The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-25
Defeats North Carplina
on Gridiron by Scpre
of z to 0.
.TODD'S GREAT RUN
FEATURE OF GAME
Wild, Exciting Scene as $4,000
People Cheer Madly, While
Bands Crash and Sea of
Color Dazzles--Superior
Team Work Accounts
for. Victory.
ny GUS mA.LpEnv.


With appetites whetted though an
absence of hostilitfes for more than
two years, 1900 wildly enthusiastic
lovers of football sat eSpectantly
through more than an hour and half
OF play yesterday and watched the
University Of virginia humbl. the lads
from Chapel Hill winning the gridiron
classic of the south by score of I
to 0.
|, Not in years has there been such
interest as was displayed at Broad
street Park Long before the time an
nounced for play to begin the crowd
surgcd and seethed about the gates
waiting to get in. AS early as
o'clock the general Omission entrances
were iarnmed with a writing mass
of humanity Everything on wheels,
whether driven by gas or piloted By
horses, was called into action. 1t had
been long time since Virginia played
Carolina, and few were willing to miss
the chance.
Banners, Bands-Bedlam.
bons We're flying, cheers were hurled
to the winds. Songs recalling the days
of Auld Lang syne, yellS making the
red blood dance and course through
the veins. pleadings which found an
answering chord in the hearts of the
thousands who were on hand to givo
evidence of love for alma mater
these were the things which made the
old feel young and the young become
revitalized.
On the south side of the park waved
the banners of the Blue and White. ,
band was there to lend its voTnme to
the throaty yells of the student body
from the Old North state. Words
framed to popular airs were thrown
across the gridiron as sort of defy
to the Orange and Blue phaanx bank
ed on the north side OF the field, leo
by the University band Time and
again the old song which has made
Carolina name to conjure with was
waited TO the breeze. From the op.
posite side of the Enclosure came the
answering ''Wah- who-wah" of vir.
ginia.
Wild Shouts for Victory.
1t was not an unfriendly rivalry
There was no attempt to drown the
voices of each other. Rythmieally anc
in voluminous cadence the adherents
of each team sent up their shouts 70,
victory, II was real music-music t.
the ears of old and young Few or
hand, whether college-bred or reared
far from the environs of school OF
learning, but found the blood coursine
| faster through their veins at this eyi
dence of spirit on the part OF the
youngsters who are destined to become
try.
! Before the game began both team.
We're confident of victory. There wa.
little or no betting. and even afte)
the warfare had actually begun. mel
who had witnessed foe | battles or
many fields were unwilling to give an,
opinion as to which team would win
There was no grandstand work on tn,
part OF the players. Carolina cam,
TO Richmond on Thanksgiving Day
1910, determined to carry home a vic
tory over Virginia, Virginia cam,
! equally determined to wrest the laure
wreath Carolina was doomed to dis
! appointment, and Virginia is still
happy to-day,
Fought Great Fight.
But it was not an inGlorous unhap
piness which the sturdy sons of Chape
Hill carried in their breasts The,
left the football field with the knowl
edge that they had fought good fight
Though beaten by the best team, i
was not until after every inch o
ground had been contested. Victor.
was not lost sight of for mo
ment, Even when Virginia had scoret
the touchdown which to the popula
mind precluded any possibility of de
feat, the Carolinians still battled val
iantly. ~
Nor were they without friends il
! the stands, which We're filled t
overnowlng. Though hoping for /
Virginia victory the crowd synpa
thized with the White and Blue, an
time and again cheered the pluck