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freshman scrap--(Observer Photos by Jack Mitchell) FOURTH ME SCRAP HERE NOV 15 South Grove CRY td Califnrnia (Pc) Teachers 0 It Findlay On I Hormel' 18 Trenton 'Fetchers Waynesburg 00 We (limiter (rs) Teachers 0 West Virginia Wesleyan Id DayisElkins tinsels It Mount St Meryl' IL OmumommoOmminam Mid-West Chairman Wilson Picks Handle Always Hot Battle Alabama t3Kentucky Georgia 14: Auburn I Disko el: Georgia Tech 7 Tenn 20 Louisiana State 0 Ferman In: State 0 Eastern Kentucky Teachers 411 Cumberland University Louana Colleg 7: Mia11111091 31011th ern West Arginia Wesleywn Davie Elkins MtiiisappI College It7 MI Dumps Lemoyii 41: Morehouse 3 Roanoke 70 King College 13 Rollins Mit Appalachian Mississippi State 13: Southeastern (Tenn) Mississippi 13 Vanderbilt 7 Tu lane 13: Clemson 0 Davidson 17: Centro It Richmond 39 liampden-Sydney 13 Virginia Tech 0: Virginia 0 Randlph-Macon t7: American IL Newberry 20 Oglethorpe 7 North Carolina A 19 St Paul's 0 Stetson 19: Tampa 13 Florida A I Lane roller Western Kentucky Teachers 05 Western Michigan Teachers 0 Murray IN V) Teachers Al Delta (Miss) Teachers Georgetown (Ky) 19 Louisville IL Roanoke 7 King 0 Voorhees t4 Clati In Contord Potomac Slats Allen 9 Paine Wi Iliem and Mary 0 Virginia Minter Tuskegeo 70: South Carolina State college A Langston 7 Xavier (New Orleans) 0 BY DAVID GILLESPIE Opecial Observer Correspondent1 kNNAPOLIS Md Nov 2 I Navy's best plebe team in a decade ploughed decisively through Belmont Abbey's smaller Crusaders here this afternoon trouncing the North Carolina Junior college eleven by 310 to retain its unblemished record Coach Humpy Wheeler and his red and white clad boys had been forewarned of the Plebes power house but there are no words in the books with which to describe the speed and finesse of the attack employed by the Sailors here this afternoon The Plebes lumped the gun with a touchdown early in the first quarter and outside a spirited rally by the visitors in the third chukker were the aggressors all the way More than 33 good men were sent in to scrap for the Naval academy freshmen class during the afternoon and each showed promise of future greatness on the gridiron for the Midshipmen A crioN surrounding staging of ri the fourth annual freshman football classic of the Carolinas the Fresh Air-Fund contest November 15 in American Legion Memorial Stadium here will get under way this week George Wilson Jr general chairman of the event announced last night that tickets will go on sale early this week for the contest' which brings together the classy frosh elevens of North Carolina and Duke in a night duel Tickets will be sold at The Observer business office A special ticket committee will stage a drive later to secure a heavy advance sale before the game Carthago le Eureka 6 Delilah Teachers 20 Southern Teach orts Dane College 2: Concordia 11 Central Stole Teachers el Milwaukee Teachers le Baker 33 William Jewell le Omaha 11 Routh Dakota 6 Mel Springfield (Mo) Teachers 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$1 each 'rh Flynn and Captain Johnny Pollock est side of the stadium will the Crucaders drove to the Navy the Duke section while the cos one-yard stripe on one occasion and side will be the Carolina headquar to the four on another but their attack bogged on fourth down both The rival squads will come times Charlotte in special buses and wil Navy tallied in the first period on be quartered at Hotel Charlotte a drive featuring Plossszay chunky The annual scrap between till fullback who scored from the two Duke and Carolina teams is alway yard line the most hotly contested