Page 120 - 1918 VES Meteor

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Edited by H. C. DILLARD
Of last year's letter men, Rinks, Smith, Whitaker, Mac- Blain, Charles, and Dillard are back, and it is upon these that Coach Crockett has formed the nucleus of the present team. A disappointingly small squad responded to the first call for candidates, and this lack of material has been the main difficulty with which the team has had to contend during the season. The epidemic of the "flu" put an end to all practice for a month, and caused :Manager McCulloch
to cancel many games greatly anticipated. Practice was immediately 1·esumecl, however, upon the reopening of school on ~ovember Gth, and on Satmday, November 9th, the season was formally inaugurated when the team journeyed to Charlottesville and there defeated the second eleven of the Woodberry Forest School.
V. E. S., 20; W. F. S. (SECOND TEAM), 0
Woodbeny kicked off to Smith, who ran the ball back fifteen yards. After a couple of plays, however, a fumble gaye Woodberry the ball, but they lost it a few minutes later when Whitaker blocked a punt. Several good gains were then made by our backfield, but a forwa1·d pass was inter- cepted, and, after several line plunges by our opponents, we recovered the ball on a fumble. Woodberry then stiffened, and Smith was forced to punt; we then held Woodberry for do'\\.'llS on their own thirty-yard line, and, after a few straight