Friday. October 6, 1967 PAGE 3 Apps Defeat Elon, 34 To 13 ROiSiSETT AND BEALE PLAY BIG ROLES IN W IN OVER QUAKERS I .w ews By JOE LEE Back in January Elon’s new coach, “Rod” Wilson, felt that his recruiting program for the coming season would go under the heading of “pot luck”, Wilson, at that time, had only one assistant, Jer ry Tolley, to help in the important job of gather ing talent. For two men to undertake the task of recruiting for a college football program is a large assignment. How ever, they worked hard and long and signed 35 fine first year prospects. During the months of January and February Wilson drove 3,000 miles ‘mating the bushes for fu ture stars. He made many tnps to schools to talk With the coaches of play ers whom he felt were capable of playing col- ege-level football, and ^ also talked with the ys themselves and with tneir parents. Coach Wilson also made 0 other trips which turned out to be trips of sreat importance, for he ended the two annual ^ii-star games in North ^”°lina the EAST- hNH '^LL-STAR battle th,l Mon 'Greensboro and ^^^'^ORTH-SOUTH ALL- . tilt staged at p ' '-HI ’^reenviiie, to say Coach *®°n was only one of several hundred coaches who attended those games; and as for the college coaches present, they had one thing on their minds, signing new talent to fill the holes in their squads due to graduation. The competition is rough on such occasions. Evidently, that kind of competition is the type that brings out the best in the Elon mentor, for the aggressive Wilson signed twelve of the high school all-stars to wear the Maroon and Gold of the Fighting Christians. The number twelve may not sound like many to some people, but when you consider that this number represents ap proximately ten percent of all the youngsters who played in the two games, the number is quite sig nificant. The all-star boys sign ed are; David Rudder, end, Goldsboro (East- West Game); Pete Mc Daniel, tackle. High Point (North-South Game); Tom Jernigan, halfback, Fay etteville (North - South Game); Ronnie Raper, tackle, Salisbury (North- South Game); Ken Nunn, guard, Goldsboro (North- South Game); Ron Tin- gen end, Goldsboro (East- West Game; Shelton Stew- '■Oe r ,4^^ Two of the outstanding performers in Elon’s triumph over Guilford in the opening game of the new grid season are shown above. Marty Bonnett (left), a speedy defensive halfback from Newport News, Va., set a new all-time Elon record when he grabbed down four Guilford passes during the fray, break ing the old mark of three interceptions set in 1962. Burgin Beale (right), big tailback from Danville, Va., also turned in a brilliant game as he completed twelve passes, three of them for going for touch downs against the Quakers. Beale holds no less than ten all-time Elon records from previous seasons. Marks Fall As Elon Wins Over Guilford The football records fell as the Fighting Chris tian gridders used their “B-B Guns,” meaning Bonnett and Beale, to shoot down the Guilford Quakers 28 to 21 in the season opener in Burling ton Stadium on Saturday, September 23rd. To begin with, the crowd itself was a rec ord breaker, by all odds the biggest opening game crowd in Elon history, and then Marty Bonnett, a speedy little defensive halfback from Newport News, Va., stole four Guilford passes for a new record. But a big part of the show was by big Burgin Beale, the other barrel of Elon’s “B-B Gun.”Beale entered the game in the second quarter and pro ceeded to complete 12 of 30 passes for 223 yards and three touchdowns that effectively gunned down the Quaker gridders. It just so happened that Beal himself set no less than 42 new Elon grid marks that night, for each and every time he threw a pass and each and ev ery time he completed a pass he set a new all- time Elon grid record. Beale already held all- time Elon career records for total passes thrown and completed, so he just upped the ante each time he threw. The Elon junior, who holds a total of ten all- time Elon passing and of fensive marks after only two years of play in a Christian uniform, seems sure to set still other rec ords before this 1967 grid campaign is ended. After the Guilford game, he needed only 36 more yards to set a new career mark for total passing yardage. He has now com pleted 192 passes out of 391 attempts for a total of 2,326 yards of passing. art, center, Stedman (North-South Game); Bob Stevens, guard, Sanford (North - South Game); Wayne Thrift, tackle, I'homasville (North - South Game); Don Crews, halfback, Greensboro Smith (North - South Game); Terry Lassen, tackle, Sanford (East - (Continued on oage 4) Elon Takes Early Lead In Contest The Fighting Christians used their new Single Wing attack for two touchdowns against the Appalachian Mountaineers here last Saturday night, but a leaky defense continued to pla gue the Elon gridders as they allowed theMounties five TD’s for a 34 to 13 victory in Burlington Me morial Stadium. The Christians scored first, with Joe Rinaca sprinting 29 yards on the key play and then dash ing four yards for the score that netted a 6-0 lead. The Apps then came back with a 65-yard drive with the aid of. an Elon penalty that ended with a plunge by Pat Murphy for the tying score. With only seconds left in the half and a 6-6 tie, Elon elected to go to the air, and the Apps in tercepted at midfield to set up the go-ahead touch down. This score came on a 15-yard scoring toss from Murphy to Agle, and the Mounties led 13 to 6 at halftime. A long pass from Mur phy to Ferrell pur r'ln Apps on the Elon one, and Larry Jarvis bucked over for the 19-6 touchdown in the third quarter. Elon came back on a pass from Burgin Beale to Richard McGeorge for a score early in the fourth quar ter to cut the margin to 19-13, but two other Mountaineer TD’s in the fourth quarter ran out the final 34 to 13 count. Burgin Deale, Elon tail back, threw only twelve passes and completed four for 30 yards in contrast with his aerial show in the Guilford game, but the big junior ran for 82 yards and topped the century mark once more in total offense. aK FIGURE FACTS Elon Appalachian 9 First Downs T5 201 Yds Gain Rush 175 0 Yds Lost Rush. 15 201 Net Yds. Rush. 160 12 Passes Attemp. 19 4 Passes Completed 12 30 Yds. Gain Pass. 191 213 Total Yds. Off. 351 1 0pp. Passes Interc. 1 0 Runback Int. Pass 27 8 Number Punts 7 42.0 Ave. Yds. Punts 37.8 153 Runback All Kicks 77 1 Fumbles Lost 0 31 Yds. Penalized 15 SCORE BY PERIODS: Elon 0 6 0 7 —13 App. 0 13 6 15 —34 Elon Touchdowns — Rinaca (4-rn); McGeorge 10-pass from Beale). Extra Points—Kanipe 1 (kick). Appalachian T.D.’s Murphy (1-run), Agle (15- pass from Murphy), Jar vis 2 (1-run, 1-run), Da vis (4-run). Extra Points — Underwood 2 (kick), Whitley 2 (pass from Murphy).

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