Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-28
VIRGINIA CR|DDERS NOW
WORKING FOR NEXT FALL
Spring Football Practice Under Way,
Under Eye Of Peyton Evans,
New Head Coach.
SEASON WILL OPEN EARL,
Players Will Report on September I
and First Game Will BE Played on
September 13-SclleInle Is Heavy
One-Ofticers Elected by Club.


Spring football practice began this
week at the University of Virginia,
and the Indications are that three full
teams Will be on Lambeth Field for
the few remaining days of the session
In his recent address before the foot
ball club Pcyton X. Evans of Amherst
Va, head coach for the coming season,
announced some OF his plans Fall
practice is To begin on September !.
ana 1T is necessary that all candi-
dates should report on that date in
order that the team may he whipped
INTO shape for the opening game with
Davidson College on September Is.
The Virginia schedule for the com
ing season is even harder than the one
last year, although the only change In
the list of teams played is that David
son College Is to take the place OF
Randolph Macon in the curtain-raiser
Harvard has given Virginia a more
conspicuous place on the Crimson
schedule, and this has necessitated the
showing up Of the annual contests with
vanderbilt and Georgia to an earlier
date. within a week of each other.
with such important games coming
so early i'll the season. IT will be in
dispensable that early practice he
started on time.
AS this year will be the first that
the one-year eligibility rules will be
in use. the entire team for next year
must be made up from those who are
IN college at the present time. In
order TO get the men together and to
give mild workouts. signal practice
viii be held every afternoon from now
until exams. for half an hour each
afternoon.
Among those men of last years
eleven VINO VIII return next session are
Captain Spar. full back; Edward An
derson. half back. and possibly. Tip
petit. half Darlington will also re-
turn, and VIII make n strong bid for
the quarterback position. made vacant
by the departure Of Berkeley.
For the line of primary defense there
Will he Barker. who was all-Southern
guard two years ago. but who did not
play last year; Allan Thurman. George
wayne Anderson, Tom Coleman, Clay
Ward and Bill Stuart. Anderson last
fall alternated with Moore at tackleJ
and should have Il big season next
year Ward is another who should
have his biggest football year next
season. Ward has now played at
tackle. guard and end. and this sum-
iner is to practice passing. with the
intention of making a strong bid for
the pivot position.
EVANS SHOULD DEVELOP
CENTER OUT OF WARD
with Evans coaching, Ward should
develop into an excellent man for this
position. Ward is also n strong punter
and works UP his kicks during the
summer and will be able to relieve
Thurman in this department. Stuart. if
lie returns, will most likely be back I'm
his old position at tackle or guard
where he made quite n name for him
self until injured early in the season
This injury kent him out OF the game
during many of the more important
games in midseason. but n.Xt fall he
should he capable of even better work
than he did in the Yale game last
October
Thurman's all-round work is quite
we'll known to the South, and, indeed
10 the whole country His kicking was
one of the chief factors in the defeat Of
Yale last fall. With q years eXperi-
ence in college football Thurman should
make an even larger name in grid
iron circles the coming season
Tom Coleman, who scored the touch
DOVE against Yale. should make him
self heard from In the line. He work.
ed mostly AT center last year hut will
probably he used in one Of the guard
positions this coming season.
Stillwell who played so we'll at end
last fall. has decided not to return to
college next year. His absence is apt
to prove a decided loss to the team
Jim White will be ineligible for the
eleven next fall, thus leaving the other
end vacant
All OF last years first year team will
be eligible and the ma iority OF these
players will return. From the records
of the men who Will probably return
next year and those who will be
eligible. the prospects for next fall
seem particularly bright. The main
difficulty with which Coach Evans will
have To contend is to get the men out
on Sine mex; September and TO have
their kccr in the hes: possible con
6itjOp during summer
The football club of the university
has elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Harold a. Sparr.
Memphis. Tenn. president; Edward
Clifford Anderson. Of Richmond. vice
president: Charles Churchman. of
stanton. Va. secretary; George Wayne
Anderson. Of Richmond. treasurer