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The Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk, Virginia • 52

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Section We un pilot Sunday Oct 28 1962 Navy Goblins Spook Pitt 32 to 9 11 I itwy gi I LBeJ io) 1 1 1 TW '(' TjOt Staubach Is Man WltM 'fcs' Tar Show sgSsgEaa On 63 Yard Drive the VMI Slips Past 6 0 63 YARD DRIVE by 0 Pitt Dozes on Sleeper Play Informed that Pitt coach John (See Trick Play Page 5) In inal Minutes Duke Trips State 21 14 from scrim Cuozzo in orm Cavaliers Trounce Davidson 34 to 7 7 by 34 4 0 (See Cuozzo page 8) I 4 II when eely twice terri Navy attack a Pittsburgh a strong for 140 Duke's Pete Widener he might be hitching a ride himself for 220 the rest 3 12 41 IM 0 24 5 45 3 2 tacklers and ran for yard WM 15 79 121 9 25 0 7 341 1 15 0 0 4 pm io 49 144 12 NY cut up Davidson the visitor wonders if surgery might not suit him best With Cuozzo passing for three touchdowns and running for a fourth on this frosty Saturday Virginia coped successfully with a routine assignment The Cava liers won' over the visitors from North Carolina 34 7 amid the blaring trumpets on hand day Beating Davidson figured to be at least that easy somehow though Virginia had trouble un Iracking its offense Yet in try ing feverishly to do something surprising Davidson managed only to do itself in with blunders Two fumbles and an eight yard punt gave Virginia three touch downs 1 Now only the spunky Keydets and West Virginia (2 0) remain undefeated in the conference race goes against the Mountaineers next Saturday Except for a 63 yard eight play drive by the Keydets in the sec ond period that resulted in the lanky Mazik's 19 yard end ntri for a touchdown VMI never penetrat ed beyond the 25 Mazik incidentally had a 71 yard punt return for an apparent touchdown nullified by a clipping penalty 4 TO I urdav and remained in command of the Southern Conference race with a 6:0 victory overWilliarn and Mary before 4000 homecom ing fans The underdog Keydets who fig 0 6 6 9 0 4 10 SA 69 8 20 DURHAM A 15 yard touchdown pass from quar terback Walt Rappold to end Stan Crisson with one minute 20 sec onds reamining gave Duke a 21 It victory overs tubburn North Car oline State Saturday in an Atlan tic Coast Conference football game A chilled crowd of 23000 saw underdog State tie the score at 10 31 t) 50 0 PITT Jim Stewart throws ball in air gleefully after scoring in first quarter against Pitt Stewart took pass from Roger Staubach and scored on play that covered 66 yards (Staff photo by Yingling) 3 1 Tf I By DICK WELSH Vlrvlnian Pllot tpsrts Writer LEXINGT0N VMiy7mbitious Keydets gave another ootball per formance the call" Sat 7 T7 VMI 9 160 69 2 9 0 110 287 2 32 0 0 0 5 Off pass or THANKS OR THE 7 (98) looks as though on the shoulders of North Carolina Joe Scar pati (44) during the Blue 21 14 win over the Wolfpack Saturday (AP) VMI used a 19 yard second quarter touchdown run by halt back Pete Jdazik ancLlast mmutc goal line defensive stand to turn back the Indians who had entered the game with a 3 0 1 conference record NCS DUKE 98 69 The Statistics 'M irst Down! Attempts Rushing Net Yards Gained Rushing Passes Attempted Passes Completed Passes Hed Intercepted Net Yards Galnad Panina Plays Rushing and Passing 60 torai intense Taraage Opponents Passes Intercepted Times Punted Punllng Average Yards Times Penalized Total Yards Penalized Times umbled Own umbles Lost Scoring summary: Leoaon 17 flakf Slewart 66 pass from Staubach (pass failed) Sal 3 run (kick failed) Orlosky 3 run (kick blocked) Leeson 1 run (kick failed) Orlosky 1 run (Weston kick) Staubach 22 run (Weston kick) pin Navy ured to he at least a year away from championship contention won theirfourthtrajghtcqnfer ence game with only two remain against The Citadel and Vir ginia Tech 7 13 (Rowley kick) NEVER RECOVERED PitTnever" quite recovered from the blow and surrendered two more scores to trail 18 3 before tallying its onlv touchdown of the game in the third quarter Boh Orlosky scored twice for Navy on plunges of one and three yards and Johnny Sai once on a three yarder Until the fourth quar ter Pitt thought it had found a Navy weakness Navy connect on an extra point until then when Jim Weston finally booted two Pitt failed