
{"id":20443,"date":"2011-08-25T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20443"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:59:14","slug":"rugby-in-the-mud-luscious-spring-of-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/08\/25\/rugby-in-the-mud-luscious-spring-of-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby in the Mud-luscious Spring of 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/08\/25\/rugby-in-the-mud-luscious-spring-of-1967\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rugby67.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rugby67.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rugby67-113x86.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rugby67-148x113.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Rugby67-100x76.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting on the Carolina Inn lawn listening to bluegrass when a gent about my age approaches and, to the best of my memory, says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know me, but you took my picture back in 1967. It was a rugby game and I was the one laying face-down in the mud.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Our prone rugby lad turns out to be none other than Dr. Thomas C. Ricketts, UNC professor of health policy and management (and social medicine) and deputy director for health policy analysis at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how he remembered that sloppy match in March 1967, played in a boggy field across from what is now the Rams Head Center parking deck: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was soon after we had just gotten our new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dckit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of loverly sky blue and white jerseys, and the prospect of a muddy set-to was daunting, but fashion hounds we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. My face-down posture was due to a futile effort to keep the ball out of touch (in bounds) so a following player could kick it into goal and touch down for a three-point try. \u00c2\u00a0Tries have gained in value since then, worth five points these days, but the mud is still generally the same.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d When I sent Dr. Ricketts a scan of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mud-luscious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photo, he quipped in response, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thanks, I feel like taking a shower.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (With thanks to the good folks at Wilson Library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s North Carolina Collection for finding this 45-year-old photo.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting on the Carolina Inn lawn listening to bluegrass when a gent about my age approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20721,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions\/20721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}