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.jday. NovenJjer 1953
T.'ARCON AND GOLD
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Jim liaii'krns
Vitt Cafasso
First Year Players Aid Eloii Cause
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Reveil Morrison
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SEEING SPORTS
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GARY SEARS
A :,;ance st tiic F,l')n football
losler di c’ tses nearly half the
Fi:;V'‘': Ch'i^lian :;riti:nen to
be playing their first year un
der Maroon and Gold colors,
and more than half of Elon’s
starting eleven in some games
l.as consisted of those same
“rookie Christians.
Four of those first-year boys
who have rendered yeoman ser
vice in the Elen cause are pic
tured above, including two of
the regular backs and two husk
ies who have come through in
excellent styie in the Ciiristiaji
forward wall.
I Reveil Morrison (left), is a
j sophomore in scholastic rating,
but he is a first-year football
I man, since he was forced to sit
ru‘ last sea'’')H due to iV? fact
;ii?.t he tran'feryed tn FI n from
riem%'''i. •Moni'i'in. who haiis
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p--ur..1:. ■ !i J ru.;5i-d iraini-. an 1
he hits hard from his fullback
post and runs with the speed of
a halfback. He is leading the
Christian scoring after five
games.
Centered above is a pair of
heavy-duty tackles, both of tiieni
fre?hn'j:n, »!’•’ have come
through in fine style when in
juries sidelined more experi
enced juniors and seniors. Jim
Hawkins (left center), is a 210-
pounder from Norfolk, Va.; while
Pat Cafasso (right center), is a
200-pounder from Cedarhurst,
Long Island, H. V. The two big
{jeshn-jen, started both the Ca
tawba an‘l Western Carolina
hal'U--. ai d Cafas-iO went the
;:i!i Sixty liiiuute.i against the
Indians at Salisbury.
Bill Snyder (right), a clever
y.ii^.r.iTster i‘,-oni Danville, Pa.,
li£,s emerged as the winner in
the early-season scramble for the
quarterback post with the Chris
tians. The sleeky Pennsylvanian,
tipping the scales at only 165
pounds, has proved a threat on
the “keep” plays and has also
developed into a potent passing
weapon for Coach Varney's
SQuad. He has tossed at least
one touchdown pass in each of
the games against East Carolina,
Catawba and Western Carolina.
rass . . . Fake . . . Screen . . .
i.n-' '.vitli these familiar words fiy-
in.' fnst and furious, we all know
thr. Coacii Doc Mathis has his
ha. ketball aspirants woi'king out
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With 22 Cjfimes Planned . . .
Christian Cage Card Is Aiiiiouiued
Eloii Foolball
Even thougii Kijig Football has
no* been tucked away securely £oi
the year, the round-ball enthusi
ast- rre already getting in shape
for the coming season. Incident-
allv. the Christians will get their
cage season underway on the third
of December with Belmont Abbey
playing here at Elon.
Some of you say, “Who is Bel
mofit Abbey?” Well, it’s a small
parochial college on the western
outskirts of Charlotte, which only
this year changed over from a
junior college to full four-year
s.tati'5, and it has already gone on
record as going in for “big-time”
basketball.
With the switch to senior col
lege rating this year, and since it
does not field a football team,
Belmont Abbey Is really going in
foi basketball on a big scale, with
a schedule that will include little
Rio Grande College from up in
Ohio, a team which, as real cage
fans know, boasts of having the
fabulous Bevo Francis on its ros
ter. The towering Bevo, who set
all sorts of scoring marks last
ye:ir. has been tagged as some-
tl' ng of a phenomenon with a
basketball.
In .nddition to taking on Rio
Grande, the Belmont Abbey club
will also meet Villanova and Holy
Cros=, two teams that always rank
'^ith the big-time powers of the
hardwood, and advance notice? in
dicate that Belmont Abbey author
ities have gone out and rounded
up a team that Is abla to take
care of itself. Just for instance,
the Abbey will boast a 6-£oot 10-
inch center by name of Johiwy
Coil, who performed for the West
Virginia Mountaineers last year.
