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Gamecocks Top Wahoos;
Defense Riddled, 49-28

By Bob Cullen
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Photo By Bob Gill

Quarterback Gene Arnette Rolls Out, Into Arms Of South Carolina Defenders; Gamecocks Harassed Wahoo QB All Day

Virginia Played Its Poorest Game Of Season, South Carolina Played Its Best, As 49-28 Rout Doomed All Championship Hopes

Perhaps the Cavaliers were too
interested in the results of the
Furman-East Carolina game to pay
attention to the one going on
Saturday in Scott Stadium. Maybe
they thought it was really only
Friday and they were just going out
to scrimmage the freshman team.
Whatever it was, Virginia made
enough mistakes to last for the rest
of the season, and have enough left
over to give to the basketball team,
losing to South Carolina by a score
of 49-28.

Quarterback Tommy Suggs and
flanker Fred Ziegler humiliated the
Virginia secondary in a record
setting performance which
somehow failed to please the Band
Day crowd of 25,600. Suggs passed
for five touchdowns, eclipsing Bob
Davis' ACC record of four. Ziegler
caught three of them, and probably
set another record for most passes
caught on big third down plays
when everyone in Albemarle
County knew Suggs was going to
throw it to him.

South Carolina opened fast and
had a 14-0 lead before Virginia
woke up to the fact that they were
in a ballgame. The Gamecocks
scored in the first quarter on a
54-yard drive that took only four
plays, three of which were passes
from Suggs to Ziegler, the last of
which covered 20 yards for the
score. Tiny Billy DuPre kicked the
first of what was to be a total of
seven successful conversions, and
the score was 7-0.

The second period opened up
with South Carolina stopping Frank
Quayle on a fourth and one
situation and gaining possession on
their own 44. Jim Willets was nailed
for piling on the next play, and
the 15 yards that his exuberance
cost the Cavaliers put the ball on
the Virginia 40. Ben Galloway
carried for 11 yards in two plays,
and then Rudy Holloman circled
left, end and picked his way 29
yards for the score.

Down by two TD's the Cavaliers
called on Frank Quayle to get them
back in the game. Quayle
responded by catching an Arnette
pass in the flat and carrying it 67
yards to the Gamecock seven. It
was the only time Quayle found
himself with an open field in the
game.

From the seven, Virginia
stuttered, stumbled and fumbled,
gaining a total of nothing at all in
three plays. But on fourth down,
Arnette heaved into a crowd under
the goal post, and tight end Joe
Hoppe emerged with the ball,
making the score 14-6. Jim
Carrington converted.

Virginia held Ziegler to one
completion in the ensuing
Gamecock series, and Bill Parker
punted to the Cavalier 31. Moving
at an average of four yards a play,
the Wahoos brought the ball
downfield with short gainers from
Anderson, Wyncoop, and Mooser.
On second and goal from the five,
Frank Quayle entered the game and
lost two yards. Arnette missed
Quayle with a pass on third down,
and again the Cavaliers were faced
with fourth and goal to go Arnette
found Chuck Mooser picking his
defender on the goalpost and
passed to him for the tying score.
Carrington converted, with only
1:26 left in the half.

With so little time remaining,
everyone and his mother knew that
Suggs would throw a few
desperation passes and the half
would end with the score tied and
the momentum belonging to
Virginia. Unfortunately, Virginia's
prevent defense worked about as
well as the Washington Redskins'.

Suggs, after two running plays
that gained nothing, threw four
long passes to Ziegler. Three of
them were completed, for 25, 35,
and 19 yards. The last one went
through Peter Schmidt's flailing
arms and it happened that Ziegler
was in the end zone when he caught
it. With 18 seconds left, the
Gamecock's had a 21-14 lead.

The Cavaliers received to
start the second half, and with the

aid of a roughing the kicker penalty
moved into South Carolina
territory on a 20-yard pass from
Arnette to Quayle. Arnette's first
interception stove in that drive
however, when Pat Watson picked
off an aerial intended for Jeff
Calamos. After an exchange of
punts, Arnette gave South Carolina
another chance, and this time the
Gamecocks made good on the
opportunity. On the first play after
linebacker Ben Padgett intercepted
a pass intended for Hoppe,
somebody in the Virginia secondary
overlooked the fact that Ben
Galloway was still in the ballgame.

Tommy Suggs is an astute
quarterback, however, and he did
know that Galloway was a full
fledged member of the South
Carolina backfield. Thus Suggs had
no qualms whatsoever - about
throwing the ball to him when he
wandered into the flat and found
that he was being snubbed by the
Virginia defense, Galloway, hurt no
doubt that his talents had been
taken so lightly, repaid the insult
by taking the ball into the end zone
for a South Carolina touchdown.

Down by two touchdowns
again, Virginia drove in for a score
on a march that featured Joe
Hoppe on the receiving end of two
Arnette passes, for 14 and 22 yards.
It remained for Arnette however, to
get the score on a one yard sneak.

Despite the score, the Cavaliers
were unable to stop the opposition.
After another punt exchange,
Galloway and Suggs found that
some people never learn. The same
play produced the same result.