The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-18
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
TO William AND MARY
Williamsburg Battlers Wake Up in
Last Period and Win From
Yellow Jackets.
BERTsCHEY EASILY THE STAR
Receives Long Forward Pass and
Makes Fifty-Yard Run for Toucll-
down-Both Squads Resort to
Kicking-Score, 10 to z.

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. October IL
In the last four minutes OF play Will
liam and Mary carried the ball to Ran
dolph- Macon's twenty-yard line. and
little Captain Bertschey drop Kicked,
winning the game, 10 to z.
What promised to be n mediocre slow
contest In the first half was turned into
scrappy fight. In the second by. the
Orange and Black boys waking up and
scoring ten points.
The Yellow Jackets scored their
touchdown In the second period, when.
after making two first downs sue
cessful forward pasG was made by
Robertson to Richardson; Robertson
kicked goal. William and Mary made
Its touchdown In the fourth period.
when Gale male a long forward pass
70 Bertschey. who ran fifty yards for
the touchdown.
The sterling gritty little quarter of
the Wiiliamsburgers put mp by far the
best all-roun:. exhibition OF the grid
G 1Fon sP Caps, OF any man on the ield.
mention also for the locals.
captain Scnerey put up great game
half Back e Haiii cor hs did che big
Scott.
This Is the first championship game
the locals have played and the hoodoo
last broken. The extraordinary root.
Ing In the grand stand had n tremend
GUS effect on the result. The spirit OF
last springs football Championship
seems stlll to linger In the sleepy old
In the first quarter the elevens see
sawed back and forth most Of the
time In Randolph Macon's territory.
Ashlanders being about even in the
kicking line.
The Methodists were penalized a
period, and the locals ifteehn, The The
longest run was that of Bertschey's
sNw StihSr s Yards; receiving punt,
Jackets showed better form in the
second period. recovering punt. max
Ing g =, two 20 first downs; \ successful for
Richardson kicked goal.
Jackets kick off. but locals are
forced to punt: Visitors make first
Locals fall to make first down. Half
ends. The third quarter was not played
with quite as much spirit. The teams
the last few minutes. when Randolph
Macon carried the ball to the tan-yard
line and then to tho five-yard line. but
Robertson ran outside on the fourth
down. The locals did good defense
work at this iuncture.
In the fourth period It was all Will
scoring ten points. The struggle ended
with the ball in the Methodist's posses
sion on the forty-yard line 1t was a
brilliant piece of football Bertschey's
pass from Gale. Both teams tried to
drop-kick several times, but the only
snccessful one was tho William anu
! Mary captains from the twenty-yar
line in this period. The line-up:
w. g. NJ. Position. RIM
Prillaman, left end Richardson
Taylor. :.,.. left tackle. $50. .Landon
Stone. $3.50. left guard. Jones
Robertson..... centre .....C. II. Scott
Page. right guard. ...... .Mcars
Copeland. right tackle. $50. Bush
Wright. ....... right end. w. r. Scott
Bertschey. quarter back ..... CogbiIi
West. left half back...,.. Hall
/ Addison. right half back. Z. I. Sheffey
Mattox. full back: >. Robertson
| ,Substitutions--WiIii and Mary,
Gale for Wos,. Wallace for Stone,
! Horne for Page, Maddox for PrilIaman,
| Wyatt for MattoX, Carr for Wyatt.
! Rothwell for Wright, Prllaman for
| Maddox: Randolph Macon, Christian for
| Richardson. Richardson for Christian.
Lee for Hall. Turner for Sheffey.
Touchd owns--Be rtschey. Richardson.
Goals from touchdowns--l3ertsc
| Richardson. Field soals--Bertschey.
Referee, Hughes Virginia Polytechnic
lnstitute). Umpire, Jackson ONION
/ Theological Seminary. Head linesman.
! Boyd CUnion Theological Seminary.
| Quarters, 8 minutes.