The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-03
DUKE OFFENSIVE
TURNS CONTEST
into WILD R0UT
Buddy Luper And Host OF
Devil Back Scamper In
Scoring Party


University's potent Blue Devils
celebrated Navy Day by handing
the North Carolina Navy Pre-
Flight School football team 42-C
shellacking before 6.179 spectators.
It was the same old story. with
the Blue Devils scoring almost
at Will. They started in the first
quarter when Lloyd Blount snag-
ged 42-yard pass from high
stepping Buddy Lupec and step
ped across the goal line, less than
two minutes after the start of the
game.
"spook' Murphy ended "a
yard march with 13-yard sprint
/ for the second score: two more
were added in the second Oh Lit
pers own 22-yard gallop over the
/ last marker and on Murphys pass
from the Pre-F'light p to Perry
III the end zone.
/ No more scoring was done
except for each team having touch
down jaunts, one an 80-yarder by
Blount, called back-until the final
period. Murphy loosed 36-yard
aerial to Gordon Carver, who
sprinted the remaining 20 yards
for one, and Bobby Rute bucked
and ran a total of 46 yards for the
other. going over from the two.
Fumbles Costly
Pre-Flight out-first doWned the
Dukes 1872 but fumbles proved
costly and the big Blue Devil boys
broke through consistently to
{ ~ov the Pre-Flight backs for los
ses. Duke gained 221 yards rush
ing to 40 for the Would-be Navy
Fliers.
Pre-Flight received the opening
kickoff and after being unable to
gain ground punted to its own %.
Luper promptly heaved a pass to
Blount, waiting on the goal line,
and he stepped across for the
score.
Gantt's kick was good. After a
furry of kicks, ending when Muir
ply returned one from the Duke
40 to the Pre-Flight 81, the Blue
Devils rolled across again, Muir
ply picked up II at right end,
McDougle added four over center,
Perry got three on reverse and
then Murphy got away over left
tackle for 10 yards and the touch
down Needless to say, CAN'T kick
ed the extra point.
Following the kickoff, Pre-tllght
staged a march of its own, carry
ing 81 yards mostly by virtue OF
II, 10 and 28-yard jaunts by Yer
non Bennett. But when the Cadets
reached the Duke two, big Pat
Preston, all-southern conference
tackle at Wake Forest last year
recovered a tumble TO end the
threat as the quarter ended.
Duel Ends
A kicking duel in the second
eQQeQ Wnen Duke, starving from us
own 20 rolled across the last stripe,
Luper prancing around left end
for % yards and the touchdown.
Again Capt converted,
After more kicking. Duke wound
up with the ball on its own "a mid
way of the fourth frame Murphy
promptly passed 312 yards to Car
YER standing on the Pre-Flight
20, and Carver skipped across,
CAN'T adding the extra point.
The final marker came in the
last four minutes Starting from
the Pre-Flight as, Rute carried
the mail eight out of II times and
finally across from the 2 when the
Blue Devil forward wall opened
a hole big enough TO accommodate
horse and wagon Again CAN'T
did the honors.
The Chapel Hill boys got their
passing attack clicking briefly in
the closing minutes and moved
from their own Is to their 45 as the
final whistle blew
True-toed Bob CAN'T placekicked
all Of Dukes extra points, bring
ing his total for the season to II
out of 10 attempted conversions.
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