Braves Drop Close Game
To Lees-McRae Bobcats
Smoke Signals, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971—Page Seven
KICKING SPECIALIST—Scenes from
] Chowan’s football game with Lees-
McRae Bobcats shows John Thomas in
several attempts to add points to the
Brave scoreboard. The Bobcats won
the contest, however, 10-8.
Trailing by two points, Chowan
saw two scoring opportunities go
astray in the last five minutes
preserving a 10-8 Coastal Con
ference victory for Lees-McRae
in Chowan stadium before a
Parents’ Day crowd Saturday
night, October 16.
Chowan raced to an 8-0 half-
time lead and appeared to be in
full command. End Gary
Chantry tackled quarterback
Steve Watson in the end zone for a
safety and 2-0 lead midway in the
second quarter of a defensive
struggle. With 1:03 left, quar
terback Paul Black passed 14
yards to split end Tom Wright for
the score. The extra point at
tempt by Jimmy Thomas failed.
Black took over on the fourth play
of the 11-play, 80-yard drive when
Dale McCafferty was injured.
Although hobbled by an ankle
injury sustained in practice, the
Camp Lejeune player completed
three of five passes during the
march for 45 yards.
But the Bobcats had rallied
from half time deficits before this
season and were destined to do so
again. They were aided by a
fumble of a fair catch by Carl
Porter at the Chowan 18. Four
plays later halfback Ron Parsons
scored from the four and David
Burke kicked the PAT with 2:59
left in the third quarter to narrow
the Braves’ lead to 8-7. The
Bobcats winning points were
provided on a 28-yard field goal
by Burke with 9:53 left in the
game. The drive began on the L-
M 29-yard line and stalled at the
Chowan 18.
After the kickoff, Chowan
drove on the ground with fullback
George Sands picking up big
yardage to the bobcats’ seven,
where tailback Rocky Dunbar
fumbled into the waiting hands of
a L-M defender.
Chowan got another chance a
few plays later when tackle Ed
Love recovered a Bobcat fumble
at the L-M 24. Dunbar almost
went all the way on the second
play before the last defender
stopped him at the 10 for a first
down. After three rushes the ball
was pushed back to the 14 where
Thomas attempted a fiel^joaI_
from the middle of the field. The
kick was long enough to cover 50
yards but wide right. With 1:28
left Lees-McRae ran out the clock
to record its fourth win against a
single loss to the Furman fresh
men.
Defensive standouts for the
Braves were linebackers Stuart
Christian, Jerry Borum and
Gregg White, tackles Ed Love
and Delbert Melton, ends Joe Gro
and Chantry and defensive back
Allen Nobles.
Touchdown Scorers
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By GILBERT TRIPP
FREDDY KNIGHT
When the last issue of THE
SMOKE SIGNALS came out and
contained a clarification of the
gun policy, I was as shocked as
anyone. However, after reading
the article and finding out that
one of the general statutes of
North Carolina porhibts the
possession of firearms on all
educational campuses, both
public and private, there are only
two alternatives. They are: one,
remove all firearms from
campus immediately; two,
organize a Sportsman’s Club that
would qualify for school sanction
and thereby come under the
educational or instructional
purposes of the College.
It is my hope that the latter can
be achieved. At present, I have
written several letters seeking
the appropriate steps that one
must follow in order to establish
such a club. It is hoped that one
club chapter will be affiliated
with a club of national scope . . .
one that will have the backing of
the N.R.A. (National Rifle
Assocaition).
Until this can be done, and it
will take a considerable amount
of time, I suggest that you take
all of your firearms home. It
would be better not to hunt for a
month or so than to have to pay a
$500.00 fine and spend a possible
six months in jail.
'•--i have discussed--this- matter^'
with Dean Lewis and Mr. Hassell
and they both are in favor of
Sportsman’s Club. Mr. Hassell
has even agreed to help locate a
suitable storage area on campus
that could be used as a club ar
mory. They have also indicated
they would assist the club in
developing a rifle and pistol
range on some portion of the
College property. With the
formation of a club and a place to
practice, one could look ahead to
the possibility of intercollegiate
competition.
After running a quick check
with most of the major hunt clubs
in the area, it seems that the first
week of the season was rather
slow. There have been alot of
deer sighted but only a few killed
and they seem to be rather small.
