Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
CAVALIER, TARHEEL
MET FIRST IN 1892
V. N. lis Dope-SpiIIing Team,
Is Underdog in Battle
With GobbIers.
BY WILLIAM HI. WRANEK. IN,

vember 22.-Two gridiroM
~ rivalries that were started
in the early nineties win
be carried on in the Old Dominion
on Thursday when North Carolina
plays Virginia in Charlottesville
and v. M. I. and v. p. I. do battle
in Roanoke.
Thanksgiving win also ind VAST.
ington and Lee engaging Duke in DIIe-
ham and Maryland meeting Johr.s
Hopkins in the Baltimore Stadium.
North Carolina State, which has I'm.
lSned Its season, Is the only Southern
Conference team in the South Atlantic
States that will not be busy on Th,lra-
day.
Maryland, in addition to the Thanks
giving anair, has game Saturday
with Vanderbilt down in Nashville.
This makes three major contests for
the old liners within week and q day,
Lambeth Field, where Virginias OUT
door athletic contests have taken place
since the turn of the century, will be
used for q major foot ball game for
the last time when Cavaliers and Tar
Heels play here next Thursday. When
the present stadium, started in 1911
ssAAA NOA1EACbCA. LWO years laLeT, was
dedicated it ranked with the finest ia
the Nation. 1t was named in honor of
DR.. William A. Lambeth, who has prob
ably done more for athletics in the
south than any other man living,
Stadium Not Ready.
Virginia had hoped to have her new
stadium, which will seat some $4,000
spectators, ready for the Carolina con-
test, but the construction could not be
carried along rapidly enough, and plans
Tor dedicating 1t this season had to be
abandoned.
In 1892 North Carolina and Virginia
first played foot ball. Now that the
Vanderbilt Sewanee rivalry has been
abandoned, it stands as the Oldest grid
iron feud between Southern Conference
teams. Virginia has won 10 games,
Carolina 10, and three have been tied.
Carolinas backf1eld strength, espe.
clally her skilled air attack, makes her
the favorite in the thirty third game.
But the power Virginia displayed
against Washington and Lee, with Bill
THOMAS and Frank Sippley earring on
the o1ense, makes the Cavaliers dan
quered both Maryland and v. p. T., two
teams that have defeated the Viz
ginians
v. M. I. and v. P. I. viii be playing
their twenty-eighth game since 1894.
The Techmen have taken II Of these
contests, the Cadets have won eight and
twice they were tied. The last three
seasons have seen victories for v. MI.
The dope says v. p. I. Is due to win,
but the Cadets have way Of upsettin9
advance calculations 1t works out one
way that Virginia licked ". M. I. l3 20
D and lost to v. p. ]. "a to IL a few
weeks later. On the other hand, the
Gobblers defeated Davidson by one
point, while the Cadets won from the
Wildcats by q whole touchdown.
Weak ON 0ffense.
v. M. I. has q much weaker offensa
than Is usual for a team coached by
Bill Rafferty,. In all their games the
Cadets have scored but flve touchdowns,
and only against Richmond were they
able to account for two. The v. p. /.
ball carriers have scored % points. Yet
II VIII be well remembered that the
princeton team, which likewise had
scored only flve touchdowns, rose Ia
wrath to threaten q Yale team slated
to overwhelm it.
Comparisons Of scores aside, it does
appear that the Tech attack Is enough
stronger than that Of the Cadets to win
this year.
Washington and Lee isn't slated To
have any sort Of q chance against Duke.
For instance, the Virginia team. that
lost, 50 to O.. to the Blue Devils, won
from the Generals by a 21-to-7 count
But against Duke one factor viii be
favoring Washington and Lee, as It viii
North Carolina later.
In several recent games with the Gen.
erals the dope has favored Duke, vet
Washington and Lee has won. This Is
sort OF jinx game for the Durham
team. But psychological handicaps
haven't seemed to be bothering Jimmy
DeHarts boys this Fall.
Maryland hopes to be able to hurdle
Johns Hopkins without using many Of
he regulars. If this can be done, the
Old Liners will be in shape to give
Vanderbilt tough game two afternoons
later.
st. Johns lost to Maryland, Al to II.
late in October. Last Saturday the
JohnnieS defeated Johns Hopkins, 26
to 6. That makes it appear that the
Terrapins should capture the Jays in
their stride without too much effort.
But the difficulty is that somehow Hop
kins can usually rise to the heights in
this game. They didn't do 1t last year,
it's true, and Maryland had a rather
easy time, but they may make up for
lost opportunities and spoil the Terps'
chances AGAINST tho FnyfarandOras