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Well, what about us? We have to
m>;et that “big time" team. Let’s
vCf. we can count one man back
aom the starting five of last year,
TTid he is “Skillets" Malloy, who
\ on All-Conference honors at
fonvard. After “SkiUeU” is picked,
inen Coach Mathis wiU have tol
jip into his ranks of reserves
'rcm last year and look for some
ilp from transfers and a fev
lirst-year men.
Gone fro’n last year s squad are
ever - dependable Ben Kendall
iuiiiping Dee Atkinson. ,lacA Mua-
ten. Billy Hawkins and Husky
riall. Graduation and I'ncle Sam
jombined and really played havoc
,vith our basketball hopes, and
me can see why the loss of so
many men like these frequently
3use coaches to get gray and
lose their hair
Taking a quick rundown on
the squad that is back, we see
Tack Mitchell, Ned Gauldin, Dave
Maddox, Red McDaniel, Ronnie
Jclntvre, Don Packard and Ray
Whitley all of whom won letters
last year, and Hank Hamrick, a
;etterman from 1951, who is back
from armed duty. There are also
■ lugh Citty, Ronnie Snuth and
Clay Brown from last year s jun
ior varsity.
Then there is Bobby Timmons,
,ho transferred this year fromj
\Vingate Junior College, and i
aobby comes through like his pre-
lecessors from Wingate, there
is no doubt that he ll help the
Christians in their bid for the
Conference crown. There are also
several freshmen who may prove
aluable performers.
This could be a lean jear
the Christians on tl«; court but
wliat they lack in height and ex-
oerience. you can «st assured
ihey'll make up for it m speed
and hustle. Let s all make plans 1
to see the Maroon and Gold qtiin
tet in action on the hardwcod
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I have no actual documentary
evidence, but one of
down at East Carolina reports that
the Pirates sought a Thanksgiving
?oLall game with a Southern
Conference team
Seems, however, that ‘
,rn Conference team wanted too
much guarantee, or could it be
that EC.C. was too powerful for
that team. At any rate the Pirates
wanted the game and failed
pome to terms.
Lilford college did not r«new
her contract for a game with East
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Tf/2 Grid Season
Is ^searing. Close
With the tag grid season near
ing its end. the North-Carlton
combine continues to lead the
league. The leaders defeated East
>>6 to 25 in one of the best games
of the year last week and then I
-dded a 6 to 0 victory over thej
3igma Phi - Vets aggregations.,
North also got a forfeit from!
I.T.K., which has dropped from
the league. i
Other games played within the j
pa=t ten days included a victory
for Sigma Phi-Vets over I T.K. by
a 16 to 13 margin, and a win for
East over Sigma Phi by a 6 to 0
score The win by East was its first
of the year, with Sammy Nelson
as the outstanding performer.
I Other individual stars in these
'games were Charlie Schrader and
Bill Armfield for Sigma Phi and
Terry Thomas for North.
- I The Fighting Christian cagars
C\MES rugged 22-game cam-
months, according to the new
schedule just made public by
Dec. .3—Belmont Abbey, home
Dec. 5—McCrary, away.
Dec. 10—Presbyterian, away.
Dec. 12—McCrary, home.
Dec. 11—Belmont Abbey, away.
Jan. 7—Presbyterian, home.
Jan. 9—East Carolina, away.
Jan. 13—A.C.C., home.
Jan. 16—Catawba, home.
Jan. IS—High Point, home.
Jan. 27—Appalachian, away.
Jan. 30—Catawba, away.
Feb. 1—Guilford, home.
Feb. 3—.\ppalachian, home.
Feb. 6—W.C.T.C., away.
Feb. 9—Guilf«rd, away.
Feb. 11—High Point, away.
