Wednesday, November 23, I960
MAROON AND GOLD
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Elon Qmiit Will Host Pfeifer In Cage Opener Next Week
Clements Is
Noiv Rushing
Pace-Setter
Burle Clements, hard-driving
fullback, moved into the pace-set
ter post as Elon’s leader in lugging
the ball after nine games o£ the
I960 season, for the rugged sopho
more proved a big threat againsc
Lenoir Rhyne to run his total rush
ing for the season to 253 net
yards.
George Wooten with 225 yards
and Ken Cooke W'ith 218 yards are
two other Christian backs who
have passed the 200-yard mark in
rushing, while Jim Short and Mar
vin Crowder are pushing close to
that magic double-century figure
with 195 and 183 yards each.
Cooke continued to lead in ave
rage per carry, having carried for
5.0 yards each time he lugged the
ball.
Wooten, who turned in his be;t
work on defense against the Bears,
added enough yards in rushing and
passing to push his .total offense
figure for the season to 605 yards,
including 380 passing yards on 32
completions in 94 attempts. The
605-yard total kept the Christian
quarterback near the top in the
North State Conference total of
fense columns.
John Gozjack, the versatile
sophomore who plays end on of
fense and halfback on defense and
does most of the Elon punting, did i
not play against Lenoir Rhyne due
to injuries, but he continued to
lead the Christiams at the oine*
(game mark in pass receiving with
8 catches and in punting with a
37-yard average on 32 kicks. |
While sparkling on defense!
against Lenoir Rhyne, Wooten
grabbed two enemy passes in the |
Elon end zone and ran his total
interceptions for the season to
five, just one short of the all-
time Elon record set by Whitney |
Bradham in 1956. Wooten also;
held to his lead in punt returns,
having run back nine kicKS for 2111
yards. Marvin Crowder is tops ip I
kick-off retnirns, having lugged
back nine boots for 165 yards.
Dean Yates still tops the squad in
fumble recoveries with three.
IIIEY WILL LEAD CHRISTL4N CAGE SQUAD THIS SEASON
CAPTAIN KEN SMITH, FORWARD
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Christians Face Tough
Schedule 0/ 30 Gomes
Baseball Schedule |
The Elon College t>asketball
squad, with prospects for a much
stronger aggregation that that
which won nine of twenty-six *-• ^
games last season, will open its! Not. 30—Pfeiffer, horn*.
1960-61 campaign by meeting the D«c. 2—Wofford, aw«y.
Pfeiffer basketeers on the new | Dec. 3—Ersklne. away,
and highly pohshed floor of Alum-1 Dec. 7—Wofford, home,
ni Memorial Gymnasium here next Dec. 10—BeUnoat Abbey «way
Wednesday, November 30th. Dec. 12—C.ulIford, home.
The t>pen,ing schedule, which | Dec. 14—I^noir Rhyne, aw«
will mass ten rugged batUes in the] Dec. 15—Pembroke, home,
pre - holiday interval between Dec. 16—Camp I^Jeune. home.
Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Dec. 1»—Norfolk DIvLilon, at
CO-CAPTAIN EDDIE BURKE, CENTER
Ken Smith, a 6-4 junior forward from Edmonton, Ky,, will cap-
tnin the Elon College basketball squad during the coming 1960-61
cage campaign; with Eddie Burke, a 6-6 senior center from Bur
lington. serving as co-captain. The two big boys lead a team which
will be built around a nucleus of seven lettermen.
Talldng Sports
With
DAVID PROPHET’ MARSHBURN
With footbll gone from the
.stage and with King Basketball
due to take over the center of
interest on the Elon campus with
in the next ten days, it is well that
tne Elon faculty, students and fans
get acquainted with' the boys who
will carry Fighting Christian col
ors on the hardwood this winter.
Coach Bill Miller, who begins
his second season as head cage
The wind changes its course, and way with sports. Seemingly before,for the Christians, has a
the tidje.s turn in the opposite di- one' knows it, he is sitting in a group of cage candidates, and
As Season Nears ...
Meet Christian Cagers
FOUR SENIORS END CAREERS
TONY MARKOSKY
, „ warm gymnasium cheering for a
T*pction and this seems to be the . . j » •i.i*
recuon, basketball team mstead of sittmg
J in cold outdoor stands cheering
'for a football team,
i Such is the case here at Elon,
for another season of football has
come to an end until another year.
