The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-15
ANCIENT RIVALS
WILL RENEW OLD
CRIDIR0N FIGHT
Only Two Members From
Last Years Carolina
Starting Team Back

RALEIGH, Oct. 14.-tRAThey're
billing it as the 1913 version OF the
ancient gridiron classic" between
Duke and North Carolina-and
some $4,000 true believers will be
on hand Saturday at Durham, tear
ing their hair as they await the
verdict.
1t probably will be the best
game in the nation that day, what
with both teams loaded for bear,
and players representing each
school will, indeed, be wearing the
traditional colors. Cheering Sec
tons will exhort one team to BEAT
Duke and the other to trample
them bums'' from Chapel Hill.
Outside of that, the game is just
a reasonable facinile of the IAN
nual renewal of the battle between
arch rivals" as the tubthumpers
describe it.
Take look at the squads, and
you get the idea.
The carolina" starting eleven
sports exactly two members who
saw service with the Tar Heels
last year. They're Guard Ralph
Strayhorn and Tailback Billy
Myers (Craven Turner would've
made it three, but he's out with
an injury. The rest of the star
tiers starred last year for such
ancient rivals" as V. P. l., Ole
Miss. S. M. u, Alabama, Vir-
ginia and Vanderbilt. The entire
Conan squad boasts only a dozen
men who trod the North Carolina
campus last year.
The Duke" team comes a little
nearer-but not enough to shout
about-being just that. The Blue
Devils can claim seven holdovers
on the starting one-1ess-than-a-
dozen. But two-thirds of the squad
last year were dom their learnin'
at Wake Forest, South Carolina,
Mississippi State, georgia. Auburn,
High Point college and Miami U.
To add to the confusion, each
school claims different count on
the results Of their % meetings,
which started in 1888 (if you're
getting dizzy trying to figure it
out, they didn't play from 1894
until 1929
1t happened in 1893 when a
scheduled game didn't come off.
Now both schools claim win of
that one by forfeit, and the mathe-
come up with this:
Carolina claims IA wins, II losses
and three ties; Duke boasts IL
wins, 10 losses and three ties.
At least they agree on the num-
Der of the games.
Even though it's slightly
synthetic version of the annual
brawl, you still can expect the
usual-anything can happen when
Duke and Carolina meet, even if
it's at tiddlywinks.
1t happened in 1885 Duck when
you say that when Carolina was
hepped up over a possible Rose
Bowl bid. Duke won 25-0-No
roses. The Blue Devils were red
hot in 1870 Carolina won 6-3-
slightly cooling the Dukes. Last
year you could toss a coin. They
tied 1913. And so on, ad infinitum.
Duke generally is favored this
year. They pack a high-scoring
punch on the ground and in the air.
They are blessed with Pat Pres
ton, interference-running tackle
from Wake Forest who makes a
habit of blocking punts, and one
Bob Ganitt. who added 10 extra
points in 81 tries.
Carolina sports a formidable de-
Tense, though. The Poole trio,
Guard Bull johnson and a host of
others who are hard to get around,
over or through. And their backs
not exactly inexperienced do
right well in the running and pas
sing departments. So don't sell
the Tar Heels short.
It adds up to this: If the Navy
wasn't around. there probably
wouldn't be a Duke-North Carolina
'classic" this year.
Two of the country's best teams
are clashing.
And, you'd better anchor those
upper plates, so you won't swal-
low them when the guy in the next
pew smacks you on the back and
comes out with "Ain't that the old
(underscore your
favorite) spirit, thought"