miserably in putting the rush on Staubach and on the few occasions when the Panthers did break through Staubach shrugged threw his age Onlv once did it appear he threw a bad pass and even this went in Navy's favor when a Pitt defender deflected the ball to a Middie pass catcher the play going 31 yards to the Put seven and setting up Navy's third touchdown in th a I third quarter two outstanding football players fullback Rick Leeson and halfback Paul Mari ha were only half effective Leeson drova through the Navy line for 55 yards on 14 carries but Martha got just 17 in six tries and twice dropped passes in key situations It was a game with few dull mo ments played under brilliantly sunny skies Navy made its only serious er ror of the game on the opening kickoff trying an onside kick that Pitt recovered on its own 47 With Leeson doing most of the work Pitt moved to the Navy 21 but when a third down pass fell incomplete the Panihers had to setlie for a field goal on 37 yard boot There was only 3:11 gone in the game but it took the Navy just 38 seconds to get Leeson's three and three more back on the re markable play from Staubach to (See Navy page 4) By RUSSELL BORJES Vlralnln Pllot Sport Wrlfr NOROLK Coach Wayne Hardin sent up a smokescreen Saturday around a that may become Pearl Harbor On its first nlav mage Navy scored an incredibly easy touchdown on a controversial nass play that took Pittsburg? by complete surprise 11 put the Panthers into a dive and they never again reached the surface They were sunk by the Middies in the 16th Oyster Bowl 32 9 Like the big play Coach Har explanation was simple enough just sent out two he said "and they for got to cbver one of them" Other explanations and other observa tions seemed to contradict the clever young man who is a mas ter of the trick play' ORGOTTEN MAN Jim Stewart one oflhe flankers on the play was forgotten man Of that there can be no doubt When he limped out of the huddle and toward the Navy bench the Pitt players evidently thought he was going out of the game They couldn'Lhave been more mistaken The little halfhack stopped near the out of bounds line and waited At the snap of the ball he raced downfield If he were actually hurt as Coach Hardin insisted his quick recov ery was miraculous Afthe Pitt 32 yard line he caught 15 161 166 14 24 2 7 34 1 42 7 from Krfgger (Sasser pass from Rappold (Wllklngon pass from iw littl staff Pholo by Yingling Roger Staubach fires a pass over the heads of Pitt defenders toward Pat McCarty (not shown) Pass was good Io Pitt 7 in first quarter la State Turns Back VPI 20 7 I TALLAHASSEE la (AP) The gobblers of Virginia Tech bowed to lorida State 20 7 in a football game Saturday night but lived up to their advance billing as a tough football team as the Seminoles had to capitalize on penalities deep in Tech tory to score The Gobblers scored first SU quarterback Eddie fumbled on his own 18 Utz skirt ed right end on the next play to score The surprised Seminoles struck hack quickly capitalizing on a 15 yard penalty and a key plav by team' captain Gene McDowell tn set up their first touchdown McDowell brought quarterback Rob Sweikert down on the six yard line forcing a punt that went only to the 39 yard line 'Two plays later quar (See Gobblers Page 8) irst downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized W4M VMI vMi MazlkW run (run failed) Attendance 4000 just prior to scoring march A miserable day of punting that saw Butch Nunnally kick the ball 12 yards or less three times and two lost fumbles kept the Keydet offense in the hole most of the game? VMI gained 160 yards rushing and only 23 passing The Indians who had hoped to use a victory to put them in a position to take the conference lead with an upset at West Vir ginia next week had their poor est offensive afternoon in seven games this season The Indians drove to the Key det 20 on Dan passing in the first quarter Then on fourth down and three Scott Swann dropppd Henning's toss on the 15 Early in the second period Ma zik a fleet 175 pound halfback from Wilmington Del took Dan punt on his 29 and raced down the sideline to the end 2ne but a clipping penalty wiped it out The Keydets later made it stick however with a 63 yard scoring drive Mazik was stopped just short on the extra point run