Virginia Episcopal School - Vestige Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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SPORTS From The Sidelines By Frank Aldred A promising Bishop squad in Sep- Tember has Turned by November inTo a Team held TogeTher only by ad- hesive Tape and a prayer. Injuries have increased unTil now aT leasT Tive TirsT sTringers may be unable To play in The ST. ChrisTopher game. Armis- Tead, a proven veTeran, has reTurned To see only parT Time acTion aTTer being benched Tor several weeks wiTh a leg injury similar To The one he received lasT year. Bullard, a very promising lineman and a sure sTarTer, was injured in pracTice beTore The season began. Tom Allen and Perrin Gower, boTh oT whom have seen plenTy of acTion This season. are also on The injured lisT. John Page, The versaTile Bishop end, received a leg injury in The Eishburne game which will keep him ouT Tor The re- mainder oT The season. The remaining game on The Bishop's schedule is a big cjuesTion in The mind oT Coach Bell, buT need- less To say a Team wiTh plenTy OT spiriT and TighT will answer To The opening whisTle. The SouTh-Alabama deTiniTely has The bowl spiriT and would like an- oTher crack aT Duke, The Team ThaT edged ouT The Tide in The Sugar Bowl lasT year. They may geT Their wish unless They are called upon To par- TicipaTe in The Bowl oT Roses aT Pasa- dena againsT The wesT coasT champs. Tennessee, beaTen only by Alabama. will no doubT geT a bowl bid. Vir- ginia, Though hiT hard by mid-season navy graduaTions, may go unde- TeaTed. The EasT-Army conTinues along The unbeaTen paTh, piloTed by The TD Twins, Blanchard and Davis. BoTh are sure To be unanimous choices Tor All-American. Columbia could go Through The season undeTeaTed, iT iT were noT Tor powerful Penn, sTand- ing smack in iTs way. Navy, unim- pressive in more Than one conTesT, is neverTheless a greaT Team. The WesT-ln The mid-wesT The baTTle is deTiniTely a knock-down drag-ouT aTTair. Ohio STaTe, deTend- ing champs oT The Big Ten, is being pressed on every side. Purdue, ln- diana, and Michigan are deTiniTely in The baTTle wiTh Thrice beaTen' NorThwesTern providing The upseTs 8 and near-upseTs. NoTre Dame is Tops in The non-conTerence brackeT and will be beaTen only by Army. Prep. Schqols-Woodberry EoresT, led by Dean Davidson, is all seT To Take over The Virginia prep crown Trom ST. ChrisTopher, champs Tor The pasT Two years. Lynn Chewning and Bill Hawkins. Two SainT sTars oT lasT year, are showing up well Tor V. M. l. This year. T Lone VicTory OCT. 5-The Virginia Episcopal School Bishops marched To a I9-O vicTory over Miller School oT CrozeT in Their TirsT game oT The season. In The TirsT period The home Team marched Trom iTs 46-yard line To a Touchdown. Passes Trom BeTTy To Ballou and Page puT The ball in scor- ing posiTion. Ballou ran Ten yards Tor The TirsT score, and he also kicked The exTra poinT. VES scored again jusT beTore The halT, as Gower made Two long runs To puT The ball on The 20-yard line. BeTTy passed To Sprague, who ran To The one-yard line. BeTTy plunged over Tor a Touchdown' on The nexT play, making The half-Time score I3-O. The Bishops' lasT Touchdown came aTTer Gower had run 20 yards To The I3. VES advanced To The Miller School Two-yard line, and Larson wenT over To score. The Try Tor exTra poinT was no good. The VES second sTring played mosT oT The lasT quarTer. The lineup: VES Pos. Barge ........... L.E.. Gundry .......... L.T.. ArmisTead ........ L.G. VanNoppen .... CenTer .... Kemper ... .... R.G. Thomas . .... R.T.. Page ... ....... R.E.. BeTTy ... ...... Larson ........... L.H. Allen ............ R.H. Ballou . .......... F.B'.. Score by periods: VES ................. Miller ............... Miller School Morris Cummings ,... Noody Hill Powell Plump Pace Cason Bosserman Reese ............Buck .7660--I9 .0000-O VES Scoring-Touchdowns. Ballou, BeTTy, Larson. PoinT aTTer Touchdown, Ballou. VES SubsTiTuTions-Gower, l-Tyre, Sprague. Gormly, WiThers, Lewis, Aldred, CarTer. Maddux, Harris, WroTh, STiegliTz, NuTT, SeneTT. DeTeaT No. l ChaTham, OCT. I3-l-largrave Mil- iTary Academy evened The series of games wiTh Virginia Episcopal School here Today aT Tour games each by de- TeaTing The Lynchburg Team I4-6 be- Tore a large Homecoming Day crowd. l-largrave avenged lasT year's I3-O deTeaT aT The hands oT The Bishops. l'largrave scored TirsT, Taking Al- Ien's kickoTT on Their own 20, and wiTh Leps aT The helm mosT OT The way, scored wiTh scarcely Three minuTes oT The TirsT period gone. Leps carried nine yards around end Tor The score and also kicked The exTra poinT. ln The second period V. E. S. marched To The l-largrave 35 on runs by Gower and a pass To Page, buT The CadeTs held and The resT oT The quarTer was spenT in play around The mid-sTripe. ln The Third period Ballou, who was ouT oT acTion during The TirsT period because OT injuries. enTered The game Tor V. E. S. and did mosT oT The ball carrying. ln a sTeady march, The Bishops carried The ball To The Har- grave 2-yard line, where The home Team held Tor downs and Rowsey punTed To BeTTy on The H. M. A. 25. On The nexT play, BeTTy Tlipped a pass To Ballou, who skirTed end Tor 25 yards and a Touchdown. The exTra poinT, an aTTempTed pass, was no good. AT The beginning oT The TourTh guarTer Hyre recovered a Tumble on The CadeT 35. Ballou, who had gone ouT aTTer his Touchdown run, came back inTo The game and on The TirsT play Trom scrimmage circled righT end Tor a Touchdown sTanding up, buT The play was nulliTied because oT a holding penalTy. WiTh less Than Three minuTes To play, Rowsey was Torced To run Trom punT TormaTion because oT a low cenTer pass and was sTopped on The V. E. S. 33. ATTer a series oT running plays which carried The ball To The V. E. S. 3, Rowsey scored Through Tackle. Again Leps' place- menT was good. Leps kicked oTT To Allen on The l5, and he ran iT back To The 3O.' V. E. S. drove To The Har- grave 40 where The CadeTs Took over as The game ended. Miller SubsTiTuTions-SuTherland, Walfers. BUY VICTORY BCNDS THE METEOR

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A MasTer oT Languages Pierre Axel Grail, a Roumanian wiTh an inTernaTional background, re- porTed Tor duTy as French Teacher OcTober 24. The new Teacher was born in Weis- baden, Germany, where his TaTher was Roumanian consul-general during The French occupancy aTTer World War I. His moTher is Swedish. His primary educaTion was in France, where he remained unTiI he was Tour- Teen. In I937 when he was a sTudenT aT The InTernaTional School aT Bordig- hera, lTaly, near The French border. he meT Mr. G. B. Lamar. The Triend- ship Then sTarTed uITimaTely resulTed in The presenT appoinTmenT. The InTernaTional School, which had been driven Trom Spain by The Span- ish RevoIuTion, IaTer was Torced To move again, This Time To