Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-23
IMPORTANT GAMES TO-DAY
WILL GIVE SOME LINE ON
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP
Contests In East VIII Attract Attcn-
uOn-Iiarvard nnd Cornell Clush
InfercHtInS,

Six games are in the spotlight to-
day as having an important bearing on
the Southern football championship
They are: Virginia VS.. Georgia. at
Athens: North Carolina VS.. Virginia
Georgia Tech VS.. Louisiana state, at
New Orleans: Auburn VS.. Mississippi
Aggies. at Birmingham; Vanderbilt vs..
mississippi. at Memphis. and Alabama
Vs. Tulane. at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Virginia Georgia game stands
out as the contest of greatest inter
est. Nirginia's feat of beating Yale
and then losing to Harvard on field
goals has brought the Charlottesville
team to the front as probably the
strongest team in the South. Stuart.
inc Virginia tackle. who was out Of
the Harvard game on account Of u
broken hand. is expected TO be back in
the lineup to-day.
The Georgia team is reported I, 10
much stronger than when held by
Chattanooga University 10 "a g-;o-G
tie Oh October 9.
North Carolina has suffered from in
Jurics. but reports from Chapel I'm
are that the eleven is we'll fortified
with good substitutes. and expects 10
win from Virginia Military institute
by comfortable margin.
Vanderbilt and Mississippi meet at
Memphis. Vanderbilt has little trouble
GisposinE of its opponents so far this
season and followers of the Cornmo-
dores expect the game to SHOW just
what Coach McGuigen has developed
in the way of n defensive team.
=, GeorGia Tech will meet Louisiana
tho Atlanta team are predicting Il vic
tory, but not by big score
Tulane and Alabama clash n Tus-
caloosa. Ala. Tulane probably has as
n ,-Fa.a
any OF the other Southern teams. Au-
burn journeys TO Birmingham TO meet
the Mississippi Aggies. Tho Missis-
sissippi team has not shown ANYTHING
that would indicate more than a close
score. with Auburn on tho long end
Although the football season has
just crossed the midway mark, the
clevcns OF the leading Eastern col
leCes and universities to-day will face
one Of the most dangerous stages Of
their play. Harvard. Princeton. Yale,
the Army are all called upon to meet
opponents capable of giving them bat
tie far beyond the usual practice stand
ard
nIG CROWD EXPECTED
At HARVARD GAME:
Large crowds are expected to wit
ness the Harvard Cornell game Mt
Cambridge. The Princeton Dartmouth
battle, at Princeton: tho PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh contest. at philadelphia:
Point and the meeting between Yale
and Washington and Jefferson ut
New Haven
Cornell goes to Harvard for the
eleventh game between the two uni
versties since 1880 The present
Ithaca eleven Is one OF the best in the
strength. speed and sufficient veteran
material to steady the combination:
but in facing the Crimson. IL is going
against combination stronger than
"a n nyn TIE,- Il
rounded into form very slowly. hui
HouEhton's coaching system is capable
of achieving remarkable results. and ii
may be that the Cambridge eleven will
rise superior 10 the test.
There Is every reason to expect q
great football struggle when Dart
mouth and princeton meet to-day. The
Tigers victories over Georgetown.
Rutgers. Syracuse and Lafayette stamp
the Nassau eleven as one OF the best
of the year.
strength has not been tested this fall,
although some line can lac gathered
from the fact that the Hanover eleven
defeated the Massachusetts Agricul-
was able to run up.
Washington and jefferson defeated
Yale year ago. 10 TO :, and returns
feat. but the chances appear to be
against 4 second victory Yale is
stronger than in 1914. while Washing
Ton ana JEFFERSON lost several or her
best players by graduation last spring.
and has not shown the power and
drive that made the team so formid-
able last season.
PENNSYLVANIA also will meet a team
exceedingly proficient in the forward
pass when the Quakers line up against
Pittsburgh Glenn Warmers charges
have run up 124 points against West
minister. Navy and the Carlisle Indians
in the three games to date by the use
OF clever combination OF old and
new football offensive methods. Penn
sylvania will have to develop more
powerful scoring game than she has
shown up. TO this time TO hold the
problem eleven in success
Followers of the United States Acad-
Army-Georgetown game. Three weeks
ago Georgetown defeated the Navy, Q
TO o, and aside from the loss OF the
Princeton match, the Washington Col
lege team, has played winning foot
ball. whereas the Cadets have won
only one of their three games The
Navy plays Virginia Polytechnic, and
Is not expected to he as hard pressed
as the Army, as the Middics have been
rounding into form rapidly of late and
should present Il formidable front In
to-day'S game.
The day also will be notable for the
return of the Columbia University TO
the football arena, after a ten years
ton. Columbia. which opens its 1915
schedule with contest against st.
Lawrence University. played it's last
previous game at the end of the 1905
season.