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1 -rr TV J' i'illi Lj i i TT TT mm It 1 i frrr tofc Richmond 11 Virginia Sunday November 8 1939 Virginia Falls 32-20 To pass catches and scored the second 'on a five-yard pitch from Fischer His bag for the day was seven receptions for 68 yards Ted Denby cast is wingback for the first time added three more catches ravins (46 yards in 13 car-rics) and Harold Rust (41 in 11) provided the running which prevented the Gamecock defenses from ganging up on the Virginia air game The Hard Way In the face of all the Cavalier passing and the three Virginia leads South Carolina was fl content to play it the way it yardage usually get the the hard way on the ground In view of the reputation as a two three and four-yard team it may have been ironic in a way that South Carolina finally put it away with home run plays Fullback Phil Lavoie led the Gamecock assault He scored the first two South Carolina touchdowns and gained 124-yards in 19 carries When Virginia do anything the first time it had possession there may have been 'some notion that it would be more of the usual of the Cavaliers But the notion quickly Virginia's Ken Sappington Snares Stan Fischer's Pass In Mid-Air Surrounded By Three iff FMa to JAtetA Mknml Gamecock Defenders ON ELLIOTTS KICK Keydets Edge Lehigh 7 to 6 i Colonials By Shelley Rolfe Times-Diepatch Sports Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE Nov finest performance of the season wasn't good enough to make the Cavaliers a winner Saturday afternoon Harassed for more than three quarters by a Virginia team which refused to behave as one which already had been licked seven times this season South Carolina finally prevailed 32-20 Forced to come from behind three times South Carolina get around to wrapping it up until the Tourth quarter when two long-gainer ground thrusts broke the back of Virginia resistance and shot down Cavalier hopes of pulling off a stirring upset -A 73-yard run by quarterback Steve Satterfield took the Gamecocks out of the red for the third and last time with the final quarter 4:53 old The game winner began with Sat terfleld sliding to his left on the split-T quarterback option and it ended with Satterfield turning the comer and outraging the Virginia secondary Final Crusher' The final crusher was delivered with less than three minutes to play when halfback Joe Gomes turned right end for a 1 36-yard scoring foray which came six plays after an inters ception had cut down a last desperate Cavalier assault inside the South Carolina 30 Before the one-two Satter-ficld-Gome punch Virginia had moved into the fourth quarter In brisk and ambitious fashion Less than two minutes before game winning run Virginia took the lead for the last time on an eight-yard Tommy Gravlns-Dick Hunton aerial and conversion Crowd of 10000 That made it a 20-16 'and at that point neither the Gamecocks nor the' chilled members of Commonwealth Day crowd of 10000 may have believed a thing they were feeing on the field or the score-board But then it's likely the disbelief was generally a good part of the game The Cavaliers 'scored -first held a half time lead (13-8) for the first time this season and staged their most spectacular eerial asSfcult since the last game against South mid-November a year when Arnold Dempsey completed 19-passes for 249-yards Soph Stan Fischer was the passer this time who peppered the Gamecock secondary mostly with short aerials lie pleted 16 of 27 for 160-yard passed for one touchdown and showed his arm on the other two scoring advances as Virginia went back to using the pro-type wingcd-T it had employed so successfully before "Reece Whitley was hurt last season But the staunch Virginia 'stand hardly was a one man show Brerry Jones the big end set up the first Virginia TD with a fumble recovery and Sub Fires Over Scores