Devils Open Against Marine Squad

Opening their second wartime practice and game purposes. . To other additions that should both teams rid iron season next Saturday, The Blue squad has the lop spot be a big help isi tlsc coming Cans showing up well in spite of a i ity Blue Devils sit present, while the White I>aign are John Perry and Pal lack of previous playing experi- •ill tackle the Marine Corps squad makes up the other team, Preston, both of Wake Forest. •am from Camp LeJeune, New lhe status ui' players on neither Preston and Perry both arc rated team i.-s definite; they may be Restrictions on cuM sliver. North Carolina, in the as two of the best ball players changed from week to week as pi-event Duke students trom at­ luke stadium. in the South. Last year they players improve or slip. tending ou1 This game will his the "trial played against the Blue and the numbers y fire" of Eddie Cameron's 1943 On the big Blue squad are White, and this year they will uses' contests, in jsro-i-atlon days, such stalwarts as Benny Citta­ both be wearing it. ne Duke ssquad. Built students jasn, Ot 1 dino, Tom Davis, Buddy Luper, from Atlanta lo Pittsburgh to )ukc the team Gordon Carver, and Bobby Hute. The Marine team from Camp back the team with their cheers. ipidly under These boys are Duke veterans LeJeune slill remains a mystery. Duke will again play host to n of Cameron and his and arc expected to see plenty No releases have come out con. ilioLsssnssls of As-iisy and Navy of action. Adding greatly to the cerning the personnel of the nuss trom the many North Caro- strength of the snjuad are such squad, but it is reputed to sport liiisi camps. A special price for great players as "Bulldog" Wil­ gh Marin s uad from Camp LeJeune is (he portion of lhe 1943 Devil squad pictured above. The pictured as fine a selection of ex-collegi­ siirvice men, instituted lor home aches have had an abundance liams, Jamie Myers, Herb Strick­ are UH present niesub rs ol the tl 8 squad, this lop half of the team. These siit'ii :v,-y„ selected by Coach Eddie Cameron, head ate and professional gridmen as BSt jf the players have been placed on the White squad. The status of neither team fs final. They material to work with. Only land, Jimmy Bradshaw, and Bert all eoa ii, as tho tap n . Uiis SSSSSSS shift with the Improvement or failure of the players, cently has the squad been split

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Durham, North Carolina September 10, 1943 First Pep Meeting Comes Next Friday New Order Wade And Cameron Navy Gives Tshis Is Your Chronicle One Week Off Approval Now Reigns This is your Duke Chronicle. A week from tomorrow Duke will swing into its Whether a year ago you were strolling gently along Lead Duke To Top 1943 football season. This year wil! be different Duke's still-civilian campus, or enjoying college life at any e hard- For Rally from any that have gone before: gone are the days In Duke PT of the dozen other schools from which Duke has tirawn it working men on the Duke that many of us as students at Duke and at other members of its Naval Training Program, or dreaming of Almost a year ago, impus at present is Eddie Cam- colleges have known. The teams will still be there, college as a high school student, or serving as a member of i of col- through their last week of prac­ student movement t ege football, Dull ves her ore commonly known. Cam- tice before their first game with but much of the color and flash of the old "big fool- sompulsory physical ti Uncle Sam's armed forces with the fleet—you are nc jail tri- Camp LeJeune, Head Cheer ball weekend" will be a thing of the past, stored ill undergraduates was member of the student body of Duke University. on is athletic director of the years. Leader Joe DiMona called a spe­ ilversity, and also head foot- away in the moth halls for the duration. We all For almost forty years the Chronicle, published ii of his cial pep rally next Friday night the university look with slight remorse at the glory of the past, mittently during the years of Trinity College which later ill coach. in Page auditorium. but we've still got a team, we've still got a coach, grew into Duke University, through war and depression and In his capacity as athletic di- Instigated by the Administra­ ifferent and we've still got football. war again, has been the voice of that student body. sctor, he has charge of all the tion to provide a means for all echnicalily o athletics and physical training new Duke students to get ac- This year, more than ever before, the team needs sup­ cality, gruelling physical train­ Throughout these years, hosts of student editors have port from the stands. And, this year, as never before, it ing—"PT" as it's commonly attempted to hear and understand and channel that \ known—has become a major is going to be tough to get the present student body for the betterment of the University. i the part of the daily life of more This will be your newspaper. You will read of your ,s iiss hi From 1919 approval of all Naval heads, the united behind