The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-02
M'Gu|RE'S ELEVEN
BUMPS ACADEMY
RUNS Up SCORE or FIrTY-FoUR
POINTS on LIGHTER FOOT
BALL TEAM.
LOSERS SHOW PLUCK
GIVE SPEEDY AND sCRAPPY EN-
HIBTTION, hut BIGGER BoYs
KNOW TOO MUCH FOR
THEM.

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McGuire's ..-.,.......i 500
Now for High school, was the
slogan unanimously adopted by the
rooters of McGuire's university school
yesterday afternoon just after they
had swamped the weaker Richmond
academy team under a perfect Hood
Of end runs and skin tackle plays. in
the first of their annual clashes for
the prep championship OF rne city,
by score OF 81 to o.
The score is large. ridicuiously large
and does not in any way allow one
to imagine exactly just what kind
of a game II was. The weather man
played quite an important part in
the game, and TO him is due most of
the miscues which the boys made, and
he who must he blamed. by those
who were afraid to face the rain, for
the having prevented them from an
afternoons sport
For sport 1t was, From the start
the game was as speedy and as
scrappy an affair as, you could wish
to see. All Of the men played hard
and never for a second let up, Nc
CURES always trying to push the
oval over for another score and
academy. even with their opponents
some fifty points ahead, fghting to
the last minute of play in an effort
TO score.
And very nearly did they succeed
too The brace which they took .iur-
ing the second half was one OF the
most remarkable features of the
game. For the first half they were
on the defensive. but with the De-
ginning of the third period Captain
Pitt ordered every energy to be CEN
IA eA
that he could gain little through the
tine and opened up a series of forward
passes that brought the ball from
deep within his own territory close
TO the Mcclure goal Forward J,'.sses
were made about every third down,
and the great atority of them work
ed They put the team in position
10 score but they were also what
Coach Griffin has to blame for his
teams failure TO cross the Mcclure
line. All of which may be somewhat
confusing but il is 80. Notice the
explanation.
ate affowed academy TO brace and
10 work the university school boys on
series OF forward passes. They
caught them eff their feet and whiried
them into their own hack yard almost
before they knew what had happened.
Pitt WAS rattering off play after play.
hitting the line for little or no gains
and then spring another forward
pass that would bring him ten or
twelve yards nearer :he coveted mark.
He kept this up until Academy had
reached the tise-yard mark on the
fourth down with goal to gain. There
Was nothing to do nuI hurl another
pass and frusf 70 the fu.R' THE pass
was perfect but luck. In the person OF
Captain Pass hall. of McGnire's. inter
eencd end scotted throush tire ,tass of
players hurting or man after man un-
til he had clear field and then
touchdown. II IL had been allowed IL
would have been the feature run Of
the game.
The of ciais decided. however. that
&he runner had stepped outside the
lines while lodging a tackler and put
tn tall In play on about the forty
yard line. In doing so Paschall was
deprived OF that particular run. cot us
loss had little effect upon his record.
lie was the one great little man on
the field. He Is good at all times. rut
yesterday he seemed TO be trying 10
Guido himself. Not only did he score
the greatest number OF points for his
team. hat several OF the touchdowns
were the results of runs through brok-
en- fields and made only by the run
ners great speed and ability to use
his arm while carrying the ball. His
work yesterday was dandy and at
tracted the attention of several per-
sons connected with amateur teams
not hundred miles from Broad
Street park. These persons had heard +.
of the bali which the prep schools were
playing and had come out to see for
themselves. They saw and as re-
suit ID is not improbable that several
of the men viii he found in the
iineups Of their teams before the end
OF the present season.
Captain Paschall was great on the
long runs and the circling of the ends,
but Billy Hammond was the real arti-
Gle In line plunging. The boy. who
was shiftde from end. where he rta iy
belongs. played with sprained ankle,
but proved himself the superior of
many Of the players who were physi-
caily fit and who had been in the
hackfieid position most OF their foot
hall experience. He 10 a conner aud
unusual as 1T nYssy seem appears to Fl
be able to play In any position.
Montague at center Is a dandy and
had ne been playing against anyone
except the star Of the Academy.
Rcden. would probably have been the
best man on the field who played near
the center Of the line. He Is steady
and even spectacular nj times.
Cogbill PLAYED noticeable game