own grounds at the
University. and before a sympathetic
crowd next Saturday. University of Viz
Gnia is always from 20 to 50 points strong
er on Virginia soil and amid Virginia
cheers than outside the State and without
the stimulus of sympat thy and applause
1t would not surprise any one very much
to see the Polytechnic team win the
game. Indeed, it is hard to see how they
can fail to do So unless they suffer an
inconceivable reversal of form during the
week, or unless Virginia has learned much
from It's experience. That Lehigh game
was the first stiff proposition Virginia
has been ZIP against. Heretofore she has
played a lot of smaller colleges and
schools and had never had a really severe
test of its powers.
Y. NJ. I. is NOT ELATED.
The showing made by the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute is not calculated to
raise the hopes Of the Virginia Military
Institute, which must play the lusty lads
from Blacksburg at Norfolk two weeks
hence. Virginia Polytechnic Institute has
lost but one game this season and that
to Washingtcn and Lee University by
single score TO 0. The team has TIED
the Universi i North Carolina beaten
the Agricultural and Mechan:cal College
Of North Carolina. which On Saturda.;
last tied the University of North Carolina
Virginia Military Institute scored ten
points to II for the University of North
Carolina. scored II to % against George
town two weeks ago and beaten Wash
ngton and Lee. which defeated the Eir-
sinia Polytechnic Institute The boys of
the Lexington eleven must work their
tongues ont during the next two weeks
if they hope to win from their old ad-s
versaries, the Techs. al Norfolk on
Thanksgiving Day. The task before the
Virginia Military Institute seems hope
less But inexplicable things happen in
football sometimes. That is the only