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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 11

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I it vTO tbb mu founded uml RB DISPATCH FOUNDED 1 RICHMOND VA SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17 1912 PRICE FIVE CENTS Loses to in Last Minute STARS IN GAME AGAINST GEORGETOWN ima YALE IS SAVED Pumpelly Sends Ball Between Goal Posts From 50-Yard line SCORE IS 6 TO 6 WHEN GAME ENDS Unable to Smash Princeton's Line Sons of Eli Resort to Desperate Tactics and in Last Four Minutes of Play Even Up Score With Tigers Princeton November It A drawn betue wee tougnt by Kale end prince ton on tne irsuroa hoi me score suuuuiig ttot wnen tue reel whistle wee mown The Mew aevea eleven we eevea from detent by pheiioinenu arop kicx wnicu reemiea neid cone viu less men xuur minutes play lain tent wee accomplished by Heroin Fumpeuy wno hea been draitsd iroin tne eiue tinee et tbe begiumiin ot tne nnei quarter to beip Hreunmen Kates tetterea as-fsnsa It wee net unui the tbe piey-ere renuxea met two neia gooie wmch bed been klceed by Hooey btktr in the eeaond period were ueeiy to carry Princeton inrougn to victory met may reaorud to tecuco tnet boroered on the oeeperete liuebie to anieen tne rueb line for euittcieut gelnn to cerry them within iirieiug alautneo ot tne goel Una the Vais men after Spaiding bed caught punt on Teie'a forty -torse-yard iina tried three forward peaeae only one ot wnlch wee successful lor gain of but three yard Then it wna that Pumpeily tending within nve yards ot the centre of tbe gridiron executed superb drop kick the bell being carried by tbe wind until It atrnck the cross bar and fell over with the pointe that evened the score It wen life-saver for Old Eli for up to that moment ft seemed as If Princeton could not Iom tbe day Prlaeetea In Lend lofty Flynn the Tala full beck kicked a goel from placement on the lrenty-three-yard Une during the brat period which made thousands of Yale men rejoice over a Vto-I advantage but It remained for Hobey Dakar to make two perfect drop kicks one from tbe thirty-yard Une and the other from the twelve-yard line accumulating a total of alx points which placed the Tigers on top and enabled them to remain there until Pumpelly 'tied up the game On a dry field in crisp weather that made the rival teame fight wltb great vigor the game was played and while It was not an ideal exhibition ot aci-entitle fool ball It was Interesting trim tart to finish Princeton started oS with a rush and before the Tale contingent knew what waa going on the Tigers were pressing the New Haven goal hotly St was after a muffed punt by Wheeler that Hobey Baker bed his first chants t) try far a drop kicking from the thlrty-flvs-yard lino but the ball waa partlaUy blocked and the try went a ana me try went SOME OF JETT RICHMOND LOSES TO Greatest Exhibition of Open Style Play Since Re- vision of Rules FINAL SCORE IS 14 TO 7 Game Replete With Sensational Passe by Both Elevens BT EARLE LUTZ Depending entirely oa forward passes Rock Hill College from Endl- cott Md yesterday afternoon at Brood Street Park walloped the heavier Richmond College Spiders by a score of XI to 7 The game replete with sensational passes waa the greatest exhibition of the open style of play seen an the local lot since the shop- lion of the revised rulea No Ices than forty-three attempts were made Fifteen flips were executed perfectly for an average gain of twenty yardd Rock Hilt was much the lighter After the first attempt to -gain by straight football Fuccy the nervy little general of tne Marylanders growing eauuoa to tho winds adopted tubes which had the Spiders up In tbe air Wide-open formations with five men eligible to receive tho oval bad the locals befuddled They apparently had no defense against thuo pliers wood emu CAROLINA NO MATCH FOR LEXINGTON LADS1 of Play Virginians Lose ljy Close Score of 16 to 13 FIELD GOAL MADE IN LAST MINUTE fe Thia Saved Game for Hilltoppera fi and Proved Most Sensational Bit of Football Ever Seen in Battle Was Witnessed by 10000 BY GUS MALBERT Washington November 16 One hundred and forty-five pounds of superman represent- ing the last preparation 1 University of Virginia in a soul-j A jracking heartrending gridiron duel between the best the Old Dominion could produce and thefr sity