Friday, February 24, 1961
■ ~ ' " MAROON AND GOLD PAGE THKEE
Christian Five Tramples Lenoir Rhyne Bears In Loop Tilt
WJnter Football Work I TALKLN IT OVER DURING BRUIN BATTLE
Is Off To Fine Start
The thud of footballs echoes ter; Tyrone McDuffie, quai'ter-
across the Elon College campus
these February afternoons as the
Fighting Christian grid squad
drives through off-season drills,
beginning preparation for a rugged
ten-^ame schedule that is already
£et -for the 1961 season.
Coach George Tucker and his
assistants have thirty-six boys in
uniform for the winter workouts,
including twenty-one lettermen
from last fall and previous cam
paigns. The drills will continue
daily through the first two weeks
in March, with scrimmage games
set with Guilford here on March
4th and with Catawba there on
March 11th
The lettermen in togs this winter
include John Goz.iack, Tom King
and Jim Moore, ends; Chau'lie Eay-
burn. Dean Yates, Cameron Little,
Charlie Strigo and Garrie Warren,
tackles; Gene Stokes and Joe Ber-
dosch, guards; John Dalcin and
Billy LaCoste, centers; George
Wooten and Ralph Miller, quarter-
Wayne Mehanes, Mike Little,
Marvin Crowder, Ken Cooke, half-
Wayne Hehanes, Mike Little,
and Burl Clements, fuljback.
Others fpom the 1960 squa^
working out are Bob Alcanterra
and Ralph Hoover, ends; Howard
Arner, tackle; Ronnie Bell, Fred
die Wells, Tom Breese and Steve
Ballard, guards; Phil Secrest, cen-
Elon Cagers
Top Guilford
Driving hot down the stretch, the
Elon Christians broke the century
barrier ftor the second time within
nine days as they trampled the
Guilford Quakers 108 to 82 in the
final game of the regular 1961
schedule at Guilford on Saturday
night, February 18th.
The victory over the Quakers,
What a conference the North
State has turned out to be this
year. Just who said that it was
not a rough and tough and excit
ing loop, and who said that our
Fighting Christians were not tough
enough to give the other teams a
scare and a scrap for top honors?
Someone may have made such
^ statements, but I am here to tell
which gave Elon a mark of 17 wins'you that they surely had to eat
and 17 losses during the regular their ords and admit that it was a
season, also gaTe the Christians \ slip of the tongue, for throughout
back; and Frank Ciamelli and
WilUe Tart, halfbacks
Back in school from the 1959
squad are Ed Fitzgerald, end, and
Ed Thrower, halfback; and new
comers who have just entered Elon
this semester are a pair of rugged
fullbacks. Pete Breads and Bill
Schneider.
The ten-game Elon schedule for
1961 shows the Wofford Terriers
replacing the Newport News Ap
prentice School, with the other
nine opponents the same as were
met last fall. The complete sched
ule follows;
Sept. 16—Guilford, home.
Sept. 23—Wofford, away.
Sept. 30—Appalachian, home.
Oct. 7—East Carolina, away.
Oct. 14—Tampa, away.
Oct. 21—Catawba, away.
Oct. 28—West Carolina, home.
Nov| 4—Newberry, away.
Nov. 11—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
Nov. 17—Presbyterian, home.
Irvin Hits 38 As Elon
Doivns Bears By 94-77
Talking Sports
With
DAVID ‘PROPHET’ MARSHBURN
I Timeout during Elon’s sweet 94 to 77 victory over Lenoir Rhyne
'gave Coach Bill Miller a chance to give quick instructions to the
Elon cagers. Seated left to right, and listening to Coach Miller’s
strategic orders, are Captain Ken Smith, Bifl Morningstar, Jug
il.vin, Eddie Burke, Gary Teague and manager Ted Eanes.
Blasting oft like a rocket into
outer space, the Elon Christians
moved to the front after six min
utes and were never headed as
they swept through, around and
over the Lenoir Hhyne Bears 94
to 77 in a North State Conference
battle here on Thursday night
February 16th.
