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In Homecoming Game

Jones, Jackson To Lead Duke

By JOHN MARKON

Last year when Duke
University, a school with a strong
winning tradition in football but
rapidly becoming acclimated to
adversity, canned Coach Tom Harp
after a 6-5 season and replaced him
with Mike Megee, few of the ACC
football fraternity were terribly
interested or envious.

With pre-season forecasts almost
demanding more of the same, all the
32 year-old ex-Blue Devil star has
done is to put together two
convincing upsets over Florida and
South Carolina and raise his team
into contention for the ACC title
and the nation's Top Twenty.

Fans down in "God's Country",
taken aback by the Devil's success
after spending all summer booming
UNC and Wake Forest as
powerhouses, have, characteristically,
wasted little time jumping on
the Duke bandwagon. When the
Devils invade Charlottesville on
Saturday they will have already
shed their reputation as a
"surprise" team.

The Dukes have rested their title
aspirations on a rugged defense.
McGee, UPI's Coach of the Week,
has devised a defense that has
bent 253 yards passing against
Florida and 294 yards total offense
against the Gamecocks but has not
broken. Only two touchdowns have
been scored against Duke in the
two games and only eighteen points
altogether.