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The Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Page 5

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7 -f 9 1 r- SPORT SECTION 4 i i SPORT SECTION A v7 SECOND SECTION TITT AT A rirrTTtT A -V nr txnn V. "tii, QAiuauAi, utAUK PAGES 1-4 U. N. C. Football Statistics Captain Schwartz Captain Peter Pund Georgia Tech Football Statistics m.

Star Genters to Battle in No. Name Pos. Age Hght. Weight Home Town. Class 72 Brooks, Jim 18 5'11" 180 Columbus Soph.

62 Cain, Fatty 18 5'9" 183 Savannah Soph. 10 Drennon, It. 21 5'1'0' 187 Atlanta Senior 22 Durant, Bob 20 5'9" 161 Bluefield, W. Va. Senior 84 Dunlap, Earl 18 5'10" 177 S.

C. Soph. 42 Edwards, S. v18 6' 181 Atlanta Soph 53 Frink, Jimmie 19 5'10" 162 Miami, Fla. Junior 18 Fitzgerald, Fite 20 5'10" 164 Jackson, Tenn.

Senior 7 Faisst, Sleepy 20 160 Little Rock Senior 65 Holt, Jack 20 61" 188' Little Rock Soph. -2 Holland, Glenn 20 5'11" 173 Atlanta Junior 4 Herron, Ed 19 5'10M 170 Chattanooga Soph. Horn, 21 5'10" 178 Norfolk Junior 5 Jones, Tom 19 5'11" .175 Clarksville 1 Soph. Kent, Joe G- 21 5'10" 181 Moultrie Senior 61 Keener, Slick 21 5'10" 181 Gadsden Senior 1 Law, Hobby 19 5'9" 173 Chattanooga Junior 55 Luna, Sol 20 5'8" 163 Pittsburg, Tenn. Junior 59 Lumpkin, Father f.

19 61" 176 Dallas Soph. 81 Muse, "Geo," 19 510" 178 Covington Junior 38 Maree, Dutch 19 61" 191- Savannah Soph. 67 Mizell, Warner 20 510" 170 Atlanta junior 15 Pund, Peter (C) 21 6' 182 Augusta Senior 63 Parham, Bob 21 61" 176 Atlanta Senior 78 Rusk, Seedy 21 6' 179 Atlanta Senior 24 Randolph, Bob 21 510" 176 Atlanta Senior 8 -Russell, Russ 19 510" 160 New York Junior 28 Shulman, Izzy 20 5'8" 155 Jackson, Tenn. Senior Strickland, Bob 19 510" 174 Sumter Soph. 48 Speer, Frank 20 6' 204 Atlanta Junior 37 Smith, Shorty 21' 153 i Carters ville Senior 80 Thrash, Ken 22 510" 190 Orlando, Fla.

Senior 71 Thomason, S. 20 5'8" 174 Atlanta Junior 20 Von Weller, P. 20 6' 178 Albany Senior 6 Westbrook, Joe 22 511 187 Moultrie Senior 26 Watkins, Coot 20 6' 199 Atlanta Junior 70 Waddey, Orum 20 511" 183 Memphis Senior NO: Name Pos. Age Hght. Weight Home Town Yrs.sq.

72 Sapp, NC LE 21 6'0" 177 Winston-Salem 3 71 Packard LE 21 6'0" 167, Waterbury, Mass. 1 79 Nelson LE 22 161 Chicago, 111. i -50 Tabb LE '20 5'10" 167, Wilmington 1 56 Presson, NC RE 20 510" 167 Charlotte 2 70 Holt' RE 20 6'1" 175 Graham 2 49 Fenner RE 20 6'0" 170 Tarboro 2 -89 Parsley RE 18 6'0" 166 Wilmington 1 85 Howard, NC LT 21 6'0" 195 Tarboro 3 75 Dortch' LT 20 6'0" 180 Raleigh 1 95 Koenig LTr 20 6'2" 192 Greensboro 2 59 Rowe LT 21 511" 17a Leaksville 2 84 Donahoe, NC RT 22 6'0" 185 Asheville 3 50 Adkins RT 20 6'1" 235 Durham .2 96 McKinney RT 19 6'0" 180 Edwards 54 Blackwood, LG 20 510" 175 Winston-Salem 1 73 Eskew LG 19 5'9" 175 Greenville, S. C. 2 48 Weilson LG 19 5'9" 165 High Point 1 39 Farris, NC LG 21 6'0" 180 Charlotte 2 91 Shuler NC RG 20 511" 185.

