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sATiinnAY, Frr.Tii.TAnY 11 mo THE DAILY TAB HEEL PAGE THREE ' Tiff wimmers Hack Victories. Cagers, Another Picture By Buddy Vaden Our Football Fortunes WEDNESDAY NIGHT in the hallowed halls of the Senate of the Dialectic Literary Society a topic obviously unfamiliar to the part-time senators was brought up and bardied around for an hour and a half before a conclusion was reached. Said topic concerned the fortunes of the University of North Carolina football teams and said conclusion was that the football team (by way of the Car olina Athletic Association) should use as it sees fit the money taken in during the course of a three month football schedule. A bill to institute a program of de-cmphasis of football here and distribute profits made by football games among members of the underpaid teaching staff was, in three steps, brought on the floor, quabbled over, and handily defeated, 17-11. The whole thing got ofT to a bad start when it was obvious from the beginning that only one person had foresight enough to make cn investigation of the profits the football team actually does make in a year and what expenses are incurred. Further, when the bill was introduced, the senator who brought it to the floor started the show rolling by saying the whole thing "may seem a little foolish." The fact that the bill was defeated was not startling. The sur prising thing was how 11 votes were cast in favor of it in view of the facts brought to light. One Was Armed Amid the howls of "point of order" and "point of personal privi lege" from the various senators on the floor, the following facts were brought to the attention of the assembled members: The gross income from football for the past season amounted to some thing like $505,000. All of $420,000 of that sum went right out the window for such trivialities as salaries, travel expenses, equipment, and the like. In addition, $65,000 was set aside to help pay for the new golf course now under construction and another $85,000 was tagged as the University's part of the new press and guest boxes down at Kenan Stadium. If figures don't lie, that would leave the Athletic Association with a $5,000 deficit. However, the last two items can be carried over to future years. One of the hottest discussion points in the resolution appeared in Article II which stated: "The University of North Carolina should use $200,000 of the profits made by football in the past year to pay a bonus to our under paid teaching staff." Before the meet ing ended that article was stricken from the bill. What was not brought out during the discussion was the .fact that the University, being a state institution, is supported by the state. Therefore, rather than curtail the activities of an organiza tion which brings money outside of the State budget into the hands of one department of the University, why not divert those efforts toward the State budget-makers? Who Pays The Bills? If it werent for the C. A. A. and the success of the football team, this University would not have the magnificent athletic plant which it now proudly possesses. It would not be able to offer to the entire studenti body an intramural program which is one of the best in the entire nation. It would not be able to support lesser sports in a manner which they deserve. In short, the. football team supports the entire athletic plant here and yet there were a certain few in the Di Wednesday night who would like to see that team and the money it brings in reduced to an insignificant nothing. A few of the senators were worried because the University is becoming known more and more as the home base forgone of the nation's leading footbal teams and less and less as an , educational center. Therefore, they say, de-emphasize football. What they want then, is a University high on mental development and low, on physical development. They say the way to get at it is to de-emphasize the physical side which has only recently been raised to a high level through football profits. The logical method, it seems here, would be not to reduce to a ravel the side which took years to build, but rather continue the. physical setup and re-emphasize the academic side of Chapel Hill life. The statement was made that the academic standing of this University is suffering because of success in athletics. Isn't it be cause the athletic side is better nationally than the academic side? The obvious remedy is -to work toward a stronger academic foun dation and that cannot rightfully be done by de-emphasizing ath letics. By