App State at North Carolina

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, September 22, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  LITTLE ACTION IS SEEN OPENING DAY Little Colleges Have No Real Successes; Scores Are Lopsided NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-R-The college football season, which has been warming up in the bull.pen for the last couple of weeks, fin ally got into action today. There wasn’t a great deal of &C. ton. A few small colleges tried to stop the few big teams that opened the campaign ahead Of their rivals. None of the little fellows had any real success and for the most part scores were so lopsided they didn’t even give a good indication of how strong the major outfits are. Perhaps the most impressive showings of the day were made by Boston college, the only major eastern team listed for action, and Kentucky, North Carolina and Wake Forest in the south. The Boston college Eagles whipped Centre, usually a stubborn foe, 400, with little aid of their passing ace, Chuck O’Rourke. Centre was able to resist only in the first half. Kentucky scored at a point-a-minute clip against an other small college rival that usual. ly gives good account Of itself, Baldwin Wallace. The final count was 59–⁠7, with the losers scoring on a 53-yard pass play. North Carolina, rated as a South err conference title contender, routed Appalachian State 56–⁠6 and Wake Forest, another threat in the same circuit, rolled up a 100 count against William Jewell of Missouri,. Other Southern and Southeastern conference teams found the going just a little harder. Mississippi whipped Union (Tenn.) university $40, Clemson beat Presbyterian $50, Virginia Military defeated Roanoke $50, Virginia Tech turned back Catawba 34–⁠12, Washington and Lee made it $50 over Hampden-Sydney and Richmond defeated the Newport News Naval Apprentice school $50. The most important game on the mid-western program saw Iowa

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North Carolina leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.