their team. That is what it is now, their than 2,000 civilian and military University, your Naval unit, your campus organization, to 1920, he coached his men to s freshman foot- -ally will be the first of the year. team. You, as students, may have come from Wake For­ students. And the Duke pliysical 185 victories, B ties ,and only 35 ball i Heach Coach Eddie Cameron est, Davidson, State, Auburn, Georgia, Mississippi State, program today, the most com­ your athletic team, your own college career. Through its losses, a percentage of .841. Dur­ the position of prehensive and rigorous in his­ pages will pass the story of the thousands of lives that make ing the last 11 years with Wade scheduled to speak at the or any one of a score of other schools throughout the ?h and backfield ally, ; s- liis ii tory, is a far cry from that which up Duke University, its faculty, its student body, its alumni. as coach, the Blue Devils have country, but your team came from those same schools. coach on the football team. Ogth of the Duke tt far-sighted students were beg- We of the Chronicle staff will be venturing into a new six times carried away the Next Saturday the team will be on the field fighting, Southern Conference Chsampion- An all-round athlete himself of this year. Mystery has sur­ wearing the Blue and White of Duke. So let's all get portion of the University's history—a period in which it is ship, and twice gone to the Rose Cameron received eight letters rounded the tryouts so far this The old gym and the new in­ behind them and give them the support they deserve. serving not only to train the youth of America for peace, Bowl. while an undergraduate at Wash­ season, and although it is appar­ door stadium—once known as ent that Duke has a wealth of Tonight's pep rally may be the flrst time that many of but also to train the youth of America for war and battle. ington and Lee university. A the "white elephant"—are now In 1916 Wade played on the three-letter man, he specialized material on hand, the relative you have heard the Duke cheers and songs, but these It shall be our job to keep clear in the minds of every humming with activity all day Brown university eleven against in football, basketball, and track. strength of the whole squad is person who is now part of Duke University the dual pur­ Washington State in the Rose cheers and songs will come to you early if you will long, resounding with groans He was selected as All-Southern as yet undetermined. Coach pose it is now serving—to tell the story of the Duke of V-12 Bowl, Thus, Wade has the dis­ Cameron has promised to give buckle down and get behind the cheer leaders and the from muscle-weary bodies, reek­ fullback and received recogni­ and the Army Finance School, of drill and navigation and tinction of having appeared six Duke football followers his slant team. The Duke that the team on the field next Satur­ ing with stimulating dressing- tion on many All-America selec­ wartime engineering and demerits and acceleration; to tell times in that famous New Year's tions in 1924. day will be fighting for is your Duke, and you, not the After a basic eight-week the story of the Duke of English literature and fine arts and Having been basketball coach Efforts were being made to­ Duke of a few years ago. or the student body of the past. times as a coach. at Duke for many years, his night to get Sammy Fletcher and ssis. sipparsitiss, medicine and education for peace. fame as a coach of that sport is his band to play for the rally. Whenever the University or any of its components strays Wade took his first coaching po­ wider than as a football coach. Joe Lee, drum major ._.*. last from these paths, it shall be our aim and duty to point this sition at Fitzgerald sand Clark Last spring he vras named one Tbe future of the present Devil squad looks preparatory school in Tullahoma, year's school band, is trying to but. Whenevssr some portion of the University, or the Uni­ of the 26 "greatest basketball Duke band for this bright, but they have a long, tough road ahead of Tennessee. During his two-year versity its a whole, does a job worth praising, it shall be of all thi ii!'! s tenure at Fitzgerald-Clark his last them. The schedule this year is one of the hardest Helm's Athletic Brochi The judo manipulations being our aim and duty to see that credit is given where it is due. teams won 15 and lost only 13 year's bandmaster, has left, but that any Duke team has ever faced. From all pre­ taught in PT class may some day To do this we shall ns^d support from all of you for Since becoming head baslcet- as yet has not succeeded. Until season dope, it seems that the squads of many of mean the end of a Jap or Ger- whom we shall speak; support, important as it is, of a fi­ When appointed head coach ball mentor at Duke, Cameron' he does, Sammy Fletcher re­ teams have won championships mains the only band of any sort our opponents are studded with stars that can nancial nature in the form of subscriptions; support of a for the Alabama eleven in 1921, in the North