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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, MARCH 3. 1945
ELON UPSETS APPALACHIAN 44-43
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Foust Makes All-North State Second Team
Captain Fred Register
Rates Honorable Mention
Bobby Foust of Graham, was the
only Ei ;n man U> be picked on the
all conference team recently selected
by the North State coaches. Foust, 17,
is a freshman and was a day student
for the first quarter, moving on the
amp'js shortly after Christmas. Last
year he was a star on the Graham
High School quint that led county
basketball and made a good record
in the Piedmont Open Tournament at
Greensboro. During the year Foust
amassed a total of 105 points and was
a standout in every game. His per
formance against High Point at High
Point was regarded as one of the out
standing events of the entire season.
Bobby is never at his peak unless he
has some illness. His complaints of
his twisted knee, his punctured ear
drum and his sore back was music
to the ears of the Elon team who
knew that Bob was never really happy
until he had some complaint. He
helped to keep the rest of the team
in high spirits with his limitless sup
ply of jokes, good and otherwise.
I This was noticed especially on road
trips when Bobby had time to lie back
and dream up some rare ones. Good
I going Bobby and maybe that limit
less supply of ailments will enable
you to be back next year and wear
that number 31 again.
I Captain Fred Register was given
I honorable mention in the mythical
' team selection made by the coaches
' of the North State Conference. Wayne
Taylor, co-captain who played a great
1 game before entering the service, is
■ starring now on a bigger team—Uncle
{ Sam’s Army. His address is listed
I in the Armed Forces column.
What's What
By EMERSON WHATLEY
WITH THE ARMED FORCES
“Ace” Harrell has been reported
"wounded in action in Belgium. No
details are availaUTe.
Ens. A. T. White, USNR
Naval Air Transport Sqdn. VR
S USNAS
.'.iameda, California
■2
Chink Spivey, from some where on
the Westwall, near Belgium, says the
U. S. A. is paradise, but “paradise” is
lost to him at the moment. He at
tributes the inflation of French
prices to German occupation, Ger
man introduction of spurious French
paper money, and other causes.
, Frank Malone, A/S V-12
, 805 Piedmont Ave»^ NE
Atlanta, Georgia.
Lt. Sidney Krukin
Navy 3415
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Sgt. Douglas Moss, 34I7n86
Service Co., 60th Inf.
APO 9, care Postmaster
New York, N. Y.
Pfc. Doug Poweifi
Phi Chi House
522 Waugh Drive
Houston, Texas
Ens. Molly Craft
NTS (A) 333I8-AI4
Fort Schuyler
New York (61), N. Y.
Sgt. Ralph Edwards
U. M. S. B. 333
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Cpl. J. V. Clark, 344554^0
I09th Station Hospital
APO 502, care Postmaster
San Francisco, Cal.
Lt. Leonard A. Miller
VMF (N) 534
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Pvt. Roger Inman, Jr., 34893529
432 Repl. Co.
APO 372
New York, New York
Allen Gray, SI/c
NLFED, care Galley
Ford Plant Newton Park
Norfolk, Virginia
HIGHLIGHTS OF A BASKET
BALL SEASON . . . The last game
of the season. The Elon team that
would never say die. The way the
entire team fought and worked to
gether after trailing eleven points
at the third quarter. The time
Foust supposedly passed one over
Register’s head. The way Register
went up after it and tapped it back
to “Foost” who made a beautiful
^:Jy-«up shot. The smile on Dr.
Smith’s face after the game; and
the bruises on “Tex” Lisman’s
shoulders where the President of
the college got excited and loosed
some of his enthusiasm by pound
ing the Marine lieutenant. The
way the entire student body rushed
onto the court and mobbed the
team. Then there were other times
during the season. That second
quarter comeback against Flying
Safety at Winston-Salem. Flying
Safety led 20 to 4 with ten minutes
to go in the half. Halftime score:
25 to 24, Elon. And how about the
time Elon won their first game?
It was a happy crowd who ganged
around the phone to hear Bill tell
Dot that Elon had defeated A. C.
39 to 36. And don’t forget that
first half against Catawba. The
over confident Indians left the
court at half time and Coach Kirk
land had to threaten to scalp half
of the team before they would stop
shaking. Then Catawba came to
Elon and all-conference Carroll
' Bowen managed to rack up a grand
total of two points against Fred Reg
ister. Then the night Wayne Taylor
amazed'the entire Elon team by being
high scorer against High Point in a
game that was supposed to be a pre-
Pvt. Danny W. Taylor, I420529I
3704th A A F Base Unit
Sqdn. T. Class 474
Kel'sler \ ield, Miss.
Fred W. Yarbrough A/S
Co. 3043 Bks. 328U
U . S. N. T. C.
Bainbridge, Maryland
Pvt. Harry Turner, Jr.
44060079
Ward 2A /
Station Hospital
Camp Croft, S. C.
liminary but turned out to be much
more interesting than the slaughter
of Wake Forest by the Devils of
Duke.
