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Saturday was NOT a good day for football. . .it was an ideal day to stay at home and watch T.V. and one of the largest crowds in recent years stayed away from ~MacAdam Field. However they missed a rare sight as, it would seem, two Panther teams combined to beat a hapless Mount Allison team _ by the surprisingly close. score of 31—27. We say "surprisingly" because it did not seem that close.

The locals came out and seemed to be on their way to run the Garnet and Gold boys out of ’tcwn as they ran through the Nbunt A. defense almost at will and came to the half with a 29—7 lead. As we gathered in‘the barn for our hot coffee plus, the talk was that, for a confidence builder, Doug Crossman's charges should continue, sans pity, to pile up a score. However, Mount A's banished coach Doug Mitchell, relegated to a spectator role for an unfavourable comment on our hallowed institution, seemed to have had other icbas and, we assume, gave

sage counsel to his

orphaned charges ,. during

the intermission and the . roles were somewhat rever— sed during the final half and, but for for a couple of very obvious pass interference infractions, the visitors might have won. For our heroes Rick Kiraly, playing part time as a running back and sharing his usual quarterbacking with J.P. McIntyre and

Jim Fevell, made three

T.D. 's and passed for the Ecurth. In his new position he showed how well he can

run and, at times, reminded onlookers of the days of Jim Foley. In the first quarter our initial score was from a J.P. McIntyre

” handoff to Kiraly who went

over from 16 yards out: second was Kiraly from the mo, Socky MacDonald increased our lead as he gathered in a Kiraly pass and went over for a ‘67 yard gain and Rid< made our last > major on a keeper from the two. Ozzie D'Ippolito

(who should be a missionary) made converts on all four ‘

T.D. '5. Vernon Pahl, who really seems to enjoy

bowling over opponents was devastating to the Mount A. offense and his "Hits" on punt returns forced fumbles by met A. and were directly,

responsible for the good field position which we enjoyed throughout the first

half. For our side we thought Neal Connaughton

, was the recipient of the two hardest jolts, andjaftér the second we did not expect to see him back and - we were particularly pleased to note that only , a couple of plays later he made a brilliant intercep— tion of a Mount A. pass. Saugus should be proud of him! We will skip over

the second half very lightly‘ y .

except to note that we seemed to suffer a real let—down. . .possibly due to overconfidence. . .possibly due to a gritty performance by the visitors and we were outscored 20—2. Gord Geppert,‘playing his first year here, got Our final » two points by‘ dumping their punter in the end zone. We do not think the close score is a real indication of the teams and look for another Panther win as when our boys visit Sackville on 20 October.

This week the team travels to Wolfville for a game with Acadia, rated #7 in

Canada, who must be smarting after an overtime loss to

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Saint F.X. last weekend. _ It will: take time and we Let's hope they have a ~1et- feel the is this dam. ‘Awin wouldbe great.. weekend against Acadia & how about it, Saint Junk??? S.M.U.

Shelly Pepler just came "Be patient and learn by inaswepedcanayatthis ywr‘mistakesbutNEVER

task and she said to us, give up." j . "Say something nice about That is the Lady Panther the Field Hockey team". I motto. " 3 "

Well said,'Shelly_, audit is anice note 11panhid1 to, end. ' '

replied that'I'd like to .but it is hard to write about superlative play in— asmudi as they had lost another : shutout game, this one to Memorial 2-0, and

I asked her to write a pleasant report on their activities. Here is what she jotted down:

Field Hockey

Team is young Team is, learning

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