Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
IT STRIKES ME
by TIM PATCH

Football followers here will be
pleaScd To learn that efforts az" beng
mace /" bring virginia and Georgetown
,pG.theT again. not only on TIL. grid.
o"t In Other athletic branches. 1t has
been regretted considerable! that the
representative team Of the stat" failed
I" meet other cOntcndrrS for South At
.aMuc nonor.. ana It is hoped that ar
ransem"nts viii be made in tn" future
to get IN. teams together
virginia barely nosed out :, victory
over Georgia yesterday. and II was
due 10 the hnal play. which started lust
be'or" tn" whistle blew. that the
Orange and Blue came out on The long
end; .,;h TihG " sub back was re-
T.bbUttS was the hero. Some similarity
IN name ana deed.
The reign of the Big Three" in East
ern football seems to have been cGcc-
nNc ended ~ the new game Vale
!osi YESTERDAY to Washington AND JET
t.ISun and was d"fcat"d by Virginia.
Harvard had Il mi"hty task defeating
til" SouthernerS. and was taken into
camp Yesterday by cornell. princeton
alon" Is undefeat"d but the Tigers
mad narrow squeak with its to .
victory over SyracuS" earlier IN the
season.
Yale. Harvard and Princeton ruled
during tn" hy-Gun" years, because in
greater the football eleven. Taos" col
leSeS had big enrolment. they got
the cream Of the prey school ath-
ieteS: and as result, they always
cou!" muster a team that rarely was
surpassed.
En' tn new and open game: the game
than Drawn. continues To brink newer
ana NOR" startling urscta each week in
tn football world. and effectively has
Harvard and Princeton tEa: they uiun"
ina! hold til" championship.
WASHINGTON and Lee got It decision
Owe" Yves; Virginia. but one which the
supporters Of the Generals will no;
rti"h Tn scor% was, AGAINST them
goal line. they would probably have
won. but doubt always remains. Then
too 4 - hnrd Z" p" accused OF proritirg
ny RAMS decisions" Il is Pity thai
-" i"oiha'l season docs not permit the
? p'"yinI OF Of such games.
The have been It number of deaths
this Year bu; the LIST is 40; iagaey than
ms time. las, ycar. While occasion.
l,iE Their" l. an unfortunate accident. n
boy IS about as safe on the football
rc!d as anywhere Else. When u fol
low - playing football there is lttle
chance az him being hit hy Il j!tney.
II Harry L.egore wants I" play sum-
me-: baseball next summer he ought To
n,2p!y I" on" lack Dunn. As far as
that's concerned, h. could lind employ
mcnt foT Two or three good spri,. n-
fail bail players.
This is the season Of th.. year v-b.r
reports are lly!ng thick ana fast from
az sections Of "a" country OF wonder
iui new football PLAYS that have. Just
: been evolved. In another monin Nc
VIII hnd that. as usual these arc u"r..
hSments Of IA" imagination Every
Er"F Snch stories a'c spread bat If
tens numbcr ;wu OF dire. thru tr,
season can be counted To have actually
nrtm Hrnhnctive OF original plays. The
teams that win championships arc not
the traniS with total, dilf,rout meth
On" Of play from those - their rivals.
nnt rather th"s" who. through he pos
season of cl|ativ"ly good "r p. ntt-
iHi material make tn" hes, uS- ~ the
ordinary methods of football play that
are known 10 all. 1t is ia" snrlc gi:u-
alton that governs virtually all sport
Ing competition.
Kand%irh- Macon and Eichm1nd col
lc%c hhd easy Victories Yesterday over
NOR comreti,ors for Eastern Virginia
+ intercollegiate" Association humorS The
Jackets trimmed tn" Tigers. Will. the
spiders Scalpod tn" indians
That Randolph Macon bunch will
ICED Watching. and p"hSon has his
the local school 70 beat the Jackets
. 1t will be two corkin.: GOOD exhibitions,
when Spiders meet Jackets.
The .Iackr,s have a wonderful assert
ment Of open PLAYS which will keep
/ line is powerful ANA hrf,y I'll" spider
J attack is generally aimed at the line
and IL will have to be- Very strong to
! do much penetrating. The secondary
4 defense VIII also HAY" to nSc gray mat
. ter 10 stop those forward hinGs.
: Lancaster has the ball trained well,
and Jew o: his passes 80 astrny. lie
shoots the oval swift and low, and
E"is* has his men well trained in pick
, ing them ont of the air They arc
, thrown from deceptive angles. and from
: several formations. from which IL varir-
, " of plays originate.
out in the West they are cmulatiuy
The policv of Yale i'm barring players,
! Captain l.orin :olon. Of Minnesota. has
ism. and has been declared ineligible
a few years ago another Mime sofa
F.! captain was ruled off just before a
crucial game.
IN one of the Athletics closing games
| tn" newspaper men took -; census of
Connie Macks stock on hand. II de-
vclopcd that there were on the field
/ or on the bench four catcherS seven
teen pitchers. ten inhcldcrs and six
outticldcrs. Mack was asked to name
referring to the clubs hooks. lie
! wanted IL understood. however. that
, he expects to win the American League
pennant In 1917.
| Here's hoping IA few OF his good ones
drift this way for training under Dunn.