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take to saddle duriing sunny autu^in afternoons
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Elon And Catmvha Elei'eus Battle
To 21-21 Tie In Conference Game
Games
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Close and thrilling games fea-| Catamounts in the Home-
! CATAMOUNTS ARE
HOMECOMIJS; FOE
The Fig:hiins: Christians will
face a hcwling: and victory-
starved crew of Western Cart>-
Horseback riding IS fast gamine favor on the Elon campus, especially among the girls. Under t .o leadership of Miss Betsy Haley,
f, ,,i of t..e girls physical educafon program in the college, lar ,c groups of girls are taking ad.an'age of the opportunity to ride
in one of the two groups that hike themseh es over to the Alamar.ce Ridin'? Club on Tv.esday and Wednesday afternoons each week.
In an effort to stir interest m the sport, vliss Haley announced early in the tall that partial credit for gym classos would be given
to those who took to the saddle during eithe:- of the two riding periods each v/eek.
The above picture portrays one group of the Elon equestriennes, which was snapped at the riding club adjacent to the campus. Left
to right in the picture, the nders are Miss Shirley Cliatt, riding instiuctcr at the club; Evelyn .■'ritts, of Lexington; .Janet Crab
tree, cf Durham; Diane Maddox, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Jean Benfiold, cf Newton; Peggy McKee, o ' Rougemont, Margaret Sharpe, of
oldston; Barbara Weldon, of Henderson; Mabel Oliver, of L,-iv,r.;nceviUe, Va.; and Miss Be‘sy lialey, Elon physical education lead-
T S!.ind:ng on the ground at the cenfer of the line is Mrs. Mark Ferguson, owner and proprietor of the Alamanca Riding Club.
SEEING SPORTS
with
GARY SEARS
Elon Grid Squad Of 1931
Invited For Homecoming
At the time of this writing the
ighting Christians were still look-
jng for their first gridiron vic
tory of the season and I have
■ard around the campus from
me of the ‘ Arm-Chair Quarter-
.cks" many and varied opinions
‘ to just what the solution for
."ning games would be. They run
he catalogue, all the way from
not field a team" to the
Vtement that we should just
tore more points than the op
tion,”
11: those aren't the most ridicu-
statements I’ve ever heard,
d especially coming from col-
je students. Wonder what these
IQ. B.’s" expect from the inexper-
' tced material that we have on
year’s squad. After all, with
new coach, a new system and
y:e first-year men than in quite
™e time, it seems infantile for
.one to think we should run
ough-ihod over the opposition.
Possibly on paper we’ve got just
good a team as you'll find in
!■? Conference, with the excep
tion cf East Carolina. Everyone
■ 0 half follows sports will know
■ 't the Pirates are fast becom-
= a contender for membership
ae Southern Conference. After
' with a student body of some
6,300, they are bigger than almost
, of the other schools in the
nh State Conference. Why
'>uWn't they take everything in
conference. I’m not making
'cu;ei, for the Pirates have a
“Od ball club—but what I'm say-
15 that we have too.
In our starting line-up we can
' Jnt possibly four first-year men.
play a good brand of ball,
• there are very few who can
right out of high school and
college grade their first
There is a big difference.
. "ether
some ot you realize it or
can also count four sopho-
We
ia the starting line-up,
of whom did not letter in
wr freshman year. These first
second-year men team' with
Junior and two seniors, so
-« young and need experience,
■ still some people complain
p'“‘^ we are not winning,
^'■sonaliy^ I feel that Coach
"cy has done a tremendous
thus far, and some of the play-
2re showing constant improve
•'t Bill Snyder has certainly
a long way since the open
= practice, and a great deal of
this development came through
Coach Varney. This is just one in
stance of the improvement our
Fighting Christians have made.
There'll be plenty more im
provements to come, and I certain
ly hope that until that time that
everyone will have patience. Sure,
I know that waiting does not help
our win-and.-lost-record, but after
all, plenty cf harm is done by not
■upporting the team.
So, all of you who persist in sit
ting back and criticizing, why not
et out for this Homecoming fjorman Waters
?ame and lend your support.
very team has its lean year—
even the big, bad Bears from
Lenoir Rhyne have found that out'.
\esd I say more? I’ll see you at
the festivities, which start on Fri
day night with the dance, and also
it the game with Western Caro
lina on Saturday night.