Feb. IJ—East Carolina, home
Feb, 13—A,C.C„ away.
Feb. 17—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
Feb. 29—W.C.T.C., home.
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Intramural Track Meet
Oraivs Many Students
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I^itl Snyder
Elon Doivns Cutamoiuit
Eleven By 13-i Margin
By MIKE RAlSEO
When Jerry Akromas. one o,
Elon's alteiTiating quarterbacks.
sneake(i over from the one*yard
line late in the second quarter
and provided the Fighting Christ
ians with their second touchdown
against Western Carolina, he also
provided the ultimate \\iiiii*n;i;
margin as the Elon eleven won
its first victory of the .'■eason over
the hapless (and winless CataJ
mounts by a 13 to 7 score.
The game, which was played be
fore 1.500 Homecoming Day fans
me - - at Burlington Memorial Stadium,
what shorter than those played by! was billed as a battle of non-
the Christians during the past two winners, as both the Christians,the Homecommg _
.seasons, when thirty or more con-janj Catamounts had encountered ^ watch what appeared at ^
i tests were played by the Maroon, tough breaks and little of good ent likely to be a runaway. Keveii
iand Gold quintet, but the new Uugk throughout the 1953 gridiron Morrison's interception of a Caia
™sents a tough assign-l.amoaign. mount pass on the Elon thirty-ivc
. . . 1,started the Christians off this
HOW IT HAPPENED It.me, During this drive the Chris-
Itians were penalized fifteen yards
Western Carolina different occasions, bMi
First Down ^®llong runs by John Platt, Re'.ell
Yds Gained Rushing I Morrison and Jerry Akromaji
I wiped out the penalties and net-
ted necessary yardage tor first
„'idowns. Akromas kept the ball and
slipped over from the one for the
TD that made it 13 to 0. Platts
Total Gains Scrimmage 231!^^^^^^^^ conversion tailed.
Opp, Pa>ses Intercepted ll Carolina bounced back
Runback Int. Pas-ws 2 game in the fading
Number Punts minutes of that .second period
Ave. Distance Punts gmgieton recovered
73 Yards Runback All Kicks oi|^
1 Fumbles Lost ‘ i twenty-two, and this fired the
55 yards Lost Pen'ultic.'
Coach Doc Mathis,
The 1953-54 schedule is some
■ card represents a tough assign-j^^ampaign.
Iment for the Elon tossers
Elon 0, WoffortI 33, -•rwr'
Elon 19, Appalachian 21.
Elon 25, East Carolina 45.
Elon 21, Catawba 21.
Elon 13, Western Carolina 7.
Elon 6, Newberry 33.
(Remaining Games)
Nov. 11—Lenoir Rhyne.away.
Nov. 26—Guilford, away.
j“an. 23-Lenoir Rhyne, home. | The ^oapsters will meet each
of the other eight teams in the.
North State Conference twice on a
Iwme-and-home basis, and in addi-,
tion home-and-home battles
the Belmont Abbey and Presby
terian College squads and with the
semi-pro McCraj-y Eagles.
I The Christians will open their ^
luardwood campaign by meeting
I the Belmont Abbey quintet in'
1 Alumni Memorial Gymnasium here
on December 3rd, and tour other
games are set prior to the Christ-
(mas hoi'■ays, (:me other pre-
iday conte.st with the McCrary
Eagles is set tor the home court,
but three of the De emoer battie=
will be cn foreign courts.
