Catawba at VMI

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 29, 1950, page 43

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  LEXINGTON, Va, Oct. 28.- Johnny Coble, substitute tail back, turned in brilliant triple threat performance here today to lead Catawba’s underdog Indians to q 14–⁠13 football victory over Virginia Military Institute. A crowd of 5000. including the widow of Gen. George S. Patton. watched the 176-pounder from Mount Airy, N. c.. engineer the Indians to their upset which ruined VMI’s homecoming. Coble scored on a Vineyard slash off right tackle for fourth quarter touchdown and then kicked his second extra point from placement to pull Catawba from behind. Catawba, which completed the afternoons scoring with Coble’s perfect winning boot, drew first blood. The Indians struck entirely unexpectedly early in the first period. Ebert Holt, a cen ter playing defensive halfback, in tercepted one of Jimmy Coley’s passes on the Catawba IS and raced IS yards behind good block ing for the touchdown. VMI broke into the scoring or the first half’s final play when Coley tipped screen pass tt fullback Joe Stump on a pla!

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

VMI leads 5–⁠4 in nine meetings, counting the three since this game.