Sports

Basketeers 4-8 at Mid-Season

Topple Mountaineers 74-71

by WALT DREWRY

Although Coach Lewis Mills' youthful University of Richmond basketball team (four of the first seven players are sophomores) lost a number of close games and had only a 4-8 record at midseason, his "tigers" accomplished one mission no other Spider team had been able to accomplish since 1956. The Spiders defeated West Virginia in a thiller before 4,000 at the Richmond Arena, 74-71, in their 12th game of the season.

The triumph not only broke a 22-game losing streak at the hands of Mountaineer teams but avenged a heart-breaking 67-65 defeat by West Virginia at Morgantown. Earlier in the season Richmond had upset George Washin gton, 80-67. So the Spiders go into the second half of the campaign with a 2-4 Southern Conference mark and a 1-0 record in state Big Five play- the result of an upset 72-66 triumph over Virginia .

Johnny Moates, a 6-1 sophomore guard from Richmond 's Benedictine High, stole the ball from West Virginia's John Cavacini with only 13 seconds left and WVU leading by one point to set the stage for the "big win" over the Mountaineers . Moates, who scored the last eight points for Richmond , passed off to Spike Welsh, 5-11 junior guard who paced with 25 points. Welsh fed the ball right back to Moates for the layup. When West Virginia 's Bob Camp missed a shot with nine seconds left, it was Moates who grabbed the rebound , was fouled and sank two free shots with one second left. He finished the night with 15 points.

Tom Tenwick, 6-4 senior forward and Richmond's big man in the scoring department in the majority of games, accounted for 18 points, just a shade under his 19.9 seasonal average. Tom Green, 6-6 sophomore forward who has been a big help to Tenwick in the rebounding department , scored 13 points before going to the sidelines on personal fouls.

Mills, in a rebuilding year, also has called on 6-8 senior center George Atwell and sophomores Billy McCann, a six-foot guard who is developing as a floor leader, and Buster Batts, 6-8 center replacement for Atwell, with excellent results.

Tennessee, one of the Southeastern Conference's top quintets, defeated the Spiders, 97 -66, in the opener with the experienced Vols placing six men in double figures while Moates with 18 and Tenwick with 15 points ;paced the Spiders. Richmond bounced right iback, however, to upset George Washington

Tom Tenwick . . . . Spiders' Leading Scorer in the Spiders home opener by a 13-point margin. Moates with 16 points and Tenwick and Green with 14 each were the ringleaders for the Spiders who led by 18 points at one stage of the game.

Richmond's two-point defeat by West Virginia at Morgantown was next. The Mountaineers led, 30-22, at the half but Richmond tied the score at 63-all with 4:40 left. Two field goals put WVU ahead by four again but Tenwick, Richmond's top man with 18 points, connected with two free throws. In the final 1 : 19 Richmond missed three chances to tie the count.

Furman showed too much poise and toppled the Spiders, 86-71. Tenwick scored 27 points and grabbed 19 rebounds for the Spiders and Welsh tallied 15 but the hotshooting Paladins connected on 5 3 per cent of their field goal attempts and placed five men in double figures.

Richmond came back from that defeat to upset Virginia with Green scoring 21 points and Moates 15 but lost a heartbreaker to The Citadel in double overtime, 75-76. The regulation game ended at 63-all and the first overtime at 71-all. Green's shot at the buzzer rolled around the rim and dropped off in the Spiders' bid for victory. Tenwick tallied 25 points and accounted for 14 rebounds in the losing cause.

The Spiders got off to a bad start against East Carolina and trailed, 42-29, at intermission. They stormed from behind and moved ahead by as many as six points in the second half but dropped a two-point 81-79 decision despite a 29-point performance by Tenwick and 26 by Moates.

Richmond ran into Alabama, another hotshooting Southeastern Conference foe, in its next contest and roped an 80-70 decision to the Crimson Tide which hit the hoops with 52 per cent accuracy. Tenwick had 18 points and Welsh 16 for Richmond.

