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Extra Points: Ten Spot

The turns of the decades have been rhapsodic for Carolina's football team in its annual grudge-match with Duke, that round number 10 spinning like a merry-go-round of color and laughter and happy times.

Take 1970, for example, the day Don McCauley broke O.J. Simpson's single-season rushing record. McCauley, the original war-daddy tailback in Coach Bill Dooley's ground-oriented offense, carried the ball 47 times for 279 yards and scored five touchdowns, finishing the season with a school-record 21 touchdowns that stands today. Knowing that Simpson's record was in view as the second half evolved, Dooley kept feeding the ball to McCauley long after the 59-24 landslide decision was secure.