Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03

w Virginia and the score stood
4 Is to IL against it, with the
try for point yet to be made.
| Out from the sidelineS rushed a husky
| guard on whose toe was to depend the
| games result. Thrust into the contest
| at tense moment, on John McDonalds
ability to placekick point rested defeat
or tie for Maryland. The teams lined
up and set themselves. In the gather
| ing shades the silence almost was as
tense as the players. The ball was shot
back from center and almost as soon as
it struck Radices hands McDonald's
| foot swung forward, the ball shot true
between the posts and one of the most
brilliant conflicts ever staged on a
Maryland gridiron, Maryland's annual
home coming day struggle with Viz
gtnia, was virtually ended.
Had some brilliant writer of fiction
desired to stage an imaginary contest,
of which he could paint word picture,
nothing better could have been wished
for than that game at College Park
yesterday. Things just seemed to hap
pen, and time after time the stage was
perfectly set with the characters taking
parts that seemed almost to be written
for them. Bits of team play stood out
as brilliant concepts of group effort
and at times individuals rose to emer-
gencies to accomplish things that
impossible.
Only Five Minutes TO Go.
Take that last touchdown With only
! five minutes to go Maryland had the
ball back on its own 5-yard line and
the wind against 1t. But some kind of
superhuman energy seemed suddenly to
| Undue the Old Line men with resist
less power. It was yards of tackle,
yards through center, 10 yards around
end, 3 yards inside of tackle; from
somewhere Maryland was getting the
drive that was forcing Virginia back.
Then a forward pass went for IL yards,
double pass for Is and Evans broke
through center again; and so 1t was
until the ball finally rested back on
| Virginia's 7-yard mark, from where on
a wide fling around end slender-legged
Augie Roberts, who had entered the
! game in the fourth quarter, Sprinted
his way across the Virginia goal, un-
touched, to produce that final tense
moment in which Mcdonald kicked his
/ tying point.
The game from start to finish was
| just series of tense moments climaxed
sometimes by accomplishments that
gave each side OF the field in it turn
| opportunities for demonstrations OF
wild enthusiasm. Maryland got its
first touchdown with suddenneSs that
astounded the Virginia stands.
| Backed up against its goal line almost
at the beginning of the contest, Mary
land gradually worked out until 1t goC
possession of the ball on the 35-yara
| line when Virginia failed to make
| first down. From there 1t started
drive that on forward passes, straight
| plunges and double passes, carried the
ball to Virginia's 25-yard mark. Vn-
| giria set itself to stop the drive anu
apparently had, when a forward pass,
after double pass. dronped in Heagy
arms and he. after eluding one tackler.
was not hindered again until just as ne
! crossed the goal.
Cavaliers Score SpectacuIarly.
Virginia's first court was even more
spectacular. In kicking exchange
Maryland sent a punt to the 55-yaru
line, where Thomas, fleet and spectacle
lar Virginia back caught it and started
to twist his way by the Maryland enas.
He eluded FIRST one and then the other,
then stepped around another Maryland
player. and twisting and squirniing he
got by tackler after tackler until he
finally sped across the goal line
Chalmers had missed dropkick for
the hrst try for point and Faulconer
missed one for Virginia. The half emo
ed with the count to 6.
The second quarter was grueling
struggle between two elevens that were
constant threat to each other.
About the middle Of the second quar-
ter Virginia had the ball on its own q
yard line, with the wind against it, ana
the situation seemed very advantageous
for Maryland. but it was Thomas wnu
broke through for 10 and IS yard gains
that put the ball in the middle OF the
f1eld, from where 1t was booted into
Maryland territory.
Virginia's second touchdown came al
Ia
side Of the field. The Old Liners. by a
generally brilliant offense, carried the
ball to Virginia's 2-yard line, only to
lose 1t on downs after two drives into
the center of the line failed. Then
Virginia got of q poor kick and Mary
land again had the ball on the 25-yard
line. A forward pass to Heagy gained
IL yards and it looked as If it were
only q question of time and effort be-
fore the Old Line men would get sec.
ond score.
But a 15-yard penalty was inflicted
from the l0-yard line and on the next
play forward pass was intercepted by
Levy, who broke away and was not
hauled down until he reached Mary
lands 40-yard line.
A LOng Pass Does II.
Thomas ran yards around end
and then dropped back to shoot for
W@A0 pass VA ELLIE AAdN I1Ob OCCIi sue
ceSSful with its passes but this time no
more perfectly timed play ever was
made. The ball shot far down the field
into the arms of Bryant, who caught 1t
on the dead run.
There was nothing between Bryant
and the goal line and nothing behind
him with ghost of chance to catch
him, and the game had changed in al
most the twinkling of an. eye from
Maryland being in a position where 1t
seemed almost sure to score to a Vir-
ginia touchdown and a 7-point lead, be-
cause this time Faulconer kicked the
goal.
Maryland was on the short end of
13-to-6 score, and Virginia had the
wind at its back all during the fourth
quarter, which began a few seconds
after 1t got its touchdown. Then Vir-
ginia booted the bali outside at Mary
lands 5-yard line and the Old Liners
rushed up to the center of the field
only to be held and forced to kick.
It began to seem as If the Cavaliers
would carry back to Charlottesville the
Senator NJ. E. Tydings trophy, which
goes to the victor. Soon after that Vir-
ginia punted and Maryland again had
the ball backed up In front of its own
goal
But then began the offense that
sometimes is told about in the story
books and which one hopes sometime TO
see on the field of play, but seldom
does
Many will say that Maryland deserved
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