The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-10-10
.W.E':LL PLEASED
With CONTEST
University Followers Are
Pleased With Foot
ball Team

MoRGANTowN, Oct. 1o.-The
faithful few hundred West Virginia
students and Morgantown citizens
who had the nerve to journey To
Pittsburgh on Saturday to witness
what everybody expected to be q
rout for the Mountaineer football
team at the hands of Glenn War
iner's Panther trickled slowly back
10 town yesterday and today and
on every hand there was nothing
but praise for tue great showing
Sat Spears protages had made
!, against the seasoned Pitt eleven.
The main specific topic OF con
!yersat;on was George Hill, the l4S
i bound fuIlback who first entered
The University i'll 1919 and sluceS
rcd into enough games as SUD
halfback TO get his letter on, Ira
Rodgers great team OF that year :
In 1918 Hill was RELOCATED by Coach
F, McIntire. He got into only three
T, games during the whole season and
/ then only. after they were hopeless
lily won or lost.
i Fat" Spears advent here has
; pulled Hill out OF rut. In the
Two preliminary games with Yves
leyan and Cincinnati he stood out
ms one OF the best OF the Mountain
Ger backs. but when he shot
through the Pitt line and ran 81
yards for West Virginia's first
touchdown on Saturday the town
boys" who had never seen his pos
sibilities as Fat Spears had, be-
gan rubbing their eyes. a hall
ihour later when he received vii
liams' Kickoff and with good inter
ference and better lodging and
sprinting ran nincty yards through
1.-THE whole Pitt eleven for a touch
down, the Fairmont youth had
+: really entered the West Virginia
/ Hall of Fame. for he had turned a
trict. that no Mountainecr fan had
/ ever dreamed that even the one
'and only Rat Rodgers could turn
! But Hill was not the only STAR
I'm the West Virginia team. On the
line Russ Meredith, Bob Kay aud
Philip Hill turned in some of the
finest defensive az we'll as often
rsive work that Mountaineer rush
iline has ever exhibited, while
Pierre TI!ll, though injured, and
Bob Hawkins and Iiiger at the ends
I gave an exhibition Of end.play that
Twas revelation to ,Mountaineer
/ fans who have been wont to see
tom Davies and other good end
| runners skirt the West Virginia
ends frequently for gains OF from
twenty to sixty yards. This was re
tluccd to a minimum on Satc rday.
George Hill also had some rivals
! for honors in the bRcl;field. Thu
quarterback york of Red" Cf'avel
/ left nothing to be desired. He
made possibly one ,a!stIa IN at,
tempting a forward pass on fourth
!dcwn with two yards to go or the
Pitt thlrty.two yard line from
which point Davies team moved OF
for touchdown. Here a kicE
would have been the nogt logica
thing although had it gone over
the goal line, as It undoubtedly
would have done, It would have
still given the Pitt team the bal
on their twenty yard line. His
judgment here was open to ques
ton. One questionable move or
the part OF quarterback in his
first "tig game" however is a very
small matter especially when 1t IL
compared to earlier West Virgins
/ experiences with her field generals
4 Graver ran George IIIll close sec,
.i.ond In actual gaining with the ball
! but his rifle-l!ke shots OF forward
i passes kept the Pitt secondary de
4 Tense on It's toes and not one wat
intercepted although he was rushed
on nearly every pass. Homer Mar
tin and Fired Simon bore the
brunt Of the hard work in the back
field, Martins tackltng was terrific
and the same may be said o.
ESimon, while their rushes into the
lime gained many valuable yard!
for the Mountaineers,
The main development Of inter
est Saturday. however. was thai
West Virginia has a coach who IL
second to none in the country. Il
he can take bunch OF materta
that nobody here admitted was un
usual, and in fact. was below the
| standard even OF 1920, and give
Pitt a run like he did Saturday
when she has one of her greatest
teams, Warner had best look tc
his laurels next year.
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