Evening star., 1946-10-05
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10 Hoyas IN Keeping 81
Deacon Score Down
By Lewis r. Atchison

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snifning about poor old George
towns hapless, hopeless football
team. Somebody has been kidding
somebody. because . big but green
Hoya eleven that was supposed to-
roll over and play dead before Wake
Forest In its debut last night came
up fighting instead and took the
drivin' Deacons right down to the
last few minutes of play before
accepting 1875 defeat.
An unbelieving crowd Of almost
5000 cash customers roared its
approval at Grifith Stadium as
Georgetown punched back at its
rival and knotted the count at Gall.
after Wake Forest had breezed
through for its initial touchdown.
And when the Deacons seized on a
tumble to manufacture their second
touchdown late in the third period,
the Hoyas rallied again and struck
forcefully and swiftly into Wake
Forest territory, only to be halted
by pass interception.
Breaks Beat Hoyas.
Breaks, bad breaks that Is, beat
Georgetown. Giving Wake Forest
full credit for the bone-crushing
power it unlooSed at its host, its
slashing backs and stout line, Coach
"Peahead" Walkers men needed
help to win. Wake Forest didn't
have Red Cochran last night. The
highly touted All-Southern halfback
was on the bench with strained
leg muscle, but the Deacons had a
couple Of pretty good stand-ins in
Dick Brinkley and Clay Groom.
It was Groom who saved the night
for his mates, batting down a pass
from Buddy Spiess to George Benigni
that was labeled touchdown. Six
inches higher and Benigni would
have had the ball with nobody in
front Of him and two blockers for
convoy duty, but Groom was Johnny
on-the-spot. A couple of plays later
he pounced on a tumble to Squelch
the threat.
Georgetown missed some man
power, too. Elmer Raba, whose ex-
pert handling of the T-formation
earned him the award as his teams
most valuable man in the game, was
injured near the end Of the first
half and didn't get back in play
until near the end Of the fray when
the Hoyas were holed up deep in
their own backyard. Nor did Coach
Jack Hagerty have a chance to use
his undercover ace, Babe Baronwski,
who wasn't quite ready for his debut.
But Hagerty had no reason to apol-
ogize for his teams showing.
Georgetown won't meet any better
team than Wake Forest this season.
and with three or four games under
their belts the Hoyas should start
winning.
Deacons March 10 Yards.
Brinkley plunged from the 2-yard
line for Wake Forests first score,
eliminating q 70-yard march on
eight plays. Garry Faniello's re-
covery of Paul Walsh's tumble on
Nick Sacrinty's punt IN the third
lperiod set up the Deacons' second
score. Brinkley, packing the pig
skin on seven consecutive plays,
finally plunged over from the l. 1t
was q 36-yard foray. Ed Royston
presented the visitors with their
third and game-clinching score
when he recovered Buddy Spiess'
bobble in the end zone late in the
final period.
Raba started Georgetown's goal
ward hike with a 57-yard kickoff
return after the Deacons scored.
Walsh's ball carrying and Raba's
passing to the same player and to
Benigni took the Hoyas the rest of
the way. Raba passed to Walsh for
the score.
Twice Georgetown's line dug in
for goal-line stands that STAYED of
impending defeat. With Lou Rob-
ustelh. Bus Werder and Elmer
Oberto playing yeoman roles, the
Hoyas held on their 4-yard line In
the second period, on the 13-yard
stripe In the same quarter, and on
the 1-yard line in the final stanza.
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