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Vol No. XXX. Chapel Hill, N.C., November 25, 1921. No. 16
Carolina Wins Annual Clash With Virginia
TAR HEELS TRIUMPH OVER PURPLE
AND ORANGE IN HARD FOUGHT GAME
BEFORE TEN THOUSAND SPECTATORS
Lowe's Twenty-Three Yard
Run Score) Blue and White
Touchdown.
VIRGINIA FIGHTS HARD
Stands and Field Solid Masses of
Humanity Long Before Game Be
gins; Attendance Not Affected.
With breaks against them, ten
thousand people watching and both
teams fighting like Trojans, Carolina
defeated Virginia Thanksgiving day,
7 to 3, in the most gruelling battle
of the season.
The victory was a fitting crown
to the season. Virginia played foot
ball and good football and the rea
son Carolina won was that she played
better football. The Carolina back
field, flashing at times, played a
steady, consistent game, and the gen
eralship of Captain Lowe who with
Johnson, Morris, McGee and Pritch
ard, the bright lights of the game,
was brilliant.
During the course of the first quar
ter Virginia made a brilliant march
down the field and when the Caro
lina line held, Clarke dropped back
and sent over a beautiful drop kick,
drawing first blood. From that time
until near the end of the game, Vir
ginia failed to threaten and then
crossed the Carolina 20-yard line by
the penalty route. A long forward
pass in the last minute of play by
Virginia, dropped inside the Caro
lina goal line and the ball was Caro
lina's on their own 20-yard line.
Carolina's score came as a result
jof beautiful running by the Carolina I
backfield and two forward passes, I
after which Lowe broke through!
tackle with the field strung out and
ran 23 yards for a touchdown while
the Carolina stands went wild. I
Lowe attempted a drop kick in
the last quarter that looked good to
everybody but the referee. The ball
apparently went between the goal
posts, but the referee ruled no goal,
the oval evidently missing by inches.
In the exchange of punts both teams
broke about even wtih Lowe kicking
against Clarke most of the time.
In spite of all the hubbub raised
over Winifred I. Johnson, the Caro
lina halfback, fully 10,000 people
crowded into the enclosure to see
the battle, the controversy between
the two institutions evidently attract
ing more than it turned away.
Thousands of people came through
the country in cars from distant
points, and special trains rolled into
Carrboro all morning, loaded to the
steps with supporters of both teams.
Carolina colors, blue and white, were
predominent, but the dark blue and
orange of Virginia, lashed proudly,
both before and after the game.
The grandstands were seething
masses of color, from the dark red
of jaunty hats to the- darker and
soberer colors of chaperones and pro
testing matrons who were pulled
around by ardent Carolina and Vir
ginia educated husbands or eons.
Hundreds of girls from colleges in
adjacent towns added more color to
the already colorful air. The campus
was permeated long before the game
with Carolina, Virginia and Orange
county spirit. The special train from
the University of Virginia arrived
early in the morning with hundreds
of Virginia rooters, and the big yel
low chrysanthemums of the Virginia
contingent stood out prominently in
the color scheme.
The stadiums were given over to
alumni and friends. On the south
side of the field the Carolina cheer
ing sections were located, and from
that side of the field came most of
the noise. The rhythmatic swing of
the Carolina yells split the air time
after time, and when Lowe broke
loose for the touchdown the whole
south side and most of the other
points of the compass raised Gehenna
proper.
When the final whistle blew the
wire fences were smashed to the
ground and the Carolina student
body swept across the field with the
players hoisted high on willing shoul
ders. The gates were a writhing,
pushing mass of howling and jubulant
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IMPORTANT MEETING
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Four Dormitories and New Classroom
Building Will Be Completed
By Opening Next Fall.
OTHER PLANS ANNOUNCED
HALFBACK JOHNSON
Over Whom the Controversy Was
Raised That Nearly Stopped
Game.
GOES TO N. C. STATE
West Raleigh College Has Clear Title
to Honors Undefeated By
North Carolina Team.
The N. C. State football eleven can
claim a clear title to the state cham
pionship.
N. C. State defeated Carolina.
Many thought that Carolina had the
better team, but the score was 7
to 0, and there is no changing it.
Davidson tied Carolina, 0 to 0, and
N. C. State, 3 to 3, thereby chalk
ing up an enviable record, but their
defeat at the hands of Wake Forest
earlier in the season eliminates them
from the running for state honors.
Representative teams of North
Carolina have played queer football
all season. A glance at comparative
scores shows some really funny
things. N. C. State defeated Caro
lina, 7 to 0, and V. M. I., 7 to 7.
Carolina turns around and beats V.
M. I. by the decisive score of 20
to 7.
Maryland defeated V. P. I., 10 to
7. Carolina defeated Maryland, 16
to 7. State defeated Carolina, 7 to
0, and V. P. I. defeated State, 7 to
3. Another b.idly mixed up bunch
of scores.