Carolina Big Five on the campus and, although his hardly be over-shadowed by the many that we have Advanced physical training Wade responded by lifting that moral nature in helping us speak for you through your let- on six occasions and tied for the military band, he v in our own lineup. The University of North Caro­ sill o S the « institution to the heights of foot­ contributions. title once. Four of these titles o fill il under the tutelage of ball success. Four times during lina, Duke's traditional rival, has on hand its most ool band i; the Duke P. E. staff and the This is ob as a newspaper; this is your job to help his eight-year stay at Tuscaloosa powerful squad in many years. Besides many re­ from 1930 through 1934. All Duke men were urged to­ Navy chief specialists, who make that newspaper speak for you. We welcome you as collabo­ his teams won the championship turning players from their strong 1942 squad, they night by the cheer leading staff up the largest department in the of the Southern conference— Besides his basketball activi­ rators in a new year of telling the story of Duke University. to attend the pep rally as a have outstanding players from many of last year's university faculty. three times they went to Pasa- ties in past years, Cameron acted JOHN W. CAER III means of showing their support leading teams. The Caro lina-Duke games this year While .the emphasis on Indi­ Rose Bowl, to win twira as scout for Coach Wallace Wade Editor-in-Ch.iesf. sssd li for the Duke team. will undoubtedly be two of the most outstanding vidual physical training has been who is now in the U. S. Army. games on the schedule. All that may be lacking is stepped up under the Naval Col­ the old "Beat Carolina" spirit that has led to pitched lege Training Program, Duke unlike hundrfsds of other col­ Booters, Harriers battles between both the teams on the gridiron, and leges and universities is not yet the two student bodies before the game. To Participate intercollegiate program. The Our Opponents largest turnout in football in his­ tory greeted Coach Eddie Cam­ In Fall Program This year's schedule is made up almost exclusively ol eron at the opening of practice Cross country and soccer will Navy or Marine teams. The only exception is North sessions three weeks ago, and be included on the university's other fall sports will be organ­ Carolina State. Doe Newton, State's indomitable men­ fall sports program. Athletic ised for intercollegiate competi­ tor, is trying to whip together a squad of the few return­ Director Eddie Cameron an­ tion tn the near future. ing veterans of past seasons, and of youngsters fresh nounced today. Wartime restrictions have re­ from high school. Grargia Tech and the Naval Academy duced the glamour of long-range Candidates for the cross-coun­ will both put strong teams on the field to face the Devils. intersectional clashes and gala try team will report to Coaches Both of these teams were strong last year, and promise homecoming parades in Duke Bob Chambers and Chief Spe- to be hard teams to beat. The Navy team will be built football, but the team itself is 4:30 P. MisrKl; • around many returning veterans and a host of new play­ expetsted to be no less a major power than in former years. ers. The Rambling Wrecks, one of the strongest teams schedule has But there are no wartime re­ rranged for the harriers. in the countiry last year, will be as strong or stronger strictions on the expenditure of " e-Flight this year than they were last season. The unknown physical effort at Duke. The c Octob 2 lot- quantities on this year's schedule are the Bainbridge university's physical education meet, and Duke Navy Training Station Commodores, and the Camp Le­ department has gone to war— e visit November 20. Jeune Marines. Rumor has it that both teams are built but definitely. practice will begin on around past college and pro stars, but nothing definite t field Monday after- New Names Head 1943 Duke Roster ean be learned about either. One thing that all of the Six Wake Squad jnd Coach Mark t l-S'll, s of some of these gridiron strang­ coaches of the Navy V-12 schools must look forward to gridders, so of Duke's own 194:1 : . for you'll likely be hearing from ers in our midsts, fellosws who holdovers are seven letter-hold­ is November. Many players will be finishing school at Men With Devils ing players from other univer­ Wake Forest College has con­ them before this grid season is have fought for and won their Milner also starred in basketball the end of this semester and a team to take to the field sities and colleges. There is the tributed 1,153 pounds to Duke Luper Is Tops long under way—Janie Myers, varsity letters for distant alma after November 1 must be kept in shape to replace the lad from Siloam Springs, Ark., university's 1843 Navy V-12 Spook Murphy, Bill Milner, Red men that are leaving. One of Tennesssee's best men one Spook Murphy, a Jean six- football squad. In Phys-Ed Tests Rainer, Bulldog Williams, and a ist year was Jamie Myers, crack foot-one ball toter for Mi All