INTRAMURALE . . . One of the
best games of the season was played
in the local gym the other night when
the Upperclassmen managed to defeat
the Day Students 33 to 30 in an over
time scrap. W. T. Walker led the win
ners with a total of 22 points and
Jimmy Lyon led the Day Student
scoring. Casey Jones and Bob Gra
ham played good floor games for the
Day Students and Upperclassmen re
spectively.
The Alamance County Tournament
now going on in the local gym has
brought to light a lot of basketball
talent that could be used at Elon
next year. How about Kernodle of
Altamahaw-Ossipee and Truitt of
Elon High? And that enUre t^am
from Graham, too. There might be
another Foust there.
Final Game Of Season
Packed With Thrills
Scoring Averages
Of Elon Cagers
There were no Individual stars on
the 1945 edition of the Maroon and
Gold basketball squad. This was not
only shown by the fine team work
displayed in the last game against
Appalachian when “A” and “B” were
working to perfection but also by the
statistics recently compiled by Coach
Adcox. Fred Register led the scor
ing for the year but there was only I7
points difference in the first five. In
dividual recprds for the year are as
follows: Register, 118 points, Banks
114, Chandler IIO, Foust 105, Owen
lOI, MJicEntire 84, and Taylor 52.
ELON HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS
HIGH IN WINS
Both boy’s and girl’s teams of the
Elon High School have made ex
cellent records in basketball this
season. Coach Black’s cagers will
bear watching in the Alamance Tour
nament. Truitt, Loy, Peeler, Sey
mour and Robertson are the first'
string on the boy’s club.
Their team-work and ball handling
is something to see. Coach Black
gives his time and services to the
commuunity, and deserves both our
gratitude and congratulations. Watch
them go in the play-offs, and give
them the loyal support they always
give to the college.
Lt. John Barney;
Report from John in the Mediter-
rannear. r.rea is that he recently flew
again to Casablanca from Italy, and |
that he is due for one of those leaves
home, but with orders changing may
not get it for some time. i
Lt. J. W. Barney, Jr. j
0-807125
4th T. C. Squadron
APO 650, care P M |
New York, N. Y. I
I
Ens. Paul Ridge
USS PCE 842
care F O
New York, New York
Ens. Pearce Senter, USNR
USS - LCI - 28
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Ensign A. J. (Tony) Festa, Jr., USNR
USS Grundy, A.P.A. Ill
. care F P O
New York, New York
Staff Sgt. James F. Rogers, 34599324
Supply Sec. BAD No. I, Sec. 46
APO 635
care Postmaster
New York, New York
Marine Lt. “Tex” Lisman stop
ped on campus on his way to Texas
and the west coast. He got here in
time to see the boys turn in that 44-43
win over Appalachian, and sure was
a power in the stands—and, as usual
with Marines from Elon, a power with
the ladies too. His new address will
be published when we—and Tex—
get it.
ged at first but not as far as fighting
is concerned, we landed after the
fighting marines had cleaned the lit
tle yella men out fairly well.
I’ve seen most of the Pacific thea
ter, the New Hebrides, the Marshalls,
Gilberts and I’ve even had a rest
leave in Pearl Harbor so you see the
duty really isn’t bad after all.
Some time ago I wrote to Ed Hick-
lin and was surprised to learn the
Ole Press is out here himself. He’s
in a marine dive bomber outfit, just
where I don’t know. The other day
I had quite a surprise when I realized
that a navy lieut. filing a clearance
at the same time I was turned out to
be Ed Potter. We had quite a talk
and he promised to come down to my
outfit sometime. Small world and
just to prove it I met Lody Glenn
when we first come on the island.
He’s a marine line company officer.
Your news letters have been tak-1
ing quite a while because you have
been addressing them to Squadron
543 when I’m in Marine Night Fighter
Squadron 534. The reason they are
delayed is because there is such an
outfit and the letters are sent there
and have to be relayed hence the de- j
lay. I
Just to ease your mind, I have yet ^
to get my first Jap or see my first ]
Sports
By EDNA
Pvt. Moses Crutchfeld, 34678219
P. O. W. Camp
Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark.
Capt. Claude Lawrence
Section F
A. A. B.
Pyote, Texas
Lt. (jg) S. Rufus Underwood
LCI (L) 96
U. S. Amphibous Force
Flotilla Thirty
Fleet Post Office
New York, New York
Ens. V. A. Zodda
NOF Pool 120
Comm 4th Fleet
care F P O
New York, New York
IV^iss Hazel Walker has given us
news mail to pass on to men in ser
vice:
Friday Night
Jan. 26th.
Hello Hazel:
I had planned on writing a long
time ago but kept putting it off until
the last news letter arrived and so
I finally got around to the task of
telling you of what’s with the Miller
boy out here in the broad, blue Pa
cific.
To begin with. I’m somewhere in
the Marianas, just where I can’t say.
