Evening star., 1947-10-12
teConeback
by 1ars Earns
|14-14 Deadlock
Touchdown in Final
Nine Seconds Follows
Blue Devil Tally
By Froneis E. stonn
Sfor Stoff Correspondeot

SAShH
star st1ff Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Oct. Navy's
long football drought came to 4
dramatic end in Municipal Stadium
today when Fullback Bill Hawkins
plunged across Dukes goal line with
nine seconds to play remaining and
a 20-year-old substitute halfback,
Jim Wills Of LaPlata, Md, booted
his second extra point to earn q
14-14 tie with the favored unbeaten
Blue Devils.
Thrice during the game, Nays
hard luck team thwarted Duke In
side the six-yard line, but with less
than four minutes left to play it
looked as If the Midshipmen were
destined to drop their 11th straight
contest, longest losing streak in the
academy's history.
Duke had just broken a TT tie
with an electrifying 45-yard scoring
pass from Halfback Fred Folger, jr.,
to End Ed Austin, and Ftullback Paul
Stephanz added the placement. Tho
big clock showed only three min
utes and 40 seconds left to play.
but the undaunted Annapolis team,
its backfeld dotted with substitutes
for regulars Al McCully, Reeves
Baysinger and Pete Williams roared
back to bring the crowd Of $4,000
to its feet for the rest of the game.
Passing Attack Pays OF.
Ben Moore. 155-pound back,
grabbed Dukes kickoff on his five.
yard line and sped Al more yards.
Then Quarterback Bob Horne. q
virtual unknown but a star while
he played today, began a passing
attack that moved the ball to Dukes
L. from which point Hawkins car
ried it across.
Horne passed to Billy Earl for 10
yards. Hawkins drove for more
on two battering attempts, putting
the ball on Dukes IS with 80 sec
onds remaining Horne hit Earl with
a touchdown pass on the goal line,
but Earl permitted the ball to squirt
out of his arms. UndiScouraged,
Horne again hit Earl. who picked up
another first down on the 20.
Now Navy was desperate for time.
A pass in the end zone was knocked
down, but Horne threaded the needle
with an aerial to Bob Schwoeffer-
man, who went down under a pile
Of Blue Devils on the l.
Duke mashed on the line, using
only three players in tight second
ary, and Horne barely missed a
touchdown pass to Bob McElroy,
another new varsity kmember 1t
was a smartly called play which,
though failing, spread Dukes de-
tense slightly and enabled Hawkins
to ram over.
Thus it was up to Wills, who just
was moved up from the Jayvee squad
this week because of his kicking and
who was playing in his first var
sity game.
Scoring Confined to Last Half.
All the scoring was confined to thS
!ast two periods as both teams ,
resisted threats in the
first half. In the opening period
Duke had a first down on Navy's 8,
out was stopped two yards from
Day dirt. Early in the second quar-
,er Navy invaded Blue Devil terri
,ory for the first time when Pete
williams ran q yards to Dukes A. /,
The drive went down to the Caro-
inians 7, where the Midshipmen
ost the ball on downs.
Duke charged back later in second
period when Ted Marshall, guard,
recovered a tumble by Hawkins on
Navy's 81 and marched down to the
Midshipmen's 6 before Capt. Tom
hard-working squad held.
The real fireworks began early in
The third period when Duke, with
Folger and Buddy Mulligan operat-
ng behind a stout line, passed and
plunged SO yards for the games
initial touchdown. An inopportune
,ffside penalty hurt Navy when it
enabled Duke to pick up a first
down on the 9, from where the
Blue Devils scored in three plays.
The payoff was short pitch, Folger
20 Mulligan.
Navy was most dangerous after
Zach Duke score. The Middies took
the next kickoff on their 26 and
vert "a yards to tie it, with Horne
and Earl alternately passing and
receiving. Finally, inches away,
Hawkins was handed the ball and
ne bulled over.
Duke Gets a Break.
Duke got a break midway of the
final period when Williams fumbled
and Fred Hardison, an end, recov-
cred on the Tars' 40. The Southern
ers pounded down to Nays 16,
where Folger took the ball and
seemed of to touchdown. At the
5-yard. line. however, he was
and lost balance and con-
;rol of the ball, which Williams re-
covered for Center Dick Scott to
Kick out.
At this point. it looked as if TT
would be the final score. but one
Navy punt later the Blue Devils
wound up with the ball in midfield.
On the first play after Navy drew
IN offside penalty, Folger passed to
Austin, who got behind 19-year-old
Bob Aillet. due to mixup in the
secondary, caught the ball and ran
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