West Virginia at South Carolina

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 6, 1954, page 57

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  Conference Star Of Week Is West Virginia Guard MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Oct. 6.-Gene (Beef) Lamone, West Virginia’s candidate for ALL America guard, today was named the Southern Conference player of the week.” For the first two weeks, the honor went to Virginia Techs halfback, HOWE Wright. Lamone, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound senior, starred in the Mountain eers’ 26–⁠6 upset victory over South Carolina Saturday night at Columbia, sc. Time after time. the guard led the big Noun taineer line in wrecking the Ma tion’s top rushing offense and in opening holes for teammates. Len Ciemniecki, George Wash ington halfback who scored two touchdowns in the Colonials’ 14–⁠13 loss to Virginia and out rushed all of the winners with 1873 yards in IA attempts, was among the nominees for the honorS.

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.

West Virginia leads 7–⁠4–⁠1 in 12 meetings, counting the five since this game.