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Quakers Stop Rams,
BY JOHNNY MOORE
For the past two years the
Guilford College Quakers have
depended upon the running of
Reggie Kenan to bring them
victories.
This past Saturday against
Winston Salem State Uni
versity, Guilford Coach Charles
Forbes pulled a new offensive
weapon out of the bag. A
freshman fullback by the name
of Gary Merrill.
Merrill, a rookie from
Graham, N.C., was in his first
start for the Quakers and
scored Guilford's only touch
down, as they won 16-4 over
the Rams.
Along with Merrill's run
ning, Guilford's Mike McClune
added three field goals to give
the Quakers their third win of
the season against four losses.
Everyone at the game was
surprised at Merrill's perfor
mance, but no one more than
Winston Salem State coach
Bill Hayes.
"We had looked at their
films all week and sometimes
they wouldn't run the fullback
for the whole game," Hayes
said "maybe he would carry
the ball once every 15 plays."
"If we were going to win
the game we knew we had to
be able to stop Reggie Kenan."
continued the first year coach.
"We did that all right but we
forgot to play football the rest
of the way."
The Rams came out playing
great football as they took
the opening kickoff and drove
down the field 76 yards for the
first score of the game. Kermit
Blount, the Ram's quarterback,
scampered in from the 16 yard
line to give Winston Salem a
7-0 lead with 13:12 to go in
the first period.
Jeff Roberts, another fresh
man on the Quaker squad
from Whiteville, N.C., gave
Guilford great field position
as he returned the ensuing
kickoff to the Quaker 45 yard
line.
A 14 yard pass from quarter
back Johnny Steward to wide
receiver Chriss Paphites put
the Quakers on the Ram's 29
yard line. Steward then
couldn't get the offense
cranked up again, and Mike
McClune kicked his first of
three field goals, this one
coming from 44 yards out
to put the Quakers on the
board.
The Quakers got their first
touchdown after Stewart
again passed the Quakers
down the field with a 23-yard
pass to Avery Cutshaw to
give Guilford the ball on the
Ram's 5 yard line. On the next
play Merrill rambled over from
the five to put the Quakers
on top 10-7 with 3:03 remain
ing in the first period.
The teams struggled in the
second period with Rams
fumbling once and throwing
one interception while Guil
ford fumbled twice. But the
big blow came when both of
Winston-Salem's running
backs were injured.
Timmy Newsome and Cecil
Oliver both went out of the
game with injuries and are not
expected to play any more this
season.
"This really hurt us when
both of our running backs got
hurt," stated Hayes. "Both of
them are fine running backs
and have done a great job for
us this year."
Halftime found the two
teams going to the locker
room with the same score they
had at the end of the first
period, 10-7 Guilford.
In the second half the
Quakers came out rolling.
They drove down the field
again but were stopped and had
to settle for a 33 yard field goal
by McClune to extend their
lead to 13-7.
Winston Salem State wasted
very little time in gaining the
lead, as they covered 52 yards
in just two plays for the score.
The big play of the short
series came on a halfback
pass from Randy Bolton to
Antonia Howard which gave
the Rams the ball on the
Quakers' 10 yard line. On the
next play Melvin Woods
scampered in from the 10 for
the score and gave the lead to
Winston Salem State 14-13
with 12:49 remaining in the
game.
Guilford only needed a field
goal to go ahead but few
people felt that the Quakers
would go for a field goal.
Steward got the Quakers
down field quickly as he hit
Chriss Paphites on a 40-yard
pass to advance the ball to the
Rams' 28 yard line.
All day Stewart had been
using a technique of running
the ball which worked very
well. Stewart would take the
ball from the center and scoot
between the guard and the
center and pick up yardage.
This worked very well, as the
High Point native picked up
100 yards rushing on the day,
and displeased Ram coach Bill
Hayes.
"Steward shouldn't have
been gaining a lot of yardage
on those keeper plays," stated
the former Wake Forest Uni
versity assistant coach.
Stewart used this play suc
cessfully enough to put the
Quakers down-on the five yard
line. Merrill tried twice to
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16-14
score, but couldn't get the
ball into the end zone. Sud
denly Guilford was faced with
a fourth and goal situation on
the one yard line, one point
behind and with 9:02 to go
in the game.
