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Tar Heels Hand Cavaliers Eighth Defeat, 32-20

By JOHN MARKON

Photo By Jay Adams

Dave Sullivan Hauls In Second Touchdown Pass

On Saturday afternoon the
Wahoos played a Top Twenty team
on more or less even terms, saw a
new passing star emerge in Harrison
Davis and didn't fumble the ball
away once. They still lost, though,
32-20, to the University of North
Carolina.

Cavalier Coach Don Lawrence
called the defeat that dropped his
team's record to 2-8 Virginia's
"best game overall, considering the
opposition." No one disagreed. The
tar Heels' record is now the exact
obverse of Virginia's, 8-2, and they
played well enough in the Scott
Stadium contest to impress the
phantom Peach Bowl scout who
may or may not have been
watching.

Despite the loss, the
picture for the home side was
brightened by the play of
quarterback Davis. He completed
14 of 30 passes for 261 yards, five
of them to end Bill Davis for the
staggering total of 143 yards. Two
of the six Davis passes caught by
flanker Dave Sullivan went for
touchdowns of 23 and 14 yards,

Photo By Steve Wells

Dejected Coach Don Lawrence In Locker Room

both terminating in brilliant end
zone receptions.

Those were the first two
touchdowns scored in Scott
Stadium by a Wahoo team under
Davis' leadership and they came
just in time, as the Carolina game
marked the end of the 1971 home
season. As Davis left the field in the
last minute the remnants of a
crowd of 18,500 gave him a
"standing O", a far cry from the
treatment they reserved for him in
earlier games.

Heels Score First

The game itself was played
under perfect weather conditions
and went scoreless until, with six
seconds left in the first quarter,
UNC's Ken Craven kicked the first
of his three field goals, a 27-yarder
that gave the Tar Heels a lead they
never relinquished.

Ten straight Carolina running
plays comprised the scoring drive
and the Heels were led in that
march, as in most of their other
ones, by Lewis Jolley. Jolley reeled
off 36 big ones in five carries there
and finished the game with 167
yards in 32 attempts. Lawrence
described the senior wingback as
"out of sight" and called him "the only real difference between the
two teams."

The Wahoos got the ball back on
the ensuing kickoff but didn't have
it long. Larry Albert's third down
pass was intercepted by North
Carolina's Lou Angelo deep in
Cavalier territory and, three plays
later, Jolley swept his own left end
for eight yards and a score. Craven's
kick made it 10-0.

Again the Cavs failed to move
the ball and, after a short Billy
Maxwell punt, saw Tar Heel QB
Paul Miller, not reputed to be a
thrower, get 43 yards through the
air and set up another Craven field
goal. Davis then took over for
Virginia and took the Wahoos down
to the UNC 20 where his drive
stalled and Maxwell was summoned
to try a 37 yard field goal which, to
the surprise of a few, he made.

A Miller fumble recovered by
defensive end Billy Williams opened
the next Virginia field goal drive
shortly before halftime. A 48 yard
reception and run by Bill Davis put
the Wahoos on the UNC seven but a
run by John Rainey, an incomplete

pass to Davis (on which many thought they saw interference) and
a backfield collision by Davis and
Greg Dickerhoof lost seven yards
and led to another Maxwell
three-pointer.

Right after intermission the 'Hoos
went into another one of their bad
periods. Center Tom Viar's fourth
down snap went almost as far as
many Wahoo punts as it soared over
Maxwell's head and didn't stop
until it rolled through the end zone
for a safety that gave Carolina a
15-6 lead.

Stanley Land's recovery of a
Billy Hite fumble led to the first of
Sullivan's touchdown grabs but
Carolina put the game back into
equilibrium by storming 54 yards
for a score. Miller got the score on a
three yard pass to end Ken Taylor,
with Cavalier defender Chris Brown
not a factor.

Angelo's second interception,
this time of a Davis pass, set up a
47-yard Carven field goal, a
distance he had previously achieved
only in his dreams. That came with
19 seconds left in the third quarter
and made it 25-13.

Davis Leads Drive

Davis then drove Virginia 80
yards in nine plays with the last 14
coming on a sensational Sullivan
catch in the end zone. The new
25-20 score got the crowd excited
but, dammit, the Tar Heels scored
again on a 21 yard pass from Miller
to Jolley, who clearly had one foot
out of bounds. The extra yard of
end zone given to Jolley was
apparently too much for defensive
back Bill Kettunen to contend
with.

The Craven extra point raised
the score to 32-20 and that's where
it stayed. Davis marshaled one last
Wahoo threat but it died on the
Carolina 26 when the Hampton,
Va. second-yearman ran out of
downs.

The final offensive totals were
relatively even, 391 total yards and
21 first downs for Carolina to
Virginia's 354 yards and 15 firsts.
Nick Vidnovic's 46 yard punting
average had a lot to do with the
poor field position "enjoyed" by
Davis and the Cavs during most of
the game. Without the two Carolina
fumbles the score would have been
much less respectable.

The Tar Heels' 283 rushing
yards were compiled by Jolley and
a supporting cast of eight others.
All of Davis' and Albert's total of
302 passing yards were on
receptions by Cavalier ends Davis,
Sullivan and Joe Smith.

Jolley, who always seems to save
his peak efforts for Virginia, said as
much after the game and Lawrence
compared him favorably with Don
McCauley, last year's Carolina
rushing star. Harrison Davis,
surrounded by a gaggle of reporters,
said he "proved something to
myself" with his performance and
assured his new legion of fans that
"I still think I can get better."

The Cavaliers finished their
home season with a 1-4 Scott
Stadium record and are 1-3 in the
ACC with an away game against
Maryland, now also 2-8, remaining.
Without doubt the Terrapins will
provide a physical breather for the
Cavs, subjected to the kind of
punishment against Carolina that
they thought only Michigan could
deliver. No one on the team would
have settled for 3-8 at the beginning
of the season but now it shapes up
the best that can be done.

Photo By Steve Wells

Lewis Jolley Crosses Goal Line For First Tar Heel Score

Photo By Lovelace Cook

Billy Maxwell Boots Sixth Field Goal Of Season To Break Wahoo Record

Photo By Lovelace Cook

Bill Davis After One Of His Seven Receptions