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Wednesday. February 9. 1955 Boh Kopko Injured As Christians Start Off-Season Foothall Drills MAROON AND GOLD PAGE THREK With winter football worltouls’ at Elon College off to an official start last week under the direction | of Coach Sid Varney, the Christ-j aan squad suffered a heavy biow^ in the form of a serious injury to big Bob Kopko, brilliant sopho more tackle in drills of Tuesday, February 1st. The husky Kopko, who hails from Monessen, Pa., suffered a dislocation and fracture of the left hip in blocking drills. He was rushed by ambulance to Alamance County Hospital, where he is now undergoing treatment. Kopko, who stands 6 feet 3 inch- tall and weiglis 200 pounds, was the top-ranking tackle on the Elon grid squad lasit fall, when he won^ honorable mention for All-Confer ence. His play at tackle was a bii factor in the success of the Christ ian gridders. who claimed runnei- up honors in the North State Con ference with a mark of four -wias, one loss and one tie against loop opponents. The over-all seasoii mark was five wins, three loss'j. and one tie. The big Pennsylvania boy camt to Elon in 1953 and won a startin.^ berth at center, but he was pla;;uod with .injuries in the latte: part of his freshman season and v:i. forced to sit out the late- season games. Last fall he shifted t(i tackle and proved to be ; tower of strength on both offense and defense. Coach Varney, in commenlin? on winter drills, stated that forty- tv.'o men. including 18 lettermen, aiiswered the call for the rff- feason practice, with only two losses by graduation from last season. Captain J. C. Disher and Luther Barnes, senior ends, were the only Elon players who will receive diplomas ithis year. Lettermen in addition to Kopko. who reported to Coach Varney for the winter drills include Eddie liridges and Charlie Michaux, ends: Ed Davidson, Pat Cafasso :'nd Jim Hawkins, tackles: Glenn \arney, Chuck Maynard, Nick Theos and Furman Moseley, guards: Homer Hobgood, center; Rill Snyder, quarterback: Kerry Richards, Whitney Bradham, Paul Watts and Jack Simpson, half backs: and Bob Stauffenberg and Wayne Martin, fullbacks. The winter squad also includes a number of boys who saw much reserve duty with the Christians last fall, along with several prom ising candidates who “bohunked” during the 1954 season. More than eighty per cent of the Elon travel ing squad of last fall were fresli- men and sophomores, and Christ ian fans expect these youngsters to be much improved by an added .‘reason of experience. HI(, I VCKLi: SUKFEKS HIP INJURY J5oh Kopko On The Sidelines By JOEL B.ULEY I I Apps Upset ! Eloii Quintet 111 Loop Tilt The upset-minded Appalachian Mountaineers staged a second-half drive to defeat the Elon Christians BO to 70 on the App floor Ia>t Wed nesday night. February 3rd. aveng- ng an earlier 69-62 defeat suffered at the hands of the . Christians here this season. It was the second time within four nights that the Mountaineers had kicked the dope bucket aside 'rtd torn the top-brack?t North Slate Conference standings t;) hreds. for tiie tall Mountaineer 'Utfii had checkcd East Carolina'.-, ’’irates on tlx- Boone floor to >pen the week's hostilities. The loss ;n .\pi)alachian was ■ Ion s *hird d(‘feat in league pla.\ h:- season, and it kickcil the 'hi istiaiis all the way from sec'orj I fo'irth in the North S;at( s r.i!- battle for flr.'t-division honors, rh? Lenoir Hhyne quint move:! I ■ second, and .Ka.-l Carolina grah- ' e.l third as the Pirates defeate;! he league-leading Atlantic Christ-! :in Bulldo-.s the ‘■anie night at Greenville. Dig John I'vi'cha. the fi-foot -inch scoring ace of the Mount-' ■ :ers. wa again the pace-setter n the Mountaineer victory. Ho 'art'erl 29 points to lead bo'.h earns in the scorinu column, bu ■I' had able aid from four other ),) to.ssen . wlio hit ten points or ■elter. Dave Maddox, season scoring leader for the Christians, held his top role in the Elon attack as he Iropped in 25 points. Other Elon agers in double digits for the 'ight were Frank DeRita. Ed Jur al ic and Ray Whitley, Bulldogs And Bears To Face Elon Basketeers In Final Home Battles III’ AINI) IN FOH AN EI,()N BASKET I*os. Elor. (70) —MatTlox 2oi —Juratic Hit C—DeRita U2l C—Packard i4l G—Whitley (10) Appalachian (80) Campbell (111 Abernathy (15) Pyecha (29) Hauser (13) Haithcock (2) It's up and in for an Elon basket as Earl Stone, the above phnto. goes off the flwr to push up a Chuftian? in their 93 to 77 victory against the High Point Panthers. IJobby D;,vidson, Panther guard, leaps high in frort of Stone in an effort to biock the shot, while High Point s J. C. Hledsoe (18) '. oks on I.Llplcsssly fiom behind. The high-flying Atlantic Christ ian Bulldogs and Lenoir Rhyne Bears come to Alumni Memorial Gymnasium next week for the final battles on Elon's regular 1955 basketball schedule, ai.J these games should prove two of the top attractions of the entire season. The Bulldogs, who will be here on Monday night, have been lead ing the North State Conference through the entire season, al- .hough they faced a tough sched- .ile on enemy courts this week and could be kickcd off the lop rung of the ladder before they face the Christians in the Monday night coni est. I'he Lenoir Rhyne outfit, which I'ill furni.sh the opposition lor the ‘High School Day" battle next v\ e(liu'sda>. ha' bei'n pushing the l'ulUli)“s lor the top spot in re- * ent weeks, and C'oach Jint Hamil- irn's boys have almost made a habit of breaking the 100-point mark in scoring in recent ,'/amea. In lact the Bears topped the cen- 'ury point in four of their last five games. The Ciirislian toss,^r- appeared \iituallj' sure thi.