From the Jan. 1, 2012, Go Duke Magazine "When the Rose Bowl Called Durham Home" by Barry Jacobs.
Continued from my last four entries. Only this more reflects what happened at Duke during the war years and a whole lot of Duke sports history.
During the war, Duke's biggest military tie was with the Navy. During the summer of 1940, the school added NROTC and had 218 applications that year, accepting 160 of them.
The program was based in a building that later became known as Cameron Indoor Stadium (where the Duke basketball team plays today). A shooting gallery was located in an area that today is offices behind press row. There were store rooms and an armory upstairs. Included was a machine gun, torpedo and a scale model of the battleship USS North Carolina.
Anchors Aweigh. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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