February 22. 1956
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREK
Christians Bid For Conference Honors In Amiiial Tourney
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[,!psets Elon
y 85 To 69
Appalachian Mountaineers
ved an inspired brand of bas-
'iball and staged one of the big-
upsets of the season in turn
's back the Elon Christians 85
"69 in a North State Conference
.Ketball battle at Boone on Wed-
-=day night. February 8th.
The Mountaineers, playing he
re the home folks and on the
,„r of their beautiful new gym,
ot with deadly accuracy. The
,nie club hit exactly 50 per cent
- its shots, dropping 33 of 66
ies from the floor.
The Christians, meanwhile,
ere having trouble finding the
sket at times, and the ElRn out-
£ wound up with a 35.4 per cent
-curacy on 29 field baskets in
attempts. At the same time the
Ion squad turned in' one of its
orst nights of the year at the
ee-throw line with only 11 good
I'orts in 20 attempts.
Ben Kendall, brilliant Elon
uarj, racked 25 points in one of
c greatest individual games ever
cn in the loop, but his lone ef-
rts proved in vain against the
:.ing Apps.
The line-ups—
i, Elon (69) Appalachian (85)
-Juratic 161 ... Abernathy (32)
-DeRita i4) Horton (2)
-Atkinson H9) Campbell (17)
Kendall i25) Hiatt (20)
-Whitley (9) .... Haithcock (12)
Half-time — Appalachian 38.
inil 33.
Elon subs — Crump 6, Citty,
lone. Appalachian subs — Lynch
Lawing. Wooten, Upton,
r.IAY PLAY SIG PART IN ELON TITLE HOPES
Frank DeRita
Although neither of the boys
have been starters in all games
played by the Christians this sea
son, it appears that Jimmy Crump
(right) and Frank DeRita (left)
may play big roles in Elen’s bid
for rhampionship honors in the
nnnual North State Conference
tournament at Lexington
More than once during the sea
son the two boys have come off
the bench to give the Christians
the needed scoring punch in tough
games, and either or both of them
could well mean the difference be
tween winning and losing when
Hie titular chips go down on the
line at Lexington during the next
four nights of play.
Both Crump and DeRita have
been consistent scorers throughout
the season, and DeRita has proved
to be a power on defense and uni
der the backboards. Crump hit
33 points in one of the games at
the Parris Island Christmas tour
nament. and DeRita entered the
game late to score 28 points
against the East Carolina quint
here ten days ago.
■limmy Crump, a junior guard
from Ahlerdeen. has been particu
larly effective on his free throws
this year, and most recent NAIA
statistics showed Crump among the
national leaders in percentage of
shots made good from the charity
line. His 87 per cent average on
tree throws on February 11th was
the best in North Carolina. Crump
had hit 233 points at that date.
Frank DeRita, a sophomore for
ward from Brooklyn, has used his
G-5 height to good advantage un
der the backboards both last sea
son and this. DeRita has also rack
ed 233 points for the season up
to February 11th, and his defen
sive play has been sparkling
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Jiliiniy Criiiiij)
Elon Meets
AppaUichian
For Opener
The Elon Christians, who got
the fourth seeded spot in the six
teenth annual North Slate Con
ference Tournament by virtue of
;lieir fourth-place finish in the
■ enular season, will battle the Ap-
lalachian Mountaineers in the
lirst game of tlie tournament to
night. The Kame is set for 7IJ0
('clock in Lexington’s beautiful Y.
\T. C. A. gymnasium.
The other battle for tonight
'hrows top-seeded East Carolina
iuain>t the Catawba Indians at
).1.T o'clock. Other first-round bat
tles are set for tomorrow night,
>vith Lenoir Rhyne battling High
I'oint at 7:30 o'clock and Atlantic
Christian meeting Western Caro
lina at 9:15 o'clock.
The winner of the Elon-Appala-
■hian game tonight will meet the
inner of the East Carolina-Ca-
awba contest in the semi-finals
at !):15 o'clock Friday night, while
ihe wimier of tomorrow night’s
I.enoir Uhyne-IIigh Point game
battles the winner of the Atlantic
hristian-Western Carolina game
( 7:30 o'clock Friday night. The
inals of the tournament are set
tor 8 o'clock Saturday night.
I’re-tournament dope indicates
;ne of the closest and hardest
"ought of all ^he big meets, with
'oach Howard Porter's Pirates
.icing the traditional jinx that the
■rgular-season winner seldom wins
the tournament. In fact, only twice
in fifteen years has the season
•hampion emerged with the tour
ney crown.
