Virginia at Washington and Lee

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  Evening star, November 15, 1953, page 65

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  W&L Whips Virginia, 27–⁠73, With All Scores in First Half LEXINGTON, Va, Nov. a. Long suffering Virginia suffered its worst humiliation of the foot ball season here today. Beaten badly by the likes OF South Carolina, Duke and Pitt, the Cavaliers at least hoped to get something out of the season by beating their long time rivals, Washington and Lee. And for five minutes lit appeared they might. But when the half ended, Washington and Lee held a 27–⁠13 advantage, and that also ended the scoring. With 10000 fans, many OF them old grads here for W8SL’ S Homecoming day celebration, expecting a landslide of points before it was over, the offensive gears of both teams ground practically to halt. In the second half W6SL did get to the Virginia 6 once in the third fourth. The Cavaliers got no closer than the W&L 40. But the first half was a scorcher. Cavalier Henry Strempek started it. This foot IL 170-pound Baltimorean took the opening kickoff from HaI Brooks on his own 10, fumbled it. picked it up on the Z, and dashed down the sidelines SO yards for a touchdown. John Polzer’s kick for the extra point was low. That 6-point advantage looked good for a few minutes to Virginia fans who had their fingers crossed, lest the Cavaliers wind up with their worst season in history. That’s almost assured now. The worst season was 1881 when Virginia compiled a 1-7-1 record The. record now stands at 1–⁠6 with only North Carolina next Saturday left on the schedule. W&L has Jared little better It has won three and lost SIX with William and Mary remain ing to be played. Virginia Lead Vanishes. But Virginia’s lead stood up only until W&L had the ball for the second time. The first time the Generals fumbled on first down. The second time, they took it 81 yards for a touchdown. Carl Bolt ran for gains of IA and IS yards, Quarterback Joe Lind sey, Giro Barcelona and Conrad Flanders picked up short gains and a 15-yard penalty also helped Flanders went over for the score from six yards out and Brooks added the point. A few minutes later, it was 14–⁠6. Virginia was pushed back against its goal and Strempek s punt was a wobbly one. going out of bounds on the Virginia “a Lindsey picked up IL and 16 yards. Barcelona added 8 to the 3, and Bolt went over right end

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Virginia leads 19–⁠13–⁠1 in 33 meetings.