Wednesday, September 27, 1950
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
Spying On Sports
by
JOE SPIVEY
^ouL^dii gui Oil v.iiri a uaiig— Orchids and Onions De^rt-
for Emory and Henry—up Bristol ment: Orchids to the manager of
way, but it is too early in the pres- , the Bristol Stadium and all his
ent Pigskin Parade to be pessi-‘ cohorts for the wonderful cooper-
mistic. Coach Jim Mallory has ation received by the press at the
the material, and I believe the Emory and Henry game. (They
team has the spirit. We mustn’t also expressed thanks for the ad-
forget that the tussle with the vance publicity and our coopera-
Wasps was no pre-season warm- tion). Orchids also to Elmore
up. The Wasps haven’t lost a Saunders, freshman tackle, for
regularly scheduled game during
the past two seasons. Mallory
had to find plugs for the two big
holes left by Little All-American
Arnold Melvin at tackle and his
running-mate, Claude Gentry at
end. Another loss was that of
Paul Causey at the other end.
Much credit should be given to
Ed Watkins for his ability at tack
le and to Bob Reece and Rob Lew
is at end as they try to fill the
shoes of their illustrious prede-
essors, for it is expected that the
boys will give a good account of
themselves this year. Big Sal
Gero played his usual bang-up
game at tackle before he was
pulled from the Emory and Henry
game with an injured hand.
♦ ♦ ♦
Some sidelights on former Elon
athletes are: Arnold Melvin is
coaching over at Statesville.
Claude Manzi, All-Time football
great, is teaching history and
coaching junior high football in
Burlington. Claude also found
time to get married this summer
and is making his home in Bur
lington. Paul Causey, former
football star, is coaching at La
Grange, and his team has won
one and lost one so far this sea
son. Ed Drew, last year’s basket
ball captain, is coaching up at
Emporia, Va. Gene Hardy, reg
ular guard on last year’s football
team, is at Siler City, teaching
math and assisting with the foot
ball chores. Gene has received
“salutations” from Uncle Sam,
but that’s all the news I have thus
far.
blocking a punt in his first colle
giate game. This department
can’t quite decide what to give
Hoot Gibson for his great display
in broken-field running when he
took a lateral and scampered
goalward in the same game. Pos
sible backfield material. Coach.
Onions to the person who threw
the botye out of the stands at the
Emory and Henry game. Regard
less of the quality of our teams,
let’s raise Elon’s sportsmanship to
an all-time high.
Attention, sports lovers! This
column will have the services of
a crystal gazer. An old friend of
mine happened to be passing
through Elon, and he dropped in
the Maroon and Gold office with
the prospect of a free meal in
mind. You see, my friend has a
soft spot in heart for dear ’ole
Elon. This deep and sincere feel
ing was brought about when Dr.
Smith presented him an honor
ary degree for scouting Catawba
last year, and enabling us to de
feat them.
Mr. Byrd, our faculty advisor,
reminded him that everyone
worked in this section of school,
so he reluctantly agreed to lend
a hand. Recalling his sparkling
success, I asked him if he would
help me with some scouting and
predictions this year, and he
agreed to do so for a square meal.
So, Ersel G. Moleskin (that’s his
name, the “G” stands for Glut
ton), that former triple threat
(stumble, fumble, and fall), of
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SPORTS COVmiL PLANS
TAG FOOTBALL BATTLES
By GEORGE ETHERIDGE The first business on the agen-
, „ I.- da for the Intramural Council
The Intramural Council, which “ which
was the election of officers, wnicn
governs all men s sports on the t on Foc-
® , , ,. resulted in the choice of Len tes-
Elon Christians To Go A-Feudin^
I Gridmen^Seek Revenge
Over A.S.T. C. Squad
fACt TO FACE V/iTH ELON S FSGHT.HG CHRSSTIANS
The Elon College 1950 football SECOND ROW: Erickson, Brax-] Farmer, Biangardi, Snow, Lewis,
squad, which goes to Boone this ton, Gibson, Dillon, S. Gero, i Blackstone, Marshall, Watkins,
v/eekend to battle the vaunted
Mountaineers of Appalachian, is
shown above. The players (left
to right), are as follows:
FRONT ROW: Reid, Rhye, Dur-
so. Pond, Bragg, Christy, Ludwig,
Wooten and Schrader.
