SATURDAY DECEMBER 13, 1947
MAROON and GOLD
PAGE THREE
SfiOAii
ED MULFORD
The football season is over and was
not sucessful, but there is no sense in
crying over it. We did have some
moments. In particular there was. the
Erskin game when the Christians
really played inspired ball to win 17-
7 and there was that night when we
frightened the “Mighty Mountain
eers” being the “Big Bad Boy’s from
Boone” as Jim Huyett raced all over
the landscape on the end of passes
from Jack Russelll and Fred Claytor
before we finally bowed 13-21. Then
loo, Claude Manzi was selected all-
conference guard so there was some
solace. Perhaps next year we will
have more to cheer about.
The Guilford game was close in
score, but it must be admitted that
the Quakers played all but a few
moments of the contest deep in our
territory. We noticed in particular
that Jack Russell and Arnold Melvin
were making a lot of tackles. The
four small fast backs that Coach Doc
Newton inserts in the Guilford back-
field at certain times really went to
town, and we wonder if Elon couldn’t
use something like that. I defy any
one to find more deceptive and flpet
runners than Ed Ellis and Steve
Walker. No Experience in tackle foot
ball has been had by these lads, but
they could be taught and used for
just such spots as the Guilford “Pony
Boys" are. We would like to see a
little sparkle in the Elon offense
next year, and perhaps we’ll get it.
What was the greatest team ever
•to play in the North State Confer
ence? Catawba’s had some great ones
and Elon has had four or five ter-
ific elevens. But the finest team that
ever played in the conferencs was
the 1937 Appalachian club.
This outfit roared through it’s
season undefeated ond unscored on
and later went on ot play Missippi,
also undefeated in a post-seasoon
game . Miss Wicker can tell you all
about it. Ever hear of “Belus Smaw-
ley”? Well he’s one of the greatest
basketball players in the Profession-
al League, currently playing with the
I St. Louis Bombers and he too played
at Appalachian. He may turn up as
a coach in this conference in ‘48.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you and
don’t' be surprised if it’s awfully close
to you.
Jim Murrary is one of the “fighten-
ist-’’ backs we have ever seen, just
imagine what that that boy would
do if he weren’t injured so much. He
gets our vote as the best plunger
around. Elon Eagles, basketball team
composed of local day students, is
doing well in the Greensboro Com
munity Basketball League. Intramural
Basketball is turning up- almost as
much interest as the Vahsity. Oak
Lodge defending champs, has lost
three of the “Five Fast Fellows” who
took the crown last year and has
only Ed Ellis and Dick York back.
Loss of Lyman Wilkens, Howard
Wright and Pep Watkins wiU hurt.
I.T.K. appears the favorite with with
a strong group including Pete Marsh-
burn. Arnold Melvin, Satch Paige,
Fred Claytor Devard Hooker, Jack
Russel, Paul Causey and others. That
Marshburn is a wonderful ball play
er. Sigma Phi also has a good outfit
led by Lou Savini, Bob Harris, Dave
McClenny, and coached by a good
coach in Bill. Copeland. Kappa Psi
has Billy Matze. “Stretch” Scott,
Frank McCauley and Wayne Taylor
among others. North Dorm should
bo a strong competitor with Graham
' Erlacher, Pete Peters, those two fast
j blonde boys from Roseville, Carr and
Shearen and a variety of others. V'ets
Court is a mystery while Alpha Phi
has Jim Widenhouse, Max Garret,
Duke Ellington, and Frank Roberts.
I Down at South Dorm they always
I come up with a good team and they
' will be- in there. In particular we
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Football History
Shown above is the 1947 edition of E Ion’s Fighting Christian Football s quad. Thier season which was climax
ed with the Thanksgiving game with Guilford showed a record of 4 wins as against ,6 losses. The best show-
itigs of the season were agaiinst out of state teams from Newberry College and Erskin College of Southe Car
olina.
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admire Rocky Sileo as a ball hand
ler with “The Boys Accross The
Tracks”. East has a good number of
ball players to, so be on the watch
for a good league with everybody in
there all the way.
This columnist must apologise for
not being to well informed on our
V arsity team at this writing. The boys
scrimmaged Duke the other day and
didn’t do too badly and will have al
ready played the University of North
Carolina as you read this. Everybody
root hard and we’ll come out on top
ofton. Leo Kampman has impressed
us in particular as a ^ood man. We’ll
dp a feature story on the Varsity
men in the next issue.
Last years intramural league consis
ted of each team playing a full sche
Elon fought hard but was ust out
played.
