Word: tarheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first singles for North Carolina will be veteran Bob Bortner. Opposing the Tarheel captain for the Crimson will be Larry Sears, who defeated him 6-4, 6-4, at Chapel Hill. Sears has been playing very well this season and has a good chance to lead off with a victory...
...behind the safety of a first-period touchdown, sent his ends deep, while his backs held onto the ball as if they never meant to pass. When Miami's defenders finally decided that those ends were merely a decoy, they moved up close to the line, and the Tarheel trap sprang shut. A pair of running passes set up North Carolina's second touchdown, and the Tarheels were out front for keeps...
...assigning pupils to schools as a subterfuge for maintaining segregation. Moreover, state schoolmen felt that North Carolinians would accept do-it-yourself integration more readily than the inevitable court-ordered kind. Nevertheless, in making the first break in the hardcore South's stand against public-school integration, the Tarheel State had shown its neighbors a way toward "enlarged understanding," had done it quietly, thoughtfully-and, above all, voluntarily...
...editor of the University of North Carolina's Tarheel telegrammed his agreement about Garvey's action: "Such hypocrisy in modern education is sickening and disgusting...
North Carolina last year was responsible for three of the Crimson's four defeats, and several members of that undefeated Tarheel squad are back. Among the returnees are Captain Herb Browne, Tom Bradford, Don Thompson, and Bob Payne. Browne and Bradford were the 1953 doubles champions of the powerful Southern Conference...