^ \s'cek of wind ing up the SL’ason among the lop four teams in the Conference, V hieli would assure them of a seeded .«])ot in the pairing for the annual ttonference tournament in Lexington, but Coach Doc Mathis hoys needed victories in each of Iheir final four games if they are to stand a chance for the regular '(•ason title. The Elon five met Guilford at (iiiilford last night and nuis. .itill 'io to CJreenville Satunlay night 'or a contest with the East Caro lina squad liefore returnin;4 home lor the two final games wi h At lantic Christian and Lenoir Uhyne. The result of the CJuilford game was unknown at press time, and either of these two teams could rise up and spoil Elon's chances of the crown. ’ Christians Hit 60-Foiiil Half To Down Panthers Maddox Still Ijeads Scorin As Cage Season Nears End Dave Maddox, who is enjoying his best cage season as a senior snd co-captain, continues to lead the scoring for the Fighting Christians as the 1954 basketball campaign draws near a close, and the big boy from Alabama has now surpassed his own record of 354 points that he seit in leading the s3uad offensive last w.inter. The Christian co-captaln banged home 66 points in the tour battles against High Point, Catawba, Ap palachian and Western Carolina to hoost his season total this year 372 points, and he still has at ■east five games in which to bol ster the total. If the Elon cagers advance in the Conference tourn ament as they should he will have additional opportunities to raise his mark. ^ Ed Juratic. who has been a top 'Coring threat ail season, retained e second spot in the latest sta- ®ics as he moved over the 300- PWnt mark for a total of 337 Ray Whitley is over the 200-1 223 point total in third spat, with points for the year. ^on Packard and Earl Stone “Ptinued to hold their places in ® top five on the Christian 'IPad, but the late-season scoring five by Frank DeRita, the slender ■■eshman from Brooklyn, has Dakota, didn't you?” It doesn’t take me long to set them straight, but it just goes to prove a point. In today's world the small college is doomed to an existence of obscurity. That is, it is so doomed unless it happens to be pushed in front of the public. This causes the individual to ask what it takes to be known as e "big” small college. This is a sports column, and this is when I start earning my bread and but ter. It is this writer s opinion that one sure w'ay of becoming a “big” little college is to field a tew win- |ning teams. pushed his total over the century] j may hear grunts and groans mark and placed him in shooting |fpom the scholastic set: but, never- distance of the team's top five. cheless, the fact remains that a Journeying to my home state of Maryland during recent months 1 have been approached by friends and have always been asked the same question. They always open ithe conversation with, “Where did you say you were goin’ to school?” Then upon hearing the name of the institution they usually follow with, "You said that was in North Half—Elon 37. Appalachian 37. Elon subs — Hamrick 4, King. Walker, Stone. Appalachian sub —Hiatt 10. Brown. From rags to riches in twenty ninutes was the transformation VI ought by the Elon College la.^keteers as they came from be- I lind to swamp the High Poiii It s Mr. Ilehound' Himself if tr The squad scoring, which now stands at 79.7 points per game, continues to rank as the top effort for an Elon team, still well ahead of the Christian team mark of 75.3 points that was set two years ago. The defense has cut the op ponents' game average to 72.7 points. The individual and team scoring figures through last Saturday’s Western Carolina battle here are as follows: Player FG FT TP Maddox . 127 118 372 Juratic 145 47 337 Whitley 91 41 223 Packard 75 36 186 Stone 41 52 135 DeRita 41 42 124 Hamrick 34 42 110 Walker 25 10 60 Mazzilli - 20 19 59 Brown 20 14 54 Timmons 15 9 39 King 10 • 7 27 Citty 6 2 14 McIntyre 2 3 7 Rickover 10 2 Stegall - 0 1 1 ELON TOTALS .... 653 '446 1752 OPPONENTS 559 482 1600 winning team will put a college in the headlines faster than will a prize winning essay. This is not an attempt to knock the academic .