The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-09
FAST AND FIERCE
Saturdays Game Will be
for Glory.
The Best Football Men in the South
are Members of Each Team. uni
versity and A. & M Both in Elk.
celIent Fiqhtinq Condition.

The A. and M. and Varsity football
teams will play the fastest game here
Saturday that has ever been seen in
North Carolina. Fresh from triumphs
in Virginia, and wearing the praises
of the .Iorthern press, the University
men will play gilt-edged ball but with
vertibrae made of a.eei.
And A. and NJ, full of ambition and
determination, will exert itself to the
utmost to feed the visitors on goose
eggs. The game is the topic on every
lip, and it will be a battle royal.
Manager Hodges, of the A. and M.
team, says letters are pouring in from
Greensboro, Durham, Burlington,
Goldsboro, Wilson, Wake Forest, and
Chapel Hill for tickets and reserved
seats for the football game Saturday.
The Seaboard train going north in the
afternoon will be held until the game
is over, and the train going east Will
probably be held to accommodate the
crowd from GOldsboro and WILSON,
There is no doubt that the largest
crowd ever seen at a football game in
this State will witness the contest on
Saturday. The A. and M. is in excep-
tionally good condition, and only one
man, Frank Thompson. is out of the
game. 1t is remarkable that the A.
and M. men seldom get hurt and that
there is seldom use for substitutes.
During the whole of last season only
two substitutes were used. This ability
to stand hard knocks without being
laid out is due partly to their training
and partly to the sturdy North Caro-
lima farm stock from which they are
drawn.
babe" Wilson, the great A. and M.
half back, will be seen in his best
advantage, as he is in fine
trim and running like a
demon. Wilson has but one peer at
half back and that is Carpenter. The
people of the State will have an OPP
nortunity Saturday to see Wilson in
his zenith.
Tom Sykes at center has gotten the
better of his opponent for two years
and as a tackler he cannot be beat:
Shaw at full back is a whirlwind and
always makes his distances
Hardie. who made the phenomenal
80 yard run from the kick off against
South Carolina for A touch down, is
fast and furious. His ability to ad-
vance the ball is we'll known.
Buhe and Tulr at tackles are fight
ers to the finish and always take care
of their position, as ground gamers
they always count
Perkins and Sykes, two big braWny
heavy weights who never say any
thing. but "saw wood" all the time,
are as good as can be found.
Cromie Gregory Clark and Steven
son at ends will take care of every
thing coming their way.
The smallest fellow on the team
and the loudest quarter back is Steele
That he is all Southern material will
be conceded after SATURDAYS game
He is the faster quarter back yet seen
in the South and his generalship in
running was remarkable. Great things
arc expected of this lettlc fellow.
AS for the Carolina team their game
with Georgetown shows what they are
capable of doing. and all the Carolina
men are expected to be in fine con-
dition Saturday and the fiercest foot
ball game ever seen in North Carolina
will be played. The teams are friendly
and the game will be fought on friend
ly terms. Every inch of ground will
be doggedy and stubbornly contest
ed. but the features Of the game win
be the aggressive SallieS of both teams