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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Dec. 17,1970—7-A
BILL CURRIE
Mouth
of the South
The Dvke Situation
One very famous alumnus of Duke Univer
sity who doesn’t like to be identified as such re
marked to me a couple of seasons ago, “Tom Harp
was given a four-year contract to wreck the Duke
football program. He has achieved a master
stroke and done the job in just two seasons.”
That’s the sort of emulsified gopher droppings
which is amplified sometimes from a whispering
campaign to a shouting cry for someone’s head.
In Harp’s case, the shouters got their wish. Duke’s
athletic brass fired him. They would have done
the same thing even if he had won the ACC title
by escaping defeat in the final 1970 outing
against North Carolina.
Somehow I have a gut feeling that Harp was
impaled on a large and painfully blunt purple
shaft. Of course he never should have got the
job in the first place. There are multiplied oodles
of Duke alumni whose football knowledge is at
least equal to Harp’s, and whose acceptance among
folks who buy tickets and suport the Blue Devils
is many times that of turned-out Tom. Ace Park
er, the most magnificent football player ever to
represent the Devils, was passed over and left the
campus where he had played and coached for
nearly thirty years. To say Ace was and is bit
ter would be to misstate the facts: He’s burned
to the marrow.
Dr. Douglas Knight, the late departed presi
dent of Duke who wasn’t strong enough to keep
dissident students from invading and occupying
his own home, was an Ivy Leaguer. In his inau
gural address he said, in effect, that if Duke went
about it right, the place might one day be a
great university. Those of us wha marveled a’
the beauty of the campus, who had been nurtur
ed on the excellence of Duke athletics, and whose
lives have been saved (and mine has) in Duke
University Medical Center, thought the remarks
were in the poorest taste. That Duke was a
great university before Douglas Knight is prov
ed by the fact that the institution survived his
trembling hand on the tiller.
Rut Doug wanted to look Ivy League. So it
was under his hand that Harp was brought
from an Ivy League school. Tom had never been
a winner, and to see him succeed such all-time
victors as Wallace Wade and Bill Murray was a
bone rattling shocker. So Tom wasn’t exactly wel
come with wild enthusiasm by the old Duke sup
porters. And he didn’t win. Not consistently,
but he did win a great many big games, and
^sometimes, as in 1970, he was nationally acclaim-
- ed as coach of the week when he outsmarted
West Virginia for an upset win.
In firing Harp, the Duke athletic council is
sued a statement which said in part “. . . the
council declared its decision had been made after
an intensive study of Duke’s intercollegiate pro
gram and it arrived at its conclusion only with
deep regret.” Now. what under the canopy of
heaven does all that gobble-de-gook mean'.' If
he needed firing, why should there be any re
gret? Maybe those who carried it out feel a little
guilty, because the reason Duke does not win in
the old tradition has lain not so much on the
football field as in the administrative offices and
in the attitude of the jealously-ridden professors
who fester on every campus in the land.
So, goodbye, Tom. In winning as much as you
did, I’m certain you were an embarrassment to
the ultra-intellectuals who encourage the wierdos
and freaks who swarm over the proud grounds
where old Ben Duke thought he was giving his
money to help hard-working, poor boys go to
school. Football is something the Dukes who
made all the money could have understood, for it
represents pride, discipline, and accomplishment.
If Ben Duke could see out of his tomb in the
stately chapel in Durham, he would spin like a
dervish in his grave for what is going on in the
purported extension of has own ideas.
The 41st Packer-A Rookie's Diary
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playing professional football.
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Tournament
Clinton High School’s basket
ball Red Devils will ^against
undefeated Boiling Springs next
Monday night, December 21, in
the opening round of the Peach
Capital Festival Tournament
The tournament will be held
in the Wofford College gym
nasium and Clinton and Boil
ing Springs will square off at
8:45 p.m. Other teams in the
tournament are Chesnee, Cow-
pens, Woodruff, York, Laurens
and Chapman.
CHS Coach Bobby Brock says
the Red Devils will face a stiff
challenge in going against the
Boiling Springs team. “They
have some talented boys and
they’ve been running up some
big scores this season," he
said.
Clinton’s record dropped to
2-2 last Friday as the Red
Devils lost 64-50 at Union.
Despite the loss, Coach
Brock saw some improvement
in the Red Devils. They lost
to Union in their opener 74-42.
“I was impressed with our
improvement, particularly in
the second half. We played a
little better defense and we took
better shots. However, we
missed 14 lay-ups, including
three in a row off the fast
break when we were behind
only nine points, We had a good
team effort As long as we can
get the good effort, we’ll be
alright. Experience will come
and inexperience seems to be
our biggest problem now."
Williams and Watts led Clin
ton’s scoring with 11 and 10
points, respectively.
The Clinton JV’s suffered
their first loss after three
straight wins as they bowed
46-40 in the preliminary.
Canyas Stegall of Clinton led
all scorers with 16 points.
