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Knight Game
Opens Season

Starting Offense To Face Army At West Point Come Saturday

Some Faces May Be Changed Before Our Cavaliers Take To Field To Beat Army

Virginia opens its 78th season
this Saturday at 2 p.m. against
a West Point team that shows
promise of being one of the best
squads of the East.

Army leads in the series three
games to one for the Cavaliers.
The Black Knights won in 1954
(21-20), 1957 (20-12), and in 1958
(35-6). The Wahoos, however, had
a most satisfying upset in 1964,
humbling the highly outed Cadets
35-14.

Capacity Crowd

Playing before what should be
a capacity crowd of 31,000, the
Cavaliers had better be prepared
for a tense afternoon. No one ever
doubts the spirit of the Cadet without
suffering some sort of a loss.
West Point will really be out to
avenge because the reversal they
took in 1964.

Homecoming?

For Virginia's favorite tailback
Frank Quayle, the game may be
some sort of homecoming, for he
has many friends and relatives who
will probably come to see him from
his nearby hometown of Garden
City.

Quayle seems ready both mentally
and physically for the ordeal
to come. A slight leg injury has
been overcome but the question
is whether Quayle will be able to
run effectively without the presence
of Bob Davis to worry opposing
defenses.

As of Thursday afternoon,
Coach Blackburn was still uncertain
who would be nominated
to pick up the quarterback slack,
saying only that both Stan Kemp
and Gene Arnette would see a lot
of action.

Receivers Inexperienced

Another question that can only
be answered Saturday is whether
the young and inexperienced receiving
corps can replace the operatives
who manned those position
last year, all of whom have departed,
due to position changes
and graduation. Bob Rannigan
Joe Hoppe, and Bill Lockwood
are all quick but small, and although
they have looked good in
practice, there is no substitute for
game experience.

Coach Blackburn expects Army
to throw up a tough defense and
an attack built around the roll outs
of quarterback sensation Steve Lindell
and power plunges of tailback
Charley Jarvis.

He warns, however, that Army's
receivers are big, strong, and sure,
and that if Lindell can get the ball
to them they could give the Virginia
secondary a very rough afternoon.