Among the secondary schools
Trinity takes the honors by virtue
of holding the best record of the
season. Elon may have some claim, J
but they have been badly handled
by teams defeated by Trinity. Trin-j
ity trimmed Wake Forest by simply '
outnlavine them, and Wake Forest
defeated Davidson by the same
A meeting called for the purpose
of discussing the building situation,
to decide upon the course con
struction will take in the next year,
and to revive what has been done,
has just been held in President
Chase's office here.
It is announced that the two com
mittees, jointly, authorized a class
room building, fireproof and three
stories high. Construction upon this,
the fifth large building to be author
ized, will begin March 1 and will be
finished before the opening of the
fall session of 1922. The four dormi
tories upon which a start has already
been made will be finished August 1.
Present at the meeting were Col.
J. Bryan Grimes, Dr. Richard J.
Lewis, Maj. John W. Graham, W. N.
Everett, Dr. Charles Lee Smith, John
Sprunt Hill, Haywood Parker, Henry
London, President Chase, Dr. W. C.
Coker, and Charles T. Woolen, busi
ness manager of the University.
"We have certainly taken the plus
out of the cost of building at Chapel
Hill," one of the commiteemen said
after the meeting. "We are not in
clined to boast, but I feel that we
have done a piece of work, in prose
cuting the building plans, of which
we may well be proud."
The two committees got from the
architectural and engineering experts
a full report upon results thus far
achieved. One outstanding accom
plishment is that the cost of housing
students in fireproof dormitories has
been brought down to $1,000 per stu
dent, less than half its cost in the
dormitory erected two years ago, and
only $150 a student more than in
a non-fireproof dormitory erected ten
SPEAKS AT
OF
Outlines State Road Policy, Speak
. ing Before Good Size Crowd , ,
at Opening of Highway.
OPENED ON WEDNESDAY
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FIRST YEAR RESERVES
Governor Morrison was the speak
er at the formal opening of the new
Durham-Chapel Hill Highway held
Wednesday afternoon at the New
Hope bridge, immediately following
a luncheon in the Malbourne hotel
of Durham.
Mayors Manning and Roberson, of
the two cities connected, voiced the
appreciation and the joy which the
citizens of the two cities and coun
ties receive at the consummation of
the project that had its beginning
many years ago with the work of a
comparatively small group of pro
gressive citizens. Likewise the pres
idents of the two great colleges, the
University of North Carolina, and
Trinity, congratulated the state and
the counties in the establishing of
this link that will bind the student
bodies of the two institutons closer
together.
The governor n an eloquent ad
dress traced the great progress the
state of North Carolina has made in
the past decade in the way of good
roads. He has ever been a good roads
enthusiast, and he expressed his grat
ification on the completion of this,
one of the most important links in
the comprehensive hgihway programs
that the state has taken upon its
shoulders. Morrison stated that good
roads are essential to the growth of
a community, and to the state, and
that much work is still to be done
along this line. He told of the great
program that will link the mountains
with the sea, in one long state-wide
highway that will be hard-surfaced,
The large federal appropriations for
this purpose were highly com
mended.
Profesosr Coker, of the botany de-
VIRGINIA TEAM'S THREAT TO PLAY ., , ,
GAME WITHOUT OFFICIAL SANCTION
PUTS CRIMP IN CANCELLATION DOPE
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Virginia Committee Digs Up
Ancient History In Attempt
To Prove Case.
AFFAIRS BADLY MUDDLED
Unadapted Clause Was Means by
Which Attempt Was Made to
Disqualify Johnson.
CAPTAIN LOWE
Who Scored Touchdown After Bril
liant Run and Ran Team for Victory.
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MUSICAL CLUBS RENDER
ENTERTAINING PROGRAM
Handicapped By a Late Start, Team! Fa!r Sifed Crowd Hea" Carolina
Comes Out and is Credit to
University.
Musicians Render Program In
Gerrard Hall Tuesday Night.
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Looking back over the freshmen
football schedule, the coach and the
student body can approve of the first
year team. While not winning all
their games, or even a majority of
them, the team has played consistent
football, and under the leadership of
Morrison, has developed some excel
lent material for future varsities.
The game with Bingham was a sur
prise, in that it showed the Bingham:
team to be one of unusual driving
power and strength. The Freshmen
lost, but put up a hard fight and
showed even then unusual possibili
ties which later developed.
Davidson scrubs took the first year
men in the fold by a decided score
only because the freshmen lacked the
experience of the second string wild
cats. The team showed the same
fight and hard work as in the pre
vious game, but lacked experience.
