sorts on the eve of the game, and the
Hogans again were on the front lines. Mrs.
Hogan reported that several students claiming to be Chapel Hillians showed up and
asked if they could sleep in the barn to
guard Rameses. She said yes, but her husband deduced that they were Duke students. He went outside to find 30 carloads
of same, and the ones in the barn with the
ram were being held off by “a pawing bull
and a nervous jack-ass.”
“The week before the games, the raids
on the campuses were something to
behold,” said Farrel Potts ’ 49. “I remember
going into the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity
house before the Duke game and my fraternity brother Bill Wall of Mount Airy was
sitting there in a daze, in shorts, bare-chested, barefooted with his hair in a
Mohawk, painted Duke blue.”
Duke students had taken Wall to Hillsborough, shaved and painted him and left
him there. Retaliation raiders would go over
to Duke, mostly going after the statues, he
said. “I never went on one of those forays,
but I know the furor that went along with
it,” Potts said. “It’s fortunate that no one ever
got killed or really hurt during those days.”
Prior to the 1941 game, said Peter Kay
’ 44, “a couple of friends and I took a large
container of gasoline and went to the
[Duke] stadium to strike an immortal blow
for righteousness. We encountered a guard
and told him we were on the lookout for
Carolina boys who might be lurking about.
He departed and we then burned a large
U-N-C on the sidelines. … I remember
the incident as my major criminal activity.”
Charlie Doster ’ 48 said someone stole
the Duke Engineers Siren that Duke students cranked at football games and it
wound up in the ATO house in Chapel
Hill. “Of course, we rang the siren at every
opportunity at Duke-Carolina sporting
contests,” Doster said. “This was quite disturbing to certain Duke elements who,
from time to time, would make attempts to
retrieve it. These attempts were never successful because they had to come into the
stands full of Carolina supporters who were
prepared to fight.”
Weeks after the siren was taken, UNC
Chancellor Robert House ’ 16 came calling
at the frat house. “Essentially his message
was that unless the siren was returned to its
rightful place within five days, ATO would
be history on the sixth,” Doster said. “His
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