VMI Cadet. October 3, 1914

              THE CADET
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, SATURDAY, OCTORER 3, 1914 NO. 3
TO AHEND EXPOSITION
Graduating Class of V. M.
Arranging to Go to San
Francisco
I.
Operations have just been started
by the class of 1915 of the Virgiiiia
Military Institute to attend the San
Frani'isco exposition in 1915 ItMiving
the Institute directly after their
Kruduation in June.
The plans upon which they are
working ^re to have chartered two
special Pullmans which meeting
them in Lynchburg will carry them
to the exposition grounds and deposit
them upon the aiding there. Here
they will make their permanent head-quarters.
The class is anxious that
all ex members throughout the coun-try
will concentrate in Lexington
and accompany them upon their trip.
The matter h»H been placed in the
hundH of (Jadet Carsnn, the historian,
who will make arrangements for the
train and other incidentals regard-ing
the trip.
Monogram Club Gives
First Picture Show
Last Saturday night the Monogram
club gave its first moving picture
show in the Jackson Memorial hall.
It is the intention of the club offic-ials
to give these shows every Sat-urday
night for the rest of the year.
The proceeds are to be used to buy
sweaters for all those men in school
who make their monogram in any
branch of athletics. This is the
only mean.s by whish the sweaters
can be given to monogram men be-cause
there is no provision for them
made by the Athletic association,
and it is greatly to be hoped that the
entire corps will patronize the
show, inasmuch as the class of ;)ic-tures
shown will be well worth the
price of admission.
The Monogram club is composed
of all those men who have made a
monogram in any branch of athletics
and its chief aim is the promotion of
V. M.I. athletics every year. There
are several hundred letters sent out
by them to promi.sing athletes in all
parts of the country offering no in-ducement
for them to come here but
merely calling their attention to the
InHtitute and its past record in ath-letics.
VARSITY WINS FIRST GAME
Hampden-Sidney Downed—Score 29 to 7—Visitors Out-played
Throughout Gnme
Final Ball Election
In the opening game of the season
V. M. L won a well deserved vi'ctory
over IIam[)den Sidney. From the
very start the team played excellent
ball, with the result that in every
quarter our score was increased.
As was to be expected, it being
the first game, there was more indi-vidual
playing than team work, but
this defect grew less and less notice-able
as the game progressed. Pour
touchdowns, two goals from touch-down
and one held goal run up the
scoring done by V. M. L Hampden
Sidney's only score was the direct
result of a fumble near V. M. I's.
goal, when the ball was recovered by
them.
The playing of Bain was easily the
feature of the game, he making sev-eral
long end runs and seemingly
plunging through the line at will.
Somers also proved to be a tower of
strength in the line, both in defense
and offense. Time after time he
broke through and smashed up the
play. In fact the entire team
showed signs of strength. Nelras,
Oaks and Gray in the backfield,
played a splendid game, while Gam-mer
and Murphy did their share in
the line. The team looks as though
it was fully capable of taking care of
itself in the games on the hard sched-ule
of this year.
The game opened with a jump.
Nelms receiving ball on V. M. I's.
twelve yard line and advancing it fif-teen
yards. This was quickly fol-lowed
by gains through the line by
Oaks and McCormick. These line
plunges proved to be a success from
the beginning to the end of the
game. The Presbyterians although
outweighing our men, man for man,
seemed to be unable to withstand
their attack, while on the other hand
the Institute line held their ground
whenever a line play was attempted.
The game was played almost en-tirely
in Hampden Sidney's territory,
they having to frequently resort to
kicking in order to keep their goal
line from being crossed. On ac-count
of their inability to gam
through the line the visitors attempt-ed
many end runs and forward passes
— most of which were broken up.
(Harrington and Perkins both played
a good game for Hampden Sidney,
and but for the splendid work of our
line and back field would have un-tioubtedly
scored more points.
After the first quarter V. M. L
made many substitutions. Marshall,
Gray, Arms, Ilolderby and Harris,
being given a chance to prove their
worth,'which they did with a ven-geance.
The game was a pleasant surprise
to most of the cadets,who hardly ex-pected
such good work in the first
game. But a few who had watched
many of the practice knew what real
worth was m the team, and were
prepared for the showing made.
The prediction is that with a little
more practice V. M. L will develop-a
fighting machine that may well be
relied upon to take care of itself in
the coming games of the season.
