The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-09-27
Tigers Host Bridgewater;
Win Cuilford Opener 1877

College and BridgeWater foot
ball series started way back III
1929. the Eagles have never
managed to beat or tie the tt
gers. whether playing at Death
Valley or the Eagles home grid
IRON. This Coach Stokeley Fulton
is we'll aware of and he has been
'rilling it into his players heads
all week.
Fulton realizes that overconfi
1ence can sometimes stymie the
Jest of football teams and a rec
ord of 10 wins against no defeats
against one team could certainly
lead to teams rashness. since
the Tigers oWE this record Of
play against Eagle opposition.
"BridgeWater would like to beat
us worse than anyone on their
schedule. I'm sure, and we will
have our hands full this Satur-
lay. Last year tH-SC won 1856
we felt that our depth was the
thing that beat them. but this
year their depth equals ours,
said Fulton.
Fresh from a 90 tie with
tough Western Maryland last
week. the Eagles will bring with
them a handful of outstanding
players such as Wayne Latham,
star performer on offense and
defense and Vernon Dutterer. a
guard Both we're Little Eight Sc
lection last year Halfback Mick
ay Caviness. whose punting kept
the Tigers backed up last sea-
son. ard quarterback jim Ben
son are two more men that re-
turn from last season to plague
the Tigers again.
Tackle, a comparatively young
position for the Eagles, draws
rote of concern from Fulton
also. The Bridgewater tackles
range in size from 1875 to 225
pounds, somewhat larger than
the Tigers 100 to 2lO pounds.
The Tigers are in good shape.
physically. except for guar
Billy Edwards. who injured his
knee in last weeks encounter
with Guilford.
Mistakes in Opener
Last weeks game saw the I'll
gers make many opening game
mistakes and all this week the
Tiger coaching staff has beer
working to correct them. Mean
while, according to end coach
Bill Pegram. who scoute d
Bridgewater last week, the Ea-
giles made few such mistakes.
Quarterback Whitley Lipscomb,
a sophomore from Richmond,
led the Tigers to victory with
some clutch passing to ends
Kent Carter and Dickie Cralle.
and wingback George Heilig.
After the Tigers had threaten
ed twice in the first quarter,
moving inside the Quaker %.
Lipscomb teamed with Carter on
a As yard pass to the one yard
lire to set up vineyard plunge
by Lipscomb for the touchdown.
Tysinger converted to give the
Tigers a brief 20 lead.
Guilford came right back to
knot the score at ~ when
quarterback Jimmy Williams. a
star for the Quakers all day.
scooped up a tumble by Billy
Joye and raced IS wards to pay
dirt Brinkley's conversion tied
the game
Heilig Reception
The second and winning touch
down for the Tigers was set up
again by a Lipscomb pass. this
time a 55-yarder to wingback
George Heilig. putting the ball
on the II yard stripe from
where fullback Buster Lammav
scored on the next play.
The Tigers moved the ball we'll
all evening but failed to CAPT
talize on number of scoring
opportunities. The Bengals rolled
up % first downs to the Quakers
six and had a total offense yard
age Of 446. including 289 on the
ground and Isl through the air.
Freshman Kendall Whitaker
picked up II yards on Just five
carries and running back Archie
Soucek led the ground gamers
with 86 yards in 10 carries. Car
ter and Cralle each had two re
ceptions.
Defensively. senior guard Sid
ney Druen, and junior tackles
Steve Kelvin and Bill Hanes
drew the praise of Fulton. along
with freshman Jimmy Null. vino
was the starting middle line
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