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.'AGE TWO THE DAILY TAB HEEL SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1.952 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Madam Editon Although the football season is long gone, I still think that the quoted letter below is well worth reading for at least two reasons. First it contains some very good English humor and secondly it gives us the view of a foreigner bs to our great American game f Football. This letter was writ ten by ah Englishmen by the name of Henry Longhurst fol lowing a visit to Chapel Hill and the Tennessee Carolina Football game. "As an. interlude from watch ing the none-too-successful ef forts of our Ryder Cup golfers, I witnessed some of the Ameri can college football - which at home we see with such bewild erment on the screen. It is difficult to say which, to eyes brought up on Twicken ham, is the more curious -the game or the occassion. The game is a mixture of all-in wrestling and leapfrog, with occassional flashes of Rugby. The occasion- well, here we are, with 50,000 others in the North Carolina University Stadium, a yast na tural bowl crowned all around with trees in vivid "fall colors, as fine a sporting arena as ever I saw. First change from Twicken ham is the block of 2000-odd undergraduates who do, as it were, the official cheering. Led by white-clad young men and girls with feathered fans, who cartwheel and gesticulate like dervishes, the students not only roar to the order but also put on at half-time, by holding up squares of coloured paper, a series of "pictures' and slogans whose precision would do no discredit to the Brigade of Guards. We ; are familiar with the menacing m en-f rom-Mars aspect of the" American footballer, with his crash helment, padded shoulders and tight breeches. "What I had not been prepared for was their number. A stream of yellow Martians the all con quering Tennessee poured in to the stadium, like wasps from a nest, twenty, thirty, fifty, sixty. ' In: six ranks they then per formed ,P.T. exercises at the coach's direction, followed by practice .with as many as twenty balls, smaller and more pointed than: ours and throwable with amazing accuracy up to forty yards. Finally eleven stayed on the field, while the rest tropped off to the discard pile, and the game begun. It consists not of open, flowing movement, but a sort of closed slogging to gain ground. A team has. four "Downs" i.e., it passes the ball out behind the scrum, a general melee en sues, some blocking their oppo nents, ; some pretending to be carrying the ball, and one man charging ahead with it till "Downed. If he has gained ten yards, his side has four more, Downsi If, in four, the side has not gained ten yards, the "de- , fense" side goes into "offense" ' incidentally substituting a com plete new; eleven for the pur pose!, ; ; ' . ' , - : - Sometimes, instead of leaping on top of the heap of bodies, the, man with the ball will try. an immense forward pass. Too much oft, this, however, is frowned upon. On balance, I found the game inferior to Rugby. I liked the more exciting method of con verting n touchdown; the huge ibrwerd passes; the clear in terpretative signals of the re- feree and his two assistants; the half -hour's practice and band-playing while the stadium filled up. I thought inferior the closed nature of the play; the eternal substitutions; the protective ar mour rendering players indis tinguishable save by their shirt numbers; and the incessant stoppages, which made a game of four quarter-hour periods of actual play take two hours and ten minutes. Still, it is a great spectacle and I would not have missed it. Acting under instructions, I spent the afternoon yelling "To Hell with Tennessee." Alas, they won by 27-0." As I said, this letter was written by an Englishman for his paper, The Sunday Times of London and was later sent as a letter to the editor of the Tennessee Journal. Joe Privoii Madam Editor: We are writing this letter to you due to the fact that we have been confronted with rumors. These rumors pertain to chang ing the function of Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dormitory. We find cur dormitory very serviceable and convenient. Though one of the oldest dorms on the campus, we con sider it to be one of the best. We like our suite-type rooms with three large windows and lavatory. We prefer the wooden floors to the cold and hard ce ment ones, which have been in stalled in the newer dorms. We also like our - central location. Room rent in Battle-Vance- Pettigrew dormitory is higher than that in other dormitories, but that fact does not prevent us from returning to the "best dorm on the campus." B-V-P has become a Caro lina tradition a tradition which THE DAILY TAR HEEL The official student newspaper of the Publications of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is published daily at Ihe Colonial Press, Inc.. except Monday, exarv-kiation and vacation periods and during Ta offi cial summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per Quarter; should continue. Melick Williams Thomas McAden Robert Dever John Gamble delivered $6.00 per year ami $2,2JS p quarter. Glenn Harden . Bruce Melton -David Buckner Bill Peacock Mary Nell Boddie Jody Levey Joe Raff EMr.-ln-chef Managing Editor J4ews Etlitor . Sports Editor . Seeiety EWr ..Feature- Editor Literary Etlifor Associate Editor - Associate - Editor Assoc. Sports Etlitor Nancy Burgess Assoc- Seciety Editor Ruffin Woody Photographer Q. T. Watklns Business Manager Beverly Baylor Sue Burress Ed Starnes TODAY DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS I. Robust 5. Grate 9. Rustic retreat 10. Volume of maps 12. Eat away 13. A thin fabric 14. Question 15. Condiment 16. Titters (var.) 19. Tantalum (sym.) 20. Past 21. A sudden , drop Into ' " water 23. Proper- 27. Field laborer (India) 28. Substance in shellac 29. Iridium (sym.) 30. Scatter over 34. Pacific island group " (Poss.) 37. Wallaba (Braz.) 38. Arabian chieftains 39. Thrashed 41. Move sidewise 42. Impels 43. Perished 44. Winged insects DOWN 1. Quadruped 2. Aroused from sleep 3. Guided ; 4. Before 5. Rants 6. On top 7. Slide 8. Loose overcoat 9. Vanquish 11. A cloak blanket (Mex.) 16. Nations 17. Male red deer 18. Self 21. Early in habitant of Gr. Brit. 22. Music note 23. Ascends 24. A tomb structure (Egypt.) 25. Italian river 26. Abyssinian prince 30. Established 31. Scope 32. Fencing swords 33. Rolls of money (slang) 35. 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