MARCH, 1960
THE NEWSLETTER
PAGE THREE
Pirates Win Five In
Soph
RiCaiD:
After a sellout crowd had watched
top-ranked A. and T. College return
to life to score an 84-72 victroy over
Elizabeth City, Coach Bobby vp'f
Vaughan began preparations for the
final cage matches. With an over-
all record of 4-11, 3-10 in the Cen
tral Intercollegiate Athletic Associa
tion, the Pirates sailed down the last
stretch with “the record imprcvement
month" banners placed second to the
"Jolly Roger” on the mast. The
February campaign, which almost
sent the intellectual buccaneers to the
conference tournamenl, brought Eliz
abeth City five big wins, despite run
ning aground against St. Augustine's
College, Virginia Union University,
and Hampton Institute. Although the
Pirates had orbited around the num
ber thirteen position during most of
the season, the final march brought
them the final position of eleventh
place in the C.l.A.A.—the first time
Elizabeth City has ended up in the
second division.
THE PIRATES opened the final
drive by dethroning the royal Spar
tans of Norfolk State, 77-54. in a
non-conference game. Coach John
Turpin’s quintet, which had used
body bruising tactics to sink the Pi
rates’ ship 85-78 in December, ran
into plenty of trouble as Elizabeth
City pulled away to a 35-20 halftime
lead. Although Marvin Trotman was
hitting for an unbelievable low of
five points, Henry Hager, FIstcher
Snipes and George Long provided
enough firing accuracy to carry the
battle. Those three, with 18. 17, and
17 points, topped all scoring as Hern
don was able to score only 13 for "Marvelous" Marvin Trotman,
the visitors. 6-0 sophomore, Princeton, New
THE BATTLE of the second di- Jersey, can be seen in action here
vision teams got underway that week- lays-up two sure points to
end with the arrival of Fayetteville
State to the S. D. Williams gymnasi
um. The first meeting of the Pirates
and the Broncos proved to be a
fruitful one as Elizabeth City rowed
to an 83-54 victory. Disregarding
the healthy 39-19 lead at intermission
the Pirates continued to bombard
the visitors’ defense with Hager’s long
range 19 points doing considerable
damage. The entrance of Coach
Vaughan’s “bench warmers” brought
no rest for the visitors as freshman
Walter Wall switched the nets for
12 points. Roscoe Hager and Gary
Bryant supplemented Wall’s efforts
with five and four points.
ELIZABETH CITY’S lopsided vic
tory came to an end when the St.
Paul’s Institute Tigers raided the
local hardwood. Nearly one thous
and enthusiastic high school seniors
watched the Pirates capture the lead
for good with only five seconds
maining, to win 65-64. The contest,
which got hot and exciting in
closing minutes, was all Pirates
they led 40-26 at intermission.
Howell. Knight, and Moore kept
clawing at the lead until the Tigers
had cut it considerably, tied it 42-
42. and gone ahead several times.
With 48 points between them, almost
enough to support a victory, Howell,
Knight and Moore were tops in scor
ing. However, 13 points by Fletcher
Snipes and Trotman. 12 points from
George Long, and 11 points by Spen
cer Mayfield were enough to back
a narrow one point decision.
THEY SA>- that thirteen is an un
lucky number. It certainly proved
to be so for the Pirates when they
lost a one point, 64-63, decision to
St. Augustine’s College. Buccaneer
fans watched Elizabeth City blow the
lead again. 40-30 at halftime, only
to lose this important contest. De
spite a 28 points scoring spree by
Marvin Trotman, the Falcons, ham
pered by fouls, refused to have their
youthful wings clipped. In the heated
final ten minutes veteran Al Stirrups
left the bench to lead his mates to
the narrow victory.
WITH TOURNAMENT hopes al
most gone, Elizabeth City braced
February
Is All-CIAA Choice
help the Elizabeth City State
Pirates tame the bucking Broncos
of Fayetteville State, 83-54.
Henry Hager (50), 6'-5" junior.
Marvin (Marvelous) Trotman
Placed On Second Team Of ’60
With two more years of college
basketball ahead of him, Marvin
(Marvelous) Trotman should find
little trouble making the first team
of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association. Many sport fans believe
that he should have made it this year
because there is no one as fancy and
as versitile as Trotman. Congratu
lations were certainly deserving as
Trotman, who was the conference’s
choice for second team this year,
kept the name of Elizabeth City State
Teachers College on the map despite
being ship-wrecked in the second di
vision.
Everyone remembers this medium
sized star from Princeton, N. J. from
last year when he, just a freshman,
set a new individual scoring record
in the C.l.A.A. tournament with 45
points as the Pirates poured it on
Delaware State College, 105-80. Per
haps that record will be still hang
ing on the scoreboard until Trotman
returns to the big annual classic.
A fancy dribbler and a sneaky ball
stealer with reflexes like a deadly
cobra when attacking. Marvelous
Marvin is a recognized figure in
scoring, free-throw percentage, and
most points scored by an individual
player in a single game. Trotman
finished the season with 416 points
Belmont, N. C., is waiting for a
possible rebound. Instead Trot
man says: "Take the ball when
it comes through the bottom of
the nets."
for an average of 18.9. With 138
free-throws out of 195 attempts, he
built up a .708 percentage, a big
improvement over last year. His 31
points against Hampton Institute
placed him among the conference’s
top single-game scorers.
Next year everyone will be waiting
to set their eyes on Marvin Trotman.
Beyond all shadows of doubt he will
give the opponents plenty of trouble
while he bucks for first team recog
nition and a first-division berth for
Elizabeth City. He may not be a
“big O," but in our books he certainly
is a "big T.”
