THE YANCEY RECORD i HURSDAY (SEPT. 5, 1963 - —■— —-I The iom Sidelines ' . BY TOM HIGGINS fPP < 1 football practice began in the Atlantic Coast Conference Monday. Bob Quincy. North Carolina’s excellent Sports Information (Dir ector, appropriately summed up the situation thus: “Right now everyone is unbeaten and untied. Spirit has never been better.” Even lVake "Forest Is enthusias tic. The Deacons know that even if they win only one game they will be improving on 1962’s re cord. I’m enthusiastic about the com ing season, too. . .and a little “homesick.” This is my first sea son in six years away from the ACC football world’s axis. During those years I worked as a sportswriter for three N. C. dailies, i’ll get back each Satur day to cover a game for one of the state’s dailies this_ season. But it won’t be the same. A “Sat urday , 'nly Man” is never able to pick' ‘up those incidental little stories that turn covering sports ■ from a job into a delight. Stories such as. . . Colorful Prank Howard, the 'v- coach who has become an institut ion within an institution *24 years on the job) at Clemson College, bounced onto the practice field, where assistant coaches already had the Tigers at work. Spying two mammoth tackles in a one-on-one head-banging drill, Howard roared: "Hit hard er! If yon play for me you have to be a -mean S.O. B. Then the.coach spyed a group of women, probably players’ wives, standing nearby. Blushing, he roared again: “Well, you might not have to be a S. 0. 8., but you shore do have to be mean!” . . Last season North Carolina’s Tar Heels- flew to the new Spartan burg-GreenVUJe Airport en route to a game, at Clemson. A bus whioh was! to meet the plane and transport tjhe * team to Its hotel had inadvertently gone to the old, abandoned' Greenville airfield. i Just as 1 ! the players settled in the lobby’for a long, annoying wait on the bus, a loudspeaker blared: “You Tar Heels will be interested .to know that the Blue Angels (the Navy's precision fly ing team) : will be landing in five minutes.”!^ The players rushed to the obser-l vation platform, and sure enough the Navy lets roared over In tight formation, ilnformed by the tower that the UNC team was watching, the sailors, went through virtually A47«tel Give The Beit Byi ZIP Businessman: Assure Speedier Delivery Os Your Important MaiU We Will Add Local Zip Code j Numbers To Your Envelopes, Letterheads and Statements. We Now Have A Supply of the Popular Gilbert Cockle Finish Envelopes and Stationery. ,'- v ’ ■ VfGHcey Recond their entire act before descending. 3 (The Blue Angels were in Green ville to Perform at dedication ceremonies at the new airfield). The bus finally arrived and everyone swarmed on. Moments after it was underway, Bob Brad ley, demson’s Sports Information Director who had met the Tar Heels at the airfield, stood and solemnly asked for ""attention. “Gentlemen,” he said, cramming his tongue into his cheek, ‘‘the - aerial act which greeted you is another example of Clemson’s famed hospitality. . .courtesy of the athletic department.” He was given a wild ovation. . Each year sportswriters from the ACC area charter a plane and visit each of the league’s eight grid camps on a whirlwind tom known as “Operation -Football.” Last year at N. C. State the writers were interviewing affable Coach Earle Edwards. Edwards was bombarded with questions, some of them utterly ridiculous, but he politely attempted to ans wer each one. The session drug on and on. Finally someone quer ied: “Coach, who’ll be doing the kicking this year?” Edwards couldn’t resist. A sly grin creased his face. “The alu mni and sportswriters,” he re plied. . . .Following a loss many coach es clam up and all the poor wri ter assigned to obtain a post-game interview can get is a “yes,” a “no,” or a “no comment.” To his credit, Maryland’s Tom Nugent does not fail in this cate gory. Nugent, who is famous for the “I” formation and his feud with Clemson’s Howard, is always gra cious in defeat, and he gives the writers the ..colorful comments they crave. Last fall after absorbing a heart-breaking 10-7 loss at Duke • that knocked his Terps out of the ' ACC championship, Nugent was In the midst of his post-game press conference when a nearby phone rang. Another Maryland coach an , awered and said: “It’s for you . Tom. WTQP in Washington.” Nugent, excusing himself, ex plained that he was