=^ide of school, for (his is the function of college, but this is an atitempt to point out a few basic “points of popularity” tor the college. Elon College, for instance, is nestled in the heart of the “headline” country, and the state’s “big four” grabs so much attention that it sends Elon to bat in the race for headlines with two sitrikes against her. We must admit that local sports fans find it more tun to travel (to Chapel Hill or Durham on a Saturday afternoon for a football game than they do in watching the Maroon and Gold on the chilly autumn nights. You certainly can't say that Elon doesn't play a good brand of ball, for last season the Fighting Christians exhibited a sense of determination and will to win that won a great number of friends. In addition to this they won football games, which is what they were there for. Coach Varney and his huskies threw the name of Elon College into the faces of tans, (Continued on Page Four) El) JURATIC . It's Elon’s **,Mr. Rebound*’ himself at the left in the person cf Ed Juratic, the husky sopho more forward from East Chi cago, Ind., who has proved to be a potent factor in the success of the Fighting Cthristian cag ers thus tar this season, his first campaign in a Maroon and Gold uniform. The big boy, standing 0 feet, 6 inches tall and lipping the scales at 220 pounds, won .\ll-.State honors in Indiana's hot-bed of high school basket ball during his senior year of prep play, when he was a team mate of N.C. State’s Vic Molodet. Like Molodet, Juratic came south to join the State Wolfpack for freshman play, but army duty caught him after that first year, and this season saw him transfer to the Elon campus to resume his collegiate play. He has been a consistent scorer all season, ranking near the top in most of the games, but one of his finest contributions to Fight ing Christian hardwood efforts has been his great rebounding on both the offensive and de fensive backboards. He grabbed 26 rebounds as the Christians set an all-time scoring mark against Guilford, and statistics show him above the 20-mark in rebounds in many of the Elon battles. The Indiana boy is a master-hand at Upping the ball back into the basket, and this has contributed greatly to his present season scoring mark of 316 points. He the eighth player in Elon cage history to top the 300-point total for a season scor- injg, and he may well move into the more select group of 400- point men '’anthers 93 to 77 in tjieir North State Conference basketball battle here on Wednesday night. Janu ary 26th. Ragged is a mild term to be ii.sed in describing the Christian olay in the first half, when the nvading Panthers rolled for an early 10-point lead, but the white- .ierseyed Elon tossers bounced back .strong after intermission for a 60-point splurge that represented he finest half-game for the Christ ians this season. ^ With .lack Powell, former Car olina eager setting the pace, the Panthers scit up a 21-11 margin in the first eight minutes of the game, and Coach Virgil Yow's boys held a steady pace in the face of an Elon rally to maintain a the attitude of his halt. Fans wondered what magic words Coach Doc Mathis uttered between the halves, for the Christ ians bounced right back to grab 'the lead at 40-38 when Earl Stone bucketed five points and Don Packard racked a driving lay-up in the first minute ten seconds. From that point on for another ten minutes the pace was terrific r'; the teams matched point for point. The count was tied seven times, and the lead switched hands fourteen times before Ray Whit ley whipped the cords with a set shot to put Elon out front to stay v/ith the count of 63-62. ‘ Co-Captain Don Packard, using both sets and drives, had his best night of the year as he led Elon scoring with 26 points. Pos. Elon (93) High Point (77) F—Maddox (16) F—Juratic (9) C—Stone (9) G—Packard (26) G—Whitley (10) Stanton (10) Powell (20) Bledsoe (8) Davidson (4) Frazier (4) Half—High Point 34, Elon 33. Elon subs—DeRita 12, Hamrick 3, Mazzilli6, King 2. High Point subs — Crump 5, Dunbar 8, Os borne 2, Payne 7, Crockett 2, Huegele 7, Pharr. El (Pit Downs Indian Five At Salisbury Five Elon players hit the nets for ten or more points as the Christian cagers rolled to an easy 86-58 victory over the Catawba Indians at Salisbury on Saturday night, January 29th. The 28-point margin of victory was almost identical with the 27-point margin in an earlier 87-60 win over the Indians here on the home floor. The Indians made it a close game through the early minutes of play, but the Christians grab bed the lead at 19-18 after nine minutes of play in the first half, and they were off to the races from that point till the end. They moved the margin to eleven points at 44-33 by half-time and stretched it further in the final period. Frank DeRita was lops for the night for Elon as he racked 16 poirjts. ten of them coming from the tree-throw mark. The Brook lyn lad missed only two tries from the charity line tor a foul- shooting mark of 83.3 per cent. The entire Elon squad was almost as good on free throws, dropping .32 good tosses of 42 attempts for a team mark of 78 per cent. Trailing close behind DeRita in scoring were Ray Whitley with 15, Don Packard with 14, Dave Mad dox with 13 and Ed Juratic with 10 points. Jack Lyndon, Catawba guard topped the Indians with 15 points. Pos. Elon (86) F—Maddox (13) F—Juratic (10) C—Stone (2) G—Packard (14) G—Whitley (15) Catawba (58) Fleming (4) Summey (10) Cline (4) Lyndon (15) Porter (6) Half—Elon 44, Catawba 33. Elon subs—Hamrick 7, McIntyre 4, DeRita 16, Timmons 2, Citty 2, King 4, Brown 1, Mazzilli, Walker. Catawba subs—Yancey 4. Thomas 2. Bryant 2, Smith 1, Holland 4, Williams4, Clayton 2.
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