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MAROON AMD GOLD
Friday, February 12,
Tucker Resigns
Elon College announced last week
tfie resignation of Coach George
Tucker, who has been head foot
ball coach at Elon for the pa»t five
years and who guided the Fighting
Christian gridders to the Carolines
Conference championship during the
past season. He will continue teach
mg in the physical education de
partment until the end of this 1964-
6 college year.
Coach Tucker himself, hi submi'
ting his resignation, expressed
gret at leaving Elon and declaim'd
that be had enjoyed his relationships
•uonBJisiuiuipc «,aSl3l|o3 aij) MU* ^
faculty, staff and students and with
the members of the football squad*
"1 hope that I have established a,
lasting friendship with them," he,
said, "and I appreciate all that they
have done for me. After evaluating j
the entire football program, how
Grid Coaching Post
GKOKGK TL'CKKR
. ^ ; the Caroiinas Conference in both
/- offensive and defensive statistics
and set or tied more than twenty
new all-time Elon records as it
finished the year with an 8-1-1 mark
for ten games, with the only loss
being by a single point. During his
five years at EUon, Coach Tucker
has had three All-Americans, with
George Wooten, Willie Tart and
Jerry Rowe all having been honored
in the NAIA All-American selec
tions in successive years.
Tucker came to Elon from East
Carolina, where he had been serv
ing as assistant coach. FYior to that
E^st Carolina assignment, he had
been line coach at Davidson College
and head football coach at Wingate
; College, where he guided the Win-
(gate team to Number Two junior
I college ranking in the nation. He
had also coached at Lancaster High
Elon Doicns
Camel Quint
In Tilt Here
Mattocks Is Named Elon’s Grid Coach
ever, I feel that it will be best for dedicated young men with which | School in Lancaster, S. C. He holds
all concerned if I resign my present; lo work.” both the B. S. and M. A. degrees
post, for there are problems which Coach Tucker came to Elon in j from East Carolina College, where
I feel that I cannot solve. In mak-1 1J60 and took over a squad which
ing this decision, I have considered had shown a 1-9 record In 1959.
my family, my future, the college Each year of his regime has shown
itself and the football program.” | an Improvement, and the past three
■'Elon has one of the finest small- ,>Mson.s has seen the Christian grid-
college athletic programs in the na- ders post a 21-8-1 record. Hie Elon
tion," he continued, "and I feel eleven was co-champlon of the Caro-
that with the loss of only three linas Conference in 1963, and last
active players from the 1964 squad fall the 1964 squad won the undispuf-
by graduation the Elon football for- ed championship of the loop, the
tunes will continue good. I want to first such outright football champ-
wish my successor the k^st of luck, ionship for Elon in 23 years.
he had a brilliant career as a play
er.
Coach Tucker has announced no
immediate plans, but he states that
he hopes to continue In the coach
ing field and that he has several
possibilities at this time. However,
he is considering work outside the
coaching field in the Burlington
area, since he is married to a Bur
lington girl, the former Miss Becky
Hatch. He and his wife have one
He will inherit a splendid group of That 1964 EHon grid squad led:child.
REID THIS/
Pfeiffer Defeats Cold
Elon In 65-61 Contest
College fell victim to a hot crew
of Pteiffer Falcons at Pfeiffer on
Monday night, February 8th, in a
Caroiinas Conference battle that saw
the Falcons grab a 12-point lead in
the first half and fight off a des-
Tall and skinny Jesse Branson perate Elon rally down the stretch
jumped into his new black F'ord! to win the victory by a 65-61 margin,
just before Thanksgiving in his The Christians, fighting hard to
freshman year. He revved up a lit even the sea.son count with the
The Fighting Christians of Elon was the fact that Elon had five men
in double figures, showing Branson
with 17, Dave Winfrey with 12.
Charlie Van Lear with 11 and Art
Davis and Bobby Atkins with 10
points each. ^
The line-ups:
during which the Falcons moved to
tie jazzier than usual and headed
for home at jolly old Snow Camp
Elon? To blazes with It. Books?
