Friday, May 31, 1967
PAGE THREE
Eighty-One Letters Go To Elon Athletes
fighting CHRISTIAN BASEBALL SQUAD FOR 1967 CAMPAIGN
NAMED ELON’S GRID CAPTAINS
The youthful Elon College baseball squad, which suffered badly through in
experience, finished the season with a record of eight wins and twenty losses,
but half or more of the losses came in very close games, and Coach Jerry
Drake's outfit shows fine promise for future diamond campaigns. The mem
bers of the 1967 diamond squad, shown left to right in the above picture,
are as follows: SEATED CENTER—Captain Marshall Montgomery. FRONT
KNEELING—Richard Smith, Larry Collins, Don Brady, Ronnie Tugwell,
Rick Coble, Taylor Duggins, Steve Bird, Mike Spillane, Richard Youmans,
i Jim Freisinger and Chris Pecora. BACK ROW STANDING—Tom Fulcher,
iSam Moon, Bobby Bulla, Dempsey Herring, Paul Amundsen, Junior Waters,
Mike Hailey, Ed Kirchgessner, Burgin Beale and Bryant Hinson. Not present
when the picture was made were Frankie Mensch and Joe Byrtus.
Lee Johnson (left), a fighting center and linebacker from Asheboro, and
Lloyd Kanipe (right), a hard-nosed guard and linebacker from Charlotte,
will be co-captains for the Elon College football squad during the coming
1967 season, according to an announcement made last week by Coach Red
Wilson. Johnson, who is a rising senior, has played three years with the
Fighting Christian gridders and was a starter at center last year. Kanipe, who
is a rising junior, has played two seasons with the Elon outfit, lettering as
an interior lineman each year.
Elon Grid Squad To Play
Nine Games Next Season
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With the Elon College sports sched
ule completed for this 1966-67 term,
the thoughts of Fighting Christian
sports fans are now turning into the
future to the 1967 football season,
which will find the Maroon and Gold
gridders operating under a new coach
and with an entirely new system
while playing a tough nine-game
schedule.
Coach Red Wilson, who became
Elon’s head football coach on Jan
uary 1st, has announced the Christian
schedule which will include nine of
•he ten teams met last year. There
"'ill be no game with Emory and
Henry, but the Elon eleven will face
Guilford, Appalachian, Presbyterian,
Carson-Newman, Catawba, Western
Carolina, Newberry, Lenoir Rhyne
and Frederick in that order.
This schedule represents a full Car-
olinas Conference slate, for the Chris
tians will meet all seven of the Con-
wence football schools during the
rampaign, with Carson-Newman and
rederick as the two games outside
* 5 loop, xije Elon card shows four
°nie games and six lilts on the road,
"'*4 three of the seven Conference
lilts at home.
Coach Wilson, who will use the
Single-Wing system with his Christi
ans next fall, sent a squad of more
than forty candidates through a rug
ged four weeks of spring drills, which
was climaxed with the second annual
spring battle against an Elon alumni
team. The alumni won that game by
an 18 to 16 count, but the varsity
showed some fine talent and good
prospects for 1967.
There is a total of 23 lettermen
from last fall expected to return as a
nucleus for the 1967 campaign, inclu
ding Richard McGeorge, Perry Wil
liams and Wade Williamson, ends;
Lloyd Kanipe, Gary Karriker. Wes
Gilliam, Dale Summers, Frankie
Mensch, Roland Gill, Dickie Wilburn,
Roger Norman and Gene Schaeffer,
interior lineman; Lee Johnson, cen
ter; and Marty Bonnett, Wright An
derson, Burgin Beale, Gary Jordan,
David Oliphant, Ron Foresta. Bob
Hughes, Emery Moore, Dover Sharpe
and Bill Miele, backs.
In addition to these veterans. Coach
Wilson has a number of fine reserves
and transfers and has also lined up
a talented crew of freshmen to re
port when practice begins this fall,
and there is high hope of a succcesful
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Cheer Up, Boys!
