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VoLUME X No. 2
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VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
OcTOBER 16, 1925
14-0 VICTORY MARKS OPENING OF FOOTBALL SEASJNOPENING DANCE A GREAT SUCCESS
GARNET AND WHITE CONTINUE VICTORIOUS CAREER V. E. S. TROUNCES HARGRAVE 14-0
D. M. I. PROVES HARDER OPPONENT THAN ANTICIP A TED Saturday, October 3rd marked
the opening of the Virginia Episco-
pal football season, and incidentally PHYSICAL EXAMINA-
Sweet Briar Girls Give Added Pep to Occasion
On Saturday, October 3, the H op
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS Society Holds First Meeting
On October 10, V. E. S. for the second time sent a visiting team away defeated; the victim this time being Hargrave Military Academy. Although only the second game of the season, the home team showed
was the occasion of a D. M. I. defeat. The latter team however was no weakling and long before the final
TIONS AT V. E. S. Committee held its opening dance.
The "Rip" Knight Orchestra, as us-
whistle, the Garnet and White real- Dr. Davis Gives School a Clean Bill ual, gave uR excellent music and con-
The French club held its initial pronounced improvement. The first meeting of the year, the 12th of Oc- few minutes of play found the ball
ized that in their opponents they had m~t a hard-fighting football ag- gregation worthy of the best V. E. S. had to offer.
of Health
As the physical examinations are repeated, ways are found to improve
sequently, every one was rather
This being the initial game of the certain aspects in the administra- season, the ~earn as a consequence tion of them. Whereas in the exam-
was rather high-strung and in many
cases did not pull together as a unit inations of last fall various meas-
individually several: outsta~ding probably inexact, we believe the no- players were developed during its tations this year have perceptibly course. In the backfield Goldsmith Improved. The results as tabulated undoubtedly starred while the de- in the physical records for this term
fensive taotics of McCormick brought of which the following is a statisti~ the stands to their feet more than cal summary, are thought to be very
astonished at the rapidity with which tober, in a real French setti1g; the in our territory and H. M. A. home of Mrs. Ladd; with thirteen thought they had the game clinched. the hours slipped away. Our Sweet However, quite a surprise was in
Briar "demoiselles" "did their stuff" boys and two members of the faculty store for them. The tide turned and
(may we say?) and so each stag, as present. V. E. S. swept them back for one
well as the beaux, m anifested great disappointment when the sad strains of the parting selection floated out to the dancing couples and to those who, unfortunately, were not at that time participating.
Those Present
The greater part of the girls came over f rom Sweet Bri ar but we find several of our Lynchburg friends among the following couples:
yard after yard with brilliant brok- year this time, 16.04 yrs.)
en-field ~unning, surpassing even WEIGHT: lightest, 71 lbs. ; heav- Mr. Barger with Miss Cornelid. Fannholt s dashes. The line played iest, 240 lbs.; average, 127.03 lbs. Wa.les; Beasley with Miss Betty ~el~ ~s a whole but did not develop (Last year, 130.76 lbs.) Harms; Belt with Miss Frances mdividual stars, as did the backfield. .HEIGHT: lowest, 4 ft. 10 in.; Hodges; Boswell with Miss Caroline
Bernstein, the visitors' captain highest, 6 ft. 2 in.; average, 5 ft. Chewning; Brown with Miss Elea-
Mrs. Ladd talked to the club in touchdown and then another. Ham-
as well as it might have had the
game been a mid-season affair but able, and some figures published
nearly correct in every detail.
AGE: youngest, 11 yrs. ; oldest, light quite frequently by clipping off 20 yrs.; average, 16.32 yrs. (Last
once. Day, J., substituting for his "kid" brother, stepped into the lime-
and right-half, also played a fine 7.32 m. (Last year, 5 ft. 7.08 in.)
nor Hubbard ; Coleman with Miss 1ment the regular school play was P et Shepherd; Mr. Colton with Miss discussed. All boys now in French
game for our opponents. First Quarter
CHE S'J' EXP A NSION: least, 1.5 in.; greatest, 6 in.; average, 3.25 in.
(Last year, 3.11 in.)
V ACCINA TION: Only nine boys
Edna Lee; Constantine, C., with Miss Rosa H eath; Copeland with Miss E lizabeth Wilkerson; Mr. Crockett with Miss Kitty Wilson ; Crowther with Miss Dorothy Stuart ; Day, J., with Miss Paige Bird ; Dey- erle, 0 ., with Miss Elizabeth Luck ; Dunn with Miss Babe Albers; Evans R., with :Hiss T abo Brown ; Farin- holtwith:MissClarahHannah;Fer- rell with Miss Chis H eald ; George With M1ss Anne Maybank ; Gold-
III and those who have had French III are eligible for membership. Boys in French II who show suffi- cient acquaintance with the tongue will also be asked to join. John Read is serving as president and Cabell as treasurer.
