The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-21
GREAT FOOTBALL
BATTLES T0C0ME.
Many OF the Most Interesting
Games Of North, South and
West Arc On.
THANKSGIVING GAME HERE
~. r.. /. and North Carolina to
Meet-Yale and Harvard
Battle Saturday.

T ) ~ 4
But two !, snors playing /, estes e s the
urday. November Esd. and the following
4 Thursday. Thanksgiving Day. While
The most interesting games OF the
played. and the result of the Yale
/. Harvard game next. Saturday. is re.
garded as a foregone conclusion. the
annual meeting between Pen rs, s,',ll
and Cornell at Franklin Field, Phil.
. adelphia, on Thanksgiting Day. anu
the usual meeting between West Point
and Annapolis, on the same field on the
following Saturday, are among the
most interesting of the great games OF
the country.
In the South. and Especially III Ylr-
ginia. many interesting games are yet
Street Park next SATURDAY.. the teams
of Richmond College and Randolph-
Macon VIII play a hard and fast game
III the college championship series.
The real deciding. game in this series.
however. promises to be that between.
Richmond College and william and
Mary at Newport News on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
In this city on Thanksgiv:ng Day
the greatest game of. the season. per,
n noEsi r.i institute. beaten hut once
this season. will play the University !; @. @,
North careiina. This game ,.a IN larg e
measure supersedes the lniT NrstS fo -
played on that date. North Caroline.
and tied by washington and Lee ana
Rehmond ool,n 5nro will tb make seasons re-
ooSd t ~ N whining the thanksgiving Day
lam zane y here from the Y. p. l.. eleven zen:
The Blacksburg team Is av o.ra ging in
weight about lie pounds. II .,,, has S bee T
Inatured slowly. but is growing WI ~
every passing week ana i, pro ,,,sn t,,e
he about ripe on. M me me no, lssn Carolinians.
! ste Rnn,e,rs have reached this city that
North Carolina is strengthening us
team and that new sfn a1'd Tnh sarsst
Day lineup. Neither team antlclpa.es
an easy victory. and both are UNDER
going hard work In preparation
Techs to Play Navy.
=. The v. r, l.. team will have siren.
= Saturday when it tackles the Naval "a
szboys have beaten the Navy team in
. other years but If they win this year
they will establish themselves as tnG
strongest OF southern teams s, ana XIII
for premier honors. v. p. I. has beat
en- Georgetown. Washington and Lee.
VI NJ. l. and Hampden Sidney. Il the
envy or Nogtl. Carolina, 1T will have
made a record which will compare ia,
vorably with anyein the South. It. has
no game scheduled with University of
Virginia.
At Norfolk on Thanksgiving Day.
the University of Virginia team
Nil !, play Agrieultgral Ia. and Me Ne
lima The A. and NJ. team is one
! Of the heaviest in the South and
. embraces many veterans. 1t is said that
several changes have been made in its
81. - Il low iaI
nlor.d College hare and at Raleigh. Last
Saturday irdefeutei Davidson College,
which had tied University of Virginia
yysAnd beaten V.P. I. The N. G. Aggies
s-fion for University of Virginia, already
peaten by Sewanee and Washington
and Lee and tied by Davidson and
practically tied by Virginia Military
Institute.
Washington and Lee University will
play its final game of the seasons
sihedule at L,ynchburg on Thankssiv-
ling Day with Bucknell as its adver-
s:ary. The PENNSYLVANIA eleven has
made as strong showing this year
as heretofore. but this game is liable
70 prove a pretty contest neverthe-
An interesting game scheduled for Satur-
ntaay Is that at Chicago between the great
Carlisle Indian eleven and the University 8.
= J,hicasos strong eleven, The Indians de-
fested Minnesota last SATURDAY II to 10
una Chicago recently beat Minnesota II to
40. Carlisle beat Pennsylvania, which in
turn defeated Michigan G to o last satur-
day Michigan and Chicago haye no game
kcgeduled this year. nor has Minnesota and
!. Michigan. The Chicago eleven, COACHED by
a. a. Stage. who stands alongside OF Field
s{ns II, Yost as i6nc. OF the greatest football
generals coaches and oflginators of forIna-
ttieps and plays in the game. The Mime
s6tn scores would indicate that Stages
Nsroops are ,trifle stronger than the In
dams, but this remains.to be. demonstrated
t.l@ actual play. With a dry. cool. day the
INDIANS will be at their best; and are like
sT.sEto win by their speed and cleverness
sshepId Chicago win 1t will rank that eleven
close to Yale and Princeton as the prcn,e.
teaan Of the season, for the Indians have
scecisively beaten Pennsylvania and Har-
yard. Should Pennsylvania defeat Cornell
prNt Thanksgivng Day that would give the
swtAncrs of the; Chicago Carlisle game an
even higher standing.
S Ferlaps ,thes most interesting game re-
anlA!niris iplthc Southern Intercollegiate
5 Athletic Asfoc!a tione series is that at Nash
VILE on THANKSGIVING Day 4,Letwcfn twt
:Iffnesspe eievans--Yanderbt and ;he Uni
gySfsitys of the South. better known as Sc,
-Wanee. Sewiinee has beaten Virginia. aud
t..H Vanderbilt tied the Naval Academy and was
beaten by Michigan only S to o, Yost's rner
t. R1lnius. on two: field goals. The two eleg-
ss ems are unquesilonaby the strongest OF