The Washington herald., 1921-11-25


A sprint of 80 yards around the .Nir-
ginia end and across the Virginia
goal line by Capt. Robbins Lowe, in
the second quarter. gave Carolina
the only touchdown she needed for
victory over her historic. rival in
their annual FOOTBALL game here
today.
Clarke made virginia's only score
when he kicked a goal from field
in the first quarter. and the game
ended, Carolina, 7; Virginia, 3.
Thrilling as it was, loves tri-
umphant circuit of the enemy,s end
was not so thrilling as what hap
pened within the last minute of the
game. f-
For then, Virginia, through a PEN
atty that cost Carolina 25 yards,
found herself within yards of a
touchdown. A minute or so before
the shouting crowd of 10000 had
counted the contest fairly a sure
Carolina victory. 1t was Carolina's
ball. and everybody knew time was
nearly up. But Virginia -stiffened.
Lowe made a short punt and Foster
ran the ball back to Carolina's. 80
yard line. Then Foster threw a
long forward pass over the sides
of the Carolina players to the
southeast corner OF, the field. 1t
descended into the hands of Opple-
man. who had run to meet it. Within
yards of the goal line.H
The Carolina adhereuts in the
stands gave a gasp, II he caught
the ball, all he had to do was to
take one step more. fall over the
line, and the victory would be Vir-
ginias.
The bali fell TO his hands, teet-
cred uncertainty on the tips of his
fingers. The crowd naturally ex-
pected TO see the ball taken back
to the point from where it was
thrown, but the incident was not
yet closed. The umpire had detect
ed a Carolina man in the act of
illegal interference, Z yards from
the goal line, and the ball was
given to Virginia there. Again it
looked as If the victory must go
to the visitors. Knowing there were
only a few seconds left to play.
Capt. Rhinehart decided to risk all
on a forward pass. The center
passed the ball back to Foster, and
Foster, after hesitating a moment
to gauge the distance. threw 1t to
Ward. a Virginia player beyond the
goal line. But 1t went too far. and
struck the ground. The game was
practically over then. Two or
three more rushes by Carolina and
the whistle blew.
Heavy penalizing was conspicu-
GUS features of<the game. Including
the loss suffered because of inter
fering when Foster made his long
pass, Carolina was penalifed lit
yards, and. Virginia lost 35 yards
through. the watchfulness of the
officials.
A penalty. inflicted for offside
play. cost Carolina second touch
down Lowe had punted to Foster
on virginia's 15-yard line. The Vir-
ginian had fumbled. and Jacobs. OF
Carolina. had brought the crowd to
its feet by recovering the ball
After this, Carolina had made frs,
down by straight rushing, and were
within yards of scoring.
The Virginia defense stiffensd
sharply but did not seem likely, to
prevent the. score. then the penalty
of five yards was inflicted. After
two rushes that netted only four
yards and a grounded. forward pass.
Lowe tried field goal. The. ball
sailed outside the post by a few
inches.
The Carolina line put up a re-
markably strong defense, breaking
| through time and again to throw
Virginia players for loss. In
punting the advantage was perhaps
with Virginia by shade. One time
Rinehart, who was VirGinia's partic-
ular star, made a net gain, of "a
yards with long low punt tha,
went over the Carolina quarters
head. Carolina completed seven
out of fourteen forward passes. ant
Virginia completed fixe out of thir.
teen. Carolina outpiayed virgins
on the whole. but by so nsrrow 1
margin that the result was uncer
tain untifsthe last whistle blew,
T. Wilfred !. johnson. : the playe,
h0ut whom thArA .