Coach Charles Forbes de
cided to go for the field goal
and go ahead by two points
so for a third time big Mike
McClune was called on. The
Quaker junior also starts at the
strong tackle position for the
Quakers so at this point in
the game he was beginning to
tire.
A 19 yard fieldgoal went
through the uprights for
McClune and he had put his
team out in front 16-14 with
8:55 to go in the game.
The third field goal by Mc-
Clune set a new school record
at Guilford for most field goals
in one game. The old record
was two field goals in one
game held by Mike Stewart
who did it in 1970 against
Gardner Webb and McClune
who earlier this year hit two
field goals against Mars Hill.
The Quaker defense then
did an excellent job of stop
ping the Rams from scoring,
as Quaker senior middle guard
Bunky James sacked Ram
Quarterback Blount to kill any
hopes of a score.
The Quakers then took the
ball over on downs and Stew
art then proceeded to eat up
the clock and drive the Quak
ers down the field. Stewart
held on to the ball for five
minutes and forty-one sec
onds before turning it over to
the Rams. Two passes did not
produce scores and the Rams
record fell to 3-6 on the year.
"This was the first game in
a group of three ball games
that were really going to be
tough for us," stated Guilford
coach Charles Forbes referring
to the Quakers two remaining
games against Catawba and
Maryville.. "If we were going
to have a good season then
we were going to have to win
this game today," continued
Forbes. "Our guys went out
and did what they had to do
to win."
Reggie Kenan, the Quakers
Ail-American tailback, was not
used as much as in the past
but still was able to gain 65
yards in 13 carries.
The Quakers will be enter
taining Catawba College this
coming weekend on the Quak
er campus at 2:00. Catawba
is 7-2 on the year and ranked
19th in the NAIA. They
defeated Wofford last week
17-14.
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Big Mike McClune sets school record with three field goals.
Volleyball Top in State
BY ALINA LEBRATO
It's been said that you can't
beat a team two times in a
row. The Women's Volleyball
Team proved that yes, you
can when they beat Pembroke
State University to win the
1976 NCI AW Championship at
Duke this weekend.
The Guilford team started
the tournament by beating
Meredith College 15-5, 15-6.
Then they went on to beat
Lenoir Rhyne 15-13, 15-11 to
enter the semifinals of the
Independent College division.
Here they met Pembroke
State and were disappointed
with their fast defeat. They
moved to the loser's bracket
with the hope of meeting
Pembroke State again in the
finals. To do this, they played
Lenoir Rhyne again and beat
them again 11-15, 15-11,
15-13. With a half hour of
rest, the Guilford Women
moved into the finals against
Pembroke. Since the Tourn
ament was a double elimin
ation, Guilford needed to beat
Pembroke twice in order to
regain its championship title
for another year.
In the first match, the Guil
ford Women proved to pern
broke that yes they could
win. The match was only two
games long and Guilford had
a chance for the championship.
With a fifteen-minute rest, the
team entered the deciding
match for the championship.
In the first game, Guilford
proved more domineering and
beat Pembroke 15-11, but
Pembroke was not about to
give up. They came back to
beat Gu'lford 10-15 and keep
November 9. 1976
their hope of being champions.
In the third and deciding
match, Guilford proved that
they were a championship
team. At first they were
startled and this led Pembroke
to gain a 10-1 lead on them.
Guilford never gave up and
kept cutting Pembroke's lead
down until they finally won 15-
12 to becme the 1976 Volley
ball Champions.
With the end of the tourna
ment, the Guilford team will
lose its only senior player,
Doris Adams. Doris has con
tributed greatly in all the
championship games which
the Guilford team has won.
The Guilford team also had
three of its players named to
the All State tournament.
These were: Debbie Tyson,
Donna Rogers and Wanda
Robbins Barker. These three
ladies also contributed to the
team's sucess, along with the
entire 1976 Women's Team
and Coach.
I'd like to salute the 1976
Team for its tremendous ef
fort, spirit and endurance.
Congratulations!
1976 Women's Volleyball
Team Members: Doris
Adams, Debbie Tyson, Donna
Rogers, Wanda R. Barker,
Suzanne Childress, Emorie
Colby, Betsy Mackenzie, Sally
Busken, Jennie Davis, Amy
Rutherford, Mary Kuendal,
Nancy Smith, and. Charlotte
Hines.
Managers: Liz Moran and
Alina Lebrato
Coach: Gayle Currie
Lefs do it again in '77!