College Football STATE Howard 14 Hampton Institute Fired-Up Spiders Score Biggest Win Since By Steve Guback Times-Dispatch Sports Writer BETHLEHEM PA Nov 7 Battling in near-freezing weather and in shoe-top deep mud Lehigh and VMI punted on third down quick-kicked and behaved here Saturday as if they expected a kick to win the ball game One an extra-point placement by Key det specialist Nelson Elliott Elliott provided an all-important conversion fol- lowing a second quarter touchdown and that was the difference as VMI nipped" changed when Virginia punted out and Jones recovered a hand-off error by Satterfield on the South Carolina 47 Three 1 Fisher passes eight yards to Fred Trainor 12 to Jones 11 to meant a first down on the three and Rust presently scored from the one With the first quarter 11:40 old Gravlns conversion made it 7-0 Lavoie Scores South Carolina came grinding back after the and early in the second quarter Lavoie smashed over right tackle from the eight to climax a 75-yard all ground advance which was featured by Lavoie and Gomes Then Lavoie hit Continued on Page 7 Col 1 South Carolina Virginia 7 iti-a UVa--Rusli 1 piunpo (Qravlna kick) Lauda I run (Lavola run) UVa Jena paia from Flichor Pam failed) Lavola 17 run (Sowtll run) Hunton 4 piM from Qravlna (Qravlna hick) Sattarflald 73 run (Sewall run) Comaa run (Sowall run) Statistics UVA If liS 17-N 1 47 Pint down 11 Bulking yardaga SH Faming yardaga If Paisas S-l Pimm Intercepted by 1 Punta Fumble loot I Varda ptnaltead IS Vols Upset LSU 14-13 KNOXVILLE TENN Nov 7 LTt Fired up Tennessee toppled Louisiana State's cfo fending national champions 14-13 when the unbeaten Tigers disdained a possible tie and lost the gamble for victory in the last quarter Trailing 14-7 midway in the last quarter the nation's No team scored a touchdown after recovering Bill Majors' fumble on his own two-yard line Dure! Malherne plunged over for the touchdown Coach Paul Dietzel's crew decided to go for broke and lost AH-America Billy Cannon who had won for LSU last week with a dramatic 89-yard run smacked at right but was stopped one-yard short of the goal on his try for the winning two points Tennessee's upset 'triumph snapped the country's longest major college winning streak at 19 games The alert Vols turned a pass interception and in LSU fumble into touchdowns In the third Continued on Page 4 CoL 7 Louisiana State 7 IS 14 Cannon 14 run (Harria klch) Cartwright 5f paw Intercap lion (Latner kick) Tank Salles run fLotnor kick) Malherne 7 run (run failed) Statistics lsu I First downs If Tann 7 If 1-4 1 7-11 1 8 Rueklng yardaga PaMing yardage jM Paasefl lS PaaMt Intercepted by 1 Punta 4-H Fumbles Net I Verde penalised 49 Emerson Takes Aussie Crown BRISBANE AUSTRALIA Nov 7 Roy Emerson defeated -his Australian and Davis Cup hero Neale Fraser 6-1 6-2 1-6 6-3- in the men's singles final- of the Queensland tennls championships Saturday In the women's singles final Jan Lehan of Australia whipped Christine "Truman of Britair 6-2 6-L By Roscoe Pnckett Rain put a damper on the crowd but not on the vTrS'inff Miw' if'rrrriY'crsmuh: University of Spiders who rolled to a 26-0 IB! victory over George Washington day at City Stadium ve! TeV1 trter Only 1000 old grads students and other fans at Puri1 braved the elements to see the fircd-up Spiders paced -MC- i by Richmonder Bob Dunnington chalk up their mast area decisive Southern Conference triumph since 1954 when Mink1! if Wc siite' 14 they whipped Die Citadel by STSwTS tw ame an Wofford 4 Furman ii Three TDa for Dunningtnil Prttnfi' 14 1 Dunnington a 6-1 185-pound Kin 7 a 1 a who prepped at Thomas Jefferson gave perhaps his most sparkling collegiate performance as he his team's first three Dartmouth 77 Columbia Cnrnell If Brawn Pitt 71 vi Baal on College 14 Syracuse Penn State II Holy Craw 17 Boat on I Deltwara 41 Tempi hTddlebury IS Vermont tallied PALM DESERT CALIF i Weileyan' Williams! 