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Wahoo Juggernaut Rolls Past Duke, 50-20

Quayle, Anderson Run Wild
In Year's First ACC Victory

By Ted McKean
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Photo By Bob Gill

Cavalier Quarterback Gene Arnette Keeps Ball On Option Play, Scrambles Through Devils As Anderson Clears Way

Arnette, Quayle, Anderson Led Cavalier Offense Which Once Again Amassed 600 Total Yards Gained To Lead Conference

All week long there remained a
slight nagging shadow of doubt in
the backs of the minds of all
Virginia fans. This football team
was just too good to be true: an
upsurging Duke team on its
Homecoming could well bring the
Wahoos back down to earth.

Virginia people are used to
being jilted by their football team:
that's an annual occurrence. A loss
to Duke would have been
discouraging, but not surprising.

Alas, once again it was the win,
the big win. For the third week in a
row, Virginia put more than 40
points on the scoreboard, and
thoroughly dominated their
opposition. Duke was
systematically destroyed, 50-20.

The Blue Devils mounted only
one true scoring drive; the score
could have easily been 50-7. Their
passing attack, however, was
formidable, as sophomore Leo Hart
completed 20 of 38 attempts. The
running attack though was
conspicuously absent, as Duke
picked up only 120 yards rushing.
The Cavaliers capitalized on this
fact, shoring up their defense in the
second half to all but half any Devil
offensive thrusts.

Frank Quayle and Jeff
Anderson, the Wahoos devastating
duo of running backs, had another
field day. Anderson was the
afternoon's leading ground gainer,
picking up 183 yards on 24 carries.
When Anderson wasn't ripping off
yards through the Duke line,
Quayle was dazzling the Devils with
long gainers around the ends or off
tackle. He netted 182 yards in 15
tries.

Although the score and statistics
stand convincingly in Virginia's
favor, the game was never really out
of the Blue Devil's reach until the
fourth quarter, when the Cavaliers
put 22 points on the scoreboard.
Duke did hold the lead at one time,
7-6, with only five minutes gone in
the game, as improbable as that
sounds. Their quarterback, Hart,
ably picked apart the Cavalier pass
defense. Virginia, seemingly
undaunted, bounced back quickly
however and carried a 21-7 lead
into the locker room at the half.

The Wahoos didn't wait long to
put their first score up against the
Devils. Quayle ripped off gains of
14 and 44 yards to set up the

Duke duplicated the Virginia
scoring feat, driving from their own
20 for a touchdown, with 5:45 left
in the first quarter. Hart threw well
on the drive to flanker Wes Chesson
and tight end Henley Carter, and
the Blue Devil's strong fullback,
Phil Asack, culminated the series on
a plunge into the end zone from the
one.

After several plays, Quayle
circled right end on a 62 yard jaunt
to the Du e five. He then moved to
the sidelines to get his wind back,
and within that time, Dave
Wyncoop, his replacement, had
lugged the ball over the goal to give
the lead back to the Cavaliers
permanently. A two point
conversion run by Arnette made it
Virginia by 14-7.

The Blue Devils again found
themselves unable to move the ball
consistently, and were forced to
punt. With time running out in the
half, quarterback Arnette
engineered a 59 yard scoring drive

that was capped by a Quayle plunge
from one yard out with only 35
seconds remaining. Carrington's
successful placement gave the
Cavaliers a comfortable 21-7
halftime margin.

A fired-up Duke team returned
for the second half, and proceeded
to march 60 yards for a TD. Hart
ably spotted his receivers, and hit
them accurately to produce the
tally. A 36 yard loss to tight end
Carter took them to the Virginia
one. Asack took the ball in from
there, and the Wahoos margin was
narrowed to 21-14.

Then came the scoring explosion
that rocked the Devils. The Wahoos
appeared to be unbothered by the
impending Duke threat, and settled
back to the scoring task at hand.

Four Virginia touchdowns were
then consecutively recorded. Help
for the Virginia effort came from
Duke quarterback David Trice,
whose two fumbles were covered
by alert Wahoo defenders.

Anderson picked up his second
and third scores of the day, on runs
of 13 and 47 yards. Arnette lugged
the ball in from the three on a
keeper, and Wyncoop ended the
parade over the Duke goal with a
13 yard jaunt. With Wyncoop's
touchdown, Virginia had
accumulated 48 points, and much
to the pleasure of the screaming
Virginia fans ("We want fifty"),
Coach Blackburn gave. QB Danny
Fassio the go-ahead, and he
promptly tossed to Clinche
Heyward for the conversion and the
round number, making it Virginia
by 50-14.

Duke began throwing madly
and Hart eventually completed a
pass to Chesson covering 43 yards
for a score, although by this time
the game was out of reach. The
extra point placement missed, to
close the offensive circus with
50-20 as the final mark.

It was an encouraging game for
anyone who was on the Virginia
side of things. The work of the
offensive line was outstanding; both
Anderson and Quayle saw holes the
likes of which they hadn't known
yet this season.

And speaking of both Anderson
and Quayle, it has been a long time
since Virginia fans have seen such a
pair of outstanding runners in one
backfield together. With Anderson
constituting a tremendous threat to
the inside and Quayle likely to
break away at any time to the
outside, future opponents will not
be able to key on one specific area.
Add Arnette's more than capable
passing into the formula, and you
have a result that is hard to stop.

Perennially tough N.C. State is
the opponent for next week.