Georgetown topped the Spiders, 79-73, although Richmond scored the final 14 points

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WILLIAM AND MARY WINS 33-13 AS SPIDERS END 3-7 SEASON

The University of Richmond football team completed a disappointing season by dropping a 33-13 decision to William and Mary before 10,500 spectators in the Thanksgiving Festival game at Richmond City Stadium. Dennis Haglan, W&M quarterback, threw three touchdown passes while the Spiders were hampered by fumbles and pass interceptions.

The Spiders, who compiled a 3-7 record, had dropped a 19-18 decision to Furman 10 days before in Richmond's Homecoming tilt when the Paladins turned a late Spider fumble into the winning six-pointer.

Richmond victories came at the expense of VMI, 20-14 (first victory over the Keydets since 195 5), Davidson, 20-7, and East Carolina, 22-20 ( the only loss of the season for the Tangerine Bowl Pirates) . The Spiders played good but losing ball against West Virginia, the Southern Conference cham[ 10) pions and Liberty Bowl contestants, before losing, 20-10, and lost to Southern Mississippi by only a 14-9 count. Other defeats came at the hands of The Citadel, 33-0, Holy Cross, 36-22, and Buffalo, 28-13.

The Spiders, whose interior line numbered only two lettermen, placed two players on the All-Southern team-End John Hilton and Defensive Halfback Joe Stromick.

Hilton, who plans to sign with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, played in the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery and the Senior Bowl game at Mobile. He completed the season with 33 passes caught for 554 yards and six touchdowns. His three-year career mark was 87 pass receptions for 1,289 yards and 14 touchdowns. He was the Southern Conference's leading pass receiver all three years.

WELCOME. A faculty wife greets Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Jones of Jarratt, helps them register. With the parents are son Reggie, president of Richmond College Student Government.

Parents on Campus

From as far away as Alabama, Florida, and Ohio, 683 parents attended the Parents' Day program at the University in clear, crisp October weather.

They registered, toured the campus with their sons, attended classes with them, ~te lunch with them (box lunches in Millhiser Gymnasium), watched a football game (Chowan Junior College 40, U of R Freshmen 20), attended Science Open House, heard a Glee Club concert, attended Open House receptions on Fraternity Row, and then returned home, agreeing it had been a wonderful day.

At the second annual meeting of the Parents Organization, they elected Samuel S. Carey, Richmond television executive, to succeed Dr. Robert W. Allen, '34, as president. Allen, principal of Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, a past president of the Virginia Education Association, was the prime mover in the formation of the Parents Organization. He is a past president of the Alumni Society.

The parents elected Robert F. Ripley, '40, of Norfolk, vice president; Mrs. William R. Jobe of Amherst, secretary, and Charles F. Bahen, '37, treasurer. Mr. Bahen reported that 152 parents had given $1,310 to the University for the landscapin g and beautification of the main entrance to the University.

President-Elect Carey later announced the appointment of the following to the Executive Council the organization's governing body: Mr. Allen, Michael W. Kirby of Staunton, John F. Koonce of Blackstone, Charles P. McCorm'ck of Baltimore, Lt. Col. A. L. Michaux, Jr. of Alexandria, and Robert L. Saville, Jr., '36, of Richmond.

In the SRO crowd that packed Cannon Memorial Chapel there were 143 parents from the city of Richmond, 409 from 92 other Virginia communities, and 131 from the District of Columbia and 12 states other than Virginia ( Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia) .

Parents were grateful to Dean Robert F.

"DOWN BELOW IS THE SCIENCE QUADRANGLE .... " (In the background the tower of Boatwright Memorial Librmy.)

Smart of Richmond College for a provocative address in which he said that parents must share with educators the responsibility for stemming "an apparent moral decline" among young persons. Citing statistics showing an increase in juvenile crime, he saw a need for "spiritual forces which stabilize and fortify men, confirm them in self-control, build moral foundations, give tenacity to meet tension and steadfastness to meet strain."

He pictured the ideal college as a place where "knowledge and wisdom grow, character continues to develop, good citizenship is ]earned, and human thought and behavior are guided and tempered by wisdom and truth."

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