Evening star., 1941-10-12
Blue Devils Mark Up
Early touchdown
And Keep Going
Pluy Relentless Game,
Twice HoIting Terps
In Shadow of Goal
BY LEWIS r. ATCHISON.
Star Staff Correspondent.


Maryland slipped into a class with
Tennessee this windy autumn after
noon by dropping a 500 decision
to a hard-running, point-crazy Duke
machine before crowd of 10000
The Terps didn't exactly slip. They
we're pushed, showed and hacked
down by one of the smootheSt. most
damaging elevens to gambol on the
greensward of this rambling wooden
saucer since Knute Rockne's Notre
Dame teams performed here a dec
ade ago
Duke. taking advantage of men
tai lapse and tumble, early rolled
up the figures as easily as tobacco
auctioneer. The chant reached 1870
in the first three minutes and was
$50 before the end of the first pc
Rod
Duke hung up six more points in
the third quarter and finished with
a l9-point outburst in the fourth,
but Maryland scored moral vic
tory by blanking it in the third.
Blue Devils Relentless.
The boWl-bound Blue Devils were
unrelenting in their quest for points
and Coach Wallace Wade made no
effort to spare his hosts. With big
Steve Lach, Moffat Storer and Tom
Davis picking their way through
huge rents in Maryland's line, Duke
rolled up 13 first downs and 465
yards from scrimmage.
Oddly enough on couple OF oc-
easions Maryland held few short
steps from its goal line.
The Terrapins generated two scor-
Ing threats, but restraining in
junction couldn't have halted either
more authoritatively when Dukes
line dug in.
The first occurred early in the
second period, getting underway on
the last play of the first quarter.
when Bernie Ulman. taxing kick
on fourth down, raced around the
visitors left end for Is yards to his
own A.
Jack Wright. the big redhead, and
slim-hipped Mearle Duvall alter
mated in charging the line for first
down on Dukes q. Wright passed
to Duvall for more yards before
the offensive machinery jammed
and Duke took the ball on downs.
Jack Brenner. lanky sophomore,
tgnited the fuse to Maryland's sec
ond drive midway in the final Pc
riod, passing to Duke Alexander
from his own % for a first down
on the "A. Elmer Rigby heaved a
handful of leather to Jack Gilmore
for another first down on Dukes
80. A third pass, Jack Mler to
Brenner. was good for 6 before the
latter dropped back into the dis
patching role again and pegged the
next to Alexander for third con-
secutive first down on Dukes 10.
There was considerable commo-
ton on the bench at this juncture
as Wade, who had been resting his
first-string backs. rushed them into
the fray. They were what the doc
tor ordered and when a high pass
from Brenner slipped off Alexan-
der's fingers in the end zone, Mary
land was through for the day.
Dukes backs, sweeping along like
thin brown leaves in an autumn
breeze, got started early, thanks to
an oversight on Maryland's part on
the opening kickoff. Steve Lach,
kicking to Maryland, booted a short
on-side kick which no Terp at
tempted to retrieve until Dukes
Alex Piasecky had the ball securely
In his grasp That gave Duke
first down on the 81 and in exactly
two plays, line buck by Siegfried
and 25-yard end run to the right
by Lach. the Carolinians had their
FIRST touchdown.
Piasecky Poison Again.
Maryland caught the succeeding
kickoff. but on the second play
Elmer Rigby fumbled and the same
Piasecky recovered on the %. Duke
didn't waste play this time. but
sent Winnie Siegfried straight
through the middle of the line for
the score. Mike Karmazin, who
missed after the first touchdown,
made good on his second place
ment, and the ball game virtually
was over.
A 58-yard pass from Lach to Bob
CAN'T planted the oval on Mary
lands and arranged the trappings
for the third score, which Siegfried
got on his second line buck.
Duke, with Tom Davis, Lach's
understudy, setting the pace,
marched so yards for its fourth
touchdown of the period. The stocky
coungster, one of the few home
grown Tar Heels on the Duke squad,
pitched an 18-yard pass to CAN'T
for first down on Maryland's 80, in
two end runs carried the ball to the
and finally bucked over right
tackle for the marker
An exchange of fumbles, follow
Ing as Duke marched from its own
30, gave the Blue Devils the ball on
Maryland's 30. Ed Sargent went to
the S on a reverse and then around
end for the remaining distance.
Davis scored all three touch
downs in the final period. barging
through the line twice from the l.
yard line and finally scoring on Al
yard gallon through the entire