Salisbury 3 78 Hudson RG 21 510" 190 Dallas, Tex. 1 97 Crew RG 21- 510" 184 Weldon 1 94 Shuford RG 21 511" 180 Hickory 2 67 Schwartz, NC 22 510" 180 Charlotte 3 87 Lipscomb 18 6'2" 180 Greensboro 1 56 Schneider 21 6'0" 170 Gastonia 1 57 Whisnant, NC QB 21 5'8" 150 Charlotte 2 C3 Gray QB 21 5'9" 155 Statesville 1 3 2 Wyrick QB 19 5'8" 145 Greensboro 1 51 Erickson QB 21 5'9" 155 Chicago, 111. 1 76 Ward, NC LII .23 5'9" 162 Hendersonville 2 58 Magner: LH 23 6'0" 1 175 Philadelphia, Pal 1 60 Jackson LH 21 6'0" ,160 Gastonia 2 52 Spaulding RH 20 6'0" 166 Athens, Pa. -2 55 Maus RH 19 511" 158 Greensboro 1 1 Nash RH 20 161 Charleston, S. C.

1 53 Gresham, NC FB 22, 6'0" 158 Warsaw 3 58 Foard, NC FB 21 510" 165 Charlotte 3 92 House i FB 17 60" 165 Weldon 1 9 Harden FB 23 511" 166 Graham 2 77 Reese FB 22 510" 165 Mars Hill 2 Rival Captains, Harry Schwartz Land Peter Pund, Will Stage Individual Scrap for Pivot GEORGIA PLAYS FIRST TIME IN NORTH CAROLINA A BATTLE OF TITANS Big Fight Expected Between Tar Heels Have Met Golden Schwartz and the "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech." Tornado Three Times in Foreign Fields. Two of the greatest centers in the The Golden Tornado of Georgia Tech invades North Carolina today South will meet today when the Tar Heels battle the Golden Tornado of Georgia Tech in Kenan Memorial for the first time in the history of southern football, and it faHs the lot of the University of North Carolina btadium this afternoon. Captain Harry Schwartz will lead the Tar eleven to entertain the Tornado on Heels into action, and at the same this first sortie into the South At time will face a tough personal scrap lantic section. Probable Line-up with Captain Peter Pund of Georgia In jpast years the fast-movine Tor Tech Star Tech. NOTE: NC following a player's name indicates -that player is a let- nado backs and hard-charging, for Neither of the big boys has met terman.

1 wards have pushed Tech up on a pin his match many times in either inter- nacle Dixie similar to that long schojastic or intercollegiate compe neiq oy tne "Big Three" in the East. Probable Line-up Way back in the fall of 1915 Cap tition, and their meeting today will be a battle of Titans. Each of the husky pivot men is playing his last tain Dave Tayloe led a fighting Tar Heel eleven into Atlanta, but it was GEORGIA TECH 5 Jones 26 G. 15 C. 10 Drennon 48 Speer 70 Waddey 22 Durant 1.1 J.

67 Mizell H.B. 71 Thomason 24 CAROLINA Sapp, Howard year of college football, and the game I my no match for Guyon, Flowers, Fincher this week may settle which of the L.E L.T. LG and other famous breezes of the Tor two rates best the mythical All-Con Farris nado. Tech won that game 23 to 3, ference berth for. the season.

but all experts concede that the Geor Captain Harry Schwartz has risen gia outfit was mighty, lucky to win the 1916 game 10 to 6. "Yank" Tandy Another Atlanta Boy 85 tfJ' A 67 78 84 Mm- Fs 7 ed that ,1916 outfit into the Georgia to his rank on the Tar Heel squad through the sheer brilliance of his play all the way through, and there Schwartz (C) Hudson Donahoe Presson Whisnant or Wyrick C. RT Q.B. capital and for sixty minutes kept the Tornado on the run. Only the breaks and a hairbreadth defensive enabled the Tornado to win by a field has seldom been a game that he has not been an outstanding player on both offense and defense.

