Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-22
SEE BRIGHT PROSPECTS
ON CR|D|RON THIS YEAR
Virginia's Football Machine Of 1914
Will BE Almost Intact When
Season Starts.
THREE OF STARS END CAREERS
Gooch. Evans and Gillette Leave Va
cancics Which Will BE Hard to
Fill-Anderson, Of Richmond, Is
Likely to Play Center.
Especial to The rimes-Dispatch 7

fiARLOTTESVILLE, VA, August
2l.-Virginia's 1914 football machine.
almost rebuilt from top to bottom and
turned out at jefferson University.
having gone through the season with
but single defeat and that at the
hands of Yale, will find but few coRs
missing when the candidates report
for practice on September |. in re-
Spouse TO the recent call Issued by
Head Coach Werner. who left here this
week for Fauquicr County to enjoy a
brief respite from his arduous duties
as inferno at the University hospital
during the summer
Last fall practically n new line had
TO be constructed by Coach Joe Wood.
This year most of the vacancies are
In the back-fleld, since both Bobby
Gooch and BILLY" Word Will be among
the missing.
The three players who have closed
their sridron careers-Gooch, Evans
and Gillette-all starred during the
1914 season, and their places will be
exceedingly hard to fill AT first
thought 1t would seem that it would
be safe in predicting that their equals
Will not be seen In Virginia in years
to come. but such statement should
be made with reserve. Past history
has shown that stars have been devel-
oped at the university In n single sea
son, when the outlook was filled with
gloom.
Mayer Brilliant Player
Captain Buck" Mayer who has
played only three years Is expected to
return to win his degree in law school,
and his admirers hope TO see him back
in his old position in the backfeld
Should he decide TO return to the
game, he would cause much Joy among
football enthusiasts. Mayer, 1t will be
tnh h11 L.
year than any other player In the COL
legtate world last season He played
brilliant game throughout last sea-
son. his superb all-round work in tho
Carolina contest bringing him much
praise.
Bobby" Gooch the premier quarter
back in Southern football for one or
more seasons. has played his four
years and Will go TO Oxford next
month to spend three years in study
as holder of the Virginia Rhodes
cholarship. He will go direct to Paris
Virginia eleven of 1913, who is study
ing there.
The player who is being picked by
many TO fill Goochs shoes at quarter
back is none other than his brother.
Billy Gooch, the third son of the
make record on the gridiron. This
lad has played quarterback on the
eleven representing the Fishburne
School for the past two years-a team
which easily won the prep school
championship in 1914 At the Univer-
sity. Stapleton and Bobby Gooch ap-
peared to have n monopoly on the
quarterback job. and present indica-
tions are that billy" will succeed to
the crown handed down by his older
brothers. In scholastic football he
exhibited good generalship. was fast
ran back punts we'll and was an ex-
cellent forward passcr
Richmondcr Slated for Center.
Tho center position, so ably filed
by Jack" Evans. the former V. T. l.
star. will, in all probability be filled
by George Wayne Anderson. Of Rich
mond. unless more promising material
appears in the freshman class. An
derson showed up exceedingly we'll in
the few games in which he did Off
ciate for a time last season, and has
splendid knowledge of the game
The other vacancy In the line is
caused by the graduation of Gillette,
from the law school. A promising ap-
Dlicant for his position at right end
is Watkins Flanagan, of this city,
who exhibited much ability when called
upon last fall. Other good line can