Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-27

States GRIDDERS
SHOWING NEW pep
Hunk Anderson's Team
May Show Duke and
Carolina Something
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
by j. &. baskerville


Raleigh, Oct. Something has
! happened to the State College foot
ball team-in fact, to the entire squad
Instead of being a collection of indi-
Vidual WOuld-be stars, such as it SEEM
/ ed to be the early part of the season.
the State team is at last beginning to
function as single unit and the be-
lief is becoming prevalent that Coach
Hunk Anderson or somebody has
| done something to THIS previously
| tempermental and disjoined football
squad to put some fight and life into
it and to get it functioning as a unit
! instead of like a collection of eleven
| individual opera stars. If Hunk And
erson is the man responsible for the
change which has taken place in the
State squad. he deserves to be rank
ed as something of a miracle man,
those who have noted the change in
the State squad agree.
Those who saw State end it's losing
streak al { 3'at' .7ll-r.-! University
some ten days ago were surprised
and inclined to hope that it had at
last frightened up and started to play
football. Those who saw the Wolf
pack romp up and down the field
against V. P. l. last Saturday after
noon were even more convinced that
at last the State football squad has
come to life and that from now on
any team which comes up against
State, be it Carolina or even Duke,
had better look out For there was
drive and fight in the State team
from the kickoff until the final wlis-
tie blew. There was also some real
team work, with the entire team func-
tioning as single unit, regardless
of who was carrying the ball and of
whether Hunk was using his import
ant backfield or a flock of domestic
backs. They all fought hard and
played good, solid, smart football. All
the former feeling between the skis"
from the north and the nordic natives
seemed to have disappeared. They all
played football for dear old State and
the goal line was more important
than the Mason-Dixon line, for about
the first time this season.
In probing around to find a reason
for the change which has undoubted-
ly taken place in the State team, foot
ball addicts here are now convinced
or TWO things, as follows:
1. That in the early part of the sea-
son there was intense feeling and per-
sonal jealousy between quite a num-
Der of the players on the squad. espe-
cially between the southern boys and
the boys from nothern states and that
this feeling also evisted to g lesser
degree within the student body, which
in turn made itself felt among the
football squad members. There was
also a belief, whether justified or not
that Hunk Anderson was showing
tavoritisrn towards the players ne
brought down from the North and
West, over the boys from within the
State or from the South. The result
was that both the football squad and
the team were split up into factions
with bad feeling existing between
groups as well as between Individual
players. Reports are current that
this feeling got to such point that
when certain boys were carrying the
ball. the other players would make
no effort or only very feeble effort
to open holes for them. This dissen-
sion within the squad is now regard
ed as being largely responsible, to-
gether, with the personal ambitions
OF several players to be stars, for the
loss of the opening games to David
son and Wake Forest.
2. That Coach Hunk Anderson fin
ally walked up to this condition and
lack OF morale and has taken STERN
and apparently effective measures to
correct them, and that within the last
ten days or two weeks Anderson ord
cred from four to six of his first