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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1944
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CHATTER
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CARROLL POPLIN
Mans Invade Carolina Today
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Large Group Reports For Cage Drills
Speaking of bowl games, it seems that Wake Forest is the only football
team in the state that is in line for a bid at the present. The Deacons can be
assured of an invitation if they are successful in derailing the Blue Devils
today.
More than likely Coach Peahead Walker's outfit will land up in the Orange
Bowl in Miami on New Year's Day. The Baptists have one of the best civilian
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tion of Ohio State's undefeated Buck
eyes.
Most big-time sports writers favor
Duke over Wake Forest this after
noon, but this columnist picks the un
favored Deacons to take the game by
a close margin. Coach" Cameron's
boys might come into today's encoun
ter a little too cocky since they pulled
a stunning upset over Georgia Tech
last week,
On the other hand Duke is suffering
one of their worst seasons in recent
campaigns and haven't registered but
two wins this year. The Deacons are
undefeated and have beaten some
tough teams in obtaining the clear
slate.
Duke will have one distinct advan
tage and that is they'll be playing on
their home field. That may or may not
mean a lot, but it usually does, since
the Blue Devils haven't won a game
away this year.
The outcome of this all-important
grid classic will more than likely de
termine this section's representative
to the Orange Bowl or maybe the Cot
ton Bowl. The Orange Bowl officials
would be interested in inviting Wake
Forest if they remain unbeaten, be
cause the Deacons proved to the peo
ple of Florida that they had a top
flight team when they trounced Miami
University recently.
While we're on the bowl subject, it
would be interesting to see a Service
Bowl established this season pitting
together two of the nation's top ser
vice teams and there's no question
which two would be picked. For no
team in the nation could match the
power-laden outfits that, Bainbridge
and Randolph Field have formulated
Such a contest will undoubtedly draw
a crowd "of 80,000 or more and the
gate receipts could certainly come in
handy for War Relief or Red Cross
funds
This columnist was chatting with a
represetative of the Bainbridge team
last week-end and the sailor said that
Bainbridge first scheduled a heavy
slate of colleges, but after the news
spread around about the material that
Bainbridge had on hand, the colleges
concelled the contests and left them
with almost a complete schedule to re
vise. . . . They have been able to get
games only with service teams and
whether or not their schedule shows
it, these Commodores have the best
team in the nation, but haven't been
giving that rating because of their
schedule
Lt. Comdr. Ray Wolf, former head
coach here at Carolina for a number
of years, has succeeded Lt. Col. Ber
nie Bierman as athletic director at the
See CHATTER, page U
Hazelwood Was In
Fight At Tarawa
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Ted Hazelwood, ex-fullback for the
Purdue Frosh, who was in the thick
of the Marines' scrap at Tarawa, is
bidding for a berth on the Carolina
eleven for their next home game here
today at 2:30.
The Tar Heels will meet William
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and Mary's high-scoring contends
for the Virginia state title, and the
outcome is regarded as a toss-up by
most experts, including Coach Gene
McEver, who has a name for calling
his shots. -
The giant, dark-haired, bronzed,
good-natured Hazelwood is one of the
20 odd new Navy transfers whom the
Tar Heels will display today in the
acid test of football skill and power
for their reorganized forces.
"Yes I saw plenty in my year and
a half in the Pacific," Ted said yes
terday, "but let's not talk' about that.
Say it's good to be home, and back in
college and football, and studying to
be an officer."
Hazelwood, who was mentioned for
All-State at Frankfort, Ind., High, has
been working like a beaver this week,
and his drive and determination have
won him the alternate fullback s job
against the flashy Indians.
He's 20 pounds overweight ngftt
now at 220, but if and when he gets m
top shape, the Tarawa Marine may be
hard to stop-by teammate or rival.
Harriers Meet
Navy Academy
In Event Today
With only four experienced hold
overs from last Semester, Coach Dale
Ranson's cross country squad face
four tough opponents in the month of
November with the first getting un
derway today against Navy at An
napolis. The cross country team of this sea
son has been victorious in only one
meet: the one against Georgia-Tech in
which Carolina runners scored an ex
tremely impressive victory. The Tar
Heels lost to Pre-Flight but topped
the Cherry Point Marines in a triangle
meet with these teams. The cross
country lads also dropped a meet to
Pre-Flight and 'Duke in another tri
angle event.
