The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-27
VIRGINIA IS AGAIN TRIUMPHANT OVER
ANCIENT GR|O|RON FOES IN ANNUAL
THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL STRUGGLE
Orange and Blue Eleven Displays All of
Its Football Strength and Succeeds in
WinningF1om North Carolina Eleven by
20 to 3 Count---Mayers Work Features

The Orange ard Blue boys iniued.
ateiy started All onward marcn ~
wafua the Carolina goal line, and wags
the arst quarter finally came 10 a.
end the bail was In Vtrginla's posses
sion on Caroiina's seyenleen-yard line.
Mayer scores Touchdown
Within the next three minutes OF
play Captain Mayer had crossed the
much-coveted goal line for a safiicien.
number of points 10 cause the repre-
sentatives OF the Tarheel Institution to
taste OF the bitterness OF defeat for
tn. first time this season. Al the open
ing Of the second quarter Gooch con-
tr1huted an eight yard run around the
end and then hit the line for fou
through the line. and Mayer then pro
ceeded To penetrate the line for q
touchdown. Baker kicked goal. and
the score stood TO 0.
THIS touchdown gave the Virginia
aggregation "a sufficient amount of in
spiratlon 70 garner 4 touchdown In
each 81 the remaining periods. In the
first nal1 the vast assem- blage at Broad
Street Park saw an assortment q:
plays that were practically all old to
them but IN the beginning of the sec
ond naif the Orange and Blue forces
heGan IL display an article of foot
bail that had the Carolinians complete.
~ hatiicd
AT times they were as elusive as
smoke, AT another, harder than gran
itei strange creatures of football flesh
ana sGirit Aladdin could not have
bottled them by guile, and Solomon
could not have checked them by wis
dom OF many battalions. Carolina
might have beaten ordinary oppo
nents. but what chance had the Down
Homers" with men who cluster around
the leather ball and then mutter nine
teen twenty-four, etghty-two, presto.
The ball is an invisible thing, I'M
seen by the eye of foe, not to be
grasped by the hand OF foe, and re-
appearing. rematerializ!ng far down
Cardinals territory, After the sec
ond half had opened Virginia was sell
dom held for downs, and during the
game the Orange and Blue boys made
Just eighteen first downs to their op-
ponent's half dozen This fact alone
shows Virginia outplayed the eleven
from the Old North state.
Mayors Work Features.
The astute Buck Mayer. captain
of the Old Dominion gridironists. I'M
veiled al, of his football strength
against the poor Tarheel outfit yester-
day, and. on numerous occasions ho
was seen skirting the opposing ends
far long gains or either hitting the
hefty Carolina line FOR five or six
wards II was quite an imposing spec
tacle IL was the fourth time tina,
he had faced the Tarheel aggregation
in n Ike number of years. and he had
never seen Virginia suffer It defeat at
their hands. He was determined to
round his career rs member of the
University of Virginia eleven by do
ing his utmost To see the ORANGE ami
Blue forces once more emerge from
the struggle with the ancient gridiron
foe with the wreath Of victory adorn-
ing their brows. He followed every
play. and, besides making several
sweeping end runs he played a Drill
liant defensive game.
Then there was Bobby Gooch the
stellar little quarterback OF the Vir-
ginia eleven. This youngster was
one OF the most consistent ground
gamers on the Virginia team. Al
though checked two or three times by
the great defensive work on the part
of Tandy, the big Carolina center, he
repeatedly hit the line for gains, while
several times he skrted the ends Tor
long gains. Billy Word. toe Richmond
boy, who IL performing in right half
hack for the Charlottesville outfit, also
comes In for some praise. Because
of his injured knee he was not given
the ball many times, but ON every
occasion he came across with gain,
one time going through the big Blue
and White line for twelve yards
Winston Grabs Pass.
Probably the most spectacular play
II.