Intramural Sports
A total of 105 points was made as
the City Rams suffered a 65-40 loss
at the hands of the facuhy. Harrison
and Harris led the faculty with 23
and 18 points respectively. H. Sut
ton of the Rams was high-point
man of the game with 28 points.
In a game with Kitchen vs. Britt.
Britt won 47-36. Sure shot J. Evans
burned the nets for 17 points to lead
ihj winners. Westly accounted for
10 points for Britts’ team. For
Kitchen, Kitchen and Wallace hit
10 and 8 points respectively.
In a game between the Roman
Rockets and Buggs, Buggs team
trampled the Rockets 47-21. L. Ban
ner led the winners with 10 points.
Gatling connected for 8 markers to
lead the losers.
FDiiX O’UiHJIATIVa a\SISTBAXL aSPCRX
'.Ion *t - Lost 13
C. I. A. A.
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Reb.
Points
Avg.
Fouls
-Disq.
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26G
126
.470
62
35
.565
169
151
287
12.5
a
1
22
THOKkiI!, liirvin
346
149
.431
195
13S
.708
264
200
416
18»9
76
3
22
HAGiiEl, Honrj’"
294
139
122
69
.566
208
341
347
15.7
73
5
23
LOIKJ, George
166
70
.A2Z
70
36
.514
130
80
176
7.6
57
1
22
IAXPLJjD, Spenner
177
51
.436
60
32
.533
94
101
134
6.1
36
1
IS
SlllPtS, Fletchcr
126
65
.516
74
27
.364
108
257
157
8.7
53
3
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SUTTOII, J_'jnes
5C
23
,397
14
4
o286
45
40
50
3.5
25
0
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.259
4S
24
.500
150
77
113
4.9
40
0
23
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1545
657
.420
645
365
.566
1168
1247
1679
73.0
413
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23
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1699
713
.419
574
349
.60S
1132
1375;
77.2
573
24
TIE a'i.S;C3TBALL SGQ^iiBaUD
OF 1959-60 326.3011
62
Ilorth Cnrolino. OoUoge
76
HOIE
75
Mar;;-land State
80
7S
IlorfoUc State Golle^e
35
72
Uinston-Salem
91
Ha-i;
79
St. Paul's Institute
76
72
11.0. AiT College
84
HOIE
o3
N. G, .V:;T Oollose
106
77
Norfollc State
54
HOI'E
61
.Jinston-Salem State
Q1
83
Fayetteville
54
HOIK
98
Shaw Univor.'sity
83
HOI'S
65
St. Paia«s
64
HOliE
71
lhryl?jid State
83
HOIE
63
St, Augustine's
64
Ka-E
73
Sh.vj 'Jnivorsity
72
67
Jt. ■-Joins's
66
65
Slv-u University
73
76
Fayetteville
65
60
llorth Gorolina GoUsfje
75
76
Va. Union Univ.
89
80
Va. Union UnivcrHit;/
76
HOI a
64
Hamp-ton Insti,
80
HOMJ;
79
Hampton Institute
98
3ook - lOsepor: Artie Allen
itself for the final week of action.
The Pirates proved that they could
win by one point as well as lose by
same margin to the same team,
field goal by freshman Fletcher
Snipes left an impression on his
hometown fans as the Pirates nipped
Augusitne’s College. 67-66, in
Raleigh. Resting at the half with a 41-
buldge. Trotman (25) and Henry
Hager (16) came back to lead Coach
Vaughan’s team to victory. Stirrups,
with 30 points, captured scoring hon-1
s towards a losing cause.
ELIZABETH CITY journeyed over;
Statistician: John T. vlij
to Fayetteville State College to suc
cessfully ride the Broncos down to a
76-65 victory. Backed by double
figure scoring from four gunners,
the Pirates still maintained a chance
of being placed in the C.l.A.A. tour
nament. Trotman (21), Snipes (17)
Cameron Curtis (13) and Hager (II)
provided enough off-shore bombard
ment to silence the efforts of Mc
Intosh (22) and Arrington (21).
COACH VAUGHAN dropped his
tournament calculating pencil to map
out strategy for a possibly successful
raid on the Belgian Building Gym-
FmiL POSITIOH Di
CSimtiL DTTLllCOLLiXiliiTS ATllIiOTIC ASSOCIA.TIOI1
11
ascoio Diyisioii
siis3iai-G:U-i; top sgqrsr
l-arvin Trotm?.n, 31 pts»....Hampton Institute
Assistant St'.tistician: Jamos Hand
nasium at Virginia Union University.
Elizabeth City threw up a beautiful,
hard to crack defense to keep Rich
monders on their feet. Trailing 37-32
at the half, the Pirates bounced back
to seize the lead sseveral times be
fore falling behind during the final
six minutes. Hampered by 32 viola
tions and twenty fouls the Pirates
were automatically knocked out of
tournament contentions as Spraggins
poured in 42 points to send Coach
Tom Harris’ team to the annual clas
sic. Marvin Trotman remained in the
scoring picture with 20 pictures fol
lowed by Henry Hager’s 18.
THE PIRATES returned home the
following night to close out the sea
son against Hampton Institute. The
Pirates of Hampton sailed up the
court and almost took the ceiling off
of the college gymnasium with a big
80-64 score. Trailing 32-28 at the
half, Elizabeth City tried in vain to
come back to sink the visiting ship.
Trotman’s nineteen points were
washed down the drains as the Walter
Ward-Nathaniel Trader combination
put the final black spot on Elizabeth
City’s record for Coach Frank Enty.