Saturday, October 4. 1969
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By Irf Chansky
When Carolina and Vanderbilt kickoff the 1969
home grid season this afternoon, the Tar Heels and
Commodores will be hard-pressed to match some of the
electrifying, dismal and bizarre home openers thatTiave
rocked Kenan Stadium in its 42 years of existence.
Probably the most remembered Chapel Hill football
opener occured in 1948 when the Tar Heels played host
to the nationally third-ranked Longhorns of Texas.
Just the year before, Texas had smashed Carolina,
34-0, in Austin, and the enthusiastic Longhorn rooters
expected a similar shellacking to take place at Kenan.
It did, but the opposite way.
An uncountable number of Texas fans made the trip
to Chapel Hill, but upon their arrival many found the
ticket supply had been exhausted.
"You don't understand," a Texan lady pleaded, "rm
from Dallas. We . . . my husband and I chartered a plane
this morning. We got here and there are no tickets . . .
Can't somebody help me? The price doesn't matter. We
must get in." rrK,
The price certainly didn't matter. Former UNC
Sports Information Director Bob Quincy describes that
1948 opener this way in his book entitled "Choo
Choo":
"When North Carolina kicked off to Texas that
sunny fall afternoon, hundreds of fans milled outside
the stadium offering big bills to slip past the gatekeeper.
Tickets had vanished. The aisles of Kenan were packed,
a violation of normal procedure. There were tales of
$250 bribes for ticket takers to turn their backs; one
pirn r-cmntina mwhov hoot-wearine? citizen of the Lone
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Star was said to have flashed a lease ot an oil well tor
two good seats."
The Greatest Ever ...
Many never got to see the opening game of Charlie
"Choo Choo" Justice's junior year. But the fortunate
ones inside Kenan may have witnessed the greatest game
every played in Chapel Hill.
Carolina scored three times in the first quarter and.
went on to upset Texas, 34-7. The 1948 Tar Heels
finished the regular season undefeated, only a 7-7 tie
with William and Mary blemishing their record. In the
Sugar Bowl, Carolina lost to a powerful Oklahoma team,
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The Justice teams of 1946-49 never lost a home
opener at Kenan. Jn '46, however, Carolina was tied by
Virginia Tech, 14-14, when Justice had two kicks
blocked that led to Gobbler touchdowns.
, "I'll. never have another kick blocked,' Choo Choo
said afterwards. I'll., kick it off the side of my foot on
the run if I have to." "
He didn't, either. In 42 games after the tie to Virginia
Tech, Justice never again had a kicked blocked and led
the nation in punting his freshman year.
Carolina's best played opener in a losing cause came
in 1955 when the Tar Heels hosted Oklahoma in the
middle of the Sooners' legendary 47-game winning
streak.
UNC lost, 13-6, on an intercepted pass late in the
game. But the score had been tied, 6-6, for most of the
way.
Following the game, sooner Coach Bud Wilkinson
said that Carolina had "defensed us better than any
team we have played in three years."
But not all Carolina's opening day losses have been
well played. Two of the most dismal thumpings the Tar
Heels have ever taken in their home premier have
occurred in the past two seasons.
UNC was crushed by a bullet-fast Tulane team,
37-1 1, in 1967, and the Tar Heels were again destroyed.
38-6, by State in last season's opener.
In fact, the last Carolina won a Kenan lid-lifter was in
1966. In that game, Danny Talbott's field goal and
fourth quarter touchdown pass to Tom Lapman beat
the Wolfpack, 10-7.
An oddity about that opener was that Lapman's wife
had given birth to their first child the morning of the
game. He certainly picked a great way to celebrate
fatherhood.
Several Players Collapsed
The strangest opening day game at Kenan was played
in 1965, when the Tar Heels met Michigan in blazing
100-degree heat. Several players collapsed and had to be
carried off the field before the Wolverines could sweat
out at 31-24 victory. .. ,
It was so unbearably hot that in the Kenan Stadium
press box only one cup of coffee was drunk of the five
gallons prepared. Bob Quincy later said tht the man who
needed the cup had gone out of his mind from the heat.
A crowd of about 30,000 is expected for today's
game, but that will fall short of the biggest gathering to
ever jam Kenan for an opener.
In the 1966 win over State, 47,600 people, including
standing room, saw the Tar Heels beat the Wolfpack.
43,500 were on hand for the 1948 Texas game, but that
was before the upper deck had been added.
