Athletics Have Been Likened
To Power Of Atomic Energy
By JAMES GARRISON
Chairman
Athletic Department
MURFREESBORO 1 Athletics
have been likened to atomic
energy In that they possess tre
mendous power for good or evil
depending upon the way In which
they are conducted. They may
develop health or they may weak
en It. They may produce a good
IT WAS STEP and step all
the way with Chowan’s
Earl Gibson edging his
opponents in the 100-yard
dash at the tape regularly
during last year’s track
season. The triple winner
(he also regularly won the
220 and long jump) will be
back for Chowan both in
football and track.
THE FIRST basketball
game is scheduled for
November 16 when
Chowan travels to Sand
hills Community College.
Action will begin at home
December 9 with South-
wood providing the
competition. The
prospects are bright for
this year’s team.
citizen or a thug. They may ful
fill their true function as a great
medium of education for youth
or they may be misused to glori
fy a coach, or school or to en
tertain the public.
In the first place, athletics are
good for any young fellow In the
formative years of his life. While
In the field of athletics we think
In terms of building the body,
It Is equally a man builder.
Entirely aside from physical
experience afforded, I doubt that
any young man could play an or
ganized game without being bene
fited In character In the over
all personal development which
only keen competition with Its
wins and Its losses can produce.
Athletics teach the value of
team play and the unique differ
ences team play can make in
the years after school Is over.
Any businessman or any person in
a responsible position can point
out that the success or failure
of any business or operation is
no more of a success than is
the teamwork of his employees or
of his organization.
Athletics Is in a real sense
the conditioning and a training
period where boys become men,
where they learn to depend on
others and others learn to depend
on them, where they learn that
they have responsibilities that
must be carried out or the team
fails.
If a sport is to make its prop
er contribution to the education
of the participant and spectator,
it must be conducted on a high
plane by leaders who clearly
understand its goals and who
seek intelligently to attain them.
Athletics provide experience
which contribute to the democra
tic way of life and to the de
velopment of desirable character
and personality traits.
Pirticlpation and competition
provides young people with the
opportunity to lea.-n how to coop
erate and to sacrifice one’s per -
sonal selfish Interests for the
greater welfare of the group.
They learn to cooperate as mem
bers of a team by doing so and
not by reading or listening to
lectures about it.
Competitive experience also
teaches respect for differences
people. Respect for an Indi
vidual because he is a human
being, not because his father has
money or his family is listed in
the social register, are lessons
which can be and are learned
in athletics today.
Participation in a game estab
lishes principles of sportsman
ship, fortitude and fair play. Ath
letics develops confidence, lead
ership and the ability to make de
cisions.
Athletics demand the most in
coordinated reflexes, delicate
timing, disciplined teamwork and
physical contact. They also can
be the most powerful integrat
ing force in our school, uniting
our students, faculty, alumni,
parents, and our tDwn.
Athletics even take on a spir
itual dimension - those in the
stands are more than spectators.
They become participants emo
tionally enriched as they share
Football Schedule
Chowan Braves
Baltimore (14-14)
Home
Sept. 19
Potomac State (29-12)
Home
Sept. 26
Worth Business College
Away
Oct.
3
Per rum (6-24)
Home
Oct.
10
Lees-McRae (13-21)
Away
Oct.
17
Horfford (Homecoming)
Oct.
24
Montgomery (20-6)
Away
Oct.
31
Wesley (14-41)
Away
Nov.
7
Davidson Freshmen (7-6) Away
Nov.
13
the experience of the activity.
Any athletic activity gives us
all a common experience wheth
er as a participant or a specta
tor. One of the deepest troubles
of our young people today is that
there are so many things to do,
but so few things that give the
sense of the com mon undertaking,
the common experience, the com
mon risk, the delight of the living
for and working for the same
common end.
When Bill Tllden, one of the
first great tennis players, was
coaching after he completed his
playing years, a young player
had won a match in a minor tour
nament and won It rather '.veil.
He came off the court and ex
pected Tllden to say someihlng
to him In words of congratulation,
and Tllden didn’t. The player
said, "What is the matter. I
won It, didn’t I?” Tllden said,
‘‘Yes, you won, but playing that
way you will never by a cham
pion, because you played not to
lose. You didn’t play to win.”
We don’t need to play it safe
always. We don’t ne^ to be
afraid of defeat. We all need to
get into the battle in common
experience, and play to win with
the Idea of achieving excellence
in whatever endeavor we under
take.
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COACH OF THE
B?\SKETBALL Braves is
Bill McCraw who is in his
eighth year at the helm of
the team. His second
coaching assignment will
be tennis.
Home games begin at 8 p.m. The 1969 scores are
listed in parentheses, Chowan’s first.
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A NEW FACE among Chowan’s
coaching staff belongs to Dan Surface,
right, who will serve as assistant
football coach and coach of the track
team. Here he discusses the upcoming
season with athletic director and head
football coach, Jim Garrison, in his 13th
year with the Brayes. Garrison also
coaches the golf team.
CHOWAN’S HOME BASEBALL games
played on the diamond across from
South Residence Hall attracts many
fans, including students and residents of
the community. The 1970 season ended
with Chowan rated the fourth best team
in the region. In conference and district
play the Braves placed second.
CHAMPIONS — Chowan’s golf team
poses with the trophy they won as
conference champions. The team also
placed second in the district and
14th in the national tournament.
F'rom the left. Coach Jim Garrison;
Chip Sullivan, Camp Lejeune; George
Fischer, Norfolk; Dave Sobrito, Rich
mond; Grant Parker, Portsmouth;
Jimmy Hilliard, Farmville; and Hilton
Phillips, Exmore, Va.