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Cavaliers Show Ability, Courage

Final Score Not Indicative
Of Wahoo Effort At Purdue

By Bob Cullen
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

All-American Leroy Keyes, With Relative Ease

Keyes Ran, Passed, Kicked, Cavaliers Dizzy Saturday

It's traditional for a losing team
to maintain that the game was
actually closer than the score, but
in the case of Purdue's 44-6 victory
Saturday in West Lafayette, the
bromide applies. The Boilermakers
were a better team, but they were
not 38 points better.

Two things differentiated the
Cavaliers from the nation's best
Saturday - depth and Leroy Keyes.
The Boilermakers were able to
shuttle in second and third units to
help their regulars escape the
effects of the 85 degree
temperatures and 80% humidity,
and when they needed the big play
to break the game open, they were
able to call on their superplayer at
halfback to give it to them.

The Wahoos still gave Purdue a
lot more ballgame than they were
planning on having. After receiving
the opening kick-off, the Cavaliers
marched down to the Purdue 20,
with Quayle and Anderson finding
consistent holes in the Boilermaker
line. At the 20, Virginia's goal line
offense fizzled, and with fourth
down at the 16, Jim Carrington
lined up to try a field goal.

But someone up front missed an
assignment, and Chuck Kyle broke
through the middle and blocked the
kick. For a second the Virginians
froze, and that was all the time Bill
McKoy needed to grab the ball and
tear 78 yards down the sideline for
six points. Keyes' conversion was
nullified by a penalty, and his
second try was off to the left.

With the score at 6-0, the
Cavaliers received and were unable
to move. Hunter Richards punted
into the wind and the kick rolled
dead at the Purdue 37. Keyes then
went to work, and on sweeps
around both ends advanced the ball
to the Virginia 31. Here
Boilermaker QB Mike Phipps
fumbled the snap, and Rick
Constantine recovered.

Atte came out throwing, but
the senior quarterback was not
sharp. He seldom had the time to
set up properly, and when he did he
still had to throw awkwardly to get
the ball over the outstretched hands
of Purdue's tall front wall. Foley
intercepted the fifth straight
Virginia pass of the series and
returned to the Virginia 46. Wahoo
defenders forced the Boilermakers
back to the 49 from which Dick
Berg punted to the 11.

Three running plays left Virginia
three yards short of a first down
and Richards punted to the 50. The
Boilermakers moved to the Virginia
21, but there the defense stiffened
and Keyes was forced to attempt a
40 yard field goal, which was off to
the side.

Dave Wyncoop carried on
Virginia's next three plays, but
could gain only nine yards, and
once again, Hunter Richards was
called on to punt. With the wind at
his back, Richards boomed one to
the Purdue 31, where Foley called
for a fair catch.

Purdue's first play was a pass to
Peter Schmidt, the first of two that
the third-year cornerback picked
off in the afternoon. The Wahoos
started another drive from the 50,
advancing to the Purdue 20 with
Quayle and Wyncoop doing the
running. But once again, the
Cavaliers stalled down close, and
Carrington attempted another field
goal. This one was short and to the
left.

Purdue came out on the
following series with Keyes as a
flanker, and Phipps alternated
passes to him with hand offs to
fullback Perry Williams as the
Boilermakers moved down field.
Virginia had been playing the
receivers loosely, conceding the
sideline pass, but this was the first
time that Purdue began to take
advantage of it.

But again on Virginia's 16, the
courageous defense rose up and
stopped the drive, and again Keyes
missed the field goal attempt. And
again, the offense was stopped
inches short of a first down with
Quayle the victim of a questionable
placement by the official.

That gave Purdue the ball with
only a few minutes left in the half,
and the score tied as far as offense
went. At this point Keyes
demonstrated his greatness by
hauling in a third down pass for 31
yards over the middle, and a 13
yarder on a down and out pattern.
These were the big plays that
Purdue had to have as time ran out
in the half, and Keyes produced
them.

And this time the defense was
unable to stop Keyes on the sweep.
He scored from three yards out
with 31 seconds left in the half.
The conversion was good, and the
half ended with the Boilermakers in
the lead, 13-0. It might just as
easily have been a scoreless tie.

The halftime prognosis made it
obvious that if the Cavaliers were to
win the ballgame, and at this point
it looked as if they had a good
chance to do it, they would have to
stop the Boilermakers on their first
series, take the ball and score.

The defense again responded,
stopping the Boilermakers cold on
their own 17. Purdue's punt was
short, and Bob Rannigan signalled
for a fair catch on the home team
44. But he fumbled, and the bad
break sealed the ball game, for it
gave Leroy Keyes a chance to play
superman again. The Heisman
trophy candidate had hurt the
Cavaliers with his running and
receiving in the first half, and now
he did it with his arm.

After a personal foul had shoved
the Boilermakers back to their 28,
Keyes took a pitch on the next
play, rolled right, and flipped a
perfect pass to Randy Cooper for
39 yards, circled left end for seven
more, and tossed a 15 yard pass to
Greg Dillingham for the touchdown
and a 20-0 lead.

Virginia took the kick-off and
moved in eight plays to the Purdue
36, but there they lost the ball on
downs, and Purdue moved
down field again for a 27 yard field
goal. An exchange of punts
followed, and the Cavaliers again
had the ball on the 40. They drove
in 4 plays to the ten, only to suffer
an interception.

The defense, tiring now,
managed to hold once again, and
the Boilermakers punted to the
Cavalier 38. On the fourth play of
the series, Quayle broke loose for
the first time, rolling around left

end and down the sideline to the 1.
He followed Dick Kotulak into the
end zone on the next play, seconds
before the end of the quarter.

This was Virginia's last gasp.
Due to the new rule that stops the
clock after a first down, and the
high number of passes thrown by
both teams, an inordinate number
of plays had been run off in the
first three quarters, almost as many
as in one of last year's average
games. And while Purdue's depth
protected them from the heat,
many of the Virginia defenders had
played every minute.

It got worse in the final quarter.
As Boyd Page, who had suffered
from cramps due to the heat, and
yet had not missed a play said,

"every time I looked up, there was
a clean jersey in front of me." The
situation was the same for almost
all of the linemen, particularly Tom
Patton, and Al Sinesky, who went
all the way at defensive ends, and
center Dan Ryezek, who broke into
college ball against All-American
Chuck Kyle.

The Cavaliers were worn down,
not by superior talent, but by
superior strength and numbers.