Washington and Lee at West Virginia

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 23, 1922, page 3

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  Atlanta. October 32.-The fighting spirit that the gridiron game is sup posed to inculcate in the undergrad uate and the fact that the forward pass. despite It’s years of use still may prove a boomerang was demonstrated in Saturdays series of brilliant foot ball games. The spirit of the lost cause” that enables it’s possessors to imitation long after fate has decreed their defeat was never better exem- plified than by the doughty Centre eleven in losing 24 to 10 to Harvard. Georgia Tech. in It’s 13 to defeat by the Navy. showed something of the same spirit in the last half and held the Middies scoreless. while Washington and Lee, Sewanee. Vir- ginia Military institute, and David son. despite tho fact that they were engaged in games that lacked the glamor of the Centre Harvard battle were just as worthy opponents of the fighting type. Cadets Fought to Win Victory over its ancient rival vir- ginia university, came to V. M. l.. as refusal of the Cadets to believe in defeat. and the other three obtained tie games with elevens which had been regarded as almost certain vic tors. It was a day of aerial play and the Washington and Lee Generals made use of the air attack to tie, 12 to 12 with the powerful West Virginia eleven. Sewanee and Davidson made

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West Virginia leads 24–⁠5–⁠4 in 33 meetings, counting the 28 since this game.