Evening star., 1940-09-29
lasf-Minute Goal TRY
Desperate 1erps
Make Is Wide
Tigers Pass to Score,
Then Curb Opponents
Until Second Hu!f
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

Maryland couldn't hold that Tiger
yesterday at College Par k and
Hampden-Sydney crashed through
with rs upset to spoil the Terps'
coming-out party before 5000 dumb
sfounded fans.
1t was one of those games In
which you expected little Joe Muir
gallop or Mearle Du Vail to heave
q long scoring pass at any moment
even with all but minute OF
time elapsed, but neither happened.
1t couldn't happen because an alert
Hampden-Sydney secondary batted
down Mearle's pegs as though swat
ting flies and Murphy was able to
get into the open only once.
Maryland tried two field goals IN
its desperate struggle to ward of
the humiliation of a first-game de-
feat, the first by Punch" Widener
in the second period and last by
Harold Berry, substitute guard, in
the final quarter. Both were wide
of the mark and Berry's effort was
fragrant faux pas unwittingly
committed in the heat of losing
battle
Terps Are Bewildered.
Less than a minute of playing
time was left and Maryland, by the
grace of a hard charging line that
smeared Harry Murdock as he tried
to punt from his own 25-yard line,
took the ball at that point. Du Vail
dropped back and chucked two
touchdown passes-one at Murphy
and another at Lumsden-but both
were DETECTED by Tiger backs
Then, before the Terps could line
up for another play, Berry, a guard,
charged onto the field and reported
for Lumsden. He had instructions
to try field goal as a last, des-
perate attempt to snatch the
scorched chestnuts from the fire
But in the huddle all the harassed
Terps heard were the orders to try
a field goal" Thus, without taking
one last chance on running play or
a pass, they called for Berrys ILL
fated effort and kicked away their
last chance of winning.
Hampden-Sydney. a smart, ag-
gressive and woefully underrated
eleven, got the jump on its host with
two quick arrow-like passes from
Walter Sprye to sgd Weed that ar
ranged the trappings for its score
near the end of the second period.
The first moved the ball from Mary
lands 40 to the 19 and the second
brought the Tigers to the 4. From
that point Sprye sprinted around
right end into pay dirt and Cliff
Holmes kicked perfect placement
for the seventh and deciding point.
l Murphy Paves Way to Tally.
1t was a few minutes after this
that Widener dropped back to the
~visitors' 25-yard line, where a Mary
land march from midfeld begged
down, and tried the first placement.
1t was wide and the Terps left the
field trailing by seven points.
But they came back with a rush
to open the second half After
Hampden-Sydney took the kickoff
and failed to gain they exchanged
punts and the Virginians lost about
25 yards on the deal as Holmes boot
sailed out of bounds on his own a.
Then it appeared that Maryland
would begin to click.
On the first play Murphy romped
around right end for a 30-yard gain,
planting the ball on the 4-yard
stripe. He crashed for yards more
before DuVall bored through left
guard for the score Widener.s try
for the point was low.
They spent the remainder of the
game vainly trying to find a flaw in
one anothers defense and puntinp
when none was located. Neither
team showed much Extensively, but
defensively it would have been easier
to lug bale of cotton through a
barbed wire fence than crack those
lines.
Maryland outrushed its guest bv
q las yards to 36 margin, had a
yarc the better of it in passing, 1897
and rolled up nine first downs to
Hampden-Sydneys four. but they
still were paying off on points scored
at the final whistle.
Pos. Hampden Sydney. MARYLAND
L.