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i Those who fly into a rage may 1 make a very bad landing. . üßiw r.wMr fintitlmw 1 waeaMWWwJ Volume 41, Number 103 UNC Coasts To First Bowl Win Ever - - ■ ■ ■ - - - , - CAROLINA 35, AIR FORCE ACADEMY 0 ':T H lpiPr 'flHnHr '*■&*'* MUmmUmm n— * ■ :T ! «l1 4- & l SSHM JT fpS?§J « v ’Vj#'* W»v{ ■/ w ' Hr ■* Hcijnls l Jim Hickey Gets The Victory Ride Winning The Ist Bowl Game Was Just Great —Jim Hickey By BILL PROUTY Underneath the north stands of the Gator Bowl a beaming coach Jim Hickey pushed his way through the swinging iron gates of the dressing room, al most lost from view among his giant, sweating players, fresh from their startling 35-0 victory ' over the Air Force Academy’s Falcons. It was the Tar Heels’ first bowl victory "after post-sea son losses to Georgia, Okla homa and RiCfe during the Jus , tice days. Soon Hickey was cornered for an interview by CBS’s Jim Simpson, but the shouting play ers drowned out his words. One by one—Ken Willard, Junior Edge, Chris Hanburger, Gary Black—were called into the interview, going out over the network's facilities. In back of the coach shouting, back-slap ping players added to the clang or of the fast-filling room. “We can’t hear you, Jim,’ shouted one of the writers. Pick ing up a coke, the coach walked over to a wall, learned back against it and pulled his tie from around his neck. “This was probably our best game of the year. The key to our victory came during our work out last Monday when we found that our offensive linemen were picking up the stunts used by the Air Force defense and were switching off when necessary." Pulling on a cigarette, Hickey continued, shouting over the din, "We are a larger team than the | j Holiday Dh to the New Yew’s holiday, the next issue of The Chapel HIH Weekly wHI be paUiahed on Thursday instead at Wednesday. The wwifl publication dates will be resumed with the Sunday The Weekly offices will be closed on New Year’s Day. Regular office hours win be resumed on Thors day....' The stall of the Weekly wishes you a happy end prosperous Mew Year. The Chapel Hill Weekly Air Force and we felt we could win if we could handle their tricky defense. Our own pass de fense we felt was good (UNC set a new Gator Bowl record with five interceptions' because it has been among the best in the na tion all year. “Edge (quarterback Junior Edge, who had a great day in his last collegiate game' told me he gained confidence quickly early in the game when he found that our linemen up front were moving everybody out in front of him. He called the kind of game we planned, as did Gary Blade, and we didn't call a single play from the bench except for the two passes to Bob Lacey for the two-point conversions.” Looking around the crowded, rocking room with a broad grin, Jim listened to the next ques tion with great interest: “Jim, how does it feel to be the coach of Carolina's first bowl winner?” • “Great,” he said. “It had a lot to do with our victory. We just got off to. that big start. The Air Force is a fine team and the score is just one of those things. We were sharp, made only a few mis takes and got extra good perfor mances from even our third team. Gary Black turned in some great plays as Edge’s re placement. “How about Willard, coach,” someone shouted. "Willard was tremendous and ‘lt’s Amazing What A Bowl Will D0...’ By BILLY CARMICHAEL 111 Tar Heels bom and bred and a few Tar Heels dam near dead converged on Jacksonville Fri day and Saturday to root home Carolina in the Gator Bowl. They came by car, train, plane and bus. Getting there in many cases was half the fun or more. "You haven’t lived,” one special train rider confessed, "until you’ve seen the sun rise in South Georgia." t The Jacksonville train station was bedlam as the specials ar rived one after another. Bands of the Tar Heel faithful poured out and trooped off singing “We 5 Cents a Copv I think the nation got a good look at his strength, Speed and know-how.” The bruising Willard gained 94 yards in 18 attempts and was a constant threat even on the outside plays. “We feel fortunate to win any game from a good opponent," continued Coach Hickey. “Before the game I called it even. I’d probably do the same if we played again next week. That Isaacson (Terry Isaacson, the Falcons’ quarterback) is a great little player, and we had plenty of respect for him.” , The players were pulling off uniforms and getting ready for showers, signing autographs, shouting at one another, and slapping shoulders. Junior Edge was talking to a scout for the Hamilton Tiger cats. Ken Willard was shouting and signing programs. Eddie Kes ler, the fine blocking back, was testing his broken nose (the sec ond time this year). Gene Sig mon was strutting around brag