The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-09-19
.Teams Much Stronger.

1912. S. \; y 81 a
q Teams Much Stronger.
The last four years have seen the
two leading West Virginia teams
come rapidlySto the front. West Vir-|
ginia mas. hfaeed most ndticeabiy,|
and this year will be even stronget
than ever Last year st played WASH
ington and Lee $50, lowering her ops
ponents score twenty points from
the! preceding year. She also beat
Marietta, and played Washington
and Jefferson very hard game. Wes-|
leyan in 1913. also played Washing
ton and Jefferson q close game, and
beat Georgetown University, b team
that beat Virginia and thereby won
the hampionship Of the South. In
1914 Wesleyan also bear Virginia
Tech, a team that is ranked with the
best in the South and which beat
North Carolina Agricultural and Nee
chanical College the Saturday fol-
low Wesleyan's victory over her at
Charleston. n
Play Big Teams.
This year the schedules Of the West
Virginia University and Wesleyan
College teams show some notable adj
ditions. West Virginia University
meetings Pennsylvania University
next Saturday at Philadelphia and
will make the Penn team go to the
limit. The following Saturday she
plays Washington and Jefferson at
Morgantown and expects to even up
some old scores. Later in the year
.t,n- ,.Aont. rTyant,{n..k.n 3ord Jano a..
well as Virginia Polytechnic Instt-
tute and all through the season has
a difficult game each Saturday. Wes-
leyan starts out with easy teams, but
on the second Saturday OF the season
plays Washington. and Lee team
that was considered among the best
south of the Mason and Dixon line
last year, Later It plays Pennsyl-
yania State College. the Carlisle In
dams. Marietta College and Wash
ington and Jefferson. ne y p
Big. Turkey Day Game.
The climax Of the West Virginia
football season, however. comes on
Thanksgiving day when Wesleyan
and West Virginia meet. at Fairmont,
1t is this game. that has given the
football played in the Mountain state
an individuality Of its own and has
differentiated it from that played In
surrounding sections Of the country.
Last year ten times as many people
attended the game. played here for
the state championship between these
two teams as witnessed it four years
ago at ,Morgantown. Special trains
and special caFss ran from every di-
rection and 1t Is safe to say that not
la hamlet on the whole commonwealth
but that had its repre- sentatiye. be 1t
enc OF. a hundred. West Nirginians
do not any more gosoutside the state
for a football At traction ION the clos
ing date Of the season, 1T, is, pro-
yided at home, This year the game
will be played at Fairmont again on
the same date, and while, West MIR
sfnia wants most earnestly To win
from Washington and Jefferson, and
from MARKETS. and Washington and
Lee, to say pothin got Pennsylvania,
everything win be; pointed toward the
final game, because upon It depends
the success or failure Of. the season.
The same will be true OF Wesleyan,
and dnTinE the last three weeks both
teams lave been at modern train
ing camps doing everything possible
to be- IN the, best OF shape and stoI
bring out every iota Of football abil-
ity that liea dormant on the material
at hand. go
fs Both Eleyenss wen Coached.
West Virginia & coached bt .sSole
Metsgef, Of PennsyIyeniG CniSsfsity,