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Tuesday, Nnvw 29, 1956 Ti!K RUI.Y TAH- HEEL Page 5 By -The Hickey Era Ends- Dennis Sanders I : DTH Sports Writer Names Make News - NAMES make news. And a good many popped up oyer the Thanksgiving holidays. JIM HICKEY probably popped loudest, although the now ex-North Carolina coach did nothing that wasn't expected. He merely resigned to become ath letic director at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, Conn. Salary? Supposedly $21,000 per year, a $3,000 jump over his reported earnings at UNC. . The move came after 11 years at Chapel Hill, .three as assistant to the late Jim Tatum and eight as 2ad coach. The record was a weak 36-45, but it in luded Carolina's first bowl win, 35-0, over the Air 'orce in the 1963 Gator Bowl. Hickey's 1966 edition ent 2-8, and it was a good time to bow out. : Immediately, names of rumored replacements for lickey began flying around, including Oklahoma as istant PAT JAMES, Notre Dame aide JOHN RAY, Georgia Tech assistant BUD CARSON (a former as sistant at Carolina) and George Washington head nan JIM CAMP. s : Also, Wake Forest coach BILL TATE.who's done onders with the Deacons' football program, some; ay, would be a good man to lure to Chapel Hill, i The best bet? North Carolina will name an in terim coach, for a year, and will search for the right man to handle the football program carefully. Offen ive. coach JOE MARK and offensive assistant ACE PARKER have been mentioned for the one-year stand, but Parker lacks a college degree, and that is sup posedly one of the reasons he is at Carolina now, not Duke. Parker's status, like Carolina's other assistants, may be in jeopardy. When Duke football experienced a coaching turnover last year, Parker was edged out by Tom Harp, who preferred his own assistants. Caro lina's new coach may feel the same way. It might mean that Parker, who held one job at Duke for 19 years, will look for his second in less than two years. Talbott, Riggs, Wood . . . It was not altogether a bare season. Defensive end BO WOOD, and guard JIM MASINO made the Greensboro Daily News All-State team for 1966, and honorable mention plaudits went to end CHARLIE CARR, tackle HANK SADLER, and backs DANNY TALBOTT and DAVE RIGGS. Talbott's case is an interesting one. A year ago, the Tar Heel dandy was ACC "Player of the Year.". But injuries cut him down during the season, and to day he is relegated to honorable mention. NORTH CAROLINA popped up in the pre-season 1 asketball polls, ninth in the UPI, list and 15th in, the JP prediction. DUKE,' though; zipped in higher: the AP sees the Blue Devils as the nation's fourth best 1 2am, and so does UPI. Reason? BOB REIDY, MIKE LEWIS, BOB VERGA . . . et al. Vic Bubas is a good let to win 20 for the seventh consecutive season. Adolph Rupp, move over. Sloan, Tyler .. 'Continued from Page 1) Included among trie wins were four big ones 50-0 over Duke in his first season, 14-3 over Ohio State last year, and 21-7 over Michigan this season. Carolina also defeat ed Notre Dame m 1960. Original pians called for Hic key to announce his resigna tion which he tendered to Erickson following Carolina's 21 - 14 loss to Virginia Satur day at 5 p.m. Sunday, but Connecticut announced the move at 11 p.m. Saturday. That announcement from Storrs, Conn.; home of the University, followed an 8 p.m. phone call to Hickey during which final agreement was reached. After making the announce ment, Hickey issued a state ment which said: "As you well know, I have enjoyed my 11 years at the University and will look upon them as the best years of my life." Erickson, who now must take part in the selection of a new coach as rapidly, yet as thoroughly, a possible to keep recruiting on an even keel, said: "We regret losing Mr. Hick ey, who has been a member cf our staff 11 years. Mr. Hic key has always represented the University well, and we wish him every success in his new position." Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son accepted the Hickey re signation "with regret. Be cause of my high personal re gard for him and his family, I especially regret his leav ing the University." The Hickey family consists of his wife, the former Pat Foss of Wooster, Ohio, and four daughters. A native of Springdale, Pa., Hickey plaved his college foot ball at William and Mary where he was a halfback. He served two and a half years on a Navy destroyer during World War II. On The VNC Basketball Gallery North Carolina opens its 66-67 basketball season on Thursday, December 1 against Clemson in Carmichael Auditorium. This week the Daily Tar Heel presents pictures and profiles of the men who'll make the fortunes on the hardwood in a UNC BASKETBALL GALLERY. : k'' "A I ' Jim Bostick Jim Bostick 6'3" 185 pound sophomore from Atlanta, Ga. Carolina's second Morehead Scholar on the basketball team. Was the frosh's sixth man last year. Averaged 8.5 mostly in relief roles. Saw a lot of action. Being switched Jfrom forward to guard. Bostick is much improved over last year. Good outside marksman. Hit 54 of his shots for frosh. Really gets up on jump shot. Extremely competitive. Adequate defend er. At 6'3" can give big men a battle