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Cavayearlings Face Tar Babies Today

By DOUG DOUGHTY

Claiming the home-field
advantage for the first time this
month, the Cavayearling gridders
challenge North Carolina's Tar
Babies, Friday afternoon, on the
southernmost of the University Hall
practice fields.

The game is scheduled at this
unusual location due to efforts to
save the grass at Scott Stadium for
higher-priority Varsity action
within the next several weeks.
Scheduled for 2:00, the game will
feature UNC's potent offense,
averaging 43.5 points for two
games, against the first-year squad's
improving offense and challenging
defense.

Lauded as the "best group of
individual talent since Bill Dooley
became coach" the baby Tar Heels
are led by head coach Moyer Smith
and feature a balanced attack. Their
leading rushers, Jim DeRatt and
Mark DiCarolo, average a menacing
5.8 and 7.9 yards a carry,
respectively. Chris Kupec, a much
sought-after prospect from Syosset,
New York, directs the attack and
has completed 20 out of 26 passes
for 342 yards.

Defensive tackle Ron Robinson
and linebacker Ellis Alexander head
the North Carolina defense which
stymied Wake Forest's offense in a
45-6 win last week. There is some
hope for the Cavayearling offense,
in that N.C. State managed three
touchdowns in a 42-21 loss earlier
in the season.

Defensive back Bob Myrick,
who doubles as a split end, is the
fastest man on the squad and the
Goldsborough, North Carolina
native has chalked up an 88-yard
kickoff return for a touchdown and
has a 42-yard punt runback to his
credit.

The Tar Babies bring their
impressive 2-0 record to
Charlottesville but the type of
competition they have beaten is
unknown to the University at this
point. The Cavayearlings present a
2-1 mark, victors over VMI and
William and Mary but the
humiliated losers of a 33-6 rout by
Maryland earlier this month.

Uncertain offensively in their
first two games, the first-year club
showed a good ability to move the
ball against William and Mary, last
Friday. Chris Turner paced the
attack against the freshman Indians
as he accumulated 183 yards
through the air. Dick Ambrose
again led Cavalier rushers as the
ground attack picked up an
additional 170 yards. Ambrose's
running mate Jeff Stanley added a
touchdown run to tallies by
Ambrose and Turner.

Other stars for the Cavayearlings
against the Papooses were wide
receivers Jim Colleran and Bill
Lanahan. With 10:08 gone in the
first quarter Turner connected with
Colleran on a nine-yard scoring
aerial to achieve the Cavayearlings
first touchdown pass of the season.
Turner later hurled a 55-yarder to
Lanahan to set up the University's
third score, another nine-yarder,
this one to Ambrose.

Steve Bowler booted four out of
four extra points and with punter
Bill Dennis has kicked well.