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Saturday, October 23, 1976 The Daily Tar Heel 7 Numerous big names mark Pirates' past If you think East Carolina has just emerged into big-time football, in a way you're right. But to reach the height it has now attained, it had to make a long and often difficult climb. Going back to the days when Col. Ken Beatty commanded the East Carolina troops, they were daring enough to play N.C. State even then. But this State team was composed of freshman players, and the Pirates were thrashed by 28 points. It took the Pirates eight years to capture their first winning season when they had a 5 3 record in 1 940. One year later, in 1 94 1 , they had a perfect 7-0 slate. Through the years, the Pirates were an up-again, down-again squad, never really overly successful until 1962, when Lenoir Rhyne mentor Clarence Stasavich was brought in to head the team. Stasavich instituted the single wing, as awkward an offense'as ever was invented. Out of that offenseStasavfch managed a 50-27-1 record, but, not without some of t football's finest athletes passing through Greenville. ' ; 1; - n ;c;ir After a 5-4 opening ''seaScfa-u''!;1 Stasavich opened Ficklen Stidlu1n fn l9Si with a 9-1 record, including a 20-10 debut victory over Wake Forest. In holding the Demon Deacons to 10 points, the Bucs shut off what little offense Wake could muster that year, including a virtual unknown named Brian Piccolo. The next year, Piccolo gained 1044 yards. East Carolina was among the first, if not the first team to appear in the Tangerine Bowl. After escaping with a 14-13 win over Massachusetts in 1964, it returned to the bowl and its first television appearance ever, in 1965 to thrash Maine, 31-0. skip foreman The single wing was clipped to a 4-6 mark in 1966, but rose to 8-2 the next year, with one of the nation's leading rushers in Butch Colson. Another top rusher appeared in Ficklen Stadium that year, His name was Duane Thomas. It was back when Thomas still . communicated in spoken language, leading Texas State to a 37-13 win, easily convincing Pirates fans that the time just was not right to take on the big boys. The next year, the Pirates sunk to 4-6, giving indication that the single wing was about kaput. Stasavich's last year was 2-7, and included in the losses was a , 24-;6 whipping at the. hands of Louisiana . Tech. Tech had a wirey, strong-armed -quarterback that year,, and n,o. maUer'hdw' many Pirate defenders jc.orivefeq uporihim, the'- 'quarterback always 'jn'aiig'ecl to etxide ' 'Mike WcGee entered Greenville for a one year stay before his passage to Duke in 1970. McGee managed to achieve mediocrity with 3-8, but the Duke offer left ECU looking for a new head coach. They found one in Sonny Randle. Randle vowed that his fans "would not yawn in the second quarter, nor leave in the third quarter." Unfortunately, he made the claim against Toledo and Chuck Ealey, a team highly averse to losing. Randle lost that game and five more to finish a shade under .500. The major accomplishment of the year was a 31-15 pasting of the Wolfpack. Randle followed with successive 9-2 records, the only losses both times coming against State and Carolina. Randle was later lured away by Virginia, only to watch East Carolina come to Charlottesville and embarass him, 61-10 last year. Pat Dye has had to maintain what has become a "winning tradition" at ECU, and succeeded. All the jokes about that "technical school down east" have faded into the past. In football, ECU has clawed its way up to the big boys, and shown it can compete. Should they win today, some of those big boys may have to move over because they'll have a new kid on the block. : Staff photo by Charles Hardy A major question surrounding today's game is who will start at quarterback for : v Carolina. Bernie Menapace (above) started Carolina's first five games but did not 5 see action last Saturday against N.C. State. Instead, UNC Head Coach Bill Dooley :ji went with freshman Matt Kupec. Kupec completed 1 1 of 22 passes for 158 yards. S ? Complicating the decision is the availability of P. J. Gay and Johnny Stratton. g S Gay, who suffered a knee injury in preseason, may be redshirted, while Stratton, g $ the No. 1 quarterback before suffering a broken wrist, began practicing with the S team this week. 2 Nationally Known Speed Reading Course to be Taught in Chapel Hill. United States Reading Lab will offer a 4 week course in speed reading ta a limited number of qualified people in Chapel Hill. This recently developed method of instruction is the most innovative and effective program available in the United States. Not only does this famous course reduce your time in the classroom to just one class per week for 4 short weeks but it also includes an advanced speed reading course on cassett tape so that you can continue to improve for the rest of your life. In just 4 weeks the average student should be reading 4-5 times faster. In a few months, some students are reading 20-30 times faster, attaining speeds that approach 6,000 words per minute. In rare instances, speeds of up to 13,000 wpm have been documented. Our average graduate should read 7-10 times faster upon completion of the course with marked improvement in comprehension and concentration. For those who would like additional information a series of FREE one hour orientation lectures have been scheduled. At these free lectures the course will be explained in detail, including classroom procedure, instruction methods, class schedule and a special one time only introductory tuition that is less than half of the cost of similar courses. You must attend any of the meetings shown for information about Chapel Hill courses. These meetings are open to the public above age 1 8. (Persons under age 1 8 should be accompanied by parent if possible.) If you have always wanted to be a speed reader but found the cost prohibitive or the course too time-consuming, now you can. Just by attending 1 evening per week for 4 short weeks, you can read 7-10 times faster, concentrate better and comprehend more. If you are a student who would like to make A's instead of B's or C's, or if you are a business person who would like to stay abreast of today's everchanging, accelerating world, then this course is an absolute necessity. These special FREE one hour lectures will be held at the following times and places. CHAPEL HILL MEETINGS in C Ball Room, Carolina Inn WEDNESDAY, OCT. 27 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. OCT. 28 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. OCT. 29 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. OCT. 31 3:00 p.m. NOV. 1 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. NOV. 2 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. If you are a student, housewife, businessman, or executive, this course, which took 5 years of intensive research to develop, is a must. 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