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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
November 18. 1970
Crashes Shock
Sports
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The tragic plant crash last weekend which took the lives ot all but one
member of" the Marshall University football team deeply saddened the
sports world and indeed the entire country.
Memorial services were held in the players honor and eulogies were
pronounced I'rorrf Greenville, where Marshall had lost to Hast Carolina
Saturday afternoon, to West Virginia, home of Marshall University.
Sympathy for the friends and relatives of the dead was quick in coming
from almost all quarters.
Here at Carolina, Athletic Director Homer Rice announced that a
scholarship will be named in honor of one of the Marshall assistant
coaches, Al Carelli, who had coached under Bill Dooley here several years
ago.
No amount of sympathy can change the grim, unbelievable facts,
however, and no memorial can adequately replace those killed.
Marshall is in mourning, but it could have been almost any school.
The plane which crashed was a chartered Southern DC-9, the same
company and type of plane the Tar Heels have used for distant trips. In
fact, Carolina's longest trip of the season, to New Orleans, was aboard a
chartered Southern DC-9.
Unlike the plane crash which killed half of the Wichita State football
Jeam earlier this year, a Martin 404 prop, the same type used by UNC
this year, preliminary indications are that the condition of the Southern
plane was not at fault in the crash.
Nevertheless, each school, certainly including UNC in view of the type
. of planes involved in the crashes, now has a vital and urgent obligation to
recheck the companies and their planes. As much money as is spent on
most football programs, it would be criminal if schools did not give their
players the maximum in safety on every trip-even if it means spending
extra money or rechanneling some of the funds.
Carolina, as well as other schools, should realize that even on short
trips it simply isn't worth the difference in price, even if it amounts to
more than a few hundred dollars, to travel in the air second class.
Apparently Southern is a very reputable airline, and even top name
airlines have crashes. Still, each school must reassess the companies it has
contracted and eliminate those which do not give the top service available.
The Wichita State crash was looked on as a sort of freak accident. Now,
with the Marshall crash, tragedy becomes much more real, and much,
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Carolina and Duke will meet this Saturday for the 57th time since
1 89 1. Duke holds a 28-25 advantage with three ties, but with the Tar
Heels holding a 2-1 edge since Bill Dooley has been here as head coach.
The outcome of Saturday's battle is an unpredictable as any in recent
years.
Carolina has -the strongest rushing attack in the Atlantic Coast
Conference while Duke has the best passing attack.
The Tar Heel defensive secondary has had its problems this year, while
Duke's defensive line has been Coach Tom Harp's biggest worry.
Other than these two areas, neither team appears to have any major
weaknesses.
The stakes this week are much higher than most had anticipatedat the
first of the season, and the added incentive each team should have would
probably make any weak spots on the teams negligible anyway.
A win would give the Blue Devils the ACC championship for the first
time since Harp came to Duke five years ago. With his contract up for
renewal after this season, there could be little doubt that he will have his
team ready to play.
While the Tar Heels are out of contention for the conference title,
there is still much at stake. Rumors have persisted during the last two
weeks that the winner of Saturday's game will receive a bowl bid either
to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta or the Sun Bowl in El Paso.
Such a post-season trip, even if it to play in a minor bowl, would be a
hard-won achievement for a Carolina squad that threatened to fall apart
during a mid-season slump.
Football action across the country will be at its very best this weekend.
Several games are being played which will be decisive in deciding who goes
to what bowl and where teams will finish in the nation's top twenty.
One of the best games will be in Columbus, Ohio where Ohio State
tackles Michigan. The winner may well be given the nod as the best team
in the country.
Other major games on the heavy schedule include LSU at Notre Dame,
Arkansas at Texas Tech, Southern California at UCLA, Colorado at Air
rorce and Yale at Harvard.
The biggest game played in the South as far as rivalry is concerned will,
of course, be played here at Kenan Stadium.
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by Phillip Gurkin
Spec ial to the DTH
The airplanes which carried members
of the Wichita State and Marshall football
teams to their deaths were the same
model craft chartered this season by
Carolina on four road trips.
Wichita State lost some 30 players,
coaches and persons associated with the
team in the crash of a Martin 404
prop-driven plane in the Colorado
Rockies Oct. 2. Developed in 1952. the
Martin was the same type plane as used
by the Tar Heels in trips to Clemson and
Maryland.
The Marshall team, which went down
Saturday, was aboard a chartered
Southern DC-9, the same company and
plane used by Carolina in trips to
Vanderbilt and Tulane.
Although the Marshall tragedy appears
to have been no fault of the school or
airline-unlike the Wichita incident-the
combined 105 deaths awakened the
Howl Proceeds Aid
Scholarship Fund
The second annual "Heel Howl,"
scheduled Thursday night in Carmichael
Auditorium, kicks off a gala weekend
which will be highlighted by Saturday's
football game between Carolina and
Duke.
The "Heel Howl" was originated last
year by Art Chansky when he served as
sports editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
Chansky, now graduated, is directing the
show again this year.
The Howl was founded as a sort of
"super pep rally" and will serve as a
prelude to the annual "Beat Dook"
Parade which will take place in
downtown Chapel Hill Friday afternoon.
The Howl will begin at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are on sale daily at the Carolina
Union and also will be available at the
door. Admission is $1 for students and
faculty.
