North Carolina at Army

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 2, 1944, page 1 (results column)

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  SOUTHERN TEAMS UPSET CUESSERS RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 1.-lR- The Southern Conference football squads took real battering from outside foes Saturday and North Carolina State emerged unexpecteddy with the only major scalp OF the day. An underdog state eleven won weird contest from the University of Virginia’s Viz, 1870, by recovering two Cavalier fumbles beyond the goal line in the final period. Virginia had been biting off ire hunks Of yardage all afternoon but failed to punch over a score. Favored Duke went down before a determined young Penn team, 1877. Little Catawba ripped v. M. I. 7–⁠6 to spoil the cadets home coming day, Georgia Navy proved to strong for South Cardinals gamecocks, 20–⁠14. Army crushed north Carolina, 1870. Georgia Tech smashed Clemson $40. All in all, it was one of the darkest Saturdays in conference history. Aside from N. C. States triumph the only other brighten ers were William and Mary’s 46–⁠0 verdict over Fort Monroe and $40 decision over the Richmond Army Air Base, both being expected over none too strong service aggregations. Loop members will pay more to their own pennant race next Saturday with three family scraps on the docket. Mary land plays at Wake Forest, V. M. I. at Richmond and N. c. State Clemson at Charlotte in the games which will count in the standings. Wake Forest with a win over North Carolina and Duke with a success over Richmond are lead ing the race so far. No other conference games have been played. Wake Forest has one of the strong est civilian elevens in this section and followed up the Carolina triumph with a 14–⁠7 score over Georgia on Friday night. Maryland bowed to Hampden-Sydney 1910 on the same night. North Carolina will carry on the inter-conference rivalry Saturday by meeting Georgia Tech of the Southeastern at Atlanta. Duke catches the surprising N. c. Navy Pre-Flighters who sprang the East’s biggest upset Saturday in Navy at Annapolis. South Carolina travels to Miami. Will liam and Mary meets the strong Hampden-Sydney club at Rich mond Friday night. The standings:

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North Carolina leads 6–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.