The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-25
CAROLINA FOOTBALL TEAM
PERSONNEL OF THE ELEVEN
THAT'S TO TACKLE VIRGINIA
Tie Team Is Playing Good Ball and
They Hope for a Repetition Of Last
Years Score-Piayers are Finely
Trained and Exceedingly Well Up on
the POINTS OF the Came.
Especial to The Messenger.)

the football team of the Universities
of North Carolina and Virginia Will
meet each other On the gridiron
Thanksgiving Day-only three days
hence-to play for the championship
OF n south 1t will be OF interest prob
ably 10 let all the followers and parti-
sans of the Tar Heel team know some
thing about the team. This game is to
be played in Richmond, Va, and ids
air to be the hardest fought contest in
tons have ever engaged. Intense in
terest is being taken in the result of
the game in both North Carolina and
Virginia and a conservative estimate
of the crowd that will witness the con-
test is ten thousand. Seven thousand
people saw last years game n it is
safe to say that the number of specta-
tors This year will greatly excel the
umbe who were present last year.
1t is useless to recall the scores OF
last year and the year before for every
one knows them. In 1902 North Caro-
lima went to Richmond with a team
lighter than her average teams. After
a hard fought game the score stood II
to IL, a virtual victory for the North
| C~arolinians in more ways than one.
| Last year our team went TO Richmond
| determined to make Virginia bite the
dust. Sixteen to nothing in " of
the locals tells how well they accom-
plished their purpose. Virginia was out
| played at every stage Of the game and
was simply overwhelmed by the
| nifcent team work Of the white n
blu boys.
This year Carolina has every reason
| to hope for a repetition of asst years
result. The team is playing good, con>
| Sstent ball and under the coaching OF
| Brown and Barry is being developed to
| the highest point both in offensive an
| defensive play. Thus far our team has
| scored 165 points to 20 for their oppo-
nents. This is a most creditable record
and one that they may well be proud
| of. Georgetown University, one of the
| foremost teams in the country, scored
16 of the % points, and A and NJ. the
other 6. The locals have no excuse to
offer for the A. and NJ. score. Both
teams played good ball and barring
the fumbling it was a beautiful exhi-
bition. Carpenter, the local right half
back, easily the best football player in
the south, was not allowed to play in
the game owing to some technicality
and to his absence the tied score may
be attributed. He is a tower of
| strength to the team and his being out
of the game weakened the work of our
team considerably.
1t may be of interest to those who
are interested in h team to kno
something of the men who compose 1t.
Every man on the team is a football
| player in all hat the words mean as
will be demonstrated when they line UP
against the University of Virginia on
Thanksgiving Day.
| r. S. Stewart, captain of the team.
g %, weighs 210 pounds, n is six
| feet tall. He is one of the hardest play
ers in the game and has proved his
worth in the three years he has played
centre for Carolina. He is very fast
when his weight is considered. GivinS,
Of Georgetown, all southern centre.
who has played against some OF the
best northern college men, says tSewart
is the hardest man to handle he has
ever opposed.
N. A. Townsend, aged 20, weighs LAT
pounds, and is five feet, eight inches
tall. Townsend although a light man
! is one of the best ends Carolina has
ever had. He played left end last year
and holds the same position this year.
J.. E. Barry, aged q, plays right end.
This is his first year in the University
Il -. l. - ID ~ fAnr-
ball. Barry weighs $50 pounds, and IS
5 feet, eight inches in height. Barry Is
| a very fast man and plays a good Of
fensive game. He has lots of grit and
breaks up Interference as well as any
end in the south.
Weber, left tackle, IS 81 years old,
weighs 175 pounds, and is five feet,
seven inches tall. He is a new man
also. He received his football training
on the Norfolk college team when he
played left tackle. Webber is a valua-
BILE tackle and plays brilliant ball. He
| pays a splendid defensive game and is
| equally as good on the offensive. He
is a consistent ground gamer hard
| ly ever falling to advance the ball when
| called on.
Story, right tackle, is 10 years Of age,
weighs 176 pounds, and is five feet, ten
1 inches tall. This is the first year he
has ever played football but he is easily
one of the best tackles Carolina has
| ever had. He is especially good on Of
| fersive work and may be counted on
| TO make his distance every time.
p. E. Seagle, right guard. is % years
old. weighs 195 pounds. and is six feet,
| four inches tall. Seagle is a giant in
] statue and plays his position we'll. He
was right guard on the 1903 team.
Manus, left guard, is 81 a old.
| weighs 1871 pounds, and is six feet. ten
| inches tall. He is very quick n ac-
tive n plays his position like a vet
eran. In Stewart, Manus and Seagle.
Carolina has three centre men who are