* *
Intramural football is gaining in
terest, and it looks as if North
Dorm and ITK will run down to
the wire with top honors. Those
wo teams seem to be more evenly
matched than the other teams in
be league. Joe Harvey, Sherrill
Hall, Terry Thoma.s and Leon
’.ong are outstanding for North,
while Bob Stewart, Mike Rauseo
ind Nick Thompson have been
.ooking great for the fraternity
3oys. Incidentally, Rauseo and
Long look like repeater.s on the
All-Campus squad.
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WELCOME BACK, ALUMNI
Here’s hearty welcome to you
alumni.
And hoping your spirits are
very high,
Not the kind that one finds in
a bottle,
But only those that will help
us throttle
Those Catamounts from old
W.C.T.C.,
A victory for us we hope
it'll be.
We're glad that you've come
to witness our ways
And perhaps reminisce ‘bout
similar days.
When through the Colonnades
to old Senior Oak,
Seriously now, for this ain't
no joke—
Out to the stadium we all will go
And yell like h ... for old Elo!
! Members of Elon's 1931 football
squad, the team which greeted |
Dr. Leon E. Smith when he came
to the campus that fall to assume'
the president’s post, have been
invited to gather here for a team
reunion this weekend as a feature
of the annyal Homecoming Day
program.
This team, which was coached
by “Peahead” Walker, included
several of the finest individual
players ever to wear Elon colors.
An alumni committee some years
ago named Pete Williams and
\orman “Muddy” Waters, mem
bers of that team, to posts on
Elon’s All-Time squad.
The starting team that fall, with
present addresses, were Roy Rol-
Tns ,of Augusta, Ga., and Paul
Brawley, of Mooresville, ends;
of Greensboro,
and Dick Caddell, of Rocky Mount,
' ackles; Dr. Glenn Lewis, of Gib-
.conville, and Hugh Peoples, now
deceased, guards; Robert Morphis,
of Westfield, N. J., center, and
Pete Williams, of West Point. Ga.,
Archie Walker, of Mebane, Charlie
Roberts, of Atlanta, Ga., and K. B.
Dofflemyer, of Elkton, Va., backs.
Dofflemyer was captain of the
team.
Others who were reserves on
that team who have been invited
here for the reunion include
Rufus Abernathy, ot Graham; Har
ris Sasnet, of Jacksonville, Fla.;
'red Miller, of Glen Ridge, N. J.;
.Villiam Cox, of Pineville; John
Reiber, of Burlington; Ryland
Jolinsoii, of Richmond, Va.;
Aubrey Winecoff, of Kannapolis;
Lenneth Hughes, of Elon College;
Rev. Stephen Mauldin, of Winston-
Salem; Carl Key, of Durham; and
Buck Mann, of Greensboro. Hugh
McLean and John Coward, two of
Ihe reserves, are deceased.
U is interesting to note that no
less than, four members of this
J931 football squad now have sons
or daughters attending Elon.
These second generation Elonites
include Janice Williams, Carolyn
Abernathy, Meryle Mauldin and
Lary and Wanda Dofflemyer,
children respectively of Pete Wil
liams, Rufus Abernathy, Stephen
Mauldin and K. B. Dofflemyer.
Varsity Ca^e
Squad Opens
Season Drills
Elon Football
Elon 0, Wofford 33.
Elon 19, Appalachian 21.
Elon 25, East Carolina 45.
Elon 21, Catawba 21.
(Remaining Games)
Oct. 31—W.C.T.C., home.
7_Newberry, home.
i4_Lenoir Rhyne,away.
fij„y 26—Guilford, away.
With King Football still reign
ing supreme on the center of the
Elon College athletic stage, bas-
etball has already appeared on
'he side stage as the Fighting
!’hristian cagers reported to Coach
“)oc Mathis for pre-seasoa condi-
ioning and drills.
Four of the five regulars of
ist year were missing as more
than thirty-five candidates re
ported for the initial workouts,
and Coach Mathis found only
line lettermen as an experienced
nucleus for the coming season.
Gone from last year’s squad,
hich went to the finals of the
North State Conference tourna-
LTient, are.both guards, the center
and one forward. Billy Hawkins
and Jack Musten, guards, and
Husky Hall, forward, were lost by
graduation, and Dee Atkinson,
lanky center, £(jt a call from
Uncle Sam’s armed forces. Also
■jone to armed service is Ben Ken
dall, brilliant forward, who was
ivith the team until mid-season
last year.
