The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-13
STUDENTS AND
ALUMNI HOLD
ROOFING PRACTICE
OFFICIALS CHOSEN FOR SPIDER
JACKET GAME--CobLEGE con-
FIDENT OF VICTORY.

One of the largest rallies In this
history of the scnooi was held at
Richmond college last night in prep
aration for the game with Randolph
Macon here on Saturday. The students
will hold rallies each night during the
remainder of the week and practice
the yells and songs to be used In
the game with the yellow Jackets. @
Last night there were several hum
bred students present at the rally
and for a couple of hours Chss1
Rooter Dunford and his corps OF as
sistants put the bunch through their
voice culture. EXECUTIONS would pes
slbIy be the more correct word to use,
for not one of them but left the
chapel following the practice who dia
not find it difficult to speak in
natural voice. The many yells were
practiced at length and consideran'
degree Of unison attained in deliver
ing them. The songs were sung :
number of times and many NV
variations were introduced
Officials for the forthcoming game
have been decided upon and II y
practically assured that Branch ba-
cock will referee the game. Fosfes
! Witt is TO umpire and George scheHc.
/ Ia to be linesman. With this Corps
of officials IL Is practically an assured
( fact that the deciding game OF tnas
present championship race will not
/ suffer for a first class administrator
| of the rules.
| Coach Dobson put his men throug IS
| some sCrimma ging yesterday. ara y
/ rapidly rounding off the rough eeKes
/ OF the team work for the SATURDAY
contest. King and Ancarrow are re-
ported az being in the best possibia
shane. and it Is expected that each
Of these men will play the game of
/ his life against the Ashlanders. In
| fact the Spiders as "A team are de-.
/ termined to make the most OF their
/ opportunity to annex the Champion
1 ship cup this season and VIII enter
( the game with but one thought pea1
Randolph Macon.
! According to the coach they have
! very good chance to do so and he
/ believes that the team will play the
I best game which 1t has done this
season. He has given them num-
Der of new plays and their defensive
practice during the past week mes
been against such plays as the Yellow
! Jackets use in their offensive work.
| This practice, 1t is believed, viii re-
I TN the Spiders rctdirr tfr-ttr- orr
ponents to a small score, and with
their improved ability in offensive
work 1t is thought that their chances
for victory over the Lemon ana
/ Black team are more than equal. II
has been officially announced that the
game is to begin at 3 o'clock.
Alumni of the college are making
extensive preparations for big time
on the occasion of the game and sew
eral tallyho parties are to be given
by them They have organized 2
separate roofing corps and with their
horns and other noise producing In
struments will vie with the student
rooters for first honors parade
about the field between halves -
scheduled to take place. for not one
Of the alumni but that expects the
Spiders to be away in the lead by that
time,
The report from Ashland that
Driver the speedy little halfhack OF
the Ashland aggregation. is out OF the
game with bad ankle has considers
ably boosted the hopes Of d Spider
victory. He is one Of the best ground
gamers on the team and nracffca'v
the entire offensive strength Of tho
eleven is built about him and Bans.