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TMit - States' Game Yfas Colorful 'Event ports SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1941 Dukes Run Rough Shod Over Demon Deacons Johnny Perry Dashes 95 Yards For Touchdown Duke Stadium, Durham, Sept. 27 A powerful Duke football team, flash ing brilliantly in nearly every de partment of the game, rode rough shod over a battling gang of Wake Forest Deamon Deacons here this af ternoon before a crowd of 18,000 fans. The final score read 43-14.. Coach "Wallace Wade fused almost every player on the Duke bench 43 in all in subduing the Baptists. The Blue Devils counted six touchdowns, five extra points and a safety to ac count for their scoring and the Wake Forest points came on a sensational 95 yard jaunt by Sophomore Johnny Perry from a kickoff and the other touchdown was also scored by Perry when he smothered J. V. Pruitt's pass ir the end zone. Perry hails from Raleigh and was the Deacons' .one way pass here today. Powerful Steve Lach set up the first Duke tally when the highly tout ed Blue Devil galloper grabbed Red Cochran's pass near the opening of the fist quarter on the Baptists' 30 yard line and ran on down to the 7 yard marker before he was tackled. See DUKE, page 4 Stronger Harriers Needed To Defend Conference Title The Carolina cross country team, desperately in need of new talent, faces a long, hard pull if it is to de fend its Southern conference cham pionship this year. A Southern conference meet with out the Blue and White harriers of UNC leading the pack is a rare sight iueed, but such may be the 'case this year unless a group of new track stars are uncovered by Coach Ran son. Since Dale Ranson took over the reins of the Carolina harriers in 1926, the Tar Heels have been consistent winners in both Southern Conference track and cross country meets. Be hind such cross country stars as Bill Hendrix and Fred Hardy, among others, the Carolina teams have taken all but four conference championships. The Tar Heels haven't tasted defeat in a conference cross country meet since 1935 when they bowed to the Duke Blue Devils.' Occasions upon which Duke has returned victorious are few and far between, however, and the Carolina cross country record is See CROSS COUNTRY, page U Joe Austin's Pass Catching Is Highlight Continued from first page) pass on the 15, wheeled sharply to the left and outraced Clary to score stand ing up. Harry Dunkle placekicked the point and the Tar Heels went ahead 7-6. The drive started from the 50. After an exchange of punts and O'Hare's 10 yard runback, Clay Croom in two plays carried the ball to the South Carolina 33. A Croom to Pecora reverse carried the ball to the 25 and then Connor pass ed to Pecora after one line play had gained two yards. The third quarter ended shortly af ter. South Carolina didnt waste much time in coming back with the winning touchdown. After six series of downs, South Carolina got the ball on its 34 and then Stasica went into action for the winning score. On the passing end of .the game, the Tar Heels held a decided advantage, but the Gamecocks were always able to intercept the tosses at the appropriate moments. South Carolina got its first touch down on a drive which started from the North Carolina 35 when Stasica inter cepted O'Hare's pass. With a nice bit of open-field run ning, Stasica ran the ball to the North Carolina 19. A pass to Clary carried the ball to the 14 and then Clary, follow ing almost perfect, interference, scored from the 14-yard line. Statistics SC NC First Down? 12 8 Yards gained rushing 337 98 Yards lost rushing 45 17 Net yardage rushing 292 81 Passes attempted v 5 27 Passes completed 2 10 Yards gained passes ...... 31 138 Passes had intercepted 1 4 Yards gained intercepted passes . 34 3 Number of punts 11 9 Aver, distance of punts -.33.0 37.0 Number of fumbles 3 1 ' Own fumbles recovered 1 0 Yards gained all kicks returned 80 72 Number of penalties 10 5 Yards lost penalties 80 35 Send the DAILY TAR HEEL home PEPPER. AlARTIft JUST ABOUT BEAT PHILADELPHIA I WMSELFWTHE 31 WORLD SERIES SCOREDS DUsJCl RAT-TED ihSahdstoue 5 BASES IT MiSWT SURPRISE you 7b KNOW . CHRISTY Wathswsow LOST 5 SERIES GAMES WEARS! VVN& -7 ftlMV III - A il I A I m f Ml II MMUilllWl.MI bfki" tfMUllIC if 7 43 f w x J I . . - X W.wC ZZ7X tf W V gag ULA& , L 'J. vv I U TO I H !! ..