The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-11-18
W. & J. ELEVEN
RANK WITH BEST
HAVE GOOD CLAIM on FOOTBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP or THE EAST.
Not Football Team IN the Country
That Would Outclass the wash
tngton, Pa warriors.

Richard Guy. OF the PittsburEh
Gazette, ines. mas the following 60 say
which Is being led this year BY Russell
Goodwin. former Wheeling high school
PLAYER ". 4 J. will be seen in action
IN the near futuE. against the stats =.
be interested In the following
". & J. retains its title as intercol-
Pennsylvania and This might Include
ohio and West Virginia as well. FOR
there II nothing in Ohio that Is likely 10
give the Red and Black a hard tussle and
IL West virginia Wesleyan Is defeated
next saturday In Clarksburg Captain
Goodwin can annex the title for that
state as we'll.
The Red and Black supporters will
anNiously await the outcome 81 the
Harvard-Nale game. FOR ~ the Ellis win
or play drawn game. the Red and Black
begin To figure VII ere they will have "a
claim Tor recognition when the football
e eiE6SSa.'F'hip OF the east is to be de-
Pitt beat the Indians. who Saturday
dereated Dartmouth. the conquerors OF
Princeton and Pennsylvania. Princeton
played a tie t. game with Yale and
W. x J. held Yale 70 a no-score contest.
That brings ". Il J. up to Harvard II
the dope runs right.
Just what W n J. would do with tho
Crimson is prohlematical. but the fact Isl
that there Is not football team IN the
country that would outciass the war
riors pow in Washington. Pa. After sat
urday's game az Forbes field. \. II. Ham
ltou, who Is about the most enthusiastic
No doubt that ". 3 J. had "a better team
tlan We lad today, and 7 am glad the
people of Pittshurgh saw the team IN ac-
Ipu which defeated us"
II was not the weakness OF the PIT
team which accounted for the - TO o
deieat saturday, but the strength OF
W. x J. Captain Goodwin led one ~
the hest football teams In the United
states on the field Saturday az Forbe :
leid. FROM end to end and IN every
position in the backheld there was not
an apparent weakness. and the men
showed football Intelligence. speed and
courage. and. above all. they We're
coached IN diversified attack and
they seemed 10 scent out the PLAYS of
the opposition. particularly one Red
Fleming. The fact that the field vas
ankle deep In mud and in most every
deter the Red and BLACK Warriors from
showing the kind OF football thew are
capable OF Offering. Spiegel ran the
ends I'm the mud a. though he was on n
field and each time he made good.
w9ica is a truly remarkable feat. CON
sllerlhE the fact that the ball was
heavy and he was carrying several
pounds % mud on his right leg
Pitt played good football and Satur-
cay came right up 10 the game. but IL
was oyerwhelmed by the superior abIl-
liy OF w. - that f. all Coach
buns mon showed "a better running
attack saturday than they did AT any
one time this year, and the uncmen
fought hard and never finched demon
strating that they did not lack the
courage when they stood OF tho Red
and Black within their own lO-yard
line taking the ball on downs. ana al a
time when they knew defeat was 20 be
their portion. This was "a time when
the average team would let down ia
the work
Pitt has already made its place IN
the ranking FOR this year and the team
has ACCOMPLISHED enough 20 satisfy
the most eNacting, and the defeat ~
W n i. should not be hegru1red. for
~ was whipped bv good eleven