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jojjjVEpST"y VOL..IX. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA. S. C.. NOVEMBER 11; lfil-r P 7 SOUTHLAND ADVANCING IN GRIDIRON WORLD Dixie Football Stock Takes Big Boost. Many Changes in the Southeast. Carolina Cockerels Advance to Forefront. The football season so far has been filled to its utmost capa.i ty with thrills And startling sur prises. The most notable of them all being. the marvelous rise pf Southern colleges from a place near the bottom of the list in the American game to a place among. the leaders. Virginia, early in the season, surprised the public by defeat ing Yale, 10 to 0. When the news was.flashed forth Southern football fans could hardly be lieve it. That a college below Mason and Dixon's line should defeat a Northern university which was supposed to be one of the three that make up the final word in football was a thing un heard of. Yet, such was the case and other Southern univer sities and colleges have been fol lowing Virginia's splendid lead. What warms the hearts of all Gamecock supporters mo3t tho, is the fact that the University of South Carolina is right along with the best. South Carolina d zfeatcd North. Carolina A. & M., and when the North Carolina Aggies defeated the Navy, that placed the Gamecocks in the highest football position that they have occupied in many years. Then, again, South Car olina held Virginia, the victors over Yale, to a score of 13 to 0, which gives the Garnet and Black another great boost. Taking Northern teams alone, there have been a number of surprises there. The chief one of these is the failure of Yale to show up in her usual form. Now, among the Southern col leges surprises have fallen thick and fast. Nearly every Satur day has witnessed the overthrow of many an old precedent. Clem son started the upheaval by de feating Tennessee 3 to 0. Then, the Gamecocks added another by defeating the North Carolina Aggies 19 to 10. After this no one could make a prediction with any degree of accuracy as to how the scores would stand the next week. The latest shocks to football fans who wish results to run in the same old rut were (Continued on Pnsrn Three.) PREPAREDNESS TIlEME OF NAVAL ADDRESS Dr. Edward Breck of N4y League Speaks About Big ger and Better United States Navy. . Dr. Edward Breck of the Navy League of the United States, Washington, D. C., addressed the faculty, students, and a number of visitors in the chapel at 8:30 o'clock Thursday evening, Nov ember 11th. Dr. Breck comes from a naval family and has al ways been a keen student of naval affairs. At the outbreak of the Spanish War he volunteer ed to go to Spain as a secret agent. Dr. Breck was transfer red from his position as Vice Consul-General at Berlin to the Embassy as assistant to our Naval attache. He was at last sent to Spain Po gain a know ledge of the Spanish defense, so that an American fleet threat ing the coast of Spain might not operate in the dark. Dis guised as a.German alienist, he was very successful in securing information in regard to the defensive condition of Spain, furnishing our Navy Depart ment with plans and photo graphs of batteries, harbors, etc. Dr. Breck explained the Navy League and told what it stood for. That the army and navy are to prevent war, and, if war comes, to protect the country, is the belief of the Navv League. For ages, said the speaker, each war had been thought the "last war," but that the "last war" theory had been disproved by history. That the Monroe Doc trice was no longer necessary is claimed by some people but there is just as much need of main taining it today as ever, and our government must be prepared to enforce its policies. Dr. Breck discussed the moral side of pre paredness and several times dur ing his address took issue with Mr. Bryan. He also explained that the attitude of several na tions was none too good toward our own, and should one of these be inclined to take steps against us, we should find our country in a defenseless cordition. It is the duty of our govern ment to take naval affairs out of politics and place them in the hands of experts who know sci entific methods of constructing and maintaining a navy. Dr. Breck illustrated the navy of the past, present, and future by means of steronntican sides. CAR(OLINIANS RIOL CLOSE IN SI "DOWN-WITH-LIQUOR" v: MEN REORGANIZE Iarrison Elected President at Spiy#ed Meeting. The members of last year's Pro ,hihition Club met in the Green 4oom of Flinn Hall. Thursda ,evening,and reorganized. for the pre?ent year.. Matters of . inter est,to the club and the cause, of prolhibition at large were dieuss ed. The meeting, was a success from eyery point of view, the men tal4ing an unusual interest in the prQeedings of the .meet ing. The reason iWhy the meeting was held Thuraday, evening Was to prepare for .hie coming of Mr.. Moerner, Southern Field Secre tary of.the International Prohibi tion Association. The following officers were elected: L. B9. Harrison, of Dun can, one of last year's liveliest men in the club was chosen pres idert; A. M. Jones, vice-pnes ident W. T. Henderson, Lan drum, secretary and treasurer; 0. F. Crow, Pauline, reporter. The club is planning for a very interesting program for the year. During the campaign of, last summqrjon the state-wide 1,PQPTr hibition referendura severat members of the club rendered ef fective service in the cause. J. D. Griffith did good work in Saluda county, as did J. G. Dink ins in Clarendon. B. G. Shuler worked in Orangeburg, P. K. Smith and W. J. Scott in Lex ington, L. B. Harrison in Spar tanburg and Orin F. Crow in Spartan burg and Union counties. The deputation work of the club was a leading feature of last year's organization. Extension Lectures. President Currell spoke at Lykesland, Nov. 5. Prof. H. C. Davis delivered a lecture on "Mark Twain" at the Half Way School. Lexington County, Nov. 5. This is the first of a series of four meetings the University is conducting in that school district. Prof. A. C. Moore spoke on the question of "Public Health" at Appleton, Nov. 5. Prof. L. P. CJhamnberlayne ad dressed a community meeting at Oak Grove School House, Nov. 9. John C. Blackburn, Athletic Director, went to Wal terboro Tuesday to conduct the Field Day exercises at the Colleton County fair. D VIRGINIANS %ASON'S BIG MI.ME Eli's Conquerors Seore, Only Two Touchdowns. WILLIAM FOLGER STARS Mayer aq Anderson Play Best Ball for Orange and Blue. Contest is Clean. The University of Virginia de feated the University of,South Carolina last Saturday by 4 score of 13 to 0 Un the best exhibition of footaall 4en in. Colunbia in years. Virginia is reepgnzed to be one of the greatest tqpms in America today, and t,h4t the Gamecocks held them so close, shows that the day is *.surely coming when the University of South Carolina will be a..factor to be reconed with in AlJ-IFastern honors. Altho the concensus of. opin ion was that Virginia .,would defeat Carolina by a much.larger score than they did, the visitors knew that they had a worthy opponent' and would hqve to fight to down the Gamecocks. After Virginia had crossed the Carolina goal line twice.,in the first eight minutes. of pliy the wearers of the Garnet ap.0 Black .tightened up so, that, altho the visitors twice* had the ball within the shadow of Caolina's goal posts, they were unable to carry: tfe ball.across. William Folger, one of the best backfield men that has ever played for Carolina, rose head and shoulders above all players Saturday, literally and. figura tively speaking. The lad from Pickens played the game of his life both on the defense and on the offense. By splendid runs, brilliant tackles and heavy plung es his playing was unquestion ably the feature of the game, even with the great recognized stars, Mayer and Anderson play ing brillant football for Virginia. Soon after the. game started the Virginians carried the pig skin down the field twice in suc cession for touchdowns, kicking goal once, Dutch Surran making a pretty play when he grounded the ball when Virginia kicked the ball out from the goal line in order to try for goal. Thus, after about eight minutes of play the score stoodl 13 to 0 in favor of Virginia. Then from the next kickoff the game was (('nntiued on In'ae 8ir .