Washington and Lee at West Virginia

• 

  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, November 7, 1920, page 18

  Read the text

  Generals Beaten By “. Virginia Charleston, “. Va, November 6--(Spe- cial.) )-In one of the hardest-fought Sames ever witnessed, the West Vir- ginia Mountaineers won from the Wasn- ngton and Lee Generals, 14 to 10. Both teams played superb football throughout the contest. The Mountaineers scored first, when Johnson blocked Silyerstein’s punt and fell on the ball for a touchdown. The Generals then came back with a touch down in the next quarter. Bemis, a sub stitute for the Generals, caught a for ward pass after mighty jump and ran for 70 yards before being downed by Beck. Mattox and Silverstein hit the line then, the latter going over for the second tally of the game After Silver stein had kicked a field goal and the Generals were confident of winning. Beck, fullback, broke loose for several long runs, eliminating in second touch down. The playing of Beck, Johnson, Moore, Silverstein, Tucker and Bemis featured The line-ups and summary: West virginia-Kiger, right end; Har- rick, right tackle; Kay, right guard; En- sweller, center; Setron, left guard; left end: Dawson, quarterback; Lentz (captain). right halfback; Beck, left haif- back; Martin, fullback. Washington and Lee-Herndon, right end; Sanford, right tackle; Barrow. right guard: Henderson, center; Patterson, left guard; Moore (captain), left tackle; Arbogast, left end; Cogbill, quarter back; Mattox, right halfback; Tucker, left halfback; Silverstein, fullback- Score by quarters: w. & .....-...................O 5--fo W. Va. .........................O 7-li Summary: Scoring touchodwns, Har- rick Martin, Silverstein. Goals from touchdown, Johnson ?, Silverstein l. Drop-kick, Silverstein. Substituticns: West Virginia simon for Lentz, Tallrnan for Johnson, Johnson for Tallman, Mere dith for Hawkins, Lyle for Dawson, Hill for Lytle Washington and Lee, Bernis for Arbogast, Sinclair for Tucker, Cameron for Silverstein, Frew for Sin clair. Officials: Referee, H. H. ,Thom2- son (Georgetown); umpire, J. H. Moffatt (Princeton); head linesman, w. s. Sug- den (Harvard). Time of quarters ls minutes

• 

  Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], November 8, 1920, page 1 (results column)

  Read the text

  Pitt. McCracken and Davies not in the game at all, and many other foolish mistakes. = 49,. ..r. Two Of Pennsylvania s next three OPP ponents lost on Saturday. Cornell was trimmed, 14–⁠3, by Dartmouth and Co. lumbias took a PIT count from Roy MERGERS Swarthmore eleven at South Field, New York. Syracuse came to life with q vengeance and took a fall out Of the big w. and J. team, winning by 2 touch downs to o. Yale as expected. found Brown a tough opponent, but managed to squeeze out a 14–⁠10 victory without hurting their chances for the Prince ton game at New Haven next Sat urday. Last week there was a lot of bear gossip sent from New Haven TO the effect that odds were. being placed on Brown, but few really believed 1t and for once the dope was correct. The Army and Navy teams piled up q total of 1O1 points on Georgetown respectively. Both Folwell’s team and the West Pointers have developed rapidly since their early season games and their annual lash this year prob ably will produce some real football. In the big games Of the middle west, Illinois and Wisconsin won by the margin of one field goal over Chicago and Minnesota. while Fielding Yost’s Wolverines fell before the %onslaughts OF Ohio State II to Z. Washington and Lee gave West Virginia q good battle, but lost IA to 10, and Georgia Tech Golden Tornado had a. close beating Clemson out Z to o.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

West Virginia leads 24–⁠5–⁠4 in 33 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.