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Mustangs Seek First Perfect Season BiziuId Greet: Greet: Meet Charlotte News Snorts Editor Stakes High As Garinger MP Coaches Eye The Axe 11y FRED SEELY Imie Kirkpatrick pulled the game done the job this year dospite a The team's other tihrine bowl Charlotte News Sports Writer lack of size and game experi- candidate INIack Tharpe is Two traditional opponents like -We squeaked by last time ence the i most devastating Garincer and Myers Park got real lucky" says Myers "Those boys are our unsungblocker and has added a five- produce a good game but it's Park mentor Gus Purcell "Weill 0 the coach says lyard average on powerful line hpen a long time since the two might he in for more than we 1 plunges Charlotte prep riVals have for tonight" "They've really come through for I a game like this anything ith so much at stake But the 137 game played and I think they're as good aslean happen- says Cummings The prize is the championship months ago doesn't mean in this area" 1'It's going to be a good one" of the Western 4A high school 1 tonight BA teams have Center Julian Cockerham is the "It probably 'ill end up division the place is Memorial I changed radically Myers Park only veteran on the forward wall pSoT1ethiflg like 40-39" said a Sladium the time is 8 pm added (and muchneeded) hut the work of Nick Karres andlMustang lineman earlier this They've really come throunh Charintte pr ep rivals have met bargained for tonight" I In a game like this anything IA lib so much at stake jn happen" says Cummings But the 13-7 game played twos and I think they're as good asea The prize is the championship months ago doesn't mean in this area" going to be a good one" of the Western 4A high school 1 tonight Both a have I Center Julian Cockerham is the "It probably will end up division the place is Memoriallchanged radically Myers Park only veteran on the forward wall Sldium the time is 8 pm 1 something like 40-39" said a a gaming added land mucb-needed) but the work of Nick Karres andlMustang lineman earlier this The teams other Shrine Bowl candidate INIack Tharpe is the city's most devastating st104 i it 6) ItS119 er 41 A 's js "And everybody's ready" saysiexperienee and Garinger puttingJ)avid Martin along with Larrykveek "I just hope we're on the Wildcat Coach Cummingsttogelher an offense 1 Bill Sims Marc Scott and side that has 40" "Spirit is real high for this one 1 Irwin bas given the A 'crowd of over 15000 is "tt E'VE PLAYED a lot of 'Mustangs solid strength for the dual with Myers "Our boys remember the last sophomores in our backfield this iPark unbeaten and Garinger at Myers Park game and they year- says Cummings "They've 01 course there's always strength for the first time in don't want something like that gotten the playing time they Jimmie Kirkpatrick who Put' over a month The Mustangs to happen again" needed" Among his first-year cell calls "one of the finest ranked first in the state with a stars are quarterback Jimmy broken-field runners I've ever 10-0 record advanced to the fiThe hist game elided 13-7 Nash and halfbacks Charlie seen" and quarterback Neb nals with a decisive 4621 victory Myers Park after last-second Jetton and David Gibbons Hayden and Shrine Bowler over Asheville last week while work by reserve quarterback Purcell lauded the work of his who has completed 58 per cent Garinger i6-3-2) moved up by Randy Short and halfback Jim- junior-dominated line which has of his passes 'beating favored Lexington 19-0 This is the season for college football coaches to be fired to quit under pressure or to resign with honor Some have already fallen Others Oil go It is nasty serious matter but there is a dark humor attached to some of the eases of sudden unemployment Jerry Burns was fired at Iowa before the season ended which should make Playboy Magazine wonder if ma be it shouldn't stick to Playgirls Playboy in its pre season football roundup named Burns as the top candidate for coach of the year honors in the nation and listed the Haw liQcs as the No 4 team in the land Forest Evashevski apparently saw wint was coming and got out moving up to athletic director at lowa at the early age of 42 The school clamped tighter academic controls on the athletic program and the results may be read in Iowa's 1-9 record this season NED HAYDEN Mustang Flash 1131111' NASH (iaringer Ace From Strange Formation Bucknell End Shot For Record Missed JOHNNY MICIIFLOSEN got caught in a web of administrative interference at Pittsburgh and lost his Job as the result of that plus harder academic policy Ile used to win when they let him play control football hut the president Of the university got tired of the dust and ordered him to open up his attack Ile did and the other teams began to control the football running up fantastic scores On him lie lost his job There was some