It was the Christians’ final home
game of the 1961 season, and they
made it a good one for the home
fans as they hit on 30 of 57 shots
from the floor, amassing a 52.6
sliooting percentage against
Bruin team which had led the
North State regular-season stand
ings throughout the winter.
It was a cocky crew of Bears
that hit the floor of Alumni Mem
orial Gymnasium, a team which
had lost tonly twice in Conference
play and only three times all sea
son, and the invaders were utterly
unprepared for the atomic blast
which hit them from all angles.
Jug Irvin and Ken Smith, Elon’s
great forward combo from the
Kentucky hills, were never better
as they ripped the nets for ail o(
Elon first 18 points and for a com
bined total of 35 out of the Christ
ians’ 39 points in the Hrat half.
 tie with High Point for fourth
spot in the redhot North State Con-
terence race. Both the Christians
and Panthers finished with 11-7
records in Conference competition.
Jug Irvin and Ken Smith, Elon’s
twin terrors at forward, were hot
again as they continued their blaz
ing assault on the basket. Irvin
bagged 24 points for the night,
while Smith hit 22. with Dewey
Andrew hitting 19 and Gary
Teague 11 to give added power to
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the season the Christians have
proven that they could handle the
best the North State could offer,
meeting all the thrilUng tech
niques the other teams could offer
and coming up with some of their
own.
Never was this proven in more
thrilling style than on that night
last week when our Christians de
feated the top-ranking Lenoir
Rhyne Bears, a team which had
already clinched the top seeding
for the conference tournament. It
was probably the mo#t exciting
game of the year for the home
fans, but I do not have to tell
you if you saw it- And, if you did
not see it, then you have already
heard about it.
Certainly the -Bears, and any
other team which may finish
ahead of the Christians, must be
glad the season is over, for if
the campaign were starting today,
the Christians would surely have
ito be counted a threat for top
spot. And certainly, too, the rival
teams must have had a headache
as they thought of tangling with
the Christians in the North State
Tournament at Lexington.
With the tournament already
underway as this comes from the
press, there may be some who
wonder just how the tournament
schedule was set up. For those who
would like to know, the ten Con
ference teams battled for eight
tourney spots, with the two bottom
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1 Eloii Cage Games!
Elon 74, Pfeiffer CG.
Eton 69, Ersklne 76.
Elon 70, Wofford 75.
Eloa, 59, Belmont Abbey M.
Elon 83. Wofford 71.
Elon 87, Gilford 63.
Elon 57. Lenoir Rhyne
Elon 85. Pembroke 80.
Elon 79, Camj Lejenne 94.
Elon 66, PikevlUe 89.
Elon 89. Ga. Southern 62.
Elon 72, Catawba 57.
■on 88, Pembroke 84.
Elon 77, East Carolina 78.
Elon 66, Appalachian 89.
Elon 77, A.C.C. 76.
Elon 64, Catawba 59.
Elon 94, High Point 72.
Elon 68, Catawba 69
EUm 82, Pfeiffer 62.
Elen 84, Hig:h Point 82.
Elon 72, West Carolina 85
Elon 85, West Carolina 84
Elon 92, A.C.C. 78.
Elon 103, Ersklne 78.
Elon 88, Ea«t Carolina lt5.
Elon 66, Appalachian 68.
Elon 94, Lenoir Rhyne 77.
Elon 102, Guilford 82.
(Kemainlng Games)
Ffb. 22-26—North State
Tournament.
Elon Goes Over Century
In Victory Over Erskine
Apps Winner
In Close Tilt
The Appalachian Mountain
eers, rebounding from a string of
five straight North State Confer
ence defeats, eked out a narrow
68 to 66 victory over the Elon
Christians at Boone on February
13th in a game which was marked
by ragged play on the part of
both teams.
The Christians and Apps played
it close most of the way, and when
the halftime .intermiasion came
they left the court all knotted up
in a 36-36 tie. Midway the second
half the Mountaineers moved to a
57-51 edge, with this six-point
spread the greatest for either team
during the battle, which saw the
lead swap hands ten times.
