Washington and Lee at Richmond

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1952, page 71

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  Perfect Kicking Score Gives W & | Victory Over Richmond, 21–⁠2O RICHMOND, Va, Oct. II. - Washington and Lee and the Uni versity of Richmond swapped touchdowns on an even basis here tonight but Big Bob Lafferty made good on all three of his extra point kicks for W81L and the Generals made off with a 21–⁠20 Southern Conference football VIC tory before 5000 in City Stadium. Bobby Sgro. the ace Richmond placekicker who had made his last nine conversions in a row, missed the vital one after the third Richmond touchdown in the | final quarter. and that, as it turned out, was all the margin Washing ton and Lee needed to score it’s second victory against as many defeats. Even so. the winning boot by Lafferty was scored in a peculiar ! ly heart-breaking way for Rich mond. The W&L guard missed his first attempt at the third conversion when Tackle Walt Garcia broke through to block it. But a roughness penalty gave him an other chance-and this time he didn’t fail. Washington and Lee put together drives of 62. 80 and 66 yards for its touchdowns, tailed by Bob Thomas, Randy Broyles and Yves Abrams. | The Spiders had two marches of 40 yards and another of 67 with the scoring partners being Quarterback Bobby Tyler and Halfback Ed Elliott. tW&L O Ia O-2I Richmond z O SO Wal scoring: Touchdowns – Thomas, Broyles Abrams. Conversions – Lafterty | (3 placementS). Richmond scoring: Touchdowns-Tyler CO, Elliott. Conversions-Sgro (2 place ments).

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Washington and Lee leads 11–⁠6 in 17 meetings, counting the one since this game.