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Third Straight Loss

Army Drops Cavs, 14-9

By TOM BELL

Bob McGrail Scored Only Cavalier TD Against Army

Cornerback Picked Off Cadet Pass And Sprinted 63 Yards

Two Cavalier turnovers in the
second half led to two Army
touchdowns Saturday as the
Wahoos saw a 3-0 halftime lead
dissolve in the second half and lost
their third game in a row and their
sixth in seven starts.

The Cadets had to work hard
to gain revenge for last year's
21-20 loss to Virginia, and it
looked for a time as if the
Cavaliers, clear underdogs going
into the game, would pull off
another upset over West Point
until the two second half miscues
proved fatal.

McGrail Scores

Bobby McGrail provided the
Cavaliers with their only
touchdown of the game as he
picked off a Kingsley Fink pass
and sprinted 63 yards behind a
wall of blockers for the score
which pulled the Wahoos within
striking distance at 14-9 with four
minutes left.

The other Cavalier scoring
came on a 34-yard field goal by
Billy Maxwell in the first half
which put the Wahoos ahead for
the only time in the game. The
field goal was Maxwell's fourth of
the season which leaves him just
one short of the all-time Virginia
record of five set by George
Arnold back in 1923.

Army had good field position
throughout the first period, but
the Virginia defense kept the
Cadets from scoring. Virginia was
bottled up in its own territory for
the whole first quarter.

Long Returns

Gerard Mullins made three long
punt returns in the second quarter
to get the Cavaliers out of their
own territory, and the Wahoos
generally dominated play in the
period, but could only get on the
board once with Maxwell's boot.
Another attempted field goal by
Maxwell failed.

The Cavaliers took their slim
3-0 lead to the locker room at the
half and it looked to some as if an
upset was in the making.

Break For Army

Army got its big break in the
third quarter when defensive back
Grover Daily picked off his second
Larry Albert pass of the day to
give the Cadet offense the ball on
the Cavalier 45 yardline.

From there the West Pointers
drove the ball in with halfback
Bob Hines taking it over from the
one to put Army ahead. The extra
point kick by Jim Barclay made
it 7-3, and after that the Cadets
never trailed.

Army's second TD came after
an Army punt hit Cavalier Bill
Kettenun while he was preparing
to block for a runback. Tackle Ted
Krawczyk pounced on the ball on
the Wahoo fifteen yard-line, and
one play later Fink hit flanker Ed
Francis with a 14-yard pass over
the middle for the score.

After the Cavalier offense, then
under the direction of Harrison
Davis, failed to move the ball,
Army got it back and was in
Cavalier territory on the 42 when
Fink, under pressure from Andy
Selfridge and Billy Williams, lofted
the ball in the air. McGrail picked
it off and went all the way.

Two Point Try Fails

A try for a two-point
conversion failed when Davis' pass
to Dave Sullivan fell incomplete.

The Cavaliers tried an outside
kick on the ensuing kickoff but it
failed, although the ball rolled
around for a tense moment before
an Army player fell on it at the
Cadet 46.

The win evened the Army
record at 3-3, while the Cavaliers
fell to 1-6. The next Cavalier
outing will be at North Carolina
State next week in an ACC
contest.

   

Virginia	0	3	0	6-	9
Army	0	0	7	7-	14

Va-Maxwell, Field Goal, 34 yds.

Army-Hines, 1 yd., (Barclay kick)

Army- Francis, 14 yds., Pass from
Fink, (Barclay kick)

Va-McGrail, 63 yds. Interception
(Pass Failed)

                 

	Va.	Army
First Downs	9	15
Rushing Yds.	93	119
Passing Yds.	51	130
Return Yds.	133	52
Att.-Comp.-Int.	6-17-2	14-23-2
Fumbles Lost	1	0
Yds. Penalized	31	30
Punt Avg.	40	36