Basketball? Girls? Who needs 'em?
The world hardly begins at Senior
Oak and ends at Memorial Gym on
one side and Alamance Hall on
the other.
Jesse Branson, too much spending
money in his pockets and not enough
maturity in his noggin, was making
fair bid for dropout, first team, all
star, gold plate.
Obviously, if you've eve- been
within cheerleading range of Memo
rial Gymnasium, you know our boy
Jesse did some reconsidering about
Elon. 1 have an idea as soon as that' a 33-21 edge by intermission
tad whizzed through Davis St. in
Burlington he knew he was headed
the wrong way. The devil of it Is.
when you do something like this,
you get miiley. Backing down makes
you look sillier than ever. I know.
I nearly kicked away my own col
lege career until Elon straightened
me out
Now, in Jesse's case, I think he
grew up in about two weeks. It
took nfve two years. But, you see,
Jesse had something real good work
ing for him; His Daddy. 1 met the
elder Branson at a memorable site.
Birdsong Gym at Suffolk, the place
where the Elon car and nearly all
I'os. Klon (61)
F—Branson (17)
F—A. Davis (10)
C—Van Lear (11)
G—Atkins (10)
G—Winfrey (12)
Pfeiffer (65)
Wynne (8)
Williford (9)
Carver (28)
MUIer (1)
Lentz (15)
t’alcons In their two-game series,
had rallied from the 12-polnt half-
time deficit and were down by only llalf-tlrae: Pfeiffer 33, Elon 21
two points with thirty seconds re- Elon subs — Such 1, Mixon, T.
maining In the game. At that point [ Davis. Pfeiffer subs — Lawson,
Dave Winfrey stole the ball for the \ Karnes 3, Sherrill 1.
Christians, giving E3on a chance to
Ijlliiiaii Is Hoard
I5y Lar«;e (iroiip
Gary B. Mattocks, 32-year-okl
Southern Pines native, was named ■-
last week as the new head football
coach at Elon College, moving up
from the assistant coaching post
The Fighting C^istian basketeers 1 t*’^t he has held for ^e past five |
briUiant 40-point effort from!years to succeed Coach George M_ *
Tucker, whose resignation as head ^
coach was announced the previous f
day. I
Coach Mattocks, who compiled a |
brilliant playing record at East j
Carolina in his student days, came [
to Elon as an assistant coach In ?
the fall of 1960 and worked with
both the Fighting (Kristian back-
field men and the ends in the suc
ceeding five years, during which
the Elon football squad showed Im
proved records each year. The
Christians were co-champions of the
Caroiinas Conference in 1963 and
then clinched the undisputed and
unshared Conference crown last fall.
Along with the announcement that
Mattocks would advance from his
post of assistant coach to that of
head coach, it was also announced
that Alan White, former Wake For
est backfleld star, who was an as
sistant coach for the Christians last
fall, would remain at Elon as as
sistant to Coach Mattocks during
the coming year.
The new Elon head coach began
his athletic career at Southern
Pines High School, where he played
football, basketball and baseball for
four seasons, during which he won
All-Conference and All-State honors
in football and all-star honors in
got a
Jesse Branson, and they needed ev
ery single point of it to turn back
a determiaed squad of Campbell
College Camels on the Elon court
on Monday night, January 18th, by
an 86 to 77 margin.
The Elon cagers jumped to a
quick lead and held it all the was
except for two brief moments just
before the half when Campbell
forged ahead at 36-35 and 38-37.
only to have the Christians regain
the control and post a scanty 41-39
margin at the break.
Branson bombed the basket for 17
points In the initial half, and he
came back for an even finer sec
ond half as he teamed with Bobby
Atkins and Howard Andrew in a last
half drive that kept the Christians
ahead throughout that final period.