freshmai Gilliland raced 18 yards off tackle game in the state It rivals thi for the second score and 50 yards varsity classic between the two in through a broken field for another stitutions in spirit and color Just before the half ended It was Duke and Carolina inaugurate( all Abbey in the third but the the Fresh Air Fund football aerie Plebes came to life to hit paydirt here in 1937 State and Clemsor twice in the final stanza played in 1938 while Wake Fores Furman performed last season The Plebes had 16 first downs toad Abbey's nine and picked up 262 Both Duke and Carolina havo net yards rushing to Abbey's 81 strong squads this year and tho yards thrilling 1937 battle is expected tc Baumann's kicking featured for be repeated here on Friday night Abbey while the distinct standout November 15 for Navy was Leahy who will be -0 F0101eTtellA tit hard to handle in future years on a 14i111 aGt Re rl en iaeltitonellie the Navy varsity 8 Fla) 0 Benedict college 7 Abbey Position Plebe 1 North Carolina A and 7 19 It Briggs LE Dore 1 l'allis lt Bellis LT Drake Voorhees IC riallin I Sonneborn LG colit Allen 30 Paine 0 Carmody Center Sedon Florida A and 7 Lane relies fl Privette RG Adams Situth Carolina State eollege fl TuskeEnglish RG Schnure 1 ge ZIC Poland() RE Cramer I Langston 7 Xavier of New Orleans 0 Weatherly QR siegefried Union University i Tennessee) 20 ArFlynn LH Anania lumina state 0 Baumann RH DavistOLantston (Okla) tnivergily 7 Xavier Pollock ER Mosta) Rubs: Belmont Abbey Kramer Hart Holmes Huppa Kain Gordan Kelly ea Melvin Chiunsos Yzenski Jenkins Abernethy Abernethy and Peters uestion Plebes: Rounds Knox Voyce Gilliland Holtzmuller Berry Knauft Wooten ruxton Wilcox BetYCP Christiansen Collins Hartlage McCinskey Labon Leahy Crepeau Bailey Moran ecker Loomis lisrdY Adams Mormino and rea 5 Warfield I TICKETS EACH All tickets will be $1 each The west side of the stadium will be the Duke section while the east side will be the Carolina headquarters The rival squads will come to Charlotte in special buses and will be quartered at Hotel Charlotte The annual scrap between the Duke and Carolina teams is always the most hotly contested freshman game in the state It rivals the varsity classic between the two institutions in spirit and color Duke and Carolina inaugurated the Fresh Mr Fund football series here in 1937 Slate and Clemson played in 1938 while Wake Forest and Furman performed last season Both Duke and Carolina have strong squads this year and the thrilling 1937 battle is expected to be repeated here on Friday night November 15 8 uestion: Streak Notre Dame 7: Army Pennselvania 20 NAVY Cornell 17: Columbia 0 Fordham It: North Carolina 11 Princeton 0: Harvard 0 (tie) "tate 01 Holy Cross 0 Dartmouth 26 SPWIIIIPO I Brown A Hale 2 Georgetown Di: Syracuse 0 Penn State 12 South Carolina 0 Duquesne 14 Marquette It Boston college 23: Minbattan Franklin and Marshall 27 Albright 0 Amherst 14: Massachusetts Ittte 0 Bowdoin 12 Bates 2 Temple 10 But knell 7 Buffalo 7 City College New York Alfred 0: Clarkson 0 (tie) Coast Guard 27 Wesleyan 7 Dickinson 13i Westrn Maryland 4 DP Pliti II Lowell Textile Delaware 25: Johns Hopkins 40 Kutztown il'a) Teachers TO Bloomsburg Teacher 0 Lafayette 25 Washington Jefferson Haverford lit: Lehigh Colby 26: Maine 0 East Stroudsburg Teachers 11 Mansfield Teachers Hartwiek Middlebury 0 Montclair IN Teachers 6: Arnold ft Mehlenberg 20: Gettysburg 0 NPW Britain (('onn) Teachers 13 New York Aggies Shippensburg Teaehers 46 Shepherd Teachers 2 Indiana ilts) Teachers 14 Clarion Teachers It Lebanon Valley 0: Blue Ridge 0 Cortland 12: Leek Haven 6 Lake Forest 20: North Central 7 Monmouth 