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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, January 31, 1951
Elon Cagers Will Meet
Guilford Here Saturday
ELON ALUMNI PRESIDENT HONORED
The oldest continuous basket
ball rivalry in the North State
Conference will be renewed here
on Saturday night of this week,
with the Guilford College Quak
ers invading the Elon gymnasium
to tackle the Maroon and Gold
cagers.
Elon and Guilford were two of
the real pioneers of the college
cage games in North Carolina,
V'ith both of them starting the
sport as early as 1912, and the
two neighboring institutions have
been meeting regularly on the
hardwood for the past thirty-
eight years.
Guilford teams some of the earli-
Guilford teams someo f the earli
est in the state’s athletic history,
but they were some of the best in
the state at that time. Both Elon
and Guilford played on par or
above the larger institutions that
now make up the state's "Big
Four,” and both won their share
of state championships in those
years before and just after World
War I.
No complete figures are avail
able on the scores of the Elon
Guilford cage rivalry, but the two
have always played close games
and have split their annual series
many years, indicating that the
count of games won and lost is
close between the two. Since
World War II the two teams have
met ten times, and each team has,
won five games.
The scores of all games since
World War II are as follows:
1946—Elon 36, Guilford 28.
1946—Elon 49, Guilford 48.
1947—Elon 48, Guilford 55.
1947—Elon 49, Guilford 39.
1948-^Elcn 56, Guilford 63.
1948—Elon 51, Guilford 48.
1949—Elon 38, Guilford 54.
1949—Elon 65, Guilford 76.
1950—Elon 52, Guilford 66.
1950—Elon 74, Guilford 52.
HAITHCOX IS TOPS
IN SEASON SCORES
Don Haithcox, towering Elon
center, is tops in individual
scoring for the Fighting Chris
tians thus far this season, hav
ing racked 180 points in the
first thirteen games. The in
dividual scoring through the
second game with E.C.T.C. last
week, is as follows:
Name
Haithcox 75
Mondy 52
Kendalll 46
Gaither 49
Hamrick 35
Lewis 25
Hall
Cooper 16
Rakes 9
Gauldih 8
Ussery
Blackstone 4
FG
FT
TP
75
30
180
52
20
124
46
32
124
49
14
112
35
27
97
25
22
72
17
13
47
16
6
38
9
6
24
8
4
20
5
7
17
4
1
9
S
1
Catcmhans
Win In Two
Overtimes
pying on
ports
Stockdale^s
Address Is
Well Liked
Dr. Allen Stockdale, director of
public relations for the National
Association of Manufacturers
spoke to the student body of Elon
College in chapel services in
hitley Auditorium on Tuesday
morning, January 23rd. His ad
dress was a feature of B.I.E. (Bus
iness, Industry, Education) Day,
which was observed on Tuesday in
Burlington and Alamance County.
While praising American indus
try as a whole, and emphasizing
the inventive ingenuity of thie
individual American worker. Dr.
Stockdale told of the role played
by the churches and schools of
this country. “Schools of today,”
he said, ‘‘are a far cry from the
school of my day, when seven or
eight classes were taught in a
single room.”
“Although there are no more
land frontiers in America,” he
continued, “there will always be
unexplored frontiers in the busi-
nes, industrial and educational
world.” To expand these fron
tiers, Stockdale stated that good,
old-fashioned hard work is needed.
He asserted that the people must
set a high goal and accept the
challenge that lies before them.
He closed his speech by declaring
that “in accepting this challenge
vi’hich lies before us is our great
est chance of happiness.”
Dr. Stockdale illustrated many
phases of his speech with humor
ous anecdotes, which kept his au;
dience in a buoyant mood. At the
close of his speech, he was greeted
by a spontaneous round of ap
plause, which prompted Dr. L. E
Smith, Elon’s president, to say,
“We must have Dr. Stockdale
back with us at a later date.”
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.spirit has improved steadily at
each game, and that both he and
the team really appreciate the
fine support from the students.
“Nothing helps the team more
than some loyal fans who will
cheer the boys on,” says Doc.
» Ip »
Speaking of Coach Mathis, I am
sorry that he could not be pres
ent to see Sal Gero receive his
All-State football award. If you
recall. Doc is the football line
coach. Several of the North State
Conference schools sent their All-
Conference players to the All-
State Banquet, but nobody went
from Elon without a FREE tick
et.
« « *
And speaking of football now
reminds me that Bob Marshall
was the only freshman to get a
.etter.
♦ * ♦
Gripe Department: Talk of the
campus is the poor officiating at
the games. First they send in
jome whistle-happy guys that
must have been born on the foul
line. Next ccme the guys that let
both teams do everything but punt
the ball when they get into- trou
ble. Coaches of visiting teams
and our own people have express
ed indignation at having to put
up with such poor officiating.
Yes, I realize that the grand
stand referee can’t call ’em like
the ones on the floor, but I hope
that the officials haven’t forgot
ten that we have one of the five
senses left . . . that of sight.
The specific examples of which
I speak are the High Point and
East Carolina games, which ELON
WON. Therefore, my statements
are not alibis or excuses, just
plain facts.
♦ ♦ ♦
Whether we win, lose, or it goes
into overtime, let’s be good sports.
Royal H. Spence,*Jr., president of the Elon College Alumni Asso
ciation, is shown (center above) as he received the award as
Burlington’s “Young Man of the Year” for 1950. Otis Lackey,
president of the Burlington Jaycees (left), looks on as the award
is presented by Dr. I. G. Greer^ of Chapel Hill, who spoke at the
award meeting.
