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Haunts of the past greeted the Bishops on September 28 when Saint Christopher full- back, Robert Pratt scored on a 67 yard counter play against a V.E.S. blitz, on the first play. These thoughts were quickly dispersed when the Bishops gained possession of the ball and rolled over a stunned Saint defense. Neil Partrick conclud-
ed the drive with a scoring H.B. pass to Steve Shelton. T.B. split the uprights to tie
the score.
The next time they got the
ball the Bishops swept 78 yards downfield in 9 plays. Dameron carried the final 4 yards for
the T.D. The P AT failed, 13-7 at the half, and the Bishops left the field and 700 Saints
fans, who couldn't believe their eyes.
V.E.S. took the kickoff and drove to the Saints' 4 where they ran out of downs. On the following play Saint Q.B. Cooch Turner faded to pass and was creamed in the end zone by linebacker Sawyer Manly. Somehow Turner lost the ball, and alert Dick Trot- man beat 6 other Bishops to it for the third V.E.S. touchdown. Again the extra point attempt
failed.
The "never-say-die" Bishops
charged up the field again, but were stopped on the Saints' 30 when Christian's pass was
dropped to end the treat.
Front Four Look Good
The V.E.S. front four did remarkably well in stopping the running game of the Saints.
The defensive secondary was superb and held Turner, a high- touted Q.B., to 1 pass com- TJl~ §,!uggish running was one of our biggest
problems.
As Coach Lee said, "The
Bishops outplayed the Saints except for three backbreaking plays, and even their coach ad- mitted that." The Saints, one of the pre-season favorites, let the rest of the conference know that the Bishops were a team to be reckoned with, as
our city cousins discovered the next week in Alexandria.
On the Twenty-eighth the Bishops traveled to EHS with the hopes of avenging the one- sided defeat of last year. How- ever, the Alexandria table was set for some undesirable
"homecooking."
The VES defense, which was
overpowering throughout the game, forced the Maroons to punt twice i;'l the first quarter. After a second punt, with the Bishops in possession, tail- back Rice Matthews broke
was good giving the Maroons a 20-12 victory margin.
EHS Stopped in Air Parker Lumpkin, Rip Wil- son, Larry Hancock, and Hunt Taylor all turned in outstand-
ing line performances. The de- fensive secondary for the sec- ond week did a remarkable job by keeping French in check throughout most of the game. Against Gonzaga he completed 13 of 26 attempts.
Coach Rock Lee commenting on the excellent pass defense against French said they had expected passes instead of the end sweeps which hurt the Bishops all afternoon. If the Bishops are faced with this problem again there will prob- ably be some shift in personnel
With the help of Lynch Christian (12), Dameron prepares to. boot the ball.
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Dameron runs for more yardage.
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Christian (12) passes the ball while .Allen Hamblen (33) blocks.
away on a fake reverse for 63 yards, setting up the first touchdown. On the following play quarterback Lynch Chris- tian handed again to Matthews who plunged into the end zone
for the score. The extra point
attempt failed.
A Maroon fumble on their
own 27 again placed the Bish- ops within scoring distance. Moving the ball downfield the goal came from the 15 when Walker Box pulled in a finger- tip pass in the end zone from Christian. A g a i n the extra point was unsuccessful.
EHS rallied after quarter- back Bill French executed a
twenty-one yard pass to end, Joe Boyd. French kept for a five yard sweep and a score.
Episcopal's second touch- down in the third quarter end- ed a 55 yard drive which in- cluded a first down by an inch. French again passed to Boyd and gave the Maroons a 13-12
lead. The Bishops mounted their last drive in the fourth quarter after Cac Hoyle recov-
ered a fumble on the EHS 24 yard line. In defiance of a 15 yard clipping penalty'the Bish- ops plunged to the nine. Chris- tian's touchdown on a .sweep
was called back and the subse- quent efforts to reach the sweet soil of the end zone were in vain. The Maroons took posses- sion of the ball on their own twenty-one and drove 79 yards
to widen the lead. French scored on a seven yard touch- down run in the closing seconds of the game. McLaughlin's kick
years. Collegiate shut out Fish- burne 8-0 in a defensive game that saw The Fishmen fail to pass the midfield marker in the second half.
The former Norfolk Acade- my who edged Christchurch soundly was beaten by St. Ben-
edictine 38-0. St. Christ opher severely crushed St. Benedic- tine 35-0. In light of the Bish- ops performance against the Saints the week before, this looked like a V.E.S. victory,
too.
The Bishops stand a good
chance for going the rest of the season without a loss. How- ever, even with a 7-2 record they will still be inelligible for the Prep League Crown. The dropping of Woodberry Forest this year and a schedule con-
flict w i t h Randolph-Macon Academy leaves the . Bishops without enough games to be eligible for the championship.
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the Baby Bishops could score no more before halftime.
At the beginning of the sec- ond half the Baby Bishops re-
It was a very evenly matched game with the Baby Bishops co-operating on everything to
get a much wanted win.
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of players with a little more The offense, led by Charles
• expenence.
to their two hardest opponents, the Bishops should be favored to win the rest of their games.
Johnson, Jim Powell, and Scott Price, ploughed through the Blue Ridge defense and scored a touchdown on a 6-yard run by Jim Powell in the first quar- ter. The score was set up by a 20-yard pass to left and
Hop eful Having lost only a few points
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The Baby Bishops won their opening football game against Blue Ridge 12-0 September 26.
turn~d to the field with new en. thus1asm after a fiery pep talk by coaches Meador and Elder
Aft~r a s l o w s t a r t , t h e ' JV'~ agam scored a touchdown on
a punt return run by tailback . Scott Price.
A strong JV defense held the Blue Ridge team to only a small total gain throughout the
Collegiate, with only one re-
turning letterman, is very in- Hampton Shuping. However, two vital fumbles were lost td experienced and should be very through a tightening up in the V.E.S. by the pincher, Pat easy prey for the first V.E.S. Blue Ridge defense and a little Causey, and the middle line- homecoming victory in two slackening in the JV's offense, backer Carey Murphy.
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der the supervision of Mr. Al- len and Mr. DeHart opened its season at St. Christophers on September 21. Against a far more practiced and experienced
. team, tbe Bishops were defeat- ed, 15-50. The following Sat- urday V.E.S. hosted Woodbury Forest. The Bishops were de- feated again although improve-
ment was evident despite a lopsided 14-44 score.
Returning lettermen and co- captains Chris McLendon and Robert Parsons form the nu- cleus of the team while Lee Heath and David Bland prove to be very valuable.
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game. As a result of hard tack- ling and Blue Ridge clumsiness
Steve Shelton (14) travels upfield, surrounded by enemy.