-..-.v.:.--:.; y-x-'. . "-y :-:-:-:' r ; ..,J-. ' ' , " " v , , T - - s -X i T i r i i if -1 i it -rf"-,- -iltiiiYr'-Vnliaiii'- -r"- ianMr ' ' -- --- JOHNNY PECORA, fleet-footed wingback, scored the only Tar Heel touch down in yesterday's 13-7 defeat. He snagged a bullet pass from Roy Con nor in the third period on the 13-yard line and drove on across for the tally. Individual Statistics No. Rushes Yds. Lost Net Ave. AI Grygo 11 87 1 86 7.8 Stan Stasica. 11 118 6 112 10.2 Ken Roskie 11 60 12 . 48 4.4 Buford Clary 3 39 9 24 8.0 Clay Croom 4 33 0 33 8.3 Hugh Cox .... 16 33 12 21 . 1.3 Johnny Pecora 3 7 0 7 2.3 4 CftWviiP I.UCK SURPRISED EVERY- f RCKINO TUB LITTLE 6Ja ard ehmke START THE I929j SERIES Howard surprised EVERYONE IHTURNiL STRUCK ourm w CUBS lOSSTA Furniture For Your Dormitory Room ; Easy Chairs Typewriter Desks Student Lamps from $5 $5.95 ' 9c B. & J. KOSE FURNITURE CO. Phone L-5431 Durham, N. C. 106 W. Parrish St. Undergrads Must Register Monday For Physical Ed Every , male undergraduate student who hasn't registered for physical edu cation and fails to do so either tomor row or Tuesday will be subject to a fine, it was announced yesterday. All undergraduate men are required to take two classes of physical educa tion and engage in 100 minutes of ad ditional activity every week. The reg ulation was passed in the summer of 1940 by the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. Physical examinations will be re quired of all men registering for phys ed class. Basket room assignments may be secured in the basket room after registering between 8 o'clock in the morning and 6:15 at night. Officials Needed Examinations for those interested in officiating intramural tag football games will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in Woollen gymnasium. Mural Managers Urged to Meet Schnell Monday . Entries in three intramural sports tag football, handball and water polo are scheduled to be made at a meeting of all intramural mana gers in 303 Woollen gymnasium to morrow night at 7:30 o'clock. . All organizations are urged to be represented at the meeting and be ready to make their entries, said Her man Schnell, director of intramurals. Gridiron Scores Duke 43, Wake Forest 14. Virginia 25, Lafayette 0. " Kentucky 37, VPI 14. Michigan 19, Michigan State 7. Ohio State 12, Missouri 7. Purdue 0, Vanderbilt 3. Notre Dame 38, Arizona 7. Georgia 81, Mercer 0. Navy 34, William & Mary 0. NYU 35, Penn Military College 7. Boston College 7, Tulane 21. Minnesota 14, Washington 6. Dartmouth 35, Norwich 0. Gamecocks Offer Technicolor Tilt For Tar Heel Fans By Sylvan 3Ieyer Two kinds of newspaper stories usually follow a football game. One is the straight news-sports play-byplay account of the match. The other is called a "color" story. It is sup posed to render a featurized review of the game, the crowd, the noise, the tension of a bog gridiron day. f This is a color story. There was a lot of color at yester day's ball game with the Gamecocks from the state in which it is a long time from North Carolina drinks be tween. Excitement, defeat. On the other side of the stands an all afternoon gaze into a lowering sun, excitement, conquest. Curry Jones, head cheerleader, spent a trying afternoon trying to convey to a lethargic grandstand some of his spontaneous rhythm, his inexhausta ble pep while his crew of co-cheerers exhorted the crowd without success to "let 'em know you're here!" South Carolina turned out to be a tough foe. Tar Heel rooters were shocked but found lungs aplenty when their blue-and-white clad gridsters threatened to shove the pigskin over that thin lime line. Across Kenan stadium the pines and bell tower looked like a painted drop, and those straight, sombre pines that have seen so much football in their greening days brooded yester day as a gallant Carolina team, pep py, fighting, valiant