17 of Conn If Nsrthaaafern 1 Colby 14 Bate 11 BOWQOifit GlV's rackan Runs into Phots by Dram Purbh Trouble for One-Yard Loss ifnMnVriiiume The United StatCI tOUCnaOWnS I The 21-year-old junior gotwon back th Cup from Chrisman (50) Unidentified Spider Made Tackle lint Of his TDson a foiu I ftwn quarterback OMATE TDs AHghny Cam Tech Steinui? 4 Rutnera MaaMchuMtl IS Brendeii 4 'iwVatVrn ftewra! Frank Gagliano with the gamejformance by Captain Sam less than five minutes old The! Snead and his teammates In the socon c8fnp on thrce-yard clcsing singles matches plunge off left tackle 30 scc-J The margin of victory was 81 4 ond before halftime and the to 31 giving the Americans 1e-coa Guard if rpj (Man i third on a spectacular 75-yard mu huirtimn an thJa 7 tory for the 10th time In 13 Tribe Wins 25 to 7 Over Davidson Lehigh 7:6 for its fifth straight triumph in a season marked with surprising success Both Score Early The Keydets touchdown came via that old reliable well-known a 46-yard pass from Howard Dyer to Dick Evans Lehigh also got its touchdown in the second quarter on a 23-yard pass with 1:40 left before intermission The Engineers gambled for the two-point conversion and failed A1 Richmond: took a pitch-out rolled wide to his Continued on Pace 7 Col 5 VMI Lehigh VMI Evmi 41 (Elliott kick) Taylor 8 pat (paa fllM) pin from Dy Schfu Statistics VMI 'First dawn 14 Rushing yardaga 144 I Poling yardaga 1SS I Panes 11-11 Paaaaa Intarcaptsd by 1 Punt 1)1 Fumbles bat I Varda penalM i 71 Lablgh in 111 I 7-714 I 8 TD Pass needed yardage Early in the second Clemson rolled SO yards only to lose the ball again on downs on the Duke 23 Late in the third period the Tigers marched half the length of the field only to be frustrated at the Duke one It wasn't until then that Duke got its offense going and put on a sustained drive The visitors moved 79 yards to the Clemson 11 before pass plays bogged down the drive With the clock running' out Continued on Page 4 CoL 3 Duke a Bail 8 poos from Shingler (run failed) ClemiM Ml 4f III tit 1 8 Clemson Wins 6 to 0 lthe British Saturday with a Idsamatic overpowering per- meetings with their overseas rivals since 1927 and preserving their record of never losing the famed professional golf gcriCS 0n United States soil Although It remained for Master' champion Art Wall Jr to score the Clinching point resounding 7 and 6 tri- umph over Ireland's Christy O'Connor old Sam Snead stole the show Ever spectacular and almost always good the 47-year-old team captain holed out a chip Continued on Page 4 Col 6 West Texas 40 set the stage for Itch's winning i e' Tech Continued on Page 7 Col 1 Virginia Tech 7 I Weet Tense 7 4 Wait -Jenea 7 oaaa from Daw aan iLiftia kkki Chaffer recovered fumblo Id and loot (Stephana kick) Weet Loftis 7 run (pau failed i Date paa from Eastman (Stephana kick) Watt (oily 4 paa from John ion i paaa Hargrove from Jghnetonl Dal 72 paaa from Eastman (run failed) Strock 17 paaa front Eastman (run failed) Statistic VFI West Ten 17 1 774 iret down piinnJ yirdawT "IIIT1 im Pane f-U i Paaaaa Intercepted by I Punti IM 3 -73 New Hampshire 74 Springfield uotine Hopkini ii cwarthmore Maryland Slate 14 Delaware St )W Maryland Lyeaming 11 Maryland State 7Deliwara State ifwi wmiyin John Hopkini Swarthmora south Tennoeaat 14 LSU Oeorgla Took 14 Notra Dam Th Citadel' I Preobyterian Georgia 11 Florida Auburn 71 MIm Itate jX'M Saylkerk If State Auguetme a 1IWinitan-Salm iVendorblK 11 Kentucky 4 Missisi-ppi ChAttaneoflA Alabama 17 Tulanc 7 Bowling Green 11 So Illinois BDwunv yrcwi 99 iihihni lorida A4M AAT 14 i Appalachian Guilford of tho South II SW at Mtmphia If -Sewanea II 4outhweatcm iMemphla) If Nawborry 74 Elon II Continued on Page 7 Col 7 CANYON TEX Nov VP Eastman hit Terry Strock with a 25-yard scoring pass with 11 seconds to play