University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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1923 CKETY Y CK activities and became a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was a stellar track man and a star of almost as great distinction on the gridiron, although his physique was more naturally adapted to the former sport. In his graduate year he coached the football scrubs and the following year coached at Clemson College. From Clemson he went to Woodberry Forest School in Virginia and was highly succe.s.sful with four years ' coaching there. He returned to Davidson as football coach in 1914, but gave his work up the following year and accepted a position with the Southern Cotton Oil Company, remaining with this enterprise until 1919, but the lure of the athletic whistle was too strong, and he responded to the call in 1919 by returning to Woodberry Forest and coaching football and track there for two years with the same success as in the old days. There he was situated when negotiations were finally completed that brought him to Carolina. So, through Fortune ' s smiles on this Institution, the Fetzers came here, and recently when their initial contract expired, to the joy of followers of sports through- out the South interested in Carolina ' s welfare, these two masters of the coaching art signed a new contract to give their services here for five years more, with the prospect that their stay here will be indefinite. All of us know of the magnificent successes the,y have had here. State Championshi]) teams in football, track, basket- ball, ba.seball, and tennis, with Southern Championships in the three latter sports, and victories over ancient rivals becoming commonplace rather than exceptional — these are feats under the administration of the Fetzers. Even so, the Editors of the Yackety Yack would not have considered dedicat- ing the year book to the.se men if simply developing winning teams for Carolina had been their .sole function here. The Fetzers have done much more than that here, just as they have e -erywhere else they have been. They have ever stood for fair sport and clean play — champions for right as well as might, for all that is finest and most admirable in college athletics. They won the hearts of Carolina men from the outset becau.se their attitudes and ideals of s])ort coincided precisely with the spirit of Carolina — the traditional spirit we like to associate with such institutions as Davie Poplar, the Well, Old South . The Yackety Yack of 1923 is dedicated to two true exponents of the best that can be found in one of the most important of the student activities. J. J. Wade, -ZS

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1923 YACKETY YVCK Willie McKeithan Fetzer Robert Allison Fetzer FOLLOWING the Fall of iHl. notable because of Carolina ' s most disastrous football season in recent years, the University athletic authorities made a tremendously important announcement relative to the Institution ' s future athletic policies. The old, irregular haphazard method of employing coaches, an uncertain process with no set standards for selection, involving a change for practi- cally every season and sport and always proving troublesome and unsatisfactory, was to be abandoned once and for all. This, in itself, was good news to University folk everywhere. The erratic results of the few years prior, with now a season of spectacular success and now a season of dismal failure, had ])roduced a desire among the athletic followers of this Institution for any change, trusting it to be for the better. But the announcement was received with unanimous ajjplause, not so much because it marked a -ital change in the athletic policies of the University but because it was accompanied by the definite action of acquiring the services here of Coaches Bill and Bob Fetzer. A two-year contract had been signed by two of the South ' s best known and most celebrated coaches, men who had been remarkably and consistently successful in developing winning teams. Willie McKeithan Fetzer, named in this first contract as head coach of ath- letics at the University of North Carolina, was educated at Davidson College where he distinguished himself in football and baseball, starring in both these sports. Here he was also prominent in other undergraduate activities, and was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. In 1!)0;5, after two years at Davidson, he l egan his coaching career, taking charge of athletics at Fishburne Military School. For seven years he remained at Fishburne and turned out during this period .some of the finest preparatory teams ever to perform in Virginia. He moved over to Staun- ton Military Academy during the session of 1911-191 ' ' 2, but returned to Fishburne in 1913 and was there until he was employed as head football and baseball coach at Davidson in 1915. Coach Fetzer then did some of his most remarkable work, developing teams that became known throughout the land for their indomit.able fighting spirit; teams that won against foes from much larger colleges. His phenom- enal success with the Fighting Wildcats at Davidson made the name of Fetzer spread abroad as one of powerful significance in Southern college athletics, and in 1919 he accepted a most flattering offer to coach at North Carolina State College. He was there for one college term and a part of another, and more laurels were added to his notable record. Then, in January, 1921, he came to Carolina, with his brother as assistant, to raise our athletics out of the mire and give them the famous Fetzer fight and winning ability. Robert Allison Fetzer, three years younger than Coach Bill, has devoted his coaching experience chiefly to track and football. He, too, received his education at Davidson College where he studied for five years and secured his A. B. and M. S. degrees. Like his brother he was prominent among many undergraduate Five

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