Two free throws by Rick Howe
the Mountaineers a 68-64
gave
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Elon’s Ten Best Cage Seasons Cited As Christian Highlights
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1938 - Best Wln-I-oss Mark
The Maroon and Gold squad of
1938 boasted the best single-sea-
son mark in the history of Elon
basketbal Ito that time, a mark
which is still the best in Christian
history percentage-wise. That 1938
aggregation posted 19 victories and
only two defeats. This 1938 club
won the North State Conference
championship, Elon’s second co«-
secutive title and the fifth in Con
ference history, dinching the
crown with eleven wins in twelve
starts. A special feature of this
Season was a northern trip, on
which Elon won five and lost one,
including victories over Washing-
^ and Lee, V.M^I., Naval Ap-
'e, St. Johns and Randolph
’’’he lone defeat was
^ugh 0M«t_ ^ Whitley. Cai^
'Washmgton. ^ Bij,hard
'Wft Hal Bradley ^ ^ t,
*'*led" CpoiflUsh were j
the All-Conference teanl.
members of the squad
ITesmire. John Causey, Jl® ’
Ben LiUen and Claude „
Whitley led in scoring
points, and Horace (Howe>
drickson coached.
1947 - Elon’s Boney CaU»
The 1947 team, coached by L.
“Hap” Perry, had an over-aU sea
eon mark of 16 wins and 10 los*®*'
but its high mark came when the
Christians won the Conference
tournament to claim Elon s firpt^
title since pre-war days, ^ney
Cates, who set a new Elon indi
vidual scoring mark of 447 points,
became the first Elon player to top
40# points in a season. He was
named All-State and joined Ca^
Warren Burns on the All-Confer
ence team. Cates ranked 11th in
the nation in individual scoring.
1952 - To National Tourney
The 1952 campaign saw Elon’s
cagers make the first of three trips
to the National NAIA Tourney in
Kansais City, closing out a 25-11
season by going to the finals of
the Conference tourney and win
ning the NAIA district title. That
team was the first Eloa outfU
to win 20 games or more m a
season, but special highlights
showed Don Haithcox setting an
all-time individual record with 607
points, with Ben KendaU trailing
with 565 markers. Both Haithcox
aad KeildaU won All-Conference
and All-Tourney honors, and Ken
dall was named AU-State.
1956 - Highest Scoring Team
The 1956 team, which set Elon s
highest all-time scoring record
wL winning 25 of 32 games^won
.both the Conference and NAlA
district tournaments and became
the second Elon team to play in
the NAIA nationals at Kansas City
The seam scored 2,8699 points in
32 games, averaging 89.7 points
per game and setting the single
game high mark of 124 points
against a strong DuPont outfit.
Dee Atkinson topped individual
scoring with 516 points, the sec
ond time that the lanky center had
topped the 500-point mark for a
season. Atkinson and Kendall were
both on the All-Conference teams
and they were joined by Ed Jur
atic ion the loop’s AJl-Toumey
squad.
1057 - Highest Career Marks
by Jimmy Crump, who hit 88.2 per
cent of his free throw tries for
the year. Atkinson was named
most outstanding player in the
Conference and Atkinson. JuraUc
and Crump won All-Conference
honors.
