Duke at North Carolina

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  The Washington times, November 16, 1936, page 39

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  A0YA-0LD line GAME TO Offer THRILLS AND SPILL: Mr.. Marshall, Come And GET Him! One of the annual football gems below the Potomac River, as the autumns wear on, is that brisk conflict h e | d alternately a t Durham and Chapel Hill between N or t h Carolina a n d Duke, which just about set ties the State cham pionship. Saturdays installment swung back to Chapel Hill, in Kenan Stadium, tucked down in a natural wooded ampitheater Just off the pike to Raleigh, and a more natural college gridiron setting you couldn’t conscientiously conceive. Mid-November, around which hour you will usually find these tense rivals honing their football hatred on each other, ever seems to be the time nature has tinted the Carolina foliage its very hand soonest. 1t Gets You The balmy odor of stately pines serves as an appetizer for that gracious Southern hospitality and somehow or another, even if you didn’t like football, you’d find yourself throwing back your Shoulders, thrusting out your chest, and arching with the grooming voiced natives to the game OF games upon the day of days. Having thus set the stage for one of the really traditional foot ball tid-bits of the old South, perhaps you will brook word or two about the game which means so much on the northern fringe of the cotton belt, where every lady is called honey” and the sterner of the species is colonel” at the very least. One couldn’t have been in wash ington and seen Vic SIMPSONS &C. yard run after kickoff for a touchdown, and also have been in Chapel Hill and seen a somewhat superior feat by Thomas “Ace” Parker, who is playing his last year in the Duke backfield, much to relief of the 27 to 7 short-enders, North Carolina University. And, not to take any of the razor edge off SIMPSONS sprint Continued on Page Al, Col. y

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  Evening star, November 15, 1936, page 1 (results column)

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  Y /ALE’S great rally. which over “ came 16-point handicap and enabled 1t to beat Princeton = in free-scoring game, 1928, proved the high light of yesterdays battles on the Nations gridirons. Two of the three major undefeated and united elevens, Northwestern and Marquette, continued on their winning ways, the Wildcats stopping Mich igan. 80, and Mississippi falling before Marquette. $50. Santa Clara, the third big school with q clean slate. plays st. Mary,s today at San Francisco. The service schools won and lost. Navy finding double satisfaction ut the end Of the day in which it trimmed Harvard, 20–⁠13, and learned that Army had fallen, 20–⁠6. before Notre Dame, the Middies’ victim Of . week ago. Duke came through, Is expected. to win the south’s big classic from North Carolina, 27–⁠7. Locally, Georgetown dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten by losing to Manhattan In New York. 1870: Maryland’s Homecoming was turned into gloom By v. M. Is two last.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, North Carolina leads 64–⁠42–⁠4; as played, 64–⁠38–⁠4 in the 106 games on file; the official count covers all 112 meetings, counting the 91 since this game.