in all, things look pretty good. We have one Six of Wake Forest's 1942 Buddy Luper, fleet-footed sr score of other newcomers to the have been watching pracstlces re­ uard who has mastered the art State last year, and his 1942 of the best teams in the country this year, and eleven are now playing ball for hard-hitting Duke halfback i cently you no doubt have picked f knocking 'em over two at a teammates: Bill Moates, Lloyd the Duke eleven. They are Rocky Mount, turns out to be tl And if you yourself are a new­ out Bert Trapani, flashy 175- Blount, and J. N. Grace, Jr. should stand high in national ratings. But, again, Fletcher Wall, center, Lexing­ strongest student, civilian or mi comer to Duke, you might get pound back from Auburn, who Two lettermen also are in tho much of the play of the team depends on you. If ton, N. C.j John Perry, back, itary, tested during the summe your ears tuned to the sound is destined to carry the ball fi imelight for Duke's first call for Raleigh; Jim Copley, back, Wis- specifscsitions on these and all you back the in from the stands, they'll fight harder At chinning the horizontal bi Buddy Luper, Bob Gantt, Tt lie center position, Chief Mc- ton, W. Va.; Pat Preston, tackle, the 1943 Blue Devils consult the for you and your Duke. We can get behind them, Davis, for they have alreatly :ain, six-foot-fhree former Mis- Thomasville, N. C; Bo Satsrinity, sauad roster. Every man of 'em issippi State star, and Harry and wc will. Just remember that it is your (earn, • back, Reidsville. N. C; and Har­ worn a groove through the lot ' are a pair of gridiron heroes now is putting all he's got into this !lark, of recent Wake Forest and much of what they do depends on you, and ry Clark, center, Wadesboro, loudspeakers. putting out their alt for the Navy warUme football, knowing he'll But the immediate purpose o£ your spirit. V-12 at Duke: Feets Mote, end, be a better fighter for Uncle this piece is to present the n and Bill Milner, guard. They Mixed in with a fine nucleus Sam later on. September H THE DUKE CHRONICLE Is Duke Spirit Dead? Six Ex-Dukesters fs Duke spirit dead? When Duke went to war last July 1st, •s conceded by many to be the final blow to college life as men of Are Ail-Americans Duke and men of all universities had known it. l FELKE1S s the son-Dix "Just look at the set-up," they argued. "Instead of the Dan "Tiger" Hill, from Ashe­ carefree play-loving students of yore, you will have Navy of Duke's Blue Devils have re- ville, N. C, was the outstanding men and Marines, studying harder than they will ever LL'ivcd the highest honor award­ center of the country in 193B. have done before, shackled under military restrictions ed to gladiators of the gridiron, During his sophomore year 11111 and regulations, finding that six o'clock drill, and daily tliat of being named All-Ameri­ was commented on by many can. Under the tutelage of Wal­ sports writers, wliss expected tsiisi physical education are far more important in a wartime lace Wade, mentor of two Rose to be All-American iis his junior university, than football games, dances, or fraternity Bowl teams, these Immortals of year, but his play during that life. And besides these students of yours will come from Duke liave gained a lasting fame year was lacking in sparkle and Georgia, Wake Forest, Tennessee, Florida, Washington and permanent place among the Is,- missed out. In Isiss senior year and Lee, and from a host of other schools. To them Duke of the country's football Hill fulfilled the promise that players, Wherever the alums the sports writers had seen In will be a Naval base, not a college. Their loyalty and Duke Bather, the fabulous feats him. His play was brilliant that their love will ever be for the school of their original of Duke's "greats" provide tht year and he was a positive choice choice." alibject of long conversations fur All-American. In short, Duke spirit will die. Rightly so, for the records os Eric "Tho Red" "VL-.s, one of Convincing arguments, these. Arguments which we these men are amazing, such ai the most csolorful of the famous the astounding total of 840 yards cannot answer on paper, for no one can say for certain punted agai tion, he turned back a powerful that the Duke spirit is not dead. by Eric Tipton. Other records Pitt team to win the game al­ Until Duke—and her students—prove it is not dead. ally i most single handled for Duke, That is the purpose of this special edition of the Chron­ IL J.S;I sit-: •f 1038, • Ten of his punts were out of icle. First, to see if there is—still—the Duke spirit. And . thin the ten-yard line of Pitt. During the "Battle of secondly to help instill that spirit into the hearts and the Snow" Tipton made punting minds of the many, many new Duke men. history. Eric the Red has addssd Tonight in Page Auditorium, a pep rally will be held. additional fame to his illustrious The purpose of the pep rally—to acquaint all new Duke wford s name by sparking the Cincinnati Reds of the National League by men and women with the Duke cheers and songs. It will All-,* [pally noted as be a short rally with nothing but the cheers and songs as a builder of great lines and line­ "Gorgeous" George McAfee, an attraction. In itself it will be insignificant. men. One of the major factors All-American, 1939, was on the But as an indicator of the support which students are contributing to this reputation same mythical eleven as Tom going to give to the Blue Devils this year,-as a means of was Fred Crawford, the Waynes- IIS.ISILIIII. .