The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-04
SOUTHERN
FOOTBALL
Outlook for the Various Teams
for the Present Season.
VIRGINIA AND CAROLINA
The Chapel Hill Men Have Larger
Nucleus for the New Eleven-Old
Players In Harness Again--The
Other Teams Schedule.

The heroes OF the baseball season have
hacked UP their belongings and gone into
Information until next spring, when they
will again emerge and begin to limber up.
BEFORE they have left tho field the dia-
1nond has been converted into the great
striped rectangle known as the sridron,
wherein the giant gladiators OF the foot
bal game disport themselves in their ar
NOR. The football season Is indeed well
advanced now. The days of limberlng up
low and rolling around on the hardening
ground. OF passing and catching the Die
lea ther spheroid. falling on the ball and
lining up and breaking away against an
imaginary line have passed. and the can
didates for the first eleven are now lining
up daily against the scrubs and endeaVor-
ing to advance the ball or TO stop tho
advance OF their opponents. Almost every
Wednesday and Saturday the larger
teams play practice games against lighter
elevens, and some Of these prove very
Interesting matches, for occasionally the
smaller schools muster a formidable elev-
en- and giveNthe larger school all the ex-
crclse they dcsp. and more.
centers in the annual games between the
| Universities OF Virginia and North Car
Gina, doughty old rivals, whose annual
NEE tings on the gridlron on Thanksgiving
| Day always guarantee a stubborn and
gritty struggle. Usually the Carolinians
arc the lighter. but the fieeter. team. and
| depend more upon we'll developed team
play than upon mere weight and strength.
| Last season the Carolinians had a small,
light haired back, who scared his oppo-
nents by the frequency with which he
landed goal from the field, for field
goals count as much as touchdown.
THE MILITARY RIVALS.
Another game which Is always inter-
esting in this State. and hardly second
in excitement and rivalry to the Virginia
| Carolina team IS the annual struggle for
supremacy between tho Virginia Polytech-
mic and Virginia Military Institutes tho
| two military schools Of the State. For
several years the " P. L.. or Blacksburg.
men. as they are known, have proved
easily superior to their opponents, but
this was largely owing to the individual
| p.owess Of Carpenter and Counselman.
two of tho greatest ground-gaining backs
and most terrific ine-plungers in South
| err football history. The v. p. I. men
usually are a shade heavier than the ".
NJ. I. boys. But college spirit and the hot
rivalry between the two usually pretty
well equalizes the differences. and always
insures spirited struggle.
UNIVERSITY OF NIRGINIA'S MEN.
The University OF Virginia this year
has Johnson. an old V. NJ. /. player and
last years star tackle, again in the
line: Council. an old University Of North
Carolina man, !s again at right tackle
| for Virginia Spates Is at right guard,
where he played brilliantly last year;
Pollard is again at quarter back. and
| Head at half back. Both of last years
| ends have not returned. but Bass, who
was substitute end last years Will ~
| one place, and Brant. who played end
! on the second eleven last year. Will hold
down the other extremity OF the line.
| Janvier, who played center on Tulane
University team last year. will replace
/ Captain Waters of last years team at
! center. Waters failing to return. Elmer.
! who was a tackle on the University OF
| Mississippi last year, Will probably sue
| coed Houston. Of last years eleven az
| left guard. CDrter, OF last years scrub
| team, and McColl. who played last sea-
] son with Furman University, are candl-
| dates for Pritchard's old place at right
| half back Watkins Is likely to be Har.
/ ris successor, as full back. This VIII
| make the team complete, unless some OF
the new men develop into form to entitle
| them to wear the "y." The men are
| being coached by two OF the best IN the
4 MISREPRESENTATION Poe OF Princeton, and
4 DeSaulleS of Yale-thuS combining tHF
best features of tho play of both the
i great football generals.
/ CAROLINIl'S BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
l North Carolina starts the season W.T.
fewer places to fill and with some ex'
| celIcnt material from which to choose
Stewart, last years center; Jones. las'
seasons captain and tackle; Cox, Fisher
and Townsend, who played ends last
year; Hester, star guard of the l9Ol' team
Jacocks, Mann and Berkeley the brilliant
half backs of last years strong eleven
and Full-Back Newton, OF last years
eleven, are all again in the line. leayinE
A few places to fill. There Is practically .
full team already, and one which won rs
honors against Virginia last year. wher
the Chapel Fiji boys played the men from
1 Charlottesville to standstill on thelI
own soil. Robertson full back cand'
date; Engel who is promising at quar-
ter: Donnelly. Towle. Elliott and Rose
who are aspirants for positions IN thu
line, mako choice bunch from which Il
choose Carolina Is being coached by
Ocott tho old Yale center, who last veal
developed Il winning team out OF un
promising material and may repeat thu
achievement
AT TIE OTHER SCHOOLS.
Little is known yet of the comparative
strength OF tho v. NJ. /. and v. +.
| teams, but V. NJ. I. will have to STRENGTH
| an greatly or Y, p, !, to be greatly weak