The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-03-02
AMONG The BIG ONES.
F oot-ball Team Next Year Will
Meet the Top Notchers.
Four flames will Be Played in Morgan
town and Seven Away from Home
Teams Which Have Already Been
Dated-After Virginia Again.

Ddteu-AIter virginia Again.
The foot ball team next fall will
be the best one that ever represented
the University, and it will have the
best schedule ever placed before a
team wearing the old gold and blue.
These opinions are held by Manager
Ed Richards, aud he ought to know
what he IS talking about.
| Games have been arranged with
several teams. There are to be at
least four games at home, and there
will be about seven away from home.
The season will be opened with a
game here with Westminster on Sep
TENDER "a. This is merely for cur
tain raiser and to shake the men down
! to form.
Following this the games arranged
are with Ohio State on October Is,
| Michigan on October % and ". u. p
on November s al Pittsburg. MARI
eta will probably be met on Thanks
giving at that place. They are dis.
| posed to give good guarantee, and
the management will go there if they
can get money enough to make the
|
trip desirable.
The teams that are to be here, in
addition to the Westminster team,
are State College, Geneva and Gettys-
burg. In case any one of these fails
to come, team OF equal strength will
be brought here.
Washington University OF St. Louis
| has offered a game for October lst
and their offer will be accepted as
soon as terms are arranged, and the
boys will invade the Exposition city
for game.
Letters have been written to Az
napolis, Georgetown, University of
Virginia and University of North
Carolina, asking them to meet The
Mountain State lads. Two of the
four will be met, and which two it is
depends on their answers, unless they
all want to play, when a selection
will be made by the local manage
ment.
1t is the intention to have the team
come here two weeks before the col
lege year opens, and to be in training
by that time. The largest squad ever
seen on the field will be put into COM
petition for the places.
Richards does not think that any
member Of last years team will leave
school even il he is offered money to
desert the ship, as this course would
make any man who would do it so I'M
popular that he would be forever
sorry that he had ever stopped to any
such an action.
Nothing has been heard from Hern-
stein. who is wanted for a coach for
next year. A letter has ueen sent to
him at his home In Ohio, and il is
hoped to have him come here. He
will make an ideal coach and was
recommended by Yost. He has been
a member of the Michigan team for
several years.
The increase in the amount of
money received from the athletic fee
will put the team on its feet, and the
season is expected to show a balance
on the right side of the ledger
AS for the quality OF the team,
Richards says that it will be every
thing that can be asked. Besides the
large amount of good material here,
there are a number of fne players who
have already stated that they are
coming here to enter school.
No attempt was made, or will be
made, to have game with W. 81 j.,
as they are beneath the notice OF
people who want to play decent foot
ball. The local lads have licked
them, and they can now afford to
ignore them in the future Besides
this, they have games with much bet
ter teams than W. & J. is likely to
have next year.