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1951 JUNIOR VARSITY
1st Row, Left to Righ•: Johnstone, Stieglitz, B., Fulton, Jones, L., B axton, Co-Captains, Mc.Cracken, Muir, Turner. 2nd Row: Fuller, Boyer, Smith, N. S., Norfleet, Nosh, Pendleton, Deringer.
Jrd Row: Mr. Wyatt, Coach, Bober, Keefer, Wilson, Harper, Kellogg.
The Junior Varsity football team turned in a very peculiar record. Un- able to win a game, they tied three and lost three. Starting with a 34-7 drubbing from Amherst, they then proceeded to tie three straight: 7-7, 20-20, 0-0. These were to Brookville, Lovingston, and Brookville again. Appomattox brought a more experi- enced and heavier team to Lynch- burg and scored three last quarter
touchdowns to win 18-0. The Bis- hops' injury-riddled squad fought val- liantly till the roof caved in in the last period. The last game saw the little Bishops go down again in defeat to the Bedford J. V.'s with a score of 13-7. In the last period, when they were trailing 13-0, the Bishops started a comeback when Sox Sibley intercepted a pass and scored. But this was as much as they could do and the game ended as before men- tioned.
While the season's record wasn't too good, Mr. W yatt's squad did play some outstanding ball. Perhaps the best one was the 20-20 tie with Lovingston. The line play of Lang- horne Jones and Verne Keefer were tops and the backfield play of Mc-
Coach's Summary of V. E. S. Varsity Football, 1951
It is usually poor taste in any sport to attempt to a!ibi or apologize at the end of a season for not showing up well in the won-lost column. I don't intend to write a summation of our season from that viewpoint, but I would like to mention first a few per· tinent facts about our team that will speak for themselves in indicating the obstacles our boys faced and met, with determination, this fall.
Our greatest handicap was inex- perience. Of a squad of thirty-two, the re were but seven returning let- termen and a total of only a dozen who had been on a varsity team at any school before this Jear. Our heaviest lir.eman weighe 180 lbs., and the team's average weight was 156 lbs. These figures represent defi- nite obstacles toward having a suc- cessful season against t he best, and probably heaviest, prep school com- petition in the state. However, the
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