The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 19

The Chapel Hill Newspaper Sunday September 23 1984 Section BC Bashes Tar Heels By SCOTT WH18NANT Staff Writer FOXBORO Starting off 0-2 is bad enough but the beating North Carolina's football team took Saturday night added to misery The Tar Heels were routed 52-20 by 7th-ranked Boston College in front of 44671 fans in Sullivan Stadium and a nationwide cable TV audience The loss was the Tar Heels worst since a 41-7 defeat at the hands of Oklahoma in 1980 and it more than made up for the 56-14 thumping Carolina gave Boston College in 1961 the schools' only previous meeting DID HAVE revenge in mind" said Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie good to know we reversed the tables on them" The loss gave UNC its first 0-2 start since 1969 but it was the brush with the Eagles and Flutie the Tar Heels will probably remember FLUTIE the leading Heisman candidate completed 28 passes in 38 attempts for 6 touchdowns and 354 yards perhaps removing the antecedent from his name that has haunted him throughout his career The 5-foot-9 177-pound Flutie the only dimi-nuitive Eagle posing problems 5-8 183 running back Troy Stradford gained 109 yards on 17 carries and had 56 more yards on 5 receptions two of them for touchdowns Ethan Horton tried to rally the Tar Heel offense in the second half scoring all three Carolina touchdowns cm runs of 79 and 5 yards plus a 22-yard pass from Anthony Horton finished with 162 yards rushing on 22 carries CAROLINA'S biggest break came on the opening kickoff Kevin Sullivan dropped at the 10-yard line and the ball rolled out of bounds inside the one Kevin Anthony even completed two passes for 23 yards before Flutie threw his first pass But that trend soon ceased and a more predictable pattern began Flutie took over on BC's second drive from his own 25 and marched the Eagles 75 yards in nine plays Flutie completed five passes for 39 yards most of them sceens and short sideline routes The final eight yards came on a pass to Stradford who got behind Walter Bailey in the right side of the end zone It got easier as Flutie went along On the next drive he started at his 20 and completed six of nine passes including two drops by his receivers The final six yards came on a Flutie pass to Kelvin Martin with 1:10 left in the quarter Flutie has 11 cqmplaHnna in attempt for 114 yards before the lint quarter ended Soon the only remaining suspense was how far up the all-time NCAA passing list Flutie could move He started in 10th place but he cruised past Steve Young (See BOSTON Page 6B) Carolina Finds It Was Complete FOXBORO Mass The rout was comprehensive and severe North Carolina wasn't expected to beat Boston College but nobody expected the Tar Heels to take the drubbing they took Saturday night though the 52-20 loss to the Eagles was more of a reflection of Boston College's strength than Carolina's weakness not said UNC coach Dick Crum with their ability to move the football and our inability to keep it away from College is really a good team got to talk about them They had great exection tonight and played well Right now not even in their class" BOSTON COLLEGE may be the talk of college football after Saturday Scott Last year a young Miami team led by a freshman vhlSn3nt quarterback came from relative obscurity to take Staff Writer the national title This year has started out as if it may belong to Boston "It's too soon to tell'' said BC coach Jack Bicknell about a possible comparison with Miami thing it does mean is that in college football today a team like Boston College or Miami can be a factor whereas 10 years ago if you weren't a major power you weren't in the picture" AFTER WINS over Alabama and the rout of UNC BC is definitely in the picture The offense consists of more than quarterback Doug Flutie witness tailback Troy Stradford 's 165 total yards The defense didn't allow anything close to a UNC touchdown in the first half before giving up three scores in the final half with the outcome decided But the one thing Boston College has that separates it from the rest is Flutie the most dynamic player in the college game today a great passer and a great scrambler" said UNC quarterback Kevin Anthony the biggest thing is that he's a winner Watching a guy like that you can learn a lot of FLUTIE did just about what he pleased Saturday After watching him complete 28 passes in 38 attempts for a school-record six touchdowns Crum said there was no way to stop him you itog him he dumps it said Crum if you try to defend him he hits the Flutie threw from the pocket he scrambled he threw sidearm and he even threw a shovel pass He was never sacked and he hardly threatened by the UNC pass rush could have slam dunked it if he wanted said Crum For his part Flutie credited his offensive line and admitted revenge was somewhat of a factor after losing to UNC by 38 points as a freshman But basically Flutie said it was just one of those nights threw extremely well he said was just one of those nights where the guys were getting open and everything was -going our way It just felt good" The good feeling is catching in New England The local press called the UNC game a weekend" for Boston College as the area has a natioanl contender to for the first time in 44 years Flutie said he wasn't ready to ponder the possibilities of feat see ourselves as 34) and looking for he said not worried about long-range goals I just want to make it to a bowl game on Jan The Eagles have games with Penn State and Miami remaining but Crum said a bigger problem may be the two-week layoff that now faces them before facing Temple After the Eagles had scored the most points ever against a Crum-coached team Crum praised BC as having the best offensive scheme he had coached against the best I've seen as far as orchestration of he said has done an outstanding job they way he's organized the offense and used the personnel Maybe some people we've played have been more powerful physically but not with the finesse and the combination of running and BC has the eastern press on its side and a frontrunner for the Heisman trophy Bicknell says it may be too early but no one took Miami too seriously last year either until the end Which Team Do You Love To Hate The Most? Billy Carmichael III Columnist way to award the trophy I've searched far and wide for the whereabouts of this trophy without success The truth is somebody probably rode off with it and a hearty heigh ho Silver The ole Oaken Bucket is probably the oldest trophy still being competed for between Purdue and Indiana the 10th longest rivalry in Division 1-A Nobody yet has kicked the bucket after 86 meetings Rivalries create a let af parts trivia If yea east aaawer at least three af the fUtewing live qaestiana caneetly yea moat reread a copy af Briasley Sheridaa's The Rlyah: 1 tVkatlaCaraliaatleageetlleetbaUrtvalryla garnet played? 