Ftiday, November 13, 1964
MAKOON AND GOLD
FAOK Tmur-
Eton Must Topple Lenoir Rhyne To Win Loop Title
Catamounts Break Elon
Victory Mark 21 To 20
iSECONDARY DEFENDERS FOR COMWCHERO UNIT
By TOM CORBITT
The fourth quarter passing of
Freshman quarterback Jim Wil
liams and the place kicking of
Van Stayton turned Halloween into
a nightmare tor the Elon College
Fighting Christians as Western
Carolina came from twenty points
behind to hand Elon its first defeat
of the 1964 season by a 21-20 score
in the fourth quarter at Cullowhee
on Saturday night, October 31st.
WillianB, who started the season
as the Catamounts’ third string
quarterback, passed for one touch
down and ran for two more, set
ting up all three with his aerial
acrobatics in the Catamount scor
ing spree in the final nine minutes.
Elon
6
185
57
128
17
9
1»5
313
4
23
HOW IT HAPPENED
West Carolina
34.9
90
3
73
12
85
25
60
2S
18
247
307
1
0
7
34.4
102
1
5
First Downs
Yards Gain Rushing
Yards Lost Rushiag
Net Yards Rushing
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Yards Gain Passing
Total Yards Offense
0pp. Passes Interc.
Runback Int. Passes
Number Punts
Ave. Yards Punts
Runback All Kicks
Fumbles Lost
Yards Penalized
SCORE BY PERIODS
Eton 0 6 8 6—20
West Carolina 0 0 0 21—21
Elon Touchdowns — Gentry (66-
run), Stewart (51-pass from Whe-
less), Harrison (64-pass from Whe-
less). Extra Points — Pruette 2
(pass Fran Wbeless). West Caro
lina Toacbdowns — Holden (31-paBS
from Williams), Williams 2 (1-run.
1-run). Extra Points — Stayton 3
(placements).
• • *
The Fighting Christians, who en
tered the game with a 5-0 record
for top honors in the Carolinas
Conference and a number five rank
ing, tallied their first TD in the
second quarter on the 66-yard run
of freshman David (Jentry. The
conversion by Bobby Farrell was
wide and Elon led 6-0 at halftime.
Elon added a second touchdown
late in the third quarter on a 51
yard swing pass from quarterback
Ed Wheless to FYed Stewart. Whel-
ess threw to Sonny Pruette for the
two-point conversion and a 14-0
Christian spread. The final Christ
ian scoring play came on a 63-yard
bomb from Wheless to end Rex
Harrison with 12:25 remaining in
the final quarter.
Hie Christians’ cause was dealt
a fatal blow by penalties, two touch
downs being nullified by whistles
and falling flags. In the second
quarter, Joe Dawson intercepted a
Williams pass on the Elon 3-jard
line and raced all the way behind
a score of blockers, only to have
the play called back and the ball
returned to Western Carolina. Fol
lowing the Christians’ final score,
Williams dropped back and passed
on first down from the Catamount
thirty-three. Lamar Dark inter
cepted his safety-valve pass on
the WCC thirty and raced all the
way. A clipping penalty brought
the ball back to the Catamount 41-
yard line. The Christians were pan-
alized a total of 73 yards for the
evening, against 5 yards for West
ern Carolina.
With 10 minutes remaining in the
game, Elon lost the ball on downs
at the Catamount forty. An Elon
personal foul gave WCC a first
down at their own 47-yard line. On
first down, Williams passed to Larry
McDonald, who lateralled to tail
back EUis Johnson for a 23-yard
gain and a WCC first down on the
Elon thirty. On the next play
Williams threw 30 yards for a
touchdown to Leroy Holden. Van
Stayton added the placement.
The Christians returned the kick-
off to the twenty-six, but were
penalized half the distance to the
punt
(Continued od Page Fcmi
5-
Christians Face Bears
In Final Home (.'ontest
nan me aisiance lo me if ^
goal for a personal foul. On fourth j| .
down, Joe Dawson’s punt went off^
Spotlighting
The Fighting
Christians
By TOM CORBITT
"Home cooking” is a polite term
ior favoritism on the part of of
ficials toward the home team dur
ing an athletic contest.
