Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13

ESNlDLE, VA, i December
down on tho football season at the
the annoIncement that the Orange sG and
Blues schedule for 1915 is complete
glance a at the eaTlsF saam us namea
above will at once show that the sched-
ule e the hardest ever arranged for a
lenges were turned down. Following
the teams splendid record during, the
the the feot6a Wns
Texas. Alabama, Tennessee and Mlssis,
sippi asked ed for games with tho .Vir-
to M; however, not enough to go
Five Games Away From Home.
The eleven under the leadership of
Harris Coleman, will have to play five
Oh IL, the nine games away from home,
tances will have to be covered. After
meeting meet e. two we, Of the best teams in the
viii return home a to begin pr ns gieYen
for the second half OF " the : season s
Hardly will the players have /, rest be-
Athens. Ga. for the third game in in rs rs
many years with the University of
Gts1nsa whch has as hr member Of Its
Northern expert ms the best quarter
back in this eountry-Pnddock.
Three Virginia teams are given.
plnfies ppo3 the
State: Richmond College. which landed
the championship in the Eastern Divi-
sion the past season. and Randolph-.
T6e Msthoalsts open the season here
on on October fto II, 2s and week later will
Haven. Between the Yale and Har-
ward contests comes Richmond College
trip to Cambridge to tackle Captain
MahnG and his cohorts. With Just
the clash @fR sh the
will take the train for Athens, Gu, to
meet the Crackers: s
On lambeth Field the following Sat
commodores will be encountered. The
next week the team Will again .htt
bia, S. c.. to tackle the University ot
South Carolina. Then comes the final
ns 9f the 9b
| North Carolina, in Richmond In all,
| the squad will travel about 5000 miles
Hard Road to Travel.
with such difficult schedule, VIr.
that buck" Mayer captain of the 1e1s
team tear, ~ which Hsl lost but single game, and
Gnisl, out his four years e on the gs lae
Iron. With Mayer. Spar and Word
back In the lineup, there would be only
| the departure of Bobby" Gooch, who
| leaves early next fall to take Sup his
studies Mt Oxford rs n Rhodes scholar
| from Virginia. f7
The, player who attempts to nlI
Gooch's shoes Will have to work hard.
| whoever he may be. 1t Is safe to pre :.
| diet that he will not make seven first
| downs against Yale, ms did Bobby last
! October. There Is yet another member
| of the Gooch family who Is destined to
make name on the gridiron, but he
! VIII hardly enter Virginia before the
! fall OF 1916. For two years he has
played quarter back on the Fishburne
| School team. for two successive years,
| winner Of the prep. school champion
ship of the State.
At the banquet rendered the letter
men OF the 1918 squad last Wednesday
Evans and Gillette-stated that they
! would be unable to return, having
played four years In college baseball
Captain Mayer was roundly applauded
| when he said that he would like to re-
turn. He stated. however,, that he
| would make no promise just now "Bil-
| ly" Word, Mayors running mate In
| the back field and a big ground gamer
In the Swarthmore contest, promised
to return IL it Is possible for him to
do so.
| An addition to the line next fall will
be Thomas G.. Coleman, of Stanford,
| Ky, brother OF Captain-elect Cole
| man. He was injured In the game with
Randolph Macon last year, broken
| bone In the ankle Keeping him out OF
the lineup the entire season. He Is
| heavier than his brother, and especially.
ST ha daft mol,