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THE BENNETT BANNER
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1979
8~4 record
Squad improves
Belles prepare to meet Aggiettes February 3 In the Ida Goode gym.
by Beverly Rumley
After 12 games, the basketball
team has a record of 8 wins and
4 losses.
The Belles beat Greensboro Col
lege at Greensboro College 64-49.
Freshman Portia Dixon of Greens
boro led the Belles with 38 points.
EHwanda Blue, a sophomore from
Concord, N. C. scored 17 points.
The team lost to Gardner-Webb
Jan. 16 at home in a close game.
The final score was 78-80. With
ten minutes gone in the first half,
Gardner-Webb led 12-21. The
Belles caught up and at half time
the score was tied at 46.
Gardner-Webb jumped out to
another big lead in the beginning
of the second half 49-60. With four
minutes left in the game the team
tied the score at 73. The Belles
were unable to pull out the victory
which would have put them in
first place in their division.
Bennett’s scoring attack was led
by Portia Dixon with 34 points;
twenty of which came in the first
half. Elwanda Blue had 11 points
and freshman Arlene Brown of
Stanley, N. C. had 9 points. Also,
freshman Mary Cook scored 8
points.
The team beat Meredith College
71-42 on Jan. 18 at home. Ten
minutes into the game the Belles
were leading 17-15 and never
trailed again. The halftime score
was 33-22.
Portia Dixon scored 23 points
and Mary Cook scored 11.
The Belles beat Davidson Coun
ty Community College 52-90 Jan.
20. Mary Cook scored 24 points
and freshman Valerie Callender
scored 10.
Coach Leon McDougle said, “We
are very happy with the play of
Mary Cook and Arlene Brown.”
He also said that freshman Pon-
theola Simmons is “becoming ad
justed to college ball,” and fresh
man Denice Wilder was “the
defensive sparkplug.”
Don't knock football until you try it
by Beverly Rumley
Huh 1, Huh 2, Huh 3, HIKE!
Football is one of America’s fa
vorite sports. Or is it?
I am an avid football fan and
every Sunday, 1 sit in my room
and try to watch all the games.
Everytime someone comes in the
room while I’m watching a game
I hear, “O'h I hate football,” or “I
don’t see how you can sit there
and watch them fight like that.”
The latter statement tells me
that they don’t really understand
the game. I believe this ignorance
of the game is the reason some
don’t like football.
The game is very easy to learn.
First, you have two teams, say a
red team and a blue team. The
team with the ball is the offensive
team and they’re trying to get the
ball across the touchdown line.
The defense is the team trying to
get the ball or stop the offense. If
the red team has the ball, the
team trying to get the ball away
from the red team is the blue
team, the defensive team.
I’m sure you’ve heard the ex
pression 1st down or 2nd down.
Confusing? No! The team with
the ball, the offensive team, has
four tries, downs, to move the ball
10 yards down the field or turn
it over to the other team. So 2nd
and 8 means this is the offenses’
2nd try, they’ve picked up 2 yards
and have 8 more to go to get a 1st
down. If the offense doesn’t get
the 10 yards after three downs,
they usually punt, kick, the ball
to the other team.
Now, the blue team is the of
fensive team and the red team is
the defensive team. On 1st down
the blue team picks up 15 yards.
They got more than 10 yards, so
it’s 1st down and 10 again. On
the next play, the blue team gets
a 5 yard penalty for moving be
fore the ball was snapped to the
quarterback. It’s still 1st down,
but its 1st down and 15 yards to
go.
The quarterback on the blue
team throws the ball but a man
on the red team catches it. That’s
called an interception and the red
team is now on offense.
By the way, when you see men
on both teams going off the field
and coming on the field, a change
of possession is taking place. A
football player usually plays either
offense or defense. So when the
possession of the football changes
sides, the players on the field
change also.
The red team is now on of
fense. The quarterback runs the
ball across the touchdown line
scoring 6 points for his team. Now
the kicker comes on to try an ex
tra point. He kicks the ball
through the goldposts. The red
team now has 7 points.
Now . t wasn’t hard. Was it?
Professional dance career results from hard work
by Andrietta Brown
For Valeria “Tee” Williams,
a junior majoring in art from
Florence, S. C., dancing is a
way of life. Tee, who has been
dancing for the past ten and
one-half years, exclaims, “I
have always loved to dance.”
She says that she has danced
since her early childhood but
became seriously interested in
dancing during the sixth
grade.
Tee, an attractive young
lady with a radiant personal
ity, studied dance formally
last summer in New York at
the Finis Jhung School of Bal
let. She enjoyed her summer
of study in New York and
hopes to dance professionally
in New York after graduation.
At home, Tee performs with
the Florence Regional Ballet
Company. The company tours
throughout parts of South
Carolina, participates in vari
ous workshops and holds
dance recitals. She has also
danced in numerous college
functions since her freshman
year.
Ben Vereen and Juliet
Prose are her favorite dan
cers. Tee also idolizes Alvin
Ailey, a famous choreog
rapher with whom her cousin
dances.
In the relaxed atmosphere
of the dormitory, Tee ex
presses her philosophy of
Muldrow wins pageant
LaSaundra Muldrow, sopho
more music education major, was
the winner of the talent compe
tition in the Khalif Temple No.
144 Pageant which was held Sun
day, January 14, 1979 at Harrison
Auditorium, North Carolina A&T
State University.
life: “In order to achieve
something you love and de
sire, you must work hard and
in doing so you must respect
others as well as yourself.”
She realizes that professional
dancing requires “blood,
sweat and tears,” but is will
ing to work hard and achieve
her goal.
She hopes to open a dance
school and teach dancing one
day. Tee adds, “There are so
many things I want to do, but
mainly I want to dance as well
as pursue a career as an art
ist.”
Tee comes from a family of
six. She says, “My parents
have been beside me and will
ing to help me when I needed
them. They encourage me to
dance.” Her 15-year-old
brother, Grayson, is also a tap
and jazz dancer.
The 21-year-old Gemini de
cided to attend a four-year
college instead of a dance
school because she wanted “a
well-rounded background in
order to be prepared for the
future.” Her mother is a for
mer Belle.
Tee’s willingness to work
hard, her appealing personal
ity and her excellent dance
skills brighten her future ca
reer as a professional dancer.
Haiku
Love is an
open
field of
violets growing
in the
Garden of Eve.
Arlisa Lowe
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Freshman survives effects of coma
(Continued from Page 3)
seldom came, because he couldn’t
tolerate looking at Gloria in that
condition.
Gloria had tubes running in her
nose and arms. There were
needles stuck in her head to pre
vent brain damage.
“When I woke up I had long
finger nails and my hair had
grown,” said Gloria, grinning. She
had lost weight and her skin was
a pale color. “I couldn’t stand to
look at myself in the mirror,” said
Gloria.
She stayed in the hospital for a
month and a half after she woke
up.
“I felt left out. I had missed a
whole year of school, paii;ying and
boys. I used to wonder how in the
world I was going to catch up,”
Gloria said, laughing.
When Gloria got back, she
stayed in the house most of the
time because people stared too
much.
“I didn’t like for anyone to
come visit me because the only
thing they wanted was to see how
I looked and ask questions.
Even tht^.gh Gloria was out of
school one year she still grad
uated with her class. She attended
night and day school in order to
graduate in 1978.
Being in a coma left Gloria with
many problems, such as bad
nerves, a heart condition, migraine
headaches and arthritis.
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