It was so cold Tuesday night that the student body was unwilling to even consider the 12-mile hike to Durham, a stunt which has become the accepted form of celebrating when Carolina wins the S.I.C. basketball tournament. But two University students were not only willing to brave the cold, but were game to do it barefooted, according to the Durham Herald. In a story labeled “There’s One Born Every Minute, Etc.” the Bull City paper says: “John Erving of Morganton and Clough Steele of Saluda, students at the University of North Carolina, upon learning of Carolina’s victory in the southern tournament last evening, started walking from Chapel Hill to Durham to show their joyfulness over the victory, according to word received here. The young men started their 12-mile hike at 11:15 o’clock, being given a big send off by fellow students, according to the reports.
“The men had not been seen in Durham at an early hour this morning and efforts to learn how far they traveled before their toes were nipped by the freezing weather were of no avail. It was stated by a student at the state institution that the boys were so enthusiastic over the victory that they could not resist the temptation to walk the 12 miles barefooted to prove to the world that they were pleased.”
From The Tar Heel, UNC-CH newspaper, Saturday, March 6, 1926
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