Virginia at South Carolina

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1929, page 42

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  IL IndLCU LLlGlT StIcLlBOAA aBdAAAoV bA6 Northern elevenS. OF greatest interest among these contests is the game between Georgia and Yale, largely, perhaps, because 1t Is Yale’S first visit to Dixieland. Besides that game, Virginia Polytechnic 1nstttute goes to Philadelphia to meet Penn sylvania, Davidson College plays Army at West Point and Vanderbilt journeys again to Minneapolis for a struggle with Minnesota. Great interest is being shown through out the Far Southern States in the Georgia–Yale game. The contest Is being advertised In every Southern State, special trains are being run from all sections, and the State Legislature has declared legal holiday for the entire State of Georgia. The University of Georgia is using the contest TO oedicate its new stadium, and IN all prob ability the largest crowd that has ever watched foot ball game in the south will be present. South Widely Interested. To show something of the interest In the game and the demand for tickets. a picture of the stadium recently was printed in an Atlanta newspaper with this caption under it: These are the seats. Have you got yours? II you haven’t you’re out OF LUCK because they’re about all gone” 1t was felt at first that the defeat sustained by Georgia in its opening game would hurt the contest with Yale, but apparently 1t has made no difference. Vanderbilt hopes to turn the tables on Minnesota, as 1t did two or three years ago. The Nashville school has team probably not so strong as 1t was then, but still strong enough to win its first two games from strong opponents; Dan McGugin is a good foot ball coach, ana he will get the most out of his men in such o game. Aroused Rebel Spirit. It is related that Dan beat Mime sofa before by a speech that he made Just before the contest, which speech ran something like this: you men today are face to face with an opportunity to avenge the insults ana horrors tnat these people once heaped upon US. once they overran our State, destroyed. our homes, insulted our mothers and grand mothers, laid waste our fields. Now you men have the golden opportunity that only once In lifetime presents itself. Go out on that field this afternoon and If you are men, If you have within you the spark Of loyalty and love for the Southland you will wipe the slate clean. who represent the best blood and sinew OF the South, will not fail” It is said that Vanderbilt that afternoon would have stopped projectiles from big gun and that the Minnesota attack crumpled before 1t. The peculiar part OF 1t, though, was that Dan McGugin him self is more Of a Northerner than a Southerner and got his education and training in a Northern school. VIZ. I. Promise Penn Battle. Virginia Polytechnic Institute plays Pennsylvania for the first time. The Blacksburg school hopes to give Penn real battle. Sail Miles, athletic director at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, says that his men will go to Philadelphia with greater hope than they ever have had before facing big Northern eleven. Dawson is not likely to accomplish q whole lot against the Army. The North Carolinians hardly have team capable of accomplishing good deal against the kind Of eleven that represents the West Point institution. Cagcl and company seem to be just as effective as they were last year. While the Yale-Georgia game I’M doubtedly will fill the Athens Stadium, probably enough people will be left to I’LL the Georgia Tech Stadium in At lanta to watch the Georgia Tech-North Carolina game. The Tech team Is good and so is North CaEClina and the game itself probably will be one Of the best of the year in the entire South. Up North probably the Nebraska Syracuse game will hold forth as the center of foot ball interest It was rumored at the start Of the season that Syracuse would have q weak eleven. and apparently 1t did not do anything wonderful to holding Southern Methodist University to a 0-to-0 tie, but, one thing sure, Nebraska will have o big team. Physically few elevens have any thing on the CornhuSkers. On local fields this week at least two good games are scheduled, though, on account Of the Navy–Notre Dame game in Baltimore, 1t Is unlikely that either will get the attention it deserves. Georgetown meets st. Louis University and Maryland plays South Carolina. Both st. Louis and South Carolina have strong elevens and one Of them, South Carolina. probably will be favored to win. South Carolina lost to Virginia by 0 to 6. but it gained more than $50 yards, an average total OF IS first downs. with its offense, which is indicative Of the power and versatility that 1t pos sesseS. Not much Is known Of the strength Of the st. Louis eleven, but 1t may put up a whale Of battle against the Blue and Gray. A.

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South Carolina leads 21–⁠13–⁠1 in 35 meetings, counting the 26 since this game.