Evening star., 1923-10-21

And again it was Rutherford who
In the fourth quarter produced the
touchdown for his team. And, ac-
cording to statement of one of the
V. P. !. men, did it on a play that
was fixed up on the field. Ruther-
ford went back apparently to try a
drop kick from the 3o-yard line. He
started to run In one direction, ap-
parently was smothered, then turned
and threw the ball 25 yards to the
end of the end zone into the arms of
e. waiting Rhodes.
Intelligence Counts.
The majority of spectators prob
ably have figured 1t out that Mary
land got the bad breaks and to those
bad breaks il owes it's defeat, but
such Is far from the case. The bad
breaks were nothing more or less
than situations which arose from
mistakes in Judgment and general
ship. The margin between the two
teams was the difference in their in
telligence of plays. The men from
Blacksburg played smarter foot ball;
the men from College Park did not
That tells the story.
In straight mechanical foot ball
there was little difference in the two
teams. Both lines charged hard and
both played better foot ball than
either ever will get credit for. Mary
land backs. like those of the visiting
team, were good on defense; Mary
land smothered every forward pass
except the one on which Groves was
asleep, and v. p. l. backs also were
alert in their backing up of their
= forwards and generally in their de-
fense against passes.
-. The one apparent mechanical ad-
vantage that V. z. l. possessed was
in having backs who, once they got
started. could go. Maryland mad no
back of that caliber. Flory,. Sutton
and Rutherford, If given the least
start, were dangerous. 1t was Flory
who, when Supplee failed to get down
under punt from the middle of the
field In the fourth period, carried the
ball back from his own 1S-yard line
to Maryland's 35-yard mark. 1t was
this run which gave the Gobblers
their opportunity to score their
touchdown.
Visitors Score Quickly.
Maryland kicked off to begin the
game and in two plays V. P. I. hardly
got the ball beyond the line of scriru-
mage, but it fumbled. the ball touched
a Maryland player. was recovered by
q v. p. I. man and the visitors
Then Sutton got away on 15-yard
run and put the ball on Maryland S
40-yard mark. From there he was
forced to punt and the ball was dead
on Maryland's 2-yard mark. Heine
got Off a punt that went only rs yards.
V. P. l. could not gain, but ran the ball
tempt at field goal. Rutherford dropped
back and what he accomplished already
has been told.
Maryland for some unknown reason
elected to receive the kickoff, and
on the second play Besley fumbled
and V. P. /. recovered Again the
visitors could not get anywhere and
rutherford stepped back thirteen
yards behind his own line of scrim-
mage and made another perfect drop
Kick. Maryland. probably to show
that 1t was willing to persevere, lined
up to receive the kickoff again. This
time 1t was McQuade who fumbled. on
the first play, and V. p. I. again got
the ball.
All 1t accomplished in a gaining
way was to work the ball out in
front of the posts so that Rutherford
could show the crowd that his two
previous attempts were not fiukes.
The third drop kick was just as per-
feet as the first two.
Maryland Wakes Up.
At this stage of the game 1t be-
gan to dawn on some Marylander's
mind that 1t might be good policy
TO kick off. Maryland kicked off, got
a chance to stop V. P. J. In the visi-
tors territory, and from then on
real gridiron battle was or.
Maryland got chance to score in
the second period, when 1t carried
the ball from the middle of the field
to the 5-yard line, but poor judg-