Page 6—Smoke Signals, Friday, October 4, 1968
Braves defeat Catamounts, 48-13
Piles up over 600 yards
In capturing first victory
By HARVEY HARRIS
Chowan College’s Braves used
more than 600 yards of devastat
ing offense in their 48-13 demo
lition of the Catamounts from
Potomac State College of Keyser,
W. Va., and rebounded from two
season-opening defeats in im
pressive and powerful pigskin
fashion.
The Braves were always in
command, marching all the way
to paydirt moments after taking
the game’s opening kickoff, and
unleased a grueling gound at
tack that overpowered the Cata
mounts. Halfback Carroll Hart
dashed the final 17 yards into
touchdown territory.
Scrambling quarterback Dan
Day vault unveiled the Braves’
aerial attack the next time Cho
wan got ball possession, tossing
a 73-yard touchdown pass to Tony
Maglione. Dayvault figured in
two more sensational scores, out
distancing the entire Catamounts
team on 90-yard kickoff run-
back and then tossing a 60-yard
touchdown aerial to speedy half
back Tommy Campbell.
The final score for Chowan
came on a pass from another
Braves quarterback, John Casaz-
za, who connected on a tkv-
down pass to flanker Charles
Groves.
Other touchdowns for the
Braves were scored by Joe Hol
loman, overpowering Potomac
State’s line on a one-yard plunge
through center, and 170-pound
halfback Andy Ward. Intercept
ing a Catamount pass, defensive
scatback Ward scampered 27
yards to score.
Billy Taylor kicked five points-
after-touchdown for the Braves
and Ray Curies added another.
Tommy Campbell, a deceptive
and swift 170-pounder, recorded
one 65-yard run to set up a Braves
touchdown and was on the re
ceiving end of 32-yard pass
from Casazza that enabled Cho
wan to gain another score.
Touchdown marches saw Day
vault connecting with passes of
20-yards and 25-yards to Joe
Holloman, with Dayvault adding
a 25-yard run.
Ted Lee, speedy scatback for
the Braves who is a mere 150-
pounder, overpowered and out
ran the bigger Potomac State
defenders in gaining a 57-yard
run and putting Chowan within
the shadow of the goal line as the
first half ended.
Potomac States touchdowns
came when Richard Avjean re
turned a kickoff 96 yards
when Bill Haddox connected on an
11-yard pass to Stan Schaefer.
Haddox kicked a point-after-
touchdown and made another at
tempted kick, which went away.
Blocking and tackling by the
Braves’ forward wall shattered
the attack of the visitors and kept
Chowan’s gridders always
threatening. Smashingtacklesand
blocks at scrimmage, joined
with downfield blocking, smash
ed the Catamounts’ defense and
kept them from mounting an
attack.
Many Braves who got no game
experience in Chowan’s first en
counters were used throughout
much of the contest, as Coach
Jim Garrison and his assistants
emptied the bench to give many
players a taste of pigskin per
formances. Chowan’s reserves
took advantage of this opportun
ity to prove themselves and made
impressive showings in the pig
skin arena.
Braves gridiron warriors shat
tered the scoreboard with 27
points In their explosive first
quarter and, using ample re
serves in their lineup through
out the contest, added insurance
touchdowns and points-after-
touchdown in each succeeding
quarter of game activity.
Chowan’s pigskin performers
piled up 363 yards in their ground
attack, while the Chowan defend
ers were holding the Catamounts
to 176 yards rushing. Braves
passers completed nine of 20 pass
attempts and 240 yards in aerial
warfare, holding Catamounts to
a single completion in 13 tries
for a mere 11 yards in the visitors’
passing game.
The touchdown scored by Andy
Ward on his 27-yard return of an
intercepted pass was one of two
intercepted passes for the Braves
during the game, while Cata
mounts' defenders picked off only
one aerial tossed by Chowan's
gridders.
PHOTO BY GARY WHITLEY
'Heck, and here I thought I was almost clear!'
Score by Quarters
Potomac State . 7 0 0
Chowan 27 7 7 7-^8
Quarterback Dan Dayvault picks up some badly needed yardage as the Braves fell before
the onslaught on hard-running backs from Baltimore College. The final whistle left Cho-
g wan on the small end of 33-7 score.
Statistics
Chowan Potomac S.
16
First Downs
6
363
Yards Rushing
176
9-20
PassesComp.-At.
