Friday, September 30, 1960
MAROON AND GOLD
Elon Gridder Top Guilford 19-7 In First 1960
Sophomore Backs Star
Jnv-Yees Tie
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'^jsTKum 6-All ,
T’.,e freshmen and reserves on
yie Elon football squad had a i
day of their own as the Fighting'
Chriitian junjur varsity battled
the Ferrum Junior College eleven
to a 6-6 tie on Thursday atter-
ri or,, September 22nd. The game
played on the Elon practice field,
drew an unexpectedly large crowd
of r.bn stuSents and Ferrum sup
porters.
Tne game proved to be a defen
sive contest much of the way,
v.ith both of tne touchdowns com
ing within a period of two minutes
jiear the close of the second
quarter. Tyrone McDuffie counted
the Elon touchdown on a 3-yard
smash to climax a drive, and Fer-
nira rebounded with a score from
He follo'ving kick-off. David Shel
ton retirned the kick 76 yards to
the Elon eight, and two plays later ^
Roger Whitley drove four for the
score. I
.McDufi'if' provr:he to-' "-'i; '
gainer for the Baby Cnristians, but
Don Guthrie and George Wight-
man contributed several nice
gains. McDuffie completed a num
ber of passes lo ends Don Miller
and Ralph Hoover. Roger Whitley,
former Albemarle High All-Amer-
ican. stood out in the Ferrum play. |
CO-CAPTAINS LEAD CHRISTIAN FOOTBALLERS
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DIKECTOK
In Fine Running Attackf^
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Talking Sports
Witii
DAVID ‘PROPHET’ MARSHBURN
A pair of veteran co-captnins, long-*tinie stars on Christian foot-
b::ll squads, are leading the Manon and Gold f ot aile.'^ into tlie
grid wars this fall. Shown left to right above, they are Co-Captain
Tony Markosky, a fine senior end from Mahanoy City, Pa., and
Co-Captain Charlie Rayburn, a rugged junior Uckle from Norfolk,
V V Cap'tain Markosky played halfback and fullback during his first
tA'O years with the Elon squad, but he was shifted to the flank and
became a regular starter at end last fall. Captain Rayburn is one
- f the few players in recent years to become a regular as a fresh
man, and he is beginning his third season as a member of Elon s
itarting team.
Talking sports! That’s what I've
been doing for a long time, but
this marks my first experience in
writing about them and seeing
what I’ve written on the printed
page. Certainly I hope to see a
lot of sports, and good sports, here
at Klon this year in both varsity
and intramural circles, and here’s
hoping that out of those sports may
come a column which will be in
teresting to all of you. Already
much has happened, and there’ll
*)e more before another Maroon
ind Gold rolls from the press.
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After three glorious months of
vacation for most of us, we re
turned to the campus to find a
varied calendar of sports activities
getting underway, including vars
ity football practice and early
games, fall baseball practice and
talk of an immediate start on bas
ketball workouts. However, our at
tention will center largely this fall
on football, and it is well to re
member the old adage that the
Christian griddeis will win some,
lose some and perhaps tie some
It is a sure thing, though, that
Coach George Tucker and his out
iit will be going for a better show
ing for Elon this fall than in some
recent years. It is a year of new
coaches, new system, many new
players and a new outlook.
Before most of us returned to
school the Christian gridders were
already sharing sore muscles and
aches and pains as the football
outfit cracked headgears and
Shoulder pads in early practice
and several of the new men showed
early promise as the coaches built
around a group of sixteen letter-
men. Among the lettermen were
a jgoodly number of fine sopho-
all of them wiser after a
yejri experience, and there was
high hopes that these Christians of
I960 might improve on last year s ^
showijig, aUhough .few ex-[
(Christians to win any]
tonferCfttfe honors this
since 1941i.has ah Elon team won ^
a North. State- tlUe, although the j
I undefftftted eleven of 1957 was,
I ruled out of the crown on a tech-i
fticality.. 1
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After ^ning game victory
over GuUfqr/i it" Was'a sure thing
that the squad would do no worse
than a year ago, for than one vic
tory equalled last falls win rec
ord. Gone were such stars as Char
lie Maidon, brilliant quarterback,
Fob McL-oan, a fine haifoiC v, and
Tunner Brosky, a rough-anii-ready
jne star, out other ace.- stepped
against Guilford and VJok over
bcautiiully.
