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Heel f J -If- Tennis RssIrSnging Baseball Foolfjnl! Cnskofja!! cniniiiase e o lie -1 PLflV k i 1 1 iar Key Word. Is Baby PAYS Bv J. A. C DUNN In The Chapel Hill Weekly A scrimmage is like a foot ball game between four or five teams at the same time which is net reported on the sports pages, does not count in ACC stand ings, and at which nobody sells hotdogs. Still, scrimmages leave their few non-combatant witnesses with an in-on-it feeling, as if they had seen the future Kentucky Derby winner run a time trial on an empty track. The personnel on the field at scrimmages give the occasion military overtones. Everybody has a uniform. Coach George Barclay's freshmen wear red jerseys. Coach Jim Hickey's Varsity wear blue. Coaches wear blue T-shirts, light blue Bermuda shorts, and jaunty little baseball caps with nylon net crowns. Sup port troops, like trainer John Lacey and the team managers, wear T-shirt and short, but in different color combinations: some of the T-shirts were white, some of the shorts tan. Spectators are allowed to wear mufti. Things began with calisthenics, co-captains Ward Marslender and Joe Craver calling the shots. The team, lined up in foimation, called the cadence in unison. Coaches wandered among the ranks exhorting" the slow. "One-two, one-two," trw toom boomed, eagerly touching its toes. With much shouting from coaches and the muffled rush of countless feet, the scrimmage began. Coach Barclay's men stood on the sidelines. The fifth and sixth Varsity strings were used as guinea pigs. They wore red sleeveless pullovers over their blue jerseys and imper sonated State, running the ball. In each huddle assistant coach Joe Popp, a new7 addition from Mooresville, held up a chart of a State College play. The guinea pigs studied it, lined up, and ran the play. The Varsity defensive team tried to stop the advance, shouting "Wing right!" and mw-imT:; Lenoir s , i 1 - " &1 s E I I I 4 i 1 1(4 4 4., - v ! 1 p tin., 11 1 1 1 " 1 I"'- 11 1 V jj "Wing left!" and "Reverse!" with desperate urgency. The crash and smack of shoulder pads filled the stadium. A ring cf coaches and waiting players stood right behind the piays, analyzing moves. Some times they had to move quckly themselves when a mound of tangled players rolled among them. The coaches whistles shrieked, and there were bellowed instruc tions and criticisms. The week before the' State game the guinea pigs wear red pullovers. Before the Michigan game they will wear green pull overs. Before the Duke game they will wear dark blue pull overs. This acclimates the play ers to getting the red ones, or hitting the green ones, somewhat like training mastiffs to attack anybody who points anything, such as a pistol. Some players sat on the side lines, tensely waiting to hear their names called. While wait ing, they kept up a running com mentary on the scrimmage, none of it specific, most of it unin telligible. The basic word in players" commentary is "baby," a highly inappropriate term con sidering the size of those to w hom it is applied, but still an accept ed and, apparently, effective form of encouragement. There is a formula for sideline commentary. Start with "baby" and build on both sides of :t: "Attaway, Big Lace, baby,, atta way"; "Look sharp, baby, look sharp"; "Move 'em out, babe, move 'em out." Most of this is slurred to the point of being gib berish, but it keeps the pads crashing on the field and gives the sideliners a feeling of being part of it . A simple "hurray" would be unthinkable. "Run that team, Big Rune, baby, run that team." Big Rune would be John Runco. Red-faced, puffing players trotted away from the line of battle and threw themselves down in the shade. The blacking under their eyes was smeared. ' : ' c: Hall Serving . . . Breakfast Hours 7-11 Lunch Hours 11-2 Dinner Hours 5-7 : 15 There is no listlessness about this year's team. In fact, morale is so high and physical condition so good, that in contact practice the players have been hitting so hrrd that tempers have flared occasionally. In general, this is considered a good sign, though it has its drawbacks. The three-team system seems to be developing nicely, but, like the players' good physical condi tion, it has presented a problem too. The all-around team, the wild cards, have been named the Blues. The offensive team is called the Rams, and the defen sive team the Tar Heels. "They've put up a caution sig nal on that," said UNC sports publicist Bob Quincy, the team's writer-in-residence. The "caution signal" results from possible confusion among sportscasters and cheerleaders vich the three teams' names and the entire team's name. For instance, a radio announcer reporting "The Tar Heels have the blues now," when UNC is behind could be puzzling for people wiio think of the Tar Heels as defensive players and the Blues as all-around players. Cheerleaders chanting "Go, Tar Heels, go." when the defensive team is on the field could con fuse matters considerably. "They don't know what they're going to do," said Mr. Quincy. "I think Hickey is considering taking the 'Heels' off Tar Heels and calling them the Tars. That suggests sticky and hard to get through, and they're defensive. A, B, and C teams would be good enough for me. It's hard to think up good names, though. A lot of colleges are going to this three-team sys tem, and you don't want names like Maryland's Gangbusters or M-Squad. That's comic book stuff. LSU's Chinese Bandits is good, because that's a first and it suggests the toughest Chinese warriors in the world, you know, the Tong boys. Rams is all right, I guess. Maybe you could just call the Blues 'The Team.' " He stood back from the thun HALL Welcome Yon To UoNoCo zEl3'WJi Always Remember The Student Special O Weaf Your Choice of dering rush of play and offered an interesting explanation for the team's improvement this year in morale and physical condition. "Leadership is a lot of it, of course. But this year I think we have more good citizens, if you know what I mean. These boys want to excel at anything. It doesn't make any difference whether it's footbali, it could be grades or anything, they just want to be better than the next I tos1JO SI9EE Franklin & Columbia Streets Headquarters for ATX your schools needs At Popular Prices FLUORESCENT DESK LAMPS 4 DRAWER UTILITY CHESTS BEDSPREAD CEDAR COAT HANGERS 9 for igarettes and the NE -fiir condmoned Two Vegetables Hoi Rolls O Iced Tea or Coffee ALL FOR OriLY man." Scrimmages are not field every day. ("They couldn't stand up under that kind of work," said Mr. Quincy. 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