The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-04

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West Virginia Wesleyan football
team playedFv. r.. u last year and de-
feated them by the score of 10 to o..
These two teams do not meet this
year, but West Virginia University
and Virginia Poly come together az
MorgantownJa week from Saturday.
On the last three Saturdays Virginia
Poly has met defeat at the hands Of
Cornell. As to o; Navy, 20 to o., and
Washington. and Lee, 10 to %. There
ar Of present no indications to show
q chance for the Polys against the
West Virginia team. The Morgan.
town eleven plays Marshall at Hunt
fngton next Saturday. The following
week the Polytechnic Institute comes
to Morgantown and after receiving
their trimming will yacate to make
room for the Marietta team on the
Varsity's schedule. The Marietta
game will be played at Parkersburg.
Virginia Poly did remarkably wen In
holding the Generals" to a score OF
ID too. The game that West Vir.
ginia played against the Washington
and Lee team, when the former left
the held, was s TO 8 with the ball
one.half yard from the goal, and in
Wash:Lee's possession. 1t would
have been impossible for Wash:Leei to.
score more than 10 points, which
would have left the final figures 10
to g. Thus West virginia's showing
was better against Wash.Lee than ".
T. T..s.s
sixty.three yards for a goal is drop.
Kicking almost too well. A man that
can pull a stunt like that should not
be SLOWED on a football team with
natural players. But this feat was
performed by Mark Payne, OF the Da-
kota Wesleyan team against Northern
Normal this season. This Is the rec.
ord for such kicks, sixty.two yards be-
ing made in the year 1898 by Pat
o'peai of Wisconsin.
Thirty.three years ago j. T. Hexall
Of Princeton kicked goal from place.
r1ent with the ball on the IS yard
line. 1t was in the game with Yale
on November 30, 1882, that Hexall
laid his foot against the pigskin for
O record.
Ten new coaches have been added
to the list at Yale. The Yale News
figures that the change Is going to
win for the team in the games played
on November 10 and 90. Too many
cooks are liable 10 season the chow
der too highly. II the players OF the
Yale team can be taught to execute
the plays that Hinkey has drilled
them in there is hardly a team in
America that could beat them. Yale
has fine material. and Hinkcy has
taught the players a long list OF. classy
plays both offensive and defensive,
but he has failed TO team tliom how
to execute these plays. This is the
opinion Of the editors OF the Yale
News, and 1t represents the sentiment
at New Haven.
u. u Stewart. coach of the Oregon
AGRICULTURAL School of Corvallis, Ore,
Inc feat last Saturday of defeating
the Michigan "Aggies," swho a week
previous n%ngraciously swamped "Hur.
ry:ipp Yost's "get.together" clan. But
Yostsss men have been doing very
mediocre work this season, and this
takes part of the honors away from
the sAggies" and the Oregon "Aggies."
Yost is quick to detect any flaws in
his machine and IL is almost a certain.
" that hc will come back next year
~jthSa winning eleven. It may be too
lateSnow to correct whatever ails the
team, but the beginning of October,
1915, will see a formidable array of
pigskiny chasers cayorting around the
Ann Arbor gridiron.
Word has at last come from Prince.
ton concerning the game to be played
with. Harvard on Saturday. The new
does not speak well for the Tigers
but there may be a reason for the
story. -Four members Of the coaching
STATIONED the scrubs and held scrim-
mage against the first eleven. The
report Of the tussle states that the
second string men. with the coaches
assistance, crmubled the first team
both on offense and defense. From
this the wise ones at Princeton figure
that Harvard has the best Of 1t in Sat.
urday's battle.
Contrary to expectations the Wash
{ington and Jefferson team OF football
players did not go to the country this
year as, it has done In previous years.
The reason for not going is the Sc.
tcrets of Coach Bob Folwell, the former
halfbacki OF the Penn team. But 1t
IS generally thought that the trip
would be harmful in some respects
to the members Of the team inasmuch
as the change in diet and atmosphere
Is not worth the chance.
Tie EFairmont High School and the
Morgantown High School teams will
be in our midst next Saturday. AS a
preliminary to this game the freshies
and the 8sophomores of the iFairmont
High School will play a game worth
going earlier than usual to see. The
last mentioned teams have played one
game. but on account OF the crowd on
the field their work could not show
up to advantage. This game will be
! played on the regular field at South
I side Park and is simply an added
attraction to the splendid game which