Rounding his third year as an avenging Nemesis for theji mfft Orange and Blue Harry' Costello measuring from head to toe It sixty seven inches plunged hisj:) boot into the oval in the 'last period of play after Virginia hadk fought her way from beneath afei thirtecn-point lead to a tie and dropped the oval squarely between the uprights for-a field goal counting three points and the game for Georgetown The final SCOre was l6 to 13 s1 Tradition has made these two tCaS OVaIs standing The ebb and flow of victory has changed with the fickleness of the weather vane Time-honored battles have been told and retold many camp fires Butwhen the final word is written'' whenY! the heroes of to-day are the tnmnrrnm: lathers OI tO-mOITOW When the frost of age has tinged the 5 brow of the youthful gladiators fght -1 that fight even when memory begins to faL to the lesser things of life thefl' will the unerrincr finger of time 1 uncmn nn5 point to the football game be- Georgetown end'Virgini in the year iQis as the one grand glorious gigantic struggle in all with the minds' keyed superlative ot endeavor uced whistle of Referee Jim I I etown MAIDEN GUARD BRUM SAVES His Field Goal in Third Quarter Only Score of 3-to-o Contest OUTPLAYED BY DARTMOUTH Students for 'First Time' Fail to Celebrate Victory With -Famous Shake Dance Speelal to The Tinee -Dispatch Stadium Soldiers' Field Cambridge Vasa November Harvard got a victory from Dartmouth to-day "It wae Brlckley the man who defeated Princeton who saved the Crimson today ths wonderful half back's field goal from ths slghten-7ard Une in ths third quarter being the Only score of the 2 to 0 game For the first time sine the Stadium has been built Harvard students thia afternoon did not celebrata football victory with their snake dance and "hats over ths goal" feature 4 Ths big green team clearly outplayed Harvard In the first half and excepting for fatal offsides In tho third quarter Harvard might not have gotten near enough oven for that winning field goal ecoro In tho fourth quarter both teams got within striking distance but big half hack Moray and Brlckley who never failed before In a crisis neither had ths right medicine to boot the ball over in several trlM tEftlt One feature which stood out this afternoon and which will bo a groat factor In tho Harvard-Yale game next Satvnday vu wonderful punting His kicks wars never Jess than forty-five yarda Several times he sent hie long high spiral spinning slxty-flvs yards down field and toward ths end of tho gams he got better every tima Harvard showed very few playe or forwand passes Twice the Crimson gained on a peculiar shift formation and a forward pass mads after two plsTsrs had handled the halt Dartmouth quickly got on to It however and after a dismal failure It was not shown again In the fourth period Brlckley ran forty yards and crossed the goal Una but Felton was offside and tho ball waa called back At the end of the gam Harvard got the ball on Dartmouth's thrss-yard line where they were held three times Time was called before another play The line-up: Harvard Position Dartmouth Felton a left end Hogsstt Btorer left tackle Englehorn Fennock left guard Dunbar (Inman Bennett) Parmonter centre Gibson (Wlgglesworth) Driscoll 'right guard Bennett (Rodgers Dunbar Beer) Hltohoock right taokla Estep right end Louden (Lafferty Ashton) Gardner quarterback Uewelyn Hardwick left half back Whitney Brlckley right half hack Morey endell full baok Snow (Badloe) HOWITZERS DEFEATED to Fredericks bunt Collegians by Score il I to Fredericksburg Vs November Fredericksburg Collegians won from the Howitaers hero to-day In a dose and exciting game of football to A Tho Howitsers though much lighter held the locals well Bell and Sterling for the Howitsers' and Mills Whitehouee Balkman and Haaeel for Collegians played good halt rt Klagi Wise lbs First Ossw Special to The Times-Dispatch Bristol Va November College defeated Dublin Institute in a spirited gam on the local gridiron thia afternoon by tho eeoro of 14 to 0 It waa first victory this season HAMPDEN-SiDNEY IS KOI SCORED BN Farmville Team Beats William and Mary College 7 to 0 Standing In Cknmplonsklp Usee Wen Lost Handnlpb-Maem 3 1000 Hnaspden-Sidney 3 MS Ric amend College 1 1 S00 William and Mery 800 Special to The Tlmee-Dlepatch Petersburg Va November H-Coach eleven from