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Notes From The Sidelines By John Lafferty Bill Curry, WSOC sportscaster, spoke on the future of sports at UNC-C last summer. It looked dull. Somehow, Chapel Hill grads have gained control of a major portion of the North Carolina business community, hence, they also control a large chunk of money. Chapel Hill grads also sit in a large number of N. C. legislature seats. The legislature controls how much, how many, and who goes to where. And no alumni likes to see his alma mater field a poor team. So these grads stick together, and they see that the money goes in the right direction. Not by a concious effort, but because . . ., weli, just because. Mr. Curry went on to tell his audience what happens after you get the money. You have to get a schedule. Not just with anybody, but with teams which have the reputation of fielding a good team, and who one has a chance of beating. And, its not just any team with a top athletic program that wants to lose to an unknown. It really makes you look pretty bad. Beyond this, you have to get a lot of players who are good enough as prep stars to draw interest around the country, but who will be silling to play, with only the promise of future greatness. And then you have to have a faculty and a curriculum for these players. Mr. Curry pointed to N. C. State. They had a good program, but, the legislature would never let them be great. And its hard to bring players in like that. Besides, no one who was anyone wanted to play them. What good team wants to take a chance on being beat by an ACC (chuckle) team? Well, Earle Edwards, N. C. State coach, took a few players like Dennis Byrd, who drew national interest, but wasn’t “great enough” to be snatched by the big schools, and Gerald Warren, who came on out, with no scholarship assistance. And he got some opponents who would be willing to play him. Like Houston. Now N. C. State is riding in the upper reaches of the national rank ings, with eight wins and no losses. While Chapel Hill beat Maryland. Mr. Curry gave those as the reasons UNC-C would never have a top team. Chapel Hill has the money and support. But State had tlie desire. Can it happen here? If YOU think it can. The Journal Picks . . . GAME Stavrakas Alabama-LSU LSU Arkansas-Rice Rice N.C.State-Penn StateN.C. Tenn.-Miss. Miss. Duke-Navy Duke Maryland-Clemson Clemson Va. Tech.- Fla. StateFla. Games - Saturday - Nov. 11 Lcifferty Ala. Rice Penn Tenn. Navy Clemson Byrd Ala. Ark. N.C. Tenn. Navy Clemson Phys Ed Ala. Ark. N.C. Tenn. Navy Clemson ilaryland-Clemson Clemson a. Tech.- Fla. StateFla. Miss. - Auburn Auburn N. C. - Va. Va. Indiana-Mich. Mich. Clemson V.P.I. Auburn Va. Ind. In this issue of tlie Carolina Journal, the sports staff opens a new practice. A team of experts, composed of John Lafferty, sports editor, Nick Stavrakas, Greek foot ball genius, John Byrd, associate sports editor, and the group opinion of the members of the PE and Athletic department, will pick those teams which tliey consider most likely to win on the follow- ' ing Saturday. I Each week, Mr. Stavrakas will I choose ten game which he feels ’ will be the top games of the week. He will then, by consulting sev eral dieties of the gridiron, pit his skill against the other mem bers of the select panal. Mr. Stavrakas expounds on his I fits of genius; I Mississippi -Tennessee — Any- lone who has followed Mississippi I knows one glaring fact: The Rebs I are tough at home. Two top teams have challenged them at home, and lost. So will UT. Alabama. - LSU. LSU lost to Tennessee in a game which they should have won. A missed field goal cost them tlie tie. LSU is also the only team which has de feated Mississippi at home, no small feat. Alabama just doesn’t have the defense. Serving The Best Pizza In Town Pizza IflB Carry Out or Eot In OPEN 4 til 11P.M. Closed Monday South Blvd. at Scalybark 525-5154 N(»rlh (4irolina THE BOX-THE BOX-THE BOX' NOW OPEN unniTi^ THE BOX FEATURING FRIDAY: The Chessman VI SATURDAY: The Fabulous Patents SUNDAY: The Monzas Wed. & FRI. SPECIAL - Admission 50? Dreu Casual Corner Sronewoll & College PAGE 5 Animals Grab 1st Place By JOHN BYRD After the fourth week of intra mural football, a week marked by a shut out in every game but one, the .Animals moved into first place all by themselves. The Freshmen no longer share the number one spot after having one to APO, who are now tied for fifth place witli the Sophomore - Juniors. The Gladiators, who shut out the last place Engineers twice last week, are in third place. Due to the re turn to standard time, games were shortened to two 15 minute halves instead of two 20 minute ones. IN the first game Monday