The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
WILLIAM AND MARY
HAVE + Inc TEAM
Track Athletics Has Bcenlreatly
Fostered at Williamsburg
Institution.
| WINNERS At BASKETBALL
Team Which This Year Rprc-
sents College Has Been Unom-
monty Successful.
WINNERS At BASKETBALL ASK J, Y
snoc,a, n THE TImcs.pispatch. ]

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Ii.IANfSBURCi, VA, March 9.The
william and Mary Basketball teamins
been exceptionally successful this var.
not having met with single deiat.
The quarantine for smallpox, howeNr,
broke in upon the seasons work CO
siderably, being the cause OF cancelg
two games with the University OF
| pinia ana one with Randolph Maco
| College. 1t Is probable. however. tina
! the game with Randolph Macon WI
1 be played at a later period.
| basketball is a comparatively new
1 branch of athletics at William ana
I Mary, the first team having peen Or
| ganized here last Year. This team. un
| der the efficient training OF Coach
Rlanchard. met with almost unparalle-
| ed success During the whole season
only one defeat was. suffered. This was
at the hands OF the Hampton Independ-
i ents in the early part OF the season.
Later on this defeat was wiped out by
the college inhicting decisive deieat
upon the Hampton team,
1 The University OF Virginia went down
4 in defeat IN tho gymnasium here. as
1 did also tho Newport News Y. M. G. A.
team. The University Of Virginia was
at the time the champion team OF tho
4 state. and the Newport News y. NJ Q.
4 A. had been champions of the South
the preceding year. The defeat OF these
two teams. therefore. gave William ana
Mary the undisputed championship OF
the State, and some claims on the cham-
pionship of the South.
This year the team has three OF Its
, old men back-Marsden (captain), Ellis
j, and Driver. The team has scored VIC
tory after victory, until now It Is res
garded ms almost inyncible. Newport
News, the former champions OF N'a
South. have been again defeated by q
! decisive score, and, In addition to tins,
. Hampton, which defeated Newport
!. News was defeated here last SATURDAY.
!. night by the decisive score OF 81 TO y
q The team, which started out under
: such unfavorable circumstances last
year, has become one OF the most popu-
lar bodies Of men in the college, and
: by its splendid work has raised basket
I ban, which year ago was not recog-
nized as regular athletic order OF
the college, to be ono of tho most popu-
lar branches OF athletics engaged in at
i William and Mary.
The track team, which was also first
organized last year, although 1t met
4 with few Victories, yet took a promi-
"A nent part In the indoor meets, both OF
Richmond. This year no member OF
the old team returned to college. so
that 1t was necessarily late before .
now team could be organized
III q. A. DoYell, we'll known In football
circles, ia CAPTAIN, and the team prom
ises we'll. In consequence of t,s late
period at which the team was organ-
feed no part WAS taken In theIindoor
meet held in Richmond, but thu team
will run, at the Norfolk meet. aid any
others that may take place.
The team Is undergoing thorough
training and considerable sped has
been developed, SO that hopes ne rum
X ming high among the student hdy In
regard to the outcome Of any RAGS tbs
team may engage In.