\"slss Kmssi.sli,John Kim- braugh, and Ken Kavanaugh. He gauging the sjimount of school spirit which we can hope ville, N. C., boy with the huge hands and the six feet two inches was one of the recsognized stars to arouse in all Duke men, old or new, it will be a very ,shed hi of that year, lacking only one important rally. .ss;;!, ... .ssissl ; vote of being unanimously elect­ Friday, the night before the big first game with the ed by the All-American board. New River Marines, the first real pep rally of the year He carried the ball 96 times for will be held. Coed cheer leaders, coach Eddie Csameron, of 629 y ticked total of the band, and the football team will all be present. Stu­ ,531 yards, a .endable dents attracted partially by the glamour of the girls, and partially by the fact that Durham affords little better entertainment, will undoubtedly attend this rally in Steve Lssch. Urilliar droves. Consequently the attendance at this rally will be field star, was the la football player to ree little token of real school spirit. rsmce "Ace" Par coveted All-American The attendance at tonight's rally will really tell the Lach led the nation tale. ng football playe Up to the Students

o the students, now. The University, which is paying out of its pocket for this special edition, and we is Issits ss ..-.-iLS I S of the Chronicle who have gone to work to get it to you, Carolina whesi lie csusglst e Chicago Cardinals last year, have done all that we can do to start the ball rolling, ining high praise from Jimmy Duke asks but little of her men in the Navy. She does not expect transfer men from other universities to give ie play that his opponents most ired was a reverse in which up all their ties to the "old school." Neither does she ex­ ich ran behind the magnificent pect them to forego their studies for pep rallies, and foot­ ocking of big Mike Karsnazin. ball games. She does ask and expect, however, that every man at­ . Disks tending Duke now, whether he has been sent here by the h the Devils amassed Navy, or has com of his own free will, to get behind the Blue Devil team, and thus create—at least—a wartime school spirit. For Duke is not hiding from the war. Down her once inviolable campus she has felt the tread of Army, and Pitt, UNC, Trojans, Navy, and Marine boots, and she knows that they are destined to be here for yet a long while. Stand Out In Past And thus she knows that many men here are much more interested in the pursuit of the war than in the out­ By Wayne Pennington ever equalled that of Eric Tip­ Probably the most excitin ton against the Pltsburgh Pan­ come of a football game—and rightly so. football games in the history of thers on November 28, 1938, A But if the two ean be combined, if a man can be in- the sport at Duke universil spell-bound crowd of snow-cov­ tsarested in the long range pursuit of the war, and yet still were played in 1938. Remembi ered fands filled Duke stadium Sad time to cheer a Duke team on to victory in a football that year? Maybe you remeii that day, seeing, yet finding it ber the gHmes of which I a: hard to believe. Pitt had a good game, then—the University thinks—the two can be corn- team that year, one of the beat speaking: Pitt, Carolina, ar That is why she has gone to the trouble and expense to in its history, but the Mighty Southern California. But mo; publish a special edition of the Chronicle for students Devils played their hearts out whom she feels should and will support Duke teams. the last Slis-.'sissls \i irs past will bring bat The Navy evidently agrsaes. Captain Clay has re­ eat names as Fred Crai peatedly given full cooperation to all Duke projects, in­ ie Parker, Dan Hill, Frt cluding the pep rally tonight. Captain Clay, after three Eric Tipton—and wis sntion of Tipton's nan years, has found, it seems, that Duke and the Navy can be mixed—without detriment to either one. crno attempted to kicl And high Naval officials in Washington must have speedy fiolo Perdue agreed, too, or the whole Naval college program would thruusjli. blocked the never have come into being. sburg, Ve., made In the face of There is little excuse then for any Duke man to be ab­ sent from tomorrow's pep rally. Duke men both from the Navy and the Marines will be battling on the football field next Saturday, The sane men, and their rooters, will someday find themselves fighting side by side on a more important battlefield. The right spirit now may sins, and placed his come in handy then. ike's Hall of Fame, Let's get that "right spirit" started tonight. ripton, however, wa JOE DiMONA, Head Cheerleader.

