Friday, January 13, 1967
PAGE THREE
NEW ELON COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF IS PRESENTED TO NEWSMEN
Christian ^5’
Tops Bulldog
Quints 90-89
The Fighting Christian cagers stav
ed off a last-minute rally by the At
lantic Christian Bulldogs to win a
thriller-diller of a ball game by a 90
to 89 margin here in Alumni Memo
rial Gymnasium on Monday night,
December 5th.
The Carolinas Conference battle
was bitterly fought from beginning to
end, and in fact the battling was so
bitter that it erupted into fisticuffs
moments before the half, with one
player from each team ejected from
the game by the referees.
The teams swapped the lead many
times in early moments of the game
with Elon going to the midway rest
with a 46 to 45 margin, and the final
half proved just as close as each team
added 44 points to the intermission
score.
Henry Goedeck topped the Elon
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Panther Five
Winner Over
Elon Cagers
The High Point Panthers unleashed
a powerful and balanced scoring at
tack as they downed the Elon Christ
ians 96 to 75 in a Carolinas Confer
ence basketball battle on the High
Point floor on Saturday night, De
cember 10th, with the Panthers mov
ing to a decisive 17-point lead by
half-time and widening the margin in
the second half.
The Fighting Christians made it a
close game until midway the first half,
but the High Pointers unleashed a hot-
shooting attack while the Christians
went cold at that point, and fell far
short of their performances in earlier
contests.
The Elon cagers also had four men
in double digits for the night, but they
failed to display as effective shooting
as several of them had shown in ear
lier games against Conference opposi
tion. Bill Bowes, lanky forward, was
the top man for the Christians with
20 points.
Henry Goedeck, who had led the
Elon scoring in most of the early
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The members of the new Elon College football coaching staff for the coming 1967 grid campaign are pictured
above at the luncheon gathering, during which Coach Shirley S. “Red” Wilson, new head mentor, and members of
his staff were presented to the sports writers and sports casters of area newspapers, radio stations and television sta
tions. Pictured left to right are Coach Wilson and assistant coaches Dwight “Mickey” Brown, Jerry Tolley and Alan
White.
Bringing Single Wing Football
Red Wilson Heads New Grid Staff
For Elon’s Fighting Christian Squad
Shirley S. “Red” Wilson, who has
amassed a great record of wins and
losses while coaching at high schools
in both North Carolina and Vir
ginia, is the new dead football coach
for the Elon Christians, having been
named to the post at a special Christ
mas season meeting of the Elon
College trustees. He takes over the
grid post held for the past two
seasons by Coach Gary Mattocks,
who is still serving as a member of
the college teaching staff in the de
partment of physical education.
Coach Wilson assumed his new
duties when the college reopened
last week after the Christmas holi
days, and three assistants were an
nounced at a special luncheon held
in McEwen Memorial Dining Hall
on Tuesday, January 3rd, and at the
same time it was stated that another
part-time coach would be named, who
would be well known to all present,
and that other coach promptly dub
bed “the mystery coach” by area
newspapers pending revelation of his
name.
The new assistant coaches named
at the luncheon included Coach Allan
White, chairman of Elon’s physical
education department, who has been
an Elon assistant for the past three
years; along with Dwight “Mickey”
Brown, Asheboro native, and Jerry
Tolley, Edenton native, both of whom
are East Carolina graduates and who
were assistants of Coach Wilson at
Fayetteville High School. Brown will
be line coach, Tolley will be offen
sive backfield coach, and White will
be defensive backfield coach, and
White will be defensive backfield
coach.
Wilson Has Fine Record
Coach Wilson is a native of Madi
son, N. C., and a graduate of Dav
idson College, where he played varsity
football for three years and varsity
baseball one year. He later received
the Master’s Degree at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
has done further graduate work at
the University of Colorado. He is a
veteran of 29 months service in the
Navy during World War II.
He has used the single wing style
of football while compiling a coaching
record of 138 victories, 38 defeats
and 11 ties during two seasons at
South Norfolk (now Oscar Smith
High) in Virginia, five seasons at Hen
derson High, eight seasons at Rey
nolds High in Winston-Salem and two
years at Fayetteville High.
