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Thursday, November 24, 1927 THE TAR HEEL Page Nine Carolina Has Won Thirty-four State and Southern Athletic Titles in the Past Six Years Basketball and Track Are Sports Most Replete With Victories. EIGHT SPORT BRANCHES State Track Title Held Six Years in 'Succession and Southern Title Once Indivi dual Stars in All Sports. The six years that have elapsed since the Fetzer brothers came in 1921 have in a sense been a miller.mm for the University athletic hosts. ' During that period the Tar Heels have won thirty-four state and southern titles in eight branches of sport. These fig ures in themselves bespeak the high ability of the University coaching staff and the teams they have sent out. There are two sports in particular in which University athletes have written heir names in' letters of flame over the South's athletic hori zon. Those two branches of sports are basketball and track. Their rec ords on hardwood floor and cinder path will go down in Dixie, athletic annals among, the greatest achieve ments of all time. Four times in six seasons the Tar Heel hoopsters have emerged at the pinnacle of southern basketball, win ning undisputed sway over every court aggregation in the section. Dur ing that same half dozen years when they have been , four times crowned with the' proud title of "Southern Champions," they have also won the state championship ,f our times and tied for it once. Six years in succession Tar Heel track teams have galloped home with the state title laid away in their belts, and in 1926 Coach Bob Fetzer's prote ges brought back the Southern Con ference title after winding over nine teen of the greatest cinder teams in the South. Track Fame "The Tar Heels, in addition to their title winning, proclivities in track, have also hung up a'remarkable rec ord in dual competition. No other team has led the Tar Heels in a dual meet in five years, and only once have they failed to win in triangular meets. The only team to top them at all out side of Southern Conference title meets was 'the strong Navy team of 1925. The cross-country and relay teams operate under separate heads, but they are really a part ' of the broad track program which operates all the year round. In these; too, Carolina has a proud record. The cross-coun try team has been state title-holders three years hand-running, and has not lost a dual meet in four seasons. For the past two years they have hung up Southern Conference crowns in their home trophy room. The four-mile relay team has won the Southern championship and has held the southern record for three straight years, now, and next spring dope indicates that the Tar Heels have fine chances to win the World's cham pionship and set up a new world's record, breaking one that has stood for twelve long seasons. ' Other Sports However, it must not -be thought that the University is represented in these sports alone, for there are many other teams that have "brought "the breakfast strips home to the Hill." The Tar Heel football teams have won three state, championships in six years and the, "Wonder Team of; 1922'; tied with Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt for Southern Conference crown. That famous eleven was undefeated in the South and lost only to Yale in the "Eli Bowl" by a close margin. Other, titles have been won in base ball, tennis, wrestling, and boxing. For several years Carolina tennis stars held a monopoly on tennis Hon ors throughout this section. In 1923 the Tar Heels won first , and second place in the Souttfern Conference tour nament, and the two Carolina teams came back here to play for the south ern championship before their -own supporters. ' - i ' Baseball v" f Too, the college baseball fans wilf remember for years to come some of the famous baseball nines that sport ed Carolina colors in those years. The 1922 team was particularly brilliant. It began the season with many of the 1921 State Champions back in the ;f old and literally ran wild, over some of the strongest , college teams in the East and South. . Their outstanding feat was a score less series against the Virginia Cava liers, for they met and shwt-out the Virginians in three straight games. "Lefty" Wilson began" the good work on Emerson Field here with a 6 to 0 . victory.- Herman Bryson won a 4 to 0 decision in the annual Greensboro classic, and Captain Manly Lewellyn had a' last flin? at the Cavaliers on Fighting Tackle ;-.