Lettermen who are participating
in the early drills include Jack
Malloy, Ned Gauldin, Hank Ham
rick and Jack Mitchell, forwards;
Dave Maddox and Red McDaniel,
.■enters; Ronnia McTntyrc, >^0
Packard and Ray Wkicley, guards.
■VTalloy is the only regular from
la.'st winter. Hamrick, back in
school after two years in the
Army, was a regular forward on
the 1950 and 1951 team.s.
In addition to these lettermen
of previous years. Coach Mathis
al.'io found a number of boys who
played with the Jay-Vee quintet
last winter, and .some of thcsr
boys also saw brief service at
times with the varsity five.
Among tho.se boys with reserve
experience are Clay Brown, for
ward, and Ronnie Smith, guard,
both of whom played in a number
of varsity contests. Smith, a
speedy performer ip the floor
'.;ame, was with the Christians in
'the Conference tournament at thS
end of the season. Others back
from the Jay-Vees include Wade
Garrett, Archie Wheeler, Bobby
Eice and Hugh Citty.
In addition to these boys, the
new cage squad includes a large
group of freshmen and transfers.
This group includes a number of
boys with excellent reputations
earned on high school and junior
college courts.
Mired tag-football oiay durin; i
he past two week.-, with the North-1
Carlton combine pacing the I
championship race with five wins^
)iid one tie. Runner-up is 1TK-:
South with three wins and twoj
defeats. i
North - Carlton tagged ITK-
Soutli with both Ihe latter's de-
fea'.i;, v;inning the first ga,me
13 to 0 on October 12th. Terr;
Thcmas counted both TD's for the I
winners, the first on a plunge and
the second on a pass fi-om Joe
ilarvey. Leon I.ong parsed to Bob-
jy Cireon for tr.e extra point. That
.ame day Sigma Phi-Vets downed
East G to 0 as Charlie Schrader
massed to Joe McVey for the lone
score.
fcigma Phi-Vets held North-Carl-
.on to a scoreless tie October 13th
n a defensive battle that wen!
hree extra periods. Thomas stood
iut for North, with Armfield and
Schrader as the Sigma Phi de
fensive stars. The fine passing
of Bobby Stewart was the chief
weapon as ITK-South defeated
East 20 to 0 in the other game that
day.
Free scoring was the rule u
\orth-Carlton downed East 32 to
13 on October 19th, with Terry
Thomas, Joe Harvey, Sherrill
Hall and Leon Long outstanding
for the winners and Speedy Lang
ston and Sammy Nelson pacing
East. Bob Westerman scored for
Sigma Phi-Vets on the third play
of their game that day, but ITK-
South went on to win 31 to 6
eomin? Day football same in
Bnrlineton Stadium rn Saliir-
dav ni?Iit, for the Catamount*-
like the Christians wili be seek
ing their first win.
The Western Carolina eleven
has droped six straight this fall,
but four of the losses were by
one point, and the lads from
the mountains cannot be taken
lightly. Comparative scores in
dicate a bitter battle, for the
Catamounts lost to both Appa-
lachi.-'n and Catawba by one
P^iint, V ]iile Elon lost to Appa-
larliian by two point.s and tied
Catawba.
It will mark the rinth time
that Elon and Western Caro
lina have met in football since
1933. with Elon winnins seven
games and losing one. Only vic
tory for Western Carolina came
last year by a 12-0 count.
on sterling play of Bobby Stew
art, Nick Thompson, Bobby Jones
ind Alton Myers.
East figured in another free-
■coring battle on October 20th,
but onsoe n\>re th'e Easterners
went down as Sigma-Phi-Vets won
22 to 19. Langston and Nelson
opped East's play while Schrader,
Thompson and Johnson led the
Vinners. The other game that day
aw Nbrth-Carlton taCk another
'efeat on ITK-South by a 7 to 2
Ta^ Gridmvn Tie
In Quaker Oanies
The Elon tag-football all-stars
chosen from the teams in the cam
pus grid league, is all even aftei
two intercollegiate battles wit!
the Guilford Quakers. The Elor
outfit chalked a 6 to 2 victory ovei
Guilford here on Wednesday, Oc
tober 14th, and then dropped a
high-.scoring 50-32 decision to the
Quakers at Guilford on Wednes
day, October 21st.
Mike Rauseo tossed a 20-yard
■^ass to Leon Long for Elon's touch
down in the defensive battle he.e.
while Guilford scored on a safety
both scores coming iu the fina'
quarter.
