I was at the 1960 Duke - Carolina game
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DevilDan
Hey Sagegrouse, thanks for the reply/info--I do now remember the name Don Altman; I first started following the football team thru Add Penfield on the Duke radio network, while a young teenager in Greensboro. "Stay with the Blue Devils" was his famous sign-off line. He used to refer to the second unit as "Garner's Raiders". I remember (?) that Penfield said Duke opted to go all-white uniforms, so that Rappold/Garner could better spot their receivers downfield.
That was an exciting time for Duke; they had been stomped previously in the Orange Bowl by Oklahoma a couple of years earlier; when they got the Cotton Bowl bid (season of '60, game in January 1961, right?), they were decided underdogs. I remember they had an All-American at end, Tee Moorman, who was a standout in the CBowl.
At that time, it was the most exciting game I had ever seen. Also at the top of my list during that 2-3 year period was the Clemson-LSU Sugar Bowl. LSU, with Billy Cannon and Johnny Robinson, had kicked everybody's butt, and was #1 in the country that year. Clemson had a great quarterback Harvey White, who was injured most of that year. His sub was a guy named Lowndes Shingler (sp?), who kept the Tigers in the game. If my memory serves me correctly, White entered the Bowl game late in the 2nd half, and nearly drove them the length of the field for the potential tieing score. LSU finally survived 7-0, but Clemson and the ACC got some new respect out of that game.
Almost forgot, this is a DUKE football thread. Give me more on this era of Devils football if you will. I remember tidbits like the above, but it sounds like you were RIGHT THERE. Thanks again, DevilDan in Pacific Grove, CA
I remember when the 1960 team played Carolina in Chapel Hill. My dad was a Duke grad... an undergraduate when the stadium was completed and dedicated. We lived outside Winston-Salem. Dad announced that anyone who wanted to go to the game should be in the car (a Packard Clipper, two shades of green) in five minutes... and off we went. We listened to Ad Penfield as we drove. We didn't have tickets, but got in because my dad, the school principal, used professional privilege to get us through the gate and down on the field behind the Duke bench.
What a game!!!!! The fourth quarter was one of the most exciting I've ever watched. Duke scored and led, but Carolina scored with something like 2:54 to go. Duke took possession again and moved the ball pretty well, but time ran out before they could score again. That is my recall of how the game ended, but my memory may be inaccurate.
Tee Moorman had a fabulous game despite the loss by one point (6-7). I also remember afterwards leaving the parking lot in a terrible traffic jam when some inebriated Carolina fans surrounded our car (which had a Duke sticker in the window), hollering and pushing the car as if they wanted to roll it with us in it. What a day!!!!!
I also remember a small controversy which was associated with going the Cotton Bowl. Back then Duke students did not have free cuts. In fact, they were required to be in the first class following a holiday or break. The members of the marching band had a bit of a dilemma since the game was on January 2, making it impossible to return in time for the resumption of classes. The administration didn't want to waive the attendance requirement for the band members, but somehow the band was at the game. (I don't recall whether the band members had to suffer the penalty for cutting the first class after a break or if they were allowed to be at the cotton Bowl without being penalized. Maybe somebody else knows how that issue finally ended.)
Please update me on Mr. White's sentiments.
I hope White takes Coach Cut's "rumored" request to the Iron Dukes to fix Wallace Wade seriously. We want him to have a long tenure in Durham. The nonsense of the city of Durham holding up renovations doesn't quite "cut" it. We have a 1920s high school type stadium with a track surrounding the field. We all want to modernize the facilities and we should listen to our new coach and get the ball rolling more than temp restrooms for women.
yes, he should, but is he a visionary?
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I hope White takes Coach Cut's "rumored" request to the Iron Dukes to fix Wallace Wade seriously. We want him to have a long tenure in Durham. The nonsense of the city of Durham holding up renovations doesn't quite "cut" it. We have a 1920s high school type stadium with a track surrounding the field. We all want to modernize the facilities and we should listen to our new coach and get the ball rolling more than temp restrooms for women.
Notre Dame's emphasis on athletic department fundraising and facilities came half way into White's tenure as AD. Need for upgrades and endowing scholarships at ND was apparent from day one on the job. So, why the somewhat late start. Probably because White took his priorities from others, rather than leading the discussion (immediately) with a look to the future.
At Duke, well, just about everthing which could be done with Wade has been discussed. So, White does not need to lead the discussion in this regard. He might take a look at the whole plan and say, "Hey, perhaps it would be better to demo Wade and just build a new stadium in its place?" And put forth his analysis regarding the costs / benefits relevant in this sort of discussion.
I suppose forward thought process regarding Wade could involve being very motivated to accomplish these improvements now, seeing inevitable further decline without them, and could translate into motivating benefactors regarding the absolute necessity of the improvements.
As noted before, one of the easiest ways to expand a stadium with a running track is to remove the track and lower the field and then bring seats down to the lowered field. With Wade, then the question is what do you do with the open end. When Wisconsin did this (removed the running track and lowered their field) with their horseshoe stadium in the 1950s, they left the open end open, except that where the grade was lowered they added rows of seats down to the field in the open end. Visually, the stadium remained open for the most part. I think one idea of Ted Roof was to build luxury boxes on the open end, both closing in the stadium and allowing for the transition in grades with the lowered field.