Had Elon defeated Western Caro
line two weeks ago over in Cullow
hee, the Elon coaching staff would
have stated quite emphatically that
in their opinion, the officiating in
the Elon - Western Carolina game
was characterized by qualities other
than those which could be consid-
er«l fair and impartial.
Now when a team loses a game,
all excuses are taboo. Society tells
us that we must accept our defeats
gracefully, that we must be good
sports. The “honorable competitor”
is not beaten by poor officiating or
bad breaki, he is beaten fairly
and squarely by a better team.
Years fron> now, Elon College
will look back on 1964 as the year
when the righting Christians almost
compiled a perfect 10-0 season.
Histor" will show that the Christ
ians’ only loss came as Western
Carolina came from behind to
Five New Elon Records Set
This fine Christian grid squad of
1964 has already set five new indi
vidual season records for Elon’s
all-time annals, and fleet David
Gentry, the limber-legged fresh
man from Hendersonville, has credit
for four of them. The fifth new
season mark is credited to Scott
Crabtree, junior center from Dur
ham.
The new records for Gentry in
clude most kick-off returns and;
most combined returns of all kickai
•both punts and kick-offs), along|
with new marks for most yards
of returns of both kick-offs andj
combined kicks. The new mark for
Crabtree is for most opponent’s
fumbles recovered in a season. The
new marks follow, along with the
old ones broken:
MOST KICK-OFF RETURNS:
Gentry 14 — old n»ark 13, by Kerry
Richards in 1956 and Willie Tart
in 1963.
MOST COMBINED KI(3C RE
TURNS: Gentry 24 — old mark 23,
by Willie Tart in 1962.
MOST YARDS KICK-OFF RE
TURNS: Gentry 4(K — old mark 274
by John Platt in 19SS.
D.AVID GENTRY
MOST YARDS COMBINED KICK
RETI'RNS: Gentry 495 — old mark
412 by Willie Tart In 1962.
most OPPONENTS FVMBLES
Crabtree 4 — old mark 3, by Glenn
Varney and Chuck Ma>-nard in
1954, Dean Yates in 1960 and John
DalC^ in 1961.
score 21 points in the fourth quarter
and defeat Elon 21-20.
The statistics of the game will
show that the two teams played a
fairly even game, with both team^
gaining total yardage over 300 yds.
.And then, If the observer happens
to look further down the list to
yards penalized, the statistics will
show that Elon was penalized 73
yards and Western Carolina was
penalized 5 yards.
The statistics will not say that
Elon had two touchdowns nullified
by penalties.
History will not show that late
In the second quarter as Western
Carolina drove deep into Elon ter
ritory, Joe Dawson intercepted a
Jim Williams pass on the Elon
three and raced all the way for a
touchdown, only to have the entire
play nullified and the ball returned
to Western Carolina.
This migkt have seemed strange
to future generations, for on the
snap of the ball, a penalty marker
was thrown for offensive holding by
Western Carolina, and as Dawson
raced downfield, another flag was
thrown on the Western Carolina 46-
yard line for clipping by Elon
Now on such a play, future gen
erations would probably tell us
that on such a play, Elon would
refuse the holding penalty to get
the ball on the interception, and
Western Carolina would accept the
clipping penalty on the forty-six to
nullify the touchdown and move
the baU back to the Elon 39-yard
line.
But, however archaic our present
game of football may appear in
The future, it would not be beheved
that the ball was given back to
Western Carohna as the penalties
"nullified each other.” Also, future
generations would not know that
the game films revealed that Elon
was not clipping after all.
Neither would future generations
believe that as halfback David
Gentry was tackled on a big pileup
a certain Western Carolina player
down on the bottom of the pile
starting biting Gentry’s leg, and as
Gentry tried to remove his leg
from the mouth of the Catamount.
Elon was penalized 15 yard-s for
kicking (a personal foul).
