Evening star., 1923-10-25

Foot ball at North Carolina until
1921 was anything but a huge sue
cess. Troubles said TO have arisen
from alumni Interference and a seem
ing inability 10 get coach strong
enough TO handle the situation and
get the best out of really good ma
terial were the main factors in the
lack OF real accomplishments in grid
able to get heads or tails of what was
wrong with North Carolina foot ball.
Fetzars Awaken TnrhceIs.
Then c@ne the Fetzer brothers.
Things bean to take on a new as
they could no longer Iazily carry out
/ their practice sessions, and they
found that foot ball was TO be moro
important than dances. that foot ball
made demands and requirements that
ii had not made before. Alumni were
, told bluntly that when their aid was
desired it would be asked for. Peo-
pie around Chapel Hill began to wake
up to the fact that somebody at last
had begun to run things in no un-
certain way.
Results began to come Practical
~ the same foot bali team that Uni
versity of Maryland and University
OF Virginia had whaled the life out of
the year before went to Baltimore
and Charlottesville and cleaned up
boln inc olu Line anu Olu
eleVens. 1t was the beginning of the
successful Fetzer regime, and not
since the brothers took charge at
North Carolina in 1921 has either
Maryland or Virginia won from North
Carolina.
Last year North Carolina had a
brilliant eleven, undoubtedly one Of
the two or three strongest in the
south. This year the team is little.
If any. weaker than it was then Last
week IT treated the North Carolina
| State College TO a far worse beating
than the 14-to-0 score showed. One
foot ball man who watched the con-
test said after the game that North
Carolina gained enough ground to
have made two touchdowns before it
week before that. was able to beat
North Carolina State only 16 to 0. and
il did not gain near so much ground
against the Raleigh eleven as did
North Carolina University. When
Penn States one-sided victory over
the Navy is remembered. something
Of North Carolina's strength may be
discerned.
Get New Contracts.
When the Fetzer brothers went to
North Carolina they went under a
contract for two years that called
for Bill Fetzer to be director of ath-
letics and coach of foot ball and base
ball. Bob was to be his all-around
assistant. Last year, so highly sat
isf1ed was North Carolina with their
services, they were rendered five
year contracts, which they signed.
But Bill stepped down as athletic
director and gave over the job
to Bob. Bob now is director of ath-
letics and assistant coach in foot
ball and track. and Bill is simply
coach of foot ball and base ball. And
in these capacities they still are
making good. Both are splendid
fellows personally, the kind of men
with whom il is a pleasure TO come
in contact. the kind of men who will
advance the cause of university ath-
letics and be a distinct credit to any
university or enterprise with which
they are associated.
North Carolina teams are made up
of athletes of the highest type, some
of them boys whose fathers could
some of them boys who have nothing
to get themselves a university educa-
ton but their own Willingness TO
work as janitors in the dormitories,
walters in the dining hall, or at any
thing by which they can help them
selves through.
The oldest state university in the
south, North Carolina, has an atmos-
phere all its own. Between its
faculty and students exists much
closer bond than usually is found in
universities and both faculty and stu
dents combine with the alumni to pull
for greater university. Just how
loyal are the alumni is shown by the
way they have fallen in behind the
present coaching regime and backed
the FetZer brothers to the limit, do
spite the hints thrown out three years
ago that their help was not needed.
North Caroiina's teams are made up
of the kind of men with whom another