Evening star., 1939-10-01
Miller, 145-Pounder, +,
Makes Auspicious
Debut as Back
Terps Show AII-Around
Strength, With Nicely
Balanced Offense
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

Exhibiting definite signs of
strength despite weather more ap-
propriate for baseball, University of
Maryland's football team opened its
season auspiciously yesterday by
swamping an outclassed and out
weighed Hampden-Sydney eleven,
26-O, before $500 spectators at Col
lege Park.
In beating the Tigers by the same
score Virginia buried them under
last week, the Terps presented an
other typically well-drilled Frank
Dobson aggregation which should get
even better as the season progresses.
Their line, limiting the visitors to
two first downs and net gain of IS
yards by rushing, never was in
danger of being scored upon and
their offense clicked behind beau
tiful blocking.
In short, the seasons opener
should have been extremely gratify-
ing to Dobson, happily embarked
upon his 3lst year of collegiate
coaching.
Terps Scoring Punch Proved.
And in case there was any doubt
about Maryland's scoring punch, it
should be dispelled this morning in
the wake of the performances of
such as Vernon Miller, Pershing
Mondorff, Joe Murphy, John Boyda
and Frank Skotnicki. If those five
don't give Old Line opposition
plenty of headaches this fall, lot
of yesterdays onlookers will be sur
prised.
Miller, "scatback" of 145 pounds
playing his first year on the varsity,
showed that he knows how to use
his sprinter's speed to good advan-
tage on the gridiron, reeling off
25-yard gain on one occasion and
15-yard run to a touchdown on an
other. The latter was an excep-
tionally pretty piece of running,
Miller leaving his blockers at just
the right moment to cut between
two tacklers to cross the goal line
standing.
Murphy and Boyda accounted for
two of the other three touchdowns
on rushes from within the 10-yard
line while Mondorff, converted from
a blocking to a running passing
back, tossed scoring pass to
Franny Beamer for the fourth g.
pointer. Beamer, incidentally. ap-
peared the most improved Terp of
all Aside from playing smashing
defensive game, the Roosevelt High
School product was up in the air
all afternoon snagging passes like
a Charley Malone.
Skotnicki Gobbles Yardage.
Skotnicki didn't score, but his
hard, devil-may-ca style of run
ming accounted for lot of yard
age.
Statistics present a true criterion
of the difference of the teams,
Maryland a big edge in all except
kicking. The irony of that one ex-
ception is that Sgd Walden's only
two poor kicks of the day led to
Maryland's first two touchdowns.
Although he came out of the game
with 7-yard average advantage
over the Maryland hooters, Muir
ply and Mondorff, Walden's first
punt of the game gave the Terps
the ball on the visitors 15-yard
line and the second was returned
to Hampden-Sydney's 80.
Maryland was not long in scor-
Ing, although it muffed its first
chance when Murphy fumbled as
he was hurdling the last white
stripe. But when the Terps got a
reprieve in the form of Waldens
short kick, Skotnicki, Boyda and
Murphy rushed to the 6. from where
the latter raced around left end to
score behind nifty blocking.
Murphy's Pass Sets Up Score.
Murphy shortly after set up the
Terps' second score with a 27-yard
bullet pass to Beamer who took it
on his finger tips on the Tigers 3.
One play was sufficient as Boyda hit
right tackle for the score. Miller's
touchdown came just before the
half ended.
Maryland threatened only once
IN the third quarter, but couldn't
pierce beyond the visitors % and
had to wait until the final period
before registering its last score of
the day. Then, a 71-yard march
eliminated successfully in Mon
dorff's pass to Beamer in the end
zone.
Terp extra point makers kicked
500 for the day, Boyda and Mon
dorf each booting one for two.
Sfafisfina