What the Symbols and Sections on the William & Mary Game Day Page Mean

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The William & Mary Game Day page (tribeathletics.com) uses a small set of standard athletic-site conventions. The most important ones: "vs" marks a home game, "at" marks an away game, "Skip To Main Content" is an accessibility shortcut to the page body, and "Pause All Rotators" stops any auto-rotating carousels so you can read them at your own pace. The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links are site-wide legal pages, not game information.

Reading the matchup notation

The matchup line is the fastest way to tell where a game is played.

Symbol Meaning How to read it
vs Home game William & Mary hosts; the opponent is the visiting team
at Away game William & Mary travels; the opponent is the host

A line reading "vs [Opponent]" means the Tribe plays at home. A line reading "at [Opponent]" means the game is on the opponent's field or court. On a page that lists several contests, you can scan this single word to sort home from away without opening each event.

Page controls and navigation

Skip To Main Content

This is an accessibility link, usually the first thing a keyboard or screen-reader user reaches. Activating it jumps past the repeated header, navigation, and promotional blocks straight to the main content. If you navigate by keyboard, it saves you tabbing through the same menu on every page.

Pause All Rotators

Rotators are the auto-advancing carousels that cycle through featured stories, promos, or images. "Pause All Rotators" freezes every one of them at once. Use it when:

  • A headline or image changes before you finish reading it
  • You want to click a specific slide without it sliding away
  • Motion on the page is distracting or you need a stable view

The parentheses and blank slots around these controls in the page markup are placeholders where the rotator content loads; they are not game data.

What is not game information

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links appear in the site footer on essentially every page. They describe how the site handles data and the rules for using it. They contain no schedules, scores, or matchup details, so skip them when your goal is finding a game.

Putting it together

To find and interpret a game on the Game Day page:

  1. Use Skip To Main Content if you want to bypass the header quickly.
  2. Use Pause All Rotators if a carousel is moving too fast to read.
  3. Find the matchup line and check the first word: vs = home, at = away.
  4. Ignore the footer legal links unless you specifically need policy information.

That covers the symbols and sections you will actually encounter; everything else on the page is standard navigation and promotion.