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B; BILL WALKEB
With examinations looming just
ahead, it quite helpful that
our sports scribe should receive
contributed bit of research in
-e»ard to North Carolina athle-
c°s. It is true that the contri-
uted information pertains to
ootball, and football is slightly
ut of season, but no really inter
sting sports dope is ever out of
eason. Since it pertains to one of
North State Conference
chools, it fits in (his column with-
ut regard to the calendar. The
ontribution is just as timely at
liis dale, even though it was post-
oned until the exams were over
nd gone. U is given below:
» * *
American sports fans have be-
ome quite interested in high
loose ball:" and the teammate
replied, "Grab it yourself, I didn't
drop It.’’ With the Golden Tor
nado on the rampage that day,
there was little incentive for the
Cumberland players to grab loose
balls.
That 222 to 0 score was the
highest ever recorded in Ameri
can ^football, and the second high
est came six years later when
King College rolled over Lenoir
Rhyne by a 206 to 0 margin. If
you don't know where King Col
lege is, then you have nothing on
the general run of football fans
back in 1922, according to a story
which was printed in the Greens
boro Daily News on Monday, Oc
tober 23, 1922. The Sunday paper
cores, especially in basketball, inj (Oct. 22, 1922) carried only the
ecent years, and many of them'bare score, “King 206, Lenoir 0.”
eil that no team is worth its salt ^ It is worthwhile to note here that
nless it can hit the “century ^ Lenoir College became Lenoir
ark " occasionally, and the Na-^ Rhyne in 1923, being so named in
■o.^al pro league cagers quite of- honor of Daniel Rhyne. That bare
post both scores above the score on Sunday was followed up
undied mark. The Elon cagers by the following story on Monday,
the story being an exact quote
from the Daily News.
Elon Nine To Play Blue
Devil Outfit Tomorrow
The Elon basketeer.s, who dropped the North State Tourney till ■ at Lexington and then came bac
k home to win a second straight Carolinas NAIA Tournament arepictured above. The
Christian tossers, pictured left to right above, arenas follows: FRONT ROW—Larry Bulla, guard;
Frank Robertson, guard; Richard Turner, guard; Bob Rickover, forward; and Paige Stout, guard.
SECOND ROW — Jimmy Crump, guard; Buddy Way, forward; Gilbert Walts, guard; and Marion
Hargrove, forward. BACK ROW — Tony Carcaterra, center; Frai k DeRita, forward; Earl Stone,
forward; Dee .\tkinson. forward; and Ed Juratic, center.
mod back High Point 106 to
last year in one of tew “dou-
1( century " scores in North State
istorj'.
Few fans realize that there have
een “double century” scores in
ootball in these United States,
nd that does not mean the com-
i.ed score of both teams. _^t
; twice in the history of Amer-
a:; football, one team has scored
200 points in a single game,
rd in each case the opposing
am drew a great big goose egg.
Iill fewer of our Elon fans know
a North State Conference
L figured in one of those “dou
ble century " grid games and on
the wrong end.
* • •
(The first of the “double cen-
’ football scores came in 1916
hen Georgia Tech trampled lit-
t Cumberland University up in
'Tennessee by a score of 222 to
0. That was a great team which
Jch John Heisman had down
Tech that year, including Bum
and Bill Fincher and Buck
' wers, all them players of AU-
nsrican calibre. The book, “Fif-
Golden Years of Sports,” tells
one Cumberland player call-
on a teammate, “Grab that
Christians Are Topjiled By Catawba
In North State Tournament Upset
Ion Cagers
op Virginia
earn Again
Hitting the bucket early and of-
' ■ the Elon Christians swept the
“:npden Sidney Tigers before
in early minutes of the game
went on to defeat the Death
ley crew on the Tiger court on
February" I2th by an overwelm-
94 to 49 margin.