Since Atkinson bmved out tuat
year, it might be well to Ubulate
his great career record for iour
seasons. The record follows:
G FG FT TP
3S 75 75 225
35 193 126 512
29 178 160 516
30 210 161 581
Season
1852
1953
1956
Although the 1957 - Elon’s One-Two Punch
Elon’s third trip to the natienal
NAIA tourney to close a 24-6 cam
paign, the shining Ught of the
year was when Dee Atkinson
closed out a brilliant four-year
career in possession of nine of
Elon's twelve individual sc^g
marks. The lanky star bowed off
the stage while holding ‘he rec
ord for the most games played
with 128, most single-game field
goals with 19, most single-game
Lints with 39. .most single^eason
^ee throws with 161, most career
field goals with 656, most career
ree tUws with 522, most career
points with 1,834 and as the only
Elon player to top 500 poinU per
year three times. He is al^ tl^e
only Elon player comP«te
three national NAIA tournament
Another high mark that seaosn was
Just as the fat and lean years
hit Egypt in the years of Pharoahs,
tat and lean seasons have been
recorded in Elon basketball. ’The
Christians had three learn seasons
in a row, but the Maroon and Gold
was back on the come-back trail
during this 1961 season behind the
tremendous "one - two punch"
which lay in the shooting of Jug
Irvin and Kern Smith. As the regu
lar season ended, but with the Con
ference tournament remaining,
Irrin had 603 points, becoming the
second Elon player to top the 600
mark for a season and needing
only five points to top Haithcox’s
all-time mark of 607 points. Smith
had 526 points to become Elon’s
sixth player to break the 500-poiBt
mark. It is only the third time that
Elon has had two players over
500 in a season.
Glories In Review
In a quick summary, statistics
show that Elon’s 1938 team has
the best season percentage with 19
wins and 2 losses, whUe the teams
of 1952, 1953 and 1956 showed the
most wins in a season with marks
of 25-11, 25-11 and 25-7. The 1956
team had the highest season scor
ing with 2,869 points, a mark
which is also the North State Con
ference record
Five Elon players Iwlong in the
•are “One ’Thousand Oub,” com-
iposed of boys who have scored
more than 1,000 points for Elon
They are Dee Atkinson, with 1,834
points; Ben Kendall, with 1,653
poinU; Don Haithcox, with 1,456
points; Ed Juratic with 1.306
points (in 3 seasons), and Frank
DeRita, with 1,061 points
Don Haithcox holds the single
season Individual mark of 607
poinU, but Jug Irvin was expected
to smash this mark in the first
♦ornament game. Five other boys
who have hit 600 or more in a year
year Include Dee Atkinson three
timm. Ben KemdaU, Jimmy Crump,
Jug Irvin and Ken Smith. Five
fOther Maroon a»d Gold stars have
hit 400 pointe or more in single
seasons, including Ed Juratic three
times, Dave Maddox, Jack MaUoy
Roney Cates and Richie Conataer.
Like the explosive crash of a
plaie breaking the sound barrier,
the cheers exploded loud and long
a.'i the Elon Christians smashed
past the century mark In tramp
ling the Erskine Flying Feet 103
to 78 here on Friday night, Febru
ary 10th. It was the first time an
Elon cage squad had topped the
100-mark in scoring in more than
five years, and it was a welcome
sight to Elon fans.
Five Elon players ripped the
nets in double figures to make the
century victory a team effort, with
Coach Bill Miller unleashing his
boys in a running attack that sim
ply ground the Erskine outfit Into
the flo|>r. The win more than
avenged a 76 to 69 loss suffered
Erskine in December.
The goring assault by the Christ
ians was reminiscent of the great
Elon team of 1956, which posted no
less than eight games scores above
the 100-point level, but the Ersklne
victory was the first century ef
fort since January 21, 1956, when
Elon toppled Western Carolina 107
90.
Jug Irvin, who paced the Elon
attack with 22 points, pushed his
season total to 507 points, becom
ing the fifth Elon star to break the
600-point circle In ChrisUan cage
history. Dee Atkinson topped 500
three times, and Ben Kendall,
Jimmy Crump and Don Haithcox
each did it once. Irvin also led
the Christians in rebounds
In addition to the Burkesville
Bomber, other Elon players who
,ere in double figures against the
Flying Feet were Ken Smith with
19, Dewey Andrew with 16, Garv
Teague with 13 and Eddie Burke
with 11 points. Bob Tuttle and Bill
Carr led Erskine with 16 and 14
points.
The Christians moved out frt)nl
at 10-9 early in the game, and
they were never headed after that
time. They were ahead by 51 to 39
at halftime, and the fast-break
continued to function for a 52-39
edge in the final half, totalling the
final count of 103 to 78. The poinU
that shoved Elon over the century
level came on driving lay-ups by
Eddie Burke.
