The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-17
West Virginia Football Enthusiasts
Agog Over Game Next Saturday
WEST VIRGINIA MEETS WESLEYAN
AT FA1RMONT IN GRAND GRID
IRON SEASON OPENER
COACH SPEARS WILL MATCH WITS
WITH COACHES KRUSHANK
AND FELToN-MUCH IN
TEREST
GREAT DEMAND FOR TICKETS IN
DICTATES LARGE CROWD WILL
ATTEND-ExPECT 10000


gina because mex, Saturday. Sept. 2tth
West Virginia Wesleyan College and
West Virginia University. the two lead
Ing state educational institutions. and
bitter rivals for Years past. Will "p"m
the 1921 season by staging their four
tecnih annual clash at South Side Fark,
FRirmort
West Virginia returns 20 Morgantown
tonight after three weeks sNeHt on top
OF tho AleShenics a. beer Park Mary
land Reports on the drinGs Of the
Moun;aineer team arc rr"tns" and cent
er chiefly about the abilities and excel
lent promise as a tutor ut nr Clarence
W. Spears former Dartmouth coach VIII"
took up the reins laih down 10y 'Tuhhy
McIntire at LITTLE" WASHINGTON last
Thanksgiving day. Not much e = COM
plimenRry nature has been said ~ tho
material on hand n I'ccr ark. Nu' II IS
well known that Spears has ltrGo
number OF veterans intending such ium-
iraries as Captain Rob Nay. Homer Mar
tin. Joe HarriCk. Russ MeriI"th. Joe
Saffron. Rob Hawkins and other veterans
some trouble IN holding The limcIighi
This il particularly true # = y"unsster
named Nardacci quarterback. from
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio: Philip nm and
Dilcher from Charleston Nigh school:
Red" Craver from Martins F"rry High
and half score OF others VII" jump In
10 tho spotlight tntcrmtticnt!y. tn"
general impression created on the visit
Ing newspaper scrlbe- a, Deer lark ~
that while tho material IS undoubtedly
up 10 West virEinia's standard. cspc-
chilly in the rush line. the biggest
catch" made by the Mounta!necrs since
~ IN
makes the material look better than It
IS by innorat!nk coaching methods or
unquestiona bic stability.
wesleyan Looms Stronger
Wesleyan saw no advantage in seek
ing n moro secluded spot than RuCkhan-
non for her 1921 training camp and a
little NOR" than two weeks ago s'fua i
OF forty men assembled under John
FELTON, and Captain Krushank for train
ms TIL that time /, was not apparent
whether or not Wesleyan was TO have
n team this year, tho months before
that Il had been announced tina, w &
J. Navy and other strong teams In adj
lition TO West virginia were 20 be met.
The acquisition OF John FELTON, was one
Of the biggest strokes thar wesleyan
has delivered in recent football seasons
FELTON, had charge % the M"'h"dists IN
1912 and 1918. Th"S" VIII" fellow foot
ball closely will recall that Il was IN
1912 that Wesleyan first visited Nor
gan'own and turned IN n triumph over
the State team. The same persons vii
recall tina, |, was IN 1913 that tho arg
est score cvrr achieved AGAINST West
Virginia by Wesleyan 81" was rolled
un FELTON, coached both ~ these -l"v-
ems and developed such wonderful play
ut w & J. John Krllison assistant to
Seale: paddle" Lander. who later
PLAYED at Yves, Virginia and Michigan
md many others If equal fame. Felton,
left Wesleyan a; tho cnd of the 1919
season FOR moro lucrative fields. hut
seeking 4 rcturnp to the old order when
Wesleyan was supreme Methodist auth
critics sought and obtained his return
this year.
FELTON, will he ably assisted by car.
tain krushank. who before his advent
at Wesleyans material. only three or
two years OF football under the Penn
State College system.
Reports conh!rc "a TO tho strength o.
wesleynn's material only three or
four OF last years players have 'hus far
returned. but this may hc no sirn "t
wca krrs~ There was SDno evidence
last year that a thinning out Of tho
ranks uF tho veterans would help tho
MethodiStS instead Of Weakening them.
The roster ~ the team shows hos; Of
new men with such veterans az Ross.
Monahan and Krushamk a. nucleus.
T'rcSs reports from Eurkhannon have
shown the .usua. purnnci"us tendencies
and there IS no "v!d"nc" that the Noun
tatn"crS oven with the b"s; results
from Srcgrs coaching are 70 have n
wa!k-aw1r.
OLD Rivals
No better contest could Re provided
as a drawing crowd for Mountain Sat"
gr!d fans than III" clash ~ these two
old rivals beginning twenty years ago
thirteen games have been played ON Il
hais dozen different occasions the rival
~ has been so intense thar no agree
mcnt for n contest could l." mad" or
these thirteen games West Virginia has
won nine and Wesleyan has won four.
Not till 1912 when FELTON, assumed thu
coaching rc!ns al Wesleyan. were the
Me'hodlsts a factor In state foothull
West Virginia had hceu scored upon hat
once WeS'eyanites. IN fact 20 no
further back INTO their history than
1912 and ~ N" seven ramrS plaV"d
since that time. tho Mc'hrIiS;S have az.
tullly Won cuur and lost hut three II
Yale and Harvard woull stage \ con-
test in Fa'rmont 70 inIWcurrtc the IA!
season. tho crowd would not be as largo
rs .hat which VIII raihtr fer tho Metho-
dist Mourta !nr"r hu'.lr next Saturday.
so keen IS III" feeling between the in"t-
tu'ions and 50 widespread IS tn" align
n,ent Of the forces loss than W. per
zen, Of the pypulatlUn OF West (i-vir,a