The Elon Christians have not
won the Conference tournament
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Walking The
Clialk-Liiies
By BILL WALKER
Our Christians are sharing the
te of most of the North State
Jms, as well aS the fate of those
North Carolina’s “Big Four,”
finding that it’s a mighty
d trick to pull if you win away
m home. The Elon five, which
s lost only one game at home
this season, has suffered five
fteats while playing in oppo-
‘nts’ gyms.
In spite of those four lickings
enemy floors, the Christians
osed out the regular season with
20-6 record, and they certainly
•il their share of the glory when
ey slapped the Pirates of East
stolina with their second Con-
f'ence loss of the season. It re
fined last weekend for the At-
Dtic Christian quint to paste still
third defeat on the Pirates’ rec-
rd.
Pirates were a stubborn
but the shooting and re-
inding of Frank DeRita and
’■'f timely baskets and even
re timely pass interceptions by
fl Stone proved enough to sink
f Pirates and give some 3,000
some of the best'basketball
®y had seen in years.
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Swots quips for the quacks—
oser,
ans
" heads
’’d look awful conspicuous.
are better than one,
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Intramural basketball, which
w an extremely short season
j'* year due to the delay for
on the floor of the gymna-
“ro in the fall, goes into its play-
“urnament with twelve teams
'^‘cipating. The four leaders
North Dorm, South Dorm,
*A) and Day Students each
^ * bye for the first round of
‘“urnament play.
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sentiment persists that the
Four" teams are cut-
’ other’s throat as far as
national rating goes, for they have
been consistently bumping each
other off, while possibly weaker
teams in other portions of the
country fatten their win-loss rec
ords on less potent opposition.
Despite the troubles within the
“Big Four” circuit, however, last
week's national ratings of the As
sociated Press still gave the Tar
Heel state three teams in the first
eleven, including N. C. State fifth,
Carolina tenth and Duke eleventh.
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The final standings of the North
State Conference race show one
interesting fact. Someone predict
ed last fall that the winner would
lose at least three games, and
East Carolina did just that. The
final standings for Conference
Teams W
East Carolina .. . 13
Atlantic Christian 12
Lenoir Rhyne .... 12
Elon 11
Western Carolina 8
Appalachian 6
High Point 6
Catawba 3
Guilford 1
Not too much difference result
ed in the standings of the nine
teams on the basis of all games
played both in and out of the
Conference. Our Christians led
the overall standings until the fin
al week, when two losses in three
starts kicked them down to third.
It is interesting to note that East
Carolina dropped to fourth in the
full-season records, which follow.
Team W L Ave.
Lenoir Rhnye .... 18
Atlantic Christian 18
Elon 20
East Carolina .... 17
Western Carolina 15
High Point 14
Appalachian 8
Catawba *
Guilford ^
Christians Down Pirates'
88 To 83 On Elon Floor
Playing before an estimated crowd of more than 3,000 fans, the
largest crowd ever to see a regular-season game at Elon, the Fight
ing Christians well deserved their nickname as they turned back
.he loop-leading East Carolina Pirates 88 to 83 here on Saturday
night, February 11th.
The game proved close and exciting most of the way, with the
East Carolina squad holding the lead through most of the early min
utes. but Ed Juratic hooked a good one at the 13-minute mark to
shoot Elon to the fore and set the
Elon Cage Games
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Elon 90, Belmont Abbey 83.
Elon 91, McCrary 100.
Elon 124, DuPont 70.
Elon 106, High Point 101.
Elon 104, Guilford 57.
Elon 108, Erskine 86.
Elon 102,‘High Point 81.
Elon 100, Pheiffer 77.
Elon 81, Pfeiffer 76.
Elon 69, East Carolina 105.
Elon 99, DuPont 59.
Elon 96, A. C. C. 82.
Elon 90, Catawba 62.
Elon 102, Appalachian 81.
Elon 107, West Carolina 90.
Elon 79, Lenoir Rhyne 85.
Elon 97, Catawba 73.
Elon 86, McCrary 63.
Elon 79, High Point 57.
Elon 91, West Carolina 71.
Elon 69, Appalachian 85.
Eon 88, East Carolina 83.
Elon 97, A. C. C. 100.
Elon 70, Lenoir Rhyne 99.
Elon 96, Guilford 53.
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Elon Loses
To Bulldogs
In one of the real scoring duels
rf the North State season, the At
lantic Christian Bulldogs edged
the Elon Christians 100 to 97 in
3 tight battle at Wilson on Mon
day night, February 13th.
The Christians h^d defeated the
Bulldogs 96 to 82 in an earlier
battle here at Elon, so the Bull
dog win only evened the series
for the year between two teams
that averaged better than 90 points
per game.
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stage for a 50-44 margin at half
Frank DeRita, who was not in
the starting line-up, came off the
bench to grab the starring honors
for the Christians. He entered the
game after seven minutes had
elapsed and hit for 28 points while
playing one of the finest defen
sive games seen on an Elon court
in many moons. He had seven
field goals and hit 14 of 15 free
throw attempts, and during the
final thirty-three minutes held the
Pirates' Carvel Nichols to a sin
gle field goal.
