The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-24
The City Preparing for the Big
Foot Ball Game Here
Thanksgiving Day.
COUNCIL VERY BADLY HURT
SVirginia's Star Player Not Like
~ to be Able to Take Part
in the Game.

ID oUet OF Blue and White ana orange anu
y Elr.a, the colors OF the Universities
Of North Carolina and Virginia. In an.
ncipauon OF the great annual football
"A game Of the teams of the two univer.
sites, and even sedate Main Street Is
terminating into color. Ere the nations
holiday has dawr.,d the city will be
a abloon with the bright huod ribbons,
bunting and banners and echolng with
4 the enthusiastic cries OF the colleEians
I and their cohorts Of sympathlzers and
enthusiasts. BY tomorrow night the
Eladiators OF the grid4ron representing
/ til, two Universities will be the citys
guests, and the hotel Hobbies VIII be
Il thronged with students and alumni and
4 the sports who delight In such gather
& ings. Even the quiet, sedate citizen
ca oh.ss some OF tina flamboyant enthu'
K siasna Of youth and football ana smile
X indulgently, not to say envloualy. as tina
4 overflowng ardor.
ia The great football rivals Of the
Y South, hereditary rivals In the field OF
4 athletics and scholarship. will meet IN
4 battle royal for tn. laurel Of the white.
y barred QUADRANGLE heretofore known as
4 ths Erl1iron. bu, now more appropriately
u called tho checkerboard Both elevens
"a Viii arrive in tn. city "Wednesday eve-
ming In order to get full nights rest
and maintain regular hours OF eating
a and sleeping. as athletics must do In
q order to be at their best on the morrow.
u, Tho Virginia team and substitutes Will
stop at Murphy's In IT,, center Of the
city's whirl and North Carolina Will
either stop there or at tho Jefferson
X Accom- panying the team Will be the
4 Goa cres Gresham Poe OF Princeton and
o,cott, Of Yale the athletic directors
and trainers and the physiclans.
Il versity and Charlottesville will bring
down practically the entire student body
and many citizens to the Aggregate, num-
ber OF about 500 or 800. The same dry
Il the cha pei Hill contingent will arrive.
several hundred students from the Caro-
Tina University and many hundreds from
tn. ola North State, who hope to soc
4 came 80 near to doing last year, spe'
!; DIAL rates from Wilmington and Fayette-
s Vile over the Coast Line; special trains
n $rom Raleigh and from Chapel Hill over
the Southern and the Sea board will bring
Z the carolnians. and hundrecr OF them.
Long special trains from Norfolk, New
& bort News. Hampton, and intermediate
ID points; from Gladstone. on tho James
Va R'v.er division Of the Chesarenke and
Ohio. and regular trains with reduced
rates from all over virginia. VIII hrinE
tho followers OF the robust sport to Rich.
85Inond to e.,e the game OF the year; me
game OF many years: for such. indeed,
it promises to be. All roads will lead to.
&{ Richmond and end there Tor the tim. be-
irg. so far rs the destination OF the
great majority OF passengers Is con-
g cerned. for the sridiron battle on Broad
Street Park Thursday afternoon IS tho
magnet Tint ri" @~ow t""-> h1ther.
A SOCIETY EVENT.
6 Locally, tho game promises to be
society event, par excellence. Beauty and
1 Drawn, fashion and Its followers among
roth sexes, will be on hand In Its smart
est trocks and Furnishings In the great
L beauty show that will DO seen In the
overrlowing stands and on the crowded
bleacherles and banked In vehicles or
on foot in the field to the north o. inc
Sridiron. Everybody will be there. or at
( least It will seem so. so far as the smart
set Is concerned. knowledge OF the tech
rical problems OF the game Is unnecessary
b to an joyment of the play. Enthusiasm IN
great chunks will be floating In the air,
4 exo!, emsnt that gives zest to anything
will be on tap:ato be served intern1lttent.
brilliant exhibition OF scientific foot-oall
aver seen here. The stands will DO
4 abla 20 with color In unconsciously artis-
tic dashes, The girls will wear tho color
Of the teams In their eyes. many OF them,
and many will wear It In their express
siona when they leave--a very dark
blue too. The banners Of one portion OF
the other will flaunt triumphantly over
the field In the gray dusk Of the autumn
AFTERNOON. Such ls football as It Is
played nowadays.
COUNCIL BADLY HURT.
m. news that come down from the Uni.
yersity Of Virginia is very. very bue-as
blue as thu navy shade Of their pen
rants. Council. the great tackle and star
around-ga!ner OF the Virg!nians, Is In
BAD condition. and there sAsms to be some
doubt whether he will be in the game
ana it 90 whether he viii stay in until
i fsckls victory shall! perch upon the BAN
ners OF virginia. The following special
+ received last night from The Times Dis.
pateh correspondent at Charlottesville
I tails It's own story:
Council Is 50 badly hurt that no Will
dition to his injured chest. which ia Civ.
Ing him much trouble. his knees are
badly hurt and the tendons and muscles
I Of his logs are SO strained that he cam
y not 70 up or come down a tlight OF stairs.
His injuries are source OF much concern
and there Ia little slse talked OF In col.
legA Everybody wants to know !! he
day, but no announcement Is given by
the coachers and physicians. II Will he
remembered that when he tackled IL
Z iiams, the Indian fun back. no was prac.
& ticaNy knocked out and came IN very
groggy, The extent OF his Injuries were
not known until yesterday when he re-
marked that he felt great deal worse
than he had ever felt In his foot'pa.l ca
< Yeer.
An examination showed that he not
overstated the case, but It was this morn
q Ing before the coaches awobe to real
H sense Of the great tackles condition,
What virginia can do without his SER
y vices on Thursday 1t Is ha. to say, His
! equal Is certainly not In the South. and
there are few north OF Mason and Dsxons
Ane that can hold their own with him,
This report with have q tendency to
dampen the ardo- OF V'rsinas adher,
ents. but 1t does not necessarily mean
the loss of the game II may be that the
great plungne tackls win round Into
at shape by Thursday, II not, Virginia
will DO greatly weakened. But they do
not propose TO give up the fight. The
best substitute they have VAL 50 IN,