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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 Fall Sports First Regular Issue Preview ®\ye ©ukem dTtonklje Next Friday 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.

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