VMI Cadet. October 1, 1951

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VOLUME XLII V.M.I., LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1, 1951 ~ NUMBER 2
Flying Squadron Tops Richmond 34-0
Keydet Eleven
Tallies in All
Four Quarters
State Dept.
Offers Aid for
Foreign Study
Opportunities for more than 700
Americans to undertake graduate
study or research abroad during
the 1952-1953 academic year un-der
the terms of the Fulbright
Act have been announced by the
Department of State. Countries in
which study grants are available
are Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Burma, Egypt, France, Greece,
India, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan,
the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey
and the United Kingdom.
The awards will enable students
in all fields of graduate work and
those with specialized research
projects to study in foreign in
stitutions and universities under
renowned professors and special-ists.
Grants also are available to
students of accomplishment in
such fields as music, art archi-i
tecture, and drama. A few oppor-tunities
in workers' education and
social work are provided in the
United Kindgdoms.
Grants are normally made for
one academic year and generally
include round trip transportation,
tuition or a living allowance and
a small amount for necessary
books and equipment. All grants
under the Act are made in foreign
currencies.
Cadets who are interested are
instructed to see Colonel Fuller
in the History Department im-mediately
as the closing date for
receipt of applications by the Ful-bright
Program Advisor is Octo-ber
15.
Orange and Black
Featured Colors
At Opening Hops
With Opening Dances less than
two weeks away the Hop Commit-tee
has made elaborate plans to
give the Corps a sample of the
fine entertainment that has been
planned for this year. For this
Opening set the gymnasium will
be decorated in colorful Hallo-ween
colors of orange and black,
a color scheme that has been quite
popular in the past, but one that
the present corps has yet to wit-ness.
Music for the Hops will be
supplied by Dean Hudson—A band
leader popular at colleges through-out
the South.
Larger Attendance
With the entrance of a larger
rat class this year, the Hop Com-mittee
hopes that the attendance
at the Hops will increase consider-ably
and enable the Corps to
secure the top bands in the nation
for the remaining dances this
year. Tickets will go on sale with-in
the next week, and may be
secured from any member of The
Hop Committee.
For the information of the new
cadets, on Hop weekends all men
with dates are allowed to be ab-sent
from barracks from the com-pletion
of m i l i t a r y duty on
Friday afternoon until 8:30 that
night in order to dine with their
dates in Lexington. Following the
dance, all men with dates are
allowed one hour and a half
before returning to barracks. This
applies to the Saturday night
dance as well.
Added Attractions
Besides the two Hops, the Corps
will have an added attraction on
October 13th, when the Univer-sity
of Virginia plays Washington
and Lee at Wilson Field. With
VMI having no game scheduled
for this weekend, the cadets will
have the opportunity of seeing one
of the top games in the Southern
Conference this year.
Corps Leaves On Friday
To Witness Grid Clash
At W&M's Cary Field
Curley Powell, led by big Jack Frankeberger, circles his own right end for twenty yards and Keydets first touchdown in the Saturday night slaughter of the Richmond
Spiders. The score came after only four minutes of play and five offensive tries by the Big Red. Final score-VMI 34; UR C. -Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch
Lt. Col. Richard Irby, VMI '39
Receives Silver Star In Korea!
Also Awarded Legion of Merit
Lt. Col. Richard R. Irby, Class
of '39, was recently awarded The
Legion of Merit (Oak-Leaf Clus-ter)
and the Silver Star while
serving in the Far East Command
according to a letter received Fri-day
by Lt. Col. S. L. Weinerth,
PMS&T. Colonel Irby was a mem-ber
of the R.O.T.C. staff at VMI
from 1948 until the fall of 1950,
and was in charge of the Armor
section.
The Legion of Merit citation
states that Col. Irby, who was
transferred from VMI to the GHQ
in Japan, "distinguished himself
by exceptionally meritorious ser-vice
as Chief, Plans and Require-ments
Branch, Korean Economic
Aid, G4 Section, General Head-quarters,
Far East Command, from
25 October 1950 to 20 March,
1951." It further explains that is
was largely through his profession-al
ability that much of the pre-vention
of disease, starvation and
unrest during a critical phase of
the Korean fighting was made
possible. In conclusion the cita-tion
stated, "His exemplarly con-duct
reflects utmost credit on
himself and the military Service."
It was while commanding a bat-talion
of the 1st Cavalry Division
in Korea that Col. Irby was award-ed,
by direction of the President,
the Silver Star for gallantry in
action. The action in which the
VMI alumnus distinguished him-self
occurred 25 June, 1951 near
Yonchon, Korea with Col. Irby's
entire battalion being engaged in
patrol action with the mission of
contacting and destroying the
enemy.
s The Silver Star citation states,
"Col. Irby, disregarding his per-sonal
safety, moved through the
hail of bullets to a forward posi
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Lt. Asli Harrison
Directs Glee Club
For '52 Season
The executive committee of the
glee club as well as the many
others who compose the main
body of the organization have
been wondering for some time
who would be elected to take the
place left by Col. H. N. Dillard,
the former director.