One thing that today's game will feature as never
before is a brand new electronic scoreboard brought to
Kenan by Homer Rice and the Carolina Athletic
Department. The Sorenson scoreboard is similar to the
first model ever used at last year's MCAA basketball
finals in Louisville. It took all week to install the
electronic giant, and it will be in operation this
afternoon.
The numbers on the hew scoreboard are slanted for
easier readership. Like those numbers, the crowd will
also be slanted in rooting the Tar Heels on to their first
opening day victory in three years.
A lopsided final score might not make today's game
the most famous opener in Kenan history, but the right
slant all around would surely make the stadium rock
the old days.
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Cant'telL Culbreth Lead Heels
Junior Tom Cantrell and
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home opener against
Vanderbilt by Tar Heel Head
Coach Bill Dooley.
Cantrell, a defensive guard
from Havre de Grace, Md., was
an outstanding performer
against South Carolina last
week in Columbia. Culbreth,
who is a halfback in Carolina's
surprising defensive secondary,
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Good morning fans. After two weeks of sayinVT
think we're gonna do it today," it's time to come right
out and make a gallant prediction. I just got back ijrom
Nashville, and boy are those Commodores ever bad
news. They have a bunch of flimsy backs and a
rubber-armed quarterback that think their gonna come
in here and do a job.
Well, after three days of snooping and sneaking
messages into their lockers, they are thoroughly
demoralized. But they won't show it. It must be that
damn Tennessean pride. There's only one way to show
them, and that's beatin' the hell out of those Commies.
Prediction: Carolina 27-Vanderbilt 13. Make that
happen, and we'll all get a bang out of life tonight. Even
ol' Harry.
There will be a girls
heavyweight wrestling bout
between Zoe Isabelle "the
bomber" In galls and Gall
"cutthroat" Kesselman at
Kenan Stadium preceding the
Vandy-UNC game.
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By RUSTY CARTER
DTH Asst. Sports Editor
When the fall season of
football once again opens in
Kenan Stadium today, there
will be another team present
besides Carolina and
Vanderbilt. It has worked
equally hard.
This nine-man squad headed
by veteran Larry Smith will get
few cheers from the crowd, but
they'll get no boos either. As a
matter of fact they'll probably
get no recognition at all for the
job they've done in pre-season
workouts.
Smith's title is Supervisor of
Maintenance for the Athletic
Department-of North Carolina
which contains more words
than you'll see beside anyone's
name in the program. Yet you
won't even see him at the game
todays
Sure, he'll be there because
he hasn't missed one in seven
years. He'll be inconspicuous
today though as he tried to see
that Kenan Stadium works as
she is supposed to.
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Yrtiat you will see today are
the handyworks Smith and his
team who we'll call the
Ilardworkers. The new designs,
colors, banners, goal posts,' and
even the matted grass that will
add to the beauty of today's
home opener are the results of
this team's practice drills.
This year is the 100th
anniversary of football and in
tribute to the came a large
pigskin painted in brown and
numbered 100 in gold will
mark the center of Kenan
Stadium. The grass has been
dyed there as it has in the
ehdzones which read UNC in
white on a Carolina Blue
background.
"It took 90 gallons of paint
to make these designs," Smith
remarked," and from up top
it's really pretty." We don't
mind the work of the 100th
year because we enjoy making
the field look nice and we're
proud of Kenan Stadium."
But along with the pride
goes a lot of work and many
hours. While Coach Dooley and
his team sat at the training
table and got a night's rest for
the game, Smith and his team
put in overtime last night in
preparation for today. There
were loose ends to tie and
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whether or not they were all
completed Kenan Stadium ha;
a beautiful face today.
In addition to the surface
improvements, a nev
scoreboard will be tested
against the Heels. It too was
being completed last night, and
hopefully when the Heels scor?
theyTl get credit for it on the
modern contraption.
The same group of
scoreboard engineers struggled
to make game time once befoie
against the Heels. When the
UNC cagers played K
Louisville last year, popcorn
" was being sold before the light
were turned on for the first
time. But it worked.
Smith and hardworkers are
delighted with the new
appearance of the old Kenan
and all the pre-season work is
over. The field looks fantastic
and the weatherman has
predicted a clear, sunny day
for the Heels to trample the
paint job.
So, today when you
comment on how nice the new
designs look, don't forget
Smith's team. They've
performed remarkably well in
preseason play.
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