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The Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Virginia • 51

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KajMRBMI BBQ9H '4WWH i kUw IP5 lu 1 ol ii SkI SOM JI rSnl IWafil LJ fj j( Sunday Oct 21 1962 Toe Gains Edge floats io twice in the second quarter i by (AP) A rmyNips Tech 20 12 Wallops urman Gobblers Heiminff A Star players converge on a'Vir Wake orest 21 to 7 OysterBo ivlyN ext Navy Pitt Post Wins Navy Pitt i from pais Keydets riumph Alert Duke Shuts Out Clemson 16 to 0 touchdown Mike Reynolds con 7' v' by 0 0 5 409 0 iw 7 IM 14 21 1 7 37 2 10 351 1139 and just did hold off a winless Wake eleven in the clutches The Deacons helped consider ably by four Cavalier fumbles crossed goal line three times But one touchdown was WM ii 134 called back because of a holding penalty: Wake orest make its extra points count either and that was how Virginia won Guard Bob Rowley kicked two for the Cavaliers After a scoreless first quarter Virginia marched 98 yards for its first touchdown and 33 for its second Quarterback Gary Cuomo again the key man for the Cava liers and fullback Tommy Griggs scored on one yard runs A fiveyard pass from sopho more Ralph Brandewcide to end Henry Newton and a one half yard NEWTON Mass (AP) Navy alertly converted Boston College mistakes into a 26 6 football vic tory Saturday with the Middies' sophomore 1 2 punch of rank Staubach and Pat Donnelly deliv ering the knockout blows The teams were locked in a 6 6 duel and BC was driving to ward an apparent go ahead touchdown when stubby junior Arkansas Texas McKnelly ord run (Crosby AH 44530 A 1 PITTSBURGH An im provised two point conversion pass from Jim Traficant to Rick Leeson provided Pitt with an 8 6 football victory Saturday over previous unbeaten UCLA The two pointer followed Paul 6 yard sweep around left end on a pitch out midway through the third period ullback Leeson lined up to kick the conversion with Trafi cant holding The snap from cen ter was high Traficant dropped back looking for a receiver Lee son dashed into the right comer of the end zone and snared Trafi cant's pass in between two UCLA defenders 7 kick) I Henning 10 00 164 14 29 1 4357 1 84 OB Saturday Navy and Pitt clash next Sat urday afternoon at oreman ield A complete story on the city's biggest sports event of the year can be found on page 6 By GEORGE McCLELLAND Vlrtlnltn Pllot Spwti Wrltw WEST POINT NY Signs all over this old military post ad vertised a turkey shoot at Michia Stadium Saturday As such it very nearly became some thing historic The Turkeys al most wound up doing the shoot ing As it developed three platoons of Army players managed to con quer the Gobblers from Virginia parades no marching bands The 14 12 victory scored by the Cava liers over Wake orest was just as austere Virginia barely managed to score 15 155 101 1 20 0 5 44 2 2 4' 5 3 14 0 By ABE GOLDBLATT Vlrtlnln PIM Iportt Wrltw WILLIAMSBURG William Mary used Dan passing arm and a stout defense to fell Paladins 21 7 Satur day in Southern Conference com bat made ridiculous by a stag gering total of 336 yards in penal ties Henning fired 13 yards to half back Charlie Weaver and 47 to end Bill Corley for touchdowns ull ZENO STARS Engineered by sophomore quar 1 terback Larry Zeno the star of the 9 7 upset of mighty Ohio i State the Bruins marched back minutes later for a touchdown on I Kermit Alexander's 1 yard sweep 1 But Zeno's pass on a two point conversion attempt failed when Alexander pulled in the pass but was tackled near the 10 yard line by end Joe Kuzneski Zeno tried to bring the Bruins back in the fourth quarter as they reached the Panther 21 However the attack stalled and Zeno whose field goal two weeks beat Ohio State attempted a three pointer from the 29 It sailed wide to the right LAST DITCH TRY The Bruins stormed back again in the final minutes of the game but sophomore Marty Schotten heimer of Pitt intercepted pass on the Pitt 28 Pitt scored first in the third quarter after the teams played scoreless tie through a punt dom inated first half Concentrating oh a ground attack the Panthers steadily ripped apart the UCLA line for short but sufficient gains Before scoring Martha ran for 22 yards in five plays and caught a 10 yard pass from Traficant His 6 yard touchdown jaunt cli maxed the 12 play 58 yard drive The key play in the scoring march was Zeno's 47 yard pass to Alexander who stumbled and fell on the Pjtt 28 UfLA 0 0 4 0 4 I Plttsburah Ml 0 5 Marlh 4 run (Leajon WS5 from Traficant) Alaxandar 1 run (pan fUd) 'Itendanca 40419 By RUSSELL BORJES Vlralnlan PIW Sparta Wrllar CHARLOTTESVILL At Vir homecoming football game baturday there were no guard Al Krekich intercepted a wide angle sideline