cutting off one leg you don't make the other any better. The Point Illustrated To illustrate the point: Yale and Harvard have long been recog nized as the nation's leading centers of learning. They were on top academically of the collegiate heap back in the '20's and remain there today. But isn't it true that Harvard and Yale were also known as the nation's leading football powers back in those days? The fact that they had great football teams didn't detract from their academic standing. The only reason their athletic teams aren't as successful now is because other Ivy League schools wised up and built strong athletic plants to compete with Harvard and Yale teams. Some interesting statements were made by the senators during the night. A few outstanding notes follow: The Carolina football team of 1946 was just an average team. (It was the team of that year that went to the Sugar Bowl the first post-season game for a Carolina team). . .Money made on football is just laid aside. (Al ready the C. A. A. has planned how to spend for improvements to the University $5,000 more than it made this year). . . . The University of North Carolina's football team is nationally known only because it represents UNC and it relies on the reputa tion of th? University itself. (How many people had ever heard of the University before they heard of its football team?) For a United States University to acclaim fame, all they need do is get a good football coach and several good scouts. (Some foot hall players come to school to learn something) For a poor institution like UNC to spend $70,000 on one football game is dis gusting. (By spending that amount, how much money did the University take in?) All this is to sav nothing against the Di. It is a most honorable organization and already more than one person has learned that it I'as plenty to offer from an educational standpoint. However, next time one of the Di Senators makes up a bill ana presents u ratification, why doesen't he gather the facts? Furman Falls To Tar Heel Five, 59-53 GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb. 10 (fi) Furman University's Palad ins fought valiantly but finally succumbed to North Carolina as the Tar Heels rolled to a 59-53 Southern Conference basketball victory tongiht before some 1,800 fans. . :x -:'-)". '' Tonight's Victory clinched a berth in the Southern Confer ence tournament for the visiting Tar Heels. Carolina now has a ten win and five loss record in Conference play. ' t .. The visitors had the advantage throughout the game but had a rugged night as the keyed-up purples made rally after rally to keep within range of the vaunted Carolinians. Furman deadlocked the score 16-16 shortly before the first half ended. After that they were unable to tie or lead the visitors at any time. North Carolina's rangy Nemo Nearman, currently top individ ual scorer in the- Southern Con ference, had high honors with 21 points. Furman's own ace, ' Lanky Bill Kerr, followed close on" Near man's heels for runnerup laurels with 20 points. The Tar Heels obviously missed the play of two of their starters guard Charlie Thorne and forward Hguo Kappler who are on the ailing list. The Carolina five, which returns to Chapel Hill tomorrow, will hit the road again Monday for an important Conference tilt wit Willima & Mary's surprising In dians in Williamsburg. On Sat urday night, Coach Tom Scott's crew will play host to the strong Blue Devils of Duke in Woollen Gym. THE BOX: North Carolina Tsantes, f Wells, f Patterson, f Nearman, c Bennett, c Deasy, g Turk, g White, g Terrell, g Totals Furman Stafford, f Watson, f Evington. f Ellmers, f Burns, f Kelly, c Edwards, c Kerr, g Thompson, g Pruitt. g Totals Half time Score: Furman 20. Sporting News From Coed Competitors The Town girls handed Pi Phi 3 a 30-0 licking Tuesday in Wo man's Gym Tuesday. Pi Phi tried in vain to score but were held pointless by the strong Town five. High scorer was Phyllis Ferguson who racked up a total of 18 points while Mar garet Ferguson followed up with 9 for the winners. In the other game Alpha Gam 1 emerged the victor . in a 12-6 low scoring thriller with Tri Delt 2. Grenilda Snyder was high scorer with 7 points for Alpha Gam to her credit. GOLF TOURNEY The better ball golf tourna ment, being sponsored by the mural department, will continue this weekend if the weather clears up enough for the contestants to play matches. r FG FS PF TP 3 3 19 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 11 9 3 4 21 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 12 0 0 0 0 1113 1113 23 13 8 59 FG