1 Where date lUa rivalry raa am tag all NCAA dlvMea t-A series? H'he did Trialty atari playlag as Duke? 4DaeayACCacAealakaveabettertAaaSt9 all time record with CaraUaa 5 Whs araa CareHea lint feetMl rival? Next week Carolina and Kansas play each other for the first time ever It could be the start of a beautiful friendship but in this day and age you don't see too many new rivalries coming to the fore Like good wine it takes a while for everything to distill Carolina has had three different major rivals in its nearly 100 years of playing college football Carolina-Virginia was the biggie as far as the Tar Heels were concerned from 1893 to 1924 mainly because Virginia usually beat Carolina It was known for years as Championship of the When Carolina started winning over Virginia THE game to the Carolina faithful became Duke which began to beat the Tar Heels with regularly in the 30s 40s and early 50s Then when Duke hit upon hard times NC State starting winning ovei Carolina thanks in no small part to a rather lose to Kansas than to Duke if he had to lose His explanation was you just wont run into that many Kansas folks the week after the game Lose to Navy and you can rationalize that you're helping the national Department of Defense program Lose to State and you're helping the Reds themselves Rivalries are often highlighted by some form of trophy which is held for a year by the winning team The idea started in some places to avoid tearing down the loser 's goal posts which can be a very dangerous undertaking That's one reason the Carolina-Duke Victory Bell came into being Previous to the Victory Bell a mounted set of sterling silver goal posts was conceived in the early 30s to help avoid the postgame mayhem Unfortunately Duke and Carolina played two consecutive scoreless ties the following years (1930 and 1931) and there was no bespectacled Lou Holtz and his magic triclu and the big Tar Heel rival became the Wolfpack Obviously a psychologist should be called in at this point to take this question into deeper anaylsis There is something masochistic about making your main rival someone who regularly beats up on you Or maybe it's as simple as wanting to win over a team you cant count cm defeating Right now it appears difficult to determine who is Carolina's one and only biggest rival Like field captains these days it all depends on who you're playing which Saturday Geography has something to do with the whole question My father said he'd (See RIVALS Page 5B) Tigers Trounce Broughton Turning 180 Degrees more first downs (13) and more yards total offense (223) than in the past two games combined and more points than it had scored all season The Tigers defense meanwhile forced four turnovers sacked Broughton quarterback Harrison Murray four times and held the Caps to just 67 total yards 145 less than their opponents' previous low is the first time I've ever felt the team came together like it said senior Rick Serge who returned a ftimble 42 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter the game I thought we would win and I think everybody on the team did" Chapel Hill started strong and ended even stronger The Tigers converted three Broughton turnovers into a 174) halftime lead and with one second left in the game capped a 48-yard drive mi an one-yard plunge by tailback Skeet Baldwin and Ted Koch's extra-point kick NOW 1-2-1 overall the Tigers are By TONY BRITT Staff Writer The way the Chapel Hill High School football players hooped and hollered in the lockerroom following Friday night's 244) win over Raleigh Broughton you would have thought they just downed the Miami Dolphins IT quite the Super Bowl but the shellacking the Tigers put on Broughton for their first win of the season was something they were mighty proud of been telling the players all along that they're going to get better each time out" said CHHS head coach Bill Hodgin who was smiling but stayed calm as his players paraded around him with young people the only success they see is on the scoreboard just happy for them tonight They took it to CHAPEL HILL made an 180-degree turn from being shut out in Its last two games to rolling up confidently looking ahead felt like we didn't really do that bad last Tiger quarterback Chris Baldwin said about the 27-3 loss to Raleigh Millbrook "Coach (Hodgin) told us Millbrook would be the best team we played I knew we would do a lot better against Broughton" Baldwin completed only four of 13 passes for 34 yards but his first mm was good for a nine-yard touchdown to Mike Piver with 6:16 to play in the first quarter Koch kicked the PAT for a 74) Tigers' lead The 12-play 46-yard drive started following a ftimble recovery by Jeff Earle on the Caps' second play from scrimmage A change to an formation and the use of motion in Chapel offense was the difference from last week to Friday night Hodgin said Against Millbrook the Tigers gained 36 total yards zero rushing But on Friday Chapel Hill gained 41 yards per carry rushing for 184 yards Skeet Baldwin led the way with 86 yards on 18 carries (See CHHS Page 9B) Bat) CHN Rick Serge (7) takes off on his 42-yard touchdown run off a fumble i.