The game at Guilford, played with
'j-man teams and free passing
was a scoring afair. Elon TD'.s
were counted in that game by
Terry Thomas, Ashburn Kirby,
3ill Armfield, Charlie Schrader
and Bob Westerman.
VETERAN EIND ALSO KICKS FOR ELON
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Gene Williams, a 6-foot 2-inch, 190-pound sophomore from Mnr
ganton, is one of the ends who has carried the big burdtfh of flank
play for Coach Sid Varney's Fig iting Christian gridder- this fall.
William.s, who lettered last fall as a freshman, has done most of
the punting for the Elon outfit an 1 has booted for an average of
better than 34 yards per kick. H ■ is a definite thri' it in the pas";-
catching department and has placed some excellent defensive 'oall. t ifratton top.s in the Indian line.
By MIKE RAUSEO
P.!'Chi'iill.'n.*^^ continued
■' '■ ’1" ■'. i ‘‘ic off>';.:,ive power
In their annual battle with tho
Catawba Indians in a 21-21 tie as
Iniii.iOb caire fi uui behind
.'i'l: a touchdov.n in the final
tlirre minutes of play.
Oespite ti e fact that Elon did
nut defeat the Indians, the Christ-
i.ins at least had tho satisfaction
cf booting right out the window
any chances tliat the rival Indians
had of winning the North State
Conference crown.
Coach Sid Varney and his Fight
ing Christian outfit have yet to
taste the fruit of victory, but
Maroon and Gold fans believe that
if ever a team deserved victory it
v/as that Elon team against Ca
tawba.
* * *
now IT HAPPENED
rion Catawba
11 First Downs IG
^,''3 Yards Gained Rushing 246
22 Yards Lost Rushing 42
231 Net Yards Rushing 204
4 Passes Attempted 12
2 Passe.s ('ompleted 6
67 Yards Gained Passing 77
298 Total Gains -Scrimmage 281
1 OpD. Passes Intercepted 1
20 Runback Int. Pas.ses 4
19.2 Ave. Yards PuntH 25.5
57 Yards Runhark Kicks 152
1 Fumbles Lost 2
80 Yards Lost Penalties 40
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With just under three minutes
remaining in the game, Harold
Carter, Catawba backfield star,
who was running from the quar
terback slot at that time, scored
the final and tying tally on a
“keep” play. Harvey Stratton
booted the point that knotted the
score.
The Christians were first to
score, and it came in sensational
manner late in. the first period
Full'iack Revell Morri.son
broke through the Catawba de
fense and outran the secondary for
71 yards and a TD. It wa.s Mor-
ri'-on's fourth .score of the year.
Jack Simpson added the first of
his three extra points for a 7-0
lead.
The Indians retaliated quickly
a.s a charging Catawba line and a
■stiff wind forced Gene Williams
to punt short out of bounds on his
own eighteen. From that point
Catawba went on to score as El
bert Holt went to the one and
•Paul Barnes bucked over from
there. Harvey Stratton kicked the
extra point to tie the game at
half-time.
The third period found Elon go
ing ahead for the second time.
r«>o succes.sive passes by Bill
Snyder, Elon's freshman quarter-
jack, covered 63 yards and pro
duced a touchdown. The first pass
as to Mai Bennett, wlio made a
circu.s catch on the Catawba
wenty-seven, and the .second was
to Gene Willi(|ims in the end
zone. Simp.son again converted,
and Elon led 14 to 7.
In the final period the Indians
scored twice, the first time after
3ill Srnitli, Catawba tackle, block
ed a Gene Williams punt, which
Catawba recovered on the Elon
twenty. Dick Smith bulled over
for the touchdown, and Stratton
again booted the point to tie the
score at 14-all.
Elon, still determined to wrap
up the game, wasted little time in
■^oing ahead for the third time.
■John Platt, oa a pitcli-out play,
swept around hir; own left end
fsnd went weaving his w.iy in and
ut for 17 yards and a touchdown.
Revell Morrison threw the key
block which made this TD run
po^isible. Simpson once more ad
ded the point for a 21-14 lead.
With the final period nearing its
close. Catawba again tied the
count and for the final time when
Carter dashed around end for the
touchdown that ended the scor
ing and set the stage for Stratton
to boot the tying point.
John Platt and Revell Morri.son
were offensive leaders for Elon,
v/hile Joe Smith, Gene Williams
;md Mai Bennett stood out in the
line. Carter and Dick Smith
■'-rov'id top threats for Catawba,
with Bill England and Harvey