Carolina Beats Durham Elks Club, 46 to 27, Jan. 10, 1925

Carolina’s Flying Unit Defeats Durham Elks in First Scheduled Game This Year by Score of 46 to 27. . . Jack Cobb and Johnny Purser High Scorers. . . The 1925 Schedule Good. . . Teams Play Harvard and U.S. Naval Academy on Six-Game Northern Trip. . . McDonald Coaching Quint. . . Ten Games Are to Be Played on the Hill—University of Virginia and W. and L. Coming Here

Carolina’s flying quintet, Southern champions last year, registered her first official victory for the 1925 season when she defeated the Durham Elks team in Durham Thursday night by a score of 46 to 27. The University basketeers and the Elks will play a return game in Chapel Hill on Tuesday night in the year’s first local game.

The schedule for the coming season has been released by the graduate manager of athletics and is one of the best that has ever been arranged. The team makes an extended northern trip, playing Harvard, the Naval Academy, V.M.I. and Washington and Lee in important games.

Out of the remaining 14 games, 10 are to be played in the Tin Can. Duke, wake Forest, N.C. State, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington and Lee are among thefive that will come to the Hill for games. Following the game with W. and L. University here on February 26th, the team goes to Atlanta for the annual S.I.C. tournament. The Tar Heels have won the southern crown twice within the last three years, and Coach “Monk” McDonald is working hard towards putting out another winning outfit.

Captain Jack Cobb, all-Southern forward last year, was the high scorer in the game with the Elks and promises to be the chief counter this year. Johnny Purser gave him a close race Thursday night and the Charlotte boy is giving promise of becoming one of the University’s star shots. Dodderer, varsity center on the last year’s team, is back in the harness with Billy Devin and Sam McDonald, brother of “Monk,” and varsity player in 1923,holding down the other jobs.

The Tar Heels played the strong Charlotte Y team during the Christmas recess and nosed out the association team 35-33. Bill Dodderer was unable to attend, and Coach McDonald performed for the Queen City people, shirting Purser to center.

Line-up of Elk game

Carolina 46---Durham Elks 27

Cobb (18) -- R.F. – Perry (9)

McDonald (2) – L.F. – Starling (6)

Dodderer (8) – Center – Newton (3)

Devin (9) – R.G. – Montgomery (3)

Purser (14) – L.G. – Heflin (7)

Substitutions: Carolina: Poole (2) for McDonald; Hackney for Devlin. Referee Steiner.

From the front page of The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, January 10, 1925

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