fniDAY. MARCH 14. 1969
maroon and gold
PAGE 3
Elon Downs Aggies In N A t A
SOME OF THE ROUGH ACTION ELON TOPPED 4GGIES IIS TOURNEY ^ liriStllin 5
. ^ 102-84
Indicative of ihe rough and rugged play when Elon toppled the A, and T. Aggies to 84 in the fi^
round of the District 26 NAIA Tourney in Winston-Salem are the two pictures ^ ^
left Elon’s Tommy Cole (Number 11) goes up between two of the Aggie players, but
to A. and T.’s Vernon Walker when he is sandwiched between Austin and Charles Greer (Number K
In the picture at the right Elon's Richard McGeorge (Number d3) goes up over the top of three Aggie
players as he pushes the ball into the basket for a Christ.-g score.
Faculty-Staff Cagers
Record Into Contest
Panthers Top Elon
In Final Cage Tilt
Carry ^Unbeaten’
With "Happy Guys’
The Fighting Chris
tians, after rising to a
peak of brilliance in whip
ping the A. and T. Aggies,
had a distinct reversal
of form as they dropped
83 to 62 battle to the
High Point Panthers in the
finals of the NAIA district
event on Wednesday night,
March 5th.
The defeat by the Pan
thers, which was the third
loss to the High Point
cagers this season,
closed a fine season for
the Elon basketeers, who
Wound up with 21 wins in
‘9 starts. This was the
nest win-loss record in
several seasons.
The Maroon and Gold
cagers turned a fine game
through the first half of
fhe battle with the Pan-
P and at one time the
hristians held as much
a 5-point lead, but a
fh n ^°int rally pulled
ne Panthers ahead by a 31
0 27 margin at the end of
'he half.
, ^'^'T^ediately following
intermission. the
Christians ran head on
into another of their
“Deep Freeze” cold
streaks in shooting, and
there was an interval of
several minutes during
the final half when t.lon
could not seem to buy a
basket.
This battle with the
Panthers marked the end
of their Elon basketball
play for a quartet of
fine Christian perform
ers, for seniors Henry
Goedeck, Bill Bowes,
Pete Johnson and Steve
Caddell all were playing
their last game before
graduation.
THE LINE-UPS
Pos, Elon (62)HighPt(83)
F.Goedeck(l6) Littles(15)
F McGeorge(9) Tat.(13)
C. Bowes (8) Plcka (14
G Cole (6) Colbert(20
G. Marshall (5) Witt(ll)
Half-time: High Point
31, Elon 27.
Elon subs — Johnson
6 McGee 10, Hicklin 2,
Caddell. High Point
gyjjg Lowenthal
Homey, Webb, Horney.
The basketball “clas
sic” of the year is set
for Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium at 8 o’clock
next Tuesday night,March
18th, when the Elon Col
lege Faculty and Staff
combination of cage stars
will battle the Happy Guys
of the WBAG radio sta
tion in a contest for sweet
charity’s sake.
When the spectators
file out of the huge Alum
ni Memorial Gymnasium
after the battle, it is en
tirely possible that they
will need a sign to re
mind them that “What It
Was Was Basketball,” but
they will have the satis
faction of knowing that
their nickels and dimes
have gone for a good
cause, for the Battle of
the Ages is to be staged
for the benefit of the Elon
College Home for Chil
dren.
All in the interest ol
sweet charity, the Elon
College faculty and staff
has begged, pleaded and
finally induced Dean Flet
cher Moore to come out of
hiding to coach the facul-
ty-staff combination of
cage “stars” that will ap
pear in widely varied cos
tumes. The Faculty and
Staff quint goes into the
garne undefeated, for the
team has not played a
game yet.
Coach Moore, while re
fusing to comment on the
basketball abilities of his
campus stars, expressed
appreciatiton this week
that the WBAG “Happy
Guys” had consented to
appear on the same court
with his brilliant basket
ball combination.
Those so - called
“Happy Guys” may not
be quite so happy when
they have counted their
injuries after the clash
with the faculty and staff
hatchet squad, which will
be under the leadership
of Captain Roy “Soupy”
Campbell,
The “Happy Guys,”
with a truly sensational
record of three wins and
eight losses against some
of the worst competition
that these United States
can produce, will be led
by Captain Gailes “Stick-
ey” Stuckey, who won high
honors as a member of
the “Stinky Stars” in the
Elon intramural league
about forty years ago.
Others who will per
form with the “Happy
Guys” are “Big Ed”
Brooks, sports director
of Radio Station WBAG,
along with Bill Hines,
Cary Allred, John Savia-
no and a host of less pro
ficient and less well
known substitutes.
(Continued on page 4)
In Tourney
The Fighting Chris
tians hit a fabulous fifty-
two free throws as they
rolled to a 100 to 84 vic
tory over the A. and T.
Aggies in the first round
of the NAIA District 26
tournament in Winston-
Salem Colosseum on
Tuesday night, March 4th.
The Christians enter
ed the game with the Ag
gies as the underdogs,but
they quickly swept to the
front and took complete
command of the situation,
and the second-seeded A,
and r. quintet was never
really in competition af
ter the first few minutes.
The Elon cagers moved
ahead for keeps after six
minutes and were on top
by a 20-point margin at
49-29 when the first half
ended, Richard McGeorge,
who hit 33 points for his
top score of the season,
had 18 points in that first-
half sweep by the Chris
tians.
The big difference in
that first half and for the
entire game was at the
free-throw stripe, for
Elon hit on 25 of 28 char
ity tosses in the first
half and then hit an un
believable 27 for 27 foul
shots in the second half.
Ihe Christians, who
had been something less
than brilliant in foul
shooting throughout the
season, caged 51 consec
utive shots for what is
believed to be an all-time
record for American col
legiate cage play.
The Elon cagers set
three new all-time E,lon
records with this great
exhibition of charity
shooting, setting new
marks for most free
throws, most free throw
attempts and best percen
tage of shots for a single
game.
Coach Miller’s boys
were almost equally as
hot from the floor, for
they hit on 25 of 43 field
goal attempts for a 58,1
per cent average in that
department,
(Continued on page 4)
Elon Cagers
Set Record
When the Christian ca
gers hit 52 of 55 free
throws in whipping A. and
T, 102 to 84 on Tuesday
night, March 4th, the Elon
cagers banged in 51 free
throws in a row to set a
new national record,
breaking the mark of 32
consecutive free throws
set by Culver-Stockton
College of Missouri in
1966,
The record production
of charity points did not
top the old Carolinas Con
ference record for most
free throws in a game
(not consecutive), for the
Atlantic Christian Bull
dogs scored 54 foul shots
in a game against Lenoir
Rhyne back in 1955, Al-
gernon-Broaddus College
of West Virginia hit 53
free throws in one game,
also in the 1955 season.