The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-06
University Of North Carolina Has
Promising Football Team This Year

suit was not as disastrous as 1t might
have proved.
Alternately at tackle played q star
game. lie handled the man opposite
him in good style and more than once
broke through and upset V. p. Is
well meant attack. The Tech boys
showed better line Of team play than
the Carolinian. and their ends covered
kfcks better, but Applewhite and
Alternately especially were good In
breaking UP interference.
Tfllett's Good Game.
Tillett once tore off q beautiful
quarterback run and Winston thrice
got away for good gains, but Caro-
lima never pushed Its attack home,
being quite content to play safe. The
Virginia game is the goal of the Tar
heel season. and Coach Bocook was
quite content with keeping V. p. /.
| from scoring.
Criticism has been made because
Referee Class enforced the rule linz
ting the number OF men on the side
lines to three. The referee In not
the man to blame. He only obeyed
the instructions of the coaches and
managers of the teams. Carolina OBJ
jected to a number of privileges per-
sons following the ball on the v. p
/. side OF the enclosure anc v. P. /,
responded In kind. The result was
that the local newspaper men. whose
duty it is to report the games, were
Obliged to retire either TO the grand
stand or to the press coop, the lat
ter point of disadvantage making it
an iinpossibility to follow the bali.
Gass Excellent Onitiml.
He1efee Gass but carried out his
INSTRUCTIONS. and the rules Of the
game. He lie by far the most en-
eient ofiicial seen in any OF the local
games, knows the rules thoroughly
and does his work in a conscientious
manner.
The whole blame for the inadeouate
press facilities lies with the manage
ment OF both teams. V. p i. and
Carolina come TO Richmond in tha
hope of swelling the athletic exche-
| quer. The bcy-managers Impressed
| with the importance OF the occasion
and perhaps their own-know moth
ing about covering a big football game
properly. They may he abb. to count
ur the receipts. divide them and nav
the bliis. out as far as the neWspa per
end OF 1t is concerned they are m
experienced and quite unequal to their
! Job Their errors Of omission and
| commission might be catalogued and
recited. hut space and Chart, for in
experience forbids.
Rope on Side Lines.
II would be an easy matter 10 rome
en- space a short distance behind
the side-lines where the newspaper
men can follow the ball, but this
never occurs to the youthful man
ayers. They might obtain a Larger
attendance IL they provided a score
| board with ball showing the pro.
gress of the play and a megaphone
man to call out why penalties are In.
ficted. when substitutes are sant in
and other important proceedings.
w, IN due time, with 4. decreasinr NJ
tendance to stir them up, they NAV
pay more attention to newspaper pub
iicity In advance OF the game. for.
~ a matter OF fact, the annual foot
ball game between Carolina and V, p.
]. is not a matter OF interna tionai
importance. no matter how it may be
regarded at Chapel Hill and Blacks
burg Even Richmond refuses to
become unduly excited over the spec
tacle. as the small attendance Satur-
day testifies,