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Blue Devil Upsurge Kills
Wahoo Upset Bid, 13-6

By John Marshall

Rallying to push across two
scores in the final period, the invading
Duke Blue Devils edged a
courageous band of Cavaliers Saturday,
13-6, before a four-quarter-vocal
Homecoming crowd of
25,000 in sun-drenched Scott
Stadium.

In each of their previous three
games, the Devils had seen victory
decided in the waning minutes of
the fourth quarter; the experience
gained paid off Saturday when
Duke signal-caller Al Woodall
coolly initiated the winning drive
from the Devil 34 yard-line with
only 5:51 showing on the clock.
Not quite four minutes later,
sub fullback Don Baglien, who
replaced the injured Jay Calabrese
in the third quarter, rolled over
the pile-up at the line to score the
game's winning touchdown on a
two-yard plunge.

Pass Pays

Baglien's score capped off the
second-half Devil surge after the
Cavaliers had completely
dominated play in the first half.
A 44-yard Gene Arnette to Joe
Hoppe aerial put the Wahoos on
the scoreboard early in the second
quarter. The usually-reliable Braxton
Hill missed his first extra point
of the season in nine attempts and
the Cavaliers led, 6-0.

The vociferous Scott Stadium
partisans-swelled by an unusually
large number of dates and alumni
-saw the underdog Wahoos muff
several chances to enhance their
lead before the halftime intermission.
Two Peter Schmidt field
goal attempts-one of 38 yards,
and the other of 39-were wide of
the mark. A brilliant broken-field
running exhibition put on by tailback
Frank Quayle for a fifty-yard
gain was called back from the
Duke 15 by a holding violation.
And a pass from Gene Arnette
to Bob Rannigan, who suffered a
broken arm in the game and will
miss the rest of the season, just
slipped out of the sophomore's
grasp on the Duke 4 yard-line.

Ryan Runs

The Blue Devils came out of
the dressing room and Coach Tom
Harp's halftime talk and began
to get their offense rolling. Time
and time again, tailback Frank
Ryan exploded into the Cavalier
line for sizeable gains. In Duke's
first series of the third quarter,
Ryan carried the ball an amazing
seven times in a row-from the
Duke 31 to the Virginia 36.

It seemed only fitting that the
workhorse Ryan, who gained 101
yards in 23 carries, should score
the first Duke touchdown with just
a few minutes gone in the fourth
quarter. Soccer-style booter Bob
Riesenfeld failed to make the conversion
and the score was to stand
6-6 until Baglien's deciding tally.

The team statistics, which the
Cavaliers had completely
dominated in the first half, showed
Duke stronger in practically all
departments. Duke's all-important
total offense mark outdistanced the
Cavaliers by some 92 yards.

Photo By Gill

Frank Quayle Zooms Down Field Just Before Halftime

Holding Penalty Declared This Effort Null And Void