Refreshments wer~ served at the close of the meeting, but a sudden command to appear in study hall be- cause of an announcement forced the members to gulp and gobble, and consequently, this important part of the program was done an injustice.
DRAMATIC CLUBS AGAIN SEIZE MEMBERS OF FACULTY
We deeply fear that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Colton will soon aba.ndon
D. M. I. kicked off, recovering the
ball on our forty-yard line when V. have not at some time been vacci-
E. S. fumbled. Two downs netted nated.
an equal loss in yards but on the TONSILS : Ninety-seven boys
third, a pass gained five. D. M. I. have had their tonsils and adenoids kicked. removed. .
The first down showed a four-yard APPENDIXES : Eleven have had gain for Virginia Episcopal, but on appendicitis operations.
the next play. we fumbled, forcing TEETH : Only four boys need Goldsmith to kick out of danger. D. dental attention.
urements were somewhat question-
simple French of the life of Moliere,
describing his significance in the de-
velopment of drama, his genius both
as actor and playwright, and the suf-
ferings and disappointments that
marked his later life. Mrs. Ladd's
flow of French, while very pleasing
to the ear, was at times too much for the club to grasp fully, but her lapses into English allowed every one to follow the meaning of her talk in- telligently.
Announcements were m ade con- cerning the program for the current year by Mr. Colton, and the possi- bility of a French play to supple-
ner played splendidly, breaking up punt after punt. Goldsmith and Day, J., also did well; incidentally completing many passes.
For Hargrave, Hooker and Mapp were the stars. · The tactics were somewhat different, V. E. S. using passes while the visitors r esorted chiefly to punts.
First Quarter
Hooker of Hargrave received the kick-off and ran it back fifteen yards. The Chatham team made small progress on the first-down, but on the next play they romped down the field for twenty-five yards. Again there was little gain and on the fourth down they punted to Y. E. S.'s five-yard line. Goldsmith quickly punted out of danger. Then began a teady pomiding of Har- grave's defense, which gradually gave way. Day received a punt and ran it back fifteen yards. After sev- eral gains and an incompleted pass,
Goldsmith received a neat lateral pass and carried the pigskin to H. M. A.'s two-yard line. On the third clown he carried it acros", and then kicked goal. After the kick-off, Hargrave gained steadily and the quarter ended with the ball on our forty-yard line.
Second Quarter
Hargrave gained eight yards on the first two plays and then punted. Day ran the ban back to the forty- five yard line. McCormick was
M. I. was clowned on the fifty-yard EYES: The only notation avail- smith with Miss :vrargaret Cucullu ; line and after small gains again able under this heading is the extent Graham with Miss Carrie Harmon ; kicked, Farinholt running back ten to which glasses are used. Nine boys Hamner, D., with ~'[iss Mary Cosby;
yards. V. E. S. in turn booted the wear glasses all the time. Forty Ranis, D., with Miss Mary Shep-
pigskin and the Danville quarter was
downed in his tracks. Four plays
wear them for reading and study- 1ng, piCture shows, etc.
perd; H olladay with Miss J ette Ba- ker;JordanwithMissMaryMead:
MISCELLANEOUS : A few flat :M:aybank with Miss T ootie May- sion of the ball on their forty-yard a leaking valve (not alarming), a ret ,eigh ; l\1oyler with Miss Louise
gained only six yards for the Blue
and White, and V. E. S. took posses- feet were discovered, one heart with ba:l; McCormick with Miss Marga-
line. "Fanny" clipped off fifteen few skm troubles, a few slio-ht de- Couch ; Newell with Miss Elizabeth their scholastic careers for the stage. thrown for a loss but Day clashed
yards around end for a first-down, formities, infectional resultagts, na- Roundtree; Parker with Miss Anne Hardly a month goes by that they and.a little later gained ten more, sal deflections, etc., but nothing that Poindexter; Payne, A., with Miss a:r;.e not either engaged in practicing placmg the ball on D. M. I.'s ten- caused genuine anxiety on the part Eleanor Branch ; P ayne, G., with for some play or performing in one.
yard line. "Goldy" plunged.through of the school physician, Dr. T. N. Miss Margaret Harding; Pemberton Their growing fame has spread into
center for a touchdown and kicked Davis. His own statement follows. with Miss Kitty Marshall; Phillips every far corner of Lynchburg.
