The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-13
.SGRENNAGEING
AT WESLEYAN
IS RATHER ROUGH

BUCKHANNON. sept. 10
Coach Feltons Wesleyan gridders
enjoyed much needed rest sun.
! day aftor strenuous weeks WORK,
on the Wesleyan grtdiron at Buck
saturday at'the c;ose OF prl:tice
, FELTON, lined two teams up for j
forty minute scrimmage. The
i Eagsi;y managed to score | bracs
Of touch downs on the scrubs,
The Wesleyan lines charged fast
and furiously into each othr, aui
tackling was low. hard and vic.
ious The men being in the pink
OF condition for the scri:nmage,
aside from a few sprained ankles
, nobody was injured.
Cecil Ross of Buckhannon WHO
was n regular in last years back
field came out Saturday morning
and his kicking makes him look
like sure bet for berth IN the
orange and black scoring ma
chine Ross punts the pigskiu for
sixty and seventy yards with lit.
tie apparent effort.
Hall the big two hundred pound
guard from Norton. who has been
cut Of practice for the past Few
days will be in the game agatnSby
tomorrow. Ault and Hall make q
brace OF guards which will he
hard to get stopped in their for
ward positions.
Saturday FELTON, opened up and
displayed some Of the Scotch
Irish blood he is known to poss-
ess. A few plays displeased the
old Dickson College star. lie
jumped into the limo and with
vocabulary and shoulder spread
Wesleyan forwards all over the
field. The gridders came back
fighting and in the scrimmage
which followed the claret flowed
from more than one nose, as
shoulder met shoulder and some
times foot met nose.
Coach FeA7n has no definite
line up in mind yet. That his
{ back field will be as smooth n
running organization as that Of
recent years Is assured, There Is
big crowd Of end material to
draw from, Rohrbaugh Of Buck
harmon. Ferry l,om Manningtoh
High. la Rue from kiskl, Holts.
berry from Parsons High, Ham
erlck of Webster Springs, John
Pfaff of Marietta High, all look
good.
Einla University-Wesleyan game
looms up football fans all over
the state are commencing to take
stock Of the two big West Virginia
e!evens. a pretty fair line has
been obtained on West Virginia
through the wonderful publicity
the team has received ever since
liz was announced that Fat Spears
tho Dartmouth monitor would
coach tho mountlineer eleven this
fall. Yet it IS as well know that
Fat Spears has not given out for
publication all he knows,
Secrecy has been the big thing
! OF Wesleyan. Why, nobody knows.
After oil the probable reason for
the so-called secrecy has been for
the simple reason that Coach
John l.. FELTON, Is not big talker.
Games arc not won on paper Is
one Of his favorite axioms, and
with this In mind he drills, drills,
drills, until one would think the
Rridders would be exhausted, then
he makes his men call upon That
big man inside, and into a scrim-
mage or an exhaustive grass drill
they go. Fight, fight, fight, this
is Felton's creed and with this
sort of foundation for an eleven
there isn't much to write about
until the machine starts working,
which will be in the big annual
football classic, at Fairmont Just
a few days away.
o Thompson Leaves Wesleyan
''Dick" Thompson, known state.
wide among college and high
school athletes, and popular Stu
dent manager OF athletics at West
virginia Wesleyan College, left
Wesleyan College Sunday and
will enter Washington & Leo Unit
versity. Accompanying him was
Red Carskadon, another promtn.
ent state athlete who was one OF
the big guns on last years Wes'
leyan football eleven
Thompson will take up the
stuSy Of Commercial law at Wash.
Ington & Lee, for two years after
which he plans to enter the law
school at Harvard, HIS home Is