Evening star., 1953-11-27
Marines BoWl-Bound
After Beating BeIvoir;
Club Plans '54 Game
By Bill Fuchs

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The Quantico Marines football
team is pointing for the ALL
Marine championship game De-
cember IL and the PoinSettia
Bowl game December 10, both
in San Diego, Calf, while the
Variety Club is thinking of next
year.
Only about 5000 fans, most
of them servicemen admitted
free, turned up at Griffith Sta
dium yesterday to watch the
Marines trounce Fort Belvoir
28-7.
Ihe game was sponsored by
the Variety Club for Children's
Hospital and the Armed Services
welfare funds, but neither char
lty will benefit. The club lost
money.
We lost money all right" saws
Frank M. Boucher. general man
ager OF TV Guide and Chairman
OF the clubs Ways and Means
Committee, "even on the teIe-
vision. We had only an hour of
sponsored time"
1854 Repeat Planned.
But Boucher insists the club
Will sponsor another service
game next year. We've naved
tne way for a fine attraction 50 he
says only next year weIl plav
AZ III Che morning. I think plav.
ing IN the afternoon hurt lis
We didn't make anv monev
1or charity. but we did do two
Gnlngs. We established a definite
thanksgiving Day project in
washington and we've given o1r
yen and women in the armed
day" e0 "iiaC
Those who showed up vester-
DAY may have been wishing thew
We're somewhere else before If
was over. Belvoir was completely
outplayed from the beginning
ana the excitement expected to
be generated by such a collection
OF nationally-known stars lust
wasn't there.
Petition Explains.
But as John Petition, the
Marine back from Notre Dame
said:
Service football is funny.
It's different from college foot
ball in that a service team will
be hot one day and cold the next.
1t doesn't have the consistency
of spirit a college team has"
The most outstanding player
on the field yesterday was a
handsome. light-haired, blue
eyed son of an owner of a frozen
food locker plant in the San
Fernando Valley, Calf.
Bobby Meyers, formerly of
Stanford, scored half the Marine
points. He kicked two field goals,
2 extra points and scored the
last touchdown on the best run
of the day, a 47-yard jaunt on
which he apparently had been
stopped half-dozen times.
Meyers had been shot with
penicillin yesterday morning. He
was suffering from a virus in
fection and hadn't practiced for
a week.
Marines Face Two Games.
The Marines, coached by Maj.
Charley Walker, will leave for
San Diego about December z to
meet the West Coast Marine
champion, probably Camp Pen
dleton, for the All-Marine title
December IL. Their opponent in
the Poinsettia Bowl will be Fort
Ord, Calf.
Here is how the scoring went
yesterday:
Meyers kicked 28-yard field
goal in the second quarter. It
was Meyers 40-yard punt that
went out of bounds on the Bel
voir 7 that paved the way. A
few minutes later Buddy Parker
climaxed a 36-yard drive with a
7-yard end run to make it 90.
Ed Lee and Bob Trout nailed
Hank Lauricella of Belvoir in
the end zone for safety in the
third quarter. Meyers kicked
27-yard field goal. Steve Piskach
passed Is yards to Frank McPhee
to end a 56-yard drive in the
fourth quarter and Meyers wound
it up for Quantico with his
touch down run. Lauricella
bucked over l yard for Belvoir's
touchdown in the final minutes
and George Tinsley kicked the
DOint.