Evening star., 1947-10-12
Cavaliers Hand
Crimson Worst
Defeat Since "a
Record "a, 900 Crowd
Sees Inspired Home
Eleven Run Wild
By Lewis +. Atchison
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

siar stoff Correspondent
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Oct
11.-An inspired University of Vir.
ginia eleven made Cavalier football
history today in driving to a stun
ming 47-0 triumph over Harvard. II
was the worst defeat suffered by q
Crimson team since 1884 when Yale
walloped the Cambridge squad, 48-0
A ecord-breaking crowd of more
than $4,000, including Cows. William
Tuck of Virginia and Preston Lane
of Maryland, former Ambassador
Joseph c. Grew and Mrs. Grew and
Admiral and Mrs. William F. Halsey
saw the tough, we11-scpooled Vir-
ginians rack up two touchdowns in
the first period and 60 on from there
to score in every period.
The game marked the first ap-
pearance Of Negro football player
on a Southern gridiron against a
white university and that fragment
of sports history was accomplished
without untoward event. Chester
Pierce, a 215-pound tackle from
Glen Cove, N. Y, had that honor
and when he left the field In the
fourth period the crowd gave him a
round of applause. :,
Virginia Piles up $50 Yards.
Pierce, watched closely from the
press box, was small help to the
Crimson. Virginia ran over him
frequently, although the attack
veered more to the other side of the
line, with sprinkling of passes for
variation. But If Pierce's efforts
were futile in stopping Cavalier
backs, so were those of his team
mates. Virginia piled up $50 yards
from scrimmage, although Coach Art
Guepe used every player on the
bench.
Harvard's band paraded on the
field before the game and easily
outmatched the Virginia horn -toot-
ers, but, unfortunately for the Grim
son, it was not a band contest and
less than six minutes after the
opening kickoff the Cavalier grid
men had inaugurated their own pa
rade. Bruce Bailey took a 10-yard
pass from Dick Michaels and, after
breaking away from one tackler,
went eight yards for the first score.
Virginia held a 21-O lead at the
half, as Grover Jones plunged yard
for another six-pointer near the
end of the second period, and Johnny
Papit eliminated II yard drive
midway, in the third with scoring
plunge from the two George Grimes,
who booted five extra points, made
good on these three attempts.
Only Two Harvard Threats.
!, Harvards offense was the height
Of futility in the first two periods.
Not until the second quarter did
the crimson get into Virginia terri
tory and then its 24-yard drive to
the Cavalier % was interrupted by
Lockwood Frizzell's interception Of
Phil ODonnell's pass.
Only once again did Harvard seri-
ously threaten. and another inter-
ception choked 1t of. 1t happened
Immediately after the opening kick
off of the second half. with Jim
Kenary throwing passes-once on
fourth down-to Leo Flynn, Paul
Lazzaro and Tom Cannon to take
his mates to Virginias 26. Two
plays later Billy Pennel, a bright
star in the home teams backfleld,
grabbed a throw by Flynn and ran
from the 18 to his own "a. That
touched off Virginia's next touch
down romp which ended with Grover
Jones slashing over tackle for the
final 81 yards.
Virginia let Harvard have the
ball couple of minutes, then rose
up and took it on the Ivy Leaguers'
80 and went for more point
Bruce Bailey's 14-yard dash on a
fake pass was followed by Joe Nc
Carey's S-yard run to the Harvard
IA. McCarey then passed to Bailey
in the end zone for the score.
Grimes missed his first kick, leav-
ing the score $40.
If 1t hadn't been a rout until
then, 1t certainly was thereafter,
although Harvard desperately tried
to escape white-washing job.
Howard Ace Injured.
Grimes saved two of the days
most exciting plays for the final
quarter Of the game, running back
one punt by Harvard's Flynn Al
yards to the 6, and returning an
other by Charley Roche 81 yards to
IA. He followed up the
first run by scoring on his second
plunge-going over on the first play
of the last period. Norman Ott-
mann completed the second by
cracking over from the l after Gene
Edmunds had moved it to that point
on lateral.
Harvard's cause was damaged by
an injury to Vince Moravec, a. smart
quarterback, who was carried off
the field with a leg injury in the
first half, but 1t is doubtful if his
continued presence could have saved
the Crimson in the face of Viz
ginias furious but orderly attack.
P9s. Harvard. Virginia
9. L.E.----W. Flynn - Elliott