The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-11-11
GREAT GAME
EXPECTED ON
COLLEGE LOT
lIolrltaineers In Better
Shape Than At Any
Time This Year

=. bfORGASTOWN. Nov. ll,-No
football team that '-Tubby" McIn.
dre ehaG coached here In his SIX.
ydaFsfeglme, has developed as slow
lJFaB as the Mountalneers OF 1920
t1hIntire in the past has been able
Z 10 BET his men going early anu keep
them at top speed throughout the
p yeQr, but this yea &C IS different.
sHe.has had less veteran material
than ever before and the process Of
d9cefmining the best men indiTlu-
ually in the large squad OF new
players has been an extremely slow
and .iaborious one. In fact, team
play. "a requisite, OF course, OF any
finished. eleven has just started TO
s3uT.-..s Against Pittsburgh very
early. IN the'season there was just
ope flash OF concerted team play
and this in the very first minutes
when a succession OF brilliant and
we'll executed plays put the ball
/. over the Panthers' goal line for Il
touchdown. There were many la
ter brilliant plays such as Becks
sExty.fiVe yard sprint for touch
down, but little team.play. In the
Yale game, the Mountaincers play
ed VIGOROUSLY poor football from
the standpoint of interference for
the runner and other factors IN
team,play but here again indiVid.
ual brtlIiancy stood out. Just once.
early III the conflict. were the
MountainEers able TO get together
and when they did they made sus-
tanned march toward the Yale goal
for fifty-five yards. Against
Princeton a week later the Team
played It's best football OF the year
and looked more like the Mclnttre.
coached eIeVens that had won hon
ors in previous campaigns. Against
washington and Lee, still u week
later, the Mountaineers faced
stronger opposition than any local
critics gaYe credit for, and ut the
same time were suffering from the
reaction of the Princeton game.
yet the West Virginia team far out
played the Generals, Charleston
newspapers to the contrary not.
withdrawing and especially In the
fourth quarter when the result OF
the game hung in the balance. me
Mountaineer offense, though matt
ed once by tumble, and twice Dy
SInopp fortune penalties, neVcrtheless
swept the Washington and Lee de.
tense aside like so much paper ana
could not BIO denied TOUCHDOWN
that won the game.
So, the Rutgers game here on
Saturday will see by far the most
finished play the Mountaineers
have exhibited this season. The
line, in 81 tie OF reports TO the COZ
trary. has developed gradually ana
is now at its highest point OF ell
ciency. Joe Harrick back at tackle
helms wonderfully and Setron ana
4 TSay have continued their consistent
work at the guards which marked
the play of the team in its earliest
Games. Bill Johnson at left tackle
has played brilliant game AL sea,
son aud his field goal Kicking Keeps
the opposition worried coht'hu
IeIntire has had a great deal OF
trou6leswith his ends. first trying
to make a wingman out Of har-
rick, then with Meredith's indispo-
sition <:but with Meredith back on
Inc lob and Kiger working ilhe
game at right end, the coachs trou.
bies on this score appear TO De
about ended, especially when ne
$hastwo such reliable men as Haw'
ldns. and. Flanagan on whom TO iall
The Rutgers game on Saturday
yin likely witness the starting Oh
Pred simon, the New Cumberland
fash. in his first regular game as
4 Varsity man. He has been III
most Of the games as substitute
and has shown great possibilities.
This week. he has been running ~
ali. the practices ut haltback ana
McIutfre evidently expects to start
hin. against the Scarlet.