|Jn grabbing their eleventh
raighl victory, the ChristLr.ns |
'.ed out to a quick 24 lo 2 lead
raised the total to 50-18 by
half-time intermission. All
t'fflbers of the EUon starting five
“'ed in the early drive,
fhe Christians were playing
t'nout the services of Paige Stout,
'-■ady senior guard, who was held
due to an attack of flu. Coach
Mathis also used Captain Dee
[Atkinson, ace forward, sparingly
to a shoulder injury that had
♦thjred him for several days. ,
|lt was husky Ed Juratic, who
> ' "d the Elon scoring attack from
center post. The big Indiana
racked nine field baskets for
“The crowning event of the day
was the fact that King College
scored 206 points against Lenoir
College. Pause for a moment. Did
you ever hear of King College?
And did you ever hear of any
college scoring 206 points against
anybody?
“When the dignified Associated
Press sent in the score, it relaxed
for a moment and, just to relieve
everybody’s feelings, it notified all
editors that it was not joking about
the game. After stating the score,
it added the quoted word ‘Cor
rect,' because it knew that no
body would believe that such a
fcore was possible.
“King College is at Bristol, Va.
It has about ninety students. In
vestigation all around the local
authorities failed to reveal any
thing beyoj^ the fact that it is a
college. Last year it played a full
scljedule of small colleges and de
feated most of them but lost to
Emory and Henry and Carson
Newman. This year it has perked
up a bit-in football and has made
large scores,_ so large that rumors
of a second Centre College have
been flitting about Virginia.
“But even at that and even con
sidering that Lenoir College makes
no great pretensions in football,
pause again over that fact of 206
points. With four quarters of 15
minutes each, there are 60 min
utes of playing time. In 60 min
utes King scored 206 points. Every
minute of the game the team aver
aged about three and one-half
points, or another way a touch
down was scoerd every two min
utes. A football field is 100 yards
long, but it would take at least
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“ The Catawba Indians, who had
to win a post-season contest with
.^ippa'l chian, ylo ra‘e evun the
eighth spot in the North Stale
Y A #■ *JI Tournament at Lexington, sfcged
Ll00T} J. hit /tLL fj^reenVlllC one of the most resounding upsets
in Conference history by defeating
An impregnable zone defense who was at one time coach of second-rated Elon Christians
Elon Defeats East Carolina
In Loon Tilt At Greenville
which halted the East Carolina at
tack at all turns proved tlie de
cisive factor as tlie Elon Chris
tians defeated the East Carolina
Buccaneers 66 to 52 in a North
State Conference cage battle at
Greenville on Saturday night, Feb
ruary 16th.
The victory was the twelfth in
a row tor the Elon cagers, who
added to their winning streak that
had already set *n all-time con
secutive win record for the school
Longest previous wuniing streak
was 10 wins ki succession by the
1952 Christian quintet which went
on to the national NAI,\ tourna
ment at Kansas City.
In defeating Pirates on their
home floor, the Christians broke
a jinx that had gripped Elon teams
in Greenville for eight years or
■nore, tor no Elon team had been
able to win on the Pirate court
ill eight years. The win was dou'o-
ly pleasing to Coach Doc Mathis,
the East Carolina teams.
The Elon tossers broke away in
the opening minutes, and East
Carolina never gained the lead as
the Christian defen.se halted Coach
Howard Porter"s aces effectively.
Jimmy Crump, who hit on eight
field goals and six of seven free
throws, topped the Elon attack
with 22 points. He received able
assistance, however, from Ed Jur
atic with 19 and Dee .Atkinson
with 18 points. >
The line-ups:
Pos.—Elon (66) East Caro. (52)
F—Atkinson 18 Harris 6
F—Stone 2 Nichols 18
C—Juratic 19 .. . . . Plaster 2
G—Walts 2 Mendenhall 8
G—Crump 22 Smothers 5
Half-time — Elon 41, East Car
olina 20.
Elon subs — DeRita 3. Bulla.
Way, Carcaterra. East Carolina
s.ubs — James. Ingram 2. Hales,
Riddick. Adams 9. Dennis 2.
