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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURBAY, OCTOBER 19, 1946
CHRISTIAN ELEVEN TOPS E.C.T.C., 13-6
IT SAYS HERE
By ED MOSS
On the editorial page of this week’s
Tpaper is a letter from a reader who
takes issue with us •oncerning some
thing we wrote in the last copy of
the Maroon and Gold. Today we
would like to devote a portion of this
space to defend our views and clear
up any points which the readers might
have misconstrued.
First of all we would like to say
of the opposing teams performance
can do much more toward winning
a game than sheer brute force and
the desire to win, important as these
tw o elements may be.
We stand by our statement of last
issue in quoting Coach Perry to the
effect that over-emphasizing the ne
cessity to win may cause the players
that they “play themselves out” in
the first period and are weakened bj
a kind of nervous fatigue.
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that we are very much in favor of j to become nervous and too eager so
school spirit and team spirit and think
that they play an important part in
any scholastic or professional athletic
event. What we maintain is that
team spirit, when it takes on the
form of mass hysteria or when it is
governed by uncontrolled emotions is
harmful to the cause it is supposed to
be helping.
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It is our contention that the shed
^ing of ersatz tears by coaches (fig-
.xiratively or literally) in order to play
upon the emotions of the players to
arouse their fighting spirit belongs to
the er-a of raccoon coals, flappers and
tin lizzies. If too much stress is put
upon winning the game by the coach
the player is liable to be keyed to
such a high pitch that when he goes
on the field he wiH be so eager te
make good that he will bungle the
job. This has often happened, espec
ially with new, inexperienced play
ers.
Ferneyhougii,
Domenick Get
Touchdowns
Reader Snyder takes the idealistic
point of view in thinking that real
team spirit consists of wanting to play
60 minutes of hard rough-and tumble
football every game. Strategy and
We would like to add our contribu- j
tion to what other members of the
staff have said in regard to our cheer
leaders and their lack of support. It
has been suggested to us by one of
the students that some new yells
would, help put life into the cheering
section. Why not have a contest
among the students to see who can
write the best new cheers and yells
for the sch*ol? Prizes could be
awarded for the best of these submit
ted and perhaps they could be pub
lished in the Maroon and Gold. How
about it cheerleaders?
* * H> *
Coach Peril’s team came through
in great style Saturday and won an
other game for Elon. The citizens
of Reidsrille were not disappointed
in their former coach and the home
town boys he has trained as well as
the players from other parts of thel
country. The men are improving with
each game. Let’s kope they can con
tinue their winning ways. Two vic
tories against one loss isn’t a bad per-
THIS ONE DIDN’T COUNT. Murd ck. speedy Appalachian back, dashes 25 yards for a touchdown against
Elon, in conference game at Boone. Oops! Correction, please: Score didn’t count— a Mountaineer mate
of Murdock’s was found holding on the play and ball was called back. Appalachian won anyway, 40-0. Oh,
that’s Dave McClenny, Elon’s ace tai'back, making that noble‘try at Murdock’s heels. Elon man .at left (12)
is “Mac” McCracke*; at right is Paul Causey (13).
reasoning combined with observation centage.
Girls' Sports
By BETTY BENTON
Indians ‘Christianized’
By Elon’s ’37 Gridders
By ALIAS JOE DOAK
but happy bunch of gladiators. We
' felt as though we had aided ki the
This is a story *f vintage ’37. It triumph,
deals with a football game played that ^ least tw6 state dailies carried an
year between Elon’s Christians and account of the game the next day and
the Indians from the tepees of Ca-; half-time battle was vividly de-
tawba College at Salisbury, N. €. , That was one Elon football
That fall Elon had a powerfiH game printed indelibly on my mem-
eleven paced by “Jackrabhit” Abbit, ory!
Joe Caruso, Joe Golombek, Jimmy |
Day, A1 Mastr#, and Archie Israel.!
This team had an excellent record, INTERCEPTIONS
the only blemish, a deieet at the
hands of Appalachian. This l®ss, HELP APPS TO
however, was in Boone where every *
thing was ice and snow and several 40-0 TRIUMPH
Elon gridsmen came out of the battle,
with badly frost-bitten hands. |
Scoring twice in the third period,
after they had trailed at halftlme, 6-0,
Elon’s Fighting Christians came
through with a thrHBng 13-6 victory
over Eastern Carolina Teachers Col
lege last Satmrday night, und’er the
Kghts of Reidsville stadium. To make
Coach “Hap” Perry’s Reidsville home
coming a compleie success. Bud Fer-
neyhough, one of eleven former Reids
ville High School men on the Elon
squad, scored th eChristians’ first
touchdown.
