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Foe In Homecoming Tilt
('liristiaiis Have To Win
To Keej) Titular Chance
ED WHELESS, JUNIOR QUARTEUBACK
DAN KELLEY, SENIOR END
•V’LLIE T/VRT, SENIOR HALFBACK
Thiee Fighting Christian stars, including a pair of seniors and one junior, had a virtual monojioly on
op positions in the Elon offensive statistics after six games of the 1963 football campaign. Willie Tart,
j|)ecdy senio; halfback from Dunn, was leading the Christians in rushing yardage and total offense with a
total of 327 yards and an average of 5.3 yards per carry. Ed Wheless, a junior newcomer at quarterback,
who hails from Asheboro, was topping the team in passing with 374 yards on 24 completions in 60 tries. Dan
\t licy. senior end from Darlington, S. C., was toppi ig the pas catching department with 9 completions
for 154 yards.
Christians Shmv Balanced Ground
Attack And Stron ^ Aerial Threat
The Fighting Christian gridders,
who face the tough Western CarO'
lina Catamounts in Elon's annual
Homecoming Day battle in Burling
ton Stadium at 2 o’clock tomorrow
afternoon, are still very much in the
‘ace for the Carolinas Conference
title in spite of last week's loss to
Catawba.
However, that 12-7 defeat in Salis
bury last Saturday turned tomor
row's battle with Western Carolina
nto a "must win" game .for the
Christians. In fact, it turned every I
)attle left on the Elon schedule into
ii "must" contest
The Appalachian eleven, having
already finished its Conference play
with a 4-1 record, can win the title
only if Elon and Catawba both lo.se
two tilts. The Christians and Indi
ans are both showing one lo.ss at
;his stage of the season, and n. i(l\or
can (ake another loss and still t! ,ini
he title.
Right now. the Christians face a
lougher road than does Catawu
or Elon must still face Western
i.'arollna, Newberry and Lenoir
Elon Footlmll
Elon 6, Frederick 7.
Elon 14, Emory-Henry 15.
EIc.n 28, Guilford 7
Elon Ifi, .Appalarhian 13
Elon 0, East Carolina 6
Elon 7, Carson-\(‘wmun 6.
Elon 7, Catawba 12.
I Nov. 2—West Carolina, home.
' Nov. 9—Newberry, away.
Nov. 16—Ijonoir Hhyne. awav.
'^hyne. Catawba still has to” play
Guilford and Lenoir Rhyne. I£
.leither Elon nor Catawba lose, then
;he two teams would tie for the
crown, with Appalachian third.
All of which boils down to the
act that Elon must turn back the
.'tamounts tomorrow, and anyone
Alio thinks that will l>e easy should
heck that bare 21-20 win which
l.inoir Rhyne chalked at Cullowhee
!ci,t weekend. Fans who rated th»
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EJoit Eleven Ekes 7 To 6
Win At ( .'arson-Newnian
Spotlighting
The Fighting
Christians
By TOM CORBITT
Wekome Alumni
To our returning alumni and
friends, may I say welcome home.
You have established a fine tradi
tion and it is my hope that through
this Homecoming program you can
see that we are building upon the
foundation that you laid. Here’s
hoping your weekend is enjoyable,
and, by the way, come back to see
Us more often.
Intellectual Atmosphere
As the Elon gridders boarded the
bus for Carson-Newman, I noticed
that most of them were carrying
text books. But, once we got started,
the boys broke out their comic
books, and everyone read comics
for five hours.
The intellectual tastes on my side
of the bus ran mainly to “Super
man ” and “Batman,” with Charlie
Strigo. McDonald, Big John, Rob
inson. Willie Tart and Cameron
Little among the group. Joe Daw
son. Broadaway, Scott Crabtree and
Richard Thompson favored “War
Combat,” “Straight Arrow” and
“Tim Holt.”
Coach Tucker made some com
ment about some other kind of book
but settled for “Donald Duck” and
“Uncle Scrooge" On Friday night,
however, the boys hurried over to
the Carson-Newman Library to
study, and you could just see the
looks on the Carson-Newman stu
dents they met. Bet they were say
ing, "Gee, I’ll bet they study a lot.”
Carson-Newman College
A football visitor to the Carson-
Newman campus gets some inter
esting impressions of the Tennessee
college, which has about the same
^nrolbnent as Elon, although the
campus itself is larger than ours,
and they have some very impres
sive buildings, including eight new
ones built in the past four years
Player
All the dorms are of colonial
style, but the science building, stu
dent center, dining hall and ath
letic building are of modern archi
tecture. There are four girls’ dorms
and two boys’ dorms. One of the
'loys’ dorms, being of the same
vintage as our East Dorm, is much
larger and is called “The Barn.”