Elon Players
Give Radio
Productions
Sixth in a series of radio plays
presented by the Elon College
Radio Players every Thursday
night over WFNS-FM at. 8:30
o’clock was “Johnny Appleseed,”
a new treatment of the old fav
orite legend which proved to be
an excellent vehicle for the com
bined talents of Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith, director, and her group
of student players.
Starred in this version of the
old American folk tale were
Charles Phillips, as Johnny, and
Rosamond Bromley as Sara, the
girl for whose love he sacrificed
his beloved task of planting apple
aees. Others in the cast were
Virginia Trigg, Robert Wright,
Dink Underhill, J. B. Pickard, Ed
Engles and Robert Walker, with
sound effects by ?3ink Underhill.
Probably the outstanding radio
players production to date, how
ever, was “Jane Eyre,” which was
presented January 25th, and which
starred Mrs. Smith as Jane Eyre
and Bob Wright as Rochester,
with the supporting cast consist
ing of Ed Engles, Vh-ginia Trigg,
Jerry Allen, and with sound ef
fects by Nash Parker. Since Mrs.
Smith took part in the show, Lois
Walker assumed the responsibili
ties of director.
APPROACHING WEDDINGS
Announcements have been made
of the approaching marriages of
three Elon College students. They
are Eula Jean Walker to Jennings
Helms, both of Burlington, and
both members of the student body
this year; and of Jean Fuqua, of
Burlington, an Elon student last
fall, to Anderson Lucian Lowe,
of McLeansville. The Walker-
Helms nuptials have been set for
March 4th, with the other marri
age in February.
Prof. Gilbert Latham was called
to Tennessee on January 21st by
the death of his father. The stu
dent body and faculty extend to
Prof. Latham their sympathy in
his bereavement.
Two extra periods and a thous
and thrills, and then lose the j
game! Such was the reaction of
Elon fans after the Fighting
Christians had dropped a tough
84 to 79 decision to the Catawba
Indians here last Saturday night
in a battle that went through two
overtimes before the Indians
pulled into the lead to stay.
The Maroon and Gold cagers
barged out in front early in the
game, ringing eight points before
Catawba scored and then staged
another spurt late in the first
half to lead 40 to 2^ at intermis
sion. It looked like an Elon run
away, and Elon still held a 10-
point lead at 53-43 midway the
last half. However, Catawba
staged a rally and tied the count
at 62-62 with four minutes to go.
The lead swapped rapidly in the
final minutes as the regular game
ended in a 69-all tie, with Haith
cox hitting the tying points with
the whistle. Elon gained a 77-74
lead in the first overtime, but er
rors gave Catawba the ball and a
chance to tie again 77-all. The
second overtime saw Catawba
move out to win by five points.
Don Haithcox paced Elon with
19 points, while Dave Mondy had
16 and Hamrick and Kendall 10
each, with, the Christians hitting
31.5 percent on shots, Larry Gra
ham led Catawba with 23 points,
and the Indians caged 35.9 per
cent of, their tries.
ofdynHM HM the time for all g
The line-ups:
Pos.—Elon (79) Catawba (84)
F—Gaither (4) Brown (21)
F—Hamrick (10) .. Hunsucker (15)
C—Haithcox (19) .... Pleasants (5)
G—Mondy (16) Graham (231
G—Kendall (10) Wood (9)
Score at half: Elon 40, Catawba
29. End of game: Elon 69, Cataw
ba 69. First overtime; Elon 77.
Catawba 77.
Elon subs—Cooper (7), Gauldin
(8), Rakes, Lewis (5), Quacken-
bush. Catawba subs— Irvin (1),
Black (2). Taylor (8).
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN
DROPPING FOOTBALL
Atlantic Christian College
sports authorities announced
last Friday that the Bulldogs
were dropping varsity football
for the duration of the world
emergency. The Wilson school
thus became the second North
State Conference college to give
up the fall sport, since High
Point took the same action in
December.
The action of ihese two col
leges dropped a schedule prob
lem squarely in the laps of the
Elon athletic leaders, since the
Fighting Christians now have
two gaps in the 1951 schedule to
be filled. No announcement has
been made so far in re4:ard to
replacing the High Point game
on the Elon schedule.
PANCAKE SUPPER
The Student Christian Associ
ation was host to the student body
at a pancake supper, which was
held at the Parish House last
Sunday evening. About seventy-
five students were in attendance,
and all reported the evening suc
cessfully from both the standpoint
of food and entertainment.
Elon Plans
Winter Grid
Practice
Coach Jim Mallory announced
last week that winter grid work
would get underway this week, if
the weather permitted. He had
set no definite starting day at
that time, but he pointed out that
i would be necessary to get in the
off-season grid practice befor®
baseball starts.
In discussing winter football,
Coach Mallory stated that ha
hoped to have twenty-four of the
thirty-four letter winners of last
season out for practice. The ten
missing ones would include six
seniors who havt completed their
eligibility, two others who have
gone into military service and two
that are now with the basketball
squad.
Mallory pointed out that the
Christian prospects for 1951 de
pend largely upon the draft, but
letter boys still due back include
one rising sophomore, thirteen
rising juniors, eleven rising seni
ors and a pair of present seniors
with one more year of varsity play
left. There are also a number of
promising reserves.
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SANDWICHES
Announcement will be forth
coming soon in regard to a series
Df four broadcasts to be made
over the Burlington radio station
by the Elon College music de
partment. ■ •e
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BOSTONIAN SHOES
Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan will
move into their new home within
the next few days.
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