Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16

~ ALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 15.-Every
tx member of the University Of
North Carolina football team,
champion of the South in 1892, is not
only alive, but is prosperous II years
later. By many critics in North Car
olina this is considered the most re-
markabe team ever turned out in the
South-especially in view Of the fact
that every man who played on that
eleven is living
or that number two have been
judges, one has been Speaker of the
State General Assembly others have
developed into physicians and minis
ters, others into business men, and
one into one of the foremost chem
lists in the United States. Their vic
tories in peace have been no less than
their victories in war, and they
warred at a time when football was
played in an elemental way-When
mass plays, instead of open plays,
had the call, and when the man with
the most grit and muscle was usual
ly expected to give the best account
Of himself The Carolina team of
1892 played three of its hardest games
in one week-starting out with We'd
nesday of Thanksgiving week and
ending on Saturday of the same week.
Football teams accustomed to par
lor car luXuries would view with dis
may the prospects of leaving college
Tuesday night and meeting Auburn,
Vanderbilt and Virginia in Atlanta
and Nashville, all in four days. Fiji
teen men, including the manager,
went on the trip, and not a single
substitute got in any of the three
games. No player was injured or
otherwise incapacitated. In these lat
ter days when a squad Of from "a to
80 men are taken on trip, such a
statement as this seems unlikely.
DR. JOEL WHITAKER. probably
- the greatest authority on sports
in North Carolina and himself ia
nous football and baseball player in
his college days, made the statement
to-day that the team of 1892 was not
the most powerful eleven the Univer-
sity has ever turned out, but he
thought 1t was the most remarkable.
Taking into consideration that 1t won
the championship of the South in
four days in the same week, that only
eleven men played in the three big
games, and that all the men are alive
and prosperous-th Carolina team
of 1892 challenges a comparison with
any team in the country.
Here is the personnel, together with
the occupations and addresses of the
men to -day:
Michael Holle, of Raleigh, captain,
| halfback Now DIT Michael Hoke, a
| celebrated surgeon in Atlanta Ga.
Charles Baskerville, Of Mississippi
| manager and fullback. Later profess
sor of chemistry in the University OF
| North Carolina, and now in charge OF
the chemistry department OF the Uni
versity of the City of New York.
Alfred $. Barnard, of Danville, Va
| quarterback. HaT a successful law
yer at Asheville, n. c.
w. A. Devin, of Oxford halfback
Recently appointed a judge of the
Superior Court in North Carolina.
| ]. Crawford Biggs, Of oxford, right
end Later nominated and elected
| judge of the Superior Court, and now
| a successful lawyer in Raleigh.
w. Nj. Gibbes, of Hyde County, left
end. He is DR.. Gibbes, a successful
| physician in Newbern, N. c.
l John Thomas Pugh, of Morrisville
Wake County, left tackle Mr.. Pugh
is a prosperous lawyer in Boston
| Mass.
G. r. Little, Of Pitt County. right
| tackle. Now a successful politician
| in Pasquotank County, where he is
| Clerk OF the Superior Court.
f. M. Snipes, of Chatham County
right guard Now a Methodist min
lister in the North Carolina Confer
ence.
James Kirkpatrick. of Greensboro,
left guard A successful business man
of Greensboro, n. c.
Walter Murphy, of Salisbury, CEN
ter. Well-known lawyer and Legisla-
tor. Recently elected Speaker Of the