Saunders, Parker, Lee, Tingley
and Grayson.
THIRD ROW:
chelli, Kelly, G. Farmer, E. Gero,
Reece and Johnston.
BACK ROW: Coach
Mallory,
Marshburn, Ro- Coach Eanes, McGrath, Ruther
ford, Renn, Annas, Hodgson,
- McRae
Ellis, Moffo, Ward, Barber, Brig'
man and Rogers.
FOURTH ROW: Greenwood, H.
Pope, McRae and Coach Mathis.
Absent when the picture was taken
weer H. Johnson, DeSimone, Mc
Cracken and Burmeister.
Christians Stung With 33Tol2
Defeat In Battle With Virginians
Elon campus, held its first meet
ing of the year on Tuesday, Sep
tember 19th
resentatives in attendance.
mire as president.
with Wally
■.t, n K.,t ron.Burke as secretary. Worth Worn-
With flll but two rep j xxroiitr
gjjjj^ble, Lacy Ganes, and Wally BurKe
were then named to membership
on the rules committee.
those present proceeded to map
plans for a lively tag-football secretary. Worth Womble
campaign for the fall quarter.
ikiclKJ then named to membership on the
AND THE MEN . . . committee.
The group then proceeded to
work on the membership and ten
tative schedule for the tag-foot-
ball loop, which was planned to
consist of seven teams. The
schedule was set to get underway
sometime this week.
Five of the league teams were
designated at once, including Oak
Lodge - Carlton House, North
Dorm, East Dorm, Vet’s Court and
ITK-Vet’s Apartment. The other
two teams were to be formed by
two combinations to be worked
out from the four remaining units,
none of which have enough to
field a team alone. These remain
ing groups include South Dorm,
Club House, Sigma Phi Beta and
Kappa Psi Nu.
By JOE SPIVEY
The Fighting Christians came
away badly “stung” after the op
ening game with the Emory and
Henry Wasps in Bristol, Va.-Tenn.,
on Saturday night, September 16.
Nearly 5,000 people watched Coach
Conley Snidow’s “Wasp Nest”
roll up an early lead, which was
never relinquished, and the final
outcome of 33 to 12 furnished a
good indication of the work con
fronting Coach Jim Mallory in
his desire to build a championship
team.
Emory and Henry dominated
the first half completely as the
Wasps built up a 27-pOint lead. It
all started when Marshburn fum
bled the first time Elon had the
ball. Barger had taken Miller’s
punt on his own five and returned
it to the twelve. Then came the
fumble, and Frei recovered for
the Wasps. Miller drove for five,
and Spurgeon carried to the Elon
two for a first down. At this point
the Elon defense, led by Gero,
Snow, Watkins and Erickson,
smacked the Wasps back three
times, but the hosts took to the
air on fourth down, with Davis
passing to Miller for the tally.
Cubine made the placement, and
the score stood at 7-0 with the
game barely under way.
Another Stingrer
The Wasps landed another
stinger ere the first quarter end
ed. Elon had taken the Emory
forty-five, but there the attack third quarter. Neither team
bogged down, and the Wasps came could get its offensive rolling as
bounding back with a surging the period opened, but midway
ground attack that moved to the the quarter Emory and Henry
Elon eight. Three times Elon took possession on her own forty-
held, but it was not enough. Wil- six. There was another play and
son plunged over his own right another touchdown. Davis raced
guard from the one-yard marker to his right, leaped high and
for another six points. Cubine ripped a 48-yard pass down the.
Girls Sports
Plans Made
At Meeting
By JEANNE PITTMAN
The Women’s Athletic Associa
tion, which sponsors girls’ sports
on the campus, held its first
meeting of the new year on Mon
day night, September 18th, and
outlined an ambitious program for
the 1950-51 term.
