Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-25
SOUTHERN teams make
GOOD SHOWING in NORTH
Centre Colleges Game With IInr-
ward Most Spectacular Contest
Played This Season.
V. NJ. us MACHINE POWERFUL
University OF Virginia Shows Great
Improvement I'm Battle With
Strong Rutgers Team at New
Brunswick, n. j.
Icy Associated press.I

ATLANTA. Oct 24.-Southern foot
ball teams furnished tho most spec
tacular games IN the country during
tho week when four of them invaded
Northern sridirons ana two returned
vIctors
Centre College against Harvard and
Georgia Tech against Pittsburgh Uni
vorslty could not emulate the well
earned Victories OF Virginia Military
Institute over Penn Un!versi,y and
Virginia over Rutgcrs, but both the
kcntuchians and the Gcorgians
proved themselves foes worthy Of the
country's best.
On Southern fields the outstanding
game was that between Auburn and
nat ,he Go in %h.sh ho hs
ming for the 1920 championship hon
ors by adding Il &c TO G defeat to the
- to victory of Georgia Tech over
That prevented Auburn from coming
through last senson with clean
slate of Victories.
Auburn Charged Hard.
Entering the game strong favorites
the heavy Auburn team charged hard
ind low and smashed It's way to a
Clearly earned victory. against a
equal OF those OF previous years
The other games in which southern
.!evens met foes worthy of their eff
been expected. Alabama University
rompcd over Howard for a 33 to
+ictory. mississippi y. and NJ. trounced
Mssissippl i univeTs TO So to g. T rsa.
nessee University defeated Clemson
20 10 0. Georgia University beat ogle-
thorpe 81 TO 2. Washington and Lee
towncd Roanoke IA TO Z. and Scwance
lied and g with Ecntucky State.
All OF Saturdays winners among
the big Southern teams have come
ing defeated by "A Dixie team with the
exception %! Tennessee University.
which wen, down before Vanderbilt.
and the University OF Virginia, which
was humhled by Virginia Military In
sttute. Centre and Georgia Tech had
not had point scored against them
ny any teams this. year until Sa,ur-
days games. leaving them clear
record 80 far as southern title claims
20. North Carolina State. which
played Thursday. has yet 10 be de-
ieated by a Southern eleven, while
Sewancc's only failure to win was
Saturdays tie game.
v. VI. I. Meets ~. G. State.
several OF me clean records are
The powerful V. NJ !. machine, which
kept up its victorious record against
southern teams by outplnying Penn
syivania In every department OF tho
game yesterday and winning 81 To Z.
Will NEE, the strong North Carolina
state eleven. and Georgia and Auburn
lying rather heavily on V. NJ. /. and
Z Auburn.
Z Aside from the spectacular game
played by V. NJ l.. Centre and Georgia
? Tech. the surprising feature Of the
week was the Improvement shown by
Virginia University. which trounccd
Rutgers TO o. The New Jersey team
~ not regarded az ono OF the more
important Eastern teams. but neither
had the University OF V.rginia's early
season record given 1t such rank In
the South.
AS an aftermath OF the Pittsburgh
Georgia Tech game reports were pub
lished here today that Pittsburgh Of
lc!als had announced severance Of
athletic relations with Tech because
Of objections To several Tech men
having played more than four years,
Techs reply as given out here was
10 point out that the Southern Inter
: collegiate Athletic Association had
ruled the S. a. Il. G. season OF 1919
did not count In athletes years OF
playing. The came dispatches indi-
Gated that Pittsburgh might come
south next year for a game with the
University Of Georgia. which is
coached by Jimmy Dehart. former
Pittsburgh player.