The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-27
TEAM IN SHAPE
FOR ITS BIG GAME
Wake Forest to Play U. S. S
Franklin on Thanksgiving.
Basketball Prospects.
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u Especial to The Times Dispatch
y Wake Forest, November 26.-Aftnr IL
week OF hard practice the varsity HIS
rounded into excellent form and viii
take three days Of light work before
the THANKSGIVING game 10 he played
in Durham with the United States
ship FRANKLIN. The team. as is natural
~ expected, is in the hest conditions
II has been in this season. and is in
h 1T condition 10 close successfully
an already successful season. 1t is
/. safe to say that The Wake Forest
football team has been the surprise
OF the season in South Atlantic foot
ball circles. Playing the best teams
an Virginia and Carolina, II has failed
10 score on but ono opponent In
tho three previous years in which foot
hall has been played at this inStitu-
tion only two touchdowns and two
goals from fields were made on col
]rEe opponents. This year thirteen
touchdowns and one field goal have
heen tho result against college teams.
Every opponent has been surprised
, at tho remarkable Improvement made
over previous elevcns of this institu
lion. All tho men arc in good con-
dition for the Thanksgiving game
Though three OF last years varsity
Uuint are members of the football
team. Coach Crozier has n host OF men
to claim his attention every afternoon
Basketball practice is not being PUSH
: ed as Il Will hurt the interest in foot
ball. Manager Turner is working on
his schedule and though not completed
81 gives evidence OF being the best
this college has ever had ucrci ofors
81 trip has been taken into tn, South,
ending up will a game with the
Birmingham Y. NJ. e. ~. Mt Birming-
ham. The teams played generally were
Y. NJ. c. a. teams, many of the players
on which had been playing six and
eight years, against whom college
teams had little chance to win. This
year tho trip Will be taken into Nir-
pinia and college teams alone will be
played. The first game Will be played
February s. with Rand olph- Ma con, 1t
Ashland. The other teams which will
be played arc William and Mary,
Emory and Henry, V. F. l.. Univer-
sity of Virginia, V. NJ. l., and prob
ably Roanoke College. The exact dates
b we not been settled on. but they
will all he played during tho week
of February 5.
The schedule on the homo floor is
far from complete. The two games
TO be played during tho anniversary
celebration have been practically ar
ranged q. and NJ will he played Feb
ruary Is. and V. T. l., on February H.
The games played on these two DAYS
aFe by far the biggest drawing cards
OF. any athletic event Of the college
year. No games will be scheduled
with Trinity and Carolina. as different
matters cannot DO agreed upon. Caro-
lima desires game al Charlotte and
one n. Chapel Hill. but refuses TO play
nj Wake Forest. This Wake Forest
VIII not agree to. and as result
there Will be no game other teams
to be played on the homo floor arc
Randolph Macon, Davidson, Guilford,
Mercer. '. y. L.. a. and NJ. and prob
ably the University of Virginia
Arrangements have been completed
for u series OF three debates to he
held with Baylor University. which is
the Baptist University OF Texas. The
first OF these debates will he held in
Waco. Tex. on Lastcr Monday night,
on Easter Of 1913, while the third, IL
Macon. Ga, on Easter, of 1914 The
query for the first debate Will he
submitted by Baylor not later than De-
cember !. Wake Forest to have The
choice of sides. which must be de-
cided upon not later than December
10. By the terms of the debate moth
Ing but UNDERGRADUATE students are
eligible. and all must be taking mt
least two-thirds OF the work required
by regulations of the respective 'insti-
buttons. Efforts IRE now being made
TO arrange debate with another col.
lese TO be held during the spring. very
probably on Easter Monday
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