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Tar Heels Dominate
Final ACC Figures

The official winners of the
Atlantic Coast Conference's
annual season-long statistical
contest were announced
yesterday by Norvall Neve,
Acting Commissioner.

Team statistics were
dominated by North Carolina,
a team which finished tied for
second in the final ACC
standings despite leading the
other seven teams in total
offense, rushing offense, total
defense, rushing defense, and
scoring offense and defense,
quite an impressive log for an
also ran. Wake Forest's Demon
Deacons, although wearing the
crown this year, placed higher
than fifth in only rushing
offense. On the other hand,
Virginia was fourth in offense
(third in passing, fourth in
rushing,) second in total
defense, (second in both
rushing and passing), and third
in both scoring and defense
against scoring, but finished
last with a dismal -0.6 mark.

Turning to individual statistics
Leo Hart of Duke ran away with
the total offense lead with South
Carolina's Tommy Suggs. UNC
All-American Don McCauley and
the Cavaliers' own Bill Troup
trailing. McCauley swept the
rushing title by almost 800 yards
over Wake's Larry Hopkins.
Virginia's Gary Helman was sixth
while running mate Jim Lacey
wound up eighth. Troup, with only
nine games worth of statistics to
eleven for everyone else in the lead,
was fourth behind Hart, Suggs and
Clemson's Tom Kendrick in the
passing stats.

Duke's Wes Chesson was on the
receiving end of 74 of Hart's aerials
to far outclass the rest of the
conference as second place Jim
Mitchell of USC had only 41.
Wahoo terminals Dave Sullivan and
Bob Bischoff finished fifth and
sixth. Hal Trentham was the
conference's fifth punter, while
placekicker Jim Carrington was the
fourth leading scorer among the
kickers this fall. Helman was sixth
in scoring totals and Lacey finished
fourth in kickoff returns with Bob
McGrall fifth in running back
punts.

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