Saw Freddie Summers go 80-plus yards on a quarterback keeper for a TD against State IIRC in the first game ever in Groves Stadium.
With all due respect to both you and this article, sailor, that is not the way I remember it. I know the article says that Summers' 90-yard run occurred in 1968, but I believe that this happened against Maryland in a 35-17 night game win at Bowman Gray Stadium a year earlier during Summers' junior year (which was my senior year). IIRC, he ran around the left end and down the far sideline..... going left to right from where the students were sitting. The date was November 17th, 1967, to be exact. It was our 4th straight win to end the season 4-6 after an 0-6 start.
I was also at the NC State game to which you refer. That was on September 14th, 1968....and it was the first game ever played at Groves Stadium, as you said. It was a warm, sunny afternoon. NC State won the game 10-6 in what was the beginning of a very frustrating year. We were 0-4-1 after the first five games and had only been outscored by 11 points in total. A week after the NC State game, Clemson came to WF and scored late with the Deacs leading 20-13. Frank Howard elected to kick the XP and take the tie, rather than to go for the win. The next week (while I was on my honeymoon, BTW), we committed some costly turnovers and lost 24-19 at what was a good Minnesota football program at the time. The next week (8 days after I got married) I went to Blacksburg and Summers had 4 turnovers as we lost to Virginia Tech by 7-6. In probably the most heartbreaking loss, though, we then lost 28-27 at #3 Purdue (with QB Mike Phipps & RB Leroy Keyes) after leading 27-14 in the 4th quarter. That's 0-4-1 in a 5-game stretch where we could have won all five games.
Oh, I was also at the 48-31 win over Carolina which the article mentions. It was at Groves on a very windy Saturday afternoon (October 26th, 1968). Freddie Summers & Carolina QB Gayle Bomar put on a wild offensive display. Terrific game for the fans....especially WF fans, as it turned out.
ETA: Didn't realize that WFU71 was posting on the Purdue game as I was forming my post. (I think they were ranked #3, though. Could've been two different polls. I think Purdue lost to Notre Dame either right before or right after they played us, which would have affected the rankings.)