committed to give the D. C. radio station a few brief comments each week about ; the just-completed game. ’ The fellow on the other end of , the line asked Nugent how he felt r about the next Saturday’s game. “Well, we play Clemson next week,” said Nugent, “and we ex pect a good game, despite the fact that the Clemson team is coached by Frank Howard.” Panthers H 'in Opener Cane River To Face Spruce Pine; East Yancey To Meet Mors Hill • - -40 BY TOM HIGGINS Record Editor East Yancey and Cane River begin their quest for Appalachian Conference football honors Friday night when they tangle with two respected league rivals. Coach Bruce Peterson’s Cane River Rebels open their season by playing host to Harris High School of Spruce Pine. Meanwhile, the East Yancey Panthers, coached by Bobby Thomas, go after their second victory when they meet Mars HUI at Mars Hill. Both games are scheduled to begin at 8 P. m. Tire Spruce Pine contest will be the first of six consecutive confer ence games for Cane River, and ■ East Yancey will be playing the first of fouiystraight loop games. Both Spruce Pine and Mars Hill were beaten in tlieir opening I games last week. Spruce Pine stepped out of its • “A” classification and was beaten by 3-A North Buncombe, 27-6. Mars Hill, whioh figures to be a , contender for Appalachian Confer ; ence honors, was defeated in a mild upset by Hot SPrings, 27-14. •• • • The Panthers kicked off their I* The Great Outdoors r i i BY ROD AMUNDSON - - N. C. Wildlife Commission The next time you feel like - cussing our somewhat complicat ? ed system of hunting and fishing i licenses, game and fish laws and regulations, you would do well to •) 1 bear this in mind: In Bavaria, . the minimum age to qualify for a hunting license is 18 years. And before you can buy tills license ) you have to have successfully com pleted a six months course in a hunting laws, customs, Identffi . cation of game and nongame species, plus fundamentals of game management, a p On completing this bit of techw „ cal education you have to go be 'l fore a board of qualified German *i jaegers (qualified hunters! for an ’ examination. If you come up from this little inquisition smell j ing like a Uly and feeling j like a wrung out dishrag, you ! cam buy a license for 50 Reich 1 marks (twelve bucks). But you J f ‘cp n’t go afield until you have , bought an insurance policy cover ing $35,000 in personal liability and $3,500 in property damage | liability. Now, are you on your own? Not , quite. You have to secure per mission to hunt on the land, em a ploy a guide, and wait for him to ” give you the high sign before squeezing off a shot at game. Heil to Bavaria, but give me , ■ Tarheelia! "" _ . . * . • That bigger bag limit on ducks this year is downright encourag-, ing to many a Tarheel wildflower. j Although a scaup is mighty hard* to tell from a ringnecked duok.j the bonus of two scaup a day) brings the potential daily bag i j of ducks up to five birds with a Possession limit of ten—more than] we have had for many a year, i Apparently the long range wea-! ther cycle in the Canadian and j the northern United States has' FOR THE BEST | IN I MOTOR TUNE UP, BODY & FENDER REPAIRS E FRONT END AUGNMENT. WHEEL BAtANCING vf* t MAJOR * MINOR AUTO REPAIRB, UNDER COATING. WINTERIZING, WITH RADIATOR REPAIRS •BY' FACTORY TRAINED AUTO St BODY MF'JANICS See.. Roberls Chevrolei-Buick me. RUBMVILLX. ». G. ' /* FRANCHISED DEALER NO. IMP campaign last Friday night with r an impressive 27-6 ..victory over 1 Happy Valley,—Team., at East Yancey. 1 Junior quarterback Gordon ; i Banks set the pace, running tor two touchhdowns and passing to ; end Harold Bennett for another, l Halfback Bob Anderson scored the l other East Yancey touchdown. East Yancey did all its .scor f ing in the first half and then, f after allowing the Tennesseans a 1 third period touchdown, turned to 1 defense and coasted in an easy winner. I. a The Panthers took only five plays to score, marching 55 yards e with the opening kickoff. Ander ■- son swept left end for the final j 35 yards with slightly less than e three minutes gone. Fullback Nor . man Ray then smashed across for 1 the first of three successive extra y Points he scored on plunges. East tallied again the next s time it had possession, Banks i culminating a 60-yard drive by sneaking over from the two. i The Panthers turned it to a rout