With his team behind, by virtue of
a first-quarter E.C.T.C. drive, which
ended in Slade Phillips’ touchdown
pkinge from the one-yard li*e, Fer-
Heyhough dropped back for a fourth-
down punt as the second half got un
derway. The Pirate line charged in
so fast that Bud couldn’t-boot; £■* he
eluded the would-be blockers, saw a
clear field ahead, and dashed 55 yards
to tie the score.
Steve Castura’s placement was
short, but it didn't matter, for a few
minutes later Elon was back with an
other touchdown, this time on a spec
tacular pass-lateral play from Jack
Russell to Lou Savini to Jerr^y Dom-
enidc, substitute center, who tbok the
ball over from the 15. The play cov
ered 29 yards altogether. Castura’s
kick was good but unnecessary; E. C.
October 18 t. C. ceuids’t score again,
day on the i The Pirates lost a good chanoe, just
calendar, but students at Elon will re- before Domenick’s game-winnir>g,
member it for a different reason than score, when Fearing ran 75-yards for
the fact that it is Alaska Day. The ' a touchdown on a punt return but had
Elon College football team has gone' the pl*y nullified because of a cMp-
to Newberry, S. C., where they will j ping penalty against his team,
meet a streng Newberry College I The Kne-ups:
eleven tonight in a non-conference ^ pos.—ELON (13)
ELON TRAVELS
TO NEWBERRY;
CATAWBA NEXT
Elon CoMeae, Friday,
-Today is a red-letter
I LE—B. Perry
LT—Melvin
' LG—Branile
j C—Knight
I RG—Hardy
; RT—Agresta
Volleyball, the first intr^ural Monday, October 28, 2 o’clock— La-
sport in which girls are competing dies’ Hall versus Day Students,
this season, got under way this week. | Monday, October 28, 3 o’clock—
In the first game played, the Third
Floor West team, under the manage
ment of Lib Jerni^an, defeated the
East Dormitory team, 15-4, 12-15, and
J5-11. Miss Whicker acted as ref
eree, and Jane Warren was umpire.
Here is the schedule for the re
mainder of the voUeyball season:
Wednesday, Ocober 16, 3 o’clock—
Ladies’ Hall versus Second Floor
West.
Wednesday, October 16, 4 o’clock—
Day Sudents versus Third Floor West.
(This column was written before
the results of these two games were
available).
Monday, October 21, 2 o’clock—
Ladies' Hbll versus East.
Monday, October 21, 3 o’clock—
Second Floor West versus Third Floer
West.
Wednesday, October 23, 3 o’clock—
Third Floor West versus Ladies’ Hall.
Wednesday, Octgber 23, 4 o’clock—
East versus Day Students.
East versus Second Floor West.
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The officials for each game, physi
cal education majors, and members
of the Intramural Council for each
team will be posted with the sched
ule on the physical education bulletin
board.
The games are being played as a
round robin; Iherefore, thp team
which has the highest percentage at
the end of the schedule will be declar
ed the winner. In case of a tie, a
play-off will be conducted.
Enthusiasm seems to t»e been, and it
looks as if there are going t* be some
good games played in this tournament.
Let’s keep up the good work.
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Just a note to end this colunui with.
Basketball seems to be the main in
terest of most girl sports enthusiasts.
As soon as the volleyball season clos
es, plans will be made to start basket
ball practice. So«nds good, hunh?
game. Althoug hCoaeh Perry is op
timistic about the improvement of his
squad, following last week’s 13-6 vic
tory over E.C.T.C., he knows the
Christians will be hard put to sub
due the South Carolina team.
