Football remained prohibited at Wake Forest until In the intervening years, NC State went from a nascent program and the youngest college team in the state to a powerhouse along the South Atlantic, claiming ownership of the South Atlantic region in after new coach Mickey Whitehurst led the Farmers to a record, with their sole loss coming against the All-Stars of North Carolina, a team organized solely for the purpose of preparing NC State for their game against perennial-powerhouse Virginia; the North Carolinians won the game Though Whitehurst and his speedy style of play remained in Raleigh for only two more years, he built the foundation of a strong team; the Red and White went in both and , and would not field a team with a losing record until , when the team went In the meantime, Wake Forest was allowed to play only inter-class football.
While the matchups were of immense interest to the student body, they lacked the same luster as claiming a victory over a rival school. Finally, in , the Wake Forest faculty relented. While major reforms to the sport during the early half of the first decade of the new century, another major concession between the students and faculty in reviving the sport was the agreement that all hazing be banned from campus.
Understandably, the Baptists struggled their first season back: their team captain, L. Simmons, was the only Deacon who had ever played football before, and he only at the prep school high school level. Due to difficulties in acquiring practice gear, the Wake Forest team held only mock scrimmages until September 24th, just two days before their season opener against then-powerhouse North Carolina. Wake Forest managed just one first down throughout the game, but through stiff defensive work managed to hold the score to a respectable loss.
The first game played on Wake Forest grounds since , it was also the first game of the season played by NC State. Approximately fans, as well as "nearly every automobile in the city" crowded around the Wake Forest athletic field to watch the Deacons lose The game was entirely uninteresting: NC State jumped out to a lead in the first half, and was described as "replete with fumbles" and lacking any spectacular plays.
The game more than made up for its lack of excitement on the field by furnishing plenty at the end. Though no one can agree who started it, one player punched another; this escalated into an all-out full-team brawl, with players brandishing "nose guards, head gear, fists, and any sort of weapon that happened to be at hand.
The November 21st, game was possibly less interesting than the first game of the season, and is only notable because it remains the largest margin of victory ever recorded in the series NC State won , and remained the highest-scoring match between the two teams until , when NC State took down Wake Forest Originally, the Deacons were set to meet NC State on the Saturday before Thanksgiving for the second consecutive year.
Unfortunately, however, the game was canceled. The reasons for the cancelation, however, remain unclear. Later statements, however, claim that Wake Forest canceled the games "owing to the crippled condition of the players" and because "they did not consider themselves in the same class as A. Whatever the reason, remains the most recent year the two teams failed to meet. The rivalry has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and two global pandemics. Through thick and thin, the two teams have found a way to schedule each other.
And yet, the two teams have never been primary rivals. The season was a tough one for NC State. In addition to the number of players taken for military service NC State was, after all, a land grant school which required military participation for all male students until the s , the entire country was ravaged by the Spanish Flu.
The pandemic eventually resulted in the death of at least 13 students and 2 nurses. NC State finished the season with only 1 win since One of those losses remains a particularly bad loss: in fact, the worst loss in school history. Though the Farmers were still hamstrung, they were able to gain the assistance of several of the players who had enlisted in the Army, as several former players happened to be stationed at nearby Camp Gordon and were granted leave for the weekend.
However, the Farmers still lost the game , with the tone being set early: four players were injured on the opening kickoff alone. The Farmers were down at the half, and only 5 minutes of the 4th quarter was played before both teams agreed to call the game off. While NC State came into their November 23rd, game with low expectations having lost to Virginia Tech and only one win on the season , they were shocked by their loss to Wake Forest.
As explained in the Agromeck, "They brought the best team to Raleigh that ever represented that institution. We had won from Wake Forest in football so regularly that we had come to believe we could lick them by merely going on the field and 'going through the motions. While that may sound entitled, the yearbook writers were not exactly wrong.
Going into the meeting, NC State led the series , had outscored Wake Forest and pitched 7 shutouts. In fact, that loss was the first time ever the Deacons made more than one touchdown against the Aggies, as well as the first time they had ever scored more than 6 points.
Two of those games, however and were features of the North Carolina State Fair, symbolizing that the matchup was starting to draw more competitive interest. The series became more competitive after that, though NC State continued to hold an edge.
NC State won again every year from by at least two scores. Wake Forest had back-to-back wins for the first time in and , winning the first year and in the second. NC State rebounded, winning the next two games by narrow margins before scoring 30 or more points in the next two matches.
Beginning in and running through , the game returned as a feature event of the State Fair, though by this time games were less of a feature of the Fair and more of a simultaneous event. Those games were an even split. In , the series returned to Wake Forest for the first time since It did, however, help the Old Gold and Black notch their only non-loss of the season against an equally-anemic Wolfpack team by playing to a tie--the second consecutive such game in the series.
When the game returned to Raleigh the next year the Baptists narrowly edged out NC State in a slugfest, using a gutsy aerial attack to overcome a deficit in the closing minutes to pull off the victory which was widely regarded as an upset at the time. It was later less shocking, as the Red and White finished the season with a record, though Wake Forest still only eked out 3 wins of their own. While the series stood at in favor of the Aggies heading into , a quarter-decade later the series was nearly tied, the Baptists went on to win 15 of the next 25 games.
Wake Forest went on their longest win streak in the history of the program from , and went 7 games without losing from All this success was found under the tutelage of new coach Douglas "Peahead" Walker. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Walker was a long-time staple in semi-pro baseball leagues in North Carolina and Virginia, where he had been playing since He landed at an ailing Wake Forest program, which had not won more than 5 games in over a decade, as their football coach in Dick Vitale, college basketball's most recognizable commentator, snuggles with a picture of Coach K every night.
Meanwhile, their home fans, the Cameron Crazies openly worship Coach K as a god, bowing to his mere presence before every home game. Coach K embraces this gesture with his stoic demeanor and 'holier than thou' aura. While being favorites in virtually every game they play, the wily Krzyzewski creates a scrappy team of gym rats that draws tons of charges.
Coach K is the devil. The Blue Devil. Verdict: Every kid around the country has dealt with that obnoxious Duke fan in their fifth grade class. For this reason, out-of-state Wake fans have deep-rooted animosity towards the Blue Devils. Meanwhile, in-staters have bigger concerns in their own backyards. Who's driving? No university in the country has the audacity to name a color after itself except North Carolina. It is common to see "Baby Blue" flags hung all across the state. And the most common sound in North Carolina is in-your-face Tar Heel fans talking, talking, talking and boasting about their basketball squad.
And chanting, "Go Heels. Go America! UNC has consistently been one of the best teams in the nation. They have had two legendary coaches in Dean Smith and Roy Williams. The Tar Heels have won five national titles and are third on the all-time wins list. But Carolina fans bestow such lofty expectations that underwhelming seasons, embarrassing losses and overrated recruits are inevitable.
Remember when people touted Harrison Barnes as the next MJ? The No. His tenacity is second to none, but damn has there ever been a bigger whining, crybabying flopper? If Hansbrough is a bad apple, Chapel Hill must be home to an orchard of apple trees.
But worse off, the school has been implicated in violating the rules, too. The UNC administration falsified grades for many student-athletes dating back to the 's. The university also forced the student-athletes to take specific classes to ensure they were eligible to play. And, thus far, the school comes away virtually unscathed.
The NCAA fears to fully investigate its shining star, and major moneymaker. Three things I have learned about North Carolina: 1. Spring starts in early March and is the most beautiful time of the year.
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