The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-18
University and A. & M.
6 to 6 at Football.
IN DOUBT TO END
Large Crowd Witnesses the Clean
Struggle Between Brain and Drawn
of Rival State Institutions
Football Special" That
Stalled in the Woods.
By II. L. GRAY.

Chapel Hill, n. c., Nov. 16.-With
final score of six to six the game
between the University and the A. &
NJ. College football teams here this
afternoon caused the Varsity to
scratch an embarrassed head and the
farmers to jubilate over a victory
that scarcely lacked completion.
If explanation be needed. it may
be said that the University's line
from right guard to right end was
lamentably weak during fifteen min
utes of the first half in which A. &
NJ made repeated gains on the right
side of the line, which resulted in a
touchdown and goal.
University, in the early stage of the
game seemed totally unable TO hold
A. & NJ. on their tandom and tackle
plays through the right end of their
line. In the second half the Univer-
sitys work was better in this partic-
ular but gains We're still made by A.
q Nj. almost at will.
a pretty game of football from the
standpoint of the spectator was mar
red by fumbling on both sides that
would have caused a tyro back on an
academy team to blush for shame.
Th Varsity players appeared to be
possessed with an over-confidence that
was tinged with fear: and the A. &
M. boys, hoping for the best. permit
ted their play to be spoiled by the
over-care of anxiety.
Manifest blunders were made by the
University. as when in the first hair
when they were on the 15-yard line
of the A. & NJ, Jacocks dropped back
for a try at goal instead of rushing
for distance; and in delaying. in the
second half the end plays which made
ground rapidly until too near the close
of the game to win.
On line bucking the University was
fine and vigorous. and the A. & NJ.
very effective over the right side OF
their opponents line. which they early
marked as a soft spot. At the end
of the game, the University made re-
peated gains around either end which
showed that if they had adopted that
stvle of play earlier, they would have
won. the ball at the end of second half
having been carried to A. & MS 2
yard line on repeated gains around
the ends. that STYLE of attack having
been seriously undertaken by the
Varsity less than a minute before
time was up.
The A. & NJ. team showed UP on the
whole exceptionally strong in defense
and was finely run by uarter back
Sadler who found the weak point be-
tween right guard and tackle and
hammered it to the Queens taste.
A Raleigh Holiday.
The day was in large measure
Raleigh holiday. The Southern Rail-
roads special advertised to leave at
noon ana return at seven caught the
'rowd. The train did fairly well on
The trip but fell down on the return
journey. The engine was running ION
one side and. in the desolate moon
lit woods between Chapel Hill and
University Station. it stalled complete
ly on a grade, so that five cars had
TO be "cut OUT and left in the woods
while the balance of the train went on
to University Station and afterwards
returned for the norton which had
been left I'm the wilderness. On ac-
count of this and other delays it was
after eleven o'clock at night when
gers at home.
Over four hundred people went
from Raleigh to Chapel Hill Two
hundred and ninety of these were A.
d nj. students. The rest were com
posed of old University people, MEM
bers of the n. 6S NJ. faculty and their
wives, and people who have become
sports" of late years to the extent of
being willing to travel miles to see
game of football without being ao:e
TO distinguish punt" from a
safety.
With the college students SINGING
songs of victory prepared in advance
to meet the contingency of hoped
company that bore the travel with :.
holiday spirit that was COURAGEOUS in
it's happiness. the weary contrast of