13 Augustan a 13 Met Tufts 12: Northeastern 2 Norwith 40 Hyannis 0 Penn Military 6 'Washington college 11 Rensselaer Tech 12: Vermont 0 Rhode Island 14: Worcester Tech 0 Rochester 32 KettYon (tt) Rutgers 45 Connecticut 7 Si Anseint 0 New Hampshire 0 Providenee 2:0 Springfield Swarthmre 26: Hamilton ft Williams 11 Union Putter at Wagner poetpaned field flooded Weet Virginia 11 Waehington and Leo I Aurora 7 rinthurst 7 Mel Concordia (111) 30 Northwestern sot lege 14 Albion Rope 11 Carroll 32 beaten It Mi Whin 19 Illinois tolleis I Carleton 13: Co Parsons II Lora' 27 Southwest southern Methodist 21 Testis 10 Texas Christian 14 Saylor it Texas A 17 Arkansas 0 Stephen Austin it Louisiana Norms! 7 Ries 0 Tests A 1 Sam Houston Teachers 10 East Tetras Teachers IC Hardin Simmons 211 West Texas State 1 Is 13 Unlucky? Clemson' 13-Game Stopped When Tigs Fall To Tulane 0-13 New Mexico Normal 17: Panhandle Aritien Union (Tenn) Arkansas Its It Arizona 20 Texas Mines IS Indiana I Pa) Teachers 14: Clarion Trachart 12 Ictstminstor 8 7777 7777 'f THE LINEUPS 'r euon 0" 14 I I I I Elveen but it was broken up and Tulane began another of its fruit 4 4Y Greenies Exhibit Power of 1939 Outfit and Keep Tigers Bottled Up FOOTEALL RESULTS Clemsan Blalock Fritts Padgett Sharpe 6 LE LT LG Crn RG RI RE QR LH RH ER petiodA Rocky Mountain Tulant Bodney less drives when Ely tried to pass Blanclinjor the goal and was thrown for Tittle Flower an eight-yard loss by Fritts on Clem- le son's 31 Maness began rifling them and HOtrtiC iC Thitnur Clemson flashed His pass to Chip- Mollonald Clemson Thomas ley gained 18 to midfield another Glas to Blalock made five yards and Rion Thibautran off end on a fake kick to TuIlane's 34 Rion's pass to Chipley 0 o-- rol was incomplete another from Park 0 7 0 0-731er to Rion was incomplete and Parker kicked into the end zone 1 5 )r BY MORTD1ER KREEGER NIEW ORLEANS Nov 2--(R)--1 webh Tulane's resurgent Green Wave Manes showing its 1939 power snapped FTg the Clemson Tigers 13-game TirO'monx ning streak 13-0 today before 31- Score by OM spectators Inemson Inaugurating another exclusive Mellon's Weber Junior College 21: ColversitY I Idaho tnouthern trench) 19 flab 11 Colorado IA Strighans Young 11: Utah Stale 1 Chadron (Neb) Teachers 11 Wrom In Retie Sht Spearfish till WI Teachers 0 Sort Hays Slats 0 Greeley (Colo) flats 0 Colorado College II Western State 8 Colorad Manes In Montana Maio Far ll'est The big Tulane forwards wide gaps for their backs to filter Tula through and bottled up Clemson's Gloden attack almost completely The Tigers try al got Only four first downs two com tresnutb1 ing on fakes and one on a Pass Blessin Tulane rolled up 22 first downs and was constantly driving into HArner Clemson territory but as usual Parker wasted Truth yardage when fumbles Tniar or stiffened defense stopped the Rrinkrr thrusts Brekke The touchdowns came on an 80- cIDrwenht" yard drive in the waning moments cassibr of the first half and a 30-yard run Tulane Gloden try Blessing Hamer Rion Parker Tuiane: lirinkman Brekke Owens Grush Cassibry Scoring: (sub for Thibaut) Point from after touchdown Thibaut (placement Substitutions: Chipley Plerce Paley Eancliter tackles Wright Cable: Wright McElyeen Pearce Ends Defraltes Golomb Mullin tackles Mentz guards Wolbrette Stern Glass Ely Sims From there Tulane found itself after Cassibry's 15 and Thomas' 41 yard runs to the Clemson 18 Thomas got eight and Tulane was penalized five yards for excessive time out Thibaut then heaved into Bodney's awaiting arms A few seconds remained and Tulane barely missed a chance to double the score Parker's pass was intercepted by Thomas in midfield' He