All proceeds from the event will go to
the Carolina Opportunities Fund, a
division of the Student Aid Office. It is
hoped that the proceeds will go -to
establish an academic scholarship in
memory of former Carolina graduate
assistant football coach Al Carelli, who
died Saturday night in the crash of the
Marshall University football charter plane
in West Virginia. Carelli coached at
Carolina the past two seasons as a
graduate assistant on Coach Bill Dooley's
staff. '
There will be a lot of former Tar Heel
greats on hand for the "Heel Howl." Tar
Heel all-Americans Charlie (Choo Chob)
Justice, Art Weiner and George Barclay
have accepted invitations and will appear
on the program. It is hoped that recent
quarterback stars Gayle Bomar and
Danny Talbott will be on hand.
Coach Dooley and his senior players
will appear on the program. Don
McCauley, the Tar Heel tailback who is a
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country to the importance of safety in
collegiate sports travel.
"Carolina Oies only with reputable,
well-known commercial airlines, and this
is the way it will stay," according to
Athletic Business Manager Vernon Crook.
We have been approached many times
by private airline charter concerns, but
have always preferred the service of an
established commercial airline," he said.
Crook, who books all (lights for the
football and basketball squads, said the
basic reason for UNC's policy is that a
well-known carrier is likely to keep
equipment in good shape through
maintenance. i do not mean to condemn
the exclusive charter companies, but it is
common knowledge that much of their
equipment is second hand, coming from
larger airline companies," Crook said.
"We feel we are using first class
equipment kept in safe condition by the
airline which has to meet constant federal
standards," he added.
He explained that charter flights are
leading candidate for all-America, will
speak. Former cheerleader Charlie
Stancell, who made such a hit at
Carolina's Homecoming Game two weeks
ago with Virginia, will appear on the
program. Other ex-cheerleaders, Bill
Arthur and Vic Huggins also will be on
the program.
Entertainment will be provided by the
Union Activities Board and the Tar Heel
Pep Band.
ECU Whips
Heel Club
The UNC football club closed its
season Sunday with a 6-0 loss to East
Carolina.
The only score of the game came early
in the first period when ECU rolled from
its own 35 to the Carolina 26 where
quarterback Eddie Lynch passed to his
brother Mike for a touchdown.
The Tar Heels penetrated to the ECU
12, 14, 18, and 23-yard lines, but for the
second consecutive week penalties hurt
the team. UNC drew 185 yards for
infractions, while ECU also accumulated
over 1 00 yards.
The game, originally slated for Ficklin
Stadium on the ECU campus, was moved
to nearby Farmville High Stadium when
the administration cancelled all
university-connected athletic events in
the wake of the Marshall University plane
crash.
The club's final season mark is 3-4
overall and 3-1 in the conference. The
team is tied with ECU (4-2) for the North
Carolina Club Football Association
championship.
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arranged six months in advjnce. but thai
in many cases the airlines can't predict
what they will have avjilable until a later
time.
This season's football schedule
included four away games that required
charter service. Crook said two
companies. Southern Airways of Atlanta
and Piedmont Airlines based in
Winston-Salem, had been contracted for
two flights each.
Two airlines were contracted to enable
the team to enjoy jet service to its two
most distant games, with Vanderbilt in
Nashville and Tulane in New Orleans. Jets
were secured from Southern since they
keep three jets in constant charter service.
It was a Southern DC-9 jet which
crashed with the Marshall team.
Piedmont, normally using prop-driven
draft for charter service, flew Carolina to
Maryland and to Saturday's game at
Clemson.
Mike Mason, sales consultant for
Piedmont at Raleigh-Durham Airport,
explained the process of chartering from
his company. "Schools must submit a list
of those games requiring plane service;
we, in return, compute the charge for
each trip and present it to the school,
much like bidding," he said.
Both Crook and Mason noted factors
are important in choosing the proper air
carrier. The most significant are the size
of the airport at the destination and the
distance involved.
"Jets are impractical cost-wise, for
short trips, and they may not be able to
land at a small airport," Mason said. He
noted that Piedmont very seldom uses
jets in charter service.
The Winston-Salem company keeps a
fleet of five Martin 404 prop-driven
planes in Roanoke, Va. where they are
continuously serviced and kept in
readiness for charter service.
The Martin is the same type aircraft
which was carrying the ill-fated Wichita
team.
Mason pointed out, however, that his
firm's program of progressive
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maintenance calls tor the inspection of all
plane systems at specified intervals. "This
system allows for some of the checks to
be done overnight, and has been approved
by the Federal Aviation Agency, which
requires that all planes receive a Current
Air Worthiness Certificate from that
agency." he said.
Piedmont provides a , heavily used
charter service for Big Four schools since
its planes come from Roanoke, only 120
ais,miles away.
Included in the costs of chartering is a
SI. 10 per mile. charge for the ferrying of
the plane from Roanoke, and a SI. Ml per
air mile fee once underway with
passengers. Also a total of SI 50 is
charged for departure fees, while layover
after arriving at the destination is SI0 an
hour, or S200 for 24 hours.
The price per mile for jet service is
higher. For a DC-9 in recent use the
ferrying fee to Raleigh-Durham Airport
was S3. 90 per mile, and S2.55 on a
chartered flight.
Crook noted that when possible the
football team uses only one plane, but
that sometimes that is impossible with a
minimum passenger list of 70 persons.
John Lacey, Tar Heel trainer, said that
when two planes were used, the
first-string offensive and defensive units
were placed in the same plane. He agreed
that they certainly aren't usually thinking
of the possibility of a tragedy such as the
ones that have befell Wichita State and
Marshall.
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