The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-08
At Least 5000 People from
the State to See Big
Game.
NIN PARADE 0N ARRIVAL
Molritaineer Team Will Go
Down River Friday
Night.

MoRGANTowN, Oct. S-The day
when West Virginia University's foot
BAN team went to Pittsburg sure of a
licking despoised. and unheralded,
ms past Next Saturday when the
Mcuntaineer eleven led by Captain
Rodgers trots on Forbes field grid
iron there viii be at least five thous-
and of West Virginia citizens in the
sands ready to root and cheer till
heir voices give way for the success
q the Mountain State team. 1t was
not 50 In the days gone by when the
West Virginia eleven went to Pitts
burg merely to be run over and beat
en numerically by the Panther be
fore small crowd not even ten per
cent OF which were anxious to see the
Mountaineers triumph.
The first day of the ticket sale to
West Virginia students and citizens
OF Morgantown, resulted in eighteen
hundTed tickets being sold here. The
sale has been steady ever since and it
would not be surprising to see twenty
tNfNl tA9AAAA VI RSgR4G at ILlG 5dulO WIZ
make their homes for the present at
MorgantoWn. Thirteen hundred tick
ETY. have been sent to Fairmont Wheel
ilg Glarksburg, Weston, Parkerspurg
Philippis Grafton, Terra Alta, Elkins,
Charleston and other cities whence
mail orders have been received. This
means that more than three thousand
of the five thousand tickets assigned
10 West Virginia have already been
sold and this Of course, does not in
clude the hundreds Of West Virginia
people who have written in to the
Pitt cket office for reservation. Five
thousand is a very conservative esti-
+ mate Of the number Of people who
viii be at the game who claim West
/ Virginia as their home.
Two special trains will be operated
from Morgantown to Pittsburg. One
OF these will start at Fairmont, top
ping at Morgantown, West Point Ma
ron and Brownsville, while the Duh
| Ell wi1i be loaded almost exclusively
BY the University Cadet Corps and
When the section bearing the Cadet
.erps and band reaches the P. & l.. e.
station at Pittsburgh a great parade
viii be staged across the river, down
Smithfield street to Penn Avenue,
thence to the Union station where 1t
win disband, Tickets of course will
be assigned to the men before they
are dismissed and they will be count
ed upon to make their own way to
Forbes field. at this field, of course,
the three Cheer leaders will be in
command and 1t is thought that the
lEountaineers cheering will not suffer
ia comparison with that Of Pitt, .dore
than a Thousand tickets have been
sold IN the cheering section and the
number will likely reach fifteen. hun
dred before Saturday.
ixthousand paid admissions to the
biggest football games staged in West
Virginia has been about the record
hefet fore 80 that when it appears Ger
attn that almost that number will MI
81 te hundred miles or more away
To- see "a gridiron conflict, 1t may be
reg fded as certain that something
1f unusual consequence is on the
boards And SO it is. Ordinarily
West Yffginia's game with Pitt has
not been of so much Importance, but
THIS year the Mountaineers are quite
generally credited with having a
CHANGE to win and that makes it diff
erent The fans are coming from
every section because If West Virgin
Is going to be the team to turn the
rick on Coach Warner after five
years Without a defeat, they all want
10 be on hand.
The team will go down Friday night
ma hundreds OF fans will go Thurs
iay ana Friday, but the big bulk VIII,
30 o. the regular and special trains
atarday morning, arriving at the
smoky City around noon,