The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-24
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Team is Making Good Showing
This Season 0nsidering the
Players She Lost.


BUCKHANNON, Oct 24.-With al
most half of the season gone Wes-
leyan finds herself with three games
played and four more to play. Of those
already played Marshall and Virginia
Polytechnic institute have been de-
feafed by the Orange and Black while
wesleyan was in turn defeated by Car
Isle. 1t is now possible to make pre-
dictions as to the relative strength
of the team with that Of last year ana
the year previous.
At the start Of the season the ma
terial was reckoned as being ntteen
per cent weaker than that OF last
year. With the loss Of 'Neale, Lam
bert, Simms. Micheals. and others OF
such brilliant ability. But coaches
Mt. Pleasant and Carlow went to
work with determination, however.
and from the very start saw the max
ing OF what they considered a team
that would be able to cope success
fully with the teams that Wesleyan
was scheduled to meet during the
year.
DEVELOPMENTS have shown that Car
tHsle is weaker than they have been
| in former years, but still they are
holding their own pretty we'll. and
THAT Wesleyan's to o game With
| them was a very creditab1e showing.
Then the 300 game with Marshali
was as good showing against the
! HuntingtonianS as Washington ana
Lee was able to make and Washing
ton and Lee has led all the teams IN
| the country in scoring up to last sat
urday. 1t is thought by those VINO
have watched the development OF the
WESLEYAN team that they were sadly
icff color that day. But the most con-
yincing proof of the strength OF the
WESLEYAN 1914 team was the versa
tility they showed last Saturday when
they defeated Virginia Polytechnic
Institute very decisively in the worst
of weather conditions.
There are a great many opinions
given as to the relative strength OF
the Wesleyan and West Virginia uni
yersfty teams this year, which will
clash at Fairmon+ Turkeyday for the
state championship, but none are OF
any value as yet as both teams are
bound to develop great deal before
that time. But by every comparison
Wesleyan looks the stronger at the
present date; she is heavier tne
coaches have fewer men TO work
with; .Wesleyan's scores have peen
larger against the same teams that
they have met, etc; but in the mean
time Wesleyan has other fish to Try
She must meet Georgetown at wash
ington in probably the most import
ant game OF the season next Satur-
day. and on the following SATURDAY
she faces the biggest game of the home
season when she meets Dickinson on
the Buckhannon gridiron. and s .se
then has the hardest game OF .ne
schedule when she ties up against the
washington and Jefferson team at
wheeling, November "A. WESLEYAN
k+hen has a twelve day rest before she
tackles West Virginia University in
the all-important game Of the year at
Fairmont Thanksgiving day. and she
expects to be returned the winner
Interest in the Dickinson. Washing
ton and Jefferson and West Virginia
I'm iyersity games has already begun
string in Buckhannon and in Wes-
leyan circles everywhere and climax
Of the West virginia football oa 1ss sea gI11
he featured with many surprises and
be long remembered in the annals Of
the sport in the Mountain state