The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-11-15
'FA|R|h0N1i FANS
SEE THRILLING
F|DOIBA[.L !.
Good Luck Helped Wash
JEFF to Win from
Wesleyan. !. !
$1,000 PEOPLE L: AT GAME al
Roofing Of the 81 thodis
Maidens Added Test
to the Occasion.

STT.I-S7T
Fully 800 football fans left Fairmont
Saturday for Clarksburg, where two
gridtron classics were staged. Davis
and Elkins College took the number
Of Marshall and sWashington.Je Emerson
Just managed to escape a drubbine
ct the hands OF the West Virginia
Wesleyan team.
The first game started at 1:45 in
the afternoon before about a thousand
spectators. The second game started
al 1903 with about 5000 spectators In
the bleachers! Fairmonters were in
every section OF the stands and rooted
for their team, which in most cases
was Wesleyan. Id. Nj
During the first quarter both teams
played about equally. neither Of them
taking chances on throwing the ball
away. But the Washington team got
the pigskinlo on Nv esleyan'sl 20 yard line
In the second quarter and Nice reight,
the beginner OF the now famous criss.
Cross Washing efferson forward
pass. after receiving the ball started
around the enc, but was met halfway
by Stobbs, the Wheeling star, who
grabbed the ball and threw go. yards
to Heyman. who carried IL across the
goal line for the Red and Black. Moser
kicked for an additional tally. This
was o heart breaking scene tor most
of the spectators, ana cheering for the
next 1--WE minutes was conspicuous by
ITS absence. \
When the Wesleyan rooters regain.
ed eonsciousness, and their cheer
leader again started his drum major
tactics the ball was in midtield and
the echo Of Washsngt Jefferson
cheering was beginning to die out over
the hills surrounding SNorwood's mud.
dy valleys.
This was all the scoring that either
team was able to do during the quar-
ter. When the whistle blew 10: the
close Of the hrst half no one was sad,
for they each and all remembered the
same condition at Morgantown when
Washing ton.J efferson quit the first
half against w W q. one touchdown
10 the good. But Clarksburgs not
Morgantown, and the snake dance that
seems to- have been the Jonah for
wash.Jeff at Morgantownw was not pull
ed of on the Norwood field to put
spirit into the ethodists, the specta.
tors seemed overjoyed on accoun Of
the wonderful ability displayed by the
Buckhannon tribe in breaking up the
Wash-Jetf forward passes and holding
them 10 one touchdown.
There must be some fine air up In
Upshur county for the fair ones that
formed part OF the roofing aggrega-
ton seem to have lusty lungs. When
1t seemed that the voices would not
carry over the field sthet Orange and
Black goods made megaphones out OF
their programs and shouted Wesley.
ans @Hellikazook and .Boomalackas
until their throatsi suffered. Some one
in the stand claimed that the cheer
leader OF Wesleyan was the best that
lie had ever seen. That may be SO.
at least the one on the field Saturday
was more easily seen than heard, He
worked hard to bring the freezing stu.
dents to "a high pitch Of enthusiasm
and 1t may well be said that ne sue
ceeded. X 1ssl
In the left field stands there were
several Washingt toni efferson rooters.
Most Of these came u from Grafton,
where the Washing on contingent has
an enormous blowing on account OF
Washington, Pa furnishing that city
with hundreds. Of glass workers and
other skilled labor. This Grafton
bunch and,aIregiment from Pennsylva-
MIA that came with the team tried to
smother the Wesleyan yells with
Washing effersons "Witchi-coax,
Boom!" a merry battle of yells and
college songs kept the onlookers enter
tanned until the whistle blew for the
teams to come back on the field and
MAY two more quarters OF football.
Both teams shed their blankets and
took their places on the field to the
tune Of Wash.J eff.,s Taps" and Wes-
leyan "Dear Old Wesleyan" =
4, That the cheering bunch did their
/. share To start Wesleyan going right
seemed apparent when the Meth.
odists began walking through the
Washington and Jefferson eleven In
the third quarter. With the ball on
the 20 yard line and the fWash.Jeff
team playing loose football 1t seemed
certain that Beck, who starred, or
Miller would go over the line for half
(. dozen points. but old Hard Luck inject.
ed tumble and the scoring idea took
flight. ThereSwass nothing spectacular
shown In this quarter after the fun.
Bile, but the Wesleyan players had
not lost heart and came right back In
the next quarterEwith the same stunt
fhof M rttshfn he ETVashfng tonV NAV.