It is sad to note, however, that for
some there will be no other year,
'or some of the players have play-
d their final game, and some
have watched their last game as
students since they graduate be
fore another season.
For many the thought of gradu
ation is joyous, but to others it
brings sorrow and a pain in the
heart, a pain which they scarcely
realize yet, for football has long
played an important part in their
life, and it hardly seems possible
that they have played or cheered
their last game.
One thing is certain, however,
all who participated this year were
ion a team which has improved the
Icurrent Elon gridiron rating. The
Elon team of I960 was one which
improved tremendously from the
first of the season until the end
and one which showed up better
than those of the past two sea-
five of the eariy-season contests
will be played on the home court.
Early battles for the Christians’
home supporters, in addition to
the opener with Pfeiffer, will bring
the Wofford Terriers here on De
cember 7th, followed by Guilford
on December 12th, Pembroke on
December l.Mh and the powerful
Camp Lejeune Marines on De
cember 16th.
After meeting Pfeiffer here next
Wednesday, the Christians get jne
day of rest and then trek south
ward into South Carolina for
weekend meetings with Wofford
and Erskine on foreign floors on
Friday and Saturday, December
2nd and 3rd.
The Christians will also face
Lenoir Rhyne in Hickory and Bel
mont Abbey in Belmont in other
games on enemy floors and will
wind up pre-Christmas action by
facing the sharpshooting outfit
from William and Mary’s Norfolk
Division in a Kiwanis-sponsored
tilt in Suffolk, Va., on December
19th.
Tbere will be a short break for
Christmas, but Coach Bill Miller
will bring his squad back to th«
campus immediately afterward to
don szydlik
BOB OVERTON
JIM McCLURE
Four seniors on the Elon football squa Co-Captaki
reers as the 1960 season came to an e a_
Tony Markosky, end from west Hempstead,
from Natrona, Pa.; Bob Brackenridge, Pa. All started
N. Y.; and Jim McClure, guard f o vrTlure have been handi-
the season as regulars, but ““ujough much of the sched-
capped by injuries and missed actio
(lie.
sons.
It is true that no championship
was, but both players and students
can look forward to a still better
season a year from now. This year
saw many changes, with a new
coach and a new system of play,
but the development was very evi
dent. Who knows, next season
might bring a titl« to Elon's
^tampus.
There was a lack of experience,
1 for most of the returning veterans
‘were only sophomores or juniors,
and many new players jomed the
team right out of high school,
which meant that they bad much
to lear«. Those players should
surely feet that they have learned
much and that come another sea
son they can do much better.
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pre-season indications are that the
Maroon and Gold basketeers
should be much improved over
the aggregation of last year.
Practice has been underway
since miiJ-October, and at the
present time the Fighting Christ-,
ian squad has been cut down to
fourteen boys, who will carry Elon
hopes in a rugged campaign
ahead. Seven of the group are
lettermen from last year, one is
a junior college transfer, and six
are freshmen. The individual
players are presented in the fol
lowing brief sketches, arranged
in alphabetical order:
DEWEY ANDREW — Andrew,
who hails from neighboring Snow
Camp, is a 6-6 sophomore letter-
man, who displayed marked abil
ity at center last season. The big
boy, who played his high school |
ball at Eli Whitney, scored 74
points in reserve service in 16
games last winter. |
MAC BOWMAN — Bowman is
a 6-1 freshman guard from Bur
lington, who played his high school
ball at Pleasant Grove High
School, being one of the finest
floor men and scoring threats in
the county’s high school circuit
last winter. |
JESSE BRANSON — Branson,!
a freshman center and forward, |
towers 6 feet 7 inches, and that!
height should be a tremendous]
asset to the youngster from E. M.'
Holt High School. The big boysi
showed fine ability in pre-season]
scrimmages with Camp Lejeune
and Catawba, and he may see
heavy duty around the basket for
the Christians this winter.
EDDIE BURKE — Burke, who
is from Burlington and is a pro
duct of Williams High School,
where he was All-State, is a 6-6
senior center who tallied 137
points-in 17 games last winter. He
had led the Christians in scoring
the prerious season. Burke is also
a fine track man, having won the
North State Conference title In
both hurdles last spring.
