Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-06
VIRGINIA RESPECTS VANDY
MANAGEMENT WANTS LATER
DATE IN FOOTBALL SEASON
Eleven Reaches Top Form Only Once,
and Orange ana Hue Illus
That In Mind.

Tint In Mind.
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA December
"'--Belleying that n football eleven
reaches It's top form only once In a
season. Ntrginia's football manage
meht has written to Coach McGugin.
OF Vanderbilt. asking that tho annual
game with the Commodores be switch
Ell from midseason TO November IS,
the last date before tho Thanksgiving
DAY battle with the University of
North Carolina. Vanderbilt has already
scheduled the Virginia game for the
hrst Saturday in November in Nash
Viiie. but 1t liz believed that the aug-
sestcd change will be agreeable TO
this season met Virginia and Auburn
on successive Saturdays and these are
regarded AZ the hardest games on the
Vanderbilt schedule. If the Tcnnes-
scans have any preference, 1t is be-
Geved they would just as soon tackle
Auburn first, since the &. l. A. A.
championship Is generally determined
by the outcome Of that contest VAN
dys Turkey Day game is with Sc
vance.
There is no denying the fact that
Nirginia's eleven was at it's best when
month. as far as the players were
concerned. That contest was the CHI
max OF tho season. as DR. Lambeth
remarked after the North Carolina
game
The players were not UP TO their
true form. but ii was good TO get them
back that far"
VirEinia's successful season NON the
sridiron has attracted the attention of
teams In the North, West and Far
South. Challenges have been received
from Princeton. University Of Illinois.
Rutgers. University OF Texas and
Georgia School OF Technology.
HAVE CONTRACTS WITH
TWO SOUTHERN TEAMS
Previous contracts with Georgia,
South Carolina and other Southern
teams almost preclude the possibility
OF taking on any OF The above clev-
ems. The only real open dates on the
schedule are those al the start OF tho
season. usually given Randolph- Ma
con aud Richmond College
While no word has vet been received
from Yale or Harvard. negotiations for
games with these institutions are apt
10 he considered tho coming week.
At the football banquet rendered the
letter men Of this years squad on
Thursday night. ten Of the sixteen
present stated their intention Of re-
turning 10 college next fall George
Wayne Anderson. one OF the six, may
also come back. even ii he is success
ful In winning the Virginia Rhodes
scholarship. His case would he si,ni-
lar to that OF Bobby Gooch. who de-
lhyed his departure for oxford one
year. consent having been secured
from the Rhodes committee in Lon
don. Gooch. by the way. leaves Lon
don this week 10 drive one OF the
American amhuinnces In France
Al the banquet Allan Thurman set
at rest all runrDrs regarding his going
70 Yale by saying that he expected 10
next September. lie is a star first
basernnn, and VIII add much strength
TO III, varsity baseball next spring
4 rumor is also current that Cap
tain harris Goldman will he eligible
FOR next years football team. He and
his two brothers will return TO com
p!ctc their COURSES
Next season is apt 10 he I'd Ander-
sons last on tho football team. since
Il is his fathers present intention to
send him either to Cornell or Boston
Tech In tho fan OF II to complete his
engineering studies. However,. he is
first In line for the football captain
cy In II, and may stick 20 Virginia.
Head Coach Warner left the Univcr-
sity to-day for his home. in Warren
ton On January he goes TO New
York To accept "a position in the Chill
drens Hospital AZ Thursday nights
banquet he was awarded Il watch fob.
gold football. inscribed, ITO Dr.
Harry II. Warner. from the 1915 Foot
ball Team" The presentation speech
was made by Captain Harris Coleman.