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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. C. 2-11 Sunday Morning, October 1, 1961 SLOOP SHAFFER D'ANTONIO A BERNHARD SHUMATE CLARK (Photo by Tom Bradshaw) Mike Clark Takes Opening Kickoff Back For State Touchdown THE SPORTS OBSERVER By Dick Herbert CHAPEL HILL The painful lesson of possession was taught to the State Wolfpack for the second straight game here Saturday afternoon. The first lesson came a week ago in the altitude of Laramie, Wyoming, when the Pack as'sumed a 14-0 lead and then permitted the Wyoming Cowboys to hold the ball most of the remaining time. That generosity resulted in a 15-14 defeat.

Against the Tar Heels at Kenan Stadium the ability to return kicks permitted State to take a 10-0 advantage. But then it became the exception that State had the ball. The last quarter was more than two minutes old before State scored its initial first-down. By that time the 10-0 lead had turned into a 27-10 deficit. It was time to wake up and the Wolfpack did, but it was too late.

Earle Edwards is the first to admit he is fortunate to have what, in his opinion and the estimate of many others, is the best passing arm in college football. Yet he has been in the game long enough, and so have his assistants, to know that to be truly strong against a schedule such as State must play there must be the ability to move the ball on the ground. That ability was lacking for the second straight week. There are backs who have the ability to exploit an opening, but they are of little value unless the line provide that aperture. Carolina Monopolized Ball The extent to which the ground game dominates the game is seen from the statistics that show 82 running plays for Carolina to only 18 for the Pack.

Con'sidering that about six of these State running plays actually were called as passes and you see the scant opportunity State had to have the ball on the ground. Carolina had eight passes for a total of 90 plays from scrimmage, excluding punts. State passed 22 times, so its plays from srimmage totaled 40. The Tar Heels thus owned the football twice as often as State. Sometimes this will produce a victory, but not often.

Actually State can regard it as fortunate that the final margin was only five points in view of the way the Tar Heels had the ball on offense. The lessons learned at Wyoming helped the Tar Heels. They had the opportunity to note the trouble the right side of the State defensive line had in stopping running plays. Scouts Joe Mark and Bob Thalman charted the success of the Cowboys in running in that direction. State made some improvement but it was not enough.

Bob Elliott proved again he is a rugged customer in hitting the middle line, and the Carolina halfbacks proved they are more than adequate if they are not spectacular. Ray Farri's discovered the ground attack was the basis for any Carolina success against State and stuck to it for most of the way. Yet he threw often encugh to keep the defense honest. The pass became the surprise weapon and an effective one. Carolina Line Impressive The victory was one that should help the Tar Heels considerably.

They demonstrated enough to convince their followers there is a possibility for a successful season. They have a line that for three quarters clearly outplayed the State forwards. Games are won in the line. Carolina had the better forwards. In the last quarter the State line finally took command, but it was too late.

State was billed a's one of the conference powers. Some things have happened to make it difficult for it to live up to that role. There still are problems at center. The mere snap to the quarterback presented some problems and one costly fumble against Carolina. The wingback situation will be in good hands when Carson Bosher returns to duty.

Gabriel does not have the pass receivers now that he needs to make full use of the aerial potency at his command. This team at Carolina now can be termed for the first time a Jim Hickey production. Some of the key players were recruited under another regime, but this is his team. It played the kind of ball against State that will not embarrass the Tar Heels many times. Huskies Turn Back Illinois CHAMPAIGN, 111.

(AP) Senior quarterback Kermit Jorgensen cranked up touchdown drives of 54 and 72 yards, and speedster Charlie Mitchell raced 66 yards to score in the last four minutes to give Washington a 20-7 victory over Illinois Saturday. 'Never Seen Team Play That Hard', Hickey Says By WOODY UPCHURCH. CHAPEL HILL--Jim Hickey was "elated with every one of his Tar Heels Saturday -they had given Carolina something that had escaped its teams for six years-an opening game victory. The delighted Hickey was filled to overflowing with praise for his team that had escaped the mistakes and the letdowns that wrecked them last season. "I'm elated with every one of them," he said, adding "and you know we played a lot of boys.