And if the game films were
(Continued oo Pag* Foot'
High praise has gone to the famed Ellon Comancheros, the Christian
defensive unit, for its repeated goal line stancis against enemy assaults
this season, and many fans have watched with closest interest the
bone-jarring tackles of the big C^istian linemen. Not all of the credit,
however, belongs to those big and tough linemen, for Elon has also
had a crew of fine secondary defenders in the backfield. Two of the
backfield stars of the Comancheros are pictured above in Sonny Pruette,
junior safety man from Roanoke Rapids, and Ron Foresta, a freshman
halfback from Brooklyn, N. Y. Third member of the backfield defensive
trio, not shown here, is Lamar Clark, a junior halfback from Lexington,
who has already intercepted five enemy passes this fall.
Chrstian Cagers Meet
Wofford Here Dec. 1st
The Fighting Christians can clinch
their first full Carolinas Conference
grid championship In almost a
quarter century if they can turn
back a rapidly-improving Lenoir
Rhyne grid squad at Burlington
Memorial Stadium tomorrow night,
but no victory over a Bruin eleven
ever comes easy.
It is true that the Fighting Christ
ian outfit rolled for an impressive
40 to 7 triumph over the Bears at
Hickory last fall, but even that win
required one «f the most outstand
ing performances ever turned in by
an Elon football squad, a perform
ance which included a record-
smashing individual effort by Ekl
Wheless, Elon’s strawberry-thatched
quarterback.
The Christians moved to within
one victory of clinching the 1904
Conference crown when they chalk
ed a 29 to 6 victory over the New
berry Indians last weekend, but
that same night saw the Ixjnoir
thyne squad roll hot for a 27 to 3
ictory over one of the finest of all
Frederick grid teams.
The power of the Lenoir Rhyne
threat against Elon’s titular hopes
looms the larger in view of that
-erwhelming victory over Fted
rick, for the Lions from Virginia
Tidewater had previously trampled
Emory and Henry 25 to 6. a fa
bigger score than Elon madi
against the Wasps. They also down
ed Newberry 27 to 6 and had de
feated Catawba 17 to 14, chalking
'Imost identical .scores with Eloi
llloc Fuothall
The Elon football campaign la
still in full swing, but King Football
will soon give way to King Bas
ketball on the sports throne, asd
less than three weeks remain be
fore the Fighting C^hrlstian bas-
keteers will open their new 1964-65
cage season by meeting the Wof
ford Terriers on the home floor
over In Alumni Memorial Gymna
sium on December 1st.
The ganv; with the Terriers will
open a schedule which shows 23
regularly scheduled battles and a
pair of tournaments. Eleven of the
23 contests will be played on the
home floor, with an even dozen
contests carded on the road. The
games include fifteen Carolinas
Conference tilts, with the two tourn-
iments Including a Christmas event
at Fort Eustls, Va., and the annua
Confereiii 'nuet in LexiiiiSton
The Conference cam|)ai3n w,l
show the Maroon and Gold outfit
meeting Atlantic Christian. Appa
lachian, Catawba, High Point, Len
oir Rhyne, Pfeiffer and Western
Carolina In two games each, with
battles on each home court. The
Guilford Quakers will be met only
once again this year, with the lone
tilt set for the Elon floor.
The non-Conference games on th
schedule, which was announced by
Ckiach Bill Miller recently. Include
meetings with Wofford, Ersklne,
East Carolina, Campbell and FYed
erick, all of whom have appeared
II r^lon bMiketball cards In recent
seasons.
bix lettermen are Included on the
,'hristian cage roster, which was
released some weeks ago by Coad
'(‘onTinued on Kour,
Elon 14, Emory and Henry 6.
F^lon IS, Guilford 6.
Elon 28, Appalachian 7.
Elon 9, Camp I,ejeune 7.
Klon 31, Carson-Nrwman 6.
Elon 22, Catawba 17.
Elon 20, West Carolina 21.
Elon 29. Newberry 6.
(Remalnlnc Game#)
Nov. 14—I.enolr Hhyne, home.
N«v. 21—Frederick, away.
against the Newberry and Catawba
.squads.
The fact that Lenoir Rhyne won
with .such ease and by such a mar
gin against Frederick indicates quite
clearly (hat Elon will have to be
at peak of form to turn back the
Bears this weekend. The Bears
also defeated Appalachian and
Western Carolina in Conference bat
tles. and Coach Hanley Painter's
eleven are now in second place be
hind league-leading Elon in the con
ference totle race and can keep in
the championship running by defeat
ing the Christians.