Brother, they have two nice
iwimming pools there. I will say
liis about that 'excuse me, JFK).! Burnette
[ believe their boys’ pool is larger j Rovere
than the Elon pool, but our pool wheless
is bigger than their girls’ pool. j
The Elon squad stayed in the
)3sement of th0 athletic building,
which provided fine facilities and
sleeping space for 40 persons. Each
major sport has its own space, with
separate pro'.isions for PE classes.
It is interesting that the CN cage
team, which downed Western Caro
lina 37-36 last year, rated sixth in
the nation.
The Stokeley Memorial Cafeteria
was beautiful. Students pay for
meals according to what they get.
I found their food better than ours,
,)ut I paid 94 cents and $1.03 for the
two meals I got. We pay far less at
Elon and get a greater quantity.
They had milk and tea machines of
the pi:sh-button type.
On the Friday evening we were
there, the Carson-Newman football
team was serving. They carried the
girls’ trays to the tables and courte
ously held the girls chairs for them.
Taking one’s tray up consisted of
placing it on a moving belt.
The Carson-Newman library was
smaller than EUon’s and had fewer
books. Socially the coUege did not
impress me. The Baptist institution
does not allow dancing, and fratern
ities are forbidden, although men
have two s^ieties. I was told that
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ELON TEAM STATISTICS
71
Total Scoring
54
77
First Dov.tis
60
272
Number of Rushing Plays
232
1035
Total Yards Rushing
838
150
Yards Lost Rushing
177
835
Net Yards Rushing
661
155.8
Ave. Rushing Per Game 110.2
60
Number Passes Thrown
72
24
Passes Completed
29
374
Total Yards Passing
380
62.3
Ave. Passing Per Game
63.3
1309
Total Scrimmage Gains
1041
213.3
Ave. Total Offense
173.5
6
Opp. Passes Intercepted
5
^2
Runback Interc. Passes
49
•il
Number Punts
32
947
Total Yards r*unts
1088
30.5
Ave. Yards Punts
34.0
94
Yards Runback of Punts
58
278 Yards Runback of Kickoffs
281
6
F\imbles Lost
6
235
Total Yards Penalties
175
INDIVIDUAL RUSHING
Player
Rushes Yds.
Ave.
Tart
62
327
5.3
Stewart
55
240
4.4
Pruette
48
239
5.0
Johnson
29
104
3.6
Burnette
24
64
2.5
Rovere
16
40
2.5
Wheless
27
-60
-2.3
Player
Tart
I -\ well-bal.incsd ground ,ns.‘:auit
I iiid a iTotent threat through the air
has feitured the phy of tho Fi^.ht-
ing Christians during the early sea
son of the 1963 football campaign,
and the driving legs of a number
of very fine Elon backs has kept
the Christian atop the Carolinas
Conference in rushing yardage un-
‘il past mid-season.
Such stars as Willie Tart. Fred
Stewart and Sonny Pruette have
split the individual honors for the
Christians in ground assault, with
others like Clayton Johnson, Alex
Burnette and Ken Rovere pounding
out a fair share of yardage.
Strawberry-topped Ed Wheless,
who moved in as a junior new
comer to grab the quarterback spot
with the Christians this fall, has
orovided Elon with a dangerous
0 a s s i n g threat. The Christian
chunker had his best day of the
early season when he tossed for
135 yards against Carson-Newman,
but he averaged better than 60
yards a game for the season’s first
six games.
Statistics compiled for the first
six games of the 10-game campaign
showed that Willie Tart, speedy
senior halfback, was leading Elon
rushing and total offense with 327
yards, gained on 62 rushes for an
average of 5.3 yards each time he
handled the ball.
Rushing has not been Tart’s only
threat, either, for he had grabbed
thre passes for 44 yards, had re
turned seven punts for 70 yards and
had lugged back two kickoffs for
35 yards. A bit of arithmetic re
vealed that the speedy senior had
moved the ball a combined total of
476 yards, well beyond the quarter
mile distance which he runs for the
track team in the spring.
When Ed Wheless completed sev
en of fifteen tosses for 135 yards
against Carson-Newman, he pushed
1 his total aerial gains to 374 yards
PUNT RETURNS I for the season, but he had been
„ * . . . I forced to take 60 yards in rushing
Ret. Longest Yds.'
"i’ht behir.1 him in pass catching
•= '-"pn .1 ihn Oozlnck, his flanker
■rite, with 6 catches for 81 yards.
The complete figures for the Elon
sam and for the Christian indi-
iduals for the first six battles of
-he year, compiled prior to the
ontest with Catawba, are as fol
lows:
Elon Loses A Friend
Elonites were saddened on Oc
tober 2nd by the death of Mr. D. V.
Andrew, father of Dewey and How
ard Andrew, Elon cage stars. The
memory of this truly benevolent
man will live long in the minds of
those who were fortunate enough to
know him.
