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VoL. XVII, No. 4
INTERESTING LECTURE IS GIVEN TO BOYS BY
MR. JENNINGS
"Hero Worship" Chosen as Topic for Sermon Delivered in Langhorne Chapel
Mr. Coleman Jennings, of Wash- ington, D. C., Secretary of College
Bishops Ta e Fina I ,••
ame From
y 32,0 Score
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DECEMBER 3, 1931
V.E.S. FOOTBALL TEAM ENDS DIFFICULT '31
SEASON ON NOV. 21
W ork
of the "Episcopal Church, gave a
very interesting talk in the Chapel
on Sunday morning. November ~9. Thanksgiving Eve as had been
He was here also last year and planned, Turkey Day and its pre-
gave an equally enjoyable lecture.
The subject of the sermon was
under the
National
Council
youth, such as Robin Hood and Thursday night and all enjoyed Sandow, and really felt as if he their short visits. The ·free night
of fiero worsmp, 1at 1:h y lllade great sacrifices and underwent gr~at
hardships, in· order to be more hke their ideal.
. Moral Courage
He also explained that we are the day. Most of those who went to
very greatly disposed to admire Lynchburg went to see the movies. moral courage and adventurous Several members of the faculty and character. a number of boys attended the V.
A point Mr. Jennings stressed M. I.-V. P. I. and U. N. C.-U. Va. was that we are all able to be of football games, held in Roanoke good character if we try, in our and Chapel Hill, N C., respectively. Jiving, to live up to the hero of us The games were'very closely con-
match for the strono- Garnet and five men from the 1930 team, one White eleven. The Bishops gained of which also played in 1929. Scott
thirteen first downs during the fray, Clemens of Scottsboro, Ala., was in while th~ Red and Gray team iailed action for the third season, while
to roll up a single first down in Bob LaLance of Huntington, W. their favor. Captain Robert La- Va., Roger Williams of Lynchburg,
Lance, fullback for the Bishops, Samuel Banff of Scotland Neck,
,..tl ~,
would love to be in the place of ·
either. He also stated that we are
all influenced by such heroes, and
the result is usually beneficial. He
pointed out that the earliest sav~ges
and the Vikings. had the same Idea forded a go.op substitute for the
all, Jesus Christ.
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GUGGENHEIMER LOSES
TO MIDGETS 13 TO 6
Goodwin, Leigh Star for Bishops in Last League Game
In their sixth and last game of City League competition, t~e V. E. S. Midgets defeated a fightmg Gug- g e n h e i m e r e l e v e n , t o t h e t~ne o f 13-6. Goodwin was outstandmg for
the Little Bishops as Leigh and Langhorne also showed up well. Mose and Sublett were the stars for the city team. This win made the Midgets break even in the 1~31 sea-
tested and all who attended them ~Continued on Page 3.)
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son, winning three and losmg .the same number which average glVeS
'. the Baby Bishops fourth place m
t h e C i t y L e a g u e . C o a c h La~y d e - serves credit for his work w1th the
Little Red team this season.
Captain Goodwin kicked off to ~he
Guggenheimer aggregation, which was held for downs. V. E. S. then carried the ball to the Guggen- heimer one-yard stripe in f~ur c~n
secutive first downs. A t this pomt the Guggenheimer line strengt.hened considerably and held the B1shops
for downs. The City team kicked out of immediate danger, but on the (Continued on Page 4.)
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FOOTBALL EDITION
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL, LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
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THANKSGIVING DAY IS FEATUREDBYBANQUET
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SaintS Are Outplayed in Every VARSITY LETTERS ARE Bishops Win Five Out of Nine
Many Take Advantage of Holiday to See Football Games
Quarter as V. E. S. Runs Wild
LaLANCE IS OUTSTANDING Capt. Banks and Pendleton Star
for Fightin'g Red and . Gray Aggregation
AWARDED IN FOOTBALL Eighteen Members of 1931 Squad
Receive Their Monograms
Starts; Tie Two Games and Lose Two
After defeating St. Christopher's School 32 to 0 on Saturday, Novem- ber 21 in a home game, V. E. S. brought to a close a successful grid-
Although there was no dance on
Eighteen members of the 1931 tron season. Out of the nine games f,o?_tl?~ll squad were awarded varsity that were played the team was able · V s by the General Athletic As- to win five and tie two, while they
ceding night were enjoyed im- i Playing their last game of the
mensely by the V. ·E. S. faculty 1931 season, the Virginia Episcopal sociation of V. E. S. in a special were only beaten twice; once by the
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and boys. Study hall was held on School gridsters took a 32-0 deci- meeting held on Sunday, Novem- invincible Episcopal High School
"Hero Worship." Mr. Jennings
flavored his talk with numerous Wednesday afternoon so as to leave sion over the scrappy team from St ber 22. This group, including and again by the scrappy Randolph-
short stories used as.illustrations of. that night free for the pleasure of Christopher's School of Richmond, seventeen players and a manager, Macon team at Bedford. The two his ideas. He said that everyone, in the students. After study hall a Va. The game was played on Jaim- 1s the largest to receive letters since ties are both considered as moral his childhood days, worships and number of boys were allowec! to son Field under perfect weather 1926 when a similar number were victories, for they were gained admires somebody, and gradually leave school in order to go to their conditions. given to men who worked under against heavier and more experi-
changes and becomes more like his respective homes to spend W·ednes-· Saints Outweighed the tutorage of "Windy" Wl1ite, enced teams; the game with Wood-
hero. Mr. Jennings said that he him- day night and Thursday with their Although the outweighed Saints erstwhile V. M. I. star.
self had several idols in his early families. They returned to school put up a good fight, they proved no Among those getting letters were
berry, 0 to 0, and the game with Fishburne, 7 to 7. The five victories were all won by sate margins. For the total season score V. E. S. scored eighty-four points to her op- ponents' twenty-seven, which sta- tistics show that the Bishops were
far superior to the opposing teams taken as a whole.
Defense Good
was taken advantage of by a large grouri of students who went to Lynchburg, either to attend the moving pictures or to go calling. The proceedings of that night af-
was easily the outstanding player N. C., and William Formwalt, of C.vl·oo.,; 1~ !\,
