The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-27
FROM vIRGINIA's VIEW POINT.
The Great Football Game as Seen by
One of the Old Dominion.


The following comment upon the
Virginia Carolina football contest at
Richmond, Thanksgiving, is taken
from the Times Dispatch report of
the game:
University of Virginia 10; University
of North Carolina II. Virginia made
two tOuchdowns and kicked both
goals; Carolina scored two touch
downs, but missed the first goal. That,
in brief, tells the story of the great
annual football game between the two
universities.
AS had been forecast, the teams
were so evenly matched that it was n
toss up to pick the winner. The crowd
we'll it certainly must have equalled
$4,000 people at conservative esti-
mate. Such a thrOng never before
witnessed a football game in this city,
and it may be many years before such
another gathers TO witness any spcrt
in this city. The grand stand, the un-
covered stands on three sides of the
field, and all available standing room
were massed with brightly bedecked
humanity, and the people overlooked
the grounds until the game had to be
several times stopped and reinforce
ments asked to get them off the field.
When the game was at it's zenith in
grand stand that almost every foot of
seating space and every one of stand
ing room that afforded a glimpse of
the gridiron was pre-empted by the
enthusiastic and at times deliriously
excited throng.
The fortunes of the battle wavered
with such regularity that the interest
was maintained every moment until
the referees whistle announced the
RafOra i1io re la CT
touchdown many thought the game
had been called, and that Carolina had
won-11 to 6. This was due to the
fact that the crowd had surged upon
the grldiron to such an extent that
play had to be suspended for nearly
ten minutes. Not until Virginia began
preparations to try for goal was it
known to many that a touchdown had
been scored, and that the game was
not over. Many were leaving the
ground when Warren began sighting
the ball for the try for goal that meant
so much to his team, and to the thou
sands who had made wagers on the
result. If he failed at goal, the score
was tie, the game a drawn battle.
The giant Carolinians, in their blue,
and white, lined up stolidly beneath
the goal posts to wait, and, if posi-
BILE, to block the kick that meant de-
had smiled on the men from Chapel
Hill, but at the last moment she
dailied With the Virginians, and finally
fell into their willing arms. Warrens
try for goal went straight toward the
posts, but too low to get over the bar,
1t would have been a failure had not
an overZealOus Carolinian leapcd into
the air and touched the ball just De-
fore it reached the bar, causing it to
hound
victory.
The Very Irony of Fate.
1t was the very irony of fate that
the Carolinians should have lost the
game as the direct result of an effort
to prevent score. Had he not
touched the bail ii would have gone
under the bar and the score would
nave been II to IL.
Even after that the team got at it
again, and Virginia kicked toward
the west goal, but before half 4 dozea
rushcS the end came. and the Caro-
linians walked slowly and disconso-
lately toward their dressing rooms
while the students from the University
surged upon the field and bore off the
winners, intoxicated with the sweets of
triumph. An animated wilderness of
huttering orange and blue covered the
park. The Carolina banners had all
disappeared or dropped in sorrow in
the nerVeless hands that held them.
IT was war, and the glory went to the
victors. The visitors had many loyal
supporters, however, End these were
compensated in soma measures for
their bitter disappointment by their
admiration of the splendid game put
UP by their fellows and their gallant
bid for victory, which was lost by the
narrCWeSt possible margin. Of
course, there are many explanations,
and ifs" and lands" but the whole
story is told when it is said that Vir-
ginia S victory was deserved, and that
Carolina certainly got all she was en-
titled to.
Such / magnificent assenblage has
perhaps never gathered to witness a
game On q Southern gridron. The
spectacle, the series of spectacles, in
gorgeous color, life and motion.