A new system was worked out
by which the responsibility of
running glee club activities was
divided between three separate
units—the executive committee,
Lt. Ash Harrison, and Capt. Wil-liam
Byers. The executive com-mittee
will continue to function
in its usual manner, while Lt.
Harrison will act as director, and
Capt. Byers will act as supervisor
and aid in all functions.
Lt. Harrison was a member of
the club during his cadetship and
often took over the job of director
during practices when Col. Dillard
found it impossible to be present.
The lieutenant was also captain
of the regimental band during
his first class year and has an
excellent knowledge of music.
Captain Byers who has recently
returned from a leave of absence
similiar to the one Col. Dillard
has just begun, will serve pri-marily
as advisor. Dividing the
responsibility between Capt. Byers
and Lt. Harrison will lighten the
burden of both men and will give
them more time to see to their
particular duties.
This year the club has art ex-
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Williamsburg, site of the William
& Mary game, was chosen as the
destination of the 1951 corps trip
at a corps meeting Friday night.
Thus the orginal decision to go
to Atlanta and the Georgie Tech
game which was made on Septem-ber
19 was nulified in view of the
corps inability to meet the mini-mum
attendance quoto set by the
superintendent-.
At a meeting on the previous
night, costs of transportation to
and from Atlanta, food, game
tickets, and other items were dis-cussed.
It was pointed out that the
Institute would provide each at-tending
cadet with 3 box lunches
and $3 subsistence.
A final count of those willing
to make the Atlanta trip was
taken which determined that the
quota of 600 cadets could not be
reached.
At the Friday meeting Colonel
Pancake presented some facts con-cerning
the possibility of a Wil-liamsburg
trip to the corps. He
stated that buses would leave
barracks at 2 o'clock Friday after-noon,
that the first night would
be spent in Richmond, and that
the Corps would be transported to
Williamsburg on Saturday, after
which it would attend the game
and then return to Richmond. The
bus fare was said to be about $8
round trip.
Following the game cadets will
be free until 1 o'clock Sunday
when they will board buses to
return to the Institute late that
evening. While in Richmond
cadets will stay at the homes of
various cadets and alumni. Pro-visions
have also been made for
others to spend Friday and Satur-day
night at the Howitzer Armory.
The VMI Keydets travelled to
Richmond this past Saturday fol-lowed
by many avid fans and
alumni. The Squadron showed
their supporters what they were
made of as they ripped through
a highly spirited Richmond eleven
34-0.
The squadron started early in
the game to show the Richmonders
that they meant business. Backs,
Chumbley, Powell, Marchand, and
Birge reeled off gains which put
the Keydets closer to the Rich-mond
goal line; however, the of-ficials
were working in opposition
and the penalties kept our boys
from scoring until four minutes
after the initial kick-off. The cli-max
of the drive, which covered
65 yards, was Curley Powell's
sweeping end run for a TD.
Again in the first period, the Big
Red threatened, when they re-covered
a Richmond fumble on the
UR 30. The fumble was the result
of a bad pass from center. Several
bad centers hampered the Spiders
all night in their attempts to punt.
From the Spider's 30 the Keydets
went to the 19, but fumbles
plagued the hard running Tom
Birge and the Spiders capitilized
as they recovered and moved up
field on a series of runs by Johns
and Purinai. The Richmonders
couldn't get started as they found
George St. John and Stu Felvey
continually in their way.
In the second period, the VMI
backs put on another dazzling dis-play
of speed as they drove from
the UR 40 to pay dirt. This second
touchdown came as a result of an
end sweep by quarterback March-and.
The Spiders had an opportunity
to do some scoring, if they were
going to do any, when they re-covered
Kinslow's fumble on the
VMI 34. But the Big Red chargers
led by St. John, Felvey, and Box-ley
kept breaking up any progress
the Spiders were trying to make.
When the first half ended the Key-dets
were leading 13-0.
It was not until late in third
quarter that the VMI scoring
machine began to operate again.
This time it was by air as Billy
Brehany tossed to end Jay Grumb-ling
good for a total of 26 yards
and a third Keydet touchdown.
This same pass play was good for
scores against Cincinnati and Wof-ford
on previous Saturday after-noons.
Once the machine started hit-ting
It didn't stop until the jack-pot
rang up two more scores. The
first of two came in the early part
of the fourth quarter as Edgar
Woy played "quarterback sneak"
and romped around end with the
ball hidden from the opponents
and scored.
The other T.D. drive came after
Kinslow intercepted a UR pass and
returned it to their 35. From that
point the quarter-back Brehany
started filling the air with passes.
Brehany then decided to run
around end. He swept the end for
seven yards unmolested for the
final VMI tally. The clock then
showed only 45 seconds remaining
in the game.
George Chumbley and Stu Fel-vey
both Richmonders seemed to
have been inspired by their home
town crowd as they both performd
magnificently. Chumbley was stel-lar
both on defense and offense.
VMI U.R.
First downs 16 9
Rushing yardage 225 63
Passing yardage 151 59
Passes attempted 24 11
Passes completed 12 6
Passes Intercepted 2 1
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