pass at his 14 and ran it' back 39 yards Donnelly finished off the drive by hurdling over his left tackle to cover the final 6 yards He See Middies Page 6) irst downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passas Passes Intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized Duke Clemson riirfla 1 run Rappold 4 run (kick failed) Reynolds 30 Attendance 38000' DEACONS our ginia fumble in first period of ACC game at Charlottesville Bill aircloth (54) made the recovery for Deacons Virginia went on to win 14 12 (AP) 0 14 (Rowley kick) irst downs 1 Rushing vrdeqe Passing yardage' Passes Passes Intercepted I Punts umbles lost Yards penalized Wake orest Vlralnla Ua TnruM 1 nlimna Griggs 1 plunge (Rowley kick) Newton 5 pass from Brandewlede (kick failed) Thomason 1 run (run failed) Attendance 16500 Texas Trips Arkansas in Last Minute CLEMSON SC (AP) ull back Mike Curtis intercepted vcrted 4 nnrcAa Ia ttni tin IWU 1 A IQvl 1 IU OLL CURTIS CLIPS Mike Curtis (33) makes a dive for Clem goal line and Is stopped in the first quarter of ah ACC game Satur day Two plays later Curtis went over and started Blue Devils on their way to a 16 0 win over the Tigers (AP) GOOD urman end Al Martin leaps high in an effort to block Danny punt in opening quarter Saturday at Williamsburg Martin appears to be riding the shoulders of an Indian (Staff photo by Yingling) BEST SEAT IN THE Cnmmy Lew? (12) gets a first hand view of this first half play against Virginia Tech Wynston Holbrook tackles George Tappas after the Cadet end gained two yards Army turned back upstart lech 20 12 VIRGINIA 11w 39 5 13 3 4 350 4 13 plunge by Larry Thomason ac counted for the Wake orest points or the Virginia alumni in a Scott Stadium crowd estimated at 16500 the victory was a victory no matter how close or how plain It was only the third Atlantic Coast Conference win for Virginia since 1958 and two of those came last season DEENSE TURNS TRICK Until last year in fact Virginia beaten anybody since 1958 But that 28 game losing streak is something coach Bill Elias has somehow made almost everybody forget since he took over last season is doing it without mir rors just victories This was the third Cavalier win in four games this fall or the football players the win represented a successful de but in the ACC Virginia is 1 0 there and 3 1 overall a 20 15 loss to VPI two weeks ago the only black mark Last week it was the offense led by the great Cuozzo that shined in a 28 6 decision over VMI This time the defense was forced to work overtime an again Cuozzo was a star along with tackle Dave Graham The attack fizzled on first play from scrimmage Elias tried to fool the Deacons from Winston Salem NC He put two quarterbacks captains Cuozzo and Carl Kuhn into the same back field Cuozzo playing at a halfback wound up throwing a long pass to Graham on a tackle eligible play But the Deacons were well prepared for this game and they covered Graham well the pass going incomplete ailing this Virginia then twice gave the ball to Wake a if to find out what the Deacons could do A mishandled punt gave Wake the ball at 26 yard line But the Deacons go anywhere and Mickey field goal try from the 32 was short and to the left Then Kuhn fumbled at his 22 But a goal line stand by the No 2 unit held Wake at the Cavalier two rom there Cuozzo mixing up his plays like the excellent quar terback he has become put the long long drive in motion On this march fullback Ted (See Deacon Page 8) ARMY TECH IJ 191 57 3 6 I 636 3 83 0 0 7 0 The Statistics urman 8 94 39 DUKE CLEMSON 15 181 65 58 5 6 406 3 20 0 7 (Reynolds kick) LEXINGTON (AP) Keydets offset their own sro offense with an alert payf de fense Saturday and hpkr on to their Southern Conference foot ball lead with a 20 7 victory over stubborn Wildcats The alert Keydets winning their third consecutive game intercepted three passes by the Earl Cole twice AUSTIN Tex (AP) Duke Car lisle and Johnny Genung passed Texas on a 85 yard touchdown march in the final 36 seconds Saturday night to protect its na tional No 1 ranking and stay atop the Southwest Conference race with a tense 7 3 victory over Arkansas'" Texas rolled on undefeated and untied through five games Arkansas took a 3 0 lead in the second period when sophomore Tom McKnelly kicked his first field goal in college a 41 yard effort The Razorbacks with Billy Moore passing and Jesse Branch running had Texas backed up in its territory except twice during the game And the Razorbacks missed a touchdown when Danny Brabham smashed to the one yard line only to fumble the ball into the end zone But with 7 minutes left to play Texas launched that plitterin drive that swen 85 yards in plays on the of Carlisle and Genung and with Tommy ord cracking over