The news & observer., 1905-11-19
WILSON'S STAR PLAY
A. & M. 0ut-CIassed Opponents al
Every Point. Washington & Lee
Was Light, But Very Game. A
Small Crowd and an Un-Ap-
parent Result.


young men from the Washington and
Lee University of Lexington, Virginia
When the dust of the last down had
cleared away. the a. & NJ. eleven had
scored four toucndowns. two of theIn
yielding goals, and the score was -
10 o against Washington and Lee.
The game was replete with features
in the way of long runs. chiefly by
wilson. who ran afmost at will. max
ing repeated gains of anywhere from
ten 10 eighty yards. Steele also
made several good gains on his quar-
ter back circles, but was not in the
form he showed when the University
played in Raleigh. or the tackling Of
the Washington and Lee ends was
better.
In fact. Washington and Lee put
up a game which was a fine exhibit
tion of defensive play against great
odds. the weight of her eleven being
1o2 pounds only and the A. and II.
exhibiting the same fierce interter-
ence which is the strong point of
this seasons play. In only one in
stance did Washington and Lee hold
the A. and M. eleven for downs anu
the occasions on which they made
their distance of five yards were few
and far between
Naturally, in such a case there
the A. and M. also had the best of
the argument gaining from ten to
twenty yards on DuntS. a. and M.
backs. however, frequently fumbled
the kicks of Washington and Lee ana
on one occasion touchdown for the
visitors was narrowly averted as d re
suit of this fault. ,s
detailed account of the game
would be uninteresting as the play
was all one-sided. 1t diScloSeS re-
peated gains on line plunges by the
A. and NJ. with a long end run by
Steele or Wilson. when it was desirable
to score. on the part of Washington
and Lee a series of Intellectual linz
buckings. intersperced with attempts
at quarterback runs by one of the
fastest sprinters seen on a football
field in Raleigh and man who was
IA Gend at plucky tackling.
Although they played to the last
ounce. Washington and Lee plainly
had no chance from the start and be-
fore the game was ended had the SYM
pathy and good wishes of the small
crowd. which was naturally practi-
cally unanimous in wishing A. and
NJ. to win the game. After the play
by such light and Extensively weak
team. it is surprising to contemplate
that it should have played the
strong V. Z. /. eleven a game in which
the latter was able to score only 10
points. an additional evidence of the
old truism that there is no dependence
to be put in comparative scores.
During the first part of the game.
the A. and M. eleven tried on a num-
Der of trick PLAYS which they have
been keping in cold storage and. IL
most invariably. with resulting gains.
Washington and Lee also tried some
of these fake" efforts but the \.
and NJ. line was so strong on break
ing through that the plays scarcely
ever had a chance to get started be-
fore they came to grief. During
the progress of the play A. and Nj.
blocked one punt and repeatedly broke
through and tackled the runner far
behind the line.
Wilson's Remarkable Hurdle.
IIalf-back Wilson, of the A. and
NJ. eleven. was the undoubted star
of the afternoon. He ran with re-
markable strength and dash and Of
ten dragged his man for yards after
being tackled. In the first few mill
utes of play. he accomplished a feat
which has been rarely II ever seen
on a football field before. the hurd-
ling of two men in the course of a sin
gle run, the last hurdle being a p~"-
digiouS jump of at least five feet in
the air and over the head of d would
be- tackler. who, anticipating the ef-
fort had raised almost 70 an erect
position in the effort to stop 1t. 1t was
IL thrilling sight and caused prolonged
applause. Again. on another occa-
sion. Wilson hurdled a man in much
the same style, except that his feet
caught i'll the shoulders of the op-
ponent and he fell over him, instead
of landing on his feet for q clean
hurdle as in the first instance. On
the latter occasion. however, he still
managed to squirm his way across the
goal line for a touchdown.
The two goals that We're missed re-
suited from bad kick-out by Wilson
after touchdown had been made in
the corner of the field. the ball going
over the heads of the entire team linz
ed up to heel it. and in the other
instance by a simple failure to place
the ball accurately from an easy try
after touchdown by Steele
With the exception of the several
bad fumbles indulged in by Wilson
and Steele the A. and NJ. eleven play
ed better football than they did
against the University of North Ca
olina. showing without the shadow
of doubt that they are in the frs,
class in football and a dangerous on
ponent for anything outside of the
very highest circles. 1t is to be re-
gretted that their game with the Un,-
versity of Virginia was played SO earlJ
III Ine SEASON. anu llldl lneN nave not
succeeded in arranging date with
the V. p. |. eleven. the this years
bugaboo of Southern football aggre-
cations.
Yesterdays line-ups, of the teams
were as foloWS
\. & M:-Lykes. center: White.
right guard: Skies. left guard: Tenn
ple, right tackle; Beebe, left tackle;
TuIl right end: Gregory. left end
steele quarter back: Wilson right
half back; Hardy left half back
Shaw. full back.
w. & L.-Miller. center; Dow. right
guard: White. left guard: Withers.
right tackle. Rankin, left tackle. Scott,
right end; Anderson. left end: Raisin,
quarter back: Bagiey. right half back
Anderson. left half back; Mooman.
full back.
Referee. DR.. Hubert Royster: Um-
pire. Capt. Bully" Jones.
Halfs IS minutes. Touchdowns