South Carolina at Virginia

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1959, page 53

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  Late Gomecock Burst Beots Virginia, 32–⁠20 CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. Nov. T. Virginia University’s Cavaliers gave their finest football performance of the year here today, but it wasn’t quite good enough to beat South Cardinals Gamecocks who won a thrilling 1920 game before 10000 spectators. Two long runs, one for 70 yards by Quarterback Steven Satterfield and a 36-yard burst by Halfback Joe Comes in the final period won the game for South Carolina. Until these two untimely jolts, with only 7 minutes left to play in the fourth period, the Cavaliers looked like a winning team. Three times Virginia had the lead in the seesaw game. She was in command, 20–⁠16, when the two lightning thrusts by Satterfleld and Comes turned what could have been the fin est hour Of a drab season for Coach Dick Voris’ charges into another defeat, their eighth straight this year. But there was comfort for the beaten Cavaliers who were playing their final game at home. Heretofore this season they had not scored a single point in the three games played in Scott Stadium. Today they gave their audience, including Gov. j. Lindsay AL mond. IT,. a going-away pres ent by scoring three times, revealing an offense that sur prised everybody. Virginia jumped into the lead in the first period when its End Brerry Jones, recovered

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South Carolina leads 21–⁠13–⁠1 in 35 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.