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October 9, 1964 QUAKERS RACK CATS, 20-12 Fans See, Elon Feels New Look by HANK SIEGEL Guilford Football Coach John Stewart unravelled "the new look of his 1964 Football Squad for the hometown fans two weeks ago, and it was something of a sight to see. The Quaker Gridders, previously known throughout the area for their offensive prowess, displayed the greater part of the new look in a defense which may very well be the most hard hitting in the Caro linas Conference. The proof is in the statistics. The Guilford forward wall and linebacking defenders slammed into Elon backs and ends with such verve that it caused four different ball carriers to fumble the ball five times. Guilford defenders Allen Brown, Bill Hollifield, Fred Palmore imd Bill Hurt, all newcomers, recovered four of those 1 loose balls. A most impressive aspect of this year's defensive play has be;n the few penalties incurred thus far. The Quakers, in the Elon game, were penalized three times for 64 yards, 49 of which came from a pass inter ference call. Penaltes, of course, can hurt just as much as a five-vard run or a fifteen-yard pass play. Last year this was of prime conce.n to Coach Stewart. This team, however, seems as reluctant to give away penalty yardage as it does to let backs run against it. Defense was what Coach Stewart hoped to strengthen in his quest for talent this past spring, and to a large extent he appears to have been successful. Even our pass elefense, supposedly our weakest link, held up well against Elon's Wheless to Jarvis aerial attack. And it was pass elefense that sparkeel the most electrifying play of the game—Ronnie Ramsey's 53-vard interception return of Ed Wheless' pass. This year's football team is unquestionably different. This is evident, not only in personnel but in attitude as well. For the first time in a good many years we can look toward the future with the knowledge that it shall be brighter. Guilford's loss to Elon was the thirteenth consecutive defeat for the Crimson and Gray. This coulel be a very unlucky number for the rest of our opposition. Elon Squeezes Past Guilford, 15-6 Greensboro, Sept. 26 —An 83- yard touchdown run by Elon Half back Sonny Pruette proved to be the decisive factor in today's game between Guilford and Elon. Guilford received their first scor ing opportunity late in the first quarter when Elon Halfback Fred Stewart fumbled on Elon's 24- yard line. Guilford Quarterback Jimmy Williams soon brought his team to the Elon 1-yard line but the attack fizzled. Elon took over and on the very next play Quarter back Ed Wheless fumbled. This time the Crimson and Gray were not to be denied as Jimmy Williams scored on a 4-yard end sweep. A two-point conversion attempt fail ed and Guilford led 6-0 with 12 seconds gone in the second quarter. Elon next broke into the scoring column with 7:47 remaining in the first half. A 36-yard drive which featured an 8-yard touch down pass from Wheless to end Pete Jarvis put Elon ahead 7-6. wSdf' \ >* t. i i ..V V 1. %sS9S™ Guilford's Bob Sylvester catches pass for 30 yards, then tackled by Elon's Lamar Clark. Guilford threatened again, late in the third quarter, when Ronnie Ramsey intercepted a Wheless pass and ran it back 53 yards to the Elon 8. But three plays later, on the first play of the fourth quarter, the Quakers missed an 18-yard field goal attempt. Elon took over and with 11:23 left in the ball game Pruette broke loose for his 83-yard touchdown clincher. STATISTICS Guilford Elon 6 First Downs 11 46 Yards Rushing 211 9-31 Passes Comp—Att. 7-16 86 Yards Passing 83 1 Passes Int. Bv 3 7-37.1 Punts—Avg. 5-40.0 0 Fumbles Lost 4 64 Yards Penalized 101 SCORING SUMMARY Elon 0 7 0 8 - 15 Guilford 0 6 0 0-6 Guilford Williams, 4-yd. end sweep (run failed). Elon—Jarvis, 8 yd. pass from Wheless (Ferrell-kick). Elon—Pruette, 83-yd. run (Amick-pass from Pruette). THE GUILFORDIAN Eton's Rex Harrison catches pass . . . then fumbles . . . but {mailt/ recovers. Quakers Begin New Era (Continued from page one) Extra point-kicker Jack Brinkley converted and the Quakers led 7-0. This was soon followed by a thir ty-nine-yard field goal by Earnie Vadersen- In the third quarter Catamount Tailback Ellis Johnson ran into some Guilford defenders and the net result was a fumble which Guil ford recovered on the WCC six yard line. Jimmy Williams wasted no time in taking it in for the TD. The Catamounts, now behind 17- 0 and desperate, began to pass. The result was an 80-yard touchdown drive which was terminated by John Ruta's one-yard plunge to pay dirt. The Quakers remained cool and boosted the score to 20-6, using a 38-yard Vadersen 4th quarter field goal to do the job. Western managed to get on the scoreboard one more time when John Ruta threw a four-yard pass to End Leroy Holden. Three thousand fans saw the game and it was evident that they were surprised by its outcome. Western Carolina had previously beaten Presbvterian in a pre-season scrimmage. Presbyterian, in turn, had beaten Lenoir-Rhyne. Cata mount fans, as a result, thought that the Quakers would also fall prey to their team. What people do not realize i that this Guilford