His work behind the line in the Carolina-V. P. game here last week was of the same steady type that he always goal margin. Spaulding or Nash "Stumpy" Thomason, listed as be Last year it was another case of INTO'STILT Father Lumpkin, Tech Back; Will Match Wits With Second Year Men. Ward the loser doing the ground-gaining, but 'failing to score.

Four times the Foard F.B. Tar swept up to within inches showv and many times he brought Peake and Spears low after they had crashed the first line of Carolina's ing from Atlanta, is probably the most outstanding man in the Yellow Jacket backfield. He was known as the outstanding sophomore back in the south last year and in the first few games this season is making a strong bid for All-American" honors. of the Tech goal line and failed to go The sensational sophomores mav over. One well-known Atlanta sports HANY SIDELIGHTS writer called that contest Whe hardest play stellar roles in he Carolina-Tech won 13 to 0 game that ever, has or game in Kenan Memorial.

Stadium FOR GAME TODAY ever will be played on any field, here this afternoon. The Tar Heel youngsters bore the brunt of the at Tech's football team this year seems to abound with Atlanta boys. Although the home town of the famous Tornado eleven monopolizes back-field honors, they also have several boys filling places in the forward wall. The most outstanding of these is Raleigh Drennon, guard on Coach 'Alexander's eleven. He is playing his last season for Tech.

tack against V. P. and Tech places defense. Peter Pund has been one of the bulwarks of the Golden Tornado defense for nearly three seasons now and he easily ranks the class of the lower section of the Conference. He is husky and built for powerful driving on offense, and Schwartz has his work cut out if he stops the big "rambling wreck from Georgia Tech." Certainly that individual battle will be worth watching.

High Schools Filing Football Applications High schools which plan to enter their football teams in the annual Rival Cheering Sections Will Furnish Colorful Back- ground for Clash. much store "on the line-crashing of the gigantic Father Lumpkin, a sophomore fullback. This same Father Lumpkin has been touted by far'' southern sports The sidelights of the Carolina-Georgia Tech football game in Kenan Memorial Stadium here this after scribes since the opening workouts of the season as the embryo of the South's greatest back of all time. He noon at 2:30 o'clock may be as in stands well over six feet in his socks, Tech Fullback teresting, as the game itself, which is carded as one of the outstanding events on Dixie schedules One of the most colorful crowds of Governors to Attend Thanksgiving Classic Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, and Governor Angus W. McLean, of North Carolina, have accepted invitations tox be guesti of honor at tjie Virginia-Carolina football game to be played on Lambeth Field Thanksgiving Day, D.

E. and he packs a heavy cargo at express train speed when he socks the enemy lines. He has successfully crashed every line the Golden Torna the year will gather to see the two do has met this fall, and Atlanta elevens battle, with a large aggrega state high school football championship contest for this season are now filing their entries with the executive committee of the State High School Athletic Association, it was announced here today by E. R. Rankin, secretary of the association.

The schedules for play! in the championship series east and west, will be drawn up at conferences of officials of the various high schools concerned, which will be held at Raleigh and Salisbury early next week. Participation in the contest is ppen to all member schools of the association which desire to join and which submit eligibility blanks in qualification of their players under the standard association regulations governing the contest. The New Hanover high school is the present holder of the title of fans don't believe Tar Heels can stop tion of Georgia Tech fans out of Atlanta slated to occupy a special sec him. 1 By the same token, Chuck Collins and his Tar Heel coaching forces will present more, than one sophomore star to match wits with the towering Lumpkin. Wyrick and Erickson, a lair of promising young field generals, are both sophomores, and Jimmie Maus, Jimmie Magner and Strudwick Nash have already crashed the head Another.

Atlanta boy who has made good at the Atlanta institution is Warner Mizell. He is one of the regular halfbacks who will start against. the Heels this'" afternoon. Mizell is only a junior this year and has excellent chances of heiner All- tion in the huge concrete stands. Hundreds of the jTech student body will ride the special train that arrives in Chapel Hill today and dispatches from the Tornado headquarters say that Tech is sending a band of 120 pieces.

Matching the "ramblin' wrecks from Georgia Tech" will be Carolina's own section, with its huge uniformed cheering section. The nationally famous "Carolina have given way to a larger outfit composed of the members of the University freshman class, and Chief Cheerleader Bill Chandler has prepared a program of special stunts for today's battle. These freshman Cheerios will parade into the big Kenan Stadium be Brown, Graduate -Manager, has announced. This is to be the 33rd game between the CavaU.ers and Tar Heels within the 35-year period since the initial gridiron contest between them in 1893. Twenty of the games have been won by Virginia, nine by North Carolina, an.d three years hare" been tied.