by the "cream" of Holl I943 wood society ., . movie stars ai " ;ts. They were toasted e «» arb*©ui tonirtc Haas; the guard posts were ed by two stellar perform- pread throughout the whole Fred Yorke ond Allan John-

islsi.svd •> lost, " o the •coords as the m was) responsible for the name played in that I The Seven Ironmen of Duke," suit of a 24-yar -goal, the the backfield was no less North Carolina I brilliant. Eric Tipton'and Wil- jans 3-0 until the end of the lard (iSasy) Eaves nm from thf QSOGQS. MetfFEiZ Sreve LACH game. Howard Jones used every­ halfback posts; Bob Spangler thing he had in the way of back­ was the quarterback, and Bob field combinations, but to no O'Mara plunged from the full­ avail. Then, in desperation, he back spot. And backing up thii sent in a fourth-string passer fssani in a reserve capacity was named Doyle Nave, an obseusre a group of youngstera who later little back, who, in less than a earned letters by slapping i minute, skyrocketed to fame. OsttOCfcrted Cblle&iale .Press National AfortisitssSfiiiisf.to opponents of their own art Starting in his own territory, And now to those exciting Nave passed his team to vietory GDllegicrle Digest DUKE'S games I mentioned, A Duke- with an aerial attack that has Carollna game any year is con­ never been equalled in Intensity sidered THE event of the season, and value. Offices but this year's clash was excep­ West Campus Editorial and Business Office—House Q, Thus ended the football team Rooms 07, 08, Telephone 215. East Campus Editorial sand tionally colorful. In this gsune of 193S. Defeated, but still Business Office—06 Union. the elusive Bob Spangler ran proud, the Blue Devils returned Dowsntown Editorial and Businssss Office—124 West Pasrrish high, wide and fancy to help to Durham, to be greeted by the Street, Telephone J-6501. ALL-AMERICANS defeat George Stirnweis and his largest crowd in the history of Printed by the Christian Printing Company. R^rint Rights buddies. 14-0. Bob O'Mara and the city until that time. They granted when credit line is gives. Eric Tipton cracked the goe were brilliant in victory, these Subscriptions should be addressed to Box 4898 Puke Sta­ the two scores. tion, Durham. Ironmen ol Duke, and just ast No kicking performance has magnificent in defeat September 10, 1943 THE DUKE CHRONICLE Duke To Face Tough Duke Songs And Yells Ten Game Schedule Eddie Cameron Has Eight-Coach Staff

aff in football is headed by star under Wade at the of the 1 Ibis le Eddie Cameron, acting Hers dull Caldwell, Director of Athletics. A Vetera freshman coach, was a member i list of revivals Is ,'s first two unbeaten 1925 and 1926 — and Baltimore against Whose colors we unfold. ademy on October jt Duke by taking over a played in the Rose Bowl games Pictured above, left lo right, are Duke's foolball coaching staff: "Dutch" Stanley, "Dumpy" Hagler, Eddie Cs of those two years. He kicked Bob Cox, Harvey Potter, Hershell Caldwell, CSp Adams, and CSp Juntos, stands her line of blue, Tlii time Duke played ach Wallace Wade's dutis the extra point that gave the hey are loyal through a Midshipmen, they defeated Crimson Tide its tie with Stan­ ough. 18-0. Four games were came to Duke from Greei ford in the 1928 game. He was Fighting with the spirit true, Academy In 1928 to sen All-Southern end at Alabama in - 1 fos- the love of old D. U. ishman coach under the la Duke University Squad Roster For 1943 Fight! We'll fightl Jimmy DeHart. He had been i With all our strength imd Greenbrier for a year. <2amoron the latter year and then going sity of Richmond High schol at Mont- slvsrf his prep school a., where he remained for three years before coming Duke, Hss record d Lee Uni it [all. Rah! Rah! Rah I Rah He b< coach is, as on's greatest all-time athletes, nishing his work in 1924 but native of Oklahoma, sRobert Yells turning for L. Chambers, trainer, received Fighl Yell The Homecoming weekend of igh school educatii October 16 will feature the first • state. Chambers graduated Yeaaa aaaaaaa-Duke from the University of Illinois in Fight Team Eight Carolina-Duke game in Durham. A former star under Wsssli 1930 wherse he was a star per­ The Homecoming of this yeai l-Intsks Yeaaaaaaaaaa-Duke at Alabama, Ellis former in three sports—-football, Fight Team Fight will not be as colorful as those coach, came to D track and wrestling. He was a in the past, and not as many of a year before y •rival member of two conference cham- FIGHT! FIGHTI the old grads will be back, but He cssiisc sis; fresshi pionship grappling teams. H« FIGHT! FIGHT! the game on the gridiron '.vill be mane served as track coach and assist­ FIGHT us good as any of past years varsity line coaeh ant in physical education at Male On October 30 the Blue Devils Alabama, he atte ded th state high in LouisviJJe for thrsM years Varsity Duke university, 1925-28, wa before coming to Duke in 1933 V-r-sS—i-t-y; V-r-s—i-t-y Southern guard in ;••.. • .... . He was named head track coael D-U-K-E! D-U-K-E! a srs ember uf the at Duke in January, 1939. Cham Fight Team Fight therein 1929. He played l ALa bers was chosen by Lt.