Things are really getting civilized
and you wouldn’t know this place
since the navy’s come in and began to
build it up. Things were a Uttle rug-
Nip in the air. About all I’m doing
is flying long, monotonous night pa
trols. I guess someone has to do ‘
it but I wish I could at least see a
little action before this tour is up. |
Pvt. Sal A. Festa, 33902185
Co. B, Bks. No. 5
Medical Service School
Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Guess this gets it for now. Give
my regards to Dr. Hirsch and any of
the old gang you should see.
Alpha Pi and Semper Fi,
Leonard MiUer,
VMF (N) 534
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Ens. Stafford R. Peebles, USNR
nav. Tra. School (Comm)
Holworthy M-I4
Harvard University
Cambridge 38, Mass.
i Sgt. J. M. Garrett, Jr., 34773429
Co. I, 86 MIT Inf.
APO 345
care Postmaster
New York, N. Y.
Lt. (jg) J. BojVl Clajp
USS SC-1328
care F P O
San Francisco, Cal.
Cpl. Forrest L. Frazier
G. Btry, Ilth A.A. Arty. F.M.F.
care F P O
Pan Francisco, Cal.
The Eaglettes from East Hall
step into the limelight this week since
they emerged victoriously last week
after clashing with Helen Newsome’s
fighting team from Ladies’ Hall. East
is now in first place in the tourna
ment, but still has two games to play.
The guards on both sides put up
st/ong defense—and there was Iris
Westbrook as backbone of her team
along with Helen Morris, Sarah Ma-
ness and yours truly to take care of
East’s forwards—Betty Blue, Helen
Boone, and Irma Canady.
For East the guards were Vera
Lamb, Janet Ward and Marie Gar
ner. They obstinately refused to let
Dot Holland, Jean Isbell or Helen
McBane make enough points. Sub
stitutes were Hazel Johnson, Carrie
Stanfordand Kat Cappell, and they
did commendable playing.
The three remaining games of the
tournament will be Day Students vs.
Third West, East vs. Day Students,
and East vs. Second West.
Because of the Alamance County
Basketball Tournament now being
played in the college gym the play-off
games will be postponed until next
v/eek and the finals will be run off the
In the last game of the season play
ed February 23, before a capacity
crowd, the Elon College Fighting
Christians came from behind to de
feat a scrappy bunch of Appalachian
Mountaineers, 44 to 43. The Ap
palachian team took an early lead
and were ahead at the end of the
first ten minutes by a score of 9 to 2.
White and Miller then came to Ufe
for the Mountaineers and tossed in
fourteen points in five minutes be
tween them. Chandler got six points
to lead an Elon second quarter spurt
that fell far short and saw the A. S.
T. C. lads hold a halftime lead of 25
to 14.
Banks and Foust both connected as
the second half opened. Chandler
tossed in a quick one and then Reg
ister connected to whittle down the
Appalachian lead to a third quarter
score of 31 to 2.8 Chandler led the
last period drive for the Christians,
tossing in seven points of the 16 that
were scored in the last ten minutes
Banks and MacEntire each contrib
uted a lay-up shot to the Elon cause
and Bob Foust maed a beautiful shot
from the foul circle to make a total
of six field goals for the quarter.
Owen ifade two foul fiirows while
Chandler and Banks each contributed
one charity toss to the Elon side of
the ledger. The last six points of the
game were foul throws, Elon getting
four and Appalachian two.
Chandler, Banks, and Foust led the
Elon scoring with 16, 10 and 8 points
respectively. Register and MacEntire
stood oat on defense for the Elon five.
Register taking a percentage of the
rebounds from aach basket and Mac-
Entire breaking up several attempted
quick breaks by the Mountaineers.
W^hite, with fourteen points, and
B. Miller, close behind with twelve
points led the Appalachian scoring.
Jones, all-conference forward was
held well in check by the Elon de
fense and had only five points when
he left the game in the third period
because of excessive fouls. Lacey
was the standout of the evening on
defensive play.
The box:
Elon FG FT PF TP FTM
Banks 4 2 2 10 2
Register I 2 2 4 I
Stone 0 0 0 0 0
Chandler 7 2 3 16 3
Foust 3 2 3 8 2
MacEntire 1 0 5 2 0
Owen I 2 I 4 0
vTotals 17 10 16 44 18
Appalachian FG FT PF TP FTM
Jones 2 15 5 3
J. Miller 0 0 10 0
White 6 2 I 14 II
B. Miller 5 2 3 12 3
Graham 3 3 3 9 2
Lacey I I 3 3 2
Totals 17 9 16 43 II
Officials: Husser and Culler. Timer;
Stanford. Scorer: Whatley.
week of March 12.
Table Tenuis Tournament:
Edna Rumley defeated Mary War
ren in the opening game. Other
play-offs this week will be between
Marie Garner and Lib Holland, Betty
Blue and Margaret Rawls, Maye Rick
ard and Hilda Malone.
INDIAN DIES IN ARMY
Once upon a time there was an
Indian named Short Cake. Short
Cake was drafted into the army. The
army didn't agree with Short Cake
and after a while he became ill. As
time went by he became desperately
ill. The army doctors decided to send
for his squaw. But just before the
squaw arrived Short Cake died.
Squaw-bury-Short Cake.