FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1968
MAROON AND GOLD
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Cagers Down Wofford 79-63
COACHES AND CAPTAINS FOR CHRISTIAN CAGERS FOR NEW CAMPAIGN
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The coaches and the captain who Jead the Fighting Christian cagers into the upcoming 1968-69 basket
ball campaign are pictured above. Shown left to right, they are Assistant Coach Twig Wiggins, a former
coach at Williams High in Burlington and at Sandhills Community College, who joined the Elon staff this
fall; Captain Bill Bowes, 6-8 senior center from Lenox, Mass., who got away to a fine start in pre
season tourney games in Kentucky; and Coach Bill Miller, who is starting his tenth year as head basket
ball mentor for the Christian squad.
Christian ‘5’
Wins First
Home Game
The Fighting Christian
cagers put four men in
double figures as they
won their first home game
of the new 1968-69 cage
campaign, turning back
the Wofford Terriers 79
to 63 in a battle in Alum
ni Memorial Gymnasium
here on Wednesday night,
December 4th.
The invading Terriers
made a close battle of it
for the first half, with
the score tied three
times and the lead chang
ing hands eleven times
during that portion of the
game, with the Christians
pulling ahead in the final
moments to hold a scant
38-36 margin at half-
time.
The Christians came
back strong after the in
termission, with Bill
Bowes, Richard McGeor-
ge and Tommy Cole pac
ing a rapid-fire attack
which pulled the blon
quintet ahead by eleven
at 51-40 after barely four
minutes of the second
half, and the Christians
maintained a comfortable
margin throughout the re
mainder of the game.
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McGeorge Named Outstanding
In Carolinas Conference In ’68
Richard McGeorge,
Elon’s great pass-catch
ing end, was named as the
outstanding lineman in the
Carolinas Conference for
BURGIN BEALE
the 1968 season and hon
ored for the selection at
the annual meeting of the
Conference, which was
held in High Point on Mon
day, December 2nd.
Dan Eckstein, of Pres
byterian College, who
went both ways on both
offense and defense in
the Blue Stocking back-
field and who played a big
role in the Blue Hose
tying Lenoir Rhyne for the
Conference title this
year, was chosen as the
outstanding back of the
year in the loop.
The Conference honor
for McGeorge marked the
first time that an Elon
gridder has been given the
Outstanding” award in
the Conference in seve
ral years, and it came as
one of several post-sea
son tributes paid to the
big Christian pass grab
ber, who has within three
seasons completely re
written the Elon pass-
catching marks. He still
has another year of play
ahead of him.
The hefty flanker from
Roanoke, Va., who stands
6-5 and weighs 220
pounds, has been ranked
by professional football
scouts as one of the finest
pro grid prospects in the
South. He was named to
the All-State squad for
North Carolina for the
second straight year and
won All-Conference hon
ors for a third consecu
tive season.
McGeorge was one of
five Elon grid stars chos
en for the All-Conference
squad as the 1968 cam-
Lineman
Season
paign ended, with the
Fighting Christians tied
with the championship
Lenoir Rhyne Bears for
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keep up with those who al
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the most positions on the
loop’s post-season honor
roster.
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McGEORGE NAMED OUTSTANDING
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IXOYD KANIPE
PETE McDANIEL
EMFRY MOORE
RICHARD MCGEORGE, CHOSEN TOP LINEMAN