Score By Periods
Elon 6 0 0 0 -6
Guilford 6 0 7 0 - 13
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Oak Lodge
East Tied Up
The most evenly matched football
battle ever played at Elon College, is
still right where it started as the
Maroon and Gold goes to press. Oak
Lodge and East Dorm have now
played 14 tisht quaters and the goal
line still has not actually been cros
sed. The playoff series is 2 out of 3
dule and then a big tournament at and it iseagrly hoped that the teams
the conclusion. The scoring record
for an individual player set last year
was 207 points. Scoring record for
will get together and play the thing
off. First game of the series went to
Oak Lodge when Ed Ellis passed to
in
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one team was held by Oak Lodge ^ Del Brown on a sleeper play for a
which scored 634 points during the ^ t.D, and a 7-0 Oak Lotige win. Act-
season last year. The boys who have^ually Brown was tagged oon the 2
pafticipated in the football playoff yard line, but the offical did not see
between East and Oak Lodge (what it. Since the play would have given
are they at it again) really deserve j Oak Lodge a first down on the two
a lot of credit. Actually 14 quarters yard line, chances are Oak Lodge
passed without a man crossing the would have scored anyway, so East
goal line. made no comulaint about the occa-
Next home game for the Varsity gjon.. The second game was a thril
ls with McCrary on Thursday night, jj^g o-O tie which saw both teams
threaten but fail to score. A few days
later the two clubs went at it again.
Again four quaters went by without
a score and two additional quaters
were played. Finally East marched
to the three yard line from where
Steve Walker kicked a field goal to
give East a 3-0 win. Both teams have
fought hard and both have shown
fine qualities or sportsmanship.
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BASKETBALL RESULTS
In basketball games played rec
Good Luck Christians!
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Elon Loses
To Guilford
One of the most disastrous seasons
in Elon football came to a close
Thanksgiving Day when the “Fight
ing Christians” dropped their sixth
game of the season to Guilford by
a 13-6 score. The Eo una J V’a by thirty to forty nine. Elon
led by A-rn.ld Melvm Jack Russel. ^
Lou Savint. and Jim Murray, but it .r^welrv bv
tangles with the McCrary Eagles here.
The McCrary team is doing very
poorly so far, having been soundly
whipped by Chatham which in turn
lost to N.C. State by 100-35. MfcCrary
also took a betating from Davidson
by 68-50, so the chances are the
Eagles could be upset by Elon.
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was to no avail as Guilford scored
17 first downs to oijr 7 and rolled up
247 yards to our 107. Murray and
Savini sparked aa opening quarter
drive of Elon’s in the first quarter
that functioned perfectly for fifty
three yards but that was it. From
then on it was all Guilford as Joe
Winner passed to Bob Gordon and
Tom Riddle for toachdowns in the
first and third quaters.
Big break came in the first period
in . one of the most amazing plays
ever seen at Miemorial Stadium. With
the bail midfield in Guilfords posse
sion, the pass from center was bad
and went sailing clear back to the
Guilford 20 yard line. Elon linemen
came tearing out to recover but Gor
don soniehow kept his head and calm
ly scooped up the ball and tossed to
Winner up on the Guilford 34, still
10 yards from the line of scrimmage.
Blockers appeared from no-where and
when Winner was finally pulled down
the ball was on the Elon 18 yard line.
This wide open play was the most
exciting of the fray.
Doc Newton unveiled something
j that Elon found baffling in the the
I use of four small fleet backs for
brief periods of time whose deception
and speed gave the Quakers plenty
of yardage. Newton calls it his “Pony
Backfield” and the crowd seemed to
like it. The victory for Guilford was
Captain Jack Russell, of the 1947
Christians, capably led the squad
from the quaterback position. He
hails from Alt»ona, Pa. and was a
member of the Championship squad
back in ‘41, This Jack’s last year at
Elon.
Elon town topped Fines Jewelry by
27-26 and Omega Beta Club bowed
to Leaksville Y by 50-60,
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Elon Varsity
Opens Season
Stepping out of their class the Elon
College Christians traveled to Chapel
Hill Monday to engage the White
Phantoms of North Carolina Univer
sity. The Christians bowed by a 74-22
score as Carlson paced the University
with 16 points. Paxton scored fifteen
•nd John “Hook" Dillon 19439$EA2
and JJohn “Hook” Dillon 1945-46
All American clicked with a couple
of his sensational hook shots.
