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The Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Virginia • 49

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Section I 1 Bellino Romps Again as Navy ins BoVvl Title Closer Cavaliers Missouri Stops Citadel Purdue ers (Picture on Page 5) (Picture on Page 4) DROPS TO SECOND by 0 arris Norfolk Tooter Errs still showed fj by pasS) by 1 i 0 0 the game apparently tucked away for the Tar Dale Betty to Tom Brown from the North in 10 the fi on his firs: that coverec VMI Repeats Stuns As King 7 MINNEAPOLIS Conquers Sooners full ball Bow 41 6 at Annapolis WIL 36 2 8 0 4 348 0 65 MTMNPAOnTTC 7 A DI Boilermakers four time losers with a disdain for the mighty caught Minnesota flat footed Saturday with a first half aerial offensive and whipped the nation's No 1 ranked football team 23 14 With their dream of an unbeat en season and national title fad ing the Gophers raged for two second half touchdowns but were beaten by Bernie 35 yard field goal in the third period Purdue got a freak touchdown on the final play for win dow dressing rifle arm shot Purdue to two first half touchdowns anc a 14 0 lead before Minnesota re covered from the shock Citadel 11 73 73 7 18 0 7 340 0 IS 6 20 irst downs Rushing vardaga Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized Sewanee Washington 8 Lee 8 12 6 Hickey 4 run (Hickey run) Gummev 4 run (run tailed) Hess 2 run (pass failed) Russ 4 run (run failed) Agnew 45 pass from Plnkley (Munal pass from Plnkley) Martin 18 run (pass failed) Duke Stomps Wake orest sive line into the game to wear down the Deacons and beat them for the ninth year in a row Quarterback Walt Rappold of the second Duke unit ran over two touchdowns from the two yard line Don Altman No 1 unit quarterback hit end Tee Moor man with a 15 yard scoring pass and third stringer Gil Garner got into the act with a 19 yard scoring pass to end Ed Chestnutt in the closing minutes The other Duke touchdown came on a one yard run by halfback Dean Wright ARM BUSY Vaiidy Whips Wallops us football Challenge in CPVVmpp i win" the Southern Con OCWdllCe 1 1 1 interior line to take their second straight conference title VMI sent Kern of Norfolk Va and Pat Morrison of Churchland Va into the Bull dog defenses for 138 yards and completely stunned 14000 fans in sunny cold weather Kern smashed over for two touchdowns and quarterback How ard Dyer got the other on a one yard smash in the fourth period Dyer personally led a VMI de fense which smothered all but one Citadel threat Dyer picking up 59 yards lengthened his Southern Confer ence yardage record to far outdistancing the old mark of 227 set by Virginia Billy Holsclaw Except for their one scoring jaunt The Citadel ventured into VMI territory only twice first touchdown came on a 60 yard drive in the first quar ter capped by 14 yard sweep on a fourth down situa tion three yard smash in the second period climaxed a 76 yard VMI drive and put the Key dets out front 14 0 A puny punt which slipped off John Trayn foot and carried only four Wake orest's offense was con centrated in the passing arm of quarterback Norman Snead the No 5 passer He com pleted 13 of 33 passes for 236 yards It was a Snead 10 yarder to end Bobby Allen for a second period touchdown and Snead's conversfon that Wake orest ahead 7 6 But Duke raced 62 yards in sev en plays the next time it got the ball Rappold going the final two yards to put the Blue Devils back in front They never lost control again rugged defense limited Wake orest to 57 yards on the ground putting the offensive pres sure on passing Three times Duke intercepted Snead passes two of the thefts leading the way to Duke touchdowns Duke also flashed a strong pass ing game as it completed nine of 12 for 100 yards as the Blue Devil passers were content mainly to throw for short yardage rather than the home run pitch CLIMAX BY AIR The first Duke touchdown came on a 16 play drive that carried 71 yards The first 15 plays were on the ground Altman hitting Moor man with his scoring pass omthe first aerial effort Midway of the second period arm carried Wake orest into the lead as the Deacons sped 53 yards in four plays After conversion had put Wake orest ahead Duke moved back into the lead within four minutes A 35 yard run by soph halfback Mark Leggett to the 4 was the big play of the series: Interceptions of Snead passes set up the last two Duke touch downs in the final quarter ull back John Tinnell of Eastville Va grabbed a Snead pass and re turned it 19 yards to Wake or 36 Six plays later Rappold was over from the 2 In the final minute Duke halfback Bob Garda picked off a Snead pass on the 19 of Wake orest On the next play Garner threw to Chestnutt for the touchdown Leggett with 63 yards in six carries was the top Duke ball carrier as 10 men contributed