-.y. - - 4--, , - f Nelson " Howard, of Tarboro, has been alternating with Ad, Warren at right-tackle throughout the season. He has piayed consistent,, hard-hitting football and will be a valuable lines man to remain in next year's squad. their own -grounds and won 7 to 0. Incidentally Lewellyn was perhaps the greatest pitcher to ever don Car olina diamond togs, for he won twenty-five games and lost . two over his four years of varsity competition. He went directly to the New York "Yank ees" from Carolina after that great 1922 season.- - Other baseball heroes of recent Tar Heel diamond history include such men as "Mule" Shirley, who stayed with the Washington "Senators" for two seasons as a reserve first sacker The "mule" was an artist around first sack in his college days and partici pated in the World Series in his first year out of college. He was called upon to pinch-hit for the Washington club in a crucial moment of the 1924 series and came through with a single to win the game and aid Bucky Har ris' men in winning that year's World Championship. ' "Rabbit" Bonner was another color ful athlete who cavorted over the base ball field for Carolina. He was a brilliant outfielder and catcher, begin ning his time in the gardens and cap taining the nine f rQm behind the bat in 1925. He also starred in football, for his phenominal speed made him one of the most feared halfbacks in the state in 1924 and 1925. Football and Basketball Each "year when the All-State and AH-Southern teams are chosen by sports scribes after the various sea sons are over, the Tar Heels draw their fair share of these mentions on the "Honor Rolls of the. Diamond, Court, and 'Gridiron." Almost every year there are four or five Tar Heels on the All-State football elevens, an occasionally one of the more brilliant attain -All-Southern or All-American mention. The roll of Carolina's All-State and All-Southern football stars for the past six years would read like a list of gridiron immortals of this section There appear the names of "Runt' Lowe, "Monk" McDonald, Fred and Casey Morris, Grady Pritchard, Bill Blount, Allen McGee, "Pondy" Poin dexter, Herman Mclver, George Rob inson, "Red" Johnston, "Rabbit" Bon ner, Emmett Underwood, Jack Mer- ritt, Harry Schwartz, Garrett More head, and Tom Young. All of them All-State players, and. many, of them All-Southern. Pritchard, Blount,' Mc Iver, . Johnston, and Robinson were named All-Southern, and the last three were mentioned for All-American Just a single glance, at Carolina's basketball rosters since 1922 . is suffi cient to show theV greatest players .ever produced in the South. Four times in that six years intervening they have won the southern title, and of a possible thirty places on All Southern, teams "the Tar Heels have filled fourteen. -;.-'' :- -i ;. . - "Wonder Quint of 1924" ' "Cart" Carmichael " was All-Southern .for .three , consecutive years and in ' 1 9241 made the- All-American five at . forward. : . Incidentally that 1924 team-was considered the greatest quintet of hoop stars to ' ever go out of the- South. It romped undefeated through a" schedule of twenty-six games that include contests with many strong eastern outfits, and at the con clusion of the Southern Conference tournament it placed three men on the All-Southern team. Morgan Blake, "Dean of Southern Sports-Writers," said of them, "Just trot out the entire Carolina team and its substitutes, and there's my All Southern team." . ' ' Every regular on .J that team was All-Southern for two or more years during his varsity .career. : "Cart" Carmichael and "Sprat" Cobb,' for ward; Bill Dodderer, center; and "Monk" McDonald and Billy Devin, guards. . Individually and collective ly, what a team! Cobb was on the team three years, led the squad in season scoring for hree years, led the Southern Confer ence Tournament scoring for three years, and was unanimous choice for All-Southern forward for three years. That is a record which will probably never' be equalled. That list, however, does not include such brilliant -hoopsters as Artie New- combe, who jumped from a substitute to All-Southern center in the last two weeks of the 1926 season, nor Bunn Hackney and "Pinky" Morris, All Southern guards and captains of the quints, of 1927 and 1928. There have been heroes in other sports, too, such as Ad Warren, "Ox" Shuford, Ed Butler, Galen Elliott and Hoyt Pritchett. Warren is a three- sport man, who concludes his -career today in the annual battle with Vir ginia. He has starred in boxing, wrestling and football. He is