West Virginia at West Virginia Wesleyan

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, November 26, 1917, page 1

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  MANY Big UPSETS MARK DAYS PLAY ON BARRED FIELD 21tgers Princeton and West Virginia Wesleyan Add Sur prises to Long List -Sanford’s Team In Glory Scarlet Proves Individual Effort Worthless Before Unity of Eleven Men-Defeat of Yale Freshmen One Of Days Greatest Upsets. Several new football surprises were added Saturday to the record of season. which has already dubbed Uvar with gridiron reversals. Rut- Haxn accomplished one OF the most remor1nb1e achievements in defeating Cupid Blacks team of former college stars In a game which proved the value OF expert, coaching over indi- Tidqa1 brilliancH Coach Freds Dawson’s team of iPrfmcetOn Freshmen shattered Yale dream by rising to great heights and 1ubdu1ng the Eli cubs when New Hawen considered the Blue youths over :Whezming favorites. West Virginia Wesleyan turned all calculations up <ide down by beating West Virginia, Mn eisven which had conquered such Keamg as the Navy and Washington and Jefferson Another stunning shock was thaa peffoEmAnce of Auburn In holding Ohio State, the west eru champions, to scoreless tie. In q season like the one which Hl0&ea thanksgiving Day, all calcula Moons. based ON comparative scores, are &et 1t nanght. The reason for the >uuforsseen outcome of many of the <ou1es is hard to locate. In some to[ fhs tactics of the open game, WHILE I’m other instances the general ul@organfzation of the elevens due to NTHr oondftions brought elevenS to- E1<her under conditions far from tuc<ma1 Here for instance was the U4<tmoufh team, which had the 1<rcuEth earlier in the season to beat auoh formidable opponents as West Tlr$1nfa and PennSState, only to fall before Brown by a margin Of two touchdowns when Brown had shown Io decided slump and had been beat en- by Syracuse and ripped ito ribbons By Cupid Blacks stars. George Foster Sanford, the Rutgers cnaph. has always been a stanch adj ~cGake or the theory that a team of culX mtddling fair players, welded toxsIh@r under a system Of compact team play, was superior in every way 10 an eleven of individual stars. S4ndy backed this theory up with nouwlnr1ng proof on Saturday. There h6& never been a better opportunity ,ok trying out this theory. of machine {fke Organisation against specialized <alen< than there. was when the New Brungw1ck eleven faced the cream of ;EaS>o<n and Western gridirons at Eb- |befs Field No0&147ed bv Sanford SO thoroughly ‘that they, played with military pre- .c1z<r1- There was coordination and <h1<X- onY In every play. The linemen .Wox<sd hand in glove with the back l1l[k The plays went or like clock M0x&- there were no delays in ex- 4@ution- Mo one player was asked to I<4<xX the burden. The Rutgers play .ers were like Dumas’s Three Guards |xoou-~au for one and one for ALL Inc success OF the Newport Naval Deserves this season has rested on 4he ability Of some star like Charley Haxrett or Gerrish to break loose and run% H1ld in an open field. With a ’1ine&of experienced. skilled players, sues as the Naval Reserves had, 1t has been no difficult matter for them 40 protect the runner from the oppo- 11t{on long enough for him to get f1ne The Reserves expected to do Hhfs same thing against Rutgers. Their repertoire OF plays was limited. .Iney did not figure that they needed = variety OF attack to down any team Quick low chaksg S6f the Rut- .E@r4 line, however, put the Newport dafense to rout- The line of New Brunswfck forwards were down IN der their Opponents with the first .uovemsnt of the ball, and speed and unity OF effort smashed the calcu1a- If1ona Of the naval men to bits. Al fne very outset the over-confdence OF Blac1<s highly lauded team got a sur lpr1se from which it never recovered. a. WCresfmaan who can kick a goa froz# p1acsment from the 4s-yard line can ~zmmed1atefy be set down as 8 <1cEsr OF no ordinary talent. This II .whak young Kecl<. the Princeton tao &1e, asa against the Yale freshmen ir N@wR Haven, Saturday, and Thereby innorsd the three points which marked the 13eersr margin OF victory. Afte1 12f1nceton’s downfall at the hands o. the Harvard freshmen, and Yale’f dsfesx OF the Crimson Cubs, Yale wa. a. 6 to / favor1te before the game al lnrer Haven Saturday. Princeton’s reworaa1 OF form was wonderful. and Hur1nx the greater part of the gam, <6sy forced the fight and constantly <hrsntensd the Blue youngsters. Over confz1ence also may have played & part IN the downfall Of the Yale cubs Dartmout1n’s 6un1bling was costly IL Bont1n for both OF Browns score, n4ne after Captain McDonough and alH HDIbrook permitted the pigskin II fric1<le through their hands. Dart rnoukh stuck to old-faslioned football 1act<ce inst al she did against Penn and dld NOT resort to an open game nnttI 1nte IN the day. This open game nk UnrtmDuth’s appeared to be he 1Ho4t e6Dect1ve weapon, and yet hal neon uBsd only as q last resort. 8Txaoussfs decisive defeat Of tn 1<<chzEan Aggies was another in x<auco Of the East’s superiority owe kn& West The International con tAtfa were about even Saturday Eofro Dame upholding the prestig Of the West by beating washington md JofKsrson by the margin of a hel uc1} Washington and Jefferson wa >rf6on{1y still suffering from the OF l&<u c< the beating they receive’ &E6m West Virginia the Drsviou

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West Virginia leads 24–⁠3–⁠1 in 28 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.