The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-19
BIGGEST EVE,
OF THIS Sc ASON
lln the Football Line Win Be the
Game at Union Park Here
Tomorrow.
BOTH TEAMS ARE STRONG
Record Breaking Attendance is
Assured by the Prospects
as Seen Today.

Clarksburg Is In readiness for the
great football game which will be
played Friday afternoon at Union
Park between a team representing
the West Virginia University and a
team representing Marietta College.
This athletic contest will prove to be
the greatest event OF its kind in the
state the present season. The game is
to start promptly at 3 O'clock.
No game ever played in West vfr-
ginia has been advertised as extern
sively as the game to be played here
and 1t Is expected that the largest
crowd ever to attend a game in West
Virginia will be present at Union
Park when Referee Carl Sugden, the
old Harvard player. blows the
whistle. which will send the uniyer-
sity team against Its Oldest rivals,
the blue and white boys from Mar
ietta Sugden will be assisted in
officiating the game by Dave Morrow.
once a player on Bethany, then w.
& T., and then coach for several
years of the. red and black team
from Little washington, and Howard
Johns, from Mt Union College, OF
Alliance, o.
Both Out to Win.
Both Marietta and West Virginia
will enter this contest to win and
West Virginia promises victory
even II everything it has has to be
used, Notwithstanding the presence
OF the Buckhannon team, which the
Morgantown boys will meet In battle
at Fairmont Thanksgiving Day for
the championship of the state. The
Marietta team is composed OF vet
Grams and is one to be feared The
quarterback and fullbacls OF THE
Marietta team, recently injured, have
recovered form and their preesnce
In the lineup will give the team,
great help. The team will then be In
tact and will be the same team which
swept everything before It this year
with the exception of Dennison Col
elge, the only team to score a VIC
tory from Marietta.
The Marietta team will arrive in
this city on the 1925 accommodate
from Parkersburg. It Is reported
that 900 rooters will accompany their
fayorites here, while large delega-
ton Of West Virginia rooters from
Parkersburg and intermediate points
will arrive on the same train. The
Marietta headquarters will be ct the
Waldo hotel.
The West Virginia team will arrive
on special train which will leave
Morgantown at $3.50 o'clock and is
expected to arrive in this city at IL
O'Clock. twenty-five members >of the
Varsity squad will make up the
players brought to this city. The
special train will also bring in the
neighborhood of 800 students, co-eds,
professors and Morgantown resi-
dents, including the famous West
Virginia Cadet band.
Local Efforts are Successful.
The efforts OF the Harrison County
West Virginia Club in making Friday
a great and grand holiday in this
city, have been successful. All local
banking institutions will close their
doors at 1 o'clock complimentary to.
the occasion. The st, Mary's high
school and the Washington Irving
high school have declared half holt,
days to enable the students to attend
this football game.
AS guests OF the West Virginia
team, Manager Gist has invited the
Buckhannon football squad and the
football teams representing Shinns-
ton, Grafton, Warrington, Fairmont
and Weston high schools. All these
teams will attend and will root for
the boys from Morgantown.
Many local merchants have shown
college spirit in great quantities and
have very befittiugly decorated their
store windows complimentary to the
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