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After talking to some of our Panther football players we feel we may have let the team down in a most ' peculiar way. It seems that they were so enraged by the lack of faith shown in them by various detractors that they went out on Saturday afternoon at Wolfville to give Acadia Axenen an unpleasant afternoon and ' made that team (#8 in Can— ada) really extend itself to nose out the underrated UPEI 's by a two touchdown margin. If they were so heated up by adverse

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comments it might be that if '

this colurm had "bad nouthed" them they would have risen to even greater heights and pulled off the upset of ,

at least, the decade. Prophecies were that the Panthers would lose by at least 40 points, to even the margin attained by Acadia's rival St. F.X_. but our boys were really determined to put up a good gate and missing such ' stalwarts as Terry Palmer, John Drake and that Thompson fellow as well as the departed Gord Geppert, and with Vernon Pahl, Socky MAcDonald and Al Carroll playing both ways they gave it everything possible.

The Acadia coad1 gave them great credit and was

quoted as saying "They (UPEI) just wanted it mare than us. They played more aggressively all afternoon.I Both defenses played so well in the first quarter V

1 half.

that only three first downs were made by both teams and

3 Acadia did not get its 1 first touchdown until the

closing: minutes of the first The second major

for Acadia cane in the third quarter when Donny Clcw received a pass into our end zone and, after this was converted, the Scoring was over for both sides, although Ozzie D'Ippolito's try for a field goal missed by inches only. Ozzie, by the way, kicked us out of trouble tine after Inasmuch as Donnie Clcw comes from New Haven, P.E.I. we feel the gate was really. N.S.‘ 7, P.E.I. 7....Playing with great determination, UPEI had but 8 first downs against 19 for Acadia, Acadia had 264 yards on the ground while the Panthers had but 22. . .our Rick Kiraly had 9 out of 19 passes complete for 66 yards but

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Acadia's mo Q.B.'s completed but 2 of 11 for 35 which speaks well for our Pass Defence. Jon Paul McIntyre led our boys cn the ground with 35 yards on 9 rushes while Sod<y MacDonald led . the Panthers through the - air with 4 receptions for 48 yards.‘ Vemcn Pahl _ was the fellow the Axenen hated to see the mast as

he was the hardest hitter and sent members of the host team sprawling all over the field. For a team that was expected to roll over and play dead it was

a most glorious loss. . .if there can be such a thing. This Saturday we‘ll be I visited by U.N.B. and, with nme of those Nova Scotia teans remaining on our sd'iedule we have high hopes

'that we are, for this ‘ season, through with losing

football ganes and have high hopes of victories in the games remaining, 2 with

either .

into the net.

is on.

JOCK 'TALK CONTINUED

U.N.B. and me at Mount A. which will giVe us a 4-3 record for the season. get a positive attitude. at MacAdam Field Saturday at 1:30. I

_ Our girls visited Halifax. and Acadia and cane off with identical 2-0 losses in both gaItes although we are told that, had fate been kinder, we might have won

Marie Bradley played well in our goal in both genes but, it seens that what we need is a girl who can put the ball

‘ We are informed that, had Shelly Pepler been a little lud<ier,. she could have been the one to break the goose eggs that haunt our team but instead of denting‘the net, managed twice to hit HEIBEIF on the HEAD with the ball which, we think, is quite a trick. ’Ihis weekwe play two away again — Momt A. and U.N.B.

let U.N.B. will be

In Soccer, our team played well but still managed to drop mo. Mary's we lost 3-1 with Andy Cameron getting our only marker against the team rated #3 in Canada. ~It was l'fl until late '

v in the gate when we suffered a mental ‘ \ error that was followed by a slack goal and in Acadia we lost 4-2; renenber him from the bar at the Pigs). got both. In this game we lost the, services of Vaughan Smith and Tom HOgan. In the weekendiganes the_play of‘Tom‘ Hogan and Team Captain Dave was outstanding along with the aforesaid Ron Taylor. ' week we play U.N.B. on Friday at 4:00, Moncton on Sunday at l’:00 -,_both gaIres here. -. Thisweek,andifthispaperisonthe. stands on time, it will be "Tonight" at the C.D.P. the annual University driving race The draw for positions was ' conducted by P.E'.I.'s favourite driver _ Joe O‘Brien and the po'sitions will have Steve MacDonald on the rail and outwards, Scott Canpbell, Gordon MacPhee, John Doyle, Johnny Cheverie and on the outside the only lady entrant Bernadette Shea. all of you; we have no envy.

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