team is quite dif ferent than past squads. They like to play good, hard and solid foot ball. Coach John Stewart was un doubtedly happy with his boys. "The defense is real tough," he em phasized. "The first defender hits the ball-carrier and the second man goes for the ball." The result is evident—eight fum bles in the last two games, six of which we recovered. "We're still green," Stewart went on to say- "A lot of the boys are new but they're learning fast. We made some mis takes against Western Carolina and it cost us two touchdowns but tim and experience will fix that. Of the two touchdowns that Stewart wa speaking, one was a forty-four-yard run by Billy Joye which was called back for a holding penalty at the line of scrimmage. "The man who was held wasn't even in the plav," noted Stewart. "It was a beautiful, clean run bv Billy." The other touchdown which was called back was a twelve-vard screen pass from Williams to loye. This time there was an illegal receiver down field. "We beat them worse than the statistics indicated," said Coach John Lambeth. "Those penalties took away a lot of yardage/' Lam beth also mentioned the tremen dous job Dwight Buff aloe did on WCC's Ellis Johnson. "Johnson was completely out of it, thanks to Dwight." Stewart was most happy with Guilford's new offensive game. He indicated that the offensive interior line-blocking had improved 100 per cent. "As a result," he con cluded, "we played three-yard and a cloud of dust football. We passed the ball considerably less than we usually do. The onlv time we passed was on short option plays." The Quakers did play a different brand of football- They tried, and with success, to shove the ball down the oppositions throat by running up the middle. This made our outside game more potent. Contrary to newspaper reports, there was no rain until the third quarter. This was a moderate driz zle which continued until the fourth quarter when, with four or five minutes remaining in the ball game, it started to rain consider ably harder. The rain did not affect the playing field much, although there were several instances when Williams, Joye and Blevins could have gone for large gains if they had not slipped when they tried to cut. One of the players informed me that Western Carolina had under estimated Guilford's power so grossly that they had, prior to the tame, planned a victory party. At about eleven o'clock that night there was a beautiful party set up. Western Carolina, however, was in no mood to celebrate. "So," said Lee Simmerson, one of our veteran guards, "we took ad vantage of the situation and had a little party." They must have celebrated the coming of a new era! STATISTICS Guilford Western Carolina 7 First Downs 6 71 Yards Rushing 40 16 Yards Passing 109 2-11 Passes 7-17 1 Passes Intercepted By 1 4-40.0 Punts 5-38.2 0 Fumbles Lost 2 45 Penalties 70 Guilford 10 0 7 3 - 20 Western Carolina 0 0 6 6 - 12 Guilford—Blevins, 4 yd. run (Brinkley kick). Guilford—Vadersen, 39 yd. field goal. Guilford—Williams, 6 yd. run (Brinkley kick). WCC—Ruta, 1 yd. run (run failed). Guilford—Vadersen, 38 yd. field goal. WCC—Holden, 4 yd. pass from Ruta (run failed). INTRAMURALS Coach John Lambeth, beginning his third year as Director of Intra murals, has planned a full agenda of activity to keep even the most hearty of campus athletes happy. Touch Football has already be gun and its looks as though it is going to be a very interesting fight for the championship. Last year's champs, the Day Hops, again seem to be the top favorites despite the loss of their great Quarterback, Pat Bledsoe. English always has to be rated a favorite in any team sport. However, a loss to Center in overtime makes people wonder. So let's call Center our third fav orite. The field for our Tennis tourna ment is comprised of 72 entries, the largest number we've ever had. Horseshoes has the usual high number of 64. There are also doubles tournaments in these two sports. Coach Lambeth has also an nounced a Co-ed Tennis Tourna ment, similar to the one we held last year. Five Years Ago . .. Five years ago, in 1959, October 3 to be exact, the Guilford Foot ballers met Bridgewater for their third game of the season. On that October afternoon the Quakers rolled up a .52-7 victory over the Bridgewater crew. Next Saturday's game should be very interesting; Bridgewater has gotten a lot stronger in five years, but so has Guilford. If it should be a runaway the man to watch may well be Jimmy Williams. Records just might possibly fall. So try and come out to see the Crimson and Gray meet the Bridgewater team next week on October 10. GUILFORD, Oct. 10— The dis tance between one line and th > points thereof, unless otherwise specified in the newspaper, is the acute circumvention of the multi tudinous symposium of conflict ing intellects. Ergo, a massive cul tural, socio-economic, political, re ligious, moral, and gastronomic up heaval is manifested by the para doxical, diatomic and related alle viations of continuity caused an inculcation of the incomprehensi ble by the incompetent to those who wallow in the dust of medi ocrity. Q.E.D. —Ed. Page Five
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