Nimble fingers and an alert eye
foi' loose footballs proved the decid-
ng factor when the Fighting Chiist-
ms of Elon College used a pair of
recovered fumbled — one after an
■;ion bobble and another following
I Carson-Newman miscue — to de
feat the Carson-Newman Eagles 7
to 6 at Jefferson City, Tenn., on
Saturday afternoon, October 19th.
The Christians moved quickly fol
lowing the first kick-off, hammering
out an impressive 76-yard drive for
the Elon score. It required the
Christians only ten plays to move
into pay dirt after Sonny Pruette
had returned the first kick-off from
his own five to the twenty-four.
There were two Elon fumbles dur
ing the drive, but the Christians
recovered both of them, with the
second recovery in the Carson-New-
man end zone resulting in the
Christian score. The first Elon bob
ble came at the Christian 35-yard
marker and could have ended (he
threat right there, but Elon recov-
•red and kept on moving.
There were four first-and-tens
luring the scoring journey, includ
ing a 12-yard pass from Ed Wheless
to Dan Kelley and a 3«-yard trek
by Sonny Pruette which carried to
the Eagles’ 12-yard marker.
Big Fred Stewart picked up a
pair of yards and then Willie Tart
look off for the final ten yards,
only to fumble the ball and .see the
pigskin squirt into the end zone.
It was there that the Elon alert
ness and nimble fingers came into
play, for Dan Kelley pounced on
the loose ball to give Elon the
touchdown. Bobby P’errell, Elon’s
true-toe tackle, booted the extra
point for the 7-0 lead.
That was Elon’s only score, but
the Christians threatened on several
other occasions, only to have pesky
penalties turn them back from
touchdown land. The Elon score had
come with 9:30 left in the first
quarter, and Elon overcame a 15-
* • •
itErUKNS TO ACTION
INDIVIDUAL PASSING
Passes Compl. Yds.
Wheless
60
24
374
PASS
RECEIVING
Player
Caught
Yds.
TD
Kelley . - -
.9
154
0
Gozjack —
6
81
1
Tart -
3
44
0
Pruette
3
44
1
Dean
1
39
0
Jarvis . -
2
12
0
INDIVIDUAL PLTVTING
Player Punts Yds
Gozjack 27 833
Tart . - 3 94
Ave.
30.8
31.3
7 13 70
Pruette .. 1 20 20
Johnson 2 4 4
KICKOFF RETURNS
Player Ret. Longest Yds.
Stewart 4
Pruette 3
Tart 2
Rovere 2
Johnson 2
Berdosh 1
50
108
21
56
19
35
23
32
21
27
0
0
losses when trapped on pass plays,
and his total offense for the first
six games of the year was only 314
yards, good for second spot in the
total offense columns.
One of the big reasons why EUl
Wheless has developed into a po
tent passing threat during the year
has been the sticky fingers of big
Dan Kelley, Christian end. Kelley
grabbed 9 passes in the first six
games for a total of 154 yards.
Elon
12
179
12
167
15
7
135
302
1
0
7
29.1
86
0
92
HOW IT HAPPENED
Carson-Newman
11
176
13
163
6
2
7
170
1
6
8
35.4
67
1
5
Clayton Johnson, one of the fastest halfbacks in the Carolinas Con
ference, has returned to action in recent games on the Elon schedule
after being out with injuries through much of the Elon campaign. The
former Graham High star, who was a starting halfback when the
season began, has both speed and power, and few ball carriers in the
Conference can turn the comer on wide plays better than he does.
First Downs
Yards Gain Rushing
Yards Ijmt Rushing
Net Yards Rushing
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Yards Gain Passing
Total Gains .Scrimmage
Opp. Passes Intercepted
Runback Interc. Passes
Number Of Punts
Ave. Yards Punts
Runbark All Kicks
Fumbles Lost
Yards Penalties
Scoer By Periods:
F^lon 7 0 0 0—7
Carson-Newman 0 0 0 6—6
Elon Touchdown — Kelley (recov
ered fumble in end zone after 10-
yard gain by Tart). Extra Point —
Ferrell (placement). Carson-New
man Touchdown — Worthington (1-
run).
yard penalty to drive to the Eagle
twenty for a field goal try that
failed early in the second period.
Later in that same quarter the
('hristians were on the enemy thirty-
six, and Wheless tossed 34 yards
to Kelley to the Carson-Newman
eleven on the final play of the half.
There were two other occasions
In the second half when the Elon
gridders pounded and passed their
way to the Carson-Newman thirty-
five and thirty-three, only to have
15-yard penalties set the Maroon
and Gold eleven back on its heels.
Altogether, the Elon gridders were
hit with 92 yards in penalties dur
ing the game, more penalty yard
age than EUon had suffered in any
two combined tilts this fall.
The Carson-Newman gridden,
playing before a Homecoming
crowd, failed to offer any sustained
drive in the first half, but Jimmy
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