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Stickmen Face Hopkins

Virginia and Johns Hopkins will
smash heads Saturday morning at
10:30 in a game that may well
prove to be one for the national
championship. Coming from behind
to edge Mt. Washington, 11-10, the
BlueJays and Navy are the only
remaining unbeaten college teams.

This will be the Cavaliers first
rugged game since their loss to Mt.
Washington in their season debut,
and they will be out to avenge last
year's 15-4 loss in Baltimore.
Bowling to the combined efforts of
All-Americans Joe Cowan and Mike
Clark, Virginia had high hopes
going into that game, only to have
them dashed early in the season.
Stripped of most of last year's
championship team through
graduation the Jays will, be hard
pressed to repeat the feat before
the Easter's weekend crowd and the
talent the Cavaliers have finally
collected.

The only big name that Johns
Hopkins boasts this season is that
of midfielder Charlie Coker, second
team All-American. Gone are
Cowan, Clark, Phil Knlep and
Downy McCarty much to the
chagrin of head coach Bob Scott,

and much to the satisfaction of the
Virginia faithful. This will be one of
the weakest teams Hopkins has
fielded in a couple of years, but is
not to be discounted simply
because of inexperience.

On the contrary, though
inexperienced they boast a good
deal of talent, as in the past, much
the same way the Cavaliers do. With
Virginia's starting attack of one
first-year man, one second-year
man, and a third-year man, they
certainly can't demand too much
respect offhand, until one notices
their statistics.