The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-21
BY ERNEST POLLARD.


Since tho announcement In Tho
Vbgfnian yesterday morning TO
tho effect that athletic authorities
OF Virginia and North Carolina
have decided TO discontinue play
ing their annual games In Rich
mond and alternate between Char
louisville and Chapel Hill, begin
ming In 1917, there has been
much speculation among Rich
mond football enthusiastic a. to
which two teams will DO seen in
action at Broad-Street Park In
the future.
Several applications for an OPP
ton on the park for Thanksgiving
Day, 1917. have been received in
Richmond, and no less than two
wero made yesterday. Both Vir-
ginia Military Institute and Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute arc
anxious to wage their annual
combat before a Richmond crowd.
The two teams have been playing
every year In Roanoke for Sow
cral seasons, but they realize that
Richmond La q much better foot
bali town than the Mag fc City, and
for that reason they would play at
Broad-Street Park.
Then there II Washington and
Lee. The Generals arc anxious to
play In Richmond ON Thanksgiv-
ing Day, and at the present timo
II seems very likely that they will.
III tho Generals can procure the
park for Turkey Day, they will
make efforts to bring either
Georgetown. Washington and JEFF
ferson or North Carolina A. & NJ.
hero. The Washington and Leo
team is quite popular, and tho
Lcxing tonians would doubtless
draw q large crowd.
Will See Good Football
Tho fact that Virginia and Nortl
'arolina will not stage their annua
attic in Richmond does not NEAR
hat the enthusiasts here will be with
ut football every Thanksgiving. Rich
nond Is ono OF, II not the best. draw
ng football towns in the South OF
Day. and many teams
nd good ones at that, are anxious t.
lay at Broad-Street Park. A football
anne In Richmond on Thanksgiving
Day IL mostly a society affair. Will,
here are hundreds of people who &
nut to the vark to witness q football
anne. there are many. some OF whom
lon't know q football from a head
ear. who attend just to be doinl
omething. Amy teams of any reputa
ion on tho gridiron would draw vel
n Richmond on THANKSGIVING Day
ust which teams play here in 1871
re not definitely known at this time
'ut IL IL quite certain two reputabl,
mes will stage the hostilities, ant
Richmond viii not be without roo.
ootball.
As was stated In Tho virgfnian yes
erday morning. the annual combA
between the Orange and Blue force'
II Virginia and the University o
North Carolina footballists will b,
played in Chapel Hill, N. c., on Elmer
ION Field. The following year tn
.wo teams will get together on Lam
beth Field at Charlottesville. This an
1ouncement came from tho once o
Charles T. Woollen. graduate man
lger OF the University OF North Car
Dina
This arrangement In the consumA
ion Of the desire of the universitie
% have the game staged at a poin
to the graduates OF the tw,
and especially to la
stress on the athletic side of the con
est, rather than to the financial side
Until this time that policy has no
been feasible and Richmond has bee,
held to be the best neutral groun,
available. and the most profita bic on<
First Time In Carolina.
When the game is staged mex
in North Carolina It VII