The Elon lead was threatened
constantly by Campbell, mainly
through the uncanny shooting of
Pete Wish, a speedy guard whom
the fans called "Pete Swish" long
before the game was over, and
Wish well earned the new name as
he swished the nets for 31 points,
most of them from long range. It
was mainly due to Wish that Camp
bell trailed by barely two points
with nine minutes left in the game.
Branson hit 14 of 24 floor shots as
he piled up his 40-point t»tal, and
he was abl yaided by Bobby Atkins
with 21 and Howard Andrew with
17 counters. Wish was joined by
Marvin Moss and Dave Bult in pac
ing the Camel scoring.
The line-ups:
GARY MATTOCKS
basketball. He completed his prep
school career with a year at Green-
brlar Military Academy In Lewis-
Burg, West Va., where he played
three major sports.
After playing freshman football
at Duke University under the tute
lage of Horace Hendrickson and
Bob Cox, Mattocks spent three years
as a paratrooper in the United
States Army, during which he play
ed all three major sports for two
years of service competition at Fori
Benning, Ga., and one year at Fort
Bragg, where he was attached to
the athletic office of the 82nd Air
borne Division headquarters.
Mattocks transferred to East Car.
olina after his service hitch and
played three years of football with
the Pirate gridders, two seasons at
quarterback and one season at half-
back. He also played one season
each of basketball and baseball and
then served as a student assistant
on the coaching staff while com.
pleting requirements for his M.a
degree at East Carolina.
A brief stint as physical director
for the Y. M. C. A. in Fayetteville
M was followed by one year of hi^
school coaching at Hamlet, where
he was assistant in football and
head coach of both basketball and
track. He then returned to iist
Carolina as head coach for the Pi
rate freshman gridders for the 1959-
60 season. He also served as head
track coach at Eijst C^arollna that
year.
Since joining the Elon coachug
staff In the fall of 1960, Mattocks
has been head track coach for the
Christians in addition to his duties
as assistant in football. He has also
taught in the Elon physical educa
tion department with the rank of
assistant professor. He is married
to the former Miss Joyce Currln, of
Grah"-m, and they have two child-
Coach Mattocks has announced
that the Elon gridders will open
their regular winter practice next
Monday, February 15th. The off
season drills had been set originally
for this week, but they have been
postponed one week.
Sigma Phi Beta Wins Championship
111 Volley Ball; Basketball Underway
Pos. Elon (86)
F—Branson (40)
F—Such (4)
C—Andrew (17)
G—Atkins (21)
G—A. Davis (2)
Campbell (77)
Moss (11)
Bult (10)
Yencho (3)
Dean (6)
Wish (31)
Half-time: Elon 41, Campbell 39.
subs — Etheridge 3, Davis 8, Jor
dan S.
a total of fifteen basketball teams
The regular round-robin competi
tion will be climaxed with a champ-
Sigma Phi Beta, with an 8-0 sea
son, has won the intramural volley
ball title and leads in the overall
point standing at the halfway point j ion.'hip battle between the winner
of the year's total intramural par-j of each rf the two leagues,
ticipation. j The Number One (Maroon) League
With the volley ball competition j will feature AlphI PI Grey, ITK
^ a thing of the past, the intramural Reds, Sigma Phi Sigs, Sigma Mu
... ,. ,,,, , , „ . : basketball started last Monday, and Blues, Smith Aces, Goldflngers and
" * n rey . amp Coach Alan White, director of the | Roustabouts; while the Number Two
Intramural program, reports that] (Gold) League will include Alphi Pi
there will be two cage leagues with 1 Reds, ITK Blacks, Sigma Phi Phis,
j Sigma Mu Golds, Smith PT’s, Has
I Beens, Blast Dorm and Carolina Gun-
tie the score, but two shots failed
to fall, and Larry Lentz drove for
a final Falcon score that upped the
margin to four points.