A bare victory over the Bears
will clinch the Conference honors
for Elon, but Coach Tucker’s boys
-■ill have to roll Impressively if
they hope to move back up in the
national NAIA ratings. However,
most of the Elon fans will be happy
with a win, let the score be what
it may.
ELON HAS i lNE F1M>SH
GRIDDEKS ON ROSTER
By TOM CORBITT
(Continued F'rom Last Issue!
,\s (he 1961 football season moves
oward its conclusinn. it is more and
more evident how much contribution
Elan’s fre.shman gridders are mak
ing toward the success of the Fight
ing Christian eleven. The following
player sketches are continuation of
the series of such sketches which
was started in last issue of the
Maroon and Gold.
LEE JOHNSON — Hgt. 6-2, Wt.
185. Leo graduated from Asheboro
High, Asheboro, N. C. in 1962. He
?pent last year at Carolina Military
.School. Johnson recently wa‘
iwitched to a guard position from
•nt^r. In High School he was AIF
(I^nference, All State. He played
n the East-West game and was
elected MVP of his high sch(X)l
cam. Needless to .say, ‘ he should
)e good.”
MICKEY HUGHEi> - Hgt. 5-7,
A^t. 175. DICKE:Y HUGHES - Hgt.
ill, Wt. 175. The Hughes twins
■ome to Elon from near-by Gra-
WOKKING I5EH1NI) SCENES FOK ELON GKIDDERS
i
Just as the stage crew of a great Broadway play, working unseen behind the curt tins, contribute.'
much to the success of the show, so does the managerial staff of a football team work unheralded and
unsung behind the scenes to help make the grid show a success. The managerial and trainer staff fo"
the Elon Christians this year is shown above. Left to right, they are Donald Weed, assistant trainer
Michael Babb, manager; Ralph Mlzelle, manager; Jerry Holmes, manager; and Kenneth Harper, head
nianager and trainer.
!um. Both were standouts at Gra-
lam High and Coach Tucker re
ports that both are making “a real
effort.”
CAREY MFTTTS — Hgt. 6-1, Wt.
220. Metts rates among the mo.st
promising freshmen on the squad.
He plays on the kickoff team, the
kickoff return team, and the punt
return team. His hometown is
Greensboro and Carey played high
.school football at Greensboro Page.
Carey was named to the first tear|
)f the Ontral 4-A Conference la^
year and received honorable mer
tion on the All-State team. He also
played in the North-South game.
BURGIN BE/VLE — Hgt. 6-2, Wt.
185 Burgin lettered in football, bas
ketball and baseball at George
Washington High. Danville, \'a. He
is an outstanding passer but wa.s
sidelined the first of the .sea.son
with a .shoulder separation.
PERRY WILLIAMS — Hgt. 5-11,
Wt. 194. Perry rates as “very
strong, with a bright future.” He
led the Oxford Orphanage of Ox
ford, N. C., to a 6-3 record and
was All Eastern 3A Conference his
junior and .senior years and All
East his senior year, playing in
the North-South All-Star game.
(JARY JORDAN — Hgt. 5-11, Wt.
210. Jordan lives outside Suffolk,
Va., but played his football at near
by Holland High School. He was
All Dl.strlct In his junior and .senior
years. All State his senior year, and
was elected MVP of his team. Gary
s very fast and .should develop into
an Elon All-Time great, Jordan
plays on the kickoff receiving team
ind punting team.
DAVID GENTRY — Hgt. 5-7, Wt.
165. Gentry led EJdneyville High of
ileiidersonville, N. C., to an 8-2
' ccord last season. He blossomed
into the most promising fresfmian
this .season by scoring three touch
downs against Appalachian. David
plays on the kickoff receiving team,
the punt return team, and moved
into the Christian starting offense
against Catawba.
Gentry also brought quite a list
of credits to Elon. He was All Con
ference his sophomore and senior
years and F’irst Team All Western
North Carolina his senior year. He
was also named Player of the Year
by the Hendersonville News.
David also played basketball,
track, and baseball. H? was All
Ojnference in all three sports last
(Continued On Pa|« rour)