to 234 yard ground game ullback Joe Bonecutter with 20 yards in four carries was Wake most successful rusher Duke used 36 men against 24 (See Duke Page 4) Powerless in the first two peri ods Minnesota swept back on touchdowns by Bill Munsey and Roger Hagberg but Purdue twice braced in the final four minutes when Minnesota threatened to pull it out The loss dropped Minnesota to second place in the Big Ten race behind Iowa The Hawkeyes who were knocked out of the No 1 national rating last week by Min nesota clinched no worse than a tie for the Big Ten crown by beat (See Minnesota Page 3) irst downs Rustling yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized SCORE VMI (IldUSI Kearn 14 run (3 run) Kern 14 run (kick failed) Clt Crnurh run foass failed) Kern 3 run (Dyer to Jone Dyer 1 run (pass failed) TERPS GO AHEAD our plays later Betty passed to end Gary Collins from the 3 for the touchdown which over came a 1914 Tar Heel lead Tempers flared but the officials NASHVILLE Tenn (AP) Van derbilt scored three times in the first halt but had to hang on for dear life in the late stages Sat urday to beat William and Mary 22 8 in an intersectional football game The underdog Southern Confer ence Indians started a fourth quarter uprising that produced one touchdown and was headed for an other when quarterback Dan Bar pitchout to Roger Hale was lost on a fumble to Vanderbilt at the Commodore 11: The victory was the third of the year for the Southeastern Confer ence Commodores all against non conference competition compared to five losses It was the seventh defeat against two vic tories for William and Mary UMBLES GALORE The' fumble filled game was deep in the opening period before the Commodores registered ull back Jim Johnson rammed over from the 2and quarterback Russ Morris kicked the first of his two conversions XThe drive covered 76 yards in 1( $ays Vanderbilt scored twite in the second period once on a 52 yard march with reserve quarterback Hank Lesesne passjng to halfback Jeff Starling for the last 34 yards Lesesne passed to end Wade Butcher for the two point conver sion Reserve halfback Matt Howard counted the third touchdown in a i one yard plunge to end a 49 yard drive i The Indians came to life in the i fourth quarter when Barton's passing to end Joe Poist ate up I most of the 85 yard scoring drive (See Vanderbilt Page 5) Nc 21 256 159 13 21 1 4 404 5 87 WINSTON SALEM NC (AP) aroused football team stormed from behind in the second period Saturday and proceeded to run over Wake orest 34 7 to clinch a tie for the Atlantic Coast Conference title and impress the post season bowl game promoters The seventh ranked Blue Devils scored in every quarter as they won their seventh game in eight starts and brought their conference record to 5 0 Duke threw a seemingly endless stream of talented quarterbacks and halfbacks working behind an aggres irst downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized SCORE Maryland Mnrth Carolina arris 1 run (kick failed) arris 1 run (Elliott kick) Piper 5 pass from Betty (Scott kick Smith 26 run (kick failed) Pond i 90 kickoff return (Scott kick) Collins 3 pass from Betty i Browt (pass from NovaU Wolfpack Tied LOS Arizona State University scored two touch downs in the second period Sat urday night to tie North Caro lina State 15 15 at halftime of their intersectional football game at the Coliseum NC State scored a first period touchdown then quarterback Roman Gabriel scored on a one yard sneak on the first play oi the second period to give the Wolfpack a 12 0 lead before the Sun Devils scored prevented a wholesale brawl dur ing the final minute In the third period Maryland halfback Dennis Condie scooted 96 yards for a touchdown after a North Carolina kickoff That touchdown came 13 sec onds after North Carolina had opened up a 19 7 lead The Tar Heels scored when Wall inter cepted a pass on the 26 and Moyer Smith raced the distance on the next play North Carolina went down to its fifth conference defeat and its seventh over all this season The Tar Heels have only one victory that over Notre Dame The victory was fifth against four defeats over all and its fourth in six conference games North Carolina bounded to a 13 0 lead behind the passing of quar terback Ray arris and appeared to be on the way to breaking a four game losing streak The Tar 1 Heels marched 45 yards on five plays the first time they had the ball arris hit full back Bob Elliot with a 25 yard pass to set up the score went over from the one TER PS MARCH yards offered the only opportunity of the day Quarterback Jerry Nettles com pleting four of five passes guidec the 44 yard drive with Bobby Crouch plunging two yards for the touchdown Sub quarterback Bob Mitchell conducted VMI to its last period touchdown 66 yards in 14 plays with Dyer sneaking over from the 1 VMI