FS PF TP 10 12 0 2 2 2 4 4 3 12 10 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 ,3 4 0 0 0 0 9 2 3 20 0 0 0 0 5 1 3 11 22 9 17 53 North Carolina 24; Coaches Come. Arid Go, But Sarge Still Here By Bill Peacock Coaches may come and go down at Woollen Gym, but it's a good bet that a member of the Keller family will be running the Caro lina Athletic Association , supply room. John Joseph (Sarge) Keller has been boss of the supply room since 1941 and for 30 years be fore him, his father had charge. As head of the supply room, Sarge outfits every athlete in ev ery sport at Carolina. Such a job requires that the tall, former Kentuckian be" able to keep tab on thousands of dif ferent articles, all differing in si2e and many in construction. Just keeping up with all the dif ferent kinds of shoes could well be a full-time job. One side of his large room is lined with shoes of all sports, running in value from football shoes at eighteen dollars to indoor track shoes at four dol lars. An idea of the amount of equip ment -can be gathered from the football team. Every man gets full game and practice equipment, including three pairs of shoes, or close to $140 worth of gear. Sarge could give the housewife a lesson in keeping things order ly. He has all the equipment stacked in neat piles so it may be gotten to easily; he keeps a card on each man eligible to check out equipment and usually knows just how much is out all the time. Naturally enough, he is quite proud of his ability to keep tabs on so much stuff and if something is missing, Sarge says, "We can usually smell it out." When CAA T-shirts began to disappear last spring, Sarge solved the problem by issuing shirts cut off half, way down the chest protection enough for the athletes, but hardly suitable for everyday wear. - Keller picked up the name "Sarge" when he was helping his father, an. old Army sergeant, down at the supply room.. He worked part-time under his fath er while he was still in high school and in 1941 he went on full time and remained after the Navy took over. He saw enough of the Navy to know that the Army was the bet ter deal for him and in August, 1942 he began a 39-months' ca reer with the Infantry. ' Except for that time spent in the service, Sarge has seen eyery basketball game played in Wool len Gym, because he has to be around in case something goes wrong, partly because he's one of Carolina's strongest supporters. Besides his regular ' duties, the good-natured Keller acts as an swer man and host for the gym. Generally there is a crowd down in Room 109 where Sarge holds forth,, expounding on the day's subject with a nasal tone like that of Percy Kilbride. Want to know how an English soccer cleat goes on; how the fish are biting at University ,Lakef what' the trouble with the zone defense is? Ask Sarge. Local Letter men Triumph In Big Four Cage Tourney DURHAM, Feb. 10 (P) Ed- die Washington's field goal from mid-court as the gun went off brought North Carolina a hard earned 40-39 victory over Wake Forest in the championship finals of the inaugural Big Four Mono gram Clubs basketball tourna ment here last night. Kenny Powell, like Washing ton, an end on Carolina's Cotton Bowl football team, gave the Tar Heels a 38-37 advantage with less than a minute to go when he dropped in a field goal. .But Ed Butler, a football end at Wake Forest, converted two free throws when fouled and gave Wake Forest a 39-38 lead with two seconds left to play. Carolina threw the ball in quickly and Washington un corked a desperation shot from mid-court. The gun went off end ing the game with the ball in mid-air but it swished through the hoop to give Carolina its victory. In a consolation game, Duke defeated N. C. State, 46-34. The tournament was held in the Duke indoor stadium and all proceeds from the two-night doubleheader went to the March of Dimes drive. Carolina reached the finals bv Pi-hipping N. C. State, 55-27, while Wake Forest edged Duke 38-36, in Wednesday's first round games. COLLEGE 67 Maryland BASKETBALL . Duke 57 Tar Heels, Duke In Practice Meet This Afternoon Carolina's varsity and fresh man ' tracksters will engage the thinclads of Duke in an informal practice track meet this after noon' in 'the Tin Can. Starting time will be 2 o'clock. Tar Heel Coach Dale Ranson said yesterday that all of the Carolina varsity and freshmen trackmen will compete in the meet today. "Since there will be no official events or points," Ranson said, "we will run all of our men in their respective events." v Ranson pointed out' that it was . necesary for Freshman Coach