Hampden-Sidney defeated the William and Mary team here to-day by the score of IT to 0 superior weight and the playing of Quarterback Saunders In a large degree accounted for the slse of the score The eqtire FarmvlUe teem played good ball and much more than their opponents took advantage of the new rulea William and Mary confined her attempt to old time football and a tow plays from kick formation -B Tho sts rlar honors were about evenly divided between the two quarter-backa Saunders showed his usual akiU in skirting tho ends and broken field running Once he received a punt and all but got through tho enure William end Mary team TiUey downing him after a forty-yard gala Tilley for William and Mary waa a tower of strength both on offensive and defensive work and if he had gotten interference of a different eOrt the score would In all probability have bean less one sided As it was mors than onpe a big Hampden-Sldnsy man broke through and tackled tne game little quarterback before be could get ptarted -1 William and Mary received the kick In the first half and at ones fumbled i-rt -it FINLAY HKD Washington' and Lee Wins Annual Game by Score of 31 to Iranians Tear Through Line and Work Foard Pass- TILLETT IS TARHEEL STAR Special to Tho Tlmes-Dlspatch Greensboro November Washington and Lee proved too much for the university of North Carolina inj ths annual game here to-day the Tar- heel lads' going down to the prospecUvo south Atlantic states champions by a sx to 0 score I ZEL'ZSSrSSl n3r J4Uler n1 fleW oal trom tho forty-seven-yard line by Miner turned the trick Carolina never se- rlously threatened the enemy's goal ouenfil rter rrs Quentiy were made frantic by apactaeu- iar runs of -captain Tiiiett or when the plucky Carolina captain would dive Into the Virginia throwing thra ln inany lpetancee after a clear field had been gained For the home boya Tlllett was the one bright etar Tayloa at right half xlso did good work for Carolina while Home- and Husks ech played a rattling The great Washington and Lee hack- field Bu bring Burxa Raferty and literally tors through ths CaroUna Una while Raferty end Fran- frequently putting themselves good shape to ocoro by a 15 to IS-yard gain on a forward pasa posts In the last quarter Raferty and Buh- touchdowns after hard line work The Vlrglnlana mads several shifts Carver aubsltlutlng for Buhrlng at full each carried the ball over for Ldrvsr uuwuuvuic tor itunnnf mi mil for oni quarter only to nnd the bis ssr ssm Peebles twice changed places at half both doing good work CaroUna sub- tituted Applewhite for Abernathy at fun toward the latterpart of th gama Tne line-up Lis Position Carolina Hleatt left snd eHuslie (Barker Rotnrock) GOOCH tUBTEB BACK COLLEGE ROCK HILL AGGIES CRUSHED BY ELEVEN Midshipmen Showing Great Improvement Beat A' MY: -m 40-tO A Special to The Tlmss-Dispatch Annapolis kit November II By a come of 40 to A football team turai and Mechanical College of North Carolina and retrieved the aeries of crushing defeats sustained almost without a break since the opening of je vanquished eleven was not' strong In offensive or defensive work At the asm time It must bo said the ment over put form tnle year ticularly gratifying waa tne Improvement by Navy In muting interference for their back field men on carrying the ball The game also was marked by ability eucceufully to essay forward puses affectively uveral times and tallying ulna of tbslr forty points through drop kicks ths midshipman uncovered a gratifying variety of attack They also showed considerable improvement in defense but this waa due to a great extent to the faot that the-visitors were -weak and not at any time dangerous The line-up: Position A A ond Phillips hiilseeeeslift tuklii (Hurt left guard Cook contro Phyler Browne right gusrdaeosetiyk6S 'L McHenry Gilchrist right sod Pattoh ln for McReavy Cook for Failing Alexander for Leonard Meyers for Hodpe quarter back Coot (Captain) (Captain) XIcReavy left half Hargrove Leonard right half Spencer' Harrison full back kutMoj Substitutions: Graf for In- gram Page for Graf Ingram for1 Page Lattlmora for Hall Hycks fori Howe 8mlth for Walker Vaughan for Brown Rodman for Ralston Overescb for Gllehrlet Mitchell for Rodes Fall-! A A Morton tor Cook Cook tor Mortoa Hopper for Phyler Davis for idtton yatlon for Davta Lavis tor pBtton Champion