William & Mary at Navy

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  Evening star, October 1, 1962, page 22

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  NAVY Maybe Wayne Hardin isn’t sure how he’s supposed to react after Navy’s 20–⁠16 victory over william & Mary Saturday, but he knows how he isn’t going to react. Because we won a football game” the Navy coach said, we’re not ashamed of it.” What inks Hardin is the fact that although Navy won by four points. it was supposed to defeat William & Mary by up wards of three touchdowns, and that touches a tender spot even while preparations for Saturdays engagement with Min nesota are beginning. Some kook made us three touchdown favoriteS and he doesn’t even know the names of our players” Hardin COM mented. Sure, we could have lost, but it would have been a freak. “I Just finished looking at the movies of the game and ! thought we were in control all the way. A penalty here, a tipped pass there and a bad bounce made the difference. 3 Passes Stolen Navy had three passes intercepted by the Indians and on each occasion the ball was deflected into the arms of one of the William & Mary detenders. But it was an unusual bounce that did the most damage. On the first W&M play from scrimmage in the third period, Scott Swan fumbled, but Stan Penkunas, the 5-foot 9-inch, 185-pound fullback. was trail ing the play. He caught the ball on the bounce and ran 49 yards from his own SO to the Navy II, setting up the In dams first touchdown. With Navy leading, 1879 late in the same period, one of Ron Klemick’s passes was DETECTED into the hands of Dan Driscoll, a substitute quarterback and the Indians punter, who ran it back 10 yards to the Navy 80. William & Mary capitalized on the break again and scored early in the fourth period, with the assistance of a Navy Off

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Navy leads 35–⁠6–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.