73 to 62 in a first-round battle
,.n Tliursday night, February 28th.
The Christians, who were bid
ding in defense of the tourna
ment title they won a year ago,
had been picked by the Confer
ence coaches as the favorites to
win the tournament crown, but
Coach Doc Mathis" boys could do
no right that night at Lexington
and the Catawba quint could do
no wrong.
The Atlantic Christian cagers
had defeated High Point 32-72,
and Lenoir Rhyne had toped Guil
ford 70-58 in the opening night
of^action; and the Western Car
olina tossers had done as expect
ed in the prelim for the second
night by bumping East Carolina
83-69. Then came that Catawba
jp-;et of Elon, keeping alive the
radition that the tournament
would have at least one upset
n the fir.sl round. Lenoir Rhyne
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The Elon College baseball squad,,
playing under a brand-new coach
in the person of Jack Sanford,
will open its 1957 campaign by
meeting the strong Duke Blue
Devils at Durhaiji tomorrow. That
game will be followed by 23 other
tilts that are already on the sche
dule. with a possibility that two
additional games may be added
to the season card.
It may look like a compara
tively new Elon baseball squad
which faces the "Big Four " Blue
Devils at Durham, for Coach San
ford has only nine letlermen as
a nucleus for his 1957 Elon dia
mond combination.
It looks just now that Marion
Hargrove, the husky basketballer
from Eli Whitney, may be the
first choice behind the plate. He
played last spring for Campbell
Junior College and will find his
chief competition from Bobby
Sharpe, who won a letter as a re
serve two seasons back and then
failed to letter last spring.
The top bidder for first base
just at present is Mac Payne, the
blonde from down Swepsonvllle
way, a letterman of last season.
Don Lichok, a regular at second
base last spring, is the top man
at the keystone sack. It is' said
that Larry Bulla, who saw much
cage service as a freshman guard,
is top bidder for the short field;
and the hot comer is wide open
among the trio of youngsters that
lists Charley Frye, Hilary Mot-
singer and Joe Teague. Other in
field prospects are Ray Scott, who
has reserved at both first and
second base; and Tony Carcater
ra, the lanky footballer and eager,
who started most games at first
base last season.
There is still a poasibilty that
Carcaterra may be moved to an
outfield position this spring. It
so, his presence in that garden
will make possible an all-mono
gram combination in the outfield.
Other lettermen among the gar
den candidates are Wayland Med
ley and Joey DelGais, a pair of
sophomores from Bessemer and
Inwood, L. I., N. Y. Medley and
DelGais were almost regulars as
freshmen last spring.
Other outfield prospects, none of
DAY STUDENTS AND FFV’S TOP (ilKLS’ CAOK RACE
Students, pictured in the group at the left, emerged as champions in the battle for
intramural league. The commuting las-ies gained bo’!i the rog-
Lenoir Rhyne
Breaks Elon
Win Streak
•
Running head-on into a red-hot
Lenoir Rhyne quintet on oue of
its hottest nights, the Elon Chris
tians went down before the Bears
on February 21st by a 79 to
56 count in a North Slate Con
ference cage battle which tight
ened the Lenoir Rhyne grip on
first place in the loop s regular-
season race.
The victory was Lenoir Rhyne's
20th in a row and left the Bears
with a 20-1 mark for the year.
On the other hand it was Elon's
first defeat in six weeks, marking
the end of a 12-game win streak
lor the Fighting Christians. This
12-game win streak set an Elon
record for consecutive victories in
the cage sport.
The Christians could do no right
as the game got underway, and
Lenoir Rhyne ran out a II-O lead
before Jimmy Crump hit Elon's
first points on a field basket that
came at the seven minute mark.
Tlie Bears then ran out 26-3 and
28-7 margins before the Christians
could find the range with any de
gree of success.
