Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-03
BELIEVE CRAIG WILL
SHINE WITH VIRGINIA
John Marshall and Richmond Col
lege Player Wins Recognition
Of Coaches as Scrub.
SEVERAL PLAY FINAL GAME
Spar. Coleman and jim White Now
Ineligible - Goodwin and Car
rington Graduate-Prospect Con-
sidered Bright for Next Season.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.

Der 2.--Nirginia should be represented
OF the gridiron next year By "A team
the equal OF the star combinations
turned out in recent years The ma
tcrial for a winning team is already
in college. and there us every indica-
ton that the Orange and Blue will
again come to the front and wipe out
some of the stains of this years
record. The 1917 eleven will he cap
tanned by "A kcntuckian or Ohioan-
Ward or Thurman.
When the referees whistle blew a.
Broad Street Park Thursday after
noon. ii ended tho football career OF
several men on whom the Orange and
Blue has depended in the past
Harris Coleman is first to he mem
toned among these. but after him
come two others who have earned de-
served recognition from their alma
mater. One is Harold Spar, captain
Of the 1916 eleven. and tho other is
Jim White. one OF the most versatile
players on tho squad.
Other members of the squad who are
likely to be missing next fall are
Goodwin. end. and Darlington. who
started the season at quarter back. but
had to retire on account of injury.
Both of these youngsters will carry
off their shecpskins at the June COM
menccmcnt.
Coleman, the captain OF the team
which defeated Yale and kept Harvard
from crossing the Orange and Blue
goal line. viii he greatly missed. In
every contest in which he has figured
in the past four years his work has
stood out prominently. on the defen- .
sive he proved VirGinia's one best bet.
His tackling and smearing of plays
brought him to the front as one of the
best defensive players the South has
seen in number of years. For the
seasons of 1914 and 1915 he was Sc
iected for all-Eouthern honors and
honor this year. His work in tn.
Carolina contest on Thursday was
faultless.
Harold Sparr has really played but
three full seasons. In his first year
in college he was pushed into tho.
Thanksgiving Day game with North
Carolina just for few minutes-just
long enough, however, to count as q
full year. He is student in tho
medical school, ard has two more full
years in college, though he will be
Ineligible for the team. Sparr's best
year on the gridiron was when ne had
such associates as Buck" Mayer. Ed.
Anderson and Bunny" Berkeley.
Frequent Shifting Hurt White.
Jim White was switched around so
much the past season that he was un-
able to do justice to himself. The two
previous years. however. he starred at
end. and certainly Virginia has had no
more earnest and conscientious and
cleaner player than hc-a fine tyne Of
athlete. lie came to Virginia from
Memphis University School. He will
also be greatly missed from the base
ball squad. During his career on the
diamond he was called upon to play
tour positions. He started off at third
base. was later switched to first base.
q
stop. lie captained last springs team.
Carrington started OFF the season
wen as clever ground gamer and
proken-held runner, but had the mis-.
fortune 10 injure his knee in mid
season. In the Yale game. at New
ny his team by landing a goal from,
neid AT the very start of the game
neiore coming TO Virginia he was quar-
ter back at Hampden-S Sidney College.
'ooawSn was out of the game near
an season, being hurt early i'm tho
~, -" ."soh contest. When in condition
ne was hard tackler and very fast
III getting down the field. His early
hrluiroh training was received AT tho
Episcopal High School
DrSpite the regret over the departure
OF the players mentioned above. there
% tohsoia tlon In the fact that there are
many valuable players in college rcadv
10 MI the gaps created
FIRST, there is Allen. a star b,,, hal.
NJ 'T ~ r.nsea last year at the University
for this s eas; therefore. was ineligible
leans leans He will undoubtedly land y
FIFTH next year In the opinion OF
pack seen on Lambeth Field since m.
Gays or Todd. and has been dubbed -
sTIoil mn. Hunter Carpenter lie played
more more years OF coiIegiatue" " foot thpfe
~, nimiouS hout the past season Allen has
, p,aSGu eaily on the scrub team. and no
harder in an e. fort to help s WGrf tSs
on the schedule. He loves the zane
,,, - itE Expected TO Stnr
Then ,AcIe is Macliowan, tackle and
assoaia,c at South Carolina and former
LOT North Carolina in Richmond on
turkey Day; Craig. who made quite a
T TI,ms ' tw hImsslf at Richmond College.
law school and have two more ve,rs
enfh to play football. Craig has been
Aliens running mate on the scrub
son. and has made a splendid impros-
SION upon the coaches.
nucleus for next years varsity. IL
possesses an abundance OF material.
once 'sn this s"s season ITS bo worth more than
ne IN lower fieid and gave the varsity
back. the former Woodbury. star VINO
would have been OF great value "a
Coach Soa Evans the past season had he
been eligible for the varsity Through
out me season, in the games played by
the freshman team. his generaIship was
eGual TO that OF any seasoned veteran
ne Is quick side-stepper OF the type
or Bobby Gooch. and Is sure to make a
name Tor himself next fall.
Wood; the sturdy center and brother
OF Joe Wood. former Virginia center,
S;im.,n and coach. should prove a
In the contest with the Carolina fresh
men al Chapel Hill. on the Saturday
before THANKSGIVING. he repeatedly
tore tor through i,r the ,Tarheel line and
Grayson. a Washington 90. C) boy,
guard on the first-year team. was ono
OF the most aggressive lincsmen on the
9eld this year. He weighs close TO
chiffon proved two good ones all sea-
son. and should make the varsity With
out trouble.
. Congdon or Spencer. viii probably
night II out for full back ncyt fall. The
former is a clever puntcr as we'll AS
Inc plunger. In the game with tba
Carolina freshmen he barely missed
neld goal from the flfty-two yard iins