The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
FEW YESTERDAY
IN THE. ~GRtDIRON CONTEST
Defeat of Vanderbilt Hands of Virginia and Victory of
Harvard over the Princeton Tigers Merely Rep
etition Of Last Season \ ale Again Loses.
ell. it can't be said of yesterday

Well. it can't be said of Yesterday
that 1t was q day Of many surprises
in the football held Most teams that
were defeated yesterday were defeated
before this season. had sprung their
! surprises earlier than he 9Th OF
November, and their losses We're re
sarded by football fiends as more or
less usual But II can be related that
! November WAS Il day Of hard work,
hard fighting. rough stuff" on grid
irons all oyer the cQuntrN-N 4Xemb Der
6 was an awful date this year for
football players In most cases that
date Ia the climax in the making OF
regulations of football eleVens,
whether for good or bad
But a casual review Of the tales
banged of OF broken typeWriters, al
most intelligent after years and years
OF writing down the woes. etc. OF
sport writer's. and put INTO print to-
day people interested in the outdoor
activity which il pushing baseball,
with it's wars and professional hor-
ror. away from the title Of national
sport viii realize how dreadful a
day yesterday WAS and how much II
Imeant Ia defeated as we'll as Victori-
; Gus eievens For instance read that
Htbi ! Rl the flRAI Ndib-i . IA ftpH 'ti1~
fiict. Limbs We're crushed. backs were
bent, bones were spratned, fractured
and broken Ia the mad scramble to
gain more earth and TO plant the air
filled lea Their tag across a lime Tine
We refer To the Tiger Crimson tussie
because il stands out more than others
to illustrate the results OF the efforts
~ men To win
All of Wilc~ Brought In Play,
All of the wiles or Coach John flush
a coach who has made name for
himself this season by his cunning,
wisdom and courage, ami OF Percy
! Hauehton. the Crimson professor OF
gfidironism were brouEht into ac-
ttVity and into Decentralization before
"a crowd Of Al 0oa persons at the
home town of the nations chief exec
utive Ten 10 six, Il difference of four
points, WAS the score. 70 any other
teams four would seem a mole-mound
of a majority but to Princeton the
Rocky Mountain does not seem to
compare with il Ia size, Football en-
thusiasta. except possibly those who
are interested only in local games.
centcred more interest in the contest
at Princeton Yesterday than in any
other The result, while unpleasant
t0 some tells IA tale If fight fight,
fight. from start to finish and every
one realizes that IL it had not been
we'll at any rate it was a sad day
for the Tiger
Last years result between the two
eelcVous was a 90 to count in favor
OF Harvard which has lost bat one
o0ntost in fonr wears.
Tam Shevhu did not have much
time TO get old Ell into trim for the
game with Brown yesterday The
Y "a e. X far -
fensiVe went. but on the offensive
there was nothing to them. Brown
avenged Themselves for 20 To score
last year by whipping the Ellis. 20 o,
FeunsylVauia tried hard to get back
the fortY-one points taken away from
her last season by Dartmouth, hut in
stead lost again. : to 3
Senators Immune
Piftsburg was defeated last year by
Washington and Jefferson THIS year
the Smoky City crew won from the
Senator's Q to o. And thereby hangs
a tale. because an account OF the game
showed the Senators absolutely I'M
nune from piercing the Pittsburg line.
That southern game. Vanderbilt vs..
Yireinia. was but a repetition of last
years business Last year the score
was 20 40 Z An increase in majority
of twelve points resulted Yesterday
Nntre Dame slapsticked the Army
boys to 0, while Annapolis won
from Bueknell TO 3. which goes To
predict that the contest in Philad dell
phia will be some football game
Syracuse going mp against sec.
ondary college. Mount Union polled
the biggest score yesterday. this being
i73 10 O. Trinity and Tufts both had
the honor OF having the lowest count,
neither side scoring.
Carlisle and Holy Cross merely play
ed u postponed game yesterday asst
year neither side scored Yesterday
the Indians won from the Catholics
ga to Il.