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PAGE 4 MAROON ftMD GOLD FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28,1969 Reid This FOUR CHRISTIAN SENIORS ARE FINISHING ELON CAGE CAREERS FOUNDER'S DAY About this time of year, a great number of people get allhet up about Found ers’ Day, I expect, mainly, this serves as an excuse to hit people for money. Any time we have a “day” it means hunt up the old grads such as us for dough. Maybe this is only fair. I doubt Elon bill- payers would find much if they appealed to you undergrads. You’re paying through the snoot as it is. Weil, Founders' Day may be just what we need at this time of year. I won’t contest that. Some kind of a day ought to re presen how each of us found dear ol’ Leon Col lege. What did I find? First thing, it was rain ing. That's how the ma jority have determined, made the scene. In damp weather, Whitley , par ticularly , gave a musty effect. I recall a young man’s saying at the last variety show that signs say “no smoking”—but that is a lie. Every body hopes this old place will burn down,” he quipped. Not everybody lad. 1, for one, found too much at Whitley to want the building raz ed: The college brought movies to us there. We all scored a few ro mantic points there. And we went to church there. 1 remember one chapel program hastily called when World War II ended. We had 100 percent attendance for that one. A lot of us wept. I found that two-by-four Elon was no Duke. I’m rather glad it still isn’t. I found that one thing you learn at Elon—and it won’t come from books is getting along with people. You billet with a roomie and like it or not, you better hack it fo for the next academic year. There were problems at Elon in my time. For one thing, the academic crowd resented the ath letes, so much so, that some of the professors blindly tried to blunt our programs. The gifted students, moreover, hardly rated the publicity the sports kids did. lex- ptct these posers still ex ist. I’d like to help brin about resolution, myself. 1 found, at Elon, 1 could go throuh life without hav ing to drink, smoke and swear. Oho! I found out how to do pretty good in the romjntic line there, as wi-li. In fact, I married an 1.1 on girl. ■"’o, you go ahead and CL-Icbrate l ounders’ Day anytimt.and any way you wish. BILL BOWES HENRY GOEDECK STEVE CADDELL PETE JOHNSON Independents Quint Wins Campus Title BY JIM HODGES The Independents are the campus champions. Led byMlkeHailey and Jim Friesinger, the In dependents stopped Sigma Phi Beta 53 to 46 in the finals of the Campus In tramural Basketball Tournament and clinched the campus crown for the 1969 season. The Independents trail ed for only a two-minute span in the first half as Marty Bennett hit a couple of buckets for Sigma Phi to give them a 15-12 lead with 5:58 to play in that segment. Then it was Haley and Friesinger’s one-two punch that sup plied the impetis to put the Independents back in to the lead. They were ne ver headed. Bennett, although play ing for the losing team, led all the scorers for the game with 16 points. Hailey and Friesinger had 15 and 13 points to lead the Independents to the campus crown. The tournament, which was a three-day affair, was kicked off by a quar ter-final round that saw TKE “A” beating Moffitt “A” 53 to 48. Led by Bry ant Hinson’s 17 and George Hughes’ 16 points, TKE advanced into the semi-final round. The Independents were victorious over Smith B” in that same quar ter-final round to the tune of an 85-35 score. The Independents placed fou r players in double figures in that one, led by Hailey’s 20 points. Carolina “B” that won the regular season “B” League title, was victor ious over Bar-C-L by a 52 to 51 count in quarter final action, with Gary Brown hitting for 19 points. Sigma Phi Beta ‘A” advanced to the se mis via a 71-29 win over TKE “B”, and George Kilroy had 26 points in I’ll hold off until June that one. The Independents 14, That’s the day—in 1944 found tlon. squared off against un beaten TKE ‘ A” in the semi-finals. TKE led well into the second half with a 22-13 margin at one point but suddenly went cold. That was all the Independents needed, and they turned on the steam for 40-30 upset. Sigma Phi Beta was a 47-44 victor over Caro lina "B” in that same round. The game was tied 41 all with but two min utes to play when Bonnett hit a layup and a jumper to give Sigma Phi the win. The Independents went on to win the finals over Sigma Phu and to garner the winner’s share of points in the overall cam pus intramural cham pionship. FINALS LINE-UPS Pos. Independents (53) Sigma Phi (46) F- Capps (7) Kilroy (8) F. Arrington (6) Bonnett (16) C. Frisinger (13) Holder (2) G. Midkiff (10) Cliburne (3) G. Hailey (15) Goodman (9) Half tim e—Independents 20, Sigma Phi 18. Independents subs Scott 2. Sigma Phi— Byrtus 8. iiiiitiiihiiiiiiitiMMiiiiiiiiiNiniiiiiMimiiniiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiMinMMt GRID SCHEDULE (Continued from page 3) inrluding Carolinas Con- f irence battles with Guil ford, Presbyterian, Ca tawba, Newberry and Lenoir Rhyne. The fact that Appala chian dropped from the Conference last year and that Western Caro lina drops its Conference membership at the end of this college year pro duced the situation in which Elon will have only five games in the Con- CHRISTIANS DEFEAT NEWBERRY (Continued from page 3) bounds. Other Elon players in double digits were Noble Marshall with 18, Tommy Cole with 16, Henry Goedeck with 12 and Tom McGee wht 11 points. Goedeck also pulled in 11 rebounds. The Newberry outfit had four men in double figures, topped by John Smith with 24 and Tommy Martin with 22 counters. Marton got I6of his points in the first half, with Elon’s Pete Johnson play ing great defense to hold him to six points in the final half and overtime. Pos. F. F. C. G. G. THE LINE-UPS Elon (86) McGeorge (21) Cole (16) Goedeck (12) Marshall (18) Johnson (9) Newberry (78) Martin (22) Hollingsworth (10) Smith (24) Gilroy (4) Miller (13) Half-time: 40, Elon 34. Elon subs—McGee 11, Newberry Newberry subs—Pearson 2, Neal 1. First Elon gym one of the best (Continued from page 2) sium, was begun during the 1912-13 college year. It was a four-story, pressed-brick structure, 125 feet long and 65 feet wide, with every modern convenience, with a gym nasium in the center and surrounded on all sides on upper floors by men’s dormitory rooms. The basement floor of the new structure offered five showers and 117 lock ers. It was also equip ped with lavatories, all such equipment being of the at that time, most modern plumbing and de scribed as both sanitary and beautiful. The first floor above the basement which was really the basic first floor, provided a gym nasium space which of fered a floor space of 100 feet by 60 feet, the floor being of hard Michigan maple, and with the gym nasium space with every equipment then known to gymnastic art. When the new Elon gymnasium was com pleted, it was declared to be the best gym in the state and one of the best terence race. in fact, none of the teams will have more than five loop battles. With the Appalachian and Western Carolina games as non-loop tilts. in the entire South. Its equipment even included sanitary drinking foun tains and cuspidors at each end of the building. The equipment even in cluded rowing machines, dumb bells and other ap paratus of similar char acter. An interesting feature of the structure was the fact that it provided a balcony circling the gym nasium on the next floor, which was used as an in door running track of fif teen laps to the mile. Opening off this balcony or track were a series of men’s dormitory rooms. The gymnasium itself was small, when com pared with modern stand ards of size, but it was in this tiny gymnasium that the Elon basketball squad of 1914 won the state intercollegiate cham pionship against such teams as those of the University of North Caro lina, N. C. State, David son, Guilford, and others. It was indeed a successful opening for the new Elon gymnasium. (Continued Next Week) the other non-Conference foes include Concord, Carson Newman and Gardner-Webb. Both Concord and Carson Newman will be met on the road next fall
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