The Christian victory was in
no way assured by the half-time
lead, for ' the East Carolina out
fit hit well after intermission to
knot the count at 60-all and again
at 62-all. It was at that juncture
that Earl Stone entered the game
and chipped in eight points
The Christians hit 28 of 66
iloor shots for a 40.8 percentage
and bagged 30 and 34 charity at
tempts. Meanwhile, the invading
Pirates hit 22' of 58 floor shots!
for 37.9 percent and counted 3P/
of 47 free throws.
In addition DeRita’s 28 points,
other Christians in double figures
were Ray Whitley and Ben Ken
dall with 12 and Ed Juratic with
11 points. Don Harris topped the
East Carolina scoring with 26
points, while Carvel Nichols had
1 markers.
The line-ups—
Pos. Elon (88» East. Car. (83)
F—Juratic (11) Harris (26)
F—Kendall (12) Nichols (21)
0—Atkinson (7) Mendenhall
G—Whitley (12) Ingram (8)
G—Crump (6) Thomas (16)
Half-time — Elon 50, East Car
olina 44.
Elon subs •— DeRita 28, Stone 8,
Citty 4. East Carolina subs —
Smothers 8, James 2, Plaster 2.
Boyd Atteiile!
Phys Meel
Dr. Scott Boyd, chairman of
the Department of Physical Edu
cation al, Elon College, attend
ed the annual meeting of the
Southern District of the Amer
ican Association of Health, Phy
sical Education and Recreation,
which met in Nashville, Tenn.,
last week.
lie was accompanied to Nash
ville for the meeting by Odell
AVelborne, one of Elon's student
ma.iors in physical education,
who has served as a student as
sistant on the Elon sports staff
this year. The meeting drew
attendance from colleges and
universities throughout the
South and featured as speakers
many leading figures in the phy
sical education field.
Women’s Athletic Group
Planning For ‘Play Day’
I The Women's Athletic Associa-
: t-on. -vhirh offers membership to
all Elon girls who are interested
I ill sports anti physical education,
I has plans in the making for a
I "Basketball Spor's Day " to be
’ held in Elon's Alumni Memorial
I Gymnasium on Saturday, March
:10th.
I The present plans, as annuunc-
led under the direction of Mrs.
I Jeanne Griffin, director of girls'
I physical education, are that In
vitations will be extended to girls’
j sport groups in three neighboring
I colleges,
i The visiting groups will he ask-
I ed to register at 9 o'clock that
I morning, with a series of basket-
1 ball games to get underway at 10
WINNERS OF (;IKLS’ CAGE CROWN
The Delta Upsilon Kappa girls clinched their second straight
campus basketball championship when they defeated the strong Day
Student aggregation last Thursday night in the finals of the an
nual Intramural tourney. Members of the winning team, left to
right above, are as follows - FRONT ROW-Betty Franks, Fran
ces Knight, Evelyn Fritts and Joyce Perry. BACK ROW — Janet
Crabtree, Pat Chrismon and Jackie Williamson.
: o’clock. The play will continue
I with other games in the afternoon,
I with visitors being guests of the
Elon girls at lunch.
The membership of the basket
ball group which will represent
Elon had not been determined last
weekend, but choice of partici
pants will be made by Mrs. Grif
fin within a few days.
Carolyn Abernathy, president of
Elon WAA, has named Lannie
\Vright as chairman for the “Sports
Day,” with Martha Langley and
Pat Coghill as^her chief assistants.
Other committees are as follows—
Registration — Marquita Rob
ertson, chairman, Linda Simpson
and Jean Coghill.
Reception — Carolyn Aberna
thy, chairman, Ann Dula and Bet-
••y "Watson.
Refreshments — Doris Gaddis,
chairman, Frances Knight and
Shirley Storey.
Scorers and Timers — Marie
Stone, chairman, Betty DeLancey
and Shirley Presnell.
Delta U Defeats
Day Sliideiit Six
The Delta U girls downed Day
Students 35 to 28 in the finaU
of the girls’ cage tourney. Della
had reached the finals by de
feating Third Floor West 46 to
20, while the Day Students had
won from Second Floor West 40
to 27 in the first round.
The box score for the final game
follows—
Pos. Delta TJ (35) Day Stu. (28)
1’—Perry (12) D. Keck (7)
F—Knight (2) Walker («)
F—Franks (21) Payne (13)
G—Chrbmon i. Keck
G—WilllanLson Frye
G—Fritts Garrett
Half-time — Day Students 18,
Delta U 16.
Day Student sub — Canady (8t