The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-27
Dope Upset Again

The saddest words OF tongue Of
pen, the dope Is all upset aeaIn.
I'll say one thing for tho dope, 1t
is we'll trained II not well Inform
cd. for II such was not the cade it
could not stand the poundlngs it
had taken this season and cnlrG
back ffeyh every Saturday ready
for more punishment. Thanh
goodness, 1t can't be forced to
take more than two more beatIuss
in the regular season. The football
games booked Turkey Day ara
the Saturday following will about
wind up the 1922 campaign OF
course. there will be few post
season games of Importance, Pitt
going to Leland Stanford late In
December and Penn State or some
other eastern team playing In
Pasadena on New Years. How.
ever. the dope will have nearly q
month to rest up for these encuun-
tiers, and goodness knows 1t needs
1t bad enough.
Saturday saw the dope llmplng
off the field~ot carnage, bleeding
from many cuts and bruised ter
ribly in many places. But as tac
phantom fighters sought see!u-
sion. there was a ghostly smilc
upon Its countenance-a smile Of
defiance that issued a challenge
fer caother Thanksgiving, and
seemed by some mysterious charm.
to evoke cheer from It's follow
ers, who seem to be either The
most loyal or the most foolish III
the world.
Let one look at the dope 'battiu9
OF Saturday and count the poIAt5
scored. At the Yale Bowl, this
Bulldog, snarling and biting, 4
heavy favorlte to win, was maui
ed and beaten into submission ny
the Harvard Classics The
head coach at Brown University
went down with the Hope. He
picked Yale to win by count ct
10 to 3 and gave plenty OF seem-
ingly good reasons for his predtc-
tions, Harvard accept the points
OF tho score. but rather adroitly
turned the figures around, tho
final count being 10 to 3, with
Yale holding the small number.
On the historic gridlron OF
Franklin Field, Philadelphia. tho
dope gained technical victory
The dope favored the Army by a
wide margin, but tho Navy, fight
ing like football fools cana
within an ace of scoring a knock
out. Late in the fourth quarter
with the score IA TO 10 aga!ns.
them, the Army lads forward pass
ed their way to final victory by u
count Of II to IA. The dope gain.
ed the decision, but took a terrible
body beating while doing 1t.
In the CITY Of the Ford" thu
once mighty. Wash-Jeif team
picked to stage a comeback,
against the University OF Detroit
after a defeat'at the hands Of Che
Warnerites the week before, failed
miserably and went down befoTul
the Michiganders by a countIof 20
to Q. According to the accounts
Of the game, 1t was a rather loose
tointed and sloppy exhibition. OF
the gridiron game. The accounts
of the battle seem to indicate that
Detroit won not because they
were so much better than the
Presidents but rather because
the Presidents were so much
worse. In a contest to see which
team could play the worst ball,
the Red and Black gained the de-
clsion and Detroit took the game.
Down at Morgantown, the dope
was In clover, but It couldn't help
Itself. Playing everybody but the
mascot, the Spearmen waddiei
through the Ohio University IS to
0. Had Spears elected to use his
regulars. there Is no telling what
the score would have been. Those
who witnessed the game say that
Ohio has good team in It's class.
but they were out Of their class
Saturday. Tho visitors showed
some ability in the passing gau9
for a time, but had tho first string
West Virginia bunch been In TIE
game all the time the success OF
this style OF play by the Ohio lads
would likely have been checked
much sooner. Even SO, Ohio was
unable to score by this means Of
attack
The Lehlgh-Lafayette battle
was no distinctive victory for tie
dope sheet, although Lafayette