ging that he should be an'end instead of a tackle (he caught one pass for a first down on a tackle-eligible play)., Outside the dressing room hundreds of Carolina fans were singing and shouting. Inside the dressing room, still leaning against the wail and still surrounded by reporters was a real happy Jim Hickey. He wasn't in any hurry to go anywhere.. don’t give a damn for the Air Force Academy” at the top of their lungs. Jacksonville hotels, motels, and other roaming establish ments were jammed by Friday night, mostly with Catalina fans who far' outnumbered the Air Force followers. The Air Force team was not without rooters. General Curtis Lernay, Air Force Chief of Staii, was on hand. He quickly threw Gator Bowl officiate into a twit by ordering a telephone installed at his seat in the stands. - Whether the phone was con nected to SAC Headquarters or Serving the Chapel Hill Area Since 1923 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1963 Willard , Blan k & Edge Star By BILLY CARMMICHAEL 111 Carolina crocked the Air Force at the Gator Bowl yesterday. The Tar Heels did it magnifi cently and decisively. It is al most unpatriotic to humiliate one’s Air Force Academy 35-0, as Carolina did before a sellout crowd of 50,018, especially with millions more looking in on na tionwide television. It was Carolina’s finest per formance of an outstanding sea son which saw the Tar Heels win nine games while losing only two. It was also the University’s first bowl victory in four at tempts. The 1963 Tar Heels did something a Charlie Justice team was never able to do. Only in the early stages of the game would Webster’s Collegiate describe it as a contest. The Air Force's well-clippinged quarter back Terry Isaacson did have the Carolina defense slightly buffa loed in the early going. Isaacson, who scrambles more than a cook in a short order diner, operated well from his shotgun offense in the first quarter until the Tar Heels made a few basic defensive adjustments. After that, Terry and his pirates were drawn, quartered and keelhauled by an unceasing and relentless Carolina defense. Meanwhile, back on the of fense the Tar Heels were unstop pable. They got nothing cheap, working, sweating and hard nosing their way for all 35 points. Five times they drove for touchdowns powerhousing 77, 68, 65, 58 and 45 yards. On all but one of these drives quarter backs Junior Edge and Gary Black deftly mixed just the right blend of running and pas sing that left the Air Force wondering if falconry isn’t a little more of a fun sport than football. On Carolina’s fourth touch down, the Tar Heels forsook finesse. They merely opened the jaws of the Air Force de fense and stuck the ball right down the throat with the crush ing running of Edge, Ken Wil lard and Eddie Kesler. If Carolina had a star that shone a little brighter than the rest it was Willard, named the game's most valuable player. Time and again, it was the big Brahma Mama who came up with the big play that kept a drive going. Willard bulled for 94 yards in 18 carries. But take nothing away from Edge and Black. Playing his final game for Carolina, Junior was never sharper. He com pleted five of nine passes and (Continued on Page 2) Weather Report | Snowfall possible today. High Low Thursday 62 29 Friday 58 36 Saturday .46 31 One Townsman, picking him self op from a glued sidewalk last week, muttered darkly, “That’s a cotton-pkldng plenty of this freezy kid stuff.” to the Air Force Bench was not announced. Prior to the game several thousand of the Gator Bowl con tingent gathered in the Coliseum next to the Gator Bowl for a brisk pep rally and buffet. The cheering portion of the program went weil. but "the buffet" con sisted of hot dogs and soft drinks to be purchased at a single con cession stand. Secretary of Commerce Lufc er Hodge* was the feature per former at the rally, predicting a Carolina victory in no uncer tain terms. Forty miles to the south at St Augustine, the Tar Heel . r gg—- — iMBMBIM I jMR* 1 -A MbBHHL HI . . a3uj» '■ • *Wr Wt [ y;. v 11 -T v^ jB II- Sr taKT MPm f « vmjsKZ? rs wkjn|^mwHßnnnn|jMßwf• 1L X Ww r ;%ipr '?tKy fiv * *3 • XL, * II - - |jgg§| ■:§ /w iiw ®L I i wfj 4 ....... . , Ken Willard Blasts For UNO’s First Touchdown ‘The Flattest Performance We’ve Ever Had’—Martin By HUGH STEVENS Usually natty Ben Martin, his shirt wilting with shower steam and his silk necktie jerked rudely down from his collar, stood in the crammed Air Force dressing room yesterday and said, “We just couldn't get going.” Around him, his battered Fal cons slowly peeled off their sog gy white uniforms arid showered in silence. “When we got so far behind so early,” Martin said, “we didn’t really have a chance to use our complete offense. We spent the afternoon playing ‘catch-up,’ and our only weapon was the pass. “We were flat from the very start. Perhaps this was the flat test performance we’ve ever had. TOs was not the usual Air Force team playing today.” Martin indicated that one rea son for his team’s let-down was the length of the season. “We began football on August 11, and our last game was noUuntil De cember 7,” he said. The weariness in the coach’s voice clearly hinted that today’s contest had only made a long season into a Jong, long one. “I felt that if we would have scored early when we had a chance, it would have been a dif ferent - ball game. Certainly the interception early in the game (by Ronnie Jackson, stopping the Falcons deep in Carolina terri tory' was a turning point in the contest.” Martin did not hesitate to name Ken Willard the game’s outstand ing performer. But he added that “those two quarterbacks (Junior football team and official party had spent a far more tranquil week. America’s oldest city is also America's quietest city. They roll up the sidewalks be fore it gets light in the morn ing. The Ponce de Leon Hotel, winter headquarters of Carolina benefactor William Rand Kenan, was also Bowl headquarters for the Tar Heels. For the first time in the history of the hotel, it was opened a week before the start of the season. / Mr. Kenan wanted his hotel opened for his, team. The lobby of the Ponce had the (Continued on Page 2) Photos by United Press International, Courtesy Television Station WTVD Edge and Gary Black) had fine performances, especially on* plays where they were off-balance and had to regain their composure to make the play go.” When asked about the effeet of the damp field on his usually swijt and elusive flyboys, Mar tin replied, “We would have cer tainly preferred a faster track.” Carolina, he said, did not catch the Air Force unawares with its offensive maneuvers or the strength of its defense. “I think that the difference in size of the teams was more im portant than we had thought it would be, though," he added. The Happy Statistics UNC AF 14 First Downs Rushing 7 8 First Downs Passing 7 1 First Downs By Penalties 0 23 Total First Downs 14 251 Net Yards Gained Rushing - 95 21 Passes Attempted 3ft 12 Passes Completed 14 0 Passes Had Intercepted 5 119 Net Yards Gained Passing 165 71 Number Plays Rushing and Passing 65 370 Total Offense Yardage 260 36. Average Yards Punts 40 3 Number Punts Returned 1 20 Net Yards Punts Returned 0 3 Number Times Penalized 3 35 Total Yards Penalized 42 2 Number Times Fumbled 3 0 Number Own Fumbles Lost 2 Scoring: Ist Quarter —(UNC) Willard, 1-yard run at 12:26 (Kick missed). 2nd Quarter —(UNC) Edge, 6-yard run At 5:20 (Pass failed) , J (UNC) Robinson, 5-yard pass from Black at 10:31 (Black passed to Robinson for 2). 3rd Quarter —'(UNC) Kesler, 1-yard run at 10:16. (Edge passed to Lacey for 2). 4th Quarter —(UNC) Black, 5-yard rub at 1:41 Chapman kick). Scoring: Score by Quarters ? Air Force lLi_ i_ 0 0 0 0 — 0 UNC ._ T _ 6 14 8 7—35 Attendance 50,018 (Sell Out) I SUNDAY j I ISSUER I Published Every Sunday and Wednesday In naming the outstanding play ers on his own squad, Martin mentioned fullback Dave Sicks, a rugged- 210-puuuder, and Jim Greth, a sophomore who spark led at tight end. “Sicks was the man who made our defense hold on the occasions when it really worked,” he said, "and Greth turned in some fine catches” (three for 35 yards to lead Air Force). The Air Force trainer noted that Dick Czarnota, the usual starting wingback on offense, pulled a hamstring muscle be fore the game when he slipped (Continued on Page 2) ' v> : -V % - ■ DR. A. PRICE HEUSNER I NC Medical Professor Dies At 53 Dr. A. Price Heusner, profes sor of anatomy for sue years and previously professor of surgery in charge of neurosurgery for five years at the University School of Medicine, died at his home here last Monday follow ing a heart attack. He was S 3. Dr. Heusner joined the UNC medical faculty in 1952 after nine years as an instructor in neurosurgery at the Boston Uni versity School of Medicine ia Boston. He was a native of Kansas, re ceived his bachelor of arts de gree from Swarthmore College and began his medical work while a Rhodes Scholar at Ox ford University in England. He received his medical de gree. with honors, from Harvard Medical School in 193*. Dr. Hcusner’s maini inter- 4 was in the anatomy of the nerv vous system, but he showed a great interest in the histoiy of medicine. He was a member of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club and presented some at Up most interesting programs. Hte lectures bristled with the history of medicine and he often chided medical students for not search ing for information in early (Continued on Page g) j
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