The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-09
MANY BIG GAMES
Be PLAYED TO-DAY.
Three intercollegiate Football
Contests OF Interest in This
City.
MILITARY SCHOOLS TO MEET

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The football season all over the coun-
try is fast approaching the climax.
when the great teams OF every section,
and those representing different sec
lions will meet to test their skill ana
endurance in gigantic struggles. Here
'tofore all the games have been but
preparatory to these big matches. but
several are scheduled for to-day which
will equal In interest any OF the later
struggles.
At home at 8 o'clock this afternoon
the Richmond College and Hampden.
Sidney elevens will meet in their first
game for the championship OF the east.
ern intercollegiate division. At the
same time the two rival military
schools OF the State--the Virginia Mill.
tary Institute and the Virginia Poly
technic Institute-will be engaged In
their usually determined annual srrug-
gle at Roanoke. and the University OF
Virginia eleven. beaten only by Sc
vance, will meet In Washington and
Lee, a rival in every respect worthy.
All three OF these games should be
brilliant and stirring battles, with the
result difficult TO forecast.
Forecasts of Results.
Judged by their work against other
teams and the available information
as to weight. coaching and condition,
Richmond College ought to win from
Virginia ought to defeat Washington
and Lee By at least two touchdowns,
and Virginia Military Institute will
probably take the game from the Y. p.
l. by small score.
There have been many upsets this
year, however, and they may come
again to-day. The real strength of two
either cares is always carefully con-
|cealed.
Faith in the ability of v. NJ. I. to
beat V. p. I. is based chiefly on the
tonians against the University OF vir-
ginia, and the rather crude exhibition
Of football given by ". p. l.. in the
Georgetown game. Y. 7. !, has the
best form. which will not be- 9 reached
before Thanksgiving Day. when the
eleven meets North Carolina in this
city. A victory over the Carolinians
of Virginia made would be regarded
by v. p. l. adherents as a victory over
Virginia also. That would indeed be
"a triumphal termination of the Blacks
burg season.
StiG for Big Three.
All over the country good games are
scheduled for to-day, and doubtful ones.
proposition in Amherst, which is not SO
strong as In previous years, while the
Tigers have one OF the best elevens
the institution has ever turned out.
Yale has as an adversary Brown Uni
versity. always strong on football. The
Providence team played Harvard to a
standstill last Saturday, and the Grim
son barely escaped dragging in defeat.
Harvard has hard proposition in the
Carlisle Indians, who have beaten
lively beaten by Princeton,
Princeton.s victory was on wet and
muddy field and in pouring rain,
which gave the Indians backs and ends
little opportunity to duplicate their
feat, tho Indians will make desperate
efforts to secure revenge on Harvard
The Cambridge team has made a rather
poor showing thus tar. but It seldom
attains It's best form until the crucial
to win. certainly II it is in the Yale.
Princeton class, but 1t $ill not come
out with such q decisive victory RS did
Princeton. The Naval Academy and
Swar thmore will play to-day at Annap-
|olis. The Middies Will win, but It will
not be by large score. Swarthmoro
recently gave Pennsylvania scare, and
is q powerful and heavy eleven.
!, N Xid =, Carolina VIII play Georgetown
easily II the Chapel Hill men play In
ANYTHING like the form they recently
displayed against Virginia. Carolina
ought to win by more than twenty
points, for Georgetown is light and far
from strong this season.
Many other games are to be played.
but those named are OF chief interest
in Virginia.