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Cavalier Ruggers Upend
Blue Devil Opposition

By Jim Waitzman

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Drinking an estimated 6000
beers, a crowd of about 1000
gathered on Memorial Gymnasium
Field Sunday to watch the Virginia
Rugby Club trounce Duke
22-6. It was a clash of two undefeated
teams meeting head-on.

Duke came to town with a perfect
record of 4-0 only to be
dethroned by Virginia whose record
now stands as 60-1. Virginia
has four matches remaining
in its fall season.

Two of the three tries (comparable
to a touchdown in American
football) were made by Virginia
scrummers.

The first score of the afternoon
was made by Virginia's alert
lock Dave Blumberg. It was early
in the game when Duke tacklers
bounced off 200-pound Blumberg
as he raced twenty yards to the
goal line. Julian Rainey's conversion
was successful and Virginia
led 5-0.

Ladt Scores

Minutes later, after Virginia's
backs had moved the ball to Duke's
five yard line, another scrummer,
Carrol Ladt, scooted over for the
try. Rainey's kick was good to
bring the score to 10-0.

Later during a set scrum a
penalty was called on Duke's
hooker. Rainey thus made the 35
yard penalty kick from a sideline
angle to boost the score to 13-0.

After the kickoff, Virginia
moved the ball into scoring position
again at the Duke five. A
swift Duke wing forward fell on a
loose ball, got up and evaded six
Virginia tacklers with a 95 yard
scoring jaunt. Duke's kick was no
good, and at half time the score
stood at 13-3.

Jinx Broken

Virginia overcame its second
half jinx as the Cavaliers bolted
back with nine more points. Line-outs
controlled by Tom Lavey,
quick passes by Manny Yates, and
close defensive play by wing forwards
Jay Dagliesh and Don
Chamberlain kept Virginia way out
in front.

Yet it is the backs who scored.
When a back gets the ball in rugby,
he has many alternatives. He may
run with the ball, pass the ball to
another back, pop kick over a defender's
head, kick for distance and
into touch (out of bounds), or
drop-kick through the uprights.

Shifty Alli Duckworth seemed
to come up with the right combination
as he faced and drew
would-be tacklers away from Julian
Rainey and eventually allowed
Rainey to break loose for a tri.
The kick was no good bringing
the score to 16-3.

Penalty

After an offside penalty was
called against Virginia, the
rugby-playing wrestling coach at
Duke successfully converted, and
bumped Duke's total to six points.

Julian Rainey came back to cap
off the day with two more penalty
kicks pushing the Virginia total to
twenty-two and his personal total
to sixteen for the afternoon. Rainey
continues to lead the Eastern
Rugby Union with 61 points in
six matches.

In another match, the Virginia
"C" team lost to Maryland's "A"
team. The final score was 16-0.

B Team Falls

In the final match of Sunday's
rugby marathon, the "B" teams
Duke and Virginia met in a rough,
hard-hitting match. Duke's powerful
second side beat Virginia 15-5,
but many of the players on the
Virginia team were playing their
second game of the afternoon.
Duke got three tri's in the first
half and with conversions led 15-0.

The husky Virginia "B" team
came back with a determined effort
in the second half and held Duke
scoreless. Jim Nugent scored a
tri and made the conversion for
Virginia's only scoring. Tough defensive
play be team captain Denny
Revak and Hooker Jim Waitzman
kept Duke deep in their own territory
throughout the second half.
Quick deceptive moves by Virginia
backs Pete Williams and Kim
Hooper kept Virginia close to
Duke's goal but the Cavaliers could
not push the ball across the line.

Virginia goes to Norfolk this
weekend for the Chesapeake Bay
Challenge Cup Match. The match
is sponsored by the Norfolk-Portsmouth
Alumni Association.