His Reynolds High teams became
the only 4-A team to advance to the
state finals in North Carolina for
three years in a row, and during the
past ten seasons his teams have been
in the North Carolina finals six
times. In fifteen years of coaching in
North Carolina he has had eight
champions or co-champions. Only one
of his teams finished lower than sec
ond in its loop, and that team was
in third place.
Coached Shrine Squad
Latest of many honors to come
Coach Wilson’s way was his appoint
ment this past season to serve as head
coach of the North Carolina Shrine
Bowl team, which he guided to vic
tory over the South Carolina Shrine
eleven. He had earlier been head
coach of the West team in the N. C
All-Star team at Greensboro in 1960
and was an assistant coach for the
Shrine Bowl team in 1958.
Other honors accorded him have
included “Coach of the Year” in Vir
ginia in 1952, “Coach of the Year’
awards in the Winston-Salem area
in 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1964, and
service on the Shrine Bowl advisory
staff in 1956.
Coach Wilson holds membership in
the National Education Association
the North Carolina Education Asso
ciation, the North Carolina Coaches
Association, the Fellowship of Chris
tian Athletes, the Fayetteville Ro
tary Club and the Highland Presby
terian Church in Fayetteville, where
he was a Sunday School teacher.
Christian Cage Squad Shows All Five
Starters Averaging In Double Digits
The Elon College basketball squad,
although it managed only four wins
in its first fen starts this year, has
shown one of the best-balanced scor
ing attacks in recent Elon cage history,
and several games have shown the
Christians with four and sometimes
five men in double figures.
All five of the Elon starters are av
eraging 10 points or better in the scor
ing columns after ten games, accord
ing to statistics compiled after Wed'
nesday night’s thrilling 72 to 71 vic-
I tory over the Wofford Terriers on the
Christian floor.
Henry Goedeck, big sophomore
center from Islip, N. Y., is averaging
20.5 pomts and has pulled down an
average of 11.4 rebounds per game in
the ten early contests. He is trailed in
second spot by Tom McGee, fresh
man guard from Deer Park, N. Y.,
with a 13.3 average.
Others m the double figure scoring
ranks are Bill Bowes, lanky sopho
more forward from Lenox, Mass.,
with 11.2 points per game; Tommy
Davis, junior captain and guard from
Leaksville, with 10.6 average; and
Rick Hare, freshman forward from
Maple Shade, N. J., with an even 10-
point average in the ten games.
The Christian squad as a whole is
averaging 74.7 points per game and
has pulled down an average of 36.1
rebounds per game in compiling a
mark of four wins and six losses. The
Elon opponents have averaged 81.7
points per game in the early battles.
Elon Downs
Terrier Five
By 72 To 71
Thrills chased chills up and down
the spines of Elon cage fans here on
Wednesday night, January 4th, when
the Fighting Christian cagers waited
until the last fifteen seconds to score
the winning points in a cliff-hanging
72 to 71 victory over the Wofford
Terriers from down South Carolina
way. The win opened Elon’s after
Christmas campaign.
Henry Goedeck showed the fine
form that won him All-Conference
honors last winter as he hit 20 points
for the night, with his final bucket
coming on a tap-in rebound with
barely 15 seconds on the clock to put
Elon ahead by a single point and ice
the non-conference victory.
* * *
The line-ups;
Pos. Elon (72) Wofford (71)
F. Bowes (11) Hendrix (14)
F. Hare (14) Kendall (21)
C. Goedeck (20) Pegram (11)
G. Davis (18) Littlefield (15
G. McGee (9) Lentz (10)
Half-time: Wofford 38, Elon 34.
Elon sub—Marshall. Wofford subs
—Talley, Hysong.
Speedy Apps
Defeat Elon
In Tilt Here
Displaying one of the fastest mov
ing clubs seen on the Elon court in
many moons, the Appalachian Moun
taineers swooped down out of the high
hill country and ran off with a 74 to
65 verdict over the Elon Christians in
a conference contest played on Wed
nesday night, December 14th.
The Mountaineers used a sticky
man-to-man defense to harass the tal
ler Elon players and took advantage
of some erratic ball handling by the
Christians to move out to a 40 to 34
margin by the halftime break. The
Apps then widened that margin in
the final half.
There were three Elon players in
double figures, led by Henry Godeck
with 17 and with Bill Bowes getting
16 and Noble Marshall 13 for the
night. Danny Beauchamp paced the
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