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  Evening star, October 24, 1948, page 39

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  10000 See Cavaliers Mix Aerial, Running Attack 10 Top Rivals CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Oct. 23.-Joe McCary, Grover Jones and John Papit had good days for the university of Virginia before a homecoming crowd of 10000 today as the Cavaliers displayed an excellent running and passing attack to defeat Virginia Military Institute, 26–⁠14. The Cavaliers also came up with a new star in Steve Osisek who returned an intercepted pass so yards to start -Virginia’s second scoring drive. He also passed for the touch down he had just set up. It was a good, wide open game for the most part as the Cavaliers ran their winning string over the Key diets to six straight. Just as had been predicted, the game was q ding dong offensive duel. Virginia rolled to 260 yards on the ground and added 121 yards on nine pass completions in 10 tries. The Cavaliers didn’t crack the scoring column until the second period when McCary went over on q short quarterback sneak. They then Tailed another touchdown in the third frame and added . winning pair in the final. | Anacostia Boy Scores. The other Virginia touchdowns were by Floyd Tayloe on q pass from Osisek in the third period, by End Gene Schroeder, the Anacostia High product, on pass from Nc Cary in the fourth and by Gene Edmunds on short buck, also in the fourth. Ray Tamalis made the Keydets’ first touchdown in the fourth quarter on a 6-yard plunge while Claude Patton ended the scoring before the final gun by pulling q pass from Bobby Thomason, their quarterback. The most sensational and fastest scoring drive was Virginia’s second which started when one OF Thomasons passes was intercepted on the Cavalier goal line and returned to midfield by Osisek. Papit tore around right end and dashed to the Keydet 10. Three plays later Osisek hit Tayloe with pass in the end zone. Virginia’s first bid for a score was turned back at the v. M. I. 2 in the second period, but minute later they drove from the Keydet 80 to tally. McCary’s 10-yard pass to Tayloe and Jones’ 11-yard run were features, with McCary sneaking over from the for the touchdown. Joe Leonard’s placement was good after this and after the fourth touchdown. Jim Gill, Cavalier End, started another scoring drive late in the third period by returning q punt from the Virginia 2 to the 81. From there Jones and Papit led q running attack to the Keydets’ al. From which point McCary passed to Schroeder in the end zone early In the final frame. A Papit tumble recovered by Chuck Schluter on the Virginia 80 gave the Keydets their first scoring chance. Thomson set up the tally with q 13-yard pass to End Ed butes on the 6 and Tamalis broke through the line to score. Keydets Score Again. The Cavaliers bounced back with Papit returning the kickoff from his goal to his “a. Another 4O-yard dash down the sidelines, this one by Jones, ate up most of the renaming distance. Gene Edmunds, a substitute back, made his first touchdown of the year by bucking one yard through the line. A poor kickoff to the v. M. I. 50 gave the Keydets another start. Paul Shrader made much of the distance on 25-yard run with the payof a 13-yard pass from Thomason to Patton at the goal. Bill Graf made good with both extra point tries. Papit and Jones were responsible for most of the Cavaliers rushing mileage, earning 102 and 10l yards, respectively. EXTRA FONTS 49, Schroeder’s touchdown was scored on a sensatlonal catch. He dashed in between two v. M. I. defensive backs to steal the ball from both of them. :. Thomson, the Keydet quarter back and passer was a very slip perry boy on his touchdown pass. i He was trapped by two Virginia tacklerS, shook them of, and was trapped by still another tackler and chased back before he could get the ball away. The official distance was Is yards from the line Of scrimmage, but he was back to the 80 at least when he let go. Nc. Cary, Cavalier quarterback, also showed some fancy stuff when trap ped. ). Once he ran 10 yards when no receivers were clear and, on the next play, ran for 10 under the same conditions to carry to the Keydet / just before Edmunds scored. Left tackles-Stock, Smith. Left guards-Spelling Thompson. Centers-Hedse. Darlington. Esgleston, Right euards-phillips Bass Risht taekles-schluter. Hays, Adees, Quarterbacks-Leck. Thomason. | Left half-Anson. Stump. Right half-Lowden, Tamalis. Fulbacks-Ragunas, Robertson, Sch raoer. | VIRGINIA. Left ends-Elliott, Mausteller, Long. Left tackles-Barbour, Leonard: | Left guards-Thomas. Wright, Nesbit. Centers-Walsh. Campbell. Right guards-schulte, Baumann. Right tackles@Jones. johnson, Romano. Right enos-;Schroeder. Weir, Milne. Quarterbacks-MccsIy Michels. Leavitt. | Left half--Jones, Gin. 0sisek: Bessell. Fullbacks-Papit, Hickman, Sinclair. y; M; L ------- 9 g LA i V. M. l. scorings: Touchdowns-Tams: lis, Patton. Points after touchtown--Graf ca, placements virginia scoring: Touchdowns--McCary Tayloe, Schroeder EdmundS. Points after uchdowns-LeonaTd CD. placements.

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Virginia leads 53–⁠23–⁠2 in 78 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.