raced 30 yards and when trapped 'attenlated a lateral to Thibaut who was in the clear But the ball was dropped Tulane scored 12 first downs to Clemson's three in the first half Behind the efficient toe of Maness Clemson had Tulane fighting in its own territory a considerable part of the third quarter although the Greenie power was still on In the first punt exchange Maness backed Ely up to Tulanes 15 and the Wave was rippling in its own territory for a while 1 1 1 of an intercepted pass by Fred Gloden sub fullback In accordance with Mellon's policy of doing every thing possible for the convenience of our tbose who find it difficult to do their shopping between 9 and those who are going out of town for those who would like to take their time and leisurely select their apparel Mellon's inaugurates this speciol service: Beginning Stanford Ill University California at Loa Angeles Oregon State 19 California 13 Washington State Idaho State (Tempe) 11 Arizona State (Flagstaff) 0 University of Redlands 13 Occidental College 0 Idaho College 19 Eastern Oregon Col-hie Dickinson Teachers 21 Minot Teach-Ore Wahpeton Scienee 10 Rottinean Forestry 0 Jamestown Teachers 8 Maryville Teachers Albion Normal 28: Westminster 0 Oregon 38:: Montana Outsider Wins NOrrINGHADI Eng Nov 2-- Riggs' Caxton an outsider won the New Cambridgeshire today by a half length over Ramsden's Heavy Weight Mrs A Bendir's Quarter-Maitre the favorite was third Caxton started at 100 to 7 and its time was 1:45 4-5 8 Then taking the ball on a punt over their goal line after holding Clemson's first drive across the midstripe the Greenies began marching After two first downs Lou Thomas Tulane's sophomore left halfback from New Orleans cut back sharply over left tackle and ran 41 yards to Clemson's 16- yard line BLALOCK STARS Joe Blalock Clemson's star end was the greatest breakwater the Tigers threw up to the Waves surges He stopped many a play and got one of his team's rare first downs on an end-around play Ed Chippy) Maness tried valiantly to make a game of it and several of his long passes missed by inches icot 1 i 1 1 Thursday November 7th I 4 I 4 1 1:: I I f'': :1 i i 1 :4 i 4 Three short gains were nullified by two five-yard penalties for le-lay and then Fullback Jim Thibaut faded back to pass a perfect 16- yard pass to Al Bodney left end who was alone across the goal line Thibaut place kicked the extra point The superb Tuliene defense broke up Clemson's passing attacks but Maness kept Clemson in the ball pJme Toward the end of the period 'Tulane was in a real hole after a fumble on the six-yard line but Cassibry booted the ball to Tulane's 39 Clemson again failed in the Niir and Maness booted to Tulane's itrl Cremson again failed in the ir and Maness booted to Tulane's Mellon's will remain open every Thursday evening until 9 GOLF AT PINEMST Clemson fans 22 383 7 2 2g 2 30 22 50 First downs 4 Yds gained rush (net 51 For passes attempted 15 For passes completed 2 Yds by forward passing -10 Yds lots att for passes -18 For passes intercepted by intercepted passes Punting aver frnm Scrim :111 Total yds all kicks ret la Opp fumbles recovered Yds lost by penalties 8 4 ush (net 51 ttempted 15 impleted 2 erd passing 10 for Passes lercepted by 0 rom Scrim) kicks ret 111 recovered 1 enaItie 5 Come over next week-end or any week day and play any of the 8 famous grass green roll courses at Pinehurst No advance arrangements neceasary An easy trip Stay overnight if you wish It is not expensive aa there is an Inn for every pocketbook The dry climate will pep you up Enjoy the sandhill resort which bag helped make North Carolina world-famous INTERCEPTS AND RUNS