The following boys gained a little
running experience with the Tar Heel
cross country squad last semester:
Harry Holden, Doug Erath and Don
ald Riggin; Clark Burit is a veteran
of last year and shows much promise.
New lads, just out for running with
not too much background are: Mack
Boas, Arthur Hughes, John McGavon,
James Bolch, James Crain, John Wil
liams, Leland Stegemerter, Kennith
Hinsdale, and "B" Bill Buffaloe.
The remaining cross country sche-
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dule stands as follows: . .
November 11 Navy at Annapolis
November 15 N. C. State at Raleigh
November 18 Georgia Tech here
November 22 Duke here
Send The Tar Heel Home
FOR VICTORY BUY BONDS
Only One Holdover
Greets Carnevale
By Irwin Small wood
With Lt. Ben Carnevale taking the
reins where Coach Bill Lang left off,
the potential 1944 Carolina basketball
squad began drills on "the main floor
of Woollen Gym Monday afternoon.
Approximately 85 boys reported for
the first practice.
All of the boys, ranging in experi
ence from 'some' college to just high or
prep school, were given a chance to
show their ability as much as possible
last week, but due to the large number
out, Lieutenant Carnevale, who was
appointed head coach in addition to his
regular duties of athletic officer of
the V-12 unit when Coach Lang took
a position of athletic director at a
school in Ohio, was forced to make
two cuts in the roster last week. How
ever, the number of boys out is still
high from 40 to 50 and within the
next week or so more slashes will
probably have to be made.
Plans Two Squads
Coach Carnevale has announced
that he plans to have two squads, an
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proximately 15 men on each one. He
emphasized, though, that any man on
either team would be liable for pro
motion or demotion at any time.
"After the two teams are chosen,"
the new Carolina mentor stated, "we
will continue to watch the intramural
games in order to be on the lookout for
any boys who show exceptional abil
ity. If a boy is thought good enough,
he will be given a try on the squad."
Only One Letterman
As aforementioned, the material
with which Coach Carnevale and his
assistant, Pete Mullis, will have to
work is inexperienced and totally un
tried, but one letterman, Don Ander
son, is back, and Bob Allen, of Milli-
gan, has reported. Also, several boys
who starred on high school teams
around North Carolina and in other
states are on hand to strike for berths
on the quint. More boys who may be
of aid are now playing football but
are expected to be around after the
first week in December.
At present practice sessions are be-
Tag Football Starts Thursday
Entries Must Be in By Monday Afternoon
The intramural tag football league
will get in full swing next Thursday
afternoon with approximately 15 teams
entered in the event. The grid pro
gram will last until Christmas holi
days. Deadline for entries has been set for
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Teams
wishing to compete in the play must
enter through Walt James, intramural
director, whose office is at 306 Wool
len Gym. No entries will be accepted
at a later date.
Athletic managers of the various
dormitories and fraternity houses met
with James and Kenfield last Thurs
day and drew plans for the coming
event.
The tag football contests wiJI be
played at 5:30 and schedules will be
published in the Tar Heel.
Basketball will replace football as
the major intramural sport after
Christmas holidays. Wrestling and
boxing will begin before vacation.
Quite a lot of interest was shown
in the tag football "warm-up" session
held during the short six weeks, which
was a prelude to the big event now
getting started.
Each team must furnish referees on
days they do not play or suffer a for
f eit if no representative is present.
ing conducted every afternoon of the
week from 5:30 to 7:30 in Woollen
Gym, and work is intensifying every
day in preparation for the first game
of the season, which is slated to be
reeled off sometime the first week of
December with Ft. Bragg.
Schedule Not Complete
A schedule has not been arranged
as yet, but Coach Carnevale, a former
New York University star, said that
his crew would probably play about 25
games during the season, including
10 to 15 conference games and some
with service teams.
Last year Carolina's Tar Heels of
the hardwood were runners-up in the
Southern conference, losing in the
finals to the Duke Blue .Devils.
This season it will be the same story
as in football and all the other sports.
Nothing is known about anyone, and
there will be no way of knowing just
how the team will stack up until a
few games have been played. It will
be a hit or miss affair, with many ex
periments in lineups being necessary
before a winning quintet is formed.
