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A Sports Profile Co-Captain im On The Start Of A Fourth Season fiickey-F ootBall Coach LIKE YON CASSIUS, Jim Hickey has a lean and hungry look. The past three seasons have been less than satisfying for him. True, there have been mom ents. No other football coach has ever beaten Duke by 50 points and then by one in his first two tries. No other Carolina coach has ever beaten Notre Dame. But the frustrations have outweighed the triumphs .as the wins have the losses. Last year Hickey lost the Atlantic Coast Conference championship by the margin of two field goals. Still, close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear arms races. It's what's up front on the scoreboard that counts and convinces. There is no more popular coach in the ACC than Jim Hickey. Among his peers, press and public he is Mr. Nice Guy. But as Bones McKinney once said, "Nice guys don't always make the best coaches." The truth is, the majority of the press don't think Jim Hickey will ever have a successful football program at Chapel Hill. What's Representative ? LUCKILY FOR CAROLINA, Hickey thinks other wise. He is convinced he can give the University a rep resentative football team. What's representative? 10 and 0 and a national championship? Hardly. Carolina hasn't had a perfect season since 1898. And recent his tory clearly demonstrates that a national championship may not be worth the price you have to pay. One man's opinion of "representative," considering the caliber of Carolina's present schedule, is about 7 and 3, a perennial contender for the conference cham pionship, and Beat Duke. Is this Coach Hickey's and Chancellor Aycock's idea of "representative"? You'll have to ask them. Beating Duke is probably the most important function of a Carolina football coach. Jim Hickey knows this. As aforementioned, he has done it twice in three tries. Duke scored only one touchdown on Carolina in these three years. Last year he should have come off with no worse than a tie. He could have had one. But it is the key -to this man and to his future at Carolina that Jim Hickey always plays to win. Football's Fireball Roberts THE 1962 SEASON, then, becomes pivotal for Hickey. It's no "win or else" proposition. It's a question, of Hick ev's program at Carolina reaching maturity. . The raw materials are all his, the design and manufacturing pro cess are both his and so the product will be his, too. The theme of the team will be speed. Speed will be come the Hickey trademark. In his playing days Jim was a speedster. At 157 pounds you've got to keep mov ing. Speed is probably the dominant factor in football to day, both in college and the pros. Offense now is highly mobile, wide open and flexible. Defense has had to coun ter this trend, sacrificing size for speed if necessary. Today, the smaller, faster team will generally beat the larger, slower team. As General Bedford Forrest put it, "You get there fustes' with the mostes'." 1 J . JIM HICKEY The Team Named Desire BUT WHILE SPEED will be featured, the backbone of Hickey's 1U62 team will be desire. He asks only one thing of his squad 100 effort. Those giving less may be asked to leave the room. Some have already departed since practice began. Yet, Jim Hickey is no martinet. He knows that in these sophisticated times, desire comes from within the individual. You can build a fire In a man, but he must stoke it himself. At pre-season practices it is dif ficult for the honest observer to determine a team's playing capability. It is easy to determine its desire. You can see it, feel it, sense it. Carolina has it. Desire alone never beat Michigan State and Ohio State on successive weekends. But then no one else has even had the courage to schedule them thusly. Hickey isn't flinching. He approaches the problem as a challenge, not an impossibility. You can't help but like and admire Jim Hickey. And you may feel the same way about his foot ball team before the season is over. WELG01E TO THE CLASS OF '68 Wentivorth & Sloan Chapel HilVs Quality Jewelers For Clocks UNC Charms Fountain Pens Lighters 167 W. Franklin St. Rough Schedule Who has the toughest schedule in America? Notre Dame can always claim a right to that dubious honor. This year the Irish meet Okla homa, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michi gan State, Northwestern, Navy, Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Iowa and Southern Cal. Tulane is no grid power, but the Greenies seem fearless in tangling with Alabama, Texas, Ole Miss and Georgia Tech with in a five-week span. Another loud vote for rough ness of combat goes to the Tar Heels of North Carolina. On Sept. 29, Coach Jim Hick ey's men face Ohio State, the team voted by almost everyone as the nation's No. 1 eleven. Then comes Michigan State, rated by many on a par with Ohio State for speed and scoring ability. "They can talk about the other States all they like," said Coach Hickey "but the one most im portant to us is North Carolina State. I sincerely think the Wolf pack will be a better team than last year." Five of North Carolina's op-ponents-OSU, Michigan State, Clemson, Duke, Notre Dame -have received votes within the top 20 teams of the nation on a majority of polls. Maryland, which will be Home coming at Chapel Hill on Oct. 13 expects to have one of its finest squads in the past ten years. "South Carolina and Virginia are vastly improved," noted Hickey. "Wake Forest appears to be inexperienced, but that games is always tough for us. ' Stevens-Shepherd IEL00IES TIE GLASS OF '06 MAKE THIS YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR THE FINEST IN MEN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS, WOMEN'S SPORTSWEAR AND ACCESSORIES. 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The first reason I believe we are going to be a good team is because we have a spirit that is the highest I've ever seen . . . the '62 squad wants to plav foot ball. I'll now turn to the team by position. The ends should be the equal of any in the Atlantic Coast Conference. John Runco, Steve Yates, John Hammet and Bob Lacey have proved themselves in the past. I'll place Vic Esposito, a 215 pound junior tackle and Jim Alderman, with anybody's line men. They're quick and don't mind the rough treatment. It's fun to play alongside our guards. Jack Tillery is small (187) by many standards but I doubt if any player in the country has more competitive spirit. Duff Greene and Jerry Cabe are let- Craver Is Optimistic termen. Bob Zaback gives me fits for the top center position. We're pretty deep and seem well set here. 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