The Cavalier daily :: Friday, October 31, 1969 :: University of Virginia Library

Reviving the oldest football
rivalry in the South this Saturday,
North Carolina and Virginia will
smash heads before an expected
crowd of some 24,000 in Scott
Stadium. It appears to be a must
game for both teams, not only for
the traditional reasons, but because
both teams find themselves
floundering with identical 1-2
conference records.

Fresh from shellacking Wake
Forest 23-3 last weekend, Carolina
will be out to snap a five game
losing streak to the Cavaliers that
extends back to November, 1964.
The Wahoos, on the other hand,
will be trying to break out of a ten
quarter scoring drought that started
in Richmond three weekends ago
and stretches through two, humiliating
shutout losses to N.C. State
and (Ugh!) the Naval Academy.

Once the "Big" game for both
schools, Carolina Weekend marked
something more than just a gang
fight on a football field. If the old
Corks and Curls can be trusted, it
was of such importance that it
attracted the appearance of such
celebrities as Calvin Coolidge and
Lady Astor; it was love, truth,
beauty, and school honor on an
autumn afternoon; it was the whole
football season played in one sixty
minute game; it was a Thanksgiving
tradition and all that. Recently,
however, because of disinterest and
conference scheduling, the Carolina
game seems to have become just
another Saturday of football.

Both teams come into the game
in very good physical condition.
For the Cavaliers, only Tom Patton
is still a question mark. Suffering
from a hip pointer he received
against William & Mary, Patton will
not start, and Ed Kihm will move
into his defensive end position.
Charlie Blandford will play the
middle linebacker spot as Paul Reid
goes to the right linebacker position,
replacing Kihm.

After a lackluster performance
against Navy, Danny Fasio will
be replaced at the starting quarterback
slot by second year-man Mike
Cubbage. At the luncheon at the
Monticello Hotel yesterday afternoon
Mr. Blackburn said that he
thought Cubbage "had earned it."
It was also announced that Jim
Lacey would start at halfback, as
Dave Wyncoop had injured the arch
of his foot in practice Wednesday.
Wyncoop's injury makes for an all
sophomore backfield, the first time
such a unit has started this year.

Gary Helman won the "Wahoo
Award" for last weeks game. The
second-year fullback from Pennsylvania
still leads the ACC in
individual rushing, with eighteen
more yards han Clemson's Ray
Yauger.

In a telephone conversation with
Bill Dooley, North Carolina's head
coach, it was mentioned that he
thought his team has a little more
experience than last year, when the
Tar Heels fell 41-6.

Game time is 1:30.