compiled a total of 356 yards to 148 for The Citadel Kern with 88 yards and Morrison with 50 far outdistanced all other in dividual efforts The victory left VMI at 7 1 1 overall and 4 0 in the confer ence It left The Citadel 6 2 1 and 4 2 in the conference THE STATISTICS VMI 22 287 69 69 2 ltA I 20 BY PERIODS 6 6 Sidney 'Hughes However Hughes thought back Pat Drass' was the carrier and blew his whistle when knee hit the ground Mean while Betty scooted into the end zone Because of the whistle the ball was declared dead on the three The tally came on the next play Maryland coach Tom Nugent quoted one official as saying "a thing we always fear will happen (See Ref Page 3) W3 A A LEXINGTON Va (AP) Washington arid unbeaten football team unleashed a crush ing 439 yard rushing attack against Sewanee here Saturday and routed the outmanned Tigers 32 8 ive backs figured in the scoring as the Generals won their seventh game of the year in a quest for their first undefeated season since 1914 They play one more game at Washington University in St Louis next Sat urday Only a tie with Johns Hopkins mars the record me siaiisiics Swan6 10 79 141 10 22 1 71 1 4 1 20 SCORE BY PERIODS 8 12 6 CHAPEL HILL NC (AP) slick offense not only tricked North Carolina defenders but also the officials Saturday as the Terps defeated the Tar Heels 22 19 with a last minute touch down" At the end spectators onto the field A near riot developed and the officials needed a police escort to leave Kenan Stadium One student was arrested It was impossible to tell whether players were also in volved Tempers flared first when back judge Sidney Hughes said Tar Heel halfback Milam Wall interfered with a Maryland pass in the end zone in the final two minutes' The play which gave Mary land a first down on the one yard line set up the winning touch down OICIAL OOLED But before it was scored on a fourth down pass from Dale Betty to Gary Collins the Terps appeared to have gone into the end zone on third down CAVALIER KICKS TO THE Wayne Ballard (22) punts toward the sidelines to avoid charging Navy linemen in game at Annapolis The Middie rushers are guard John Hewitt (62) and end rank Dattilo (88) Virginia end Ed Menzer (85) is at right Navy won 41 6 (AP) Sports and Business WMirsinian Jilot ani Torfemoulh Skif A i' By GEORGE MCCLELLAND Virginian Pilot Sport Writer ANNAPOLIS In the final shakedown cruise before the Army game Navy sent oft sunk Virginia to the bottom Saturday As feared by Virginians it was a mismatch but what set this 41 6 torpedoing apart was the work of the incomparable Navy' halfback Joe Bellino The chunky little first classman selected this bright chilly November afternoon for a matchless performance By scoring the first four touchdowns Navy made Bellino set an Academy record for points produced in one game And mo mentarily at least he led the na tion with 104 points Bob Gaiters of New Mexico State began the dav with 98 The 24 points mustered by the 5 9 son of Winchester Mass surpassed the Navy mark of 19 established against Columbia in 1935 by Snead Schmitt The lat ter is Capt Schmidt now as signed here at the Academy and one of the 21000 persons who cheered lustily at every Bellino move in Memorial Stadium GOES 39 YARDS or sheer drama of course nothing can touch the three six pointers Joe the Jet achieved against Army last fall But Virgin i its losing streak now a fright 1 ful 25 might dispute that point After tallying on an eight yard pass from Hal Spooner at 3:20 of i the second period Bellino danced 39 yards down the right sideline for six more points barely four minutes later Then the All Ameri ca candidate exceeded every thing that had gone before with a 90 yard run Starting from his 10 with 90 seconds left in the half Joe sliced off right tackle eluded a inebacker and took off At the 35 he reversed his field complete ly and finished by fairly flying down the left sideline This run was his longest as a Midshipman The fourth touchdown made after four cracks from the one yard line in the third quarter finished and for the day Already acclaimed as the finest halfback to wear the Navy blue and gold Joe has scored in all eight of his team's victories The men of Crabtown will take an 8 1 record into Philadelphia two weeks hence The only defeat was administered last week by Duke 19 10 And in that one Joe was blanked Bv gaining 198' yards in 17'car ries this marvelous fellow with the stuttering step and the blind ing speed eclipsed the seasonal rushing record of 691 set in 1952 by red ranco a fullback Bell ino has 749 yards with the Cadets his favorite playmates left Joe has scored four times in two years against West Point Just to ice his efforts he caught a pass completed one and quick kicked '52 yards He is human though He fumbled once and had (See Navy Page 4) NORMAN Okla (AP) Mis souri's