Torbush Gets Contract

Sat., Dec. 20, 1997

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Carl Torbush, North Carolina’s new football coach, has been given a five-year contract for an annual base salary of $135,000. Torbush was hired as coach Dec. 8 after Mack Brown resigned to become coach at Texas.

Georgia quarterback Mike Bobo was cleared of charges stemming from his arrest earlier this week. Bobo, 23, was charged with obstruction of a police officer early Thursday after he ran from police outside an Athens, Ga., bar.

University of Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne will return to school for his junior season, his uncle said.

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