Late in the first half the Eloil
cagers staged a brief rally as Dee
Atkinson. Ed Juratic, Jim Crump
and Earl Stone connected for nine
points in succession to pull up to
i2-2u at the half-time break. The
Christians matched buckets with
the Bears in the first minutes of
the second half, and after four
minutes it was 36-26 on the score
board.
That was the closest the Chri.c-
tians could get, however, and Rae
ford Wells, Johnnie Janies and
Tommy Sellari proved the big
^ns as the Bears rolled out to
tlieir final 23-point spread at the
final gun.
The big gune of the Elon of
fense were effectively silenced dur
ing the game as Atkinson, Juratic
and Crump failed to connect, and
he top scorer for the Christians' are Harold El-
as Paige Stout who dropped 18 former Campbell College star:
Lacy Hill, a transfer from the Uni-
“^jverslty of North Carolina; Bill
I Reece, a lanky sophomore, and
^Ted Eanes, a freshman. Charlie
Raeford Wells was top gun for the freshman football
he Bears with 22 points, and quarterback, could see service in
also paced the home club with ^ound.
,^me great rebounding. Other Le-, sophomore right
hander from Laurinburg, and Jack
Henderson, junior left-hander from
Pennsylvania, are the top pitchers
from, last year’s squad. Bill Ross,
another sophomore who had been
counted a top prospect, may be
nd Earl Stone who counted
points for the evening. All
Stout’s markers came in the final
half.
noir Rhyne leaders were Tommy
Sellari with 19 and Johnnie James
with 12 counters.
The line-ups; (
Pos.—Elon (50 Lenoir Rhyne (79),
Cline 2 ,
The Day Students, picturea m
campus cage honors in the girlf’
ular season and tournament Utles, but they found tough com?e:i' ;on from t.ie FFV s Firs. Hoo
F—Atkinson 7 ...
I F—Stone 14 ^,
I C—Juratic 4 Wells 22:®
I 'J—Crump 9 .
G—Stout 18
1 Half-time — Lonoir Rhyne 32,
Elon 20.
' "^WdU 22 ® scholastic casualty and could
Cornwell 9'decide to grab off a pro contract.
Sellari 19! Other pitching hopes center in
i of Virginia, combination, whkh is shown in the group shot at the n»ht. Members ^ | _ ^ay
i oionship Day Student squad, sho*n left to right, nre Sl-iiley Turner, Pam Dofflemyer, Shirley Wall, , 3^,,^
■ Katrine Frye- Oneita Frye, Kay Hughes, Peggy Allen and Jerrie Watson. Members of the run-
^ ner-up FFV crew, also listed left to right, are Lannie Wright, Patsy Walters, Manan Glascoe.
1 Katy Langley, Mary Lou Booth. Carol Cox. Carolyn Adams an 1 Betty Flynn.
King 2.
Lenoir Hhyne sub.s — Bowman 4
Norman 8. Smith, McCormick '2
Goodnight 1.
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points and also played an out-
f'niung game under the baci---!
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\
Frank Goss, a sophomore right
hander from Lexington; Jimmy
2 DeRita i Kiggans, freshman right-hander
from Charleston, S. C.; Alvin
Lovelace, a freshman right-hander
from Forest City; Gary Hinson, a
i freshman southpaw from Granite
Falls; and Dan Mangum, a fresh
man right-hander from Virgilina,
Va.
Following up tomorrow":^ tilt
.11th Duke on the Blue Devil field,
the Christians have nine consecu-
ive games on the home field.. They
meet Williams College here next
Monday and Tuesday and will then
lake on High Point here on March
29th, Oberlin here on April 2nd
and 3rd. Furman here on April
6th. East Carolina hero on April
6th. Lenoir Rhyne here on April
11th and .\tlantic Christian here
iin April 12th.
These niii. -imps in succession
will put the Eioa baseballers well
in their -957 campaign,
.vhich calls for h ime and home
incetings with each of ;he other
f'iuht teams in the North State
'Conference. Non-Contercnce oppo
nents are Duki-. Wii'un:.',. Ober-
ilin, Furman and Pfeit' r Colleges.