Big Eight championship express slammed into Oklahoma Saturday and came away clean with 41 19 victory the ninth straight and first over the Sooners in 15 years Long' scoring jaunts of 77 and 60 yards by halfback Norris Ste venson aided Missouri It was unbeaten sixth triumph in the conference and Oklahoma's third loss which left the Sooners far back in the race for the first time in 14 years The decision also placed the current No 2 nationally ranked Tigers in good position to become the top team in the Associated Press poll because of 23 14 victory over No 1 Minne sota Missouri had a wide margin at the end the score by no means jiortrayed the toughness of the gdme 7 LOSERS SCORE IRST Jt i Oklahoma got a homecoming crowd of 56500 to its feet on the fourth play from scrimmage Halfback Mike McClellan sped 70 yards down the sidelines after a cutback through tackle to get the Sooners off to a 6 0 lead But that was the last time they enjoyed the advantage Missouri immediately showed Its muscle storming 67 yards in 14 plays for the tying touchdown Donnie Smith plunged two yards for the score and Bill Tobin kicked the first of five extra points giving him 21 straight for the season He added two field goals of 32 and 29 yards to wind up with 11 points for the day It was a glorious day for Coach Dan Devine and his strong band of Tigers as they handed the Sooners their first conference de feat at Owen ield in 18 years The verdict also ruptured a 14 game winning streak the Sooners had forged against Missouri Two fast touchdowns in the sec ond quarter catapulted Missour to a 24 6 lead Smith smasher through center on a trap play and went" 30 yards and minutes later Stevenson surged around left enc on a power sweep long distance gallop 77 yards SOONERS SCORE But the Sooners fire and countered with their sec ond touchdown late in the period on a 36 yard run by halfback Melvin Sandersfeld This gave Oklahoma new hope and it came out for the second half with a vigor The Sooners used up most of the third quarter with a 7l yard sweep in 16 plays (coring a I touchdown with less than five minutes left in the period Quarterback Jimmy Carpenter plunged over from the 1 yard line but fullback Ronnie Hartline was top gun in the surge picking up 58 yards 60 yard sprint came bn thS first play of the final quar ter and Smith counted his third touchdown of the day from the 3 yard line to put the game safely away Miwoiri io Oklahoma 6 6 7 It Oklcdellan 70 run (kick failed) Smith 2 run (Tobin kick) Tobin 32 Smith 30 run (Tobin kick) Stevenson 77 run (Tobin kick) Sandersfeld 36 run (Run fal ed) Carpenter 1 run Stevenson 60 run (Tobin kick) Tobin 2 i Smith 4 run (Tobin kick) Aliendance 56500 i Detroit J3 7 PHILADELPHIA Highly favored': Detroit sdored in the final two'minutes after driving 70 yards and defeated Villanova 13 7 Saturday Tom Shanahan ran the ball over from the 4 with 1:08 left for the deciding touchdown VANDERBILT ullback Jim Johnson dives oyer William and Mary linemen for a touchdown in game at Nashville quarterback Dan Driscoll (16) tries in vain to 1 stop the drive Vanderbilt won 22 8 (AP) PHAPT PCTOM (IP) 44U61VA4X4IV W4 1 VMI deserting its I fense turned back The most serious 52 years to wiffthe Southern Con ference championship 20 6 here Saturday A Citadel victory would have jiven it the crown The Keydets resorting to bruis ing line play crushed The Cita Penalty Sets Up Terp Win CHAPEL HILL NC (AP) Maryland scored a touchdown in the final 65 seconds after an end zone pass interference penalty and defeated North Carolina 22 19 in an explosive Atlantic Coast Conference football game Satur day With safely Heels tossed North Carolina 23 The referee ruled that halfback Milam Wall interfered in the end zone and Maryland was awarded a first down on the 1 'i1' In the second period Carolina went 56 yards plays arris who gained nal yard threw three passes for a' total of 35 yards during the drive Maryland scored its first touch down later in the second quarter when it marched 55 yards in nine plays A freak pass from Betty to end Henry accounted for 30 yards and brought the ball to the North Car olina four Betty throwing from the 34 tossed to Poniatowski who deflect ed the ball to Condie on the 15 Condie was tripped on the four After the Terrapins lost a yard Betty threw to Dan Piper for th4 touchdown North Carolina fumbled on the Maryland five in the second pe riod on the 18 in the third and on the two in the fourth In the third quarter the Tar Heels picked up 69 yards in five plays but were stopped inside the five by a sudden ly stout Maryland defense THE STATISTICS Md 10 90 94 8 21 2 B1A ft 1 90 BY PERIODS it 0 7 67 Ref Takes ake Kills Terp TD D' I 'x 1 A X' A A A A' vt ST WVVV X' a £1 BfJr WW I I l'T ajMTAOC" Ware yv 4 )' a 'L! 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