Jack Andrews paced the Elon scor-
Iri" with 7 points and John Clayton
chipped in with 6. Other men who
saw action for Elon were Yost, Kamp-
nien, Lentz, Gaines, Smith Kemodle,
Thompson and Caviness. It is ex
pected that the Elon team will im
prove as the season progresses, but
in it’s first game evidences were
shown that the Christians will ser
iously miss Roney Cates, star of last
year, who led the south in scoring
and was one of the top scorers of
:he entire nation with 457 points
Christians Win
First Game
Showing a good deal of improve
ment over their initial outing at Cha-
ple Hill, but still leaving something
to be desired, Elon’s basketball team
r:ing up its first victory of the season
Saturday evening. The opponent was
the Greensboro Y, and the score was
47 to 38. Leo Kampman and Lacy
Ganes led the scoring for Elon as
each rolled up 10 points. The Greens
boro team seemed extremly weak
in the first half, trailing by 21-10,
but came back better organized in
the second half to sink some nice
swishers. The preliminary game saw
Elon’s J.V. team win a thrilling 22-
19 contest from a good Burlington
High club. Fesmire was the big cog
ED MULFORD
This short summery of football in
Elon’s past was first presented in the
Homecoming program but has since
been requested as a reprint and as
thus we oblige.
The first team Elon ever had was
back in 1919, Two games were play
ed, Lynchburg beating us 23-6 and
Guilford 6-0. A mistaken impression
on the Elon campus has been that
Elon never has lost to Guilford In
1920 Coach Corboy, who had coacli-
ing experience in he army previous
ly, took over the position here.. The
first victory was over Atlantic Chris
tian and the team won 3 and lost 3
in their first full season. Came 1921
and the team tied Trinity, now known
as Duke University.
L.J. Perry, today’s coach was named
captain in 1922 and, selected All-
State quaterback. 1923 saw us lose a
heartbreaker to Wake Forest by 9-7
Mr.B arney was made -graduate man
ager of athletics in 1924 and we lost
another tough one, this time to Duke
by 6-0.
A new coach took over in 1926. A.
Van Cleave .from Indiana. Although
beaten by N.C. State and Guilford
we scored two toachdowns against
Georgetown, one of the country’s
leading teams that year. In 1927 “Pea-
head” Walker, now coaching at Wake
Forest, and justly famous, became
coach at Elon. The very first year he
tied the Deamon Deacons and they
never forgot it. The years rolled, ‘28
was a fair season, ‘29 a fine one,| as
we lost only to Davidson. Pete Will
iams, a great fullback, was virtually
a one man backfield, and continued
to run wild in ‘30.
In 1933 the team marched to the
Little Six Title”.' The- “Little Six”
being the forerunner to the North
State Conference which was formed
the next year. Led by Jack Stallings,
of Riedsville, Elon became the first
North State Champs in 1934. In ‘35
Elon again won the championship,
but did not get the trophy when
“Catawba, (the bums) beaten 42-0
protested an ineligible player
The year 1937 saw the arrival of
Horace “Horse” Hendrickson on the
Elon campus as coach. His first team,
with most of the material moulded
together for him by Walker, was a
honey. The team won 7 and lost 1,
that to Appalachian. Outstanding vic
tory was over Catawba by 22-0. Gar
land Causey, today’s fine line coach
was at taclde and Jack “Rabbit Abbit
was the backfield .star.
1938’s team won five and lost three,
up.set V.M.I. and tied for the Confer
ence crown w’ith Joe Golombek being
named “Little All American” full
back. ‘39 was a five up aad five down
year, but the 1940 team showed a
real improvement v/innirg 9 and los
ing 2. Causey and Jack Boone offen
sive star were named all-conference.
Stan Yonkowski, a great back, led
scoring with 36 points. He later gave
his life in the war.
1941 siw what was probably the
greatest team in Elon history. Nine
wins were rolled up and only one
game lost, that to Miami in the
Orange Bowl, when the heat wore
the Christians down. Football was
then discontinued for the. duration,
being reinstated with four wins and
five losses for ‘46, and this year see
ing Elon on top for 4 but down for 6
Nest year -■ who can tell?
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Recent findings in the religion de
partment indicate that the trouble in
the Garden of Eden arose not from
the consumption of an apple, but
from a green pair.
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Anthony, in a bit of a hurry, dash
ed up to the door of Cleopatra’s ap-
'"pSgilnTed the Greensboro ^ I artoenrand demanded to
• « 5n the main event with 12 i “But she’s in bed with Tonsilitis i
ZLi. John Clayton ^ 1!-
rcoreS°Oto?r MaJron^'an^ Gold men | Greeks anyhow” roared the infuriated
who saw action were Drew. Hopkins , Anthony.
Thompson, Andrews, Yost, Lentz, and ,
Kernodle. With the team I Catawba by 67-43. Dissension is
the chances are ga- rumored to be prevalent in the Mc-
Thursday night with the McCrary ^ave
gles on our home court. Heav y ^ assortment of “name” play-
1 ored at the ® miser- i ers. they will go into the Elon game
Uknt"The“vTctory for Guilford was clies will see action against the the ™ ,day‘they bowed at even money,
their first in fifteen years over Xlon, Christians .ext Thursday when Elon | able year. Last Thursday