PHIL CHEEK — Cheek, a 6-2
freshman guard, comes to Elon
from Ashebore, where he was ao
outstanding basketball guard and
baseball catcher. He possesses
good speed and is an excellent ball-
handler, and he could see much
service this winter.
Richard Conatser — Conatser,
a speedy sophomore guard, who ^nmber One among America s
hails from Burnside, Ky., and who s™®!' college football teams, in
led the Christian scoring as a Elon s stronghold on Sat-
frcshn.an last winter. He hit for urday night, November 12th, and
404 points in 26 games, seting a returned home with a 14 to 0 vic-
iiew freshman recu. J for scoring ,^ry, but the honors quite clearly
(Continued on Pa«e i ''*ent Lo a fighting crew of gold-
Suffolk. V«.
Dec. 28-30—Lejeune Tsurncy.
Jan. S—Pembroke, away.
Jan. 7—East Carolina, home.
Tan. 9—Appalachian, home.
J*Jii* 11“-A.C.C.. away.
Jan. 14—Catawba, away.
Jan. 1(J—High Point, home.
Jan. 28—Catawba, home.
Jan. 30—Pfeiffer, away.
Feb. 1—^High Point, away.
Feb. 4—West Carolina, away.
Feb. 6~A.C.C., home.
Feb. 8—Appalachian, away.
Feb. 10—Fntkine, home.
Feb. ll^Rast Carolina, away.
Feb. 13->—Camp Lejeune, away.
Feb. 16—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
Feb. 18—Guilford, away.
Feb. 22-24—North State
Tournament.
participate In the annual Camp
Lejeune Holiday Tournanient,
which has been set for Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday. December
28th. 29th and 30th. This tourna
ment will serve as a final tune-up
before the Maroon and Gokd toss-
ers swing into the heart of Uieir
campai^, which concludes in iate
February with the annual North
State Tournament in Lexington.
Lenoir Rhyne Is Winner
As Elon Defense Shines
The Lenoir Rhyne Bears, rated jerseyed, Christianas who four
times stopped the mighty Bears
PLAYED K^EY DEFENSE ROLE
in the shadow of the Elon goal
posts.
The Bears had rolled for big
scores in a number of gamei this
season, and Coach Clarence Stas-
avich needed another big score to
assure continued rating at the
top of the smitll-college standings,
but a stubborn squad of Elon grid-
ders denied him the pleasure of
that adding-machine score.
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HOW IT IIAFPENEH
Elon
Lenoir Rhyne
9
First Downs
16
1!57
Yards Gain Rushinc
309
14
Yards Lost RuHhint
35
143
Net Yards Rushinc
274
14
Passes Attempted
15
4
Passes Completed
4
18
Yards Gain Passinf
72
161 Total Yards ScrlmmaK*
346
3
Opp. Passes Intercepted 3
19
Runbark Int. Passes
43
7
Number Punts
3
36.0
Ave. Yards Punts
34.7
60
Runback All Kicks
28
3
Fumbles Lost
3
30
Yards Penalties
35
Score
By Periods:
Elon
0 0 0
0— 0
One of the key figures in lilon’s Improving defense during the
late season was Tom K»ig, 17S-pound sophomore center from
Charleston, S. C., who switched from his regular defensive line
backer post to an assignment as defensive end. King, who lettered
as a freshman last fall, is one of the most aggressive defenders
oo the squad, and that aggressiveness paid divideads for the Christ
ians in late-season contests this season.
Lenoir Rhyne 7 7 0 t—14
Lenoir Rhyne Touchdowm —
IVfcClanixock (5-run.), Kemp (1-
run). Extra Points — Kirby Z
(kirkn).
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In fact, the score could have
been closer and conceivably could
have gone the other way entirely,
for the Elon gridders clearly do
nated one of the two Bruin TD’g
and missed one of their own by
le.ss than a yard and by dint of
a questionable ruling. In retro
spect, it was Elon’s night!
Rated the favorite in pre-game
prophecies by from four to six
touchdown*, the Bears escaped by
the sUn of their teeth and must
be In a mood to give thanks at
the approacta/ng Thanksgiving ho^
iday. It ii true that the Bears piled
up mighty figures in yardage, but
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