with another 60-yard touch i down march in the early stages i. of the second period. The payoff this time was a seven-yard, first r down pitch from Banks to Ben- changed for the better. Cycles! of wet and dry seasons in this region run over a period of about 12 to 15 years, and apparently we are in for the wet phase of the cycle during the next few years.' This will be reflected in liberaliz- 1 ed seasons and bag limits. The formula is quite simple: no rain, no marshes; no ducks. | With canvasbaok and redhead ducks completely eliminated from the bag limit this year, and be cause scaup are hard to distinguish from ring-neck ducks, it might be to spend two bits on some insurance against . getting caught with a boo-boo bird in the bag. The U. 8- Fish and Wildlife' Service has same 100.000 copes of a book (at 25c each) entitled ‘Ducks at a Dis tance.” This little number tells why duck identification is import ant, and show what to look for and how to tell one species from another by flight pattern, action color, shape and voice. If a duck clams up on a dark, foggy day you will still have Iden tification trouble. But this book Is worth the money. Write to Government Printing Office, Divi sion of Piiblic Documents, Wash ington 25, D. C. .... Sign of the times: the fact that the State Wildlife Commission is holding ninie public hearings to consider antlerless deer seasons In small portions of 15 counties indicates that in general deer populations have reached gener , ous proportions. There is only one I reason to hunt deer: to reduce * herds to a point where they will I not do serious damage to agricul jtural activities or to keep them | from destroying natural deer j 1 range. 1 •* • • I OT Luke Guppy figures the ! world owes him a living, but al ■ lows as to how he has to work mighty hard to collect. nett that obviously caught Happy Valley with its pass defense down. East Yancey swept 50 yards for its final score later in the second period. Banks covering the final 15, on a run around right end. Happy Valley got its running attack going midiway the third period and averted a shutout when Jim McKay skirted end for a touchdown. East Yancey stopped a running try for the extra point. The Tennesseans, after throwing only one pass through three per iods, took to the air in desperat ion in the fourth quarter and (juickly moved into East Yancey territory with: three straight completions. The Panthers brought the threat to a jarring end, however, when they discovered that Happy Val ley’s protection for its passer was virtually nil. Chuck Chrisawn, a 235-Pound tackle, and guard Bryon Zuver led a “red-dogging” attaok that upset the visitors’ hopes for a comeback and assured a sad night in Happy Valley. Bast finished with a whopping statistical advantage. The Pan thers had a 13-5 edge in first downs, 215-138 yards rushing and 120#5 yards passing. Their execution of plays was excellent for an early-soason game (when mistakes are usually prevalent) and then- repertorie good. ‘ Most consistent gainer was an ! end sweep with either Anderson or fellow halfbacks Gary Ray or Dudley Robertson carrying. Barks’ pin'oint passes to Bennett and end Charles Willis accounted for ' much valuable third down yard -1 age. The Panthers' blocking was un usually sharp in the first half, | especially for an opening game. Linemen turning in above average performances included center Benson Tyner, tackle Steve King, linebacker J. D. Silvers and guard Basil McDougald. Happy Valley 0 0 6 o—6 Bast Yancey 14 13 0 0-27 EY—Anderson 35 run <N. Ray, mn)\ , EY—Banks 2 run (N, Ray. run) I EY—Bennett 7 pass from Baziks (N. Ray, run) EY—Banks 15 run (run failed) HV—McKay 10 run (run failed) STATISTICS HV EY . First downs 5 13 Yrads rushing 138 215 Yards passing 45 120 Passes 3-4 744 Passes intercepted 1 0 Fumbles lost 11 Punts 2-43 4-39 Yards penalized 50 65 r S-PIECE PLACE SETTINGS: large Dinner Plate, Cup, Saucer, Bread and Butter, Salad Plate , ! I HAW MAfIW * HAW HHMAH, " BW.HI j OPEN STOCK intriguing new serving pieces can be added to your place WOODLAND GOLD ■ settings from time to time. Styled to blend with alt home-making decor* in delicate colors of cocoa, gold and bwnt vv sienna. -<o** s*pc. * LACI SITT,NO ONIY 525 ] >y mY*=> • 1 l Op* ll slock value S9.OS—SAVE $3.80 | _—' Roby’s Flower & Gift Shop its*. 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