Evening star., 1926-11-09
CREDIT DUE VIRGINIA MEN
FOR SPORTS CLEANLINESS
Charlottesville Faculty Members Long Have Fought
for Betterment of Dixie College Competition.
Passes Make Cavaliers Dangerous.
BY II. G. BYRD.
ROBABLY the most interest
- ing sidelight in connection

BY II. c. BYRD.
DROBABLY the most interest
- ing sidelight in connection
with the University of Vir-
ginia-University of Maryland
loot ball game here Saturday will be
the dinner Friday night at the Will
lard Hotel in honor of DR.. w. A..
Lambeth and DR.. Albert Lefevre, for
many years the directing heads back
Of Virginia athletics and known and
honored generally for their connec-
tions with athletics throughout the
entire South.
The dinner is being given by the
University of Maryland and only a
few Virginia and Maryland alumni
who have been friends Of both or one
The affair simply will be a quiet tes-
umonial to the splendid efforts that
DIR. Lambeth and DIR. Lefevre put
forth for the betterment of college
athletics not only at Virginia, but
everywhere.
Vhrginia's Success Clean.
Not only was Virginia brilliantly
successful under the guiding hands
Of these men, but it was successful
In q clean way. No Virginia teams in
Virginia teams did under Lam.
beth. when he was the real
head OF foot ball. In fact. It IL
q rather remarkable coincidence that
the last victory scored by a Southern
eleven at Yale, prior to that Of last
week by Maryland, was the 10 70 0
game won in 1915 by the team OF
which Allan Thurman was captain.
And a further coincidence that Thur
Stevens, Maryland captain Is.
Much credit has been given DR.. s.
V. Sanford Of Georgia for putting
the Southern Conference on its feet,
and he richly deserves every word
that has been said Of him, but 1t il
q fact nevertheless that 1t was Lam
beth and Lefevre who did most to get
the conference under way and who
we're responsible in 1920 for the blow
ing into live Goals its dying emoers.
Lambeth and Lefevre never have re-
ceived, and probably never will, the
real credit that Is theirs. Not only
did they do great things at and for
Virginia, but the influence OF what
they did at Virginia has been felt In
every section of the South. They stood
for clean play, clean athletics, and for
orderly, gentlemanly and courteous
procedure in everything that pertain
ed to college athletics. and their really
fine attitude in driving home In a
courteous way their ideas brought
many other universities to better
ways.
Lefevre's Plea Told.
Probably the finest expository ad.
dress on intercollegiate athletics ana
the duty of the faculties OF American
universities to their students ever oe'
livered came from DR.. Lefevre's lips
at Gainesville, Fla, in 1870. 1t was At
the same time a plea for better atm
letics in the South and for the mem
hers of the faculty Of every university
10 consider more seriously their outy
to their students. ,ss sSSas2as
lambeth was not and is not theAx-
oeptionally good speaker that us
Iefevre, but he is intensely practical,
saying little but doing much. For
practically a quarter of a century ne
was the guiding spirit and driving
foroe behind Virginia athletics, ana
the many brilliant successes won un-
der his direction are the greatest trlo-
ute to his ability.
II was simply to let these TWO meI.
know that the world outside OF
Charlottesville, outside the UniVer
stty of Virginia, appreciates wnat
they have done for college atnleslcs
that the little affair Friday night mas
been arranged.
And in giving expression to Its own
annreciation of what Lambeth and
I,efeyre have done, Maryland Is only
indicating the sentiment OF every
other university in the South. because
there is no university In the Soutn
that has not in past years derived
benefit from its contacts with these
men and that is not today engaging
in cleaner athletics than 1t would
have been had these men never lived.
Virginia and Maryland have met
onlv twice in foot ball, the first game
having been played in 1919 and the
second last year. Maryland hit the
cavaliers in one of their weak years
In 1919 and won by 13 to 0. Last Fall
Virginia won by to 0 on a field
ankle deep in mud and during rain
storm.
No doubt If the game Saturday is
nlaved on a fast field some Of the
most spectacular work Of the year will
be seen. Virginia has the most ef-
feotive forward passing system In the
South today, and it was because OF
that system that 1t defeated Wash
tngton and Lee by 30 to Z. score
that would have been ridiculed by
w. and L. and thought foolish py
Virginia had 1t been predicted.
When it is considered that Wash.
,naton and Lee tied Princeton and
rlayed Georgia Tech almost to a
standstill, a score Of 80 to against
It means something.
Virginia has a veteran eleven, eight
members of which are due to finish
their gridiron career this year. And
Il ia not surprising that 1t is strong,
hut strong enough to do what 1t did
Saturday was not dreamed OF by any
body.
A wonderful line, with a great pair
Of feet ends, and probably the fastest
hackf1eld in the South. from what
probably right now is the strongest
foot ball team that has worn Virginia
colors in the last decade.
Maryland will place against this
combination the greenest university
foot ball team in the United States,
and that is true despite its good snow.
ing up at Yale last week. The Old
liners. however, have proved them
selves able to put up stubborn battles
on more than one field this year. ana
when they face Virginia 1t Will be
without any worries. because q strong
fee IN in front. Maryland has been
doing little for years other than meet
foes Of that caliber.
Maryland seems strong enough to
warra mt a prediction that a real foot
han game will be staged when Vir-
giuia Is met Saturday. That is unless
the latter goes crazy" with its for
ward passes again. which passes
Washington and Lee could never stop.