The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26
Local Collegians Put Up
Plucky Fight From
Start to Finish.
TUMBLE PROVES
COSTLY TO LOCALS
Attack of College Mows Sturdy
Line From Ashland, but Punch
Is Lacking at Crucial Moment.
Clever Exhibition by Both
Elevens-Straight Foot
ball Is Played.

In the fastest and hardest fought
game seen at Broad Street Park this
season. the Randolph Macon football
eleven defeated Richmond College by
the score of IA to yesterday The
offensive work OF both teams was good.
but their defensive work was bad. The
Spiders started the game with n scrle g
OF limo plungcs that took the Yellow
Jackets off their feet A forward pass
by Ancarrow to Jones figured In the
first touchdown of the game. and An
carrow kicked goal. In the first two
minutes OF the second quarter. Driver,
for Randolph Macon. crossed the
Spiders line for n touchdown. Again
in the third quarter Driver got the ball
on tumble and went twenty fiyo yards
for a touchdown. Bane kicked both
goals.
So far as ground gaining IS actual
~ concerned. the Spiders covered con-
siderably more space than their Ash
land opponents. They found the line
of the visitors particularly vulnerable,
and by short. swift jabs just OFF tackle.
carried the oval within striking dis
lance on numerous occasions. 10 lose
II when the punch was lacking TO talSe
il across thu line. But for Bane ana
Driver. both OF whom are great broken
held runners. the Spiders would have
been returned visitors. AS IT IT, the
loss is somewhat stoHed for By the
hnoWiedSe tnat IL WAS not cnarl-
pIonship affair.
THIS much was made evident: there
is fight in the Spider camp. They
fought with grim determination. and
though errors OF Judgment were made,
there was apparent At all times WILL
ingness 10 go and do something entire
iy lacking In the elevens representing
the Red and Blue during past seasons.
They know how TO score. and when
Oh, II, a
some real football Will be given the
bugs. King, Ancarrow. until he was
injured, and Coburn bore the hrunt OF
tho attack
The going was heavy. which miti-
gated against fast play. Both teams
were Handicapped because OF the soft
turf, the backs being unable TO get
away to quick starts or TO work up
any speed after starting. AS to weight,
there appeared no appreciable differ
ence. though II there was a prepon-
derance. II went to the IIanoyerians.
Both Coach Reiss and Coach Dobson
have placed a premium on speed, ana
because OF this. were unable to show
their teams to advantage. F1eetness
was discounted under the conditions
yesterday.
wenr Themselves Ont.
Critically, the Spiders wore them
selves out battering at the yellow
Jackets line. Short gains were made,
but when the goal was in sight the
light backs of tho college were spent
and lacked the fire to take them over.
The visitors showed more conservatism
and better judgment in this regard.
They took matters easy, and after the
first mad rush OF the red and blue.
when In the brief space of two minutes
a touchdown, from which a goal was
kicked, had been scored, braced and
l. \ ~ l. .,aII 10,
A tumble by Klevesahl In the third
period gave the game to the Randolph
Macon outfit. Bane gathered the ball
and raced full twenty-five yards for
a touchdown, though there Were those
who thought he had run outside be-
fore crossing the goal line. However,
Referee witt failed to see it, and the
score counted
1t was corking good football game.
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