The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-10-31
lEHIIGH is
LUCKY AND
". Y. U.LOST
Great Fight Is Shown BY
West Virginia Players
Saturday

2 Is5oRGANTowS, oct. a1.-The
21.14 defeat at thd hands Of Le-
hiEh Saturday gave the West Vir'
gfaia Mountaineers the chance to,
display tie best football they have
displayed this season. This goes
for ths games with Pltteoursn'
Cincinnati and the other teams IN
which large number Of local rams
have seen teamwork and fighting
..spirit uncommon to West Virginia
Sleyens, When week ago the rel
norts went out from here that
Coach Spears and supporters OF
the Mountaineers did not expect q
victory owe. Lehigh, it was SIN
cere. Lehigh has q strong team
that has lost but twice this year
ana then to w. & ]. and Penn
state. two Of the best teams In
+f1e country. The Lehigh team has
been making wonderful progress
during the last week as was eYi'
,denctli by the turnout OF specta-
tors to the Mountaineer game. A
crowd that was far larger than
that which saw w. & ]. play at
Bethlehem was on hand and ath-
letic officials at Lehigh said 1t was
because Lehlgh ia generally credit
ed in Bethlehem with just hit
ting her stride'' and confidence has
been growing In fact after the
game the Lehigh Graduate man
sived told Director Stransbury that
Iehlgh played 1900 per cent bet
ter today than against W. & ]"
While this is taken with large
grain of salt, there Is no doubt that
West Virginia played even finer
football than she played against
Pitt, ands1t took high class stuff"
10 say nothing OF some downright
ahardR luck to defent her. Sum
Md up, It can BID very clearly
seen that the Lehigh game was
one decided almost entirely on the
5Nbreaks.'' Had Homer Martins
hundred yard run for q touchdown
on the kickoff bdeu allowed by
the officials, there IS no telling
what.the score would have been in
favor OF the MountatneerA. The 60
yard penalty which Followed this
runt howdver, gave great heart to
LehiRh and when Simon fumbled
andTLehIgh recovered the ball NJ
,teentyards back toward West Viz
RinIa'B goal, It was another en-
Soirit1ng 'Fbreak" for Lehigh and
equally. deEmoralizing for the Noun
staineers. When. too, in the second
half West Virginia received tho
kickoff and marched with un
checked speed down to Ldhigh's
.oueTyard. line, then to be held and
AFTER I4ehigh'B kick march trresis'
tah1yf back and this time over the
goal line, only to have the whole
performance marred by a tumble
which gave IIeihigh o touchdown
after a bare seventeen yard sprint,
IT was certainly tough.
In the matter of first downs
wast Virginia exceeded Lehlgh
more than three to one; in kicking
Martin far,outlticked rStorer and at
rushing the ball there was little |
Companion although on her final
touchdown Lehigh did turn in tho
feature play by getting an END |
loose with forward pass for sew
senS4 I've yards. Storer' had been |
I B:pd lied to far outkicle Martin,
but Nhen half dozen Mountain. !
der linemen rushed through and
4almost blocked hlsAfirst attempt,
causing him to kicklstraight up in
the air flor no gain whatever, It
seemed to unnerve the former Lin
slsy star and he was not so badly
rushed the rdst OF the first half,
his best punt carried less than
twenty yards past the line OF
scrtmmage and twice he kicked out
Of bounds almost on the scrim-
mage line. TWICE in tho second
half, however, Storer got off good
boots and is unquestIonably
good kicker though he did West
virginia more service than harm
In Saturdays game,
. The two poor games Webt Viz
ginia had played against mediocre
foes like Ohio and Bucknell had
almost wiped out the confidence /
,of the players themselves hut TIE
great fight against Lehigh has re-
stored this confidence and WIZ
no 'fbraggtnE" is being done the
lighting spirit that 1s now prevail.
ient causds tho players to ask to
mo odds against W. & ]. or any |.
later foe.