The line-ups:
PoB. Elon (18S) Ersklne (78)
K—Irvin (22) Tuttle (16)
F—Smith (19) Walters (10)
C—Andrew (16) Ohlendorf (10)
G—^Teague (13) HlUer (10)
G—Monringstar (2) Carr (14)
The Kentucky riflemen hit for a
total of 61 points for the night,
■with Irvin racking 38 and Smith
getting 23 counters.
Irvin, who was good on 14 of 21
floor tries, hit ten of ten from the
free throw line in amassing his 38
points, barely one point shy of Dee
Atkinson’s Elon single-game mark
of 39 points, which Atkinson set
against Western Carolina in 1956.
Irvin might have shattered the
mark, but he left the game with
more than two minutes left as
Coach Bill Miller cleared the
bench.
The Christians were off In fi'ont
on two buckets by Captain Smith,
but the load swapped several times
before Irvin banged home two
baskets to shoot Elon ahead at
13-11, and from that point the
Elon cagers moved to a 39-29 edge
at intermission.
Lenoir Rhyne pulled within nine
poinU at 70-61, but Elon then hit
20 while the Bears got 7 points and
moved to a 20-point edge at 88-68
as the Christian subs took over.
In addition to Irvin and Smith,
others In double figures for Elon
were Gary Teague and Eddie
Burke. Jim Wiles had 20 and Jerry
Wells 17 to lead Lenoir Rhyne.
There was a near-eruption late
in the game when Referee Herbert
Young banished the Bruins’ Coach
Billy Wells from the gymnasium
after Wells charged on the floor
to protest a technical foul called
against a Lenoir Rhyne player, but
the game was played out without
further hostilities.
The line-up.s;
Ijtnoiz Rhsme (77)
Wells (17)
Pos. Elon (94)
F—Irvin (38)
F—Smith (23) Wiles (20)
C—Andrew Feam (10)
G—Teague (11) Burton (15)
G—Morningstar (6) Holbrook (8)
Half-time; Elon 39. Lenoir
Rhyne 29.
Elon suba—Burke 10. Hodge 4,
Myers 2, Hawks, Cheek. Maldon,
Miller. Lenoir Rhyne subs—Kilby
Schley 4.
Pirate Quint
Downs Elon
In Greenville
Half-time: Elon 51, Ersklne 39
Elon subs—Burke 11, Hawks 4
Miller 8, Cheek 2, Maldon 4, Myers
2, Hodge. Erskine subs — Cox 7,
Santamaria 7, Taylor 2, KUer 2.
Catching the East Carolina Pir
ates on one of their hottest nights
of the sea.son, the Elon Christians
went down before the red-hot Pir
ates by a 105 to 88 count la a
North State Conference battle at
Greenville on Saturday night, Feb
ruary 11th.
The Christians, who had topped
the century mark against Ersklne
the night before, found themselves
on the other end of the scale in
the tilt with the Pirates, for Coach
Earl Smith’s boys were deadly
In their shooting all night, hitting
on 55.7 per cent of their floor
shots during the contest.
The Pirates ripped the nets for
60 points in the first half and
grabbed a 60 to 52 edge at the
intemiissioB. Elon pulled within
■three points at one time In the sec
ond half, but Lacy West and Cot
ton CHayton led the Pirates as they
pulled out again to a safe lead.
Ken Smith hit 25 and Jug Irvin
23 to lead the Elon cagers, who
hit well themselves In spite of the
loss. Dewey Andrew was a third
Christian In double figures as he
bit for 13 counters. West hit 28 and
Clayton 21 to top the home-stand
ing East Carolina club.
The line-ups;
Pos. Ekm (88) E. Carolina (1*5)
F—Smith (25) D. Smith (12)
F—Irvin (23) West (28)
C—Andrew (13) Otte (10)
G—^Teague (4) Clayton (21)
G—^Morningstar (8) Lewis (18)
Half-time; Bast Carolina 60
Eloo 52.
Eoln subs—Bfurke 1, Ha’*
Miller 6, Myers. East
subs—^Bowes 4, Bowen t.
2, Fomes 2, Wicker.