the Engineers fell to the Gladiators 27-0. Frank Norris and Norman Scott each scored a touchdown in the first half. Scott made the extra point on Norris’ TD and Bill Kan- upke put across one after Scott’s. In the second half the Gladiators continued their romp while David Corry scored firstandfhen Rogers Seism scored 6 points for APO in the first haK and Dave Taylor seven in the second half to give the Frosh their second loss. On Tuesday’s second game the .Animals’ Terry Whitt scored the only touchdown of the game in the first half as the Animals defeated Action 6-0. The Soph-Jrs. shut out the Bus iness Club for the seeoha time last week in the Wednesday’s first game 6-0. Clifford Cunningham scored the Soph - Jrs. touchdown in the first half. In the second game Wednesday, Tal Phillips and Larry Geddings each made a TD in the first half as the Freshman beat Action 12-0. Thursday’s first game was the only game last week that wasn’t a shut out as the Animals scored their fifth straight victory, de feating APO 19-12. Pat Queen League Standings Scott added an extra point. Team W L T Pet. Clifford Cunningham scored a Animals 7 1 0 .875 touchdown and Phil Rimer recei Freshmen 6 2 0 .750 ved credit for a safety as the Gladiators 5 2 1 .687 Sophomore-Juniors down the Bus Action 3 4 1 .437 iness Club 8-0, the first half of Soph-Jrs 3 5 0 .375 the second game Monday. APO 3 5 0 .375 APO shut out the Freshmen 13-0 Business 2 5 1 .312 in Tuesday’s first game. Darryel Engineers 1 7 0 .125 49’ers Rip Wesleyan By FRANK SASSER Clemson Clemson V.P.I. Fla. Auburn Auburn Va. Va. Mich. Mich. UNC-C defeated N. C. Wesleyan College 18-38 in a cross country meet on Wesleyan’s Rocky Mount campus last Wednesday. The team arrived at Rocky Mount early enough to eat lunch there, play ping pong, tour the campus, and study before running. The harriers agreed that Wes leyan’s course was the finest they had run on this season. This is especially good since the confer ence and district cross country meet will be held there Saturday, November 11. The course began in the middle of a large recently- cut grass field in front of the col lege. The harriers ran on a well- packed path through dense woods and near a lake used for recre ational purposes by the college. A lap around the playing fields con cluded the four mile course. Robert Leek, a track runner from J. C, Smith University ran unofficially ashedidattheUNC-C- Lynchburg meet, and again he fin ished first. He finished the four mile course in 21:31, over a min ute ahead of the first official runner, Marty Fleming, who fin ished in 22:41. Larry McAfee, second place fin isher was followed by John Lafferty. Mike Ridge finished a scant seven seconds behind Wes leyan’s first place runner. Woody Frick finished fifth for the 49ers behind the home team’s second runner. Ed Echeverria also helped push back the opposing team’s score by finishing between their fourth and fifth runners. The harriers now stand 4-1 in the conference and 6-3 overall. TALL BOY ESSO CURB SERVICE TALLBOY 44( Complete Service Station Hwy. 19 Harrisburg CURB SERVICE 3A3I Soolh BWd.~S23-63U 3101 E. Independ.—377-450» the WORLD FAMOUS OPEMITCHEX 1318 W. Morchead St. For Your Christmas Knight! Much Time And Thought Have Gone Into Assembling Our Collection Of Gifts For Men Of Good Taste. Jack Wood, Ltd. ! MEN’S CLOTHING & FURNISHINGS 300 SOUTH TRYON STREET CHARLOTTE, N.C. put across a TD for the Animals to which Rick Matheny added an extra point and APO’s Dave Tay lor made a touchdown to make it 7-6 at the end of the first half. In the second half John Mims and Hank Rivers each scored six for the Animals making it 19-6. •APO's Taylor made another touch down to leave the final score 19-12. In the final game last week David Corry scored three touch downs to again shut out the En gineers 20-0. Corry made the ex tra point after the last one. Corry was last week’s leading scorer with four touchdowns and one extrapointfor 25 points. APO’s Dave Taylor was second with 19. So far this season the Gladia tors are the only team that hasn’t been shut out except for the Ani mals who lost one game on a forfeit. According to Coach Larry Eos- tian the Sophomore - Juniors are the most improved team in the league. After losing their first five games they have come back with three straight victories. They are now tied with APO for fifth place. Last week they were tied for last place. Intramural Results Results for Week of Oct. 30-Nov.2 Gladiators 27 Engineers 0 Soph - Jrs 8 Business 0 APO 13 Freshmen 0 Animals 6 Action 0 Soph-Jrs 6 Business 0 Freshmen 12 Action 0 Animals 19 APO 12 Gladiators 20 Engineers 0 FUN? 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