The game opened with the Elon,
quint hitting perhaps Its coldest i audience of one hundred and
-shooting mark of the year in the ‘hirty students, faculty, and inter-
first half, during which the Christ- citizens were at Mooney The-
ians could score only 21 points and'^tre last Thursday night, February
Falcon.s moved to'^th, to hear Dr. B. L. Ullman's lec-
Sigina Mu Sigma Conducting
Di •ive For Bm)ks For Asia
I The final standings in the volley
! ball competition, which was com
7-1, Titans 5-3, Sigma Phi Betas 4-4,
Sigma Mu Golds 4-4, Alphi PI Reds
4-4, Alpha Pi Greys 0-8, ITK (M,
and Sigma Phi Phis 0-8. Following
the close of league play. Sigma Phi
Sigmas defeated Sigma Mu Blues
for the crown.
As the first semester came to a
close. Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity
was leading the total organizational
point standings with 248.4 points,
trailed by Alpha Pi Delta with 229.4
and Sigma Mu Sigma with 225.4
points. Other groups in order of
point standings were the Has Beens,
Iota T-au Kappa, Carolina Colts, Cav
aliers, Cherries, Titans, Third Floor
I ture for the sixth program of the
The Pfeiffer defen^« collapsed on 1 Arts Forum.
Elon's big Jesse Branson aU night introduction by ^of.
Lor.1 .-J lu ~ Tully Reed, chairman of the En".
and kept two and three men quite r
ii,„,.ii., 1 . .u u- ! hsh Department, Dr. Ullman, who
literally hanging on to the big . / ^1 •
- ® IS the Keenan Professor of Classics
Christian star. The result was that
Branson netted only 17 points for
the game, with barely five points
during the cold first half.
The Christians' lone bright spot
(Continued From Pagt Three)
diminished by any action intended
to encourage sportsmanship.
The observer of the behavior of
the players got smashed by a train.
Mr. Branson took in all the road
games he could when his boy was
playing I am certain Good Old Dad
is why Jesse turned that fancy auto
of his around and parked it at Elon
for the next three years during
which he:
(A) Began to see values of those I curs when an opponent is about to
pesky things called books. j shoot a foul shot. This is unsports-
(B) Found a wonderful young lady Mnanlik® conduct.
to marry. | Any attempt to encourage sports-
(C CJot rid d some uppity ways
is lieu of a modest, flawless man-
the student body of Elon College
on most occasions cannot help but
t>e Impressed when viewing Ellon in
relation to other schools in the Con
ference. However, there is room for
Improvement, and Dr. Danieley ex-
pre.ssed concern at the nrKeting
about the booing which often oc
at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, delivered a lecture
on "The Post-Mortum Years of
Livy."
Dr. Ullman's talk was considered
both stimulating and interesting by
those in attendance. Following the
program, the Forum gave a re
ception in West Parlor serving cof
fee and cookies which was also well
attended.
The Liberal Arts Forum is an
SGA sponsored group, and is headed
by Rodney Barfield. He reports that
the next program will feature Prof.
Alfred Engstrom.
The brothers of Sigma Mu Sigma’s
Lambda Chapter are in the midst
of a book drive in cooperation with
the Asia Foundation as one of their
service projects for this year.
Fred Stephenson, chairman of the
drive, has contacted the libraries
in Burlington and Alamance County
for books they might contribute to
the drive, and letters have been
sent to all members of the Elon
College faculty to solicit their help.
"This is our first attempt at a
project of international scope, but
we feel that the cause is a worth
while one, and we are working to
make it a successful project,” com-
nered way of doing
(D> Scored basketball points to
rate solid places in the records; all-
this and all-that ranking and a high
place on the Olympic squad.