The first activity for the organ
ization came last Saturday night! State Mountaineers, and gridiron
when the girls sold the football'hostilities promise to be plenty
programs at the first home foot-! hot when the two North State
ball game with A.C.C. They will! Conference grid rivals square off
continue to conduct the sales at I in their annual battle on Satur-
home games, and they promise a j day night.
smile with every sale. They point ■ The Mountaineers came down
out that there will be many new j out of “them thar hills” last
features in the program for each September, aching and smarting
from an upset defeat at the hands
The Association also sponsored of Guilford, and proceeded to blast
a party for the freshman girls at Elon’s 1949 Conference titular
the home of Coach J. L. Pierce hopes with a 14 to 0 defeat. The
The Fighting Christian football
boys.
Just like the Martins and the
Coys,
Are Mountain bound,
A-feudin’ ‘round.
And they all vow
That here and now
They’ll get at Boone revenge
so sweet
For last year’s Mountaineer
defeat.
That is exactly the spirit with
which the Maroon and Gold foot
ball squad will embark this week
for the Blue Ridge '‘Mountain
stronghold of the Appalachian
on Monday night of this week,
giving the new girls a chance to
get acquainted with each other
and with the purposes of the or
ganization.
Plans have also been formulat
ed for a number of clubs this year.
Christians want revenge for that
defeat, and they certainly want
no second straight Appalachian
defeat to mar the Maroon and
Gold hopes for this season.
With the two opening games of
the season already out of the way.
including a square dance club, the I Coach Jim Mallory and his assist-
raced in again and booted square
ly through the uprights to make
the score read 14-0.
The Christians started rolling
after the next kickoff, with
Marshburn, Tingley and Grayson
carrying from their own twenty
to the forty. There bad luck
reared its ugly head once more,
and a second costly fumble lost
Elon the ball. On the very next
play Miller broke loose, picked
up some fine blocking and raced
all the way for another score as
the partisan crowd roared approv
al. The scattering of loyal Elon-
ites sat stunned. Was this the
vaunted North State powerhouse?
Cubine didn’t seem to realize it
as he booted another point to
swell the Wasp lead to 21 to 0
as the second quarter got under
way.
Wasps In The Air
The fourth Emory and Henry
touchdown came late in the sec
ond quarter after an exchange of
punts. Miller started the big
punch when he returned Carroll
Reid’s punt to the Elon forty-two
field, a pass which Wilson receiv- in their season.
field hockey club, the archery
club, the basketball club and oth
ers to sponsor the various sports
WHO GUSDE THE
and Henry kickoff and worked and three line plays carried to the
her way to the Emory and Henry twenty-three. From there Davis
unlimbered a pass to Hubbel for
the score. A high pass from cen
ter spoiled Cubine’s kick, and the
scoreboard read: Emory and Hen-
jry 27, Elon 0. The half ended
there.
It was almost the same story
for the fifth touchdown in the
ed with open arms for another
score. Elon’s charging linemen
blocked the point, leaving Emory
and Henry out front by 33 to 0.
Too Little And Too Late
Elon found the way to the
goal, but it was a case of too little
and too late. After an exchange,
of punts in the final period Elon
had the ball on the Emory and
Henry forty-eight. Marshburn
dropped back and flipped a pass
to Greenwood on the thirty-eight
and duplicated this feat a mo
ment later, with Tingley taking
the pigskin for a touchdown ride.
Reid’s attempt for the point was
not good, but the scoring ice was
broken.
Minutes later, as the game
neared its clos*, the Christians
took to the air %gain, and Marsh-
bum heaved an aerial to lanky
Bob Lewis, which netted Elon’s
second TD. This boosted the
score to 33 to 12, and there it re
mained when Reid again failed to
convert. And that’s the way it
to the bitter end.
The WAA operates under the
personal direction of Miss Ruby
Adams, director of physical edu
cation for girls. The officers of
the association for the year in
clude Jeanne Pittman, president;
Jean Thompson, vice-president;
Louise Spence, secretary;
Sophie White, treasurer.
The executive board is com
posed of the officers, while the
ants started this week brewing the
magic for the Saturday invasion
of the mountains. The aim is to
develop weapons of atomic power
to combat the long squirrel rifles
of the Mountain Men.
The Appalachian outfit packs
a bit more weight than does Elon,
when the average is figured from
the probable starting offeoaive
line-ups. The figures give the
and ’ Mountaineers a line average of
202 pounds, compared with Elon’s
average of 195 pounds. However,
the Elon backs average 175, com-
council includes all physical edu- pared with 170 for their rivals,
cation majors and representatives i The overall team average gives
of the various dormitories and Appalachian 190 and Elon 188
sororities. pounds.