The initial game after the Vule
8
5
89
71
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5
6
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Yards Lost Rushing
Net Yards Ru.'IUng
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Yards Gained Passing
Total Gains Scrimmage
- J i l.olidays will bring the Presby
IV. r rA Fvplvn Fritts Annie Vince terian College club to the local
There was much interest in the e . between Virgi.-.ia, court on January 7th, and then
first annual intramural track meet. y, 1 Christians will swing directly
was held on Vince May, 1 .nto their North State Conference
tober 27th, with j ; Virginia Jernegan, Mary Wisse-
Iboth girls- and boys division
into battles for >“=1" I Louise McLeod:
SOFTBALL THROW — Louise
a different story, | jyj^Leod Virginia Jernegan, Ann
the individual i cufford’, Annie Vince May and
0—13
0-^ :
ing
honor.5
„.ef in the individual i cufford’, Annie Vince May and
the^e Bobby Greene ^ked ^out |
Bobby Greene Evelyn Fritts.
nver Richard McCarthy SACK RACE — Evelyn Fritts,
43 for top boys’ score, a'’-'* Virginia Jernegan. Annie Vince
Louise McLeod topping nn Louise McLeod and Ann
,Vince May 45 to 44 for the hign-
est score among the girls
;ampaign. which shows eight
games at home and eight awaj
during January and Feoruary.
After two weeks of pie-season
conditicning drills. Coach Mathi..,
ijegan last week full-scale work
for his Maroon and Gold squad,
and local fans have watched witi-
.nterest as the Christians battled
in early scrimmage sessions.
T^e summary of results, given
bv events and with the contestants
listed by order of finish in the first
five places, is given below,
^ GIRLS’ EVENTS
.=0 yard DASH — Louise Mc
Leod, Annie Vince May, Evelyn
Fritts, Virginia Jernegan,
00-YARD DASH - Louise Mc-
Holt.
BOYS EVENTS
50-YARD DASH — Joe Harvey,
Bobby Green, Jack Mitchell, Rich
ard McCarthy, Archie Wheeler.
Score by Period.;
Elon ® *
W. Carolina 0 7 0
Elon Scorm? Tou:hdi»n^s
Bennett. Akromas. Extra Point—
Simpson West. Carolina Scor
ing: Touciidown — Garrison.
Extra Point—Rosers.
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The first score of th? game came
in the opening minutes of the sec
ond quarter a» a result ot a sus
tained march eighty yards by the
Elon Chrii^lans. Leading thi.-
march to pay-dirt was Bill Snyder,
much-improved Elon quarterback
who threw two completed passe-
early scrimmage sesMoiis. wuu ,u„ ^cive
With only Jack Malloy back to Mai Bennett lu g _
10»-YARD DASH — First place
tie by Bobby Green. and Richard
McCarthy, followed by Archie
Wheeler, Carlton Langston, Don
Packard.
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from last year’s five regulars, in
dications are that much of the
burden will fall on members of
last winter’s varsity reserves, al
though some help may come from
new players, either transfers or
freshmen. Coach Mathis has not
yet determined any probable start
ing line-up, and all potilions ap
pear wide open at this t;me
tor a total of 43 yards. The last
of the- twrt) passes was good for 30
yards and a touchdown as the
lanky Bennett grabbed the ball
within the ten-yard marker ana
scampered over the goal line. Jack
Simpson’s kick for the extra point
was good, and Eion led 7 to 0.
Elon grabbed off a two-toucn
lown lead four minutes later, and [ ^lght.
Catamounts so that they sraaslied
light on across for their first and
only score of the game.
Within tour plays the inspired
Catamounts had reached scoring
territory. Tommy Lewis, Cata
mount freshman, picked iu> twen
ty-one yards on two play.s from
his quarterback po:-.t, and Jim Gar
rison bucked across for the score.
R. B. Rogers booted the point that
made the score 13 to 7 at the half-
time, and that was the way it re
mained until the end.
The last half proved to be a de
fensive show, with the rival lines
rising to meet the occasion when
ever the enemy threatened. West
ern Carolina drove to the Elon
five at one time, but the Elon for
wards rose up and smacked Tom
my Lewis down there just one
yard short of a first down.
Outstanding on offense for the
Christians were Reveil Morrison
and Bill Snyder, while Joe Smith,
Glenn Varney and Homer Hob-
jyd were defensive stars for the