under the boards. Joe Brown Joe Brown 6'5" 195 pound sophomore from Valdese, N.C. Was a steady performer for last year's frosh. Averaged 11 points a game. Best shooting on team with 59.4. Could be all around star. Third in re bounding behind Clark and Bunting. Brown has good moves un der the basket. Accurate shooter. Works well in close and on fast breaks. Needs some improvement at foul line. Hit only 44.6 last year. Will play some ball this year. Possible replacement for Bunt ing or Miller. Improve over frosh year. Can be 1st rate de fender with experience. Treadmill By SANDY TREAD WELL A Man Named Rickey When the late Jim Tatum won a big football game, he threw a big party. Close friends, reporters and freeloaders would all attend the open house cele bration. When the drinks were flowing Tatum would make his grand entrance almost as if accompanied by the roll of drums and his followers would cheer the conquering king of Carolina football. Suddenly, the king died. The job of carrying on fell into the hands of a different sort of man, a man named Jim Hickey. After Hickey's team upset nationally ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor this fall, he came home and went to bed. . " That's the way Hickey was. There was no big show about him. There were no grand entrances. There were no celebrations in victory and no tears in defeat. When the Tar Heels, playing without quarterback Danny Talbott, lost a heartbreaker to Wake Forest, someone asked Hickey whether the presence of a healthy Talbott would have made the difference. "That wouldn't be fair to say," he replied. "Wake Forest played good football. I don't; want to take any thing away from their victory." , After the Clemson game Frank Howard looked back over his team's runaway win and said, "Jim Hickey is a fine man. He's a good friend. There are a lot of coaches I'd rather beat." ; Hickey never made excuses after a ball game. He never cried about the calls or the opponents. He was quietly dignified. Coaches liked him because he never took any thing away from anyone. They liked his honesty and his sincerity. To the world outside the practice field and be yond the sidelines, Jim Hickey was always a nice guy. He Expected Too Much The coach was the same with his players. He treated each one of them as a man. He as sumed that they would have pride in themselves. He expected them to try their hardest during practice, scrimmages and for sixty long minutes on Saturday afternoon. He assumed they would love the game of football as he loved it. ... , So Hickey left the emotional element, the desire j "-Mil i , .... .... . .. ., f..-,, o r 7 '-''-- - III - ; - - ' LJ , ... . - - A New State coach NORMAN SLOAN, an alumnus of the Raleigh school, will find the going rough min us the "Pittsburgh Pickpocket," as Eddie is called. But next year . . . Biedenbach will back, better than ever, and Sloan's sophomores will have matured. And, finally, there is AL TYLER, 6-2, 195-pound quarterback who made the Daily News All-State team as a representative, of . . . would you believe LIVING STONE COLLEGE? It is, they say, at Salisbury. But Tyler is a nifty passer . . . he hit 174 of 338 tosses for 2,449 yards and 29 touchdowns. All of which means only one thing: in a month, he will slip out of the state and wind up somewhere like, say, the Big Ten. Fayetteville's Jimmy Raye did. y . f '' - Tit 'r3?k h , 5 4 " THE FIRESIDE GIRL OF THE WEEK 3 -j p. f.TT I Ease?? M I II li . . . a f S .i r? . .! . j 1 1 - . v . ' . lis fe; S . I 4 KATHY WELLS, an Alderman Dorm resident from Chapel Hill, wears a double-breasted Aus trian Import in loden green from THE FIRESIDE. 1 k . TV; .r Bi7 Bunting Bill Bunting 6'8" 195 pound sophomore from New Bern. Made over 50 of shots as a froshman last year. As five others, will have to make transition from frosh to var sity. A top rebounder. Aver aged 15 points a game. Good from foul line. - Bunting is good at following up shots and crashing the boards. Agressive defensively. Very quick for tall man. Re bounding could suffer from lack of weight. Really scraps for rebound or loose ball. Fine student of the game. Willing worker. Lack of beef makes durability questionable. v MO MO) (ftp A DINING ( eVk ROOM Luncheon Special for Today oat Loaf 17Toniaio Saoco Choice of Two Vegetables Salad w Dressing Beverage Bread & Butter Homemade Layer Cake 97c JIM HICKEY takes a last look at Carolina football during the Virginia game last Satur day. DTH Photo By Ernest H. Robl to win, up to the players themselves. He rarely gave a rip-roaring pep tak before a game because he wasn't that sort of man and he didn't believe in that ap proach to football. : But Jim Hickey expected too much. There were a lot of individuals on this year's squad who loved the game of football and who gave a hundred per cent plus to win. 1 But there were others who just went through the motions players only interested in collecting their scholarship checks as the weeks and losses crept by. Other coaches might have demanded more from these boys. If the freeloaders didn't respond, they might have found themselves off the team. But Hickey walked around the practice field and quietly observed his assistants