Virginia at Duke

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 1, 1953, page 72

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  DUKE, 48 VIRGINIA., 6 Duke Continued from Page CID for their other scores on drives of 38, 81, 81. Is. 80 and 48 yards. Quarterback Jerry Barger tipped a three-yard pass to Connor for the last Duke score, which came with less than a minute to play. Other than this, the Blue Devils contented them selves with blasting the Virginia line when the end zone hove into sight. Falls, with 81 yards in eight carries, was Dukes leading ground gamer as Coach Bill Muir ray divided up the honors among all his backs. Two of Caudle’s touchdowns came in the opening period, one on two-yard smash over right tackle and the other 13-yard jaunt over right end. The senior from Leaksville, N. c., went IA around right end for his other score in the third period. Duke was in Virginia terri tory so much of the time. and knocking at the touchdown door so often. that the Blue Devils gained only 260 yards rushing, much less than the score would indicate. They picked up only 48 yards in the air though Bar ger and his substitute, Dave Lerps, connected on seven of II throws. NiedbaIa Touchdown Factor. The Cavaliers, for their part, had 134 yards rushing and 33 passing. Eighty-three of the rushing yards came from Joe Niedbala, a prancing halfback who took a turn at quarterback and was the big factory in the lone Virginia touchdown. A 43-yard run by Niedbala got the Cavaliers to the Duke 81 with the Blue Devils reserves defend ing in the second quarter. Muir ray straightway inserted his var sity, but not even the big boys could stop Virginia. Fullback Herbie Hartwel and Jim Elekes collaborated to get the ball to the four from where Strempek made it easily to the end zone over the strong left side of the Duke line. Duke -14 0 IA 20–⁠48 Virginia - 0 6 0 O. 6

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Virginia leads 40–⁠34 in 74 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.