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Sunday. November 23, 1952 The Daily Tar Heel Page Thre O Down In Front By Biff Roberts Rest- In Peace CAROLINA, '52, OF CHAPEL HILL died late yesterday after noon after being hit by a Duke freight train at Kenan Crossroads. The Tar Heels were thrown back a total of 401 yards by the collision and passed away from the sudden jolt before regaining consciousness. Chapel Hill physician Carl Snavely tried to revive the Tar Heels with aerial respiration but his team could not respond to the futile attempts of intern Marshall Newman Duke had already applied the anesthetic. ' The Duke deisel cracked the Carolina forward wall, heretofore a capable defensive unit, for 349 yards on the ground and then added 52 by passing, on only four completions out of 12 attempts, to wreck the Tar Heels, 34-0. After last week's victory over South Carolina most Carolina supporters, from the staunchest to the weakest, felt that Carolina had a chance of upsetting the Blue Devils but from the first quarter the Tar Heels were never in the game. Where Were We? AFTER TAKING THE KICKOFF from Carolina and returning it to their own 18, the Blue Devils commenced to march the remaining 82 yards of the field for a touchdown. From there it was Duke all the way. It seemed for a few fleeting moments that the Tar Heels might push the Devils back in their own territory. With second down and two yards to go on the Duke 27, quarterback Worth Lutz gave the ball to fullback Byrd Looper. Carolina end George Norris had him hemmed in on the sidelines but could receive no immediate help, tried to make the tackle himself, only to see Looper escape to the right and go for the first down. From there Duke made a consistent sustained drive to score the opening touchdown. This 34-0 licking that we took was the worst that a Carolina team has ever suffered at the hands of Duke. It was admitted before the game that Duke probably had the best team on a seasonal basis, but there were few Tar Heels who didn't have a deep-in-the-heart feeling that Carolina might win. That feeling never came into existence. We were beaten in the first quarter and never were in the ball game from there out although we did play a creditable third quarter. Reversing Form WE DID SHOW A REVERSAL of form, though, in that we played a good second half while showing little in the first. Our usual pattern has been to stick close in the first stages of the game and then go down by decisive scores. Notre Dame had us 13-7, Tennessee had us 14-7 and Virginia had us, 14-7, at the half and all three ran up the score on us. But this game was different. The Blue Devils ran with ease to lead us 27-0 at the half. They only beat us 7-0 in the second half, but there still is a rule in collegiate football that you have to count both halves in totalling the score. The most appalling thing about the game was the ease with which the Duke offensive line moved our defensive line around According to Duke publicity director, Ted Mann, "It had been our plan to pass over you." But with a five man line employed to stop the Duke running attack the Devils saw a perfect chance to keep the running game going. The monotony of their five yard gains was almost dulling. Defensive Hopes THE TAR HEELS HAD PLACED most of their hopes on winning the game in the defensive line and hoping for a DreaK wnere ine nffpnsf mi?ht nusrr- a couDle of scores across. But that wasn't the case. The Duke offensive line was so far superior that when we seem ed to have stopped the Blue Devils for no gain, tney naa actuauy picked up four or five yards. Our defensive linemen were being pushed back on every play and although we seemed to stop them in their line-of-scrimmage tracks they still made yardage. In the first quarter, when the Devils had the ball near our goal line there was a hole big enough for a lame colt to get through for yardage. The game was a disheartening blow for students and Carolina alumni alike, but was something that couldn't be helped. The Caro lina team, eager to play and definitely up for the Devils, never had a chance. They were knocked off their gams in the opening minutes and were out of it from there on. There's an old saying that the first play of a football game is the most important. If you can knock your opponent around on that first play then you can win the game. That was the case yesterday. Duke W m gcstf Rout In 64 Defeat Is One Point Worse Than 33-0 Licking In 1944 (Continued from page 1) Lutz could only pick 11 yards in three plays, and faded to pass with fourth and 15 to go on the 30. End Bill Keziah had beaten Carolina saf etyman Sonny Ridenhour to the left hand corner of the field, and took