Elon Lost Baseball Tilt
One Time By 34 To 13
The Elon baseball team had a
rough season this spring, which saw
them lose twenty of twenty-eight
games, but the Christian diamond per
formers should not feel too depressed
over their record. There’s always an
other year coming, and besides the
worst licking they had fell far short
of the Elon record.
The 1967 Christian baseballers al
lowed Pembroke 17 runs as the
Braves won a 17 to 10 decision, but
the Elon record exactly doubles that
figure, for the Elon baseball squad of
1960 dropped a battle to the Guil
ford Quakers at Guilford on April
11, I960 by a 34 to 13 score.
The write up of that game started
off with the words, "What it was was’
baseball, but the average sports fan |
might never have guessed it from ^
the score.” The story then went on to
say that the score was more befitting'
a football game than a baseball tilt. |
No less than eight Elon pitchers
paraded to the mound during the
game, and four of them saw action
during a fifth inning in which Guil-|
ford scored nine runs. It is interesting
to note that Elon led Guilford by an
18-17 margin in hits, and one Elon
batter hit two three-run homers dur
ing the fray.
Eight Boys
Get Letters
In 2 Sports
Eighty-one Elon College athletes
were awarded letters for participation
in six varsity sports with Fighting
Christian teams during 1966-67, the
presentation being made at the annual
sports dinner held in McEwen Mem
orial Dining Hall on May 17th.
Eight of the athletes were double
winners in two sports.
The eight athletes who won double
monogram awards included four who
lettered in football and track, two who
lettered in football and baseball and
two who lettered in basketball and
baseball. The double winners were
David Oliphant, Burgin Beale, Gary
Jordan, Frankie Mensch, Gene Schae
ffer, Jim Freisinger and Mike Hailey.
The thirty-thre football lettermen
included Doug Amick, Burlington;
Wright Anderson, Burgaw; Burgin
Beale, Danville, Va.; Marty Bonnett,
Newport News, Va.; Gene Brewer,
Mount Olive; Mackie Carden, Dur
ham; Bobby Ferrell, Cary; Ron For
esta, Brooklyn, N. Y.; David Gentry,
Edneyville; Roland Gill, Durham;
Wesley Gilliam, Burlington; Bobby
Hughes, Madison; Pete Jarvis, Bur
lington; Gary Jordan, Suffolk, Va.;
Lee Johnson, Asheboro; Lloyd Ka
nipe, Charlotte; Gary Karriker, Moor-
esville; Richard McGeorge, Roanoke,
Va.; Frankie Mensch, Siler City; Bill
Miele, Irvington, N. J.; Emery Moore,
Schenectady, N. Y.; Roger Norman,
Elkin; David Oliphant, Mooresville;
Mike Ray, Burlington; Joe Robinson,
Rockingham; Gene Schaeffer, Irving
ton, N. J.; Dover Sharpe, Burlington;
Dale Summers, Thomasville; Dickie
Wilburn. Burlington; Perry Williams,
Oxford; Richard Williamson, Sanford;
and Wade Williamson, Madison.
The ten letter winners in basketball
included Bill Bowes, Lenox, Mass.:
Steve Caddell, Rocky Mount; Tommy
Davis, Leaksville; Jim Freisinger,
Greensboro; Henry Goedeck, Central
Islip, N. Y.; Mike Hailey, South Bos
ton, Va.; Richard Hare, Maple Shade,
N, J.; Noble Marshall, Roanoke, Va.;
Tom McGee, Deer Park, N. Y.; and
Charlie Van Lear, Martinsville, Va.
Eighteen lettermen in baseball in
cluded Paul Amundsen, Silver Spgs.,
Md.; Burgin Beale, Danville, Va.;
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CHRISTIAN TENNIS TEAM FOR 1967 SEASON
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The Elon College tennis team, which battled through a 1967 season to a record of three wins and seven losses
in ten matches, is pictured above. The players, pictured left to right, are Don Brown, John Walton, Sandy Car
rington Jim Ritter, Bob Freeman and Jim Ellington. Don Weed, one of the veterans of the net squad, was not
present when the picture was made.