Woodberry proved easy for the
freshmen in the third game of the
season. The team showed remarkable
improvement, ran the offensive well
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Just returned from their fall
itinerary, including all the larger
towns in the western part of the
State, the Musical Clubs of the Uni
versity gave a performance in Ger
rard Hall Tuesday night. The pro
gram, consisting of numbers given by
the Glee Club, the Mandolin-Guitar
Club, the University orchestra, The
Tar Heel Quint, and an original
tabloid opera, "William Tell," was
heard by an appreciative audience.
The honors for the evening were
about equally divided among the
various clubs. Mr. Wiegand's violin
number, "Berceuse," was encored re
peatedly, as was also the work of
the Tar Heel Qint in "Melange
Syncope."
The original one-act tabloid opera,
"William Tell," while rather slow in
spots, was a very good "take-off" on
higher operatics. In it the historic
Tell appears as the discoverer of
limburger cheese, who has affected a
brilliant marriage with a wealthy
widow, the inventor of a self-flopping
CAROLINA HAS SURPRISING
South Carolina's Tie a Surprise and
State's Victory An Upset As
tonishing Comeback Later.
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Carolina's football schedule for
1921 is now a memory except for one
game, the University of Florida game
on December 3.
Surprising is about the only term
that can be applied to the results of
the schedule so far played. When
the team first assembled Carolina
looked good to the entire state, and
was slated for the state champion
ship by pre-season dopesters.
The first game wtih Wake Forest,
played before the majority of the
students arrived on the campus, was
a victory, expected and deserved.
Carolina won 21 to 0, the score just
about as predicted. ,
The Yale game was rather disap
pointing, for although the extreme
optimists thought Carolina might
win, most of the students expected
a defeat but by a smaller score. The
lack of practice on a muddy field,
and the fact that it was muddy on
the Yale field accounted for the
score being larger than expected and
Carolina's failure to score.
The South Carolina game was an
other set back. Many thought Caro
lina should have won by three touch
downs, and it is possible but not
probable that she would have won
by a safe margin had Lowe and John
son started that game. The 7 to 7
tie, while not a defeat, was far from
a win.
Carolina should have won the
State College game, or at least a
tie should have resulted. The opin-
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THE VICTORIOUS CAROLINA TEAM. '
The controversy between the Uni
versity of Virginia and the University
of North Carolina over the eligibility
of Wilfred I. Johnson, Carolina star
half back, which finally resulted in
the game being played with Johnson
in the Carolina line-up, was one of
interest to the whole of two states
and football enthusiasts in general in
the South.
There had been no doubt in the
minds of Carolina students and the
University Athletic Committee as to
the question of, "Johnny" Johnson's
eligibility, he having fulfilled all
qualifications as laid down in the Uni
versity catalogue, and it was only
when a last minute notice was filed
by Virginia authorities protesting his
appearance in the line-up that the
controversy opened. News of Vir
ginia's contention spread on the Uni
versity campus Tuesay morning, and
practically all day Tuesday was spent
in conference between athletic repre
sentatives of both institutions result
ing finally in cancellation of the
game.
Virginia Sends Committee
Representatives of the athletic
committee of the University of Vir
ginia, Drs. Lambeth, Neff, Lefevre
and Lewis arrived in Chapel Hill
early Tuesday morning and went in
session with the University of North
Carolina athletic committee concern
ing Johnson's eligibility, with the
outcome a deadlock. The Virginia
committee claimed Johnson ineligible
according to the contract between the
two Universities, while the Carolina
committee claimed him absolutely
eligible under the provisions of this
contract. The University Faculty
convened in an all afternoon session
and sustained almost unanimously the
ruling of the committee.
A section of the contract around
which the dispute centered and which
was entered into between the two
Universities for th 1921 and 1922
football games reads as follows:
"The eligibility of the University
of North Carolina players shall be
determined in accordance with the
published eligibility rules of that in
stitution. The eligibility of the Uni
versity of Virginia players shall be
determined in accordance with the
published eligibility rules of that in
stitution. The eligibility of the play
ers of both institutions shall conform
to the rules of the Athletic Confer
ence of Southern State Universities."
Virginia claimed that if Wilfred
Johnson played in the Thanksgiving
Day classic the University of North
Carolina would clearly be violating
this clause of the contract. The
Carolina Committee declared that
this clause would not have been
violated and placed the burden of
proof upon the shoulders of the Vir
ginia committee.
1916 Amendment Produced.
The ruling of the Athletic confer
ence of Southern State Universities
organized in 1913, composed of the
five Universities of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
and Tennessee was looked up and
it was shown by the Carolina com
mittee that Johnson was eligible ac
cording to this. The Virginia com
mittee then claimed that an amend
ment had been attached to the
original ruling in a meeting of the
conference in 1916. This amend
ment, which the committee produced,
signed by representatives of the five
Universities including Dr. Herty, the
representative of the University of
North Carolina, reads as follows:
"If a student has participated in
either any intercollegiate football or
baseball contest he shall not be
eligible in the same branch of sport
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