Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the University of North Carolina met the University of Miami at the Orange Bowl last week, the central question was: Which coach would outguess the other? "Miami runs like hell, and they may pass, too. I don't know what to do," moaned North Carolina Coach Jim Tatum. Big Jim even telephoned to Georgia Tech's clever coach. Bobby Dodd, for some last-minute advice. "Tighten up the middle if you want to stop Miami's power," Dodd warned him. Concluded Tatum: "I guess I'll just contain...
Down in Florida, Miami Coach Andy Gustafson was doing some brainwork too. "Tatum knows we have a good ground attack, with a lot of power to the outside. I'm guessing he'll try to stunt his defense and concentrate on stopping us outside. My logical move, then, is to try to run inside against his big boys...
North Carolina's Tatum, working 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...
Satisfied that the final score is the only statistic that counts, Big Jim Tatum groaned with relief: "I'm so plumb tuckered out I feel like I played myself. I don't mind sayin', I guessed my guts...
...Perry Dean Ross of nearby Tatum, the driver of the car, put it later in his signed confession: "I held the steering wheel with my left hand and laid the gun (a Mossberg .22 automatic rifle] across the left door. I was going about 85 miles per hour at the time and I fired nine shots into the cafe." One of the slugs entered the head of a 16-year-old Negro, John Earl Reese, who died the next morning. Two others struck and wounded a pair of Negro girls, 13 and 15. That was 18 months...