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Wahoos Drop Sixth ACC Game

Maryland Triumphs, 17-14
To Put Cavaliers In Cellar

By Davis Marshall
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Familiar Number 44 Picks Up Usual Gain During Saturday Loss To 2-8 Terrapins

But Wait, 44 Was Not Wahoo's Dave Sullivan, But Was Jim Marshall Of Roy Lester's Victorious Terps

Coach George Blackburn's
Wahoos did it again Saturday, this
time allowing Maryland, a seven
point underdog, to walk off with its
second win of the old season.
Termed by a Terp supporter before
the annual game as "discouraging
but typical," the Maryland team
looked very much unlike a loser,
but then Virginia is probably the
best team in the conference at bringing
out the best in other teams.

Bill Troup had another fine day,
faking the pants off of everyone
except for the three guys who'd
tackle him, and failing again to
come up with the clutch
performance necessary to turn a
supposedly good loser into even a
sorry winner. But it wasn't all
Troup's fault, not hardly. For some
reason Dave Sullivan, in recording
his second straight one catch game,
couldn't hold onto a pass whenever
the offensive line gave the
quarterback enough protection to
get a decent pass off. Bob Bischoff,
despite missing a touchdown pass,
came up with a creditable
performance by snaring five aerials
for 59 yards in the last game of a
distinguished three year career.

On the whole the defense didn't
do badly against the Terps, but
then whose defense hasn't done
badly against Maryland? In limiting
Roy Lester's troops (no pun
intended) to their third highest
point output this season the
Cavaliers gained four more yards
than the Terps, 267 to 263. The
total yardage superiority of the
Cavaliers marked the seventh time
this year our 5-6 (0-6) Wahoos have
out gained their opponent, including
the glorious ignominy of being the
only team to outgain UNC this
year.

The Virginia-Maryland game,
having run a close second to the

Army-Navy game as the "toilet
bowl" feature in the bottom
twenty this year, was close up until
the end. At that point a lonely Bill
Troup aerial was batted down by a
crashing Terp lineman. Virginia had
one other opportunity but, lacking
the last minute miracle effort which
destiny reserved for teams like
William & Mary (a 33-6 loser to
Blackie's Big Five champs which
outgained the Cavaliers). Troup was
intercepted by the Terps' prevent
defense.

"They licked us and that's
that," said Blackie after the game.

"I know we're competitive on
the field," said Blackburn. "I know
we're well conditioned. And this
season, outside of Dave Turner's
broken leg, we had only the normal
bumps and bruises.

"I guess there's just a real fine
line in there somewhere. In so
many of our games this season, we
were right there but we lost.
Everybody says, 'We can't win the
tight ones.' Well, I guess that we're
not good enough to win the tight
ones.

"We were very close to being a
very good football team. But we
didn't make it. I pray that what
intangible things there are, we can
find 'em.

"I know it's not hard work, and
I know it's not competitiveness. We
just need some guys for some key
positions.

"We've set a goal of winning,
and it's a challenge to reward our
supporters with a winning team.

"Our goal next season is to win
the ACC championship."