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Cavalier Stickmen
Overpower Yalies

Photo By Bob Gill

Above: Stickmen Battle For Ball. Below: Quayle Shoots One Of Two Goals

Before a crowd of about 300
spectators the Cavalier stickmen
downed the Yale team in an
impressive display of hard-hitting,
skillful action. In the first half the
Elis were able to muster only two
goals to the Cavaliers' seven.
Virginia let up in the second half
but coasted to a 12-8 victory.

The Virginia game was
characterized by an aggressive attack
led by the experienced midfielders
Frank Quayle, Jim Potter, and Pete
Kirk. First-year man Pete Eldridge,
George Turner, and Tad Joerdans
added their support.

Ball control was the name of the
game. Virginia overwhelmed Yale in
this department capturing 90
ground balls to Yale's slight 38. Jim
Potter and Tad Joerdans also
adequately handled the face-offs.
Each succeeded in winning over 75
per cent of the contests.

Conditioning may have been an
important factor here. Yale has not
been out on the field as often or as
much as the Virginia stickmen.

Defenseman Chuck Hilbert won
the Cavalier honors in capturing
ground balls with 12. Pete Coy and
Jim Potter both collected 9 a
piece. As a unit the defense
outplayed and outmanoeuvred the
Yale attack. Coy led the defense
with his quick, aggressive moves. Al
Kavasch and Chuck Hammer held
the Yale attack to a minimum
number of shots and assists in the
first half.

The combined efforts of the
Virginia midfield and defense
prevented the Elis from completing
passes and playing their game.

When it came to scoring there
was no lack of it. Potter was the big
man with five goals. He was able to
score the points on a play in which
first-year man Jay Connor feeds
Potter cutting in front of the net on
the Virginia basic extra-man play.

Charlie Rullman played a steady
game accounting for two goals and
three assists. Connors was the high
man on assists, however,
completing five.

Others scoring were midfielders
Frank Quayle with two and another
first-year man, Bob Proutt, with
two. George Turner rounded out
the scoring with one. Pete Eldridge
and Pete Kirk each added one
assist.

Goalie Jim Eustace had a hand
in holding down the Elis during the
first half. Virginia's defense limited
him to only two saves. Yale simply
did not get the ball into his
territory.

In the second half Yale began to
play something more akin to their
game. By the third quarter they had
begun to score. Don Huntington
was the leading scorer for the Elis
with five goals. Following his
efforts were Harry Routh
accounting for four assists, Jim
Laughlin with two goals and Larry
Mills with one.

Yale was aided by Virginia
penalties in achieving a good
percentage of their six second half
goals. Their performance in the
second half edged the Cavaliers',
6-5.

Second-year man Al Hirsch got
quite a workout at the goalie

position when he came in for
Eustace after intermission. He
managed to block eight Yale
attempts.

Next weekend the team travels
to Baltimore to play what is
probably the best lacrosse team in
the nation, Mt. Washington. A club
team, many of the members are
past all-Americans from such
lacrosse powers as Hopkins,
Maryland, and Navy. After this trip
the Cavaliers embark for sunny
Palm Beach and a week of
scrimmaging.