Geor?e Wooten, 170 - pound
speedster I'rom Hamlet, has taken
over .M:;idon’s quarterbacking
duties and pj-pven his ability, with
a possibili'.y that he could be the
best in the Conference. Some are
saying he is better than Maidon,
but thafs a big statement when
one views the great record made
by the Cjry Comet. Certainly,
however, Wooten showed great po
tential against the Quakers, scor
ing an i.iiportant touchdown and
directing his backfield mates to
lengthy gains.
No le.i .nan three halfbacks
broke away for long-gainer plays
during the game, with Jim Buie
and Ken Cooke scormg touch
downs and with Jim Short away
once for a 45-yard sprint. The
unning of this trio, aided by the
plunging of Bob Overton and the
running and passing of Wooten
netted 255 yards against 84 for
Guilford.
That scant yardage by the
Quakers shows the splendid de
fense of Elon, which was aided
greatly by a truly great kicking
performance by John Go^jack.
Gozjack booted for a 46-yard av
erage on six kicks, one of the
finest marks of recent years at
Elon, with one kick going 57 yards
Speedy backs and sharp block-
ing linemen were twin weapons
as the Fighting Christians of Elon
College opened their 1960 football
oampaign with a decisive and
well-earned 19 to 7 victory over
the Guilford Quakers in Greens
boro on Saturday night, Septem
ber 17th.
The victory was a sweet one for
Elon in more ways than one, for
it broke a string of nine consecu
tive defeats, avenged a 27 to 0
loss to Guilford a year ago and
set Coach George Tucker off to
a winning start as the new head
football coach for Elons Maroon
and Gold gridders.
Seven speedy Christian backs
shared in a dynamic ground at
tack which netted 255 yards rush
ing against the big Guilford line,
and fullback Bo6 Overton was the
only senior sharing in the slash
ing ground attack. In fact, five of
the gold-jerseyed ball carriers
were sophomores, and each of the
three touchdowns were by sopho
more youngsters.
George Wooten, a swivel-hipped
peedster at the quarterback spot,
cli'played some clever ball hand
ling as he fed the ball to his
backfield mates, cutting them
loose for sprints that often carried
for lengthy gains. Longest run of
the night was a 45 yard sprint by
rim Short, junior halfback, who
tc ailed 71 yards in personal rush-
ag for the night.
Topping the Christian rushing
assault for the night wss Ken
Wooten Is Pace-Setter
Over Apprentice Eleven
The German aerial blitzkrieg
which blasted London in the early
days of World War II had nothing
on the aerial assault which the Hon
Christians launched in trouncing
the Newport News Apprentice
gridders 30 to 0 in Burlington
Memorial Stadium last Saturday
night.
After ripping Guilford with a
powerful grotmd attack in the
opener, the maroon-clad Christ
ians broke out an entirely new
strategy and used t)je whiplash
arms of George Wooten and Ralph
Miller to tear the Apprentice de
fenses to shreds.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
Elon
Apprentice
12
First Downs
9
112
Yards Gain Bushine
141
61
Yards Lost Rushing
33
51
Net Yards Rushing
108
18
Passes Attempted
11
10
Passes Completed
1
19*
Yards Gain Passing
17
249
Yards Gain Scrimmage
125
0
Opp. Passes Intercepted
2
55
Runback Int. Passes
0
4
Number Punts
6
4R.0
Ave. Yards Punts
31.1
77
Runback All Kicks
147
1
Fumbles Lost
2
115
liards Penalties
65
alty. The Sandhill Slinger also in
tercepted two Apprentice passes
and retuned them a t^tal of 55
yards, one of his returns being a
25-yard touchdowr jaunt, and ran
one punt back 25 yards.