The Kenan stadium was cated in Chapel Hill last Fall with a 14 to 13 victory for the Carolinians. Accommodations are being planned on Lambeth Field for the largest crowd that has ever seen a football gam in the Old Bleachers are being" constructed to take care of the overflow from the concrete stadium. lines for. their ball-carrying abilities. state high school football champion- Pete Wyrick, quarter Bob Randolph, full back for the Golden Tornado eleven', is one of the amp.

me iinai game oi tne season for the state chamoionshiD in the contest American calibre before he concludes his services at Tech. back, generaled the Tar Heels through much of the V. P. I. contest i and shoved over both the Tar Heel touchdowns.

A pass from Wyrick to Nash of last season was played by the New Hanover and the Greensboro hieh Atlanta boys playing on the Tech eleven. He has played for two years on the Tech team and along with Bob Durant quarter, back are the only seniors who are playing regularly in the iirst two backfields for Coach Alexander. netted the first score, and another school teams in the new Kenan Memorial Stadium at Chapel Hill "on December 5, 1927. The hard fought game between the finalists resulted forward heave from Maus to Wyrick accounted for the final touchdown. Still other passes from Magner to fore -the game, clad in their pictures and Magner: to Nash were the 1 07 i i.

Mi-i. i score oi to b. que blue coats and spotless white trousers, staging maneuvers before threats that put the Tar Heels into scoring territory. the stands before they rush to their Those passes were not the only own big-block of seats in the South stands. Between the halves the rival threats unleashed by those sophomores either, for Magner, Nash and Maus broke loose at different times for Roper Seniors Make Extra Good Record Seniors in the Roper high school last year made nearly 'a ten-point higher average than thV medium average for all the high schools in the State, it was revealed today by a report filed with Principal E.

Riddle by official research workers of the University of North- Carolina. The State average was 82.9 against 92.5 for the Roper school. There were eleven students in the senior class last year who took the tests in the Roper school on eight subjects including two tests on reading comprehension, history, language, literature, science, French and mathematics. There were about 12,000 students jn about 500 high schools in the State who took the exr long gains. bands will stage their concerts and maneuvers, blaring at each other from the opposite sides of the field, and the Carolina yearlings will have another opportunity to strut up and down the field.

A very, successful state high school football championship contest is expected this season. Both Carolina and Georgia Tech operate their backfield forces from Notre Dame formations. The Tar Heels work their line and backfield according to the Rockne system as taught by Chuck Collins, Bill Cerney and Rex EnrighV Georgia Tech uses Rockne's plays for the backfield only, with Don Miller, former star of the famous "Four instructing the Tornado ball-carriers. Followers of the University team Galen EUiott Helps Train Heel Cindjermen Galen Elliott, former All-American miler who carried Tar Heel colors to cinder, fame during the last three years, is back at his Alma Mater training for the indoor track season. He plans to, compete for either Boston Athletic Association, New York Athletic Club or the Illinois Athletic Club during the coming winter.

In the meantime he is helping Coach Dale Ranson train the Tar Heel cross-country team that will bid for a third straight Southern Conference title. M'Dowell Has Tunney At Least One Better Jack McDowell has gone Gene Tunney one better. The former North Carolina State College athlete has taken on some of this literary stuff, too, just like the boxing champion craves to lecture on Shakespeare and others of like repute. Jack steps ahead for the time being by using his knowledge in teaching English courses to Asheville high school students, in addition to coaching the school's football backfield candidates. are pointing out that the Golden Tor nado was necessarily on edee or the AH these maneuvers go to add color Notre Dame game Atlanta last that indefinable something that dis Saturday.

It will be hard for Bill tinguishes an American football crowd -and the entire show will take place Alexander to keep the Tornado-keyed up two weeks in succession, and the Tar Heels may catch Tech durinsr just asrainst a background of 25,000 or such a slump and win in one of the 30,000 spectators banked high in the concrete stands. 1 Now is the time to subscribe to the TAR HEEL. 'amiriation. season upsets..

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