The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-19
SATURDAYS CONT Est RECALLS
HISTORY OF FORMER BATTLES
RIVAL TEAMS PROMISE
EVEN CONFLICT.
University Fears Buokhannon School
Realizes Strength Of Methodist
Coaches.

West Nirslnia's l9@@ collegiate foot
ball season will be f''tnGly inauSu-
rated juts one week from the coming
Saturday when West Virginia uni
vcrsi;y and West Virginia Wesleyan
college. leading clcvcns among state
schools. Will clash II South Side PARK.
Fairmvnt in their sixteenth annual
battle.
In 1922 Wesleyan first hcram" for
midab!c rival Of the St"tc school "b"n
Greasy" Nealc. John kcl!!Son, SKY
Archer. Paddle" Lambert and other
.uuall, famous Methodist e$ridders
went TO Morgantown and beat the UNI
NcrS!ty l?-Ii. II wa The first defeat.
uc;dertiy. that any 'thcr institution
within TIA" state had cv"" achieved
over the university.
Wost Virginia university followers
claim that this defeat awakened mo
university to u sens" at her p"SSi"iI!-
ties in football and beginning 10y Sc
curing sol" Met22er. old Penn star
as coach. and inauGuratinE an up-io-
date athletic policy that had as its
slogan West Virginia university for
West Virginia High School athletes
the SUPREMACY nf Wesleyan Was final
- wiped ont IN 1915 when "trrc'r'
EodycrS. "Russ" BAILEY. Mud" Iiii"'
Fred Chcnoweth. and "Nnimdl" lIut"h-
inson were virtnrS Nv a score Of ""-H
Il, The same Old South SIDE Park Whi"h
VII. mark TN" encounter ton days
h"rr".
.rh, tide Of rirt"r, has leaned 10
Tho side Of tho Mcth"dIsts bur "n""
since 1915 and that was when "''rcHSH
NcaIc slipped over = big Snrprt'" in
lol7 with Dad Sucdcg"r aud "NhC
Fisher rs the big gun "' his ART
seal
Wcs, VirCinIa university has Just
finished two weeks of training al TACK
son Mills state Al camp. "hii" N"E-
lc"an las had almost 'hr"" weeks -!
iraClir" uo hrr own field At hu'NhH"-
;."u. Wesleyan has been - easy victim
Tor West Virginia f"r ~" year" past
Last wear the score wa %1-2. liadmr2.
WESLEYAN halr.ack Kicking Tho record
field goal Of Tho season IN 'hi" E'lIc'
AMI the year previous "TuhhN Nc
nIir,'. team hest the Mc,'"disiS iH'".
Wesleyan Strong'
However,. Wesleyan is r"iaii az
rorcnt proposition this year. 100"
Higgins tho rumouv pcnm stat" end
and coach nf the 1890 Wesleyan eleven
which with mcdiucrc Iat"rl"l ma"" Z
..cry .rcditahlc record lying W. "hd -
md nI,vinC other good game "'""
>, ,i,,. helm. IL addition /" iAiS. NH"-
lrvun HaS Lrauchtd "ui on "l ah"', =
,.u+ athletic policy "h!"h Iva hf"uS'''
.. tho Colors Of TIA" N"thndlNtN ms
yrprAau array ~ fuo;bJH talent ,''l
both Oh parcr and on the iIc'd '"r
,ur;usse. tina, ~ IA" and IS No! to T."
,.umparCd to 'hc "E"TnhbN QUIT
which was riArcd III In" field la%' cal
,u wear the Orrrre aud iil"ck Th"r"
l... L.en much "cCrH"1 - regard -
tie. actual situation ~ tho Wesleyan
,.l,nu. hu' tho few Nc" arap"r r'N-
r,s"ui.,iiycr aud critics who ha'" been
permitted au urlIamp"r"d view OF III"
whole WeSl:y:,'! squad nave been UNI
:tnirous IN declaring that tho Noun
t,.rr. - must be IN tho lookout
Or We 2rhci hani. pr 9tc"rS al
- - :I:g'rla hds y vCty satisfactory
...t...l Hich me u his eleven u
lr- y-.r tacn n The :C,d he linz
u.s. g.: :.r'ur,g"s IN; 'c0t n..'" =
G...' soto. S,."S Show GIG. ~. a. th':
,-rrl..;" pc. ''"rs ~ '."ri WIN new
faces Gu" Ekhcrg The Minnesota
me rruSh"r Is rNr"rl"h to he great
power Nv n" ha,f'i"'h while Homer
Martin. "N'rk" EarH.eo and simon
,rn showing Nn'd.r'"' irrr"o' @mert.
.,r.ord,nc lr rcrol'. \. ~ 90 "herr
N"unja,mccr follow cIs have always felt