the only man in the history of the Uni versity to captain four varsity teams. He led the boxers three straight years and captained the wrestlers last sea son. He won national junior titles in both the light-heavy and heavy weight boxing divisions in 1926. Along with Shuford and Butler he helped bring three southern titles back to the "Hill" last spring as members of Carolina's undefeated boxing team. Elliott and Pritchett, captains of the cross-country and track teams re spectively, are in their third year of varsity competition, and have been on five southern championship teams. They may be on two more next spring. In addition Elliott holds the southern record of 4 minutes 21.2 seconds for the mile and the Conference mark for five miles. He also holds the state and University record for the half. His record mile in 1926 gave him "All- American" horfors that summer. Pritchett holds the southern record of 9 minutes 48 seconds for two miles. An All-State Selection Is . Offered by Tar Heel on Date of Season's Close V breaks into the limelight, but causes his opponents a world of trouble. Jones of Duke and Melton of David son will play guards on the 'second aggregation. , ; : Centers Schwartz is an ideal choice for the pivot position. Metts of State, just a little better than Brummit of Duke, is placed on the second team. " Quarterbacks 7 Sam Buie of Duke, although he fell down considerably in his two big games with State and Carolina, is easily the most outstanding field gen eral. The whole Duke attack was built Tip around his ability to punt, pass, and carry the ball. iWilson of Davidson is placed on the second team as a tribute to his braininess.' Halfbacks McDowall, as mentioned above, will play one half. Young of Carolina has the edge on Cox of Wake Forest, Cox might be a better ball carrier, but Young is far and away the best defensive half seen in many a year, blocks better than any back in the state, is a wonder at catching passes and in his last two games has un corked a powerful running game that has drawn lots of admiration Gray of Davidson is another good half , and was an outstanding player ' in every one of Davidson's games. x Fullbacks Jankoski of Duke is a splendid lit tle ball carrier that can drive with the best of them. As a defensive full he is probably surpassed by Warren of State, bu Jankoski's feat of scoring TrrrrrrrrrrrT" v almost a hundred points during the year is proof positive of the little fellow's worth and he will play the fullback position on the first team. H H xx n 8 kfter the Game Drive over to Durham and have your Thanksgiving dinner ff V v.;:-;v'' --at- ';,..:;. :-.'.:;.;v' ; , ' f WELCOME-IN ' Where Things to Eat are Different - Opposite Washington-Duke Hotel 8 H H Congratulations Carolina -o- 8 RUCKER BONDED WAREHOUSE General Storage -Greensboro, N. C. (Continued from page eight) olina, Lepo of State, and Phelps of Wake Forest were all on a par as far as defensive power is concerned, but Morehead gets the call because of his wealth of experience and admir able cleverness. Lepo, only a sopho more, will bear watching. - Guards It was not difficult to select the guards, as both Farris of Carolina and Nicholson of State have been con sistently good. Farris is the sensa tional type of guard and Nicholson is the steady, smart player who rarely ere for a Quarter of a Century It was just about twenty-five years ago that Gooch's Cafe opened and became a part of student life at Carolina. Now, more than ever, Gooch's is the place about which students revolve the first place in the morning and the last place at night. s During this quarter of a century Gooch's has made hundreds of friends and we are glad to welcome them all back to the "Hill" today and all the days to come. , Dine with us today and enjoy one of the finest Thanks- - giving spreads imaginable. . n I! : : . - it il ii i! : il' : i! W f f f f 88 Ain 9t It a Grand and Glorious Feelin By BRIGGS WHtN Your. Besx beao wamts You Tc ,MC-r HlS FOLKS , AND isvn-es Yol To Their noose FOR "HAvMK.S3IVirNS OlNllsJER. AWE -HIS PftReMTS THINKS, FoRTHSlf. VAJ AUTh - anp Yoj wiAoe through MIMCE Pie AMD PLUl PyDDtisiG - ANJTi APTER.;DESSRT ' You LON6 To 'A' CISAR6TTI- BUT ARE APRAvD or SHOCKiniG HS "RELATIVES A "AMD Thm HIS CSRANiDioTHEl. Admits That MtR CHIEF BLESSING COMES (N) THE F&Rn of old golds . I'm Thankful That JlXT - . - - I'M BROAD MINDED feSSil ' 1 - what a Relief For MY ifi T txJ1 f y ' f2l-x eKTHROAT- not . 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