-Col >rd ir Wallace Wade to be trainer fo; Blue Wave his Army Western team for ths .. • • .. .:.. i.i i Deeeeeeeeee- the Rose Bowl o I Jam iry 1 early part of the last season. Uuuuuuuuuuu- Kkkkkkkkkkk- mphed, 2S-7. Newest coach on the Duki Eeeeeeeeeee .g Five game staff, Robert Cox, backfield. l 2 3 HIT 'EM Duke squad s the Bli Come On, Blue Devils the Duke tram, Cox hole e Devils M.A. in physical education from e Devils Columbia University. His G Come On (sung)—: e Devils Ing experience has been at LETS GO He was made the head coach Texas Teachers College and Carlsbad, New Mexico. I Echo Yell coaching job in 1336, remain! senior year at Duke, 1933 B&> (Mir] MuDou'fij]. Otann chalked up eleven touchdowns Cheerleader: D-e-v and was selected on the All-State John Wesley fcitf, Raleigh'. t> Duke. Stanley received his Mi and All-Southern teams ft ter's degree from Penn State In second consecutive year. 1934. He is rated as one of tht FIGHT TEAM FIGHT FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF DUKE SPORTS AND CAMPUS LIFE

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First crowd to fill the giant stadium was in 1935 (above), 1888-I930s Football Grows at Trinity 1928-1933: Duke Teams Move to Stasliiim when the Devils under A! 1-American Ace Parker upset From a humble beginning that saw a Trinity College During the days before Trinity College became Duke Carolina's Tar Heels, touted for a national championship, team playing the first real game of football in the South, University and Wallace Wade came to take over the Blue by 25-0, Later, games with Carolina and Pittsburgh in to two Rose Bowl trips for Duke University's mighty grid­ Devil helm, tho Trinity 11 ir opponents on 1937, and Pittsburgh in 1938, filled it to overflowing. iron elevens—that is the story of fifty-five years of football East Campus's Hanes Field, now scene of Women's physi­ at the little Methodist institution, once Trinity College, that cal education classes and Engineering physical training. In Close to 60,000 fans jammed the giant concrete struc­ f ture at the first war-transplanted Rose Bowl game in 1942, !s "r became Duke University. 1923, however, James B. Duke founded the Duke Endow­ when a fighting Oregon State team came from behind to To Yale goes the credit for Trinity's first ventures into ment, creating Duke University and the beginning of con­ beat an undefeated Duke eleven. Wooden stands all around college football. John Franklin Crowell (upper left), former ^ struction on Duke's West Campus. the track, behind the goal-posts, around the stadium ram­ Yale professor, brought the then strictly Northern game HNS! Out of a natural rift in the Duke campus rose Duke's part, took care of the extra 15,000 people that overflowed South in 1888, when he became Trinity's president and ||gj giant Stadium, built to hold 35,000 people, 50,000 with first football coaeh. From the days of Crowell through Jim­ added stands. Di •issnt structure saw a Uni­ my Dehart (center) to Wallace Wade (right), Trinity foot­ versity of Pittsburgh team come South in 1928 to trounce This fall will find the once-packed parking lots, filled ball has had its ups and downs. a mild Blue Devil team 52-6—a defeat that rankle in Duke with cars driven from all over the South, empty and bare; Trinity and North Carolina—still bitterest rivals- supporters' hearts until the Devils gained revenge in 1938's but the fans will still be in the stadium. Duke teams have renowned '•Battle in the Snow," when Marshall Goldberg always provided action—and this year's Duke-Carolina game played the first real game of football in North Carolina and company were stopped by a Rose Bowl-bound Duke during President Crowcil's first year as coach; Trinity won, will probably once more top them all in thrills, before what 16-0. Later, with the team captains acting as coaches. Trin­ pacity crowd. ity won mythical "Southern Championships" in 1891 and The black hand of professionalism, even in those days, *jess' altnougn six cuac e g plus professorial disfavor, however, sounded the knell of famous at Southern California tried to bring the Trinity football in 1895. For twenty-five years the Trinity Devils to the top. The years 1926-1930 saw Jimmy Del faculty banned intercollegiate football at the institution, later coach at Washington and Lee, as head coach. rowinTsport StUd6nt UpriSingS fa faV°r °f *e the° Coach Wallace Wade, Rose Bowl winner at Alabs The year 1920, "bringing post-war changes in more ways came to Duke in 1931< bringing a system and strategy than one, saw the twenty-Sve year "ins Football" ban lifted, earned Duke University's Blue Devils to the national 1 From 1920 to 1925, Trinity teams had only mediocre sue- ball peaks.

