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nr YPI Trips Cavaliers 22 to 13 VMI Battle to 6-6 Tie Richmond Times-Dis patch Sunday Oct 12 1958 B-l Holsclaw Stars for Tech: Reece Whitley Is Injured By Shelley Rolfe rimes Dispatch Sports Writer ROANOKE Oct 11 Billy Holsclaw who had to wait until his senior year to make the Virginia Tech first team led the Gobblers to a 22-13 conquest of Saturday afternoon in first Harvest Bowl game A near capacity Victory Stadium crowtl of 26000 saw Tech make up a one-point 7-6 halftime deficit with touchdowns and two-point conversions in the third and fourth quarters and SPORTVIEW By Chauncey Durden Times-Dispatch Sports Editor Rubai Run Gains Tie For Tribe By Steve Guback Times Dispatch Sports Writer BLUEFIELD VA Oct 11 William and Mary battled! undefeated Keydets to standstill here Saturday and a 6-6 stalemate in a game that ended with a minute of wild excitement and a moment of wild confusion when the Keydets were penalized from two-yard line for an illegal substitution The pattern for the bizarre windup was set early VMI got Its touchdown midway of the second quarter before it had first thanks to Pete Johnson and a blocked kick a three-point underdog got its tie midway in the third quarter on a stunning one-play defensive strike a 65-yard run with an airborne fumble by stubby Len Rubai who Is hardly a speedboy -Two Field Goal Attempts the way it went until the final dramatic minute when VMI pressing relentlessly for its 12th victory in a row twice missed field goal shots from the 14 and 24-yard lines The finish had a Coal Bowl crowd of 5000 on its feet and soth sides rubbing what ever good-luck charms they may have possessed what happened: With 2:15 remaining VMI lad the ball on its own 31 with Bill Nebraska warmed up and ready to pitch Then came the race with the clock Nebraska passed to? Carl Kasko for 27 yards then faked pass and plowed 15 more to the 27 Now 1:21 remained in the grfme After an On the Inside On the Irside Today: Page Ruth column About Dogs Page Walter Cralge's column Hoof Prints Page This College Pag 1 Preview af Today's NFL Games Page This Week's Prep Slate Page 4 Round Table First Landing Taka Stake Victories 1 Page 4 Team7 Gains Tie in World Golf Page Max AHor's Column Outdoors Page This Week's TIda Chart Page Business SUfff Photo hr Louis 7 Pattons 11 yards to the Cavalier 41 Virginia Tech players dosing in on the Va halfback are Sam Shaffer (42) and Zeno (68) COMPLETION Sonny Randle (22)' leaps to gather in a third-quarter pass from quarterback Reese Whitley (11) Hie play gained What No ROANOKE Oct 11 There a to be seen in Victory' Stadium Saturday afternoon as Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia inaugurated the There were however other attractions equally as beguiling and eye-taking There was a covey of beautiful girls eachand everyone a of some sort Then there was the reigning Miss America and Harvest Queen for the day the Mississippian Miss Mary Ann Mobley We pass on Miss America's pulchritude Myopic eyes being what they are and Miss America's sitting on the other side of stadium from the press box Presumably she is all they said she was at Atlantic City "The thought here however is that the Tech partisans well remembering last year's 38-7 shellacking of the Gobblers by the Cavaliers in Tobacco Festival game found far more beauty in Tech quarterback Billy Holsclaw' running and passing than in Miss Mobley "Which Just goes to prove what characters football fans are In addition to the beautiful queen and princesses and the fetching (to the Tech aide of the stadium) Mr Holsclaw there was ft lot of hard football an abundance -of tension on the part of the competing players a hotly contested penalty call against Virginia and Coach Dick Voris and a strange throw-th e-ball look to a Tech football team on display for the 26000 spectators To the dismay of the Cavaliers and their supporters there was also an early-game injury to quarterback Reece Whitley who went Into the game the nation's leader in total offense Whitley hobbled out of the game on the seventh play of the' contest and with him went the chances of something the Virginia players weren't willing to concede until late in the fourth quarter when the Techmen scored their third touchdown and added two extra points on run' That made the score 22-13" with less than seven minutes playing time remaining Holsclaw who went