A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ome Daily Argus of Sunday,Nov. 14, printed this from Savannah: Captain Morrison, of the Virginiafootball team, writes a letter to theSavannah Press in reply to statementsof its correspondent that the Virginiamen deliberately tried to injure theGeorgia players. Capt. Morrison denies this chargeand sends extracts from a letter writ-ten to him by Capt. Kent, of Georgia,thanking him for considerations shownthe memory of Von Gammon, andwishing the Vir
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ome Daily Argus of Sunday,Nov. 14, printed this from Savannah: Captain Morrison, of the Virginiafootball team, writes a letter to theSavannah Press in reply to statementsof its correspondent that the Virginiamen deliberately tried to injure theGeorgia players. Capt. Morrison denies this chargeand sends extracts from a letter writ-ten to him by Capt. Kent, of Georgia,thanking him for considerations shownthe memory of Von Gammon, andwishing the Virginia team much suc-cess. Morrison says the injuries sustain-ed by Tichenor and Gammon, of theGeorgia team, were entirely acciden-tal and deeply regretted by the Vir-ginia team. Martin V. Bergen, Jr., old Prince-ton player and then coach of Virginia,wrote to a friend in Atlanta underdate of Nov. 1, 1897, from Charlottes-ville, Va.: The game was clean, hard played,but yet not a rough, foul game. Ourmen had been instructed to play fair-ly and did so, and you have my wordon the fact that I saw no hitting at 348 A History of Rome and Floyd THE HOME OF VON GAMMON, 420 THIRD AVENUE. The Gammon place was the mecca for the young men of Rome, ?who gatheredto test their physical prowess in numerous ways. Tennis, weight exercises, wrestlingand boxing were enjoyed here, while at the foot of the avenue was the wash-holewrhich drew more boys than any in town. all, and no kneeing or such work. Gammon was hurt while we hadthe ball, attempting to make a tackle,which precludes any probability thatwe were to blame. The play was astraight formation play. We have done all we could to ex-press our regret—-sent flowers andmessages, and our men are all brokenup personally, as I am. I write you this partly because Ithought you would like to have myassurances of the character of thegame and the absolute absence ofeither premeditated or actual roughplay or intentional injury to men. The Georgi
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