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Vol.17,
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, 5; C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1908.
No. 10.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
THE CAROLINA - VIRGINIA GAME
WILL BE PLAYED NEXT THURSDAY IN RICHMOND
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Five Hundred Students Going Five Excursions
From North Carolina. Song Practice
Tonight A Game Tomorrow
Afternoon
One week from today there will ar
rive in the Old Dominion capital from
the Old North State five excursion
trains teeming with thousands of
loyal Tar Heels eager to see the great
Carolina-Virginia gridiron battle.
Not the least of these excursions is a
students' special which will leave
Chapel Hill Wednesday night at 12
v o'clock with five hundred' students
' 1 keyed to the highest pitch of enthusi-
k asm and fired with a spirit of determi-
nation to back their Varsity at all
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times and under all circumstances.
The students' special will consist of
eight day coaches and several Pullman
cars. The round-trip fare is three
dollars and the cost of a berth, tw(
dollars. The train will arrive in
Richmond at eight o'clock Thursday
morning and the students will have a
f plenty of time to see many places of
I, historic intei'cst in old Richmond
town. Most of the students will get
' lunch at the restaurants and some of
he flushed will dine at the far famtd
14 Jefferson, which will be the head-
Quarters of the Carolina team. A1
one thirty all the Carolina students
swill assemble at the Jefferson and
headed by the University Band will
; march en masse to Broad Street Parl
eight blocks off. They will all take
I seats together.
Seated there in full view of a vast as
sembly of spectators, the 500 Tar Heel
lents will welcome the Varsity as
? M comes on the field by standing and
j Uh bared heads singing that grand
j ld song: "Hail to U. N. C". From
; the moment that the Varsity comes on
the field till time is called these 500
students, systematically, lead by sev-
I eral cheer leaders, will shake the arena
I I with their "Yackety Yacks" and 'Boom
Rah Rays."
Ill order to gain more system and
efficiency in rooting and singing,
meetings will be held tonight and to
morrow night in the Chapel from 7;15
to 7:45 to practice all the yells and
songs, new and old. Every student in
University should be present at these
song and yell practices. Carolina has
always been strong in cheering but
her strengh has often been wasted by
lack of system. Come out to these
1 meetings and help to develop an or
ganized system of yelling that will
make for the greatest efficiency.
Friday afternoon there will be a
"""vjiminary Carolina-Virginia game
e local gridiron. This game will I
have all the marks of a regular game.
Field Captain Rogers will direct the
Varsity forces and Captain Eames will
lead the Scrubs. The University Band
and the visiting young ladies will be
present to make the occasion more rea
listic. The game will be called prompt
ly at 4.30. Two halves of fifteen min
utes each will be played with an
intermission of five minutes. Coach
Simmons will be referee and A. L. Cox
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EE VICTORIES LAST WEEK
CAROLINA WINS IN DEBATE, FOOTBALL AND TENNIS
Umstead and Battle Win From . Pennsylvania.
Varsity Defeats South Carolina. Foun- .
tain and Hyrnan Blank
Davidson
The - University of North Caro-
ina 'defeated the University of
Pennsylvania Friday night in the
second debate between the two uni
versifies. The query was: Resolved,
That the pooling of interstate rates
and traffic should be legalized."
Messrs. C. A. Drefs, Jr., and Per rot
of the Philom athean Society upheld
the affirmative. Mr. John W. Urn
stead, Jr., and Mr. Kemp D. Bat
tle, of the Philanthropic and Dialec-
K, D.Battle
will umpire. The entire student body
will be present to witness this, the
most important practice of the season.
At the last practice Tuesday after
noon all the wearers of the N. C. in
the University will assemble on the
field en masse to sing and cheer for
their comrades in harness. Tuesday
night, as the bonfire flashes the signal
in the heavens, the Tar Heel forces
will assemble in Gerrard Hall to have
the big final mass meeting of the year
(excepting, of course, the mass meet
ing after the game.) It goes without
saying that every student in the Uni
versity will be present at this meeting.
Such a meeting as will be held Tues
day night is not held but once in
every college generation. The band
will be there; the prince of mass meet
ing speakers will be there; Coach
Greene, Manager Gray, Captain
Thomas, Field Captain Rogers and
his determined eleven will be there;
in fact we will all be there.
Throughout North Carolina and Vir
ginia there is much speculation as to
the outcome of the Thanksgiving
game. The odds are on Virginia.
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tic Societies represented Carolina
and defended the negative.
The debate was held in Price
Hall. Dr. Lingelback, professor
of history, presided. The judges
were, Professor James H. Moffat,
Francis Rowle, Esq., and W. F.
Gleason, Esq. The debate was
spirited and well fought on both
sides, but the North Carolinians
took the Pennsylvanians by surprise
attack and so completely swept
them off their feet that they were
unable to rally. The Quakers ex
pected the Tar Heels to argue for
competition or government owner
ship. Battle and Umstead, how
ever," went deep down into the na
ture of railroads and showed that
the trend of railroad evolution was
inevitably toward combination, and
that pooling was a makeshift for
combination. Their deep laid, or
ganic argument was simply irrefut
able, and the judges voted unani
mously in favor of Carolina.
Mr. Drefs opened for the affirma
tive and laid down three proposi
tions: first, that, in railroading,
competition is detrimental; second,
that virtual pooling exists today in
the form of agreements and combi
nation by community of interests;
and third, that there must be some
form of co-operation.
Mr. Umstead opened for the
negative. He maintained that rail
road evils are due either to wrong
relationship between the different
roads and between the roads and
the people. Pooling fails to change
either of these and thus fails as a
solution. In practice, pooling fails
since it does not eliminate present
evils, does not make for general uni
formity, and is only a temporary
measure. It is thu3 an artihcal
solution imposed on the railroads
and not growing out of the - nature
of the railroads.
Mr. Perrot followed for the affirm
ative. He said that there were sev
eral requisites in the railroad world.,
Among the most important are:
stability, uniformity, and co-oper
ation. There must be stability to
insure justice to the roads. There
must be uniformity to insure govern
ment regulation. They co-operate
and must co-operate if they are to
work well. This co-operation
should be legalized in the form of
pooling.
Mr, Battle closed the debate.
He said in substance: Our country.
demands good transportation. The
best transportation can be obtained
through combination. -Combina
tion eliminates competition, and is
thoroughly in keeping with the na
ture of the railroads. Pooling and
combination are incompatible. Pool
ing removes the incentive to combi
nation, for only in the absence of
pooling has there been any actual
combination. Therefore pooling
should be kept under the ban of
the law.
'Varsity Defeats South Carolina
Saturday afternoon in a cold,
driving rain and on a field of mud
and slush North Carolina triumphed
over South Carolina by the score of
22 to 0 in the last game before the
great Thanksgiving melee. As the
condition of the field precluded the
successful use of the new style play,
Carolina relied altogether on
straight, old-fashioned line smash
ing which often degenerated into a
sliding match. South Carolina,
however, used onside kicks and for
ward passes to advantage, the
sloshy condition of the field to the
contrary notwithstanding,
In the limelight for the Varsity
were Williams, Ruffin, Wiggins,
Rogers, Tillet, and Lester. ..Will
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