I have not heard of anyone
collecting a trophy head or even
mounting material; however,
several tremendous bucks have
been sighted. It is everybody’s
dream to collect a mountable
head for the den wall or over the
fireplace. If you should be in luck
and down a fine whitetail
specimen, the best placs that
place that I know of to have the
head moimtcd is at Williams
Taxidermy Studio in Sufforlk,
Virginia. Some people say his
prices are too high, but for the
quality of work that he does I feel
Uie cost is justifiable. A full
shoulder mount will run about
$75.00.
Chowan Smashes
Harford Owls, 39-0
Chowan scored six touchdowns
including four through the air to
smash Harford last Saturday
afternoon, away, 39-0. Two
quarterbacks. Dale McCafferty
and Paul Black each passed for
two scores.
While the offense was putting
on a show for the handful of
Chowan fans, the defense was
performing at its best. Harford
was limited to minus 1 rushing
yards in the first half and made
only one first down. Leading the
tackling was Stuart Christian,
Gary Chantry, and Jerry Borum.
Tailback Rocky Dunbar scored
Chowan’s first two touchdowns,
both on passes from McCafferty.
Hie first was for 11 yards late in
the first quarter and the second
was for eight yards midway in
the second period.
Chowan turned to its running
game for its first two scores of
the second half with McCafferty
and John King each covering two
yards. But Chowan was far from
finished. Black, favoring an
injured ankle, provided the
Braves with two explosive
scoring passes to two reserve
splitends. Bobby Britt caught the
first for 62 yards and on the first
play after Chowan regained
possession of the ball, Freddy
Knight recieved another for 42
yards.
Chantry kicked three of six
extra points as Chowan again
shut out the Owls, accomplishing
the same result 49-0 last year at
Homecoming.
It was a case of Chowan finally
putting it all together using a
well-balanced attack to ac
company its renowned and
league-leading defense. It was a
happy Coach Jim Garrison who
left the field with his thoughts
now fixed on Saturday’s
Homecoming foe, Montgomery.
This was Chowan’s best
demonstration of its passing
attack. McCafferty completed 15
of 19 for 164 yards and Black
completed 2 of 4 for 104 yards.
Harford had the worst pass
defense in the conference and the
Braves took advantage of it,
while its own pass defense im
proved considerably from its first
five games.
Chowan upped its record to 2-3-
1 and the Braves feel they have a
good opportunity to win toeir last
four games for another winning
season which has become a
tradition at Chowan.
Chowan
18
128
17-23
268
396
1
0
82
Statistics
First Downs
Yards Rushing
Passes
Yards Passing
Total Offense
Fumbles Rec.
Interceptions
Penalties
Harford
3
18
7-21
63
81
2
1
115
Record Doesn't Tell Story
LEADS CHOWAN DEFENSE—Stuart Christian led the
Chowan Braves in their defenseive efforts last Saturday
against the Harford College Owls. The Braves smashed
the Owls by the score of 39-0.
BY G. RICHARD JACKSON
SPORTS EDITOR
After five games, midway
through the season, Chowan’s
record is a disappointing 1-3-1.
For a team with such great talent
and leadership that it has, such a
record is quite a shock. The
record in itself, however, doesn’t
tell the whole story. The record
doesn’t tell you of the close
games narrowly lost, or of the
injurys suffered by players, or of
a determined effort by members
of the team and coaching staff
alike. The record doesn’t
mention the fact that a missed
field goal in the last seconds of a
game gave Baltimore Com
munity a tie with Chowan. It
doesn’t tell you that Potomac
State snatched victory from our
hands in the closing seconds after
Chowan had led most of the
game. Neither does it mention a
narrow 10 to 8 loss to Lees-McR&e
despite a tremendous defensive
performance. There are
however, five games remainir
in the season. If the breaks ;o
oui’ way in the second half of t ■
season as much as they we
against us in the first h£
Chowan could finish 6-3-1. No
bad record at all. Chowan pit
away at Harford this week, l"i:
the following week Chowan pUi,.
Montgomery State foi
Homecoming. Let’s all be there
and show the team we’re behind
them. With our support, Chov....
could finish the season in a fl.
and have a record indicative
the winning spirit alreai'
present on the team.
WiUiam Howard Taft was th
first president buried in Arhiig-
ton National Cemetery (1930,
BOBBY BRITT
DALE McCafferty
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JOHN KING
ROCKY DUNBAR