for Coot Jeffrtee for Hargrove for Jeffries Aycock for Spencer Summary: Touchdowns Rodes (I) Harrison- (X) Falling Goals from Rodea Goals from ths field Brown Leonard Myera Score-Navy 40 A Referee Torrey University of Penn sylvania umplra Gillendsr- University Pennsylvania head linesman Stol-ienwerck Johns Hopklna Tims of periods fifteen mlnutea1 RAXDOLFII-MACON ACADEMY HUNS UP TOTAL OF 101 POINTS Special to The Tlmee-Dlspatch Bedford City Va November Randolph-Macon Academy ran up a total of 101 pointe to-day In a game of football against Danville sohool The 1 gam was stopped at the end of the third period on aocount of darkness The Danville team offered-practlcetlly no resistance to the rushes of the Academy and the score wae limited only by tho ability of tho backs to run up and down tho field Victory (or Figskiaa The Plgaklps defeated th Woodland Haights team by a score of -IS to The soor -would probably have boon! larger If the Woodland Heights team I 1 difflcul tlpleroUx ths fSpa jine Mackey the full -back belnr a consistent ground-gainer Several for- 1 ward passes from Owens to Wood wero pulled off vary neatly i Re Br- Ylmekaep- uS Sght Hgkt mta lot jn justice to Coaca iidnlop if must oe for nothing Soon Tnlo dopondlng rtmartetd thnt his prottge not upon Flynn's punting guncf took id- tlrot to nuffor docm nt tho hinds of tho Msrylanlsrs by tnee tactics Every team in tholr Btsts oncopung Avifj distinguished hinsslf by ItlHng John's which nont Vhrglnm Mill on tho ball in the nick of time Institute the Winners from Vlr- as Princeton's dsfsnslvs tactics offset lnie and ths Navy 'With whom n4 running attack It remained for i UM has been idaycd hu gone down Flynn to Mod the leather over the before the remarkable offense of the cross bar from placement a couple of ilgnt Bptcdy boye minutes befors ths first period was TrtBf lM whola knd 0Yr falling back on stsiiatics Richmond thenSuondmperfodPl upto Hobey Ihlnr om ml first successful drop 'aiS Andrews grabbed ths ball from Whooler I on twenty-flve-yard line wher bJ ths Blue eleven put up a tearlfle flglit with the result that a goal trial was the only thing left on the fourth down 1 Jl I Bullring's line-plunging was terrific tu pridiran legends of the two and seldom did he drive at the Una' Ye Siaron Bnas 01 pecially -on big Miller's side but that 'schools gaino ranging from five to fifteen1 i yards were made He'aleo-tore around Yth every- red drop of blood Hampden-Stdney recovering the balL lt f0r Vral pieble COUrsing the vein of the Sturdy looked like a touchdown' but fumbling dld-great defensive' work ui off-side penalties andior Vlrglnlana play beirtg athletes Crying for the Supreme -t -ot until th Second nuart flfteeii tcs4 wIth muscles taut and not until th second quarter tho red-legged players carry the ball over Tho first Hartlson the last chalk UnA' Pendleton making th touchdown Lj Hampdcn-Bldney lost another! touchdown a few minutes later whan Jonas fumbleA Prftly thrown forward i the first half of ths second quar- pasa With the sxcsption of thia fupi- ter Miller- after -fsHing-on a-field goal bla good frogj the forty-yard Una dropped back Thorpe minutea ended without a ecora but' In th second Washington and Lee went over twiea Miner kicking goal 'each tingling to the wfcfd passes attempted by Rock Hill as vet were sucseesful Xdchmond at- tempted this play fourteen tlmM sight of -which were anceeesful Rock Hill on th hand used a different character of pasa It was long and high allowing the backs and ends to et under It There was an element Nerves there may have ho twenty-weff Following Bakers first field goal earn a poor punt against the' wind which wa blowing -out of the' northwest This mlscus enabled the Tigers to bat-1 ter their way from Yale'i thirty-five-! yard line right up to wlthiu threo yards of ths post but once mors Yale braced and a timely tackle by Phllhln resulted in such a lisa that Hobey in such Baker again was compelled upon his educated toe 1 Walter Is Disqualified Just befors this period ended Tubby Walter Princeton's energetic half back was disqualified for slugging rely tackling of both teams was poor no but the lust of battle i of luck In Securing the oval Richmond's passes were low and short the majority just barely clearing the line of scrimmage Fully Deserved Victory Rock Hill fully deserved tbe