The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10
Richmond College Foot
ball Team Flags Rings
Around the Visitors.
VISITORS WERE
UNABLE TO SCORE
Superb Team Play by Local Col
legians and Brilliant Running
Of Backs and Tackles Melted
Six .rouchdowns, and At
kins Lands Field
Goal.

The football eleven of Richmond Col
lege gave the team OF Hampden- Sid
ney a sad surprise yesterday. defeat
ing the Prince Edward men 80 to In
a long game of thirty-minute halves.
scoring two touchdowns and a drop
kick for goal in the first half for a
total of fifteen points. and adding four
touchdowns. from which three goals
were kicked, in tho second half. 1t
was a Warterloo for the Revolutionists,
but their faithful band OF rooters never
deserted them at any time. and gave
their short, sharp Hampden- Sidney cry
ut frequent intervals as an encourage
ment and a consolation.
The game was fast and clevcry
played one on the part of the
local collegians. the visitors being
outclassed. however. by the Red and
Blue team. While several individual
men played star games for Hampden-
Sidney, the team as a whole was in
ferior to Richmond College In every
essential point, but particularly In the
line, through which the Richmond
backs and tackles ploughed at will dur.
Ing tho second half.
The visitors were greatly weakened
! by the disqualification OF Armistead.
the 1s0-pound fullback, OF whom great
things were expected, and by the In
after play began. Johns had his collar
bone fractured and had to get out, re.
luctantly. Despite this handicap. how
ever, it is difficult to see how the
visitors could have made much head
way against the unyielding line OF
Red and Blue, nor how they could stop
the plunglng backs and tackles, VINO
bored holes through the Garnet and
Gray line like SO many human augers.
Tho visitors apparently lacked condl-s
| ton also, time having to be called
| frequently for winded or bruis.,i
player to recover his wind or nurse
his bumps This fact is also attested
by the score of the two halves. Rich
mond making but two touchdowns In
the first score being field goal drop
ped by Atkins, OF Richmond.
For Richmond, aside from the tndt.
yidual work Of the backs and tackles
and Atkins's clever puntins. the team
work of the entire eleven was the fea-
ture. Without this the backs could
not have gotten through for their long
runs.
The whole Richmond team worked
like a well-oiled machine. making
holes whenever required. and support
ing their backs with beautiful inter-
ference. III the form they displayed
yesterday Richmond would give Vir-
ginia. North Carolina, v. 2. I. or.T. NJ.
/. q hard fight to win and could have
defeated Georgetown easily. It was
triumph of good coaching and cond-
tiontng.s
Hampden-Sidncy Stars.
i E b i
For Hampden-Sidney Fleming at
left end was the bright particular
star, getting into all the plays. tack
li,.g furiously. breaking up end runs
and falling on the ball at every OPP
portunity. Next to him. Bischof. right
end. and Foster. quarter, did excellent
work. Lewis, who did their punting,
was outpunted by Atkins, the left-foot
punter OF Richmond, whose work was
OF high class. Wright at left end
for Richmond, was also very success
rui in manipulating the forward pass
and once made touchdown by pref
ty run through a broken field after a
pass. Louthan ana Landlord. backs;
rhraves and Robertson. tackles and
Waite. fullbuck, circled the Garnet and
Gray ends and plunged through the
line for repeated gains. Louthan gave
way to Rue near the close but he had
played brilliant ground gaining
game.
The contest was witnessed by about
1900 people. despite the threatening
weather., and an intermittent sprinkle
during the closing half, which drove
the bleacherites to shelter. la mpden-
Sidney had about T5 to 100 followers
present and very much In evidence
early in the game. The bulk OF the
crowd yelled for Richmond, and when
ever a player made a good gain. the
yell was followed by his name. Colors
We're not conspicuously abundant- AS
the game progressed 1t grew too one-
sided for the visitors to muster much
enthusiasm but they We're game to