from the three yard line for te touchdown that brought a great roar from the biegest crowd ever to see football game in 64 A A A A 000 7 7 klckL BOSTON (AP) Richmond struck with electrifying swiftness for two touchdowns within 45 sec onds at the start of the second half and handed winless Boston University a 14 7 football defeat Saturday night starring Brent Vann The 185 pound senior from ranklin Va chased a BU fum ble into the end zone and fell on the bounding ball for a touchdown at 3:50 of the third quarter which proved decisive WEAK PITCHOUT The bobble resulted from a pitchout which caromed off full back Charlie Meadows who never got his hands on the ball At 3:05 Ken Wilboume as the man in motion took an inside handoff the final yard for the (See Richmond Page 6) 1 TLa Itsrv 131iia rAvi! hillhftrlr touchdowns and scored one of got the visitors in position again them himself as the Duke Blue early in the third period when Devils whipped Clemson 16 0 Saturday Curtis a 209 pound sophomore from Rockville Md hauled in blunting Davidson drives and the agrs Third time setting up their own final touchdown ullback Bill the i leading gainer with 94 yards in 1 18 scored all three VMI I touchdowns oh short runs the first two after drives of 69 and 53 yards as VMI came from be hind a 7 0 deficit incurred by a (See VMI Page 8) one Clemson pass on the Tiger scason drive started on the Duke 25 and two 15 yard per sonnl foul penalties against (See Duke Page 2) Spiders Surprise Terriers Put Up Battle irst downs Rushing yardagu Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted by Punts umbles lost Yards penalized Virginia Tech Armv Armv Patartfin 1 run Woodbury 34 past from Ltwl (Haydt kick) Hawkina 7 past from Cartwrloht (run failed) Waldrop 2 run (kick failed Vlr Cahill 13 pats from Cartwrloht (pats failed) Attendance 25124 Tech But the fihal score was 20 12 and it was Army holding nn and gratefully watching the clock run out at the finish The Cadets are ranked first among all the collegiate elevens of the East Still Virginia Teph might have won Indeed one could almost say should have The men of Blacksburg certainly had am ple opportunity beginning from the first play from scrimmage which produced an Army fumble TECH SCORES Unfortunately Tech did not muster a scoring punch until late in 4he third period with Army ahead 14 0 Then Pete Cartwright a junior quarterback sandwiched touchdown passes to Tommy Hawkins and Mike Cahill around the third Cadet score Neither time could the Gobblers connect on a two point conversion try But a tie was still possible and the Virginians made quite i try They had a first at the Army 22 with four minutes left only to be by a 15 yard: penalty With a minute and' 40' seconds remaining another chance presented itself Lynn Jones the sophomore tackle from Princess Anne recovered a fum ble at the Army 39 But this time Tech could make no headway at all Much of success was provided by two teams of spe cialists the Go Team which fig ured in its three touchdowns and the celebrated Chiese Bandits who defended admirably ARMY TD Army smashed 59 yards on th ground for its first touchdown Dick Peterson the right halfback did most of the carrying on slants behind the left side of the Cadet line Peterson smacked over from the five at 14:20 of the first period (See Bold Va Tech 'Pane 8) Cuozzo Leads Virginia Over ake by 14 to 12 Curtis Paces Win irst down Rushing yerdag Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted by runrs umbles lost Yards penalized urman W4M Weaver 13 (kirk fallal Luongo 2 pass from Brunty (Cordell kick) Penkunas 1 run (Kearn pass from Henning) Corley 47 pass from Henning (Bishop kick) back Stan Penkunas smashed through from the one for the other score But the Indians needed the break of a pass interference pen alty in the third quarter to over come a 7 6 halftime deficit The Tribe was assessed 197 yards in penalties for a Southern Conference record urman was penalized 139 yards falling one yard short of the previous mark of 140 set by Virginia Tech in 1959 One touchdown was nullified by a penalty In any event the outcome (See Penalties Page 4) he intercepted again on the Clemson 40 returning it to the 30 rom there quarterback Walt Rappold engineered the Dukes to a touchdown going the final four yards himself Rappold threw strikes of 26 yards to Mark Leggett and to Reynolds for 15 in the scoring drive 9TH IELD GOAL Early in the final period Reynolds booted a 30 yard Blue Devil field goal his ninth of the 33 in the second period and re turned it to the 14 our plays later Curtis bowled over from the one for the first Blue Devil SK 1 i I 5: I Jvi 1 Lit BMit I i 1 rwK JI It mqi I wtfc WwBBmlHMSE! 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