The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-18
VETERANS SCARCE
AT UN |vERS|T
Much Depends on New Football
Material This Fall, of Which
There Is a Plenty.
HoNAKER HASN'T ARRIVED
Warner, Jones and Driver Are
Among New Men, and
All Are Good.
Especial to The Timee-Dispatch.l
September17 .-Whilt

Special 10 Inc J1IHSS-IlbpdtCu.l
Charlottesviiie. September While
there is no way Of judging how the
season will come out, tt seems now
that the University OF Virginia foot
ball team will De sadly handicapped
this fall by the absence of veterans In
the lineup. 1t seems also that those
veterans who will not return to &C..
lege are the very ones that would hare
done the best work under the amended
rules this season. Gooch and star
ton are among those who did not come
back, both CT whom would have faa'-
" reveled in the game as 1t Will be
played this fail.
The old men back are Geyer, Bow
an. Cecil, Holiday. Towles and Todd
Honaker, who is one of the greatest
ouarterbacks that ever wore an orange
and blue sweater, is expected bac.
every day, but has not reported as yet
His presence will do great deal u
help the team, and his arrival is await
ed with a great deal of qualification
Depends on Ne,, Men.
The university Will have to depend
largely on the new material for victorl'
this fall, and rarely has there pea"
such a .first-class representation Oh new
men on Lambeth Field. Warner, who
ca ptained the Virginia POLYTECHNIC M
stitute team two years ago, and wnn Is
one OF the strongest players IN coiless'
,,I,, no able to play with the university
This fall Jones. also from V. e l.,
p,,1l also be in the game, and snouio
make the team easily II past pee
gformances count for anything. Jimmy
Driver, who was nearly the whole VIZ
liam and Mary team las. season. 40 =.
matriculated in the UNIVERSITY a'iu :.
IS expected that he will DO the puA''As'
tor the university
Driver should take TO the aInenI II :.
ruies as duck takes to water. h 10
WAS one of the fastest men IN the STATE
last fall and was particularly soou ,f ~.
omen field running and dodglng. nis
punting will probably get him pos.
ton on the university Team even
were not as fast as ne Is 90,
Eewitt and Berkeley. from last sea
sons Episcopal High school Yea m, a. - .
also candidates for the UniHerslty ,ean :,
this season and Will certain! su'N'ei''
Into good men.
proot,ce began on Lambeth Field last
Thursday with squad OF twenty ,1. ns,N
al the frst roll call. since lneh pisas
ers have come in on every llai a.; anI NJ
is expected that er ~n Wiil be at least fifty
| 6,.,s from Which the coaches Will pick
! the team. o,, -. TIC inn,yer.
s,t IN Is lH1 particularly rich this fall. ne
a s, ~ svstem. which was 1naugurated
s savnral Years ago is followed, and old
stars stassa for Years back will be on hans
eaa Coach nose Mno % sq I SeiT
~. MS VIZ nRnh,. Williams, Hammond and
B Inaisar IN Major spates. Rice Warren
B Bfi Cloth. Beverley Pollard. OSCAR IS !,
Pnndolph, Empty Cooke, Johnny Men
saveral of these coaches are alreadA
~ the ground, and it is expected thai
!. on scrimma sc NAV be held next FRIDAY
n order that the team can get a tasts
i - ,vnrk before the first game witt
4 T9v;l,iam and Mary College on mex
4 Saturday,