Perry’s men were scheduled to ar- RE—Price
rive at Newbesry at noon and should QB—J. Perry
I thereby be well rested for the battle. • HB—Shumar
Elon’s Maroon and Gold grid war- The team has gained confidence from HB—Harris
riors journeyed to Boone on the fifth ’ their E.C.'i’.C. win, and Coach “Hap” FB
of October, to renew their rivalry: declares that their coordination and.
with Appalachian. The trip turned ^ teamwork is much improved since the Elon 0
•ut rather badly—Elon came out on j first game of the season. i E.C.T.C 6
The 1 rpjjg Newberry gridders, who have'
■ ■ - -- - 1 Scering
At the kick-off of the ’37 Catawba
game, there were some fevty rabid
Elon rooters in the stands on the
visitors side of the gridiron. Elon
took command of the game from the
opening whistle and by half-time held , the short end of a 40-0 score.
a comfortable lead. We were not game, however, was a much better' fifteen returnVd lettennen held Ai^!
E.C.T.C. (6>
Tartarski
Lee
Miller
Pendleton
Wheelees
Wyatt
Brown
Everette
Fearing
Phillips
Pittman
0 13 0—13
0 0 0—6
Touchdowns—(Elon) Fer-
-R. Ferneyhough
content with merely using our vocal contest than the score indicates, sev- pgiachian State Tochers College to ' neyhough, Domenick (substitute for
cords to express our feelings, so eral pass interceptions figuring prom- , twelve-point margin of victory sev- Knight); (E.C.T.C.) Phillips. Point
eral weeks age, the Mountaineers hav-
after touchdown—(felon) Castura
(prtacekick).
Substitutions; Elon—Martin, Rus
sell, Causey, T. Femeyhough, Savini,
Castura, Hogan, C. Gentry, Woold-
during the intermission someone in ^ inently ia the outcome.
our ingenious Mttle band of support-1 Appalachian scored their first * ing won a score of 28-19. On the
ers proposed a plan whereby we touchdown on a 23-yard sprint by i strength of those fi^ur^! Flon’s '
could vent our enthusiasm and joy Mammorella,, just before the end of ^^0 loss at the handTof the self^
at leading, and at the s^me time the first quarter, the score climax- same Mountaineers it would look bad . _ .
taunt the hapless Indians. I ing a 44-yard march, after the Apps for the Christian eleven tonight; but ridge, Domenick, Darden, Claytor»
By begging, borrowing, and , had taken the ball on an interception, i predictions based on such statistics . Gunn, G. Gentry, Manzi, Coniish, Ko-
we rounded up the necessary ma- Hollars’ line buck from the five-yard often come out wrong. The Indians aekewich, Spivey, Hoffman. E. C. T.
terials a«d constructed an effigy of I'^e was good for the second taH(/. | of Newberry are reperted to have a C.—Basnight, Manning, Andrews,
an Indian brave which we placed TBailing 13-0, Elon came back strong good passing and a smooth running' Keesler, Grady, Williams, Davis, Mus-
near one end of the stands on our drove to the Mountaineers’ five-, attack, but the Christians figure to selwhite, Brinson,
side of the field. To further taunt yard line, only to have a pass inter- have a few trieks of their own by | Officials:” Referee—Avefette (N. C.
the Indian rooters a fire was built ■ ception by Mammorelte, who ran 95-. wiijch to render the Tribal grid ma- S.); umpire—Staton (Wake Forest);
under this pseudo-Indian; the smoke for the third score. A few min- , chine less potent. ; linesman—Turner, (So. Car.) field
began to rise and things really got utes later Appalachian scored again. | r-ATAwn* vpyt j judge—River (So. Car.),
hot around there in more ways than this tiime on a pass frem Bryson to |
one! [Brennan. The halftime score: Ap- Next Saturday, October 26, ElonP ——
Piling out of their stands across the ' Palaehian 27, Elon 0. j will return te the North State con- j eLON HIGH GRIDMEN
field came the CatawDa students and I the third period Appalachian I a a*ter two non-con- i
supporters, their anger as hot as the racked up their fifth marker, on a i warm-up^
fire we had produced! Well, what fol-; 1*“® with Adelman carrying. The j “ wui 6>e-
SOUTH NORTH MEN,
OAK LODGE TEAM
FACE INTRAMURALS
I
South-North whipped South Dorm,
32-0, and Oak Lodge reuted thg E|iy
Students, 42-2, on Thursday, t® keep
the lead in their respective leagues
in men’s intramural touch football.
■ Other recent scores:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
' Oak Lodge 6, North-North 0.
