Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-25
SPIDERS HAND JACKETS
A TERRIFIC WALLOP|NC
Ashland Eleven Unable to Stay vigor-
GUS Onslaught of Wcsttamp-
tonitcs-Score 80 to o.
MANY LENGTHY RUNS MADE
Simpson, Spencer and MiIbourne Get
Away for Excellent Sprints-Team.
work and Variety Of Play Counts.
Jackets Battle Hard.

Jackets Battle Hard.
From standpoint Of football. tho
affair at Boulevard Field yesterday
afternoon hardly could be termed even
fair exposition Of tho greatest OF
Iall sports. 1t was not much OF a game
e far the very evident reason that Rich
mond College had opposition OF too
slight a nature for one to term It
property contest. 1t was more OF
procession, with tho Spiders doing
most Of the parading at the expense
Of the weakened and inexperienced
Randolph Macon line. and to tune
that reached tho high notes OF an so
to-e score.
That score about tells the entire tale.
Not in many years has 30 large a count
been registered within a local football
Enclosure. The nnal result is pretty
good indication OF the difference be-
tween the teams az they performed in
tho final game OF the Eastern Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association season.
With tho exception of one touchdown,
which came In the latter part OF the
third period, when Milbourne inter-
Z cepted forward pass and scored. the
breaks OF the game had little to do
with tho ultimate result: but the
breaking of the Yellow Jacket limo had
everything to do with It.
Milbourne's touchdown was the only
score OF tho battle tha. resulted from
anything but straight football. line
smashing. end-running and vigorous
offensive football. For the Spiders lit
into the Jackets with q dash and a
determination that would have done
; credit to battle staged In. midseason
with \ championship at stake rather
than tho faE end of a year in which
neither. except by tho most improbable
OF possibilities. had a chance to change
!, their positions In the race.
Jackets Battle to Finish.
That is true of the Westhampton
Z boys attack, and the same determine
9tion. spiritedness and willingness to
do their best characterized the play
OF those from Ashland. They wero in
tho game for all they were worth
from start to finish. and at no time
was there a hin. of any intention to
delay tho progress Of the fray. or to
permit their opponents to get away
with anything except ns n result of
(. their own exertions. Nothing was
given them. and the fact that the
Spiders ran up the large score they did
brings them all the more credit, and
at the same time brings to the Yellow
to a 60-to-0 count for tho close of the
take punishment and their refusal TO
stage anything which might have been
termed a lay-down.
That they had the weaker team in
point OF football strength was shown
clearly. But there is no disgrace to
that fact An eleven hates to lose, Of
course, but 1t Is not disgraced when It
does lose to more powerful team.
That Is true only when the weaker
aggregation falls to play 1t out. and to
perform to the best OF It's ability. RIM
dolph- Macon did that yesterday after
noon. individually and collectively, and
deserves credit OF T..
But the shift plays which Dobson
has devised for a speedy and aggressive
bunch OF men. the elusiveness OF his
midget backfield. and the unusual as
sistance rendered them by his forwards.
in the way Of putting opponents out
Of tho plays. was too much for the
Jackets They simply could not stop
the men carrying the ball until yards
had been covered. and the big pushes.
which often followed knifeIike lances
OF the line, frequently resulted in a
man crossing the goal.
Seldom Fail to Make Downs.
From out of the maze OF touch
made by Richmond College. one remem-
beFs but three instances in which the
spiders failed to make their downs. On
the first OF these occasions. during the
initial period. the ball was booted over
. the goal: the Jackets were forced to
KICK IN 4 lew minutes, anu a snort time
later a Westhampton man scooted
across the line for n score. On tho
second occasion an attempt was made
to dive through the Jacket line for the
necessary yards and failed, Randolph
Macon winning the leather within their
own thirty-yard line. The Jackets
then opened forward pass, but the
player did not turn In time,
1Iilbourne darted in as the ball scared.
snatched II, eluded Smoot, and tailed
after run of twenty-five yards. =,
On the other hand, one fails to re-
member q single instance in which the
Ashland eleven managed to make first
down. although 1t Is possible 1t may
have done so on one or two occasions.
In. either event, however, they were
forced to kick most frequently, and
as a general thing half-dozen plays
or less was sufficient for the Spiders to
score again.
age done in former games by either
team. The Spiders were forced to thi.
resort so infreauenntly that It would
with an average. The, Jackets man
aged to get the ball away from them.
orally not. Their ends were blocked so
effectuaily and the Richmond. College
runners proved so elusive that for the
most part the punts were Of slight
them being run back by Simpson, Dick
erson or Rogers almost to the kicking
point.
Randolph-Macon was outplayed at
this style of game also, the Westhamp-
ton ends playing havoc with the op.
posing back field and generally down
ing the runner with little or no ain
In fact, the same was about. true in
every style, for the Jackets found the
ends bulwark around which 1t WINS
impossible for their runners to circle,
while the line was a stone wall whose
creyices had been. cemented by the
second defense go tihtly that gain
Of six or eight yards throughNit was
most unusual -, 80 -, Il
Indigestion Keeps Them Out.
i1a Before the game opened Coaches Dob
son and Reiss met for the usual pre-
Ilminaries and Dobaon thought to tell
Reiss Of bit Of trouble. Fuyk, he
said, was lying huddled on the bench
with a severe attack of indigestion as
n result OF running through practice too
soon after eating, and was unable to
start the game. Dobson expected this
unusual reason for, q player not being
Z able to take part in the game would
occasion surprise. (
But Refss fcame right back at him.
It8seer1ed that Newell, OF the Jackets,
\ also had eaten too heartily Just, before
starting practice and likewise was