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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967 PAGE 3 W- u Views By JOE LEE Coach Bill Miller is starting his eighth season as the Christian basketball coach with what he consid ers may be one of his best teams. Miller thinks this team should greatly im prove upon the 12-Hi rec ord of last year. Not only will Elon be improved but so will many other teams in the con ference. Guilford and Ca- cawba should have their best teams in history.Elon is also playing some very stiff competition outside the conference. On the schedule this year in ad dition are Conference foes Wofford, Campbell, Er- skine. North Carolina A. and T. and Winston-Salem State. The Christian open er is with Wofford on No vember 29th, although the Elon cagers will actually get pre-3eason action in a tournament in Kentucky next week. Practice for the cagers around the middle of October. There were no Seniors on the squad last year so Miller is not faced with the problem of filling empty slots left by grad uation. Eight lettermen f^ake up the nucleus of the 67- 68 team. The re turning lettermen from last year are Bill Bowes, Steve ^addell. Tommy Davis, Henry Goedeck, Mike Hai ley. Noble Marshall, and om McGee. Bobby At kins, the eighth letter man, was absent from the squad ast year but has returned or his Senior year. His return should help the guard situation. Center position is souay nailed down by Hen- ^ Goedeck, a 6-6, 215- jwund junior from Central , iPi N.Y. Goedeck has an outstanding per former, both as a shooter and rebounder, for the past two years. Flanking Goe deck at the forward posi tions are Tommy Davis and Bill Bowes. Davis, 6-4, 190-pounds, is one of the two senior players on the squad this year. Davis, who hails from Eden, can always be count ed on for a steady per formance. Bowes, a 6-7, 225-pound junior, is from Lenox, Mass. After a rather slow start last year Bowes came around and played many fine games for the Chris tian five. Steve Caddell, a 6-4, 180-pound juniorfrom Rocky Mount, should add reserve strength under the boards. Bobby Atkins will start at one guard position and should give the team the floor general and take charge man that was lack ing last year. Atkins is a fine shooter and excellent ball handler. The other guard position is up for grabs. However, due to an injury to Noble Marshall, Tom McGee seems to be the likely choice to te a starting mate with Atkins. Marshall is expected back for action around Dq.- cember 1st. Marshall is a 6-2, 170-pounder from Roanoke, Va. The speedy guard always gives the team a 100 per cent ef fort, and his return will be eagerly awaited. Tom McGee is one of the best (if not the best) shooters on the team. When Mc Gee gGts hot hands he makes the art of shooting a basketball look easy. With McGee and Atkins in the backcourt the de fense certainly will not be able to collapse on Goe deck as they have done in The thrilling scene above, snapped at one of Elon’s earlier grid battles of this 1967 football season, will be repeated for the last time this year when the Elon College marching band and its snappy majorettes form lines through which the Fighting Christian gridders will make triumphal pre-game entry for the final clash with the Frederick Lions in Burlington Memorial Stadium on Saturday night in the final game of the campaign. Bears Down Elon Lion Eleven Faces Elon This Week The Frederick Lions swing in from Tidewater Virginia this week to clash with the Elon Christians in the final grid battle of this 1967 season, with the kick-off slated for 8 o’ clock Saturday night in Burlington Memorial Sta dium. The Christians are ex pected to be at full strength for this final tilt, and the Maroon and Gold gridders will be going “Gung-Ho” in seeking to close the year with a win and thus insure a winning record for the season. 42 To 25 Moore Gets Three TD’s In Contest ELON FOOTBALL Elon 28, Elon 13, Elon 21, Elon 7 Elon 31 Elon, 20 Elon 24 Elon 25 Guilford 21. Appala. 34. Presby. 20. Car.-Hew. 14 Catawba 29 W. Car., 20 Newberry 0 L. Rhyne 42 (Remaining Games) Nov. 18-Frederick (H) The Fighting Christian gridders gave the Lenoir Rhyne Bears a terrific bat tle before going down by a 42 to 25 margin in the battle at Hickory last Sat urday which decided the Carolinas Conference title for 1967. The Bears had to turn two “busted” plays into TD’s and take advantage of almost every “break” in the game to turn back the determined Christian eleven, which held the Len oir Rhyne team to only 47 yards rushing and 35 yards passing In a bitterly fought first half. Wayne Bell broke in for a 23-yard TD, Steve Hinkle kicked the point, and the Bears added a safety for a 9-0 lead, but Elon’s Emery Moore broke away for 59 yards on a TD jaunt to cut the half-time margin to 9-7, That defensive first half was followed by a high- the past two seasons. Mc Gee, who is a soph, is 6-0 and is from Deer Park, N.Y. Pat Berry, a 6-7, 220- pound freshman from Nor folk, Va., should help un der the boards. Miller says the big freshman is “an overgrown kid but has a lot of potential and should come around and make us a fine player.” Two other freshmen are on the squad this year: Melvin Pearce, 6-0, 180- pounds, from Winston Salem; and Gregg Sigman, 6-4, 135-pounds from Greensboro. Mike Hailey, a 6-3, l»u lb. junior from South Bos ton, Va., should add much needed reserve strength; and rounding out the roster will be Richard McGeorge (yes, the same one that plays football). If he can play basketball as well as he can play football, his addition will be a welcome one. In summing up the out look for this season Mill er says that, “this team is not as quick as some in the past, but it is big and strong. The guard sit uation is the best in recent years, and if we can get our thinking together we can possibly come up with our best club.” scoring second half, which produced seven touch downs by the two old ri vals within a period of less than eight minutes, the big feature being a kick-off re turn by Elon’s Emery Moore that started almost on the goal line and went the length of the field. Proof of the terrific fight which Elon gave the Bears lies in the fact that the Christians drove the ball deep into Bear territory four times and failed to score, moving to the Bruins’ 23, 8, 4 and 12- yard lines on these threats. SCORE BY PERIODS: Elon 0 7 6 12 — 25 L. R. 7 2 13 20 — 42 Elon Touchdowns — Moore (59-run, 1-run,100 kickoff return); McGeorge (42-pass from Beale). Ex tra Points — Williams 1 (Kick). Lenoir Rhyne Touchdowns — Bell 2 (23- run, 55-i'un), McRee (68- run), Miles (20-pass from Huss), Morgan 2 (41- pass from Huss, 15-pass from Huss). Extra Points - Hinkle 2 (kicks). Rouleau 2 (pass from Huss). Safe ty -- Helms tackled Jor- d^n **************** FIGURE FACTS Elon L. Rhyne 20 First Downs 18 143 Yds Gain Rush 205 46 Yds Lost Rush 53 97 Net Yds Rush 152 37 Passes Attemp. 26 13 Passes Complet. 12 253 Yds Gain Pass 175 350 Total Yds Off 327 1 0pp. Pass Int. 2 6 Runback Int Pass 0 10 Number Punts 10 39.9 Ave. Yds Punts 44.6 193 Runback All Kicks 90 3 Fumbles Lost 2 83 Yds. Penalized iiS5
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