putting the squad through its drills. Perhaps the underlying reason for Carolina's fail ure in football and Hickey's failure as a head coach is explained by his attitude towards his players. Maybe this intangible reason explains why, des pite Hickey's knowledge of the game and his talented personnel, he could only manage one winning season in eight tries at Carolina. The students and alumni expect winners. That's why a man's future is determined by the cold imper sonal figures in a record book. They demanded Hickey's resignation. They be gan demanding it in 1964, just one year after he gave North Carolina its only bowl championship. Last Saturday night they finally got it. A Sad Commentary If you read the story of Jim Hickey's career at Carolina, a moral emerges as a sad commentary on collegiate athletics. ; v Jim Hickey: is a nice guy, but there isn't a place for nice guys among big time college coaches. Leo Durocher coined the phrase, "Nice guys fin ish last." Jim Hickey's story makes Durocher's time worn statement ring with somber truth. . - - , Saturday In Kenan Belonged To Virginia's Frank Quayle Rusty Clark Rusty Clark-6'10" 228 pound sophomore from. Fayetteville. For the frosh, hit 59 of bis shots and averaged 20 points a game. Led team in rebound ing with 13 a game. All-state in high school. A Morehead Scholar. Clark maneuvers well around basket. Needs to work on explosive jumping power. Will supply needed height. Will help defense under the basket, blocking shots and forcing shots over him. Need for experience. Could blossom into top rebounder in ACC. Good passer for big man. Comes through with some fine assists. By DENNIS SANDERS DTH Sports Writer It was, by anyone's stand ards, Frank Quayle's after noon in Kenan Stadium Sat urday. The sophomore halfback kicked his heels and scored all three Cavalier touchdowns as Virginia handed North Car olina a 21-14 defeat. It was the third straight year the Virginia team had beaten Car olina. For the Tar Heels, it was a dismal close to a dismal 2-8 season, and it was only six hours later at 11 p.m. that the announcement of Jim Hickey's resignation was re leased. For Coach George Black burn's Cavaliers, it was an afternoon of justice: "In my 30 years of coaching," he said after the win, "I've never been associated with a team that kept coming back from adversity like this one. Now, we have been rewarded." It was Virginia's fourth win, against six losses, and . that is how they finished a year ago. Their 3-3 ACC mark was considerably better than Carolina's 1-4, good enough for the league cellar. - For Tar Heel quarterback Danny Talbott, it was the end of what might have been were it hot for the injuries he suffered a banner senior season. The Rocky. Mount sen-, ior hit 22 of 38 passes for 220 yards, but he had two inter cepted, and they were costly. In addition, Talbott rushed for 63 yards in 10 snaps, a 6.3 average. Virginia wasted no time, taking the opening kickoff and moving 56 yards in 11 plays. The momentum carried them from their own 19 to the UNC 25. where the drive fizzled. There were' no significant dents in either defense until, with 4:18 left in the first half, Carolina's Canadian half back Dick Wesolowski capped a 48 yard drive with a TD plunge from the five. Bill Dodson added the first of his two conversions. But the halftime score was 7-7, thanks largely to a quick, eight - play, 74 - yard Cavalier scoring romp. The Virginians drove from their own 26 to the UNC 23, where on first and i0 m -tcl J DANNY TALBOTT during his final sixty minutes of football at Carolina. DTH Photo by Ernest H. Robl. This Happened To YouT? Come To rMin's BODY SHOP For Complete, Expert Body Repair. Always Prompt Service and Free Estimates. r.iAnirs Painting and Repair 515 South Greensboro St. Carrboro Call 942-3052 10 Quayle shot through his own right tackle, cut back across the field and broke, enough tackles to reach the end zone. Early in the second half, Dave Riggs fumbled a pass reception at the UNC 38, and UVA's Randall Harris pounced on the ball. On the third play in the series, Quayle hit right tackle again, went for 30 yards, and Virginia had the go-ahead score with 12:38 left in the third period. They traded series until with 3:47 left in the third quarter Talbott sneaked over from the one, -and it was 14-14 and a new ball game. Quayle, however, burst that bubble quickly. No thanks to the officials who tried and did swipe a down from the Cavaliers. It was third and one at the Carolina 4 with almost 15 minutes left in the game when the officials made it fourth and one. It was all the offi cials' math. . .Virginia, from first down, had run two plays, but the officials' word is law. Quayle cared not. He took the "fourth down" h a n d o f f -from Bob Davis and burst four yards for the winning score. And despite a Carolina drive to the Cavalier 20, it ended when Stetter intercepted a Jeff Beaver pass at the UVA three and returned it to the 19. It was the end to a long season in Chapel HilL i ' '-'s&f'l vvv r HONDA FALL SALES BIG SAVINGS on Many, Many, Many NEW and USED BIKES opeq wm m 616 W. Chapel Hill St. DURHAM HONDA V
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