FIVE CONFERENCE TILTS
ON ELON’S HOME FIELD
was
ELON FOOTBALL
The Elon football squad, which
is expected to bid high for the
1950 North State Conference grid
title, will for the first time in
many years have five Conference
championship games on the home
field, a fact which could play an
ifportant part in the final results
of the North State titular race. .
The Christians will meet eachl^®"'^®’ °
of the other eight teams in the 1
suits, since Western Carolina’si
limited schedule materially af
fected the result last fall. Ca
tawba does not meet A.C.C.,
Western Carolina nor E.C.T.C.;
Western Carolina will pass up Ca
tawba, Guilford and A. C. C.; and
A. C. C. has no games with Ca-
'^COACH JIM MALLORY
Coach Jim Mallory, who star
red in football and baseball at
Carolina a decade ago, heads up
the coaching staff for the Elon
football squad. This is his third
season at the helm of the Maroon
and Gold gridiron machine, which
he guided to a record of eight
wins and two losses last season.
1949 FOOTBALL RECORD
Elon 80, Edenton Marines 0.
Elon 33, A.C.C. 0.
Elon 0, Appalachian 14.
Elon 33, E.C.T.C. 7.
Elon 26, Newberry 12.
Elon 20, Catawba 14.
Elon 41, Naval Apprentice 0.
Elon 21, High Point 6.
Elon 7, Lenoir-Rhyne 19.
Elon 33, Guilford 0.
COACH DOC MATHIS
Coach Doc Mathis, who coaches
the football line and directs bas
ketball at Elon, is a former three-
sport star at Davidson. He came
to Elon a year ago, and in his first
season molded one of the toughest
forward walls that ever wore Elon
colors to the football wars.
ELLIS IS PREXY
OF "E" MEN CLUB
The “E” Men’s Club, which
is composed of all Elon men
who have won letters in varsity
athletics, has just elected its
new officers for the 1950-51
term, with Raleigh Ellis, of Suf
folk, Va., named as president of
the group to suceed Pete Marsh-
bum. Marshburn directed the
group last year.
Other officers chosen at the
same time include Hal Johnson,
of Burlington, as vice-president;
Sal Gero, of Hataboro, Pa.,
treasurer; Billy Rakes, of Fiel-
dale, Va., as secretary; and
Fred Biangardi, of Bay Shore,
Long Island, N. Y., as sergeant
at arms.
Conference, with A.C.C., E.C.T.C.,
Catawba, Lenoir-Rhyne and Guil
ford carded in Burlington. Only
Appalachian, High Point and
Western Carolina will have to be
met on foreign fields.
Appalachian and Lenoir-Rhyne
are the only other teams in the
Conference who play the other
eight Conference teams. High
Point, Guilford and E.C.T.C. each
will battle seven of the eight
Conference rivals, with High
Point mising A.C.C. and Guilford
passing up Western Carolina. The
East Carolina Pirates do not meet
Catawba.
The other three teams will play
only five games within the North
State ranks, a fact that could play
ia part in the championship re-
DESTINIES
COACH JET PIERCE
Coach Jet Pierce, a member of
the Elon College athletic staff for
almost a decade, plays a double
role as Director of Athletics and
as an assistant coach of football.
Coach Pierce played his collegi
ate athletics at High Point Col
lege, where he played football,
basketball and baseball.
1950 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Elon 12, Emory and Henry 33.
Elon 33, A. C. C. 6.
Remaining Games
Sept. 30—Appalachian, away.
Oct. 7—E.C.T.C., home.
Oct. 14—Newberry, away.
Oct. 21—Catawba, home.
Oct. 28—W.C.T.C., away.
Nov. 2—High Point, away.
Nov. 11—Lenoir-Rhyne, home.
Nov. 23—Guilford, home.
COACH JIM EANES
Coach Jim Eanes is the newest
member of the Fighting Christian
coaching staff. He is a native of
Lexington, where he starred in
high school football under .Coach
Tom Young. He later played at
Catawba, where he \fras named to
the Little All-American Team
w'hile playing guard and blocking
back.