North Carolina at Navy

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 20, 1946, page 34

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  Carolina Roars Back In Fourth Quarter, Sinks Tars, 21–⁠14 BALTIMORE. Oct. lg.-Nayy’s luckIess football team went down 70 third straight defeat here todAN as North Carolina s unbeaten, once tied Tar Heels roared back in the final period to win, 81 to IA, before Secretary of War Patterson, Admiral Nimitz and 10000 other pectatof4. The favored Tar Heels took a .1-g lead after 3:.3T OF play. but NavY fought to q little at the half and forged ahead In the third pefied, only to weaken in the final 15 minutes before Cardinals hard running backs. Not only was It the first football victory In history for Carolina over Navy, but the game marked the first time the Tar Heels ever have scored on the Middies. The teams had not met since 1906 North Carolina’s AIl-America can didate, Tailback Charley Justice, lived up to his notices. but to sink the Navy the tricky little running star had to have help, notably from pair of second -stringers named Walt Pupa and Bill Maceyko. It was this pair that sparked the Tar Heels opening touchdown and which killed a promising Navy drive near the end. Early tumble Hurts Navy. Bill Hawkins, Navy fullback, fumbled on the second play after the kickoff and Ted Hazlewood. 222pound tackle. recovered for Carolima on the Blue and Gold SO. Two third-down passes, Justice to Right End George Sparger and Justice to Fullback Hosea Rodgers, put the ball on the 2. from where Justice plunged across. Bob Cox added the first of his three extra points. Coach Tom Hamilton, alternating his first two teams, saw his No 2 eleven set up touchdown in the second quarter when Bill McClain, fullback, quick kicked 81 yards to Cardinals 4, where Justices understudy, Bill Britt, was downed. On the first play. Max Spellman at tempted to punt out, but. Navy’s line broke through and 18-year-old Bob Hunt, a tackle, blocked the kick and Joe Tagliente, the other tackle, fell on it for a touchdown. When Hawkins added the point it was TT The Tar Heels, outplayed during the first half, came out charging hard and fast after the intermission and confined play to Navy terri tory until Justice tried a pass from his II and Dick Scott, crack Middle center. intercepted and ran like a ball carrier to the Tar Heels n. After this 54-yard run, Navy plunged forward on momentum. Hawkins gained Is yards around end and, after two line plunges and two tSee CAROLINA. PAGE B-2)

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  Grid Season (otkeyed or, Eastern Field NEW YORK, Oct. 2l (APl-The college football season, a cockeyed campaign in which surprises are a dime a dozen and nothing seems impossible, reaches the halfway mark this week with only a hand ful of major teams still clutching untarnished records. Many previously unbeaten out fits were engaged today in pulling themselves from the wreckage strewn across every section of the land in the past weekend’s wave of upsets and there was a strong possibility that similar embarrass- ment lay ahead for some of those who escaped Army, Notre Dame and Texas still the nations top trio-all have their work cut out for them next Saturday when they face tough opponents ready, willing and able to blemish their all victorious rec ords. The Cadets, who blasted Colum- bia from the unbeaten ranks 48- IA, move into New York’s Polo Grounds for their annual battle with Duke The Blue Devils warmed up for this one with a 41–⁠0 whitewashing of Richmond. Notre Dame, idle last week, in vades Iowa, which pulled one of Saturdays many surprises by blank ing Indiana 13–⁠0. Texas, which dumped previously unbeaten Ar kansas 200, visits Rice, an im- proved team that dropped South crn Methodist 21–⁠7 for it’s third triumph since losing 7–⁠6 opener to Louisiana State. Pennsylvania Quakers, wno kept their record clean by smear ing Virginia 40–⁠0, entertain Navy in another Eastern headliner. The Middies, downed 21–⁠14 by North Carolina for their third loss, should be ready to give somebody a troublesome afternoon. Cornell tied 6–⁠6 by Yale, .v.sits Princeton, 14–⁠7 winner over Rut- gers, and Columbia goes to Dart mouth upset 20–⁠13 by Brown, for couple of Ivy League contests. Elsewhere in the East, it will be Coast Guard at Yale, Holy Cross at Harvard, Syracuse at West Vir- mia and Bos:cn University at Brown. Midwestern fans will be treated to two conference games in the Big Nine, where the form already has been scrambled beyond recog- nition. Illinois, 27–⁠21 victor over Wisconsin, will be at Michigan, which tied Northwestern 14–⁠14, and Minnesota, which swamped Wyoming 46–⁠0, will go to Ohio State, tied 14–⁠14 by Purdue. Other Midwestern highlights will find Indiana at Nebraska, Col lege ol Pacific at Northwestern, Purdue at Pittsburgh, Southern Methodist at Missouri, Oklahoma at Iowa State, Cincinnati at Mich igan State, Arizona at Marquette and Kansas at Tulsa. Tennessee, which knocked Ala bama from the ranks of the all- victorious, 12–⁠0, will risk it’s per feet record in try for a fifth triumph at Lake Forest

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Tied 5–⁠5 in 10 meetings, counting the six since this game.