The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-01
oun GnIpIRoN CLASSIC.


our GRIDIR0N CLASSIC.
The Tarheels came yesterday, they
saw, and they were conquered-on the
Sridiron. In spirit II North Caroliniam
is never defeated. and stranger hear
ing the White and Blue hosts yesterday
after the game, lifting their voices in
The Old North State Forever" would
have thought that they were tho victors,
anu not the vanquished. There is u
never-say die spirit about the North
Carolinian, particularly the son of
Chapel Hill, that commands the admi-
ration OF al! who know it.
And SO it was yesterday. when tho
air was crisp and the sunshine bright
upon the field where Il great Interstate
football battle was fought AS soon
as the smoke of the first assault had
cleared away ii was apparent that the
Virginians We're carrying the day, but
The great Blue bank shouted louder
than before and waved its banners
moro vigorously, putting even more en-
phasis into the dear old L. ~ c." of
'hSiA SOlicSt nSlnn.
After all, 1t isn't the touchdown and
IL isn't the winning that means most
in u contest like this. The finest thing
about 1t all Is the spirit OF loyalty
Every North Carolinian is glad that
he is one, and every virginian IS glad
mat he Is son OF the Old Dominion
on this great red-letter day in South
ern athletics. And every mothers son
of them is glad that he went or goes
to Chapel Hin or Virginia, as the case
may be- State pride and pride In ones
alma mater--thcse are begotten of
noble sentiment and generous feelings.
5oth state and college are in a sense
intangible, but they seem living and
breathing and striving on such day
as yesterday. The Tarheel, with his
armet in colors, comes tramping down
the way, shouting "Civis North Caro-
INA sum" while right abreast Of him
is the REORGANIZATION of Old Virginia
never-tire. asserting: Il am a citizen OF
Virginia, no mean State"
That Virginia elevcn yesterday was
a Cracking" combination Of artillery,
infantry and cavalry. mostly cavalry,
with Joachim Murat Todd's white he'll
met flashing far ahead. The Light Bri
sade, metaphorically speaking, for
some OF the Tarhecls are direct de-
Fcendants of that great North Caro-
iinian, Samson, charged ana charged
but the Orange and Blue warriors were
tackling TO the right of them, smear
ing and capturing. Stonewau Rich
WAS u whole hornets nest, ana Andrew
| Jackson Tillett used all the tactics in
Inc book; but the psychology OF the
| game was against them, and their
men demonstrated that there's many n
slip 'twiAt midheld and the line that
! counts.
But what of it? North Carolina has
u thoIsand more chances, and so has
| Virginia There are still mighty men
to come 10 Chapel I'm out of the
mountains, and Nirginia's Goodhue clan
Is not dead In Texas. The point of tho
matter Is that carloads of North Car.
! oilhinns, joyous hopeful, bubblinr with
state spirit came over the line yester
day and SHOOK hands with the Virgin
''hS' VINO were glad to see them and
| wish they would come a liltie oftcnc,
| North carolinians and Virginiuns lost
at the expense of each other in nm
ihm'Hblo kindly way, Knowing tha, thcv
have much in common-much .,noa 10
io"h back 10 ana no unfricndlincss-
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