GAME IN DETAIL
First Quarter—Carrington kicked
oir to V. M. I's. twelve yard line,
Nelms returned the ball fifteen
yards. Oakes went through right
guard for a seven yard gain. Mc-
Gormick through same for three
yards. First down. McCormick
around J-ight end for five yards. V,
M. I. penalized fifteen yards for
holding. Oakep kicked, ball being
returned five yards. Failing to gain
by line plunges Hampden Sidney
kicked. McCormick around right
end no gain. V.M. 1. penalized five
yards for an offside. Oakes fumbled,
ball recovered by Nelras. McCorm-ick
around left end for eleven yard
gain. V. M. I. fumbled. Hampden
Sidney's ball. Perkins thrown for
loss of thirty yards. Oliver around
left end for gain of ten yards.
Perkins again throv/n for loss of
twenty yards. V. M. I . ' s ball on
Hampden Sidney's seven yard line.
Murphy oflside, penalizei five yards.
Fail to make first down. Ball went
over on Hampden Sidney's one foot
line. Carrington kicked to Bain,
who was downed in his tracks on
Hampden Sidney's twenty two yard
line. Bain kicked field goal. V.
M. I., 3; Hamden Sidney, 0.
Carrington kicked oft to Oakes who
ran the ball back thirty three yards.
Continued i»n patre ti
Following the usual custom, the
second class met last Tuesday night
to elect the leader and assistant
leader of the final ball. Those nom-inated
were Snead, Murphy, Lewis,
W. B. J r . , and McClellan for leader
and DeGraft, Hix and DeButts for
aHHi»tatit, After much discussion
and "politicing" the ballot was
taken and resulted in the election of
Siiead and DeGrafF for the respective
po«ition«. Both of these men ai'e 1
what i» generally termed abtuiL j
b.-irrack "Love Pirates" HO they can j
be depended upon to make a Hucces.s |
of anything in which the ladies play :
tfueh all important part as the final |
ball
Foot Ball Schedule
Sept. 2()--Hampden-Sidney College, at Lexington
Oct. 3-Richmond College, at Lexington
Oct. 10--William and Mary, at Lexington
Oct. 17--Gallaudet College, at Lexington
Oct. 24-Georgia Tech, at Atlanta
Oct. 8[--Morris Harvey, at Lexington
Nov. 7~North Carolina, at Charlotte
Nov. 14-Clemson College of S. C. at Richmond
Thanksgiving-V. P. L, at lioanoke
FOOTBALL COMMENT
Up to the present time everything
that has been said in regard to tht
strength of the football team has
been lai'gely a matter of conjecture,
but since the outcome of last Satur-day's
game we are able to place it
on a more permanent footing. The
fears of the pessimistic were dia-spelled
and the optimistic realized
by the showing then made by the
team. Numerous rumors have
reached barrack that Hampden Sid-ney
confidently expected to take jur
scalp. This was based upon two
facts; first that their team was
stronger than last year's; and second
that ours was much weaker. The
score last year was 9 to 0 and by
reason of the above assumptions they
expected to reverse it. But as hap-pens
in many instances, such a line
of dope was completely upset by the
gridiron contest.
Of course the team work displayed
by the Varsity was not of midseasnn
form. This is just what the coach-es
have been guarding against; they
do not want the team to reach too
high a point of perfection so early
in the season and then go stale when
the big games come. But the more
serious defects of offensive and de-fensive
play were picked out and they
are now beinn; remedied.
Owing to the absence of Coach
Gorton Captain Leech has been in
charge of the squad during the week.
Several new plays have been devised
by the coaches and are now being
tried out against the scrubs. To-day's
game with Richmond College
will probably afford an opportunity
for the team to try some fake plays,
last Satuiday's game being practi-cally
straight football all the way
through. It is only three weeks be-fore
the contest with Georgia Tech.
one of the biggest on the schedule,
comes off and every effort is being
made to get the men in the best po.s-sible
form. This is V. M. I s. ini.
tial entrance into the S. 1. A. A.
and it is up to her to make a good
showing.
Commandant Appointed
Upon the recommendation of the
war department and the committee
from the board of visitors who were
in charge of the matter Lieutenant
Harry L. Hodges, First cavalry,
United States army, has been ap-pointed
commandant of cadets and
professor of military science and
tactics. Lieutenant Hodges iti a
graduate of the United States Mili-tary
Academy and was later an in-structor
in history in that institu-tion.
He is also an honor graduate
of the Infantry and Cavalry school
and the Army Staff college and is
thus peculiarly fitted for the duties
which will devolve upon him in his
present positio.i. The Institute ia
fortunate in securing his services.
Captain K. S. Purdie who han
been acting commandant Mince the
opening of the session, hiia been
relieved and assigned to duty
post adjutant.
Stanley Jack Sxll, '13. is coiiimnitd-ant
of the ituj/by Military Academy
l.uuiuidiana,