victory ono seeming' to know how to get a man -n lower than his ehouldera One of touchdowns was the result of a perfect forward pass front Baund had steeled those nerves and- welded them into a StOUt resist a ing armor plate ready to With- Each boyish face cried for battle 2nd each eager-eyed lad dean to the finger tips 'with nothing 7 but love for alma mater And a Vv( jY desire to win from a worthy anq 4 anxiou foc Lefty Flynn It wM a ecrlmmsge Seldom has a gamer struggle been wit-that Flynn wee bowled over like a ten- nessed Fuocy sustain and quarter pin -and was found to be In1 a groggy back of the vlsltore played In a badly condition Not only did the Yale crippled condition which prevented him crowd see the rough tactics employed attempting the long end rune which by Walter but Referee Langford was marked his appearance here' two years also an eyewitness with the result ego Hie playing however backed by that he ruled the pugnacious Tiger gilt-edge 'support Of his 'team mates -off thd field- for repeating' an offense wee of the' Bret order 'He executed hie which earned- disqualification In Prince- passes well not haying' a single one recent game with blocked and carried off the1 honor in Neither team could score during thd punting and kicking On defense third period one feature being a mag- playing back he was called upon to Klflcent tackle by De Witt who loomed handle Berger's Spirals which ho ran up Just In time to 'prevent Avery from back well Hi tackling waa mors than running' half the length of the field up to the standard far a touchdown Avery secured the' Corbett and Tajlafsrro wars as fast ball After a muffed punt by Bkker a set of ends ts could be wished for and was heeded for the Princeton goal They did excellent work both on o-poets when-De Witt dropped Mnf fence and dafensa Oately at left 77 7 toJoaea For a second it looked 10 one Ho caught It Juggled It for a second then getting securely under hie arm raced twenty-five yards for a touchdown For Hampden-Sldnsy Saunders Jonea Pendleton and Benedict played the beet ball while Tilley Wright and Metcalf oarrled off the honors for William nd Mary the foUowlng was the line-up: H-B Positions WandlA Ebel right end Shelhoree (Annie) (Ferguson Tueker) Benedict right tackle Horne Moore right guard Metcalf Bowling centre Deals McKensle left guard Bummers (Haynes) Guthrie left tackle Metcalf Baundsre quarter hack Tilley Pendleton left half back Stone Cook full hack Wright McClung right half back IE Wright (Haynes) ones left 4 Jennings Summary: Touchdowns Hampden- Sidney Psndletoh (1) Jonea Saundara Goal from touchdowns McClung (I) Referee Miles umplra Morton head linesman Qllllsm Moors centra Jones mind and body stood as the an- Rodgers right guana Dortch (Walton) (Jennings) cients who fought the cause ot W(stuart)'rtht righteous must have atS-Y- Francis right end Homewood literally ready to do or diei Georgetown the FsvorHe Ay! (Stranga Long)' quarter back Ttllctt Raferty In htavlly snd possibly -prevented a few Haven victory Before this period ended'- Flynn tried goalaf placement on from the thirty-four- yard mark and the-other from the -forty-yard mark neither -of which was successful Then Camo final struggle In the last fifteen min- utea which was crowned by Pum- peUFs marvelous drop kick a playj tackle handled Captain Duval' of the college without' any difficulty Thl chap with a head of flery hair was every play HU blocking of an at tempted pass subsequent recovery of the ball and whirlwind run of forty yards was a feature of ths contest Staley full back for ths visitors was the only eonslstent ground-gainer sides making average gains through P(pinoiift Burke right half biek Mpore (Bone) Buhrlng full baek-Abernethy' R- (Carver) (Applewhite) Summary: Tourhdowne-ltaferty Buhrlng (1) Donohue Goals Miller (4) Field Miller Gass (Lehigh) referee Williams (Vir- gtnla) umpire: Hodgson (V L) entered the arena an odds-on (avrlta i Followero of tho Blue the weat bleachers of the Hilltop sta-vf long bofero tbs Orong and Blue PhoUos began srrWa A lil f00r- hanked tier upon tier with- bands playing lent -a eort of warmth -J t0 th chilling wind which Wow rom th oouth Ofraduslly Me Virginia stands began to fill a hand (Continued on Fourteenth PagaTT Proud their might Oeorgetowfi i- if A-'.

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