After Clemson got the ball on an incomplete pass across its There began a drive that reline -in the final period ManesSisulted in a touchdown in the fourth tried A 10-yard pass to Blalock 1 Tulane's drive was stopped on Gloden came in fast took the ball at a gallop picked up block- Clemson's 29 on downs Floyd got 'three then Blalock's pass settled into Glodercs arms as he raced away for a touchdown From then on the game was a punting duel Tulane's midfield drives being neutralized by the superiority of Maness' punts Improved receivers Improved receivers Carolina vs Duke $500 Tickets 000 but Tulane showed an pass defense and his were usually covered Maness punting often kept Tulane away from pay dirt From the beginning it seemed only a question of how long the fighting visitors could last against Tu lane power The Greenies pushed into Clemson territory five times before scoring but a fumble stopped them once on the 25 and four other times Clemson took over in the general vicinity of its 30-yard line The management and personnel of the Ed Mellon Company sincerely hope that you will avail yourself to the fullest of this new Mellon's Service to inspect the fine Men's and Boys' apparel and Luggage we have for you Our Arrow and Manhattan Shirts our Rogers Peet Kuppenheimer Greif and Chatham Homespun Suits our Knox and Stetson Hats our Edwin Clapp and Florsheim Shoes our Boyle and Hartmann Luggage are what you will surely like for your personal use and for Gifts Remember on Thursday it's from 9 'til 9 GRIFFIN a Box 1652 Raleigh ers and crossed the goal line standing up Blalock Hocked Thomas' 'place kick attempt for the extra point Tulane's halfbacks Rubber Ely Thomas Bob Glass and Fred Cassibry ran regularly through the Clemson tackles and the Wave gained 383 net yards rushing to the Tigers' 52 Even in passing a repute' Tulane weakness the Wave had an edge of 29 yards to 10 During the first half a steady procession of Tulane marches failed until the final thrilling iii inute when in an exciting change of pace Tulane completed a pass for a touchdown Thibauts fumble stopped the first T1 IlArIP march after eight minutes of the first quarter Tulane had marched 36 to the Clemsun 25 A little later Ti Wine netted Iwo first downs to Clemons 40 but again the stout Tiget defense tightened Clemson was unable to pene trate the powerful Tulane defense Any stage Maness' quick kicks helped Clemson hold its ground Ili the seconil Tulane's fresh team lowered its way Clerroon i 3t1 but found new more helm Maness tried a long rasa to Mc ers and crossed the goal line stand- ing up Blalock blocked Thomas' place kick attempt for the extra point Tulane's halfbacks Rubber Ely I1 1)Liirainei holpl Man 16 INP-431) MO 1M i44 441' 1 4 k-r) lip 11161111164N11 1-4415 LOOK OUT FOR YOUR GUNS! If they need repairing adjusting and a gen- era' going-over bend them to us CHARLOTTE SAFE Sc LOCK CO 115 College Ted Kesterbon Prop LI-likKLIJ I It aPir 115 College Ted Keterbon Prop This service will be particularly convenient for measure-fakir in nur Custom Tailoring Department 1 DURING JULY AND AUGUS1 Over $982000 Cash Dividends Were Returned to Our Policyholders rhone 1 DURING JULY AND AUGUS1 Over $982000 Cash Dividends Were Returned to Our Policyholders rhone EDa MELLON Ca 1 111 ti ii at to Since 1895 An Assurance of Correctness (V In 9 out of 10 catoritd nationowids esstetest Roy Crowe C431s hos hove 'mod rtgoi by satumles Nome ievot end operide grstips Is oba levocilee schatisteo ittbi Wolof tAl in 9 out of 10 carothtd 6 '7 k' INIMMinill 11EsTEtRooK lornwimammaaan prmwitratuott000tivtRN 7.

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