Lieutenant Carnevale, who guides
the Tar Heels, was on the All-Metropolitan
and All-Eastern teams while
at NYU and played pro basketball
with the Jersey Reds in 1939 when
they walked off with the American
league crown.
Fall Practice Begins
For Tennis Prospects
Tennis Coach John Kenfield has is
sued another call for all men inter-
Lested in participating in the spring
varsity tennis team to come out for
the fall practice now underway each
afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 on the
varsity courts.
Up to the present, Coach Kenfield
reports, only five men have regularly
reported and none of them have had
college experience before.
Tennis balls are furnished the men
engaged in fall practice and Coach
Kenfield would like to see any one in
terested out on the courts.
Boxers Wanted
Coach Joe Murnick issued a call
to all candidates for the boxing team
to report today to the boxing room
of Woollen Gymnasium.
Murnick is especially interested in
lightweights, but heavy boys will
not be turned away.
FOR VlOTORY: BUY BONDS
Patronize Tar Heel Advertisers
Snooky Proctor and Cheerleading Squad Makes Valiant
Effort iolRejuvenate Tar Heel Spirit to Newtime High
By Peggy Case
If Carolina school spirit has reached
a low ebb this football season, it cer
tainly isn't the fault of Snooky Proc
tor and his ten cheerleaders.
When Proctor took over the reins of
the cheerleaders he found himself in a
position similar to Coach Gene Mc
Ever when he was named head grid
mentor at the University.
McEver was an experienced man.
With Proctor, however the situation
was different. Besides not having any
experienced men he was without ac
tual experience himself. It was a case
of the blind leading the blind.
Snooky and his ten five boys and
fi e-irls decided to do something
about it. The ten, Jack Bierman, Mick
ey Falkner, John Tuthill, Bill Stubbs,
Marky Parsons, Peedee Herndon, Peg-o-v
Teatrue. Peggy Stanton, Mary Mor
row and Betsy Couch, knew that the
first step towards success was to learn
rhpers themselves. So they got
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copies of all the Carolina cheers, both
B.K. and A.K. (beiore and alter ivy
ser) and went into several weeks of
intensive practice.
Lend-Lease Plan
Thpn Snooky lend-leased his cheer
leaders to instruct groups of civilians,
POTf! and V-12 students m various
yells. Betsy Couch personally taught
Jip Fleet Club some of the latest
cheers. Snooky asked the students to
sit in section 18 at Kenan Stadium on
Saturday afternoon football games.
TCvprvthine was set for the opening
game with Wake Forest. The Deacons
Evaded Chapel Hill with one of the
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strongest civilian teams in the nation.
The rest is athletic history. Outplayed
nd outclassed, the Carolina eleven put
up a beautiful fight, losing only by a
to 0 score.
Spirit Hits Bottom
Mavbe the students didn't think
Carolina had much chance to win, but
as the afternoon wore on they appar
ently forgot that they at least fiaa
nart to Dlav. they had to help by
cheering. It was one of the quietest
football afternoons ever witnessed in
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TAR HEEL CHEERLEADING BATTALION The attractive group of Tar Heels pictured above is the fifth string
of the football club. Yes sir, the lads and lassies above makeup that sideline team which will cheer the boys to vic
tory "across the field the foe has fled." From left to right is head Cheerleader Snooky Proctor, Peedee Herndon,
Mickey Faulkner, Peggy Teague, Betsy Crouch, Peggy Stanton, Jonny Tuthill, Marky Parsons, and Jack Bierman.
Kenan stadium. This lack of pep and
spirit repeated itself on various Satur
days.
The low, however, was reached last
Saturday afternoon when South Caro
lina came here. The proverbial pin
could have been dropped and would
have frightened half the mice from
under the stadium.
"We can do just so much," declared
Snooky, "and then it's up to the stu
dents. We can shout, yell, turn flips,
and rub Rameses the third's head, but
the noise we ten can make is limited!
On Saturday we play William and
Mary. This is the last home game be
fore Duke comes here on November 25.
I think we owe it to the team to go
out and cheer and let them know we're
betting on them to finish the season
with a few wins."