Dick Maxwell and himself to find out as soon as possible the men who will run in the indoor meet. "Only through act ual competition can we find out what a man can do in a meet;" Ranson added. Competition this afternoon will be in the 60-yard dash, the 70 yard high and low hurdles, the 330, . the 660, the 3,4-mile, the mile and a half, broad and high jumps, pole vault, shot put, and 8-lap relay. Merman Sink Emory, 5 3-31; Thomas Stars ATLANTA, Feb. 10 0P)-With Jimmy Thomas unofficially bet tering one intercollegiate mark and three pool records falling, the University of North Carolina swimming team splashed their way to a fairly eash 53-31 tri umph over Emory's mermen here this afternoon. Swimming over the regulation 25-yard course, Thomas swam through the twelve laps of the 300-yard individual medley in 3 minutes, 25.3 seconds, unoffi cially bettering by one tenth of a second the mark established last spring by LaSalle's Olympic champion Joe Verdeur. New records for the Emory pool were also set by North Carolina in the 300-yard med ley .relay, the 150-yard back stroke and the 270-yard free style. Swimming for the Tar Heels in the medley relay, Norm Sper, Charlie Bartlett and Kent Wil liamson turned in a performance of 3:08.2 to establish a new mark. It was Sper again who set a new record with his perform ance in the , backstroke while Sam McCauley won the 220 in 2: 24.3 for another record. Summary : 300 Yard Individual Medley Jim Thomas, (NO; Cooper, (Emory); Dipoy, (Emorv); Time: 3.25.3. 300 Yard Medley Relay Norm Caro lina Sper, Bartlett, Williamson); Time 3:08.2. 220 Yard Freestyle Sam McCauley, (NC); Cunningham, (Emory); Stone (Emory). Time: 2:24.3. 50 Yard Freestyle Basescu, (NO; Williams. (Emory); Howard (Emory); Time: 25.9. 'Diving Whichard, (NO; Sanders, (Emorv); Byerly. (NO: Points: 94.6. 100 Yard Freestyle Ambler, (NO; Milton, (NO; Sanders. (Emory); Time: 56.6. 150 Yard Backstroke Sper, (NO; Cunningham, (Emory); Van Pelt, (Emory); Time: 1:41.1. 200 Yard Breaststroke Bartlett, ,(NC); Howard (NC); Davis (Emory); Time: 2:44.9. 400 Yard Freestyle Relay Emory won on faulty start. Time 4:9. . 70 Tickets Left For Wolfpack Game The Athletic Ticket office an nounced late last night that only 70 of the 300 tickets for the Carolina-State game Feb. 21 are left and that sales wil close today at one o'clock. Students will not i be able to purchase the tickets at the game and passbooks are not valid for games away from home. Ath letic officials at N. C. State have indicated that the game will be another sellout. Tickets for the Duke-Carolina game here "Feb. 17 may be ex changed for coupon number 30 up until the ticket office closes at one today. After that students will have to pay the regular price. - RAIN OR SHINE The lacrosse squad will 'hold its second! scrimmage on the'Navy field this morning at 10 p. m. come rain or shine. SUMMER COURSES University of Madrid Study and Travel A RARE opportunity to enjoy me-, morable experiences in learning and living! For students, teachers, others yet to discover fascinating, historical Spain. Courses include Spanish language, arjt and culture. Interesting recreational program included. For details, write now lo Spanish Student Tours 500 Fifth Ave., New York; N.Y. After Graduation what will YOU do? Executive Careers in Retailing reward Trained Men and Women Interesting, responsible ' positions in merchandising, advertising, fashion, management, personnel, or teach ing await men and women graduates of the foremost School of Retailing. 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Mrrv.i j more if mil Frosh Five Will Meet W&AA Here Tonight Coach Jim Hamilton's Tar Baby cagers, finally hit by the injury jinx that has kept their varsity mates in check- all year, will go against the strong William and Mary Extension outfit from Nor folk, Virginia, tonight at 8 o'clock in Woollen Gym. With two of their top three re serves definitely sidelined for the game and three of the five start ers on the doubtful list, the local hoopsters are expected to have one of their toughest battles to night. The string, of injuries and ill nesses that has hit the local year lings since the Wake Forest game on Tuesday night has sent two dependable reserves Jippy Car ter and Bob Phillips out of ac tion indefinitely. Carter chipped a bone in one of his fingers in the game with the . Deacons, while Phillips suffered a badly turned ankle during the week. Bud Matldie, first string center, returned to practice yesterday af ter a spell in the infirmary. 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