getting a few breaks, losing a few just failed to click, just couldn't manage to break a not-so-thin red line for the im portant putsch. Soon as the game was over the in evitable prognostications about the Duke game, a little mourning, but the collective conclusion that North Car olina had come up against the best squad her southern sister has bred in many years.. Tarzan, the buxom lad who has been the spleen of Carolina's rooting sec tion for hundreds of successful en counters, was missing. His mighty rebel yell rang not over the stands, somehow different for this game, per haps because of the great number of coeds rampant on wooden benches, certainly because of the khaki-clad battalion across the field blending al most into the color of the stadium, making a complementary theme of brown and grey against the green beyond. This is a color story. The indefatiguable lad in our stands who shouted as USC intercepted the last pass of the game, "Get that ball, get that ball!" . . . the lady who an nounced that her offspring should meet her in 25 Steele after the con test . . . hoarse cheerleaders, "nigger yells" full of contagious rhythm . . . the "our team is red hot" interspersed as always with the "Beat Dook" chant . . . the perennial tossing of cough drops into the multitudes . . . the slop ing green . . . the red striped britches . . . the groans and the cheers . . . the inexplicable feeling that the crowd See COLOR, page U Chuck Erickson Starred During Collegiate Days Scatback Erickson Set Unequaled Precedent By Horace Carter It was back in 1928-29 when Carolina had the team of a hundred backs that today's varsity backfield coach Charles Perry Erickson sparkled on the Tar Heel gridiron. It was then that a performer that was of All-American calibre on certain days could do no more than play third string halfback for the University. Chuck, as Erickson is known today, was never able to clinch a first string berth even if he did run wild his soph omore and junior years but still he was chosen as Carolina coach over all con tenders in 1937 when he took over the varsity backfield reins for a season, af ter having been connected with the. coaching staff since graduation. In those '2S-29 days when Carolina had the teams of numerous backs, Chuck ran wild on occasion during his sophomore year and then came that graduating season, and he played in only one game and failed to score a single point all season. Now in 1928, Scatback Erickson set a precedent that is still accepted as a feat unequaled in Tar Heel history. The Thanksgiving day traditional bout with Virginia was the game and the final count on that afternoon read 24-20 Carolina, and Chuck scored the win ning touchdown on a pass from Jimmy Ward that was good for 35 yards. The precedent was that Charlie played four different positions that afternoon, in cluding three backfield spots and an end position, which he was holding down at the time he snagged the scor ing aerial. Then came what has always been the foremost gridiron bout in the South ern conference, the Duke Blue Devil game, and again Erickson blossomed out this time with a 35 yard slice over right tackle for the score that beat the Dukes by 14 to 7. Then came the team that is really the one hailed as the "team of a hundred backs" 1929 and Erickson was one of that t'100." In the first game of that '29 season, he pulled an almost impossi ble feat when he reversed his field four times in a touchdown run in the open ing fray with Wake Forest and the team went on to win by a 48-0 score. A few weeks after that Demon Dea con rout, the N. C. Ccate game turned up and again Charlie placed with the speedsters of the day, this time with See ERICKSON, page U fW - - - r j bj "jL i THE GREAT NEGRO SINGER All ROBESON 1U B. N. DUKE AUDITORIUM NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR NEGROES DURHAM, N. C. Monday Evening October 65 1941 At 8:00 Season Tickets: $6.00 Reserved Seats: $2.50 For Tickets and Reservations, Address: North Carolina College for Negroes P.M. Durham N. C. V
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