Heels Tackle Virginia
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All lives-and they still haven't found anvthinc white that can -he him
a tight, Lester Maddox and his axe-hand!es notwithstanding.
Jerry Quarry was sorry and Maddox was "mourning" but Ali was
proudly fighting lor 22-million black people.
It took the champ less than three rounds to make up tor three idle
years. He was fast as the Ali of 19f,7. and no other liehter could ever
make that statement.
It was worth a million dollars for the finest boxer in two decades to
lose 5-pounds and bloody the face of a man who was supposedly the top
white in the ring today. Quarry must have been seeing dollar sisns. too.
because he never saw what punched him out
They should have let Quarry use a can of mace, or at least a nisht stick.
That might have reduced the odds. At that, he probably couldn't have
won even it Bull Connor had been the referee.
Seldom Challenged
The only whites who ever seriously challenged Ali were a slick TV man
and the justices of the Supreme Court. Madison Avenue and the United
States legal system got in a few body punches, anyway.
Broadcaster Howard Cosell used to torment the champ when hi
videotaped fights were telecast. At least Mi's tongue got a
workout. Then the Army decided to let Ali do some sparring for it. He
declined and the court moved in. Ali was backed on the ropes but he kept
swinging.
In the intervening three years he has been fighting to stay out of jail for
dralt evasion.
Various boxing commissions and authorities took away his world
heavyweight title without laying a glove on him, which was about par for
the course.
When the novel called "The Pretenders" came out, everyone thought it
was going to be about the heirs to Mi's title. At any rate, the book was
better than most of the men who vied in the "tournament" that selected
his official successor.
Ali, in the meantime, toured college campuses and talked with
thousands of students. In the process, he seemed to mature and
abandoned the old jive, a mixture of jokes and poetry.
Return To Ring
When it became apparent, about a year ago, that Ali wouldn't mind
returning to the ring, all the patriot-bigots in the country with access to an
auditorium bandedtogether and denied him a fight site.
Finally Atlanta made ramshackle Municipal Auditorium available, and
5,000 people would get a chance to see his return. Thar was roughly
comparable to providing a few dozen toilets for last summer's Atlanta Pop
Festival: it was better than nothing.
Ali had ballooned to 240 pounds, but because he did not indulge in
"bad women, whiskey and nightclubs," as he said, his body did not
deteriorate. The muscles got soft and he accumulated the extra weight,
but six weeks of vigorous conditioning took care of that.
Ali sought "to make no mistakes in preparing for Quarry, running
harder and sacrificing more than ever."
. He got "crazy with loneliness, though, missing the times with the black
povver groups and the white hippies at the student union building," as
Sports Illustrated reported last week.
Black Power Symbol
Ali saw himself as a black power symbol and his fears were not so
much for himself as for his race. "I'm not just fighting one man, I'm
Fighting a lot of men, who'll be rejoicin' and jumpin' up and down and
hollerin' and just rollin' under beds and chairs," should he lose, the
magazine continued.
The former Cassius Clay, who made the heralded switch to the Islamic
religion after he won the world title, was also motivated by a desire "to
please Allah." He was adamant about not letting "court decisions
determine my life and providing for my family so they won't have it as
difficult as I did."
Equipped with this set of desires and more boxing tools than he will
ever need, Ali certainly had the edge over Quarry. It was a straight right
hand that opened the woundthat resulted in a merciful TKO for Quarry.
But, as Ali said, "it was more than a win for a fighter-it was a social
victory."
If only Quarry's blood, which he will never miss, could indeed make up
for three centuries of black setbacks outside tne ooxing ring...
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The Tar Heels' football outlook took z
dramatic turn for the vcrse with las!
Saturday's loss to Wake Forest.
Before that earne. L'NC coach BCl
Dooley said a win against the Deacons
was "vital if we are to be in contention
for the Atlantic Coast Conference
championship."
Now, with the 14-13 defeat a matter
or 'record, Dooley said Tuesday, "a sin
against Virginia this week is vital if we are
to have any type of season.'
No longer was the emphasis on the
ACC championship. With the Tar Heels
4-3 overall and 2-2 in conference play.
Dooley's hopes lie in having a
"respectable season," not a championship
season.
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The eight finalists in the Homecoming Court met the press Tuesday at Coach Bill
Dooley's weekly luncheon at a local restaurant. Left to right are Donna Frye,
Wendy Boulton, Eva Fregakis, Ann Welfare, Linda Beukema, Laurie Venning,
Christy King and Tess West. Dooley stood aside while they posed.
Fro.sfa Prospects
by Mark Whicker
Sports Writer
Yes, Virginia, Kent Merritt got away
from the Carolina recruiters, but enough
Old Dominion prospects came south to
give UNC another topnotch freshman
team.
The Tar Babies came back to upend
Virginia 2212 last Friday, and with
injuries quickly healing, they appear
ready to fulfill their potential.
