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record levelled to 1-1-1

carolina smashes yearlings, 30-6

The Virginia Cavayearlings suffered
their first defeat of the season
Friday afternoon at the hands of
the North Carolina Tar Babies by a
30-6 margin, in a game marked by
fumbles, fisticuffs, and questionable
officiating.

After receiving the kickoff, the
Carolina freshmen lost possession
on fumbles twice in the first three
minutes, giving the Cavayearlings
the football at the Carolina 43 and
again at the Carolina 19. The young
Wahoo offense, however, was not
able to cash in on either opportunity.

The third time Virginia had possession,
halfback Fred Kaspick
fumbled on his own 11 yard line to
set up the first Tar Baby touchdown.
Halfback Billy Hite banged
over from the three, and North Carolina
led 7-0. With 42 seconds left
in the first quarter, Tar Baby place-kicker
Carter Sitterson added a
23-yard field goal to increase the
margin to ten.

Virginia's Kaspick fumbled and
recovered the ensuing kickoff,
giving the Wahoos first and ten at
their own eighteen. Quarterback
Bill Troup went right to work by
completing a beautiful 65-yard pass
to end Chris Brown. Three plays
later, Troup tossed an apparent
touchdown pass to Alan Clements,
only to have the play nullified by a
procedure penalty. Another opportunity
had passed the Cavayearlings
by.

Moments later, Billy Hite broke
away on a 66-yard run, only to be
hauled down from behind by safety
Billy League short of the goal.
League's gritty chase and tackle
only postponed the agony; Hite
scored his second touchdown three
plays later. Sitterson missed the
point-after, and Carolina led 16-0.

On the next series of downs, a
fight erupted between two players,
and the Carolina bench started to
empty before cooler heads prevailed.
From that point on, the referees
struggled to maintain control
of the game. Virginia was assessed
one penalty for unsportsmanlike
conduct in the second quarter, and
another in the fourth quarter when
one Cavayearling flagrantly kicked
a fallen Tar Baby in the stomach.

Hite scored his third touchdown,
an 85-yard pass from
quarterback Mike Mansfield, with
the aid of a nifty block on Wahoo
safety Jim Roberts by one referee.

This costly faux pas, when added
to the confusion between the
officials as to whether a roughing
the kicker penalty against Carolina

would be stepped off from the
point of infraction or the line of
scrimmage, moved some fans to
wonder whether there were indeed
traces of tar on the referees' heels.

Neither Troup nor his
replacement, Rick Babula, could
crack the tough Carolina defense
until the fourth quarter, when
Troup completed three passes in a
row, the final one for a 26-yard
touchdown to Chris Brown.

The Cavayearlings' season record
is now 1-1-1.