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Tar Babies Wallop Cavayearlings,
Kupec Paces Prodigious Aerial Show

By DOUG DOUGHTY

Photo by Jay Adams

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You can forget about that
budding UNC football dynasty
ending when Paul Miller, Lewis
Jolley and John Bunting graduate
this year. It won't happen.

North Carolina's Tar Babies,
heralded as the best freshman
squad to come along since Bill
Dooley's takeover at North
Carolina, pulverized the University
Cavayearling crew, 61-0, Friday
afternoon, and you almost had to
believe they were not playing at full
potential after striking out to a 41-0
halftime margin.

For the Tar Babies the big story
was a devastating air attack that
featured six touchdown passes.
Chris Kupec, a strapping 6-4, 191
pounds started as quarterback for
North Carolina and in his curtailed
tenure he completed six of nine
aerials for 163 yards and four
scores. Chuck Baggett, his more
than able substitute, also took part
in four scores: he rushed for two
and added two touchdown passes.

Strangely enough, the
Cavayearling defense did hold the
Tar Babies without a score on three
of their early possessions but when
the first-year offense fumbled three
times and quarterback Chris Turner
was intercepted three times the Tar
Babies gained valuable field position
and four times converted
Cavayearling miscues into either a
touchdown or field goal.

First-half scoring for North
Carolina was dominated by Kupec's
touchdown passes. Kupec
connected with 5-9, 147 pound end
Ray Stanford on 30- and 39-yard
aerials for North Carolina's first
two scores. At that point Baggett
entered the fray and nailed
halfback Dick Oliver for UNC's
third score on an 11-yard pass.

QBs Hot

Oliver's touchdown had been
preceded by a 31-yard field goal by
Ellis Alexander and midway
through the second quarter the Tar
Babies led 24-0. The University
either fumbled or was intercepted
each of its remaining possessions
and Kupec hit 6-6, 225 pound
tight end Chuck Waddell with an
8-yard touchdown pass and Baggett
notched his second scoring aerial on
a 12-yard pass to the wee Stanford.
Alexander ended the half with a
booming 42-yard field goal that
conceivably would have been good
from ten yards farther back.

The second half, marred by
injuries and rough play by either
team, saw Virginia cough up the
ball several times deep in its own
territory, once on the ten and
another time on the 20-yard line.
Each time North Carolina scored.
Baggett scored twice on rushes of
four and nine yards, and
sandwiched between the two scores
was a 59-yard bomb from Kupec to
defensive back-turned-wide receiver
Bobby Myrick, who far
outdistanced the befuddled
Cavayearling secondary.

North Carolina's defense was
equally potent as its offense.
Alexander, the punter, doubles as a
linebacker and with 6-2, 249-pound
tackle Ronnie Robinson led a
defensive charge that continually
harried the Cavayearling
signal callers and limited the
first-year ground attack to a meager
40 yards rushing. The Tar Baby
secondary also was tough, allowing
the completion of only ten of 28
passes for 64 yards.

Ambrose Stands Out

The University was not without
its standout performers. Dick
Ambrose punished the North
Carolina defense as much as it
punished him, as he travelled up the
middle 16 times, gaining a
respectable 54 yards.

The Cavayearling linebacking
crew stood out but defensive signal
caller Bill Dennis excelled as he
roamed from sideline to sideline
making saving tackles and even had a
run-in with a North Carolina
bleacher midway through the
fourth quarter from which he got
up shaken, but unhurt. Dennis was
not so lucky later on when he
needed to be carried off the field
after attempting to run after he saw
fit to abort a punt attempt that
appeared needless after an errant
snap.