They gave us something we haven't had for a long Superb defense, a strong comeback with terrific line play and a crushing ground attack provided the Tar Heels with their first victory on opening day since 1954-and before the largest crowd since 1948- some 44,000. "I've never seen our team play that hard," praised the coach. "We've played well at times before but I've never seen them fight from behind like that. It was a great job. Much of the credit should go to the assistant coaches who did a marvelous job in preparing the Two Disappointments.

Hickey found only two disappointments in the Carolina performance and they were obvious ones. "I was pleased with everything except the coverage on the kickoff (State returned for a TD) and the punt up Wolfpack field Hickey had visions of past seasons when he saw the Pack's Mike Clark go all the way with the opening kickoff. "I felt, "well, here goes another one' Jim revealed his thoughts at the time of the electrifying TD dash. "I had told them all along that they were snake-bitten like they felt at times last year. But I was afraid the runback might make the boys feel differently." Held Poise.

Hickey recalled some of the events and sentiments of last Three Plays and Punt Attack Irks Edwards By MAC MCGREW. CHAPEL HILL "A fast start, a slow middle, a fast finish. Another close one, but on the wrong side again." That's the way State's Earle Edwards summed his Wolfpack's showing in a 27-22 loss to North Carolina's Tar Heels here day. The fast start was the Wolfpack's quick 10 points in the opening minutes. The slow middle told the tale of the Tar Heels' complete domination of the second and third periods.

And the fast finish represented the Wolfpack's flurry in the last few minutes that cut the UNC spread from 27-10 to the final margin. Edwards was critical of his team's inability to mount an offense (no first downs until the final period) as well as its inability to stop the powerful infantry assaults launched by the Tar Heels a combination that produced the Wolfpack's second second half loss in as many 1961 games. "We sure don't run on Edwards said grimly. "They (UNC) cut that off in a hurry three plays and 8 punt We've got some pretty good runners but we don't give them any room." Blocking. Some one asked the quietspoken Edwards if it was a question of biocking.

he said. "The little things. One man misses his block. Maybe we're off a little on a pass or a man misses one, and before you know it, it's fourth down again." Despite State's poor showing on offense, Edwards wouldn't fault his star quarterback, Roman Gabriel. Gabriel suffered a miserable sunny afternoon, and didn't complete his first pass until about three minutes deep in the final period.

But, at that point the tall Wilmington senior gathered the Wolfpack into a dangerous force that had the Tar Heels praying time to fly faster than 60 seeonds a min minute. Edwards was philosophic about Gabriel's performance, saying, good passer is sometimes like a good pitcher. Sometimes hie pitches a shutout and then again he can't get past the fourth inning." Gabriel, standing beneath the end zone bleachers before starting the long, long trip back to Raleigh, had no comment about the game. Prosperity. As to the possibility that the Wolfpack had a letdown after running up those quick 10 points, Nowell's CLAN CAMERON SHOP AND VILLAGE SQUIRE, CAMERON VILLAGE AND DOWNTOWN RALEIGH MEET in the yearround gabardine Is 'Season suit mr.

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By halftime they were going strong. They held their poise all the way." Carolina's tactics were not exactly what Hickey had anticipated. He commented that he had expected to throw the ball more often. "But we knew we had to try to run, first," he explained. "That worked well.

The offensive line play was particularly outstanding -we had good blocking. "We saw in the films of State's Wyoming game and heard from the scouts the way Wyoming ran against them. Earle (Edwards) made no secret about the fact that he had troubles on one side of the line," Hickey continued. Fullbacks Run. "Obviously, the first place for (Edwards couldn't say.

