Evening star., 1946-10-05
Shaughnessy Praises
Richmond as Vastly
|UnderTafed Team
By MsrreII vghittIesey

and glum, sat on the rubbing table
lin the University Of Maryland dress.
ing room last night and kept shak-
Ing his head and saying, I've never
seen anything like It, never seen
anything like 1t. I've never seen
lso many good. fast backs on one
team In my life. They didn't mis-
q pass; did everything right. That
was the most underrated ball club
i've ever encountered" !"
Shaughnessy, Of course. was
speaking Of the University Of Rich-
mond SPIDERS, VINO had just handed
Maryland one Of its worst Byrd
Stadium defeats, 37-7, before q
stunned crowd Of 13,000.- Maryland
had been q oneSor-two-touchd
fayorite. It turned out that Mary
Hand did not belong in the same
park with the Spiders and II any
team can further scramble the
Southern Conference picture IT Will
he the. .once-tied Spiders (by V. NJ. -
and not Maryland.
Fcnlon Happy Man.
Spider Coach Johnny Fenlon, who
made the AP third all-America
team with George Washington Uni
versity, was the happiest guy IN
America last night. II used every
man on the squad and please give
all of them credit" he said. they
were terrific. We. didn't make q
single move I would like to call
back"
Fenlon said the Spiders didn't do
it with mirrors. "We were popped
up over this one" he admitted. 1--WE
read where we were breather and
the boys didn't like that a bit.
Maryland was supposed to do some
thing awful to us, weren't they?
And by the way, what was that final
scorer"
Richmond showed a perfect pass
ing percentage for the evening, five
for five, and 1t was the second OF
those belt-high, bullet serials from
Pat Fenlon (the coachS brother) to
q. S. Savage that gave an indication
of what was to come. The play COW
cred 80 yards in the first period,
and Richmond was of. They added
three touchdowns in unbelieving
fashion in the second quarter for q
$50 han-time lead. The Spiders
played it safe in a scoreless third
quarter. They added two touch
downs after Maryland scored on q
Tommy Mont pass In the fourth
ironically, by Emmett Shaughnessy
(no relation).
Perfect Spider Blocking.
The Spiders were superb in every
department, but If they showed per-
lection anywhere 1t was in their
blocking. The line bottled the Mary
land attack and held the touted
Terp backs to a maximum gain Of
S yards on any one play. Maryland
started with b five-man line, shifted
to six when it wouldn't hold. but to
no avail. Richmond's only glaring
weakness was in points after touch
down; they made only one Of six.
The Terps did not enter Richmond
territory until the third period and
when they reached the 3-yard line,
first down, the Spiders held for
downs. although Shaughnessy used
23 players on the series of four
plays.
Here's the Richmond scoring in
thumbnail fashion:
Savage dashed beyond the Mary.
land defense and took q Fenlon pass
on q 39-yard scoring play In the
first period. Joe lie Luna went wide
behind q wall Of blocking on q s.
yard touchdown play; Marion Tim
berlake went over on sneak after
Wesley Curtier recovered . Mont
tumble and Bernie Hofbrauer went
% yards OFF left tackle, all in the
second period.
Two More Touchdowns.
After Maryland scored in the
fourth, Ed Ralston went 20 yards on
cutback and later Tom Billingsley
intercepted a pass and sped So
yards for the sixth Richmond touch
down.