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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952
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Maryland Knocked Carolina
. Froiii SC -Tournoy Last Yar
Carolina's improving basketball team plays the first home game
cf the season at 8 o'clock tcnight against a good Maryland team
whose two victories over tha Tar
of the conference tournament and qualified the Terps for the tourney.
The Tar Heels have a record of six wins and four lasses, includ
ing two wins 'And a loss in the Dixie Classic played last week- Mary
land has a record of five wins and
two losses. Maryland's losses
: were to strong West Virginia and
Perm by a total of four points.
The Terps have beaten Virginia,
Washington and Lee twice, VMI,
and William and Mary.
Carolina has the better South
ern Conference record, 3-0, with
. victories over The Citadel, Fur
man, and Richmond and Mary
land has a 4-0 record.
The Tar Heel offense, which
has picked-up since Coach Tom
Scott moved freshman Al Lifson
to forward and Put Vince Gri
maldi back at guard, will: be
meeting a deliberate Maryland
team which, is third nationally in
defense. The Terps have allowed
the opposition an average of only
45 points game.
Carolina Defense Improves
The Carolina offense will be
led by Grimaldi who has scored
164 points, Wallace with 123
points, and Al Lifson with 116
jpoints. The best shooting average f
on the team belongs to center
Paul Likins who has made 42 per
cent of his attempts. Howard
Deasy leads on rebounds with
106. :
Maryland has a veteran team
coached by Bud Millikan, who
Ieiarned his basketball from Hank
Iba at Oklahoma A&M. TheTerps
play a possession game, passing
the ball until a good chance for
a shot appears. Lee Brawley, cap
tain end high scorer for the past
two seasons, Dick Koffenberger,
and Jim Johnson are all good set
shots and give Maryland a good
outside threat.
The Terps will give away a lot
of height to Carolina, with Braw
ley and center Don Moran the,
talle-t men at 6'3". However,
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and 'Carolina won't be able to'the State cagers all the vrzy but
.concentrate it's defensive strength
again-rt any one man.
Terps Aren't Friendly
Hie deliberate, low-scoring
Terps aren't making many friends
With opposing teams and fans
outside College Park, but the
Terps, usually one of the weaker
teams in the conference, have be
come popular in their own back
yard. ' The, slow offense has made the
opposition foul them more fre
quently than ..the defense ordi
narily would and the Terps are
making 75' per cent of their free
throws to aid their scoring con
siderably. Brawley is eighth in
the nation on free throws with an
average of 90.9 per cent.
The ability to make the free
throws put Maryland in the con
ference tournament last year,
when it defeated Carolina, 56-55,
although the Tar Heels made two
more field goals than Maryland.
fhe Terps also defeated Carolina,
67-59, last year.
Carolina - Pen. ' Maryland
Lifson F.. Brawley
Wallace F Shue
Lfkins C, . Moran
Grimaldi ... G... Kollenberver
Deasy G Johnson
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Carolina Hof,
Cold During
Holiday Play
by Ed Slaraes
The Carolina basketball team
ran hot and cold during the holi
days, returning from a disappoint
ing northern trip to be the sur
prise team of the Dixie Classic,
Carolina met Richmond Decem
ber 17 and the Spiders t almost
upset the heavily-favored Tar
Heels who had to- come back late
in the final period to win, 62-56.
The Tar Heels next defeated
I lanes Hosiery, 70-59. In that
game Coach Tom Scott took the
wraps off freshman Al Lifson and
the Elizabeth, N. J. boy made 14
points.
Two Losses in iha North
Carolina's northern, swing, pro
duced two stunning defeats, both
at the hands of top-flight teams.
The Tar Heels took an 86-66 past
ing at the hands of Illinois, the
nation's top team.
Two night's .later in
Bradley gave Carolina.
Peoria,
a 79-66
drubbing.
Carolina surprised in the first
game of the Dixie Classic by
beating favored Southern Cali
fornia, 49-45. The Tar Heels were
led by Vince Grimaldi, who made
13 points. Freshman Lifson and
Paul Likins tied for second place
honors with 11 points each.
Carolina ran up against State
in the semi-final round and the
champion Wolfpack prevailed in
the end, 53-51. trailing by only
29-26 at the half, Carolina pushed
could not auite overtake, them
Lifson was the -high scorer for
both teams with 17 points. Gri
maldi was second for the Tar
Heels with 14.
In the consolation game on Dec.
29 Carolina took third place hon
ors with an electrifying 61-60 up
set win over heavily favored Co
lumbia. The score was tied at 60
all when Howard Deasy flipped in
a free throw with three seconds
remaining to give his team a
victory.
Lifson was again the high scor
er, flipping in 18 points" for the
winners. Grimaldi -got 14, and
Deasy 13 for the Tar Heels.
Grimaldi is the leading scorer
for the Tar Heels with 164 points.
Jack Wallace is second with 123,
while Lifson has scored 116
Paul Likins with 56 points has
th leading percentage from the
floor for Carolina, .436. Lifson has
a .422 percentage. High scorer
Grimaldi: has 327
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60 23 104 13.4
46 It 123 12-3
43 20 118 11.8
29 28 R4 8.4
17 13 . 52 5.6
14 10 23 AJi
12 10 M 5.1
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Hank Lauricella, Tennessee's
triple-threat tailback," "was
chosen the outstanding opposi
tion player by he Csrcilna"
football team. Bill Pearman was
nominated as. the outstanding
lineman. " s
Tennessee, the riatioa's num
ber one team, dominated the
two All-Opponent teams with
four men on the first team and
two on the second. Maryland
was second with three men, all
on the first team. ry
Lauricella, a unanimous All
America selection, had one of
the best afternoons of his ca
reer against Carolina. He scored
twice, passed for another
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touchdown, and had still anoth
er touchdown pass called back.
Hia coffin corner kicking kept
Car6lina back in the shadow of
its own goal all af ternoon.'
Pearman was probably the
hardest working tackle on a
major college eleven in the na-s
tion this past year. He was in
on a majority of the tackles in
every game, and many a time
" went all the way to the other
side of the line to stop a ball
.carrier.
The teams read like a com
posite AH-America with no less
than- twelve All-Americans re
ceiving positions.
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Jack Lewis (Vake Forest)
Jim Mutsc heller (Notre Paine
BUI Rearman (Tennessee)
Oleic Modzelewski (Maryland)
Bob Ward (Maryland);
Ted Daffer (Tennessee )
... Louis Tepe (Suke)
Hank Lauricella (Tennessee)
Ed Modzelewski (Maryland)
Zippy Morocco (Georgia)
Andy Kozar (Tennessee)
SECOND TEAM
. Bob Atkins (Tennessee)
Harry Babcock (Georgia)
Bil George -.(Wake Forest)
r Bob TonefT (Notre Dame)
... .Joe Palumbo (Virginia)
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Larry Smith. (South Carolina)
Gib Dawson (Texas)
Paul Reynolds (Notre Dame)
. Steve Wadiak (South Carolina)
Bobby Dillon (Texas)
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