Fredericks- burg, Virginia. ATTer spending a sum- mer in Sweden wiTh his TaTher, Grail Tollowed The school To America. LaTer he aTTended school Tor Two years aT Samford PreparaTory School, Wil- mingTon, Del. When The UniTed STaTes enTered The war, Grail reioined his TaTher in Sweden and began The sTudy oT Swedish. He now Talks French, Swed- ish, English, and Roumanian. Mr. Grail IeTT Oslo on OcTober I2 aboard The Norwegian ship STavan- gerTiord, The TirsT ship To America aTTer The war To carry civilian pas- sengers. The Trip was made possible by a cancelIaTion only Two days be- Tore The ship was due To sail, She was Torced To puT back To Norway To Turn over To The auThoriTies a quisling who had been discovered on board. She Tinally reached New York on Oc- Tober 23, aTTer weaThering a hurri- cane and passing wiThin 30 yards oT Two TIoaTing mines. Grail, whose Tamily name is Ukra- nowski, dropped Tor obvious reasons, plans To give up his Roumanian alle- giance in Tavor oT American ciTizen- ship. In addiTion To his duTies in The French deparTmenT, he is assisTing Rev. Marshall M. MiITon in coaching The l3O-pound TooTball Team. PATRONIZE SEARS. ROEBUCK THE MEfTEOR BIO-X-RAY I William H. Thomas Home: BIueTield, WesT Virginia. Born: May 22, l928. CusTomary Expression: Good God, GundryI PeT HaTe: SIophead's so-called jokes. PeT Love: Playing The drums. AmbiTion: To ouTplay Krupa. GreaTesT Concern: Jean PaTTer- son. SpareTime OccupaTion: Playing parlor games aT Jean's. Windy Bill has earned Tor him- seIT a reserved seaT in all bull sessions by his abiIiTy To baT The breeze. He is a counselor, an honor sTudenT, and a sTarTer on The TooTbalI Team. ValenTine Henry STiegIiTz, Jr. Home: The Plains, Virginia. Born: OcTober I9, I928. CusTomary Expression: WhoaaII Usually Seen: HeadwaiTing. GreaTesT Concern: STiegIiTz. AmbiTion: To be a Tour-leTTer-man ID-U-M-Bl aT Purdue. FavoriTe SporT: Having dinner on darm, a-Ia cracker. . FavoriTe PasTime: Brushing a-Ia cracker crumbs ouT oT his bed. PeT Love: Mr. Gannaway. PeT HaTe: MacLeod. Old Pal Val is a second year boy who seems To do well in iusT abouT everyThing. He is a counselor and a member oT The V-Club, having made his leTTer in baseball lasT spring. RoberT ScoTT ' Home: Lynchburg, Virginia. Born: December 23, I928. CusTomary Expression: Hey, ya'lI cuT The Talkin' back ThereII SpareTime OccupaTion: HarvesT- ing sIurp Trom anywhere. PeT HaTe: EighTh period sTudy hall. Usually Seen: Scooping ice cream. GreaTesT Concern: Juan William- son. AmbiTion: To see Juan dance The Hula-Hula. FavoriTe SporT: CrogueT. Bob is a TavoriTe wiTh The boys be- cause oT his abiliTy To geT along wiTh anyone. He is a Third year boy, a counselor and always an honor sTu- denfr. He is Tamous Tor his well-run eighTh period. I MILESTONE Born, in Virginia BapTisT HospiTal, To Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bell early Sunday morning, Their second child. a girl, name ConsTance Elaine, weighT six pounds, Tour ounces. ' Mutual Press. Inc. 58-60 NinTh STreeT PHONES: 3 O05 I 589 VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Non - miliTary. Superior preparaTion Tor all col- leges aT moderaTe cosT. AccrediTed High sTandard in schol- arship and aThIeTics . . Gymnasium . . . I4O acres healThTuIIy and beauTiTully siTuaTed in Virginia mounTains. FOR CATALOGUE WRITE TO George L. Barton, Ir., M.A., Ph.D., H cad l'IlCZ.S'fCI' V. E. S., Lynchburg, Va. IN LYNCHBURG IT'S C 1-I IIILILN TENS THE SHOPPING CENTRE For All Your Shopping Needs fMiIlner QuaIiTy CosTs No Moral 7

