The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-10-15
.clai Dispatch to The Int.lltsencer.

ciai Dispatch to The Intelligence,
Morgantown, ". Va. Oct IA
Barring a change IN Fat" Spears
mind within the next eighteen hours.
the West Virginia Mountaineers will
face Russ Finsterwald's Ohio Univer'
sity football team here tomorrow
afternoon about like this: Ends, Pierre
Hill and Graham; tackles. Meredith
and Lyall: guards. Captain Kay and
Setron; center. Philip Hill; quarter
back. Red" Craver; .halfbacks, Simon
and CARED: tullback. George Hll.
The lineup is different In three
places from that which faced Pitt .
week ago, proving Spears motto OF
new season starting every Monday
morning" Graham has Hawkins
place at left end; CARED has been de-
reloped to take Martins place at half
back. and Lyall succeeds Joe Harrick
At right tackle. Douglass Bowers may
break In at haltback In place OF Gar
red. and Joe Bartell 4, possibility
for the season position. because
Spears has established the custom OF
telling nobody what he has in mind
with reference to the lineup. and the
only way to figure It out Is 10 watch
the team In signal drill and draw your
own conclusions.
ohio Formidable.
All through the present week Spears
has had the problem Of persuadins his
football team that there are other
teams than Pitt that can beat them.
Naturally. after making the best show
ing against Pitt that any Mounta!neer
team has made In eighteen years,
there has been some tendency to over
confidence, but Spears has effective
methods Of his own for wiping out
this feeling. and he has realised frctn
the start that defeat of the Ohio Uni.
yersity eleven 1, q thing that will be
accomplished only by the best efforts
OF his whole eleven Spears. In fact.
a margin Of two touchdowns over the
visitors. because he knows the calibre
OF the men Finsterwald has to select
from, as we'll as he recognizes that
r1nsterwald Is a real big League"
coach Finsterwald competed against
Spears tSo years while at Syracuse
University.
Two coIorsd Men Marked
Spears will take special pains to
have the TWO colored men on the Ohio
team, jefferson at center and LETTERS
at right tackle, taken care Of. Spears
had experience with colored players
AT Dartmouth, and he knows that when
a colored man appears in q football
lineup. he Is a star. otherwise he would
not be there. Jefferson As q rowing
center will be the main stumbling
block to Mountaineer touchdowne
without doubt and II Spears interior
ence can get him out Of the plays, the
road to victory win be clearer.
Sixth Game Between Teams.
Tomorrow's game will be the sixth
played at football between Ohio ana
West Virginia The series started In
1897 with 40 victory for Ohio, and
the last game played here. In 1919, was
q victory for West Virginia, go. Tho
1910 score was the largest ever made
In the series Of FIVE. Of which West
Virginia has won three games and the
Buckeyes two.
Preliminary Game Big Attraction.
Hardly less important to local fans
than the Varsity engagement Is that
which Is staged as q preliminary at
1850 p. m. between the Pitt Freshmen
and Mountaineer Freedmen. This will
be a battle for blood nom start 10 I'm
ish and among other things will Do
termine the calibre OF tho new mate
rial with which Pop" Warner and
Fat" Spears will have to work IN
their Varsity developments next 1aa.
The same set Of officials will handle
both games, Eichenlaud. old Notre
Dame star. being referee; EsAn. Of
Duquesne, umpire, and Dayton. Of Le
high, linesnan
A crowd conservatiyely estimated
at five thousand Is expected for the
contest, and the biggest advance sale
recorded here for any game except
that with W. & J. In 1918 has been
recorded