Extra Points Archives: Sleight of Hand

Posted Nov 5, 2009
The glory days of the Wallace Wade-Bill Murray football regime of the mid-20th century had faded at Duke University by the late 1960s. Meanwhile in Chapel Hill, a young coach named Bill Dooley was trying to resurrect the Tar Heel program back to the heights enjoyed two decades earlier when Charlie Justice was running rampant across the Kenan Stadium field. Two gadget playshighlighted the games of 1969 and '70. (Tar Heel Blue)

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