But end John Gill, while picking his way through spectators enroute to the dressing room, thought "we sorta had a letdown after we got those 10 points." Edwards, who saw Wyoming overcome a 14-0 deficit and win 15-14 a Saturday ago by working over the right side of the State defensive line, said he thought the Wolfpack defense "was balanced up better, but they 'took' us a couple of times. "The biggest trouble is they (State's key defenders) haven't played The Tar Heel line mastered the Wolfpack forwards all afternoon, and Edwards noted that UNC, despite the 10-0 deficit was encouraged early in the game because of its ability to move on State. In discussing the right side's apparent vulnerability, Edwards observed that "we know we're gonna have trouble stopping a good running attack for awhile tried some new men and (Sam) Raneri (veteran fullback converted to center) played some today. "But we're still searching for some one who can do the job." Edwards singled out No. 2 quarterback Tom Dellinger, a defensive specialist, for a fine performance that included a blocked UNC conversion kick and a key fumble recovery that set up State's final TD.

But, generally, Edwards couldn't find anything bright to talk about as he faced writers in a corner of the State dressing room. INTENT COUNTS, TOO. PHOENIX, Ariz. (-Jack Jordan drove a golf ball into a palm tree at the Arizona Country Club. The ball stuck.

Jordan threw his brassie into the tree in an attempt to dislodge the ball. The brassie stuck. too. us to try was where troubles had been revealed. Carolina, in pounding out 240 net yards rushing, hit at the right side of the State line early and kept it up late.

Fullback's Bob Elliott and Joe Davies found running room. Between them they carried the ball 36 times and gained 123 yards. "We got great play from the fullbacks," injected Hickey who also lauded quarterback Ray Farris for a fine performance. He pointed out that "we have a better offensive halfback Jim Addison, Lenny Beck, Gib and Ward Marslender all saw plenty of action at the halves. "It was a good game by a fine bunch of boys," the coach said.

"We've worked awfully hard last spring and this fall. Now that the first one is over, I feel that late start helped the us. We were able to get things better prepared. "It's only the first game," Hickey quipped a word of caution. met with newsmen, was giving credit where he felt it was due.

(Roman) Gabriel is a fine ball player. We managed to hold him in check for a while but he came back strong in the fourth quarter. He can throw the football." The Carolina coach had feeling some 15 hours before the game with State-it was a pleasant feeling that was fulfilled by the Tar Heels. "If you ever knew the boys were ready, you knew it for this one, he said. "They were all in early Friday night and held a squad meeting on their own.

It's been like that all One of the first orders of business Saturday as Rickey Members of a Carolina fraternity drew loud cheers from the State fans prior to kickoff. Clad in red State jerseys and white football pants, the practical jokers, some 35 of them, roared onto the field and drew a standing ovation from the deceived Wolfpack fans. However, the truth quickly became evident as the fraternity boys went through a mock warm up -falling and fumbling all over the field. Ferguson Stars Blanks Shaw, 32-0 GREENSBORO (AP) The College Aggies hit for two TD's each in the first and third periods and once in the second to crush the Shaw University Bears of Raleigh, in CIA football here Saturday." Substitute quarterback, Willie Ferguson, playing for ailing Jim Mitchell, tossed for two scores, 10 and st yards to Gene Cambridge and engineered a third on the ground, to overpower the Bears. John Thomas, normally a defensive back, tossed for another, la 25 yard, heave to Bonaid Fran- A Public Nowell's Village Announcement Squire it known to all young Ladiesand has now on hand, Nowells Fall and Village Squire haberdashery.

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10 yard pass from Ferguson (kick failed); 51 yard, pass from Furgeson; (Cambridge kick); 63 yard punt (return; (Cambridge kick); -Westmoreland 5 yard run: (pass feded), 25 yard pass from Thomas (kick (faiik). The Rose Bowl football pions of the last two years, who opened their season a week ago by losing to Purdue 13-7 in Seattle, stayed on the ground as a strong wind swept the field and drove two touchdowns in the first and second quarters..