justice in it all though The interfering president lost his job too Haunt O'Boyle leimmuldommEmlumusae ipmkall10 Alight lit AO' '1-: i4114'': :1 12 4- Oitilkkir 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i 1-:" A 44 0 st I r'' "'5 4 toir i A' I 41--" 44 '1r br A X9- i 4 l'i''1 44-4 4' 4 0 4-: -'I VI I 1 i 4 4 :44: 04 444 SY: 1: i If 00141' 4 ''e" 4 Is-4 4'77V 4 4'v 4 i': k44 il T-' I'' 1- -P' iI' N' 6 -4 A41 --k41: fi- 4' I 47- i -OA t4 -4 tr-A4v 4 4 i te 044t- 1 There was a bitter dollop of irony in the firing of Tommy O'Boyle at Tu lane Be succeeded Andy Pilney after the 1961 season hen LSU beat Tulane O'Boyle observed at the time "A man should never let himself get in a position to get beat 6210" Last Saturday that same LSL hungry for the big score that mould clinch a bowl bid blasted Tulane 62 O'Boyle was undoubtedly living on borrowed time anyway In four seasons his teams N'on six games lost 33 and tied one People get fired for things like that SURE WAY TO SET UP A PASS THE CHARLOTTE NEWS HAMLET MAN WINNER formation and Lerro flipped him passes all night Mitchell caught nine passes He needed 20 to break the national small college record Bucknell quarterback Bill Lerro made certain star end Tom Mitchell caught some passes in in over Davidson last night Mitchell was a back in this unusual ap TWO YEARS AGO Jim Hickey was the toast of North Carolina His Tar Heels went to the Gator Bowl and crushed Air Force 35-0 He was quickly tendered a new threeyear contract Last year the Tar Heels II ith a teleran team and good momentum flopped but there wasn't much grumbling This year with an inexperienced club of Ivhich little was expected Ilickey 1 Oil four ball games and was in the thick of five more Only Duke whipped Carolina soundly Now people are circulating a petition aimed at getting rid of Hickey Alumni are bleating loudly There's no question about it Carolina people are unhappy vith his coaching But they picked a strange year to raise the cry Smith Aptly Described Foe Before Losing To Bucknell White PO Box 781 Hamlet is the winner of The News' final weekly football guessing contest for this season His prize is $100 White had 17 correct picks out of 19 games One game Nebraska vs Oklahoma was thrown out since it was not played last Saturday It was played yesterday and the rules stipulate the contest games must be played on the Saturday designated in the contest White missed on Wake Forests upset of Memphis State and Miami's surprising win over Florida WITH THE FINAL week of regular competition in the contest over the way is cleared for picking the big winner A drawing will be held next week from among all entries for the season winners and losers The person who sent in the entry drawn will receive $500 and just in time for some Christmas shopping Homer Smith coach of Davidson's Wildcats will make the drawing and the winner will be announced in The News on Wednesday 0 I 44471k NNz0 4) tok4144 44 zix2t 4 140 li 0 By FRED SEELY Charlotte News Sports Writer Davidson football coach Homer Smith stood in the 1lemorial Stadium parking lot at 6:30 last night and used his favorite word: "marvelous" Ile used it to descrihe the kind of athletes at Bucknell University And he was right as his Wildcats soon found out 22-14 The Sisitors from rennsylvania pulled a devastating attack out of the bag to greet Smith and after they settled down to playing football rather than basketball it was just more than hustling could Mitchell and his pass catching buddies put on an incredible show for the estimated 5- 000 who braved a rain threat The All-American nabbed nine with Ron Kinsey and Don Len-hard assisting on the flashly show Bison quarterbacks Bob Marks and Bill Lerro weren't the best throwers Memorial Stadium has seen this year but ends like they possessed would make a beanbag novice look good The game's key play was Buchnell's goahead score when Mitchell ran a hook pattern and then slipped back up the middle to take a Lerro pass wide-open at the goal It was on a second down one foot to go situation and it fooled Davidson backs up down and sideways IN BOTTLES AND DRAFT '41014110' PACK IIINDSLEY Dandy On Defense Vgt LOWENBRAU Nov 26 IMPORTED GERMAN DEER rner North Mecklenburg aee who suffered through his worst game of the year "Nothing went right tonight" he said "I just don't think I 'could possibly have played worse Arrrgh Had Right Idea The Ilickcy situation is not without ridiculous humor There was a report circulating in Raleigh that Otto Graham the former pro great who now coaches at the Coast Guard Academy had been holed up at the University Motel in Chapel Hill for file days One fellow declared he $aw A Tittle another former pro great whose name is linked with coaching jobs from one end of the country to the other sitting in the stands at the Duke-Carolina game Probably just some other bald-headed