North-North 6, Mooney 6.
North-North won by forfeit over
Alpha Pi.
Oak Lodge 6, Mooney 0.
Mooney 6, North-North 6 (second tie
game).
Oak Lodge 35, Alpha H 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
I.T.K. 7, Club House 0.
i South Dorm 19, Kappa Psi 7.
Club HouseO, ,South-North 0.
South Dorm 7, I.T.K. 0.
Kappa Psi 13, Club House 6.
South Dorm 35, Vets Court 0.
Sofith-North 20, I.T.K. 0.
South Dorm 7, Club House 0.
Kappa Psi 6, Vets Ceurt 0.
TEAM STANDINGS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. T.
Oak Lodge 6 0 0
North-North 3 12
Mooney 112
Day Students .... 0 4 0
Alpha Pi 0 4 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. T.
South-North 4 0 1
South Dorm 4 2 0
Kappa Psi 2 2 0
I.T.K 2 2 0
Club House 0 3 1
Vets Court 0 3 0
Pet.
1.000
.750
.500
.•00
.000
Pet.
1.000
.667
.500
.500
.000
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lowed you can probably imagine. Our ®i^th and final score came in the
plucky few met them almost in the fourth quarter when, with Elon knock-
middle of the playing field and a gen- the Mountaineers’ goal again,
uine free-for-all battle ensued. Among Hollars intercepted a pass in his own
those in the fore of the battlers was °ver one hundred
The Maroon and Gold staff wishes a
speedy recovery to Claude Comer,
who was iniured in touch football, and
to Jack Gregory, varsity football play
er hospitalized by appendicitis. Both
are in Alamance General Hospital.
our good president. Dr. L. E. Smith
(though I did not actually see him
throw any kauckles). For a few min
utes, fists, hair, and occasior |lly a
spurt of blood from some unlucky par- j
ticipant’s nose, really flew. Several'
attempts were made by three guys in
ordinary civilian clothes to stop the
fistcuffs, but to no avail. The skirm
ish was finally brought to a halt by
two State Highway Patrolmen who
were rather good-natured about it
all.
All the last half the afo-re-mention-
ed plain-clothes officers, one of them
sporting a • cauliflowM’-like, crimson •
ear, raged up and down the sidelines'
looking for the Elon battlers. (I |
spent the last half of the game be- |
neath our stands, peering through the |
cracks and legs, and trying to follow i
the action on the field). Three of our ,
lads were put in the local “clink”,
but were bailed out in a few hours by
a certain benevolent benefactor of the
Christians who had the best interests
of the unfortunates at heart.
Elon won the game by the impres
sive score of 22-3 and we came back
to Elon’s campus that night a tired
yards to tally. During the game,
Boyette made good in four out of
his six tries for extra points. Final
scere, Appalachian 40, Elon 0.
CORRECTION
And what a
Catawba! The
battle will take place at Winston-Sa-
lem, under the lights. CatBwba, de
fending champs of the North State cir
cuit, appear to be the toughest team
on Elon’s schedule.
So far, the CatawbcUis have whip
ped Cherry Point Marines, Eastern
Kentucky Teachers, EKgh Point, and
TO PLAY WEDNESDAY
Elon High school’s sdx-man toot-
ball team plays Southern Pines High
school’s sextet next Wednesday night
at Elon Park. Kick-off time is 8:00.
This is the third game for Elon
which has won one and lost one, so
Wofford, and have lost only to power- far this season. Southern Pines was
ful V.M.I. Such a record doesn’t a contender for the State six-atan
brighten Elon’s hopes any, but no ’ championship last year and has prac-
game is over till the final whistle. | tically the same team this year.
Accordinir to the Greeasbsro
Daily News,. Elon’s winning touch
down in the E.C.T.C. game^was'
scored on a pass and lateral from
Russell to “Spivey” te Domenick.
The Burlington Times-News re
ported the play as “Shumar to
Savini to Domenick. We know
the play was confusing enough,
without the papers getting the
participants all balled up; so we
hereby give the correct version
of what happened: No, it wasn’t
“Shumar” to “Spivey” to
“Yehudi,” though any of these
men could probably have pro
duced. It was Russell to Savini
to Domenick. But we all had a
share in the glory—and thrilled at
seeing a perfectly executed play.
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