The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-27
BECAUSE OF THE METHoDISTS'
STRENGTH. STATE SHOULD
HAVE 1AoUBLE IN WINNING
BY NARROW MARGIN.
RucI.annon School Has Array of Stars
Cadet Band Of Morgantown
VIII Attend.

When Wesleyan and West Virginia
,gei together at football, the meeting
leiTecis 4 larger number oc West Viz
ig!aia football fans than does the clash
iof any other pair OF Gridsron teams
brought together IN the Mountain State.
This IS natural because every county.
every town and hamlet In the state has
students in one institution or the other.
and Through the medium OF taxation as
II affects the university and through
The wide membership o: the Methodist
church in the state. as Il affects Wes-
leyan. every c!sIzca has I close personal
interest In the fortunes OF these big in
]Si;utions.
Saturday afternoon OF this week At
Side park the fifteenth meeting
OF these tearrS will he staged, and spec
.ulat.on locally IS rife as 10 the out
come. L is pretty we'll conceded. that
West Virginia Will win. This ccnclu-
sion is based on the fact that Coach
iSpcars Is generally reputed 10 have an
aggregation that Will give the best OF
them I run for their money this year.
ps we'll as on the fact that Wesleyan
had an eleven a year ago that was ne
doormat for every team on her schedule.
However. while West Virginia should
win. fans generally can be very well as
sured that Wesleyan IS not TO be The
same inoffenSive weakling this year "a
che was a year 3 Bob" Higgins -
back on the Job. and the sheet OF Stats
tics on the members of hts squad shows
that 10 OF the IS men he has Seen
working out hail from outside the con-
zines ps the state and from real schotas-
tic football centc-s. western Pennsyi-
W. Ia. Ohio and other places that are
well known for the fine quaMy OF the
football material produced IN their high
schools. are well represented in the list
of candidates. Higgins has been work
ing quietly. He gave out an interview
@ week ago IN wh!ch he said that he
would DO satisfied with 4 coo score.
This. however. was regarded as a sort
OF abb" by Mnunta:1eer followers. for
II .Bob's- team actually - beaten 900
nc can say II told you so" whereas II
he does better than that. naturally all
Methodist followers viii be, iubllant.
Higgins is a good coach. n while
inside dope" on the real caliber OF men
like Eing from Apollo. Ia. Schwartz
from Royaltop. Mimi. Hatfield from
Bedford. Oh!o. Secriss from Indiana
Normal and others equally mysterious
looking on paper Is very scarce. still Il
Is the belief IN many quarters that HiE-
gins Is laying low" and actually has
Ine SIull Will NaaHsn ~ 49, - -
real battle.
Press dope froW ~Ruckhannon has been
fairly scarce and certainly not very IN
formative. All the practices have been
secret and Il Is eren said that news
paper photographers have not been per-
mitted TO shoot" some OF the best OF
the Wesleyan squad. This rumor has
Ibeen denied from B~uckhapRon. but GER
easn y Is that Wesleyan has some foot
all material in her camp that Will be
rorth watching at Fairmont. King Is
i'd 10 be one OF the greatest plunStng
cks that TIE state has ever seen while
kwsor. Spence and others. according
ehelr prep records are men who are
lreable material FOR any football
n. Only Two or three Of Wesleyan's
eleven are figuring prominently in
present eleven which IS another in
zion that the new material Is OF high
lity.
Vest Virginia University's cadet
d which has been a feature OF all
untaineer games at home and nearby
a scoer OF years. will be out IN full
co At the Wesleyan game at Fair
int next Saturday according 10 ". A
estrezat. veteran conductor OF tho or
IMITATION. Tat" az he is Familiarity
own Is one OF the first settlers" here
I'd played In a band before the first
bothall team was organized back IN
oSl. He has. therefore. seen all the
bands come and go and he IS authority
'for tho statement that this years out
fit should eclipse all It's predecessors IN
all round class and music.
Nearly sixty men have so far reported
fo= the Band which Is about normal for
the pas. three years. Last year AZ
well as the year before. ;he Cadet must
CT organization had 20 make" the Fair
mont game with only four days Of prac-
lice. but this year due TO tho latene1
of Thanksgiving. and an extended foot
ball season. the Fasrnont opener Is
moved back one week and Eat" there
fore has just that much longer period
In which TO train his men Remember
Ing the entirely creditable performances
given by the band in the two years past.
II can we'll b. imagined that a. Satur-
days game the band will be one of the
main features.
An effort Is being made 10 secure a
\ special train for the return trip from
Fairment Saturday ni~ht FOR the accom-