1-13
240
Yards Rushing
11
2
Passes Intercepted by
1
2-29
Punts
6-40
0
Fumbles Lost
1
115
Yards Penalized
50
Cross-country team strong
By PARKER BAINE
Most people have no concep
tion of the time and energy that
a cross-country runner must
exert to be an outstanding at
hlete. This year Chowan hopes
they will be able to send a run-
Tony Surace (left) and Don Kern
Surace, Kern led Braves' defense
Two sophomore linebackers,
Don Kearn and Tony Surace,
lead the Braves defense on the
gridiron.
Don Kearn came to Chowan
College last year after graduation
from Steelton Gighspire High
school,Don was on the wrestling,
track and football teams, let
tering each year in all three
sports. Kearn, a letterman last
year, plays linebacker for the
Braves, the same position he
played in high school. Pre
education is Don's major and
he hopes someday to teach or
coach. Don will be furthering
his education at an undecided
college in Pennsylvania as of next
year.
Tony Surace graduated from
Franklin High School in 1967
and entered Chowan College the
next fall. Tony played linebacker
and offensive guard for four
years in the Franklin, Virginia
high school. In his senior year
Tony was selected All-Conference,
All-District and All-State line
backer, the position he is now
playing for Chowan Braves.
Surace is also a Pre-Education
major and someday hopes to
teach and coach football. Tony
will transfer to Southern Missis
sippi next fall where he has
a football scholarship.
“Hullo", called a feminine
voice, “is that the Humane So
ciety? “Yes ", came the answer.
“Well, there’s a book canvasser
sitting up in a. tree in my yard
teasing my dog.”
“Nobody but a nut would run
for President and who wants a
nut for President?
ner to the National Jr. College
Meet at Lawrence, Kansas. The
team consists of six men of
which three are the major main-
stem of the team.
Coach McCraw believes his
top runner this year will be
Eric O'Neill, who was Va. State
Cross-Country Champion at his
high school last year. Hugh
Wade and George (Speedy)
Skinner are ranked a close se
cond by the Coach.
He also said Brian Overby
works out real well but might
not be able to place in some of
the meets. Last year, Wade was
the number 1 cross-yountry man
and was undefeated through all
dual meets. Speedy was a trans
fer student last year and unable
to run but is now eligible.
Coach said the rest of the team
were a question of time and
strength and how each man
comes through.
Cross-country is one of the
few sports which people know
little about except that there is
a lot of running involved. A
person has to be in excellent
condition to be able to run the
course, approximately three to
three and a half miles of natural
terrain. O’Neill has been doing
some running and is in real
good shape, but Wade and
“Speedy " have conflicting sub
jects which limit them from
running as much as they would
like too. They hone, however,
to be in top shape when they
have their first meet with Va.
Wesleyan in Norfolk on October
8. They run against East Caro
line Freshmen and then go to
Christopher Newport for meets.
After they run these meets they
go to the Region X Meet at
High Point College, where any
one who qualifies will be eligible
to go to the National Jr. College
Meet in Lawrence, Kansas. A
later meet at N. C. State is
scheduled but the date is not
known at the printing of this
paper. Coach McCraw said he
would reaUy like to have a
representative at Kansas but
it will all be up to the men and
how hard they strive for vic
tory. Best of luck is extended
to the Cross-country team for a
victorious season from the
Sport’s dept, of the Smoke
Signal.
Cross-Country Schedule
Oct. 8-Va. Wesleyan (Away)
Oct. 16-E. C. U. Freshmen
Oct. 22-Va. Wesleyan (Hone)
Nov. 9- Region X Meet (High
Point College)
Nov. 16-- National Jr. College
Meet (Lawrence, Kansas)
Nov. ?-N. C. State Meet
(Christopher Newport Meet not
known, yet)
Braves bow
to Baltimore
By PHIL EDWARDS
The Chowan Braves just could
not seem to get going as they
bowed to Baltimore 33-7, here
on Saturday, Sept. 21.
The first quarter was score
less as both teams gave up the
ball by fumbling, but neither
team could gain the advantage.
In the second quarter Balti
more scored twice on runs of
two yards by Murray and 6
yards by Cousins respectively.
Both kicking attempts were good
leaving the score 14-0 at the half.
In the third period Baltimore
scored again with Violette going
over from the six. The conver
sion attempt was broken up by
a hast of Brave linemen.
The Braves" only score came
late in the third quarter on a two
yard plunge by fullback Charlie
Bradshaw, set up by a Dayvault
pass to end Charlie Graves. Kic
ker Billy Taylor added the extra
point.
The fourth period was much
like the second, with Baltimore
scoring two m o r cr TD s:
one by Cousins from the four
and the other by Greentill from
the one. Only one of the two
conversions were good, with
John Sullivan blocking the other.
Baltimore J. C. .. 0 14 6 13—33
Chowan College . 0 0 7 0— 7