The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-29
WILD WITH JOY
North Cardinals Great
Football Victory.
The Raleigh Visitors Over the Sea-
board Air Line Were Delighted
With Their Trip.

The Raleigh section of the wildly joy
Gus North Carolinians who invaded Vir
ginia at Richmond and "whooped on the
boys from Chapel Hill to victory on the
| ing.
The trip to Richmond over the Sea-
board was a delightful one, for it was
| looked after by Mr.. Charles H. Gattis,
the Raleigh City Ticket and Passenger
Agent of the Seaboard Air Line in per
son. The special carried over four hun
dred people and of these between $50 and
IFS went from Raleigh
Every attention was shown the passen-
gers and the trip was made in good time
At every stop along the road more pas
sengers entered and at Wake Forest two
coaches filled with students and friends
en- route to the football game between
the North Carolina and Virginia uni
versities and the debate between Wake
Forest College and Richmond College were
added to the train.
The return trip was at night, and
again every one was cared for. The Pull
man sleepers were in demand and were
in the day coaches. The Raleigh delega-
ton, tired, but happy, reached here yes
terday morning about six o'clock.
Yesterday in Raleigh the great victory
of the State University team over the
team of the University of Virginia was all
the talk and 1T was a glorious victory
was the general expression.
A gentleman yesterday called attention
10 ,.+o whit oh
editor of the Raleigh Christian Advocate,
had fallen. In an interview sent out from
Goldsboro where he is attending confer
ence he is reported as saying that this
was the first time in eleven years that
North Carolina had defeated Virginia"
"He has forgotten that in 1898 the Uni
versity Of North Carolina defeated the
University Of Virginia at Richmond by
a score of to 2" said the gentleman,
who also said that it was in 1892, eleven
years ago, that in an exhibition game IN
Atlanta the Chapel Hill boys defeated
the Virginians by a score of 26 to 0.
But everybody is happy for North Car
DINA scored a decisive victory on Thurs
day. Sixteen to nothing is a score that
Is enough to make the boys OF all ages
feel mighty good.
AS SEEN IN RICHMOND.
The occurrences Immediately after Caro-
lima had won it's glorious victory on the
gridiron is thus told in The Times-Dis-
patch Speaking of the scene as thousands
rushed on tie field, it says:
In moment it was literally seething
swirling whirlpool of humanity, with the
victorious players in the very vortex.
The men Rugged each other, leaped for
joy, shouted themselves hoarse, and then,
with one accord and actuated by a spon-
taneous impule, the spectators lifted the
Durly forms of the players aloft and bore
them from the field as if they had been in
fants. Men weighing over two hundred
pounds were lifted bodily and carried fifty
or sixty yards through the madly cheering
throng to their bus, into which they were
lifted with willing hands. Their course
from the park to the hotel might have
been an ancient triumph of some ancient
monarchs. 1t was sight to stir the blood
and to make one wonder to what pitch
men may tie stirred by feats of physical
proves. But it is a phase of football not
new to those who have witnessed the big
games, year after year.
lently strobe from the field to the arms Il
waiting friends, where sympathy as tender
as the lose of woman proved some balm
for their sore hearts. Only time can prove
a nepenthe to their disappointed hopes.
The Virginians were manly in defeat
There were no repinings, no recrmlna-
tons, no charges against anybody. They
were beaten, that was ALL and they felt
that they had only themselves to blame
for it. All attributed their defeat to the
hard game with the Indians four days he
fore and to the strain upon their physical
powers wrought by such a strenuous
Struggle. But the sweetness of that semi
triumph turned to the very gall of bitter
ness when they reflected that for the
doubtful honor, the tieing of the
powerful Carlisle team, they had sacrificed
what to them was more precious hun
dred-fold-victory over their ancient enc
my.
Along the side line was witnessed a