into action No 4 in the nation in total offense was the man who put the Gobblers over the top Holsclaw a cool one a runner and a passer threw a 20-yard aerial to Johnny Watkins for a Tech TD in the second quarter and pitched 19 yards to Alger Pugh for the final Gobbler score midway in the fourth quarter And then after that pitch to Pugh who also played an important role in Tech's scheme of things Holsclaw put the clincher on the game with a sweep of left end for a two-point conversion which left the Cftvaliers nine points in the red and needing two touchdowns to win In between the Holsclaw scoring passes Pugh working out of the run-pass option threw a 23-yarder to Pat Henry for a third quarter lead score Two-Point Conversion Holsclaw passed to Pugh for the two-pointer following that TD A kick try by Chuck Steven following the first Gobbler touchdown was vide The victory gave Tech some measure of revenge for the 38-7 pasting it took from the Cavaliers last year in Richmond's Tobacco Festival game but the Gobblers beat a team that literally and figuratively was fighting with one-hand tied behind its back On the games sixth lay and with Tech on the attack Sam Shaffer who may have been a mite overeager in carrying out his role of blocker rolled Cavalier quarterback Reese Whitley off his feet and sent him UR Defeated 23 12 On Reilly by Rutgers cause the Scarlet fumbled on lined up in the for the next Virginia for the first time this season had to decide whether to try for a point conversion and a tie or shoot for two and the lead It went for two and the more backfired when Duncan Holsclaw a cousin of Billy batted down Whitley's up the middle pass Whitley was back in the game the next time the Cavaliers had possession Virginia score but it did get itself involved in a dandy of a rhubarb On fourth down on the Tech 31 the Cavalier bench threw in a kicking tee a move that ordered Williams to make a field goal try Williams never got the opportunity The Cavillers were By Walt Drewry Times Dispatch Sports Writer NEW BRUNSWICK J( Oct 11 Undefeated Rutgers Sluggish in the first half and jbaffled by the University of Richmond's formation stormed back after intermission down the Spiders 23-12 be-ore 10000 fans here Saturday afternoon Richmond got the Jump on Jthe Scarlet- victors over Princeton and Colgate In previ-lous tests with a first quarter touchdown by sophomore half-back Art which he set up himself with a dazzling 41-yard romp to the Rutgers three The Spiders held on to jthat 6-0 lead throughout the Jirst two periods chiefly be penalized 35 yards for a coachlimping to the bench with an ing-from-the-bench infraction injured ankle That was the be- The penalty left Dick Voris ginning of the end for Virginia the Virginia coach talking to which) without Whitley who himself after the game Voris went into action as the nation's! said he and Frank Moseley the 'f play Quarterback Jerry Landis pitched out to who swept wide to his left and romped all the way to the three before Amy Byrd chased him out of bounds Davis was stopped for no gain but on the next play Landis pitched out to who got a good block from Davis for the score Mickey attempted placement was blocked by Bob Simms' fine right end jjs On Austin Aerials Rutgers came marching back on aerial The Scarlet made a first down on the 10 during the futile 60-yard drive on a 10-yard Austin to Simms completion Then Austin scooted around left end to the one where he was pushed out of bounds Fullback Jim Rogers fumbled on the next play however and Spider flankman Bob Coolbaugh pounced on the loose pigskin on the three as the quarter ended Both teams had their opportunities in the second quarter but none materialized The Scarlet advanced to the Spider 31 24 and 20 and were halted Coolbaugh tackled Austin a yard shy of a first down the first time two straight Incomplete passes spiked the second Continued on Page 6 Col 4 incomplete pats Nebraska rammed down to the 16 then fired a short pass to John Engels for a first down on the six Only 32 seconds were left but the Keydets had used up all their time outs and stop the dock Engels Gets Two Rushing out of the huddle the Keydets sent Engels off right tackle to the two The clock showed 14 seconds left and VMI coach John McKenna gambled He rushed in ft substitute to stop the dock end called for a field goaL- Joe Morabit a third-string Junior halback who had gone one-for-one in the extra