Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-16
VIRGINIA FACES HARVARD
MOST IMPORTANT GAME IN
EAST AT CAMBRI DGE TO-DAY
Have Good Chance to
Hold Crimson. Which lins Strong
est NInn Injured.

ihree games OF more than ordinary
/ Importance feature the Eastern foot
ball card to-day. In the meeting OF
Virginia and Harvard. Pennsylvania
ana Navy, and Colgate and the Army.
{ there are usual possibilities for up
/ sets ami surprises. Should all six
! teams play strictly TO season form. the
! result in each contest is likely to re-
/ main in doubt until the closing period
I of the game.
Virginia goes to Cambridge with the
prestige Of victory over Yale. The
Southerners in their two games to
date have rolled up a total score OF
/ 81 points to their opponents zero
Against Yale the Charlottesville team
scored 10 points and added ~ i'm the
/ meeting with Richmond Collcc, last
Saturday
In Harvard. Virginia will find fur
Their advanced and bctter-coached COM
hination than Yale lined up on Octo-
Der >. but 1t is doubtful il the Cam
bridge team can muster the same pow
er Of attack and defense that the Ellis
showed IN crude fashion two weeks
ago Injuries to several OF Harvard's
regular order OF formation may weak
en- the Crimson to some extent
~ Annapolis the Middies will be
called upon to meet. in PENNSYLVANIA
an eleven with three victories and one
defeat to it's credit while the Navy
has yet to win its initial honor brack-
both 'riumphcd over the Sailors this
season, ami PENNSYLVANIA has not cS-
Scapcd. since Penn state defeated the
big QuakcrS after the latter had az,
cunuIatrd three victories at the cX-
pense of Albright. West Virginia and
Franklin and Marshall
me Naval Academy has An excel
lent squad TO work with so FAR as
material is concerned, but has been
unfortunate in being OBLIGED to play
powerful teams before passing the pre-
ininih;try stages of practice and train
;, The Army also made poor start
IN tn" opening game but defeated Get
other hand. has outclassed her two
earlE-seaSon opponents, defeating both
Susouchanna and Rochester by scores
Yale and Princeton will play Spring
heit and Lafayette. respectively. and
ootn should come through to victory
without more than the early-season !
Virginia Team IL on
I'll ARtoTrESNILLE VA. October
-, A.rslnias varsity football team
iett at noon to-day for Cambridge to
man eleven left for T.cwisburc. W. Va.
TO tackle the Greenbrier Prcsbytorion
institute. Despite the loss of Stuart,
who put up n star game against Y,Ic
expects to make a good show.
ing against the Crimson
captain Coleman said to-day tina,
ne did not think II"ughton's squad
would make more than one touchdo,yu .
ana his belief WAS they would have Ia
work hard TO get thnt The Coaches
ana Trainer Lannigan expressed salts
faction AT the condition OF the pl,v-
efS. one or two OF the backfeld men
nave minor injuries. but should last
,"r the greater part of the contest.
Ihe forwards are in splendid shane
ana should put up an even better de-
tensiVc game than in the Yale con-
test a fortnight ago
The schedule arranged for \-;.,;,;, .
inns season is certainly a strenuous
one Hardly will the PLAYERS Get bncL
from Cambridge before they will he
"ir.o TO PACK their grips to start
for Athens, Ga. TO meet the J-niyar
SHY or Georgia tomorrow week A.
most. they can have but two or three
workouts.