Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-23
SPIDERS MEET MARYLAND
RICHMOND COLLEGE STARTS
GRlDIRON SEASON OCTOBER 2
Coach DSnson Says Arrangement. Win
Marylanders Practically. Completed.
Other BiS Contests Hooked.

sured OF opening the 1870 =ridiron sea
son AZ Boulevard Fi"id next fail IN a
game with The Naryla nd state College.
Frank VI. hobSon. director of athletics
at Richmond COLLEGE. last night. Dob
sons announoemeni came AZ the close
OF perfect day Tor Richmond spor;
followers. for the director earlier in the
day had announced that Virginia Poly
icchnic. Institute and Wake Forest
November anu Is. respectively.
Hs. E1r~ileat RECORD.
In making tho announcement regard
ing the Maryland state game the coacn
made il piain that while IN. same vii 4
inc Mhrylau dSrS MAS not 4 sure thing
he was i'll position 10 state that ar
engagements hal been practically com
pleted for the staging of the ai"ir.
excellent record ASainS; university
teams. she defeated the University OF
Virginia on Lambeth Field and held the
stron. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
aggregation to a to score III MARY :
land. Maryland State also played \ lc
and made \ crcditae!c showing a"a!is
the Eli.
Having virtually completed arrange
ments with The Maryland college, Eich-
nond College viii furnish TINS SKY
with. real football ssmes ns lex, fa az
announcement. several days ago that
Davidson college would NEE, tic Sp!d-
rrS mere Dctopc: 20.
l.asr nights ANNOUNCEMENT will give
This city toI- hiS Gr!diron battles. and
Vrsini. WI in,ercoileeiate athletic AS
sec.a,ion VIII he met; WIN the t ieHms
ties here 1920 should DC a oans-up sea :
son for Richmond in the way 81 foot
hal battlos
Other Negotiations Complete.
Not content with having ARRANGED
4 DDnsun EnaElnH
arrangements 10: more sridiron bat
Ties for Richmond. Negotiations are or
Tor Games WIN W1Sniing,G;ni s''o do i.
pobson is optimistic over the piositS.
or bringing these citvent mere AZ" 81
poets 20 announce III !, lew HaEs Us,
and Davidson both are North "a o.t"S
colleges and the tinee OF !nte!S'"tc
competition Will create a"u'l!"""i a"
irrcst in the games.
Dates Sci for Games.
,Arr.n-lny OF these games more ih-n
likely viii cause cons .dcrah!e comment
as 70 What cNc>t the step taken nS
The spider swi.i have upon me, !Aets
.ern Virginia inter- Collegiate Ath!e,it
Association. The organ'zat:oH Is c"m-
nused OF Richmond College. Ia poem
sidney. R.ndoiph- Macon aud William
and MARY. and for tue last severa!
Years each team has met the o'heE
twice on ;he sridiron. The Two ssme
proposition mas met Win the oinan
proval %. athletic authorities Al WI
liam and MARY aud Richmond college
who advocate one game, aAd This mat
ter VIII " threshed out AT the meet
ins OF the ajEeG'o'T o. INC a a. ,Ss
That the Williamsburg ana tichmon4
authorities have comic out and stated
their positions n the matter. tnis topic
will lie OF the most vita! ilnpott"hce
TO the association.
VIII \et Piay Nirsinis
b.s .aincs. Coa,i Dooson made the
tt..tcmcnt Thai the spiders MI. not
p.y the univ-rsity OF Virginia. Tht
ioca. college Vas ouered date On
the orange and B!ue schedule. brt
rs ".s Cancelled. III view OF the i>e;
thar satisfactory arr1nsemenis eou.A
lures 10 the university athletic an
;nori;:cS for q game 81 Stadium T.. Il
Westnampton, aut these te.i through
or j. gam next I'll! IL viii he the
hrst u1le in many years that the
orange and Maroon have played be.
fore a loea, aud ence. For s-rera
years Tech appeared here annually
battling umiNcrsity OF North Care
lima and otAcr teams. nut not IN 70.
t~nt Years nave the B.a burg BOYS
oe.n seen here. Washinston and l-"e
Generals played mere las, IN 1917. wnru
they We:c defeated ny WASHINGTON
and jefferson! ~ boulevard Field Ia
c-csin. with Wake Forest ana David
son Col!"sr Coacn Dobsom or."*s
lh-sh te.lnS mere for their llitia.
visit. Both ,i-Ncus are rated nigh IN
!oothsl. ciic"S OF North Carolina and
ac Spu,h. .nd these games should at
tract cons ds.'tf'le. i.a;t"ntion and 10
well patgcriz-Ni' Should Johns Hon
ains and MARYLAND state be iHGEced r"
come here. u VIII mark the first ar-
re.rance "f eith-r scho"l or a lnca
crid.ron
Richmond COLLEGES tentative la2o
schedule assuming tnat Ia. Spiders
* play one game with each OF tho
teams in the Eastern Virginia Inter
Collegiate Athletic Asso, alton. .n,-
ows
oeiob.g Maryland S,,t colle.. q,
6c,ober =a-Davi5son collage. =,
Noyembe7 .-v p. j.. It Richmond.
Hictmond
william and Mary ,l4, no, a~,.s-
mpdrn-stdney ,dstr not deter
uinedt.
Randolph Macon caa'- not deter
m!ned>.