LOST GAMBLE 1 It was not until late in the fourth quarter that the Indians 1 took on any offensive consistency VMI had driven to the 25 1 only to be stopped The Indians held to two yards in three downs gambled and lost on a fourth down pass VMI's Donnie White however fumbled the ball away on the next play and took to the air Henning hit end Bill Corley on I the 40 for a 15 yard gain Corley again broke clqar over the mid I die and grabbed another Henning pass for 23 to the VMI 37 with 1:40 left to phy Henning then changed partners (See VMI page 6) INDIANS Andy Tucker (27) VMI halfback is hit by a horde of William and Mary tacklers after making a first down Satur day The Keydets went on to a 6 0 victory (AP) By ED BRANDT Virglnian Ptlot Sporti Editor Navy rang Pitt's bell with its own special trick nr treat play in the first quarter and went on to wallop the Panthers 32 to 9 in the 16th Oyster Bowl Saturday With 32000 fans and 11 Pitt football players watch ing in admiring wonder Roger Staubach slim awkward sophomore quarterback passed to halfback Jim Stewart down the right sidelines for a touchdown with a little less than four minutes gone in the game The play covered 66 yards and gave the Middies 6 3 lead an advantage they never surren dered Pitt strained mightily and made a game of it until midway of the third quarter when Navy took an 18 3 lead The Middies added two more touchdowns in the final quarter HITS 8 OR 8 Staubach a IM pounder from Cincinnati was sensational He completed eight passes in eight tries including the one to Stew art for a touchdown and ran one over from 22 yards out His efforts accounted yards 192 passing and rushing i Pitt showed flashes of ground attack rushing yards hut had nothing to match quick striking offense The game turned on first play from scrimmage after Pitt had scored on a 37 yard field goal Withtheball on the Navy 34 Steward apparently limped off the field with an injury He stoJed just short of the Navy bench how ever and with the snap of the ball I he sped down the sidelines and suddenly appeared 20 yards be hind the nearest Pitt defender He caught the ball on the Pitt 32 and romped over easily from there a pass from sophomore Rogerhim wide open Stewart dashed Staubach the Navy chief of op happily across the goal line to Michelosen had questioned the erations Then with the Panthers complete a 66 yard touchdown ethics of the play Hardin replied: paralyzed ny tne shock oi seeing play 4 i I ill iv I i i j't The Statistics irst downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted by rums umbles lost Yards penalized NC State Duke State Guln 9 pass kick) Widener 12 (kick failed) Duke Curbs 4 run Dannnfrt) Rossi 7 run (Sasser kick) Crisson 15 pass from Rappold (Reynolds kick) Attendance 23000 14 all in the third period by storm ing 68 yards for a touchdown with quarterback Jim Rossi scoring from the seven Tackle Glenn Sas ser kicked the second of two ex tra points i Duke had grine ahead 14 7 early in the third period when sopho (See Duke page 6) iy george McClelland Vlrilnlan Pllot Sporti Wrltsr CHARLOTTESVILLE Gary Cuozzo the ranking quarterhack on the University of Virginia foot DAVIDSON VIRGINIA 13 241 121 1218 0 7 28 5 5 38 I 20 irst downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted Punts umbles lost Yards penalized Virginia Davidson Virginia Cuozzo 8 run uller 1 plunge (Dolt kick) Hoffarih 12 pass from Cuozzo (Row ley kick) Hepler 15 pass from Cuozzo (kick faded) Hoffarth pass from Cuozzo (Rzem poluch run) Kuhn 38 run (Run failed) Attendance 18000 ball learn hones to pursue a med ical careen After watching this Whatever the fricanA to the end young man from Glen Ridge (See Cuozzoi page 8) Navy IS 49 104 11 0 201 305 I 3 30 5 45 I 0 at H' fl I '7 kJ 1 Am 'imi Wjywtftww Itmwawj1114 VS 7 XaC a I 1 yj I 1 I is :6999 5vA av a aB Jgr i A 1 Ma 'i a imp11111 an sp A hjfr i' hl iv 1 1 Haan? ar a i i I I 4 LTllj iillMIJL Mi JJVMIU Un TBIt Mli rilir' It "ir rrr i im nr rrir I ySNWKM St MK I Erf 'a i 4 i i I tS yMWlwpWMy I i I BwBhbL 4 Aw 1 I s') i i i A SIB spy mh A TrirLtir 1 A ny Hu 3 JC mm itfri Cdt 1 1 1 1 4mI 'MM at 1: 1 v' 4 1 i a CR wSw Jnatjyi4iii(iiiiiniii tittWMTO fcy i MflV 4 'V' 1 Jr It i i 1 1 i ie A MAMfktor rr 8 4.

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