The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-23
WEST VIRGINIA MUST De GOING
At T|P-TOPF FORM To BEAT v. { ].
BETHANY ALTHOUGH BEATEN HAS
LOUD PRAISE FOR ATTACK OF
MOUNTAIN STATE ELEVEN
Green and white Grinders Who Opposed
Mountaineers Saturday Think
That Gold VIII Win.
Special Dispatch to The Intelligence,

Special Dispatch to The Intelligence;
Morgantown, W. Va, Nov. 22.-Thc
West Virginia football team, received
words Of encouragement over their pros
poets TO beat w. d J. on Thanksgiving
day from the Bethany college players
here on Saturday. Several Of the Green
team stayed over Sunday in Morgantown
and all believed that If Yves: Virginia
played the brand of football she display
cd against Bethany. the Mountainerrs
could win on Turkey day.
Bethany, of course. has played both
w. L. J. and West Virginia. Early In
the year when w. Il J. was at top form
and apparently in shape to run Wild over
pitt, West Virginia and all other TIL
state teams, bethany went over tr
Washington and was beaten by Nor
rows men, $50. West Virginia. ais"
at TOP form. beat Bethany here Satur-
best game played hrrc this var IN
SpItc OF the II tie with LchGh and the
slightly closer score with NutGrrS ten
days ago. Bethany prrsCntrd very
Scrappy team that kept the Mountain
GERS busy both at gaining and rep"!llns
Tho visitors attacks and nothing short
or the best MClntirc's men could pre-
sent, kept tho Green from winning. West
Virginia had n slight advantage in
,r,iIrht individual ability of players
and iramwork and made this advantage
count at all stages with 2O-u result.
ar course the Bethany visitors may
have been merely "spooiinG west Nir,
rini, followers in an attempt TO b. good
sportsmen over their own defeat. put II
- believed generally that tho Mountain.
Gers can win from III" Presidents IL
thrv MAY the brand of football which
they have shown themselves to possess
on several occasions.
West NlrEinia'S team Is IN hnc fettIc
for the final game of the season and Il
victory would round ont Il most success
ful season in spite Of the three revcrScS
suffered by the eleven In October. Thrr"
straight games hav" now been won from
worthy opponents and the team IL IN Il
winning mood without amy doubt. W. Il
7 viii have ia display that standard "t
came which held Pit 10. beat kalama-
zoo c7-O. and LchiGh 14-O. If she OK
nccts 10 win from tho Mountaine"rs IN
Thursday because the West E!rrtnr
team has instillCd In each indiriduRs
,nrmhcr from the time he frs: cots foot
liz vs., VIrrin!a's campus the fact that
Washington and jefferson Is IN" or,
rivaI from whom victory Is chcriSh"d
more than from all others, and II bitter
Is fought gam" * Surr tH rrSu!t'
= Big Crowd Going.
Tho victory oyer Bethany cs we'll ns
w. e. Us defeat by Tech has had an
unusIlaI effect in stimulating interest
in the THANKSGIVING day game among
West Virginia supporters. From nj,
snciinrs Of West virginia Sunday and
,nday letters and tclrcrams cam" pour
Ing in asking for tickets for III" game
md II is believed that AN extra thousand
of West NirEininnS Will be on h'hh
over and above th"S" who would hay"
results, w. & J. To every old West
Virginia ulumnus Is IN" game Of the
YOUR To- which they look forward anG
Washington. incidentally. Is Just about
as easily reached for IN" whole or the
body OF alumni IN IS MorEantoWn.