point department last year got the crucial assignment Because the Keydets had used all their time outs they were penalized to the seven for delay of- the game -V Morabit tried the placement from the 14 directly in front of the goalposts His kick sailed 'wide to the left but was offside and VMI had another chance comings The Tribe was penalized to the line The dock showed one second left A a the Keydets came out of the huddle an official waved his hands and raced to the VMI Continued on Page 6 Col 1 total offense leader end its second ranking passer hardly ever looked as striking as it had Its first three games The injury didn't finish off Whitley completely but after it he saw only spot duty He came on after the Tech second quarter TD and after a 74-yard Tech coach Informed the officials they were going to follow Atlantic Coast Conference rules and allow coaching from the bench The penalty left Virginia on its 48 Even though more than eight minutes remained Virginia chose to pass rather than A Gent Named Shaffer Had Value Too FOLLOWING THE GAME the press-boxmen voted Holsclaw the most valuable player The Tech quarterback who was tiie game's leading runner and who completed eight passes including two touchdown tosses deserved the days honor There was of course the usual dissenter Said that dissenter "Tech's most valuable 'player was the man who injured That Techman was junior fullback Sam Shaffer who 1 docked the Virginia quarterback on a running play by Tech halfback Jay Whitesell Whitley suffered a badly sprained ankle -on the play In the Virginia dressing room after the game Whitley could not walk on the ankle Yet twice during the game he hobbled out on the field and conducted Virginia touchdown drives The rhubarb which brought 'on long and heated discussion after the contest was ft 15-yard penalty called against Voris early in the fourth quarter Virginia shortly before had scored its second touchdown on a seven-yard burst up the middle by halfback Tommy Gravins and trailed then 14-13 The Cavaliers went for two points and pass fell incomplete Tech received the kickoff and reverted to old-style Tech play Three plays in the middle of the line left the Gobblers shy of a first down End Carroll Dale dropped back to punt He had to kick right into the teeth of a fairly strong wind The kick was high and only eight yards past the line of scrimmage A Two-Sided Agreement VIRGINIA PUT THE BAIL in play on the Tech 34 With fourth down coming up and eight yards to go Voris slung the kicking tee out on the field signalling a field-goal attempt Continued on Page 6 Col 1 Football Scores the one-yard line late in the first quarter Different Story The second half however was a different story Rutgers marching 51 and 58 yards for third-period scores and 48 for another early in' the final stanza Tailback Bill Austin tallied the Scarlet's first TD from the one yard out to knot the count and then -fullback Lloyd -Seaman converted from placement to give Rutgers a 7-6 advantage An eight-yard touchdown pass from Bruce Webster to end Bill Hopwood in the end zone and Austin's run for two bonus points put the Scarlet into a 15-6 lead at the dose of the third quarter Rutgers made it 23-6 when Seaman darted 10 yards through the middle of the Spider line and Webster pitched to Hopwood again for two points Other Touchdown -The Spiders get their other touchdown until the closing moments of the game when Joe Rossetti cracked over from the one to climax a 70-yard push' which featured freshman quarterback Dick passing By then it was far too late however The Spiders stopped Austin one of the nation's leading offensive stars shy of a first down on the Richmond 40 early in the first period Rutgers baffled by the formation which Tom Nugent used to employ at VMI before he moved to Florida State quickly moved to the Rutgers 44 on runs by D'Arrigo and fullback Buddy Davis Then Richmond caught the Scarlet napping They kickoff return by Sonny Randle and wound up pitching a fourth down six-yarder to Randle for a score Bob Williams conversion drive Whitley hardly able to walk left the game for good punt on fourth down A Whitley pass was batted down and Tech began the march for Its final TD Near the end of the gave Virginia the lead Whitley made his first sec- As if the loss of Whitley ond-half appearance on the wasn't handicap enough VTr-fourth first play with gini kept beating itself on the the Cavaliers