1931-1936: Wade Elevens Climb Heights • nt artist, was one of the Seven Iron Dukes that The years from 1931 to 1936 saw Wade-coached teams nessee squad in 1933. That eleven seemed headed for the held their opponents scoreless for nine games in 1938. Co- slowly reaching the top. The 1931 squad sported one of Rose Bowl under Cornelius and All-American Freddie Craw- captains Dan Hill and Eric Tipton, both of whom n KllSS? "NS £ESSt£ s£V5SE *»* "»'» « ->•«*-> °-.S>. T=* <**«•up*s»- 6-0, American, led that Blue Devil squad to Pasadena only to to a season that ended in a moral-victory tie with Carolina, setting the stage for a Duke-Georgia Tech feud that hsas lose 7-3 to Southern California in the last forty seconds. lasted ten years-. At left are Tipton; end "Bolo" Perdue, who blocked the —Jack and E. B. Dunlap (above) formed Duke's first 1936-1941: Two Rose Bowls for Devils punt that beat Pittsburgh 7-0 in the snow; and hard-driving brother combination in 1934, led Duke to a season marred The years that followed saw Duke teams play in both fullback Jap Davis, present Devil back Tom Davis's older only by losses to Tennessee and (important, indeed!) Caro­ a California and a North Carolina Rose Bowl and lose two brother, three of that 1938 squad. lina. Defeats by Tech and Auburn in 1935 and by Tennes­ heart-breakers. Elmore Hackney (left, above), a Durham Another Rose Bowl team, Coach Wade's last before he see in 1936 ruined perfect seasons, but the Carolina jinx boy who became one of Duke's fastest backs, sparked the was busted for the first time in 1936 when Duke beat them enters^! the Army in 1942. plnyec! isi the first transplants Blue Devils in 1937, fought a losing battle aaginst Pitts­ on their home territory 27-7, after Ace Parker, another Duke Rose Bowl, and lost to a fighting Oregon State Beaver burgh when the Panthers made their first trip South since All-American, had beaten the Tar Heels almost single- 20-16 in Duke Stadium. The spring of that year handed the year before. (For the story of Duke's six Ail- the 1928 stadium-dedication debacle. saw the "Old Man" take up in the field artillery where he Americans, see page 2.) "True-toe" Tony Ruffa (right, above), star tackle and

1942: Cameron Takes Over Reins the usual Duke-Carolina rivalry, which had been climaxed the year before by a giant riot al East Campus underpass. When Wallace Wade entered the Army, the job of coach­ At left, freshmen Duke Engineers guard Washington Duke's ing the Blue Devil squad fell naturally to Bacskfield Coach statute on the East Campus. Despite all this, the Carolina Eddie Cameron (left, above), who had coached many a Duke basketball squad to national fame. Hard hit by the war, the game ended unhappily with a 13-13 tie marring what would 1942 squad had its ups and downs, losing to Wake Forest, have been a tip-top season if Duke had won. Georgia Pre-Flight, Jacksonville Training, and Georgia Fifty-five years of football at Duke have seen the game Tech, but came through at times amazingly. At right, Bobby progress from teams coached by their captains to the squads Rute, backfield ace, scores against Davidson as Duke won of today. Throughout the years, however, one thing has been outstanding: the ever-present Duke spirit that has brought re, the famed Carolina week-end brought c that final punch necessary for victory.