The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-08
BIG IN
FOOTBALL WORLD
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Defeat of the Unbeaten Do
bic Was Big Event of
Saturday.

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gfnles kfootball7 team came Tito the
gifFe Of the spotlight Saturday
through Tits defeat OF the Navy team
stg Annapolis. Against Pitt the pre-.
Vi0ts Saturday the Mountaineer ele.
ven had stamped itself as one fully
Gptto the standard Of strength OF re.
cent years, and one, too, that wouId;
have to be reckoned with when the
final rating Of teams was made at
the end Of the season, and while the
great game against Pitt partially pre-,
pared W. v. U. adherents for the
Nary result few West virginians full:
lyIappreefate what gruelling contest
the W. v. U. team was forced TO go
through with at Annapolis, in order to
come out victors.
In the first place only six minutes
was cut off the usual playing time
for late November football games,
and in the next place West Virginia
met veteran team under the guild.
ance OF an experienced and sagacious
coach who had his men playing the
hardest kind OF football. The result
was that the game was one of the
most fiercely contested a West Vir
ginia team has ever gone through.
West Virginias men were confident
before the game and so were the men
OF the Navy. Gilmore Dobie. who
coaches the Navy has been coaching
football at Washington State College
for twelve years and has never been
defeated in that time. Naturally his
record inspired his men with con.
fidence and 1t was determined and
formidable bunch of antagonists that
West Virginia had to contend with.
The men Of the Old Gold and Blue,
however, were in better physical con.
dftfon than the Navy men and time
out was called for West Virginia but
once and not a single substitution
was made wrong On the other hand,
the Navy was forced to change men
four or five times during the encount.
er.
West Virginias victory Is the first
that has ever been attained over one
OF the big" eastern elevens and it
starts the Mountaineers on the road
toward being considered among the
really formidable contenders for
leadership among the eastern College
elevens this year.
With her Pitt and Navy struggles
successfully encountered West Virgin.
Ia faces two more exceptionally strong
teams in the Carlisle Indians and
Dartmouth. The Indians will play
here on Saturday of this week and
according to their record in the two
games played will he one of the hard.
est teams to beat that is to be met
this year. In her opening game Car
luse beat Albright College 500 and
duplicated this score exactly against
Franklin and Marshall last Saturday.
Franklin and Marshall is one of the
really strong College teams of Penn.
sylyania and ranks annually with lie.
high, Swarthmore, Lafayette and
Dickinson and Carlilses victory over
her stamps the Redskin aggregation
as an exceptionally strong one.
West Virginia will probably have
both Harrick and Merldeth out OF the
Carlisle game because of minor IN.
1uries received in the Navy game but
in Weimer, the former Davis.Elkins
tackle, and Singleton the chunky
Warrington boy, two exceptionally
strong substitutes are available and
with a full week of hard work It is
doubtful II the strength Of the team
will be greatly impaired for the In.
dian game.
The sale Of tickets for the CarliIse
game starts Tuesday at one O'Clock
and fully as large a crowd as was
present for the Pitt game is expected.
The strength of West Virginia has
now been proven, whereas previous to
she Pitt game many were skeptical
as TO what the result would be. The
hne showing against both Pitt and the
Navy was much more than even the
warmest admirers expected at the
start of the season and it is antici.
pated that from this time forward
there will be continued growing in.
terest in the work Of the Uniyersity
eleven.