trailing 14-6 and head with holding violations in possession on the Tech 411 The Cavaliers were penalized From there Whitley led them to a score which came on an eight-yard run by Tommy Gravins Trailing by a point College Football STATE VMI I WIIIIm Mkry I Va Taeh i Virginia II Fandolph-Macon Waatarn Md I Hampton Institute IS Claffin I Brldgawatar II Gallaudat I Sowanoa 44 Hampden-8ydny Rutgara IS Richmond II Shaw If -Va State Tehrs 14 Franklin A Marahall 14 WSL II iGullford 14 Emory A Hirji Va Union 14 Tchra II EAST lnd (Fa) IS Slippary Rock (Fa) I 'Carnagla Todl 14 Thiol i Lafayatto 7 Dolawaro 4 'Morgan State II Maryland state II Colgate 1 Bucknell I Dolawara State 2 Howard Baldwln-Wallaco 24 Witten brg 4 Rochaator 47 Union I Navy II Michigan 14 Dartmouth I Harvard Lwighr Amhorat 14 a-i- I iTufto Trinity 4 Woreootor Tach II Batoa 4 Hamilton Wagnar IS Wcoloyan IS Guard Academy 4 Hobart II 14 Millcravlllo 41 Choyrwy 4 Otterboin II -n- 12 Continued on Page 3 Col 8 Big Day for Texas Sooners Beaten 15-14 Army Tops Irish 14-2 five times for holding and Tech declined a sixth 15-yarder Three of the penalties came on defense and one helped set up the first Tech touchdown Tech and Furablr Tech made some mistakes too It' hardly would be an official game for the Gobblers without fumbles Tech lost the ball three times One of the fumbles by cost the Gobblers a late second quarter TD after a Virginia holding infraction had set up a Tech first down on the one -Holsclaw wound up with 181 yards of total offense to raise his seasonal total to He picked up 122 yards on passing by completing eight of 16 Most of his rushing yardage came on rollouts a maneuver he never quit bedevilling Virginia with Whitley completed five of 11 for 38 yards His soph stand-in Arnold Dempsey turned in a creditable enough performance picking up 108 yards with 13 completions in 25 passes But he naturally lacked Whitley's firm quarterbacking hand Neither team had a very firm hand on attack the first quarter But early in the second Holsclaw passes to Watkins and Ken Byrd and the first of the holding penalties against Virginia led to a first down on the Cavalier 20 That in turn led to the Holsclaw TD strike to Watkins who took the ball on the nine and went over standing up Almost immediately thereafter Randle brought fie crowd to its feet with his 74-yard return of the Tech kickcIL He took the ball on the Eire cut to his right and sprinted down the sidelines Jay Whitesell a speedster himself made a desperation frorn-behind pulldown on the Tech 17 With Tech in the same defense DALLAS TEX Oct 15) quarterback Vince Matthews led a dramatic Texas charge with only three minutes 'to go Saturday to fell mighty Oklahoma 15-14 Matthews passed the Long-- horns over most of 70 yards of a desperate touchdown drive and Bobby Lackey the regu-lar Texas quarterback came in to pass for the touchdown and kick the extra point that knocked down the No 2 team and give the Longhorns victory In this storied game for the first time since 195L 76000 Fans More than 7 6000 fans jammed into the Cotton Bowl and watched the struggle that found Texas leading for three quarters Oklahoma taking the lead on the grab of a Texas handoff by Sooner guard Jim Davis who lumbered 24 yards to ft touchdown and then the Continued on 'Page 6 Col 4 SOUTH BEND Ind Oct 11 (AT penalty-plagued Cadets led by swift Pete Dawkins relentlessly punched out a 14-2 football victory over favored Notre Dame Saturday Dawkins befitting a great performance all this cloudy-windy afternoon scored the clinching touchdown on a six-yard run with seven seconds remaining Neither Notre Dame nor a rash of penalties could stop unbeaten Army a one-point underdog from scoring its third straight victory and handing the Irish their first loss after two triumphs Army was rated No 3 and Notre Dame No 4 in the current Associated Press national rankings Had Game In Bag The Cadets had th game in the bag 'all the way although they led only 6-2 until Continued on Page 6 Col 7 Tte If players are the Sonny Randle (22) John Barger (34) and Sam Shaffer (42) Mike Zeno (68) and Ken Byrd 81) The Gobblers won 22-13 in a game at Victory Stadium ABOUT TO FUMBLE Seconds after this picture was taken VPI halfback Dickie Snead (21) fumbled and Jim McShane (not shown) recovered The action occurred on 44-yard line in the second quarter Other identifiable Continued on Page 6 Col 1 i a -a a A a a a.