Saturday to give Virginia Tech a 26-21 victory over Weft Texas State Tech completed 'only nine of 23 passes but Eastman threw three of them for touchdowns On anothrr he passed 11 yards to Ajger Pugh who held on to the ball long enough for a completion but fumbled In the end zoncr Sam Shaffer recovered for the touchdown West Texas scored first on' a nine-yard pass play from Jim Dawson to Jimmy Janes Tech bounced back tying the score with tha fumble recovered by iv IS I return of the second half kick 1 Continued on Paep 7 Pol 7 Lonunucu on age I LOl 7 Gaorga Washington I gg jRichmond 7 7 is s-14 Dunnington 4 paaa from Sag- llano (Boon kirk) Dunnington kirk) B8n Rich Ounnlngten 77 kickoff return Imp 15 run (pom faiM) Statistics 'i 4H4 CW Wrl Powna 11 "uMilng yardaga 7f Jawing yardaga 44 Jaeaet 4-lf Intoreepted by I I Runt r7 UR 17 174 Ml Shaffer In the second period Rex Loftis of West Texas burst through right tackle on a nine-yard scoring play Tech again took the lead in the third period on a five-yard pass from Eastman to end Carroll Dale and Chuck Stephens' kick West Texas went in front early in the fourth quarter on Carl Johnston's six-yard touchdown pass to Ned Jolly Then- Eastman got off a long pass to Dale for a touchdown The play covered 72 yards But the attempt to run for two points failed and West Tcxas led 21-20 West Texas fumble which Virginia Tech recovered on the Davidson was losing its fourth Continued on Paw 7 fi tuniinuca on i ajp: I Ull 7 Ufa Ate run miAlTl? ll pail from atoy Hale 41 pail from (kick failed) Cptebenson 14 paaa Intarctp ition i part failed) --i Porach 41 paw Intarceptloa (run fallad) Statistics W4M Flrat downa 14 'Rushing yardaga If) Pawing yardaga ff Faawa 4-11 pUn intercepted by 4 Davidson 14 177 11-77 7 1-141 47 7 ftJJSuTV' 151 Fumbles loot Verde penoKud 1 If On the Inside Page Navy ovrrome Maryland Tage -East Midwest football ganieiL Page Grid results 1 from over the South Page About Dogs Hoof Prints Page Doctoring Golf Tee Shots) Pros play today Page Outdoor Page Page Business Page 11 Sylvia Porter's column Page 14-1 Garden Pages DAVIDSON Nov CP) William Mary halfbacks Jon Stephenson and Jim Porach converted a interceptions into touchdowns late in the fourth quarter Saturday to turn a close Southern Conference football game into a 25-7 rout of Davidnon Stephenson who raced 48 yards for a first-period William Mary score sprinted 34 yards after intercepting a pass by Davidson quarterback Charlie Benson with 6:38 left in the last period Less than a minute iiuer Porach picked off a pass by Benson's successor Tom Red ding and sped 42 yards to score touchdown in the opening minute of the second period came on a 29-yard pass from Benson to halfback George Hart to tie the score Less than four minute remained in the first half when sqph halfback Roger Hale grabbed a pass from quarterback Bob Stoy for 41 yards and touchdown Four thousand fans watched as a bitter cold wind swept the field while the William Mary Indians whooped it up for 291 yards gained rushing The victory brought the Tribe's eon- CLEMSON Nov A 30-yard touchdown pau by its second unit gave Clemson a 6-0 victory over Duke here Saturday and kept the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champs pointed toward a possible bowl trip 1 -Quarterback Lowndes Shing-ler faded from the Duke 30 and looped the ball to reserve end Ed Bost in the end zone for the touchdown in the second period A bad pass from center nullified a placement conver-'sion try Clemson k)t Duke bottled up in it own half of the field until late jn the period At the same time the Tigers threatened to shore on three other occasion Thrests'KaU Statistics Duka Fir dewni 10 The Tigers rolled from mid Fawmo 1 field to the Blue Devil five ear-jKS imytteiy" a ly In the game but a fourth-iFumo 737 down paaa waa abort of 44 1 tenba JbPtebtLdkeO 4Bded.