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Alumni Feature
Dudley, Arnette

When George Blackburn's
Cavalier football team winds up
spring drills this Saturday with the
annual Alumni game the Virginia
faithful in the stands will get a good
long look of what is in store for
them both next fall.

The ever pressing search for a
quarterback continues, and this
year the two signal callers who
weren't in the running last season
will have a chance to show what
they can do to the Easter's crowd.
Larry Albert a red short last season,
and Bill Troup, up from the
first-year team will be doing most
of the quarterbacking in the annual
off-season game scheduled for two
o'clock at Scott stadium.

Though both match each other
in spirit and ability, they are
football opposites, in both size and
style of play. Albert, is a slight 5-10
and weighs 180 pounds, and Troup
stands at 6-5, 200 lbs. Albert
depends more on speed and finesse,
while Troup relies more on sheer
power. "They're as different as
Mutt and Jeff" says Mr. Blackburn.

Despite the lack of experience in
that position, the Varsity is still
picked as the favorite by a hair,
though Coach Rock Wier will be
able to field offensive and defensive
teams composed almost exclusively
of members of the 1968 and 1969
teams.

While Weir and his assistants, Ed
Henry, Charlie Ellis, and Tom
Scott, won't pick a line-up until
game time Saturday, here is one
possible offensive platoon.

Either former Pro star Sonny
Randle or Rick Moschel at split
end, Joe Hoppe at tight end, Greg
Shelly and Bob Kowalkowski at
tackles Rick Kotulak and Tommy
Thomas at guards, and John
Blackburn at center. The backfield
could include Gene Arnette at QB,
Frank Quayle and Dave Wyncoop
at running backs, and Jeff Calamos
at flanker.

Defensively, Mr. Wier can call on
11 players who played no further
back than 1968. They include ends
Tom Patton and Al Sinesky, tackles
Rick Brand and Jim Willets,
linebackers Boyd Page and Bob
Paczkoski cornerbacks Bill
Lockwood and Schmidt, and
safetymen Rabbit Rannigan and
Paul Reeve.

The Varsity will be out to
avenge last spring's embarrassing
loss to the alumni, a team
strengthened by the appearance of
the "V" backfield of 1968 that set
all of the ACC offensive records.

Two old standbys that will play
for the alumni will be Bill Dudley
and Buddy Shoaf. Dudley, a
member of the football Hall Of
Fame and a former pro star,
handled the kicking duties in last
year's upset win, while Shoaf, a
defensive standout of the '50's
hasn't missed a game since he took
his degree.

Tickets for the match, billed,
surprisingly enough as the finest
spring football game in the nation,
are one dollar for students and
children, and two dollars for adults
prior to the game, and one dollar
for children, two dollars for
students, and two dollars and fifty
cents for adults at the game.