Maryland at VMI

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  Evening star, November 26, 1943, page 16

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  Maryland Evens Long Series With Y. M. |. in 21–⁠14Win University of Maryland closed it’s l943 football book on season regarded as reasonably successful for its freshman civilian team and one in which the Old Liners did at least AS we’ll as expected. They polished off with their fourth win in nine starts by topping Virginia Military Institute. 21–⁠14, in a thriller yesterday at Roanoke, Va, before crowd Of 1000. This evened the long series with V. M. I. at 10 victories each and two ties. 1t also left the Old Liners with a perfect record for their two South ern Conference starts, they having upset Wake Forest in October, and puts them in second place behind Duke. Old Liners Are Alert. Yesterdays victory made up for the poor showing against Virginia, only game in which the Old Liners should have done better than they did. Marylands alert ball hawks recovered two Keydet fumbles in side the Old Line 10 and put together a touchdown in the first period. touchdown and safety in the second period and another six pointer in the final frame, while “ M. I. got touchdowns and conversions in the first and third periods. A 3l-yard pass from Dick Tuschak to Charles Ryan set up the first

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Maryland leads 14–⁠8–⁠2 in 24 meetings, counting the four since this game.