(El Won abmlute respect of all
EJon alunmi
At this point, particularly in a
sentence
ing above, 1 hasten to remind y
that if you ask fooli.sh questions, you
may expect foolish answers
1 am not about to ask Jesse if be
(Quaker Game
(Continued From Page Tkree)
Branson and Atkins were the only
Elon players to hit double figures,
for the night, but the entire team
I played terrific defense as the Christ-
manship here at Elon should be . u u /- 1/ j 4 /• r- u 1
S • J u ^ *ans held Guilford to five field coals
accompanied by an even greater . * * 1 • * 1
. . ._J * f , .land a 14 total points in the last
emphasis on improvement of scboo u u d k ir
. 1H. • / • half. Bob Kaufman, with 11 points,
spirit. There is room for improve- 1 ^ !
ment in both phases, and we must
all do our part. P°l"‘
We would hope that other schools I _ \.i
will also do their part and that the ^
presidents and atiiletic authorities p such*^7)
of the Caroiinas Conference *Ueges
just behind that bright list-1 ‘y
e. I hasten to remind you Caroiinas Confer-
■' ence sports events.
Guilford (44)
Scott (7)
Young (6)
Kaufman (11)
G—.Atkins (14) Odum (8)
G—A. Davis (8) Loftus (2)
Half-time: Elon 34, Guilford 30.
D J . I L .u ■ . ij Elon subs — Van Lear 4, Wn-
Besides, I know the mistake would , , ,, t ...» i .... .
J , *"7 Hughes, T. Davis, Nicks.
made a mistake leaving school fouri^ *®’^ ^ ha\e been if he hadn t come Guilford subs — TurUngtoa 7, Brooks
years ago ■ back. , 1. Gaylord. Motsinger i. Fellers.
Stiuleiits Die
Continued From Page One*
Episcopal Church at Churchland,
Va., at 11 o'clock on Thursday morn
ing, February 4th, with the Rev. Mr.
Kellar, rector of the church, offi
ciating. Burial was in the semetery
at diurchland.
Young Sawyer was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Robert Sawyer,
Sr., of Zebulon. Survivors in addi
tion to the parents were not known
here, but funeral rites were held
from the Zebulon Baptist Church
at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,
February 3rd, with the Rev. Jerry
Niswonger, pastor of the church, of
ficiating. Burial was In the ceme
tery at Zebulon.
View From Oak
(Continued From Page Two)
how many would resign rather than
try to beat the rap before the Honor
Court?
If we knew that, then we might
be able to determine to some degree
the difference between Elon stu
dents’ viewpoint toward honor and
the Air Force cadets' viewpoint.
You can be sure there would be
quite a bit of difference.
mented Stephenson, who is also
president of the Student Government
Association. ‘‘We feel sure that
there are many textbooks and works
by classic authors owned by stu
dents, faculty members, and libra
ries in this area that can be given
to this drive."
The books are to be sent to the
Asia Foundation in San Francisco
after collection where they will be
distributed among seventeen nations
in Asia for use by college and high
school students, research groups, li
braries, and other recipients.
The Asia Foundation reports that
up to February of last year, over
3,867,899 books and 760,174 journals |
had been distributed by them.
The book drive is one of the I
many projects that Sigma Mu Sigma!
has undertaken during this year. ]
Others have included publication of
the Student-Faculty Address Book,
sponsorship of the Christmas Seal,
United Fund, and Heart Fund
drives on campus, cleaning off lots
by the railroad tracks for the local
garden club, giving a coffee hour
for the faculty and staff, and usher
ing for Lyceum Series programs and
church services at the Community
Church.
pleted prior to mid-year showed j South, Student Union, Second Floor
Sigma Phi SIgs 8-0, Sigma Mu Blues i South and Incognitos.
'1 ''
Catawba Game
(Continned From Pate Three)
the free throw line for his 36 points.
John Harwood led the Indians with
22 points as each team hit on 25
field goals, and Elon gained the win
on the margin of two more charity
tosses than the Indians made.
Hie line-ups:
Catawba (60)
Rhodes (12)
Harwood (22)
Sessoms (2)
Snyder (7)
Hackett (9)
Pos. Elim (62)
F—Branson (36)
F—Such (4)
C—.Andrew (2)
G—Atkins (7)
G—A. Davis (2)
Half-time: Elon 36, Catawba 35.
Elon subs — V’an Lear 2. Win
frey 6, Mixon 3. Catawba subs —
Robbins 8, Smith.
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