guy I HICKEY HAS GIVEN no indication that he intends to do anything but fulfill his contract hich continues through 1966 Athletic Director Chuck Erickson has stated "Jim Ilickey is our football coach and we expect him to remain our football coach" I believe him Tom Nugent's In trouble at Maryland things are hot for Milt Bruhn at Wisconsin Jack Mitchell's status is uncertain at Kansas Charlie Bradshaw is wondering at Kentucky Maybe they should do what or Frank Howard did before he established his barony at Clemson with tough winners lie walked in on a meeting of athletic officials who were fixing to fire him and by combining the element of surprise a folksy charm some hard facts and perhaps a good cussin' emerged with his job and a raise in pay They got fooled again on the conversion when a fake place-kick ended up 1 ith 3litchell again alone in the end zone and Lerro's pass nestled in his arms "They had a fine team said Wildcat end Ken Kendall "Their defense was tough maybe as good as and they knew their Jobs" A 14-7 Davidson halftime lead vanished quickly into a 15-14 Bucknell margin and the Bisons settled down to possession football to frustrate all local hopes Only a late interception by Tommy Caldwell who carried 34 yards to the Pison 31 gave a ray of hope but the drive fizzled as quarterbacks Jimmy Poole and Jake Jacobsen couldn't move the team It was the end of a frustrating evening for roole the for TIIE BISONS were good no doubt about it After flirting early with a hoked-up formation designed to get All-American end Tom Mitchell enough pass receptions to set a small college record the visitors vent at their work in a solid manner clamping a tight hold on Wildcat pass receivers and stopping the Davidson ground game "They played well for the first half but their attitude seemed to change when the second half got going" comrnented tackle John Skiavo They seemed to want to throw elbows more than play Davidson's Pack Hinds ley an All-Conference candidate had his finest night recovering two fumbles knocking down two passes and making tackles all over the field "That No 87 (Hinds ley) is really something" said a Bucknell halfback "There's just no way you can run on his end and if you have trouble getting around the other side he'll figure some way to get you from behind I'm just glad we don't have to mess with guys like that in every game" 0 Davidson's Bid To Tie School Mark Erased By Amazing Bison Passing American Credit Company a new name for an old friend with a tradition in automobile financing since 1919 Bison loose from two fumbles and a pass interception in the first half to take their lead and the Davidson defense was looked equal to their task Then the second half began and Bucknell opened up in earnest with theft passing attack "They are really good" Smith said "You can't stop them without getting the guar erback and we failed to do that This end of theirs Tom Mitchell is said to be the best receiver in college football lie must he By BILL BALLENGER Charlotte News Sporis Writer ik winning season for the Davidson College football team was realized a veek ago when the Wildcats defeated Wollord Last night under the lights of Memorial Stadium they went for something more a tie with the all time school record for ins They failed as Bucknell's 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Ntli 111 Or --11 ''''''''kta 1 rill 1 loolost5: )000 III s' it io 10 ankles still swollen from previous sprains "Our failure to stop their two point play was as vital as anything in the game That and our inability to move the ball in the second half Perhaps we worked too hard on our defense this week" Smith said "I take the blame for it" Bright star of the first half 1as halfback Pete Glidewe 11 taking the place of the injured Steve Smith lie had 55 yards in nine carries but gained nothing in the second half "Our running attack has been under a heavy burden all season" Smith said "It has come along tremendously in the past few games Glidmil has risen to an enormous chat lenge" Eleven seniors saw their final duty for the Wildcats last night but virtually all of the offensive men return including ends Ken Kendall and Bill Rickard EI 1 Gals 7- ENJ "LAST NIGHT he made nine catches and se had men all over him but he kept moving avay Be was not recruited as a football player at Bucknell but as a basketball player Then they talked him into playing football Be has a basketball player's moves Ar ''There had to have been some may to beat them" said Wildcat coach Homer Smith "I guess me Just didn't lind out the may We are all Ma now It seems a sin that a bunch of boys could try as hard as they did and still lose CREDIT COMPANY Independence Blvd at South Tryon Street 3348639 HARD NOSE Davidson's Bill Taylor dives onto human pile lie made the tnoves night deTite the problem of The 'Cats tad banged the 1'.