Lutz's pass on the five. Ridenhour made the tackle, but Keziah reached the end zone on his first roll for the score. Smith's conversion made it 20-0 at2:47 of the second quarter. Carolina reached Duke territory ; for the first time after taking the kickoff. Worrell took a pitch out from Motta on the option play, and ran 18 yards around left end to the Duke 46 -yard line. The Tar Heels could go no further, and Wallace again was forced to punt. Duke, the , new Big Four and Southern Conference champions, got its next score in record time. The Blue Devils got the ball on their 20 after Wallace's boot went into the end zone. Lutz ran three plays, getting a first down on the 35-yard line. The red-headed Smith gentle man then took a handoff from the red-headed Lutz gentleman, minced, five yards off left tackle, and ran like hell the other 60 yards for the score. He was never touched. After regaining his breath, Smith converted to give Duke a 27-0 lead with 8:16 left in the second quarter. Carolina's defense settled down, and began containing the Blue Devils, with co-captain George Norris and others playing first- rate ball. Neither team could move the ball, and the half ended, 27-0, Duke. The Tar Heels started th6 sec ond half by holding Duke inside the Carolina 20-yard line. Carson Leach deflected a pass by Caro lina's Newman, and tackle Tank Lawerence intercepted for Duke on the Tar Heel 20. Red Smith collected a first down on the five, but Charlie Smith fumbled, Lutz recovering on the 16. Two passes failed, and Carolina took over on downs. Before the Tar Heels could get out of the hole, Newman fumbled, and Duke recovered on the Caro lina 26. Once more the Tar Heel defense proved up to the job, with Dick Lackey intercepting a pass on the three. Marvin Bass, former Carolina line coach, is now line coach for the professional Washingwn Redskins. L The Prettiest Gift Wrapping In Chapel Hill Costs Nothing When You Choose Books From THE INTIMATE BOOKSHO P 205 E. Franklin SL Open Evenings r JJi'vii mm " - "witii with a Bowis 4'vv a wespca Knife! 7X all her Xf!I ' own! Carolina started on the 15 af ter Lackey ran back the intercep tion, and marched 75 yards to the Duke 10 before losing the balL Charlie Motta ran the Tar Heel split-T that picked up six first downs during the drive. Parker Worrell, and Wallace were the big guns, and there were no passes thrown. Parker ran off left tackle from the Duke 16, picked up six yards, and then fumbled, Duke's Bill Lea recovering to stop the touchdown j threat. The quarter N ended with the score standing at 27-0, Duke. Duke got its last touchdown at 6:57 of the final quarter. Carolina safety Albert Long returned a punt from, the Carolina 45 to the Duke 35, and then the Tar Heels pushed down to the Duke 26, but could get no further, losing the ball on downs. The Blue Devils drove from there to the Carolina three-yard line, where Red Smith scored. Lutz himself made the outstand ing play of the drive, a 21 yard run from the 50 to the Carolina 29. A frantic lunge by Tar Heel Junior Seawell kept him from go ing all the way. Charlie Smith drove 15 yards down to the seven, Lutz went tp the three, missed on a pass, and then Smith scored, making the tally 34-0, one point more than the 33-0 score of the game in 1944 which was previously Duke's worst defeat of Carolina. Duke coach Bill Murray sent his third string offense in for the rest of the game, but the Tar Heels couldn't muster a score against the mighty Duke defense that played the" whole game and the game ended with Duke ring ing the victory bell 34 times. Chess Club Mike Rauhut and Joe Levin tied for first place, in the "B" division of the chess club's fall tourney. The playoff game will be held at the weekly meeting of the chess club Monday night at 7:30 in room 301-B. Woollen' Gym. Anyone interested in watching, learning or playing the game is invited. Kit Crittenden, state cham pion, repealed his last year's victory with a clean sweep of five games. 1 uIpB fl I Statistics Duke UNC First Downs 20 13 Rushing Yardage Net 349 136 Passing Yardage Net 52 29 Passing Atterftpted , 12 9 Passes Completed 4 3 Passes Intercepted by ' 1 1 Punts 2 6 Punting Average 44 38.9 Fumbles Lost 3 3 Yards Penalized 58 35 LINEUPS DUKE: Left Ends Keziah, Whitley. Wood; Left Tackles Green, Meadows; Left Guards Grant, Torrance; Centers Tepe, Carey, Palmer, Knotts, Falls; Right Guards Bonin, Leach; Right Tackles Holben, Lawrence, Birchfield. Hurst; Right Ends Pitt, Hands, Gleason, Moon; Quarterbacks Lutz, Barger, Sommers, Lerps; Left Halfbacks C. Smith, Caudle, Mc- Keithan, Blaney; Right Halfbacks J. Smith, Lea, Field, Riggs; Fullbacks Looper. 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