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DeTeaT No. 2 OcT. 20.-The Woodberry ForesT eleven, conTining all iTs scoring in The TirsT halT, overwhelming an ouTclassecl buT TighTing Virginia Episcopal School conTingenT aT Woodberry ForesT, 33-O. The home Team roared To iTs opening Tally when Wick Read re- Turned The opening kickoTT To The VES ThirTy-yard line, Tanner and Da- vidson alTernaTed in carrying The ball To The Tour Trom which poinT David- son crashed over. The second score came a Tew minuTes laTer when David- Zon reTurned a punT 80 yards inTo pay irT. - A blocked kick on The VES 26, seT up The Third score in The second peri- od, aTTer which a pass and runs bv Tanner and Davidson placed The ball on The Tour. Davidson scored Trom There. Tullis' inTercepTion oT Ballou's pass gave Woodberry The ball on The VES I2. Barnes Then Tore Through a wide- open gap in The VES line To score. A pass Trom Tullis To Brown, which cov- ered 48 yards, gave The orange and black iTs Tinal score. The Woodberry reserves Took- over in The lasT halT buf were unable To ThreaTen seriously. VES made one acTual bid Tor a score buT The Try Taded on The opponenT's 20-yard line. Lineups: VES Pcs. Woodberry Cohoon .... ..... L .E. .....,..... Moore CorneTT ... ,,,., L.T ........ McMasTers Thomas .. ..,. LG. ,... ...,... H ill Barge .... .... C enTer. .. ..... Wilson Gundry .... .... R .G. ....,... SlaughTer VanNoppen ...... R.T. .....,.. Eshelmann Page ............ R.E. .,.. ... PeTerson BeTTy .... .... O .BZ .... . . . Barnes Larson' H.B ..... HorTon Allen ...... .... H .B. ........... Tanner Ballou ....,...... F. B. ,...,..., Davidson SubsTiTuTions: VES-Sprague, Gormly, Kemper, Hyre, Maddux, Aldred, STiegliTz. CarTer, TrevaThan, Lewis. Woodberry-Tullis, Selvidge, Anderson, BuxTon, G., Read, Fuller. DeTeaT No. 3 OCT. 27-The Virginia Episcopal School Bishops were deTeaTed I2-O on Johnson Field by The Fishburne MiliTary School CadeTs Trom Waynes- boro, avenging The VES vicTory of lasT year. Fishburne's TirsT Touchdown came early in The TirsT quarTer when a VES pass was inTercepTed on The Bishop's 45-yard line and run To The IO-yard line. On The TirsT down The Bishop's line held, buT Reed wenT around righT end on a Triple reverse To score on The nexT play. The Try Tor exTra poinT was blocked. THE METEOR The visiTors' oTher score came in The Third quarTer when Two TirsT downs and a 30-yard run by Hubbard ac- counTed Tor The Tally. The exTra poinT was no good because oT an oTT sides penalTy. Ballou was ouTsTanding Tor VES, gaining on play aTTer play by TasT running. OT The original TirsT sTring line-up used in The opening game oT The season only seven were able To sTarT in yesTerclay's game. Tom Allen, who is suTTering Trom a chipped hip bone, was broughT To The sidelines in a car To see his TeammaTes puT up Episcopal increased iTs ToTal by Two in The second quarTer when BeTTy's kick Trom behind The goal line was blocked by a charging Episcopal line. BeTTy recovered The bounding pigskin and The halT ended a shorT Time laTer wiTh The ball on The VES I0 and The score 8 To 0 in Tavor oT The visiTors. Episcopal's second Touchdown came Trom The VES I2 wiTh Holland scoring on a drive Through cenTer. The Tinal Tally came wiTh iusT minuTes leTT To play wiTh Barkley again Tossing To Birge. BoTh aTTempTs Tor The exTra poinT Tailed. Their losing TighT. The line-ups: F. M. S. Pos. ' V. E. S. ReaTon .......... L.E. ..... . .. Cohoon Shaw .... .... L .T. ..... ... CorneTr Doxey .... ...,. L .G. .......... Thomas ScoTT .... .... C enTer ........... Barge Hoskins .. .... R.6. VanNoppen Hilkin . .... R.T. .......... Sundry Carver ... ..... R.E. .... . Page Reed .....,..... O.B. ............ BeTTy Hollowell ........ H.B.. TrevaThan Hubbard ....,... H. B. .......,. Sprague lsenhower ........ F. B.. Ballou SubsTiTuTes-V. E. S.: Gormly, Kemper, The lineups: ' VES EHS Cohoon .......... L.E. .......... Roddey Kemper . . .... L.T. ......... Haydock Thomas ...,...... LG. .... . . . Gregory VanNoppen .... CenTe' ..... Dixon Gundry .......... R.G. .... .,.. O uaile Gormly .......... R.T.. ... Perry Barge .... ..... R .E.. ..... Birge Sprague . . ..... O.B ..... .... B arkley TrevaThan . ...,. H. B ....... .. Holland BeTTy ........... H.B. ......... Glascock Ballou ........... F.B ...... ...... D aniel Score by periods: E. H. S. .......... ......., 6 2 6 6-20 SubsTiTuTes: VES-ArmisTead. Lewis, Mad- Aldred, STiegliTz, Hyre, F. M. S.: Ashman, Wolf. Humphrey, Brooks, Gordon. DeTeaT No. 4 .. Nov. I0-A hosT oT TleeT backfield men coupled wiTh accuraTe aerials proved The winning margin as a rug- ged Episcopal High School conTin- genT Trampled a TighTing buT ouT- classed Virginia Episcopal School eleven, ZO-0, on rain-soaked Johnson Field. The small buT lusTy homecoming crowd which wiTnessed The one-sided conTesT played under Tar Trom good weaTher condiTions, saw The visiTing Alexandria Team chalk up markers in each period while holding The Bish- ops scoreless. The maioriTy of The Tray was ToughT in VES TerriTory wiTh The excepTion oT Two Bishop scoring ThrusTs ThaT Tizzled ouT wiThin sighT oT Episcopal's goal posTs. The Alexandria Team scored The iniTial Touchdown midway in The opening period wiTh a drive ThaT sTarTed Trom The VES 33-yard line and was climaxed wiTh a shorT pass Trom Barkley To righT end Birge in The end zone. The aTTempTed conversion Tailed. TEXAS TAVERN ci-nu coN CARNE dux, Aldred, Hyre, CarTer. EHS-Goodwin, Parker, Gilliam, Kaminer. Gravell, Perry. DeTeaT No. 5 Nov. I7-AT FronT Royal The shaT- Tered Bishop Team received iTs TiTTh deTeaT oT a dismal season To allow Randolph-Macon Academy To score iTs TirsT vicTory. The Tinal score was 25-O. The TirsT Touchdown Tor The home Team came aTTer a long drive in The TirsT quarTer wiTh Shrader carrying The ball over and kicking The exTra poinT. The halT score was 7-O. ln The Third quarTer Prohaska passed To Craig in The end zone Tor The second score. In The lasT quarTer Wunder ran IO yards for The Third score. The lasT Touchdown came in The lasT oT The TourTh quarTer wiTh TiTer running 20 yards To score. The game was hard ToughT ThroughouT. Ballou was The ouTsTand- ing player Tor The Bishops, making several long runs. The lineups: VES Pos. RMA Cohoon .......... L.E. ........ Chewning Kemper .. .... L.T. ......... ClemenTs Gormly .......... LG. .... .... C ombs CorneTT ........ Cenfer .... .. . Conway VanNoppen ...... R.G. .... STewarT Gundry .... .... R .T ..... ...... G len Barge .... ..... R .E. ..... .... M acon Sprague ......... O.B ..... . .. Prohaska TrevaThan . . .... L.H. .... .... M olTz BeTTy .... ...... R . H. ........... Drake Ballou ........... F.B. ............ SmiTh SubsTiTuTes: VES-ArmisTead, Lewis, NuTT, Hyre. RMA-Shrader, Tifer. Wunder.