PC’s Gault, McNeill
Honored By Conference
Hosting the first Carolinas
Conference Banquet to be held
on a college campus, Presby
terian College walked off
with two of the three top foot
ball awards last Friday night.
PC Head Coach Cally Gault
was named conference “Coach
of the Year’ for the second
straight year. PC Quarterback
Allen McNeill, a senior from
Lower Richland, was named
“Back of the Year." The other
major honors went to Lenoir
Rhyne Guard Tom Lumsden who
was named “Lineman of the
year."
Gault, who was South Caro
lina ‘Coach of the Year’ in 1964,
1966 and 1968, guided the Blue
Hose to the Carolinas Confer
ence championship this year
with a 5-0 record in conference
games and 8-3 overall. His
Blue Hose have won 13 of its
last 17 games, including its
last six this season. Gault’s
coaching record in eight sea
sons at PC is 44-37-2.
McNeill, the 155-pound clutch
performer, completed 116
passes in 260 attempts for a
yardage total of 1,605. He had
a game average of 157.8 yards.
Coach Gault has called him
“The best third down and
critical situation quarterback
who has ever been at Presby
terian." AnopposingCoachsaid
McNeill “is the best quarter
back I have seen in the con
ference in a number of years...
a real winner capable of making
the big play."
PC also placed four players
on the All-Carolinas Confer
ence team which was honored
at the banquet attended by about
250 people in the PC dining
hall.
Tommy Lawson of Joanna,
a graduate of Clinton High
School, was named all-confer
ence at guard on the offensive
team which hasMcNeill at
quarterback. On defense, PC
placed linebacker Bobby Norris
and defensive back Tony Pas-
sarello. McNeill and Lawson
are seniors. Norris is a junior
and Passarello is a sophomore.
The banquet in previous years
has been held in North Caro
lina and never before on a col
lege campus. Guests received
gifts from manufacturers and
local civic clubsand businesses
and were lavish in their praise
of the PC hospitality. In addi
tion to the all-conference
athletes, special guests in
cluded representatives of the
member colleges of the con
ference.
PC Cagers To Play
In Georgia Tournament
Thornwell
Teams Idle
Thornwell’s boys wound up
their pre-holiday basketball
schedule with one win in four
outings while the girls posted
a 2-2 record.
The boys defeated Carolina
School for the Deaf 60-59 on
Dec. 8. The Saints lost to Gray
Court-Owings, 66-34; Lock
hart, 66-48; andDacusville, 62-
57. In the loss to Dacusville
last Friday, Kanada Roach and
Frank Bruyer each had 17 points
for Thornwell and Pete Belcher
hit 13.
The Thornwell girls defeated
SCSD 45-14 and Dacusville, 45-
30, while losing to Gray Court-
Owings 66-32 and Lockhart 51-
31. Diane Wood had 16 and Kathy
Little 12 in the win over SCSD.
Little hit 19 and Wood U in the
win over Dacusville.
Thornwell teams are idle this
week for exams and will resume
the schedule Jan. 5,playinghost
to Ford.
~ YMCA RACE
A Johnny Lightning Race will
be held at the Clinton YMCA
Saturday. The race is open for
boys six to 14 years of age and
will start at 9 a.m.
Sporting a 5-3 record, Pres
byterian College’s basketball
Blue Hose will participate in
the HubbardClassic in Carroll
ton, Ga., this weekend to wind
up their pre-holiday schedule.
PC will play in the Hubbard
Classic Friday and Saturday
nights and then will have two
weeks off for the Christmas
holidays. The Hosemen will play
host to Belmont Abbey Jan. 7
in their first game after the
holidays.
The Blue Hose chalked up
their fifth win of the season last
Saturday night as they shook
off a chilly first half and then
romped to a 76-38 triumph over
Luther Rice of Virginia.
PC led only 28-21 at half
time but roared back for 48
White Signs
With Clemson
Clinton High School senior
quarterback Donnie (Red) White
has signed a letter of intent to
attend Clemson University next
year on a football scholarship.
White, a 6-2, 215-pounder,
signed with Clemson lastSatur-
day. A first-team All-State 3-A
selection, he had been highly
recruited by colleges and uni
versities in South Carolina and
Georgia.
points in the second half while
holding the Cavaliers to only 17.
PC Co-Captain John Bartone
led the second half surge as he
poured in 20 points for the
night. Also in double figures
for PC were Danny Yarborough,
with 12 points, and FredMel-
son with 11.
YMCA
Action
Bailey’s Bombers and Little
River-Dominick won opening
night games December 10 in
the YMCA Men’s Basketball
League.
Bailey’s Bombers defeated
Torrington 56-50 and Little
River-Dominick beat SJC 77-
53. John Wayne Jacks led Little
River with 23 points and M.
Riddle had 20. Rice was high
point man for SJC with 22
points.
On Monday night, Lydia,
Kiwanis and Little River-
Dominick chalked up wins. Lit
tle River handed Bailey’s
Bombers their first loss, 56-
51 as Jimmy Bankhead scored
25 points for the winners. Ro
gers hit 21 for the Bombers.
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