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46 THE ATHENAEUM Williams ' * C. '■ Gather Cook R. G. L. Wilkerson Irving R. T. Lucus Gayles R. E. Stevens Harper Q. B. Lockhart Gentry L. H. Williams Kelly R. H. Barnes Maxwell F.B. Jones VIRGINIA UNION 18, MOREHOUSE 0. By F. W. Crawford, ’23. |>EFGRE a crowd of m|ore than four thousand enthusiatic specta- V tors > including many students from' Hampton Institute and Virginia Union University, who filled to the overflowing League Park at Norfolk, the elevens of Virginia Union and Morehouse clashed on the afternoon of November 6* in one of the classics of the season of ’22, Virginia Union winning, 18 to 0. (Extract from The Norfolk Journal and Guide, Nov. 11, 1922) “Morehouse won the toss arid the gari?e begah with the Georgians receiving. A. C. Jackson, Union’s all-Am;erican quarterback, stuck his educated toe in the pigskin and sent it down to Morehouse’s twenty yard line. Maxwell, Morehouse’s fullback, received and with his spectacular rush for gains the game, was on’.’ Union clippers cut hint down before he covered ten yards. The stalwart full back then tried center rush but the red and steel cut him down in his : tracks. Kelly, the right halfback, tried the line with but little success. .Cap tain Gayles then punted, Union received and then began a series of lightning end plays. Gayles and Irving stubbornly defended those ends for the Southerners. Union Scores. “The first quarter was well under way at this time. Fentress of Union, received the pigskin and galloped away for a fifteen yard gam amidst a tremendous roar from the Union section of the grand stand. Right here Union’s backfield began to work. . First Jackson and Gregory, then C. E. Jackson hitting the line-like mad for short but repeated gains. And here Union’s forwards were working like wedges in Morehouse’s line, opening holes for the red and steel backs. But Morehouse was playing football, and it was evident that the red and steel invincibles would never score through the white and crimson center. “The first touchdown came near the end of the first quarter, when, after a series of line plunges and end plays, Union carried the ATTENTION! Please Trade With Our Advertisers.