Wooten wa’ not alone, however,
in the Elon attack, for Wayne Ma-
htartes, John Gozj'ack and Bob
Overton each scored touchdowns,
and Don Miller booted the first
field goal scored for the Christians
in a number of reasons. Ralph Mil
ler, a fine freshman quarterback
from Tamaqua. Pa., also got into
the passing act by completing four
of nine for 71' yards. John Goz
jack for- a set-ond straight time
posted an even 46-yard punting
(Continued
HOW IT HAPPENED
First Dowdn
Elon
278
23
255
9
3
26
281
2
14
6
46
43
0
85
rOACH JACK SANFORI)
Coarh Jack Sanfnrd. chairman
65 and professor of the Departnirnl
Guilford
Yards Gain RushinK MO
Yardx Lost Rushing
Net Yards Rushing
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Yards Gain Passlnic
Total Gain Scrimmage
Opp. Passes Intercepted
Runback In. Passes
Number Punts
Ave. Yards Punts
Runback All Kicks
Fumbles Lost
Yards Penalties
Score by Periods:
Elon 0 12 0
Guilford 0 7 0
Elon Touchdowns; Buie 4- irtlcs at the rollexe. ,\lon( with
plunge), Cooke (20-run), Wooten the new duties, he will continue to
l(8-nin). Extra Point: D. Miller 1 direct the Christian baseballers as
^ ^ .-j he has for thf past three seanons,
(Placement). Guilford Touchdown: : , . ., ^ wi i
^ pTiod wMch has sern him win
Simpson (19-pass from Baker). North State Conierence titles
Extra Point: Elks I (placement), ^and Irad one Christian baseball
squad ♦© the NAIA national tourn-
goal line for the score. Jim Elks |,]|[||^nt.
kicked good to give the Quakers
The Quaker counter only served j Baseballers
as a spur to the Elon outfit. George |
Wooten returned the kickoff 20' A i ifi i f*-! »•» I
yards to the Elon thirty-eight, andj "yei /VlllllIIlII ‘
the Christians again used barely I
of Physical Education and also
^ jg head coach for the Elon Collete
■ • -’1 ' --unird new dut-
® ^ les this year as director of ath-
the win. Big play of the drive was
a 15-yard pass from George Woot-
en to Wayne Mehanes, and Wooten
sprinted the final eight yards for
the score. Milled kicked good for I
the 19-7 margin.
The entire Elon line played some
excellent ball, but John Gozjack
set the pace with a numt>er of
slashing tackles which threw
Quaker ball carriers for losses,
while Charlie Rayburn. Jim Mc
Clure and Gene Stokes played
well in the middle of the line. Goz
jack kicked six times for a 48-yard
average, keeping the Quakers back
deep in their own territory much
of the time.
assault for the “W was Ken I 1 \* J1 W.v.-L
Cooke, a lanky and limber-legg^ ^ 20-yard gal-' 111 V> .>1 K
:oph from HiUsboro, who averag^ ^,
10.5 yards for eight carries. Cooke -j „,argin at half-time While King Football occupies the
•cored one of the three Elon TD's partke"‘«- t*>e stage during this fall
on a 20-yard slash. The other two penalties “• ‘
oo.es came on drives by Jim
Buie and George Wooten. Don Mil-
ler booted the extra point after,^^^^
the t.iird touchdown. minutes, moving
The Christians started slowly,
and seemed to have trouble with»65 yards for the TD that clinched
their timing and blocking on the
first few plays, but they began
clicking in the second period after
Ai Frieze, junior transfer at guard,
grabbed a Guilford fumble on the
Quaker 25-yard marker. It took
j-ot four plays from that point,
one by each of the four Christian
backs. Overton and Wooten made
it first down on the eleven, Short
carried to the four, and Jim Buie
slashed over for the 6-pointer after
three minutes of the second quar
ter.
The Guilford outfit rebounded
in six quick plays to grab a short
load.. Brodie Baker returned the
kickoff to mid-field. There were
two first-and-tens to the Elon fif
teen, and third third down Baker
passed ‘o Frank Simpson on the
season, there also is a lot of activ
ity on the baseball field during
most of these autumn afternoons
as Coach Jack Sanford sends his
Elon diamond hopefuls through
i bit of off-sea.sort practice.
