Kirkland, Quincy Triumph

"We're always out for blood," said Kirkland House running back Eddie Tompkins, and late yesterday afternoon, his squad got a last-minute transfusion from the Winthrop and Leverett House team in the form of a 6-0 victory.

In the opener of yesterday's doubleheader in the second week of the House football season, Quincy House demolished a helpless Currier crew, 15-0. The two victors of yesterday's games will lock antlers next Tuesday afternoon.

Down to the Wire

The Win.-Lev. vs. Kirkland duel remained scoreless going into the fourth quarter, when Kirkland finally clicked. With three minutes left, quarterback Len Busch handed off to Tompkins, who twisted and turned his way six yards off right tackle to the W.L. six. The same play to the left took Todd Elkins to the one. And with the cries of "We hate Winthrop" echoing around him, Tompkins bulled across and put Kirkland on the scoreboard. An attempt at a two-point conversion failed.

Classy Losers

The Winthrop players took their defeat gracefully. "We played well," said Wayne A. McDuffy, perhaps using the royal pronoun: the sophomore carried the ball on virtually every Win.-Lev. play of the game. "But," he added, "as MacArthur said; 'There's no substitute for victory.'"

Currier House probably would have welcomed a substitute by the end of its session with Quincy. Even before the kickoff, Currier looked mismatched, trotting onto the field in Adams House jerseys. "They don't have a team; we don't have a shirt," explained one player.

No Chance

"We don't have a chance," he might have added. With two minutes left in the half, Quincy quarterback Lon Hatamiya fired a bullet to Art O'Keefe doing a down and out pattern, to bring the ball to Currier's five-yard line. A quick pitch outside to Jim Rosenfeld made it official.

Quincy picked up another pair of points in the start of the third quarter when a botched snap to the Currier punter resulted in a safety. Moments later, the rich got richer as Hatamiya fed tight end Dave Ramsey for a 35-yard T.D. The extra point was good.