Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-19
RUGBY EXPERT PREDICTS
SURPRISES THIS YEAR
Southern Football Official Com
ments on Odd Happenings
sst Last Season,
By J. s. COUNSELMAN,
Athletic Director OF William

: Associate Athletic Director OF William
md Mary College.
49, The football season of 1919 was in
.smany respects the most successful. as
s well ms the most peculiar. In the en-
tire hist9ry of the game: i, was Ia
its numerous wierd upsets and trc-
mendous revcrsals OF form
Each season has brought forth Its
share OF surprises, but the season
4 which came to close last NoHem-
q bcr recorded these in greater mum
bers than ever before; From the
Painters were so heavily showed un-
der by Syracuse until Atlanta fans on
= Thanksgiving Day witnessed the pass j,
Golden Tornado" championship hopes
were blasted in large numbers some
of these surprises. which were re-
ceived by the more enthusiastic fans
somewhat in the nature OF shocks
. may be listed as follows:
- Georgetown. %. Washington and
- Georgia Tech, %: Georgetown. o.
= Washington and Lee, 8; Georgia
Vanderbilt. 10: Virginia, e.
Alabama Polytechnic. ii: Georgia
Tech. Z.
Center c .ef,s a. a. west Virginia, c.
Syracuse. "a; Pittsburgh. 8.
Indiana. IL: Syracuse, C.
- These scores should serve TO I'M
:
little chance any team Will have in
/. the future OF securing clear title
to a sectional championship:
! Strategy Ia Replace Brute Strength.
= There was time in the history
.Tnd development OF football that 4
team composed OF players having
-sessing superior weight might ex-
-pect to so through season without
"a defeat Now that much greater
each play. with pushing and pull
ing the runner prohibited by the
rules. mass play has been dealt a
Upon speed. Skill aud strategy.
= The East as we'll as the South
should anaiyZc carefully the reasons
for the defeat of Syracuse by both
er had won a string of victories over
the Army, Pittsburgh, Brown, Col
gate and others.
This analysis will show even great
err possibilities in line shifts, open
field running and forward passing |
than have yet been thought OF. While |
syracuse was represented on the |
gridiron by team we'll up to the
tions, II Is impossible to conceive of !
Indiana or Nebraska defeating either |
Illinois or Ohio state.
Athletics Arc Entertainment.
Another valuable lesson which our
schools and colleges should have
learned from last years season is the
great value OF athletics when prop
erly conducted as means of enter
'tainment for students rather than q
form OF advertising. one Western
Institution that hoasted of n varied
and expensive lecture course found at
the close OF the school year that the
percentage of students attending the
course was insignificant when COM
pared with the attendance upon ath-
letic contests.
Since the modern development OF
football made possible in recent years
by numerous changes in the rules
: places almost equal value upon
,crs, students and other lovers of this
sport must receive more and more Joy
= and thrills in defeating one or more
- of their favorite's natural rivals
- Determination Wins In End.
The followers OF almost every
:. school and college experienced these
: emotions one or more times during
the past season Washin cton and
. found satisfaction last year by her
: defeat OF Georgia Tech Richmond Col
lege by tieinE Virginia. V. NJ. !. by
defeating V. r. !. William and Mary
College had her day in Mt least one
contest with Richmond College and
one with Randolph Macon. V y l.
+ should have found much satisfaction
in preventing the strong Washington
line. although losing via the field
goal route. Numerous other instances
could be cited TO show that almost
every team covered itself with honors
during the season and that almost
every player learned through attn
letics what may be accomplished by
Consistent effort combined with the
y proper exercise OF viii power and
determination.
Realize Value Of Athletics
The season which is now having its
beginning appears Il this time TO be
most proMisi DE The world war
caused all to realize more than evcr
before the supreme value of outdoor
sports. AS result Of this lesson
every effort has been made through
out the country to secure competent
coaches and TO equip players for the
approaching campaigns
Let us all hope that the close %!
THANKSGIVING Day viii ind every
team with al least one record 10 prove
that our future generation possesses
its share OF red hlooded Americans
who can be depended upon when the
occasion arises TO wage a real fight
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