Thirty-three men have reported
to Oach Sanford for these fall
drills, including 12 lettermen from
the strong team of last spring, and
along with them are a couple of
last year’s reserves and a host of
I new prospects from freshman and
I transfer ranks.
NEW COACHES DIRECT ELON (;KI1) ACTION
■ --'I on P*ee Four'
I Elon
Football
Elon 19. Guilford 7.
E'.on 30. Ap^rentice 0.
(Remaining Games)
Oct. l_Appalachlan, away.
(Jet! 8—East Carolina, home.
Oct. IS^Tampa, away.
Oct. 22—Catawba, home.
Oct. 29—West C«roli»», away
jijoy. 5_Newberrr. home.
Nov. 12—Lenoir Khyne, home.
Nov. 18—Presbyterian, away.
Score by Periods:
Elon 6 17 7 0—30
Aprentice 0 0 0 0 0
Elon Touchdowns—Mahanes (5-
run), Gozjack (33-pass from Woot
en), Wooten (25-pass interception),
Overton (1-run). Extra Points—D.
MUIer 1 (placement), Wooten 2
(lilunpe). Field Goal—D. Miller.
George Wooten, a slender soph
omore quarterback from Hamlet,
right out of the heart of the Caro
lina SlancOiills, prioved the big
bomber in the victorious offensive,
for he score one of the Elon touch
downs and passed for another and,
in the meanwhile, set the stage
for a third score with a brilliant
punt return.
in thus pacing Sie Christian as-y
sault, Wooten completed six oL
nine passes for 127 yards, and in
addition he had one 33-yard touch
down heave to Jim Short nullif.ed
down neavc -
and called back t>ecause of a P«- GaroUo. a®e, bavto*
V, » which defectin’ the Elon Christian football squad during this 1960 s«a-
The new coaching sjaff whic . - Coach John Wike, the line coach,
son pf?tiired above. Left to rig t, mem Carolina Pirates last fall; Coach George Tucker.
” "*r*d1oi>“r"coach *a nativrof Monroe and one-Ume great lineman for East Carolina; and
r GarTSLLr the backfield mentor, a naUve of Souther. Pines, who U still anoth^ Bast
Coach Gary ^ fastest backs in the North State Conference
The last spring’s lettermen list
ed on the present .squad include
Roger Knapp and Jerry Drake,
pitchers; Jerry Tilman, first base;
Bruce Olson, second base; C. G.
Hall, shortstop; Jerry Pike, third
base; Jug Irvin, outfield; Charlie
Maidon. outfield and first base;
Leroy Myers, outfield; and St«ve
Wal.l outfield. Also reporting are
two lettermen of two seasons ago,
Eddie Clark at second base and
John VanBenschoten on the mound.
The reserves of last season now
working out are Jimmy Holmes at
shorUtop and Jack Cavanaugh at
third base, both of whom saw some
action but failed, to win letters.
Mike Little, letterman catcher of
last spring, is with the football
squad, along with several other
players who are expected to re
port next spring. Footballers who
are due to join the baseball squad
next sprinj{ include George Wooten,
George Komorowsky and Doug
Foley, all pitchers, along with pos
sibly others.
In discussing his fall squad.
Coach Sanford listed a number of
new prospects who are expected to
be of much help next season,
among them Wayne Allen, a soph
omore p),lcher, who transferred
from Carolina and sat out last
year for eligibility; Barry Hunt-
zinger, freshman pitcher from
Pennsylvania; Jimmy Levlner» a
junior- infielder from Presbyterian
Junior CoUege; Danny HaU, a
freshman outfielder; and Phil
Cheek, a freshman catcher.
Other freshmen on the fall rostef
Include Steve Welch, Danny
6(x)ne and Jim Homey, pltchen,
Milton Groae, catchar; B. D.
Schneider and Luke O’Hara, out-
Xieldtf’s; and John Crumpler a*d
Darrell Myrick, infleUten.