Merritt, the 9.3 sprinter from
Charlottesville, was held to 73 yards by
the UNC defense.
Every time he tried to sweep the ends,
a couple of transplanted Virginians, Ted
Levrenz and Terry Taylor, were there to
meet him.
"Virginia wanted Taylor badly," says
Coach Moyer Smith, "and for that matter
Notre Dame wanted him too."
Smith describes the Harrisonburg
native as a "real winner" and "one of the
best linemen to ever come out of
Virginia."
Leverenz, from Alexandria, is playing
defensive end for the first time in his
career, and maybe the last time too.
At 6'2" and 190 pounds, he could be
outstanding at defensive back, wide
receiver, linebacker or running back.
State, Wake Forest and Virginia backs
know that Leverenz has learned his
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"There's no excuse for us losxng the
"Vuke Fores! game." Dooley said. "To he
quite frank about it. the reason we've -lost
three in a row is thai we've been unable
to come up with the big play.
"That's been our downfall." he
rontinued. "When
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been
critical situation on the field, we haven't
had the big play on offense or defense."
Carolina's seeming inability to come
up with the big play was not all that
upset Dooley about the Wake Forest
game, however.
Immediately following the game.
Dooley said he would protest the
officiating, but did not give the specific
reason for the protest.
After Wake's quarterback Larry
Russell said in an interview after the game
that his teammate Larry Hopkins had
pushed him into the end zone for their
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position quickly. "He's one of our
blue-chippers," lauds Smith, "one of the
tremendous athletes on the team."
Another Virginia quarterback John
Klise from Portsmouth, tormented the
Cavalier defense.
He hit six of 13 passes for 37 yards
and ran for 82 in 15 attempts, but Smith
didn't have to see the statistics to point
out Klise 's best quality.
"He showed a lot of poise," says the
coach, "in knowing when to pass and
how to hit the open man."
"He's instinctively good-he already
knows a lot of things we can't teach."
Klise's instincts gave the Tar Babies
their go-ahead touchdown with five
minutes left in the fourth quarter.
After sprinting 21 yards, Klise then
handed off to fullback Sammy Johnson
on the 11 -yard line. Johnson fumbled,
but the alert QB scooped it up on one
bounce and darted into the end zone.
Although Klise passed well when he
had to, Smith still thinks the freshmen
need a better air attack.
"We've got to throw more, but there's
not much time for us to work as a unit.
And now that standard time is back and
it gets darker earlier, it will be harder on
us."
"own i which iKeziti Dookv
discussed the incident on h;
show Sunday.
"It wasn't in very food taste for me to
publicly criticise the official. Dcvle
said Tuesday. i do expect them to be
good, though, and the officiating wjs no!
gOOd.
"I'll never again publicly criticize the
officials." he continued, "and wouldn't
have mentioned the pushing p'j sf
Russell hadn't talked about it tn h.s
interview.
"I am protesting it through the official
channels, including a lot of other
complaints about the game, too."
Dooley noted, however, that h.s
players have forgotten the Wake Forest
game, concerning themselves with
streaking Virginia.
The Cavaliers have won three games in
a row, and now sport a 4-3 overall record.
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Stickmen End Work
Coach Fred Mueller was pleased with
his lacrosse team's first annual Blue-White
scrimmage, which was held recently on
James Field. The contest, which marked
the end of fall practice for the stickmen,
gave the coaches an opportunity to look
over both the freshmen and the veterans.
The Whites won the game, 8-6,
despite four goals by Blue attackman
Frank Upchurch.
John Meiners of the Whites got the
first goal of the game early in the first
quarter, but Ail-American Ray Seipp
tallied for the Blues to tie the score, 1 -1 .
After Mac McKenzie's goal put the
Whites ahead, Upchurch scored twice to
give the Blues a precarious 3-2 lead. The
Whites recaptured the lead on goals by
Jim Howard and Glenn Taylor, but
Upchurch's scored again knotted the
see-saw contest at 44.
UNC
Fortunately, ends Jim Steele and Colt
Hitchcock are back in the lineup.
Steele's thumb injury and Hitchcock's
severe sinus condition kept them out of
the first two games. Now Scott Reynolds,
at 6-4 and 215, can return to tackle.
Reynolds made a leaping grab for a
two-point conversion after Klise's
touchdown. Incidentally, he's from Falls
Church, Va.
Since tackle John Frerotte suffered a
knee injury, Reynolds' move to the
interior comes just in time.
The freshmen meet Richmond next.
Friday at 1 :30 in Kenan Stadium, then
end the season at Duke the week after.
Although the blocking and passing
could stand some improvement, the Tar
Babies look stronger than at any other
time this fall.
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Upchurch and Mike Tiernan, but Koder
clinched the game for the Whites js he
scored to make the final margin N h.
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