Students Must Yell
One of the girl cheerleaders, Betsy
Couch, added -a few words to what
Snooky said. She declared that if the
students didn't join in the cheers, the j
cheerleaders would personally go into
the stands and make the spiritless
crowd give out with some loud yells.
Betsy announced that special yells and
several surprises are being planned for
the Duke game.
Last night a pep rally was held and
a large number of students joined in
the cheering and parading. If the
spirit shown last night carries over
for the game this afternoon, the foot
ball squad can expect a lot of support
from the stands.
' William and Mary
Holds Slight Edge
Carolina will go into today's tussle
with a revamped line-up against the
Indians of William and Mary as the
two Southern Conference foes clash
in Kenan Stadium at 2:30. This will
be the Tar Heels last home contest
until the Duke game on November 25.
The Tar Heels suffered a 6-0 set
back last week at the hands of South
Carolina, but Coach McEver seems to
have his squad ready to roll in high
gear this afternoon since his new
comers have had a chance to become
more familiar with the Carolina at
tack. Lost Star Players
Since the last game Carolina has
lost several first-string performers and
Coach McEver faces a problem of find
ing capable replacements for such
stars as John Kinsey, "Bobo" Gil
liam, Johnny Walker and Jock Fster,
all of whom left in the recent Navy
shift.
In reorganizing his grid machine,
Coach Gene McEver had 20 new pros
pects to pick from and some among
the group are experienced and out
standing gridders. The three that are
expected to break into the line-up to
day are John Kerns, 230 pound tackle
star, and Thad Ellis, husky guard,
both are from Duke and flashy Bill
Voris, who led the 1942 Army Plebes
in both ground-gaining and scoring.
William and Mary Favored
As far as records go William and
Mary will hold a slight edge over
the Tar Heels, since the Indians have
lost only two games this season and
they were to Pennsylvania and N. C.
State. Most predictors are calling to
day's battle a toss-up.
William and Mary's civilians are
coached by Rube McCray, who once led
Tennessee Wesleyan to the national
junior title, and Eric Tipton, the for
mer Duke and Rose Bowl star. The
high-scoring Indians have rolled up
123 points in their three victories and
are reported to be in top shape for this
afternoon's encounter after being idle
ast week-end.
Civilian Team
The Indians have an array of civi-
ian stars, who are led by Captain
Clowes, 210 pound guard on the 1942
conference champs Know Hamsey,
brother of the All-American Buster:
and Jack Bruce, triple-threater and
second high scorer in the conference.
See INDIANS, page 4
Swim Drills Open
With Several Vets
With an impressive victory over all
comers in the Goldsboro Invitational
Meet chalked up in their opening ac
tion of the year but with a squad sub
sequently honeycombed by V-12 trans
fers, the Carolina swimming team
opened post-holiday drills this week.
Only a month will be granted Coach
Willis Casey to mold his ' neophyte
squad into game condition before the
Blue Dolphins open their winter sea
son against Camp Lejeune at New
Riyer December 2. And the squad of
17, one of the smallest in the history
of Carolina's tankmen, numbers but
five lettermen against twelve rookies
who will be seeing varsity action for
the first time.
Via recent naval transfers Casey
lost six shining performers who last
season paced the Tar Heels to their
position as top collegiate team in the
nation. The first five named were se
lected on the '44 All-American swim
ming team, and it was these record
breakers who scored 35 out of 39
points tallied by the mermen against
Navy last year: Denny Hammond,
Buddy Crone, Jim Wildman, Percy
Mallison, George Whitner, and Henry
Stevens.
Among the new men who have stood
out in early drills are Bill Kelly in
the breast stroke, Bill Ward in the
sprints, and Jack Davis and Jack Zim
mermann, distance free-style men. The
five returning veterans are Jesse
Greenbaum"and Warren Perry of the
V-12 and civilian students, Ben Ward,
Snooky Proctor, and Pete Hexner.
The present squad roster of the
swimming team: V-12 Billy Kelly,
Jesse Greenbaum, John Perkins, John
Lord, Warren Perry, Tom Gray, Bob
Dungey, Bill Ward, Jack Zimmerman,
and Bob Brenning; Civilians Ben
Ward, Snooky Proctor, Warren Fick
Ier, Jack Davis, Pete nexner, Norman
Ripps, and Jack Shilla; Managers
Jim Fowler and Carroll Poplin.