goal, putting V. E. S. on the long "Examination of V. E. S. boys for with Miss Elizabeth Wood ; Price .On November the seventh they end of a seven-nothing score. . the session of 1925-'26 disclosed no with Miss Mildred J.Jovett ; Quimby will appear in "The First Year" by
A few minor gains followed the disease of any import. No case of with Miss Ruth Aunspaugh ; Smith Frank Craven, produced by the Fort
through for eighteen yards. After little gain and an incompleted pass, Goldsmith punted. H. M. A. was not able to gain; so they attempted to punt. Hamner blocked this and Deyerle fell on the ball. Repeated gains followed and the half ended with "the oval on the visitors' two-
kick-off after Loffier was tackled on organic heart disease as discovered. with Miss Mary Burnley Wilson; Hill Club. Mr. J ohnston has the yard line.
our forty-seven-yard line and the In previous years several students Sudduth with Miss Peg Williams; very pleasant role of the newly mar-
whistle blew completing the first have been found with crippled hearts Tatum with Miss ·Elizabeth Mat- n ed man. He, himself, admits that
but in each instance they were aware thews; Taylor with Miss Blitz Dil- his young bride is very attractive. of it. There was no suggestion of lard; Winborne, R. H., with Miss 1\~r. Colton will be the family physi-
quarter.
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Third Quarter
Porter kicked off and Goldsmith carried the ball almost back to the half-way mark. A pass from Day to "Goldy" gained nothing, and on
the next play V. E. S. was penalized five yards for off-side. Goldsmith punted and Hooker was downed on
Second Quarter
Goldsmith smashed t?rough cen- no chest disease was found ; but boys
Elizabeth Langford ; Winborne, R., with .M:iss Sarah Everett; Vance with Miss Virginia Wilson.
Cian.
The play will be given as a. mati-
nee for the benefit of the Sweet Briar
students' drive, but the main per-
formance will take place that even- .
mg.
V. E. S. DRAMATIC SOCIETY ACTIVE
. The V. E. S. dramatic society will give 1ts annual play in December. "Officer 666," a melodramatic farce by Austin l\1acHugh, has been se- lected as the most suitable, particu-
i t
F., Moyler, Dunn, Sudduth, Gordon, G., Loffier, Boyd, Cabell, Strudwick Darden, and Winborne, R. '
At a recent meeting of the dra- matic society the following assist- ants were elected; Bowman and Tarr as assistant stage managers and
nervou or mental inferiority, and ter for five yards but klCk~d on the of th1s age who were underweight
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fumbled and Goldsmtth, alert as by accident or from remote disease FANS TAKE IN WORLD'S SERIES
next play, Danville rushmg back should have further observation.
seven yards to m1dfielcl. D. M. I.
"Several had deformities caused childhood
usual, smothered the a Garnet jersey.
1 with Iin
the twenty - five - yard
punted but the ball was blocked by H~mner. After losing by a pena]ty, Wilson punted to McCormick who
carried the ball back to their forty-
pigskin
On the next two plays Beasley and Yelopment and nutrition was above
DT. P endleton, Mr.
and Andy Loffier were the most en~ vied people in school last week-end. They have done what so many of us
have attempted to do- attend the \Yorld's Series. They left early in the morning on Friday, the 9th.
"On the ,;hole, then, physical de- "Goldy" totaled twelve yards off- average; it was easy to note ahead
tackle and through center respective- Ithose men in line who were training ly, for a first-d~wn, but Danv1lle for some team. Their development came mto possessi?n of the ball Im-1'lpoke for them.
mediately followmg these plays. "The most satisfactory finding of Three yards through center and sev-) all was the excellent condition of the
en more . through tackle. on three boys' teeth. Almost all had clean rushes, ~etted the Danv1lhtes a ~en- mouths. There were only a few in yard gam and a first-down. Tlnngs need of dentistry.
beg~nto look bad for the Garn~t_an~ "In our experience with V. E. S. White, :ovhen Pace, on two bnlliar'" students such sickness as colds, ton-
runs, g~med sev~nteen yards through silitiR, c.nLi bronchitis is the most the enhre opposmg team, placmg the common in filling the infirmary. ball on our forty-five yard hne. H ow- These minor ills would be cut down e~er, the Danville spurt quickly sub- witli. serious illness prevented, i~ Rlcled ~ncl V. E. S. took the offens1ve. : ~oportion to whether a boy kept
Gannaway
have been chosen to fill their pla.ces A gam of twenty-five yards, due '