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From the Sidelines
By J. W. Ballou, Jr.
With over half the season gone the Bishops come up to their three remaining games with a ~-2 record. We hold victories over Mdler School and Hargrave and have suffered de- feat at the hands of Woodberry and Fishburne. The coming E. H. S. battle should be a great·game. Though the Maroons are undefeated they a re heading for a fall if the Bishops sho:" the same spirit they have showed In
practice since the Fishburne defe~t. A f t e r t h a t c o m e t h e g a m e s ~~th Randolph-Macon and St. Christo- pher's, both of which will be battl:s down to the final gun. R. M. A. wdl play here November 16, and then we will close the season in Richmond the following Saturday.
National Records
Upsets are numerous all over the
country; e. g., Rice 18, Texas 13; Tennessee 12, Alabama 0; Wake Forest 19, Tennessee 6; N: ~- State 13, Duke 6; Illinois 13, M1ch1gan 9; Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14. Army is still rolling on, and it looks as If it will continue to do so, even past Notre Dame and Pennsylvania. In the mid-west Notre Dame is the only major unbeaten-~ntied_ team. Down South it's Georg1a, stdl undefeated, and North Carolina, beaten only by Tennessee, though they both face tough foes the rest of the year. U. C. L. A. gets closer to the Rose ~owl each week, while the Southwest IS a turmoil due to Rice's upset of Texas.
Disaster for Them
scampered 85 yards down the side- lines for his second touchdown 1n four minutes.
The Bishops, running from a modi- fied single wing with an unbalanced line, took an early lead in the game, scoring on the fifth play after Web Maddux recovered a Miller School fumble. The Bishops marched thirty yards for their fir~+ six point~. Ballou carried the ball 1nto pay d1rt on a line buck from the 3. Tuck Maddux kicked the extra point, giving the Bishops a 7 to 0 lead. V. E._S. scored again in th e second p~nod when Cornett, Bishop center, 1nter~epte~ a Miller School pass on t h e v1s1tors 45 and carried it to their 35. The home team then advanced to the Miller 2-yard line and Perrin Gower went over center for the touchdown. The Garnet and White tallied their third marker in the same period when John Hyre recovered a blocked Mil- ler School punt on the visitors' 13. Ballou carried the pigskin to the 3 and on the next play Hyre plunged through the line into p~y dirt..
Trailing 19 to 0 Mdler rall1ed for its only score in the closing minutes of th e first half when Bosserman caughtapassontheV.E.S.ISand crossed the goal line standing up. The try for extra point was blocked, making the halftime score 19 to 6.
The two touchdown jaunts by Bal- lou in the third qua rter closed out the B i s h o p s ' s c o r i n g , a s C o a c h Ba r n u m poured a large number of reserves in- to the game during the second half. Bob Whitaker and Gene Cornett led the rugged V. E. S. line in stemming
the Millerites ' running
V. E. S. Pos.
Whitaker .... ......LE..
Kemper .... . ...... .. LT.... ...... .. ... Pl~mb W. Maddux ......LG........ Cummmgs Cornett ............C.................. Morris Gormly .............. RG.......... Coleman Flemer .......... ... ... RT.......... Sutherland Craf~ ...... ............ RE.. .. ........ Proffitt T. Maddux ........QB. .......... Shiflett Ballou (C.) ..........LH............... Reese Allen .... .............. RH ........ ...... ... . Buck Hyre ..................FB.. Bosserman (C.)
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Bishops Down Cadets
O c t . 5 - C a p t a i n theV.E.S.Bishopstoa32to6VIC- tory over a scrappy Miller Sch?ol team on Johnson Field in the open1ng game of the season.
Ballou accounted for three of the Bishops touchdowns and sparked the drives that set up the other two
-5C<*e&. The V. E. S. c~ptain caught the kickoff, opening the second half on his own I0-yard line and _ran straight down the center of t~e f1eld behind almost perfect ~locbng for 90 yards and a score. The kick for extra point was blocked but Ballou scooped up the ball and went thr_ough the line for the point. V. E. S. kiCked off to the Millerites, but they were unable to gain and punted. This time Ballou took the ball on his IS and
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SPORTS
Oct. 1 2 -The Bishops took second straight victory as they trounced Hargrave Military Acad- emy 20 to 0 on rain-soaked Johnson Field in a game marred by frequent penalties.
The Cadets threatened in the first period when they recovered a fumble on their own 45 and marched to the V. E. S. 20 on three quick passes. The Bishops rallied and held the visitor~, gaining possession of the ball on the1r own 15.
With Ballou and Perrin Gower car- rying the ball the Bishops started th.e 85-yard drive that netted them t~e1r first seven points, piling up five f1rst downs before Hyre plunged through the line for the score early in the second period. Ballou kicked the ex- tra point, putting the Bishops ahead 7 to 0.
The Bishops started rolling again just before the half ended and when the whistle blew they were on the Cadet 5-yard line, with the score still 7 to 0.
V. E. S. scored again in the third quarter when Cornett intercepted a Hargrave pass, giving the Bishops the ball on the midfield stripe. On the next play Allen threw a pass to Bal- lou on the 45, and he got away for a touchdown. Tuck Maddux kicked the point, making the score 14 to~· .
Another intercepted pass, th1s t1me by Tuck Maddux, put the Bishops on the Hargrave 30-yard line on the last play of the third quarter.
The Bishops advanced to the Har- grave IS on Hyre's running a~d a five-yard penalty, and Ballou skirted end for the final score.
The Cadet's aerial offensive was outstanding as they completed 8 out of 16 attempted passes, while the Bishops attempted only 2 passes, completing I for 50 yards and a touchdown.
V.E.S. Pos. H.M.A. Whitaker ... .LE.............. Barbee Kemper ...........LT.............. Roberts Gormly ....... ..... LG........... E. Smith Cornett ...........C ................ McGriff W. Maddux ......RG.............. Hester Flemer ................RT................ Easley Craft ..................RE.................. Ellett T. Maddux .......0 B............. .. Light Allen ................ LH ............. .. Loyzes Ballou ................RH.......... Willerson P. Gower ...........FB. ... Cobb
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