The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-27
PRINCETON NElI
on NVg. GARD.
Saturdays Game Shows
AIountaineer Team To
Be IN Good Shape.

MORO NToWLN, oct. 27-To beat
pethanv 600 was no particular credit
f6 west Virginia on Saturday, YET
those Who saw the game ADMIT tnat ~
40 time this year has the Mountalneet
aegregation booked as good as al
wheeling west Virginia was oppoS-
ed BY q conservative brand OF tootpall
on the part OF the eBthanyites. AS
rnie whom footbalk score, mounts 70
fftv 81 sixty the losing team donates
three 81 four touchdoWns by rank
fnmbles rank Judgment or some other
cratic procedure. There was none OF
l.Is Saturday, except on perhaps one
occasion when the Bethany quarter
bact elected to Try forward pass on
hIs own twenty yard line. Joe HAT
rick came Ieaping thru, jumped high
into the air, speared the pass ana was
oil FOR q touchdown before anyone re.
allied what had happened. All thru
tie earlier and later stages OF the
game Bethany kicked the ball tnsteao
OF irving to rush it, and, in general
played q efensiye game.
Made thirty First Downs.
The net result was that West viz
cinia actually rushed the ball from
ecrimma9e a total of five hundred and
twentv one yards and made no less
than thirty first downs. There were
fsw long runs, Neale's scamper OF III
hfee yards, part Of which was lost
through penalty was the longest ana
then BaBson's thirty-one yard run IN
tie fourth quarter came next tor as
tance. The most Of the gains were
lor distances ranging from six to IL
showing that West Virginia had
70 sustain her attack apd keep her IN
terference IN perfect running order to
adVance the ball. Not once in the
ans was King forced to kick and
twice West Virginia lost the ball on
downs near the eBthany goal.
Rodgers Big Gamer.
Rodgers, Of course, was the big
afonnd eaiter with 1853 yards to his
credit yhile Hite had liz; Neale 60;
I.entz 5s: Dawson AZ; King 2S and Hil4
and Lewis II yards each. Hill, Tor
some reason, did not get going as
80 did against Maryland State last
week. This is explained probably by
the faet that Hill was in the game
only when King and Rodgers were gu!
ana this pair not available to open
ID e road for him.
Defense Good.
on the other hand West Virginia S
desenss was tight. Bethany got two
firs downs, both the direct result OF
pe ties Not once did she rush the
BAN ten yards. forward, and probably
she would not have "a gain of twenty
ards to her credit FOR the whole en-
counter II the losses at attempts to
advance were deducted. The whole
lbnndh Of West Virginia forwards play
ed bangup football OF course their
OPPOSITION was almost negligible, as
5 Bethany team not only no match
for the Mountaineers to start with
but had Dunn and several other good
IN out o. me game with injuries.
YET Bethany fought very hard and, 1t
was Just as hard for West Virginia to
adyance at the end Of the game as IT.
was At It's beginning.
Princeton Saturday.
west .Virginians nre gloomy because
coieate beat. Princeton. 1t is a rec
onized thing In college foc5ball that
when real good football team, as
dceton surely Is, gets a trouncing
Is almost unbeatable the following
weekend The men always come back
ana tight as only the big fellows
IA their thousands OF supporters can