Armchair
Athletics
Armchair Athlelics
By Ray Charbonneau
The first column lists well
known colleges. The second, the
cities in which they’re located.
Match them.
1. Northwestern a. Stockton, Cal.
2. Notre Dame b. N. Haven, Conn.
3. Duke c. N. Brunswick, N.J.
4. Dartmouth d. South Bend, Ind.
5. Baylor e. Evanston, 111.
6. Col. Pacific f. New Orleans, La.
7. Queens U. g. Durham, N. C.
8. Rutgers h. Waco, Texas
9. Tulane i. Kingston, O., Can.
10. Yale j. Hanover, N. H.
Coach Woody held the first
meeting of the basketball team
on November 10 to talk over the
coming season with the members
who turned out. Thirty men put
in an appearance. Among this
number there were six members
who returned from the last year
squad. These men were Graham
Price, James Hensley, Horace
Patty, Clifton Dozier, Ed Clontz,
and Arnold Phillips. Also turn
ing out for a trial with the team
were 13 members from the Bull
dog’s football squad.
The coach disclosed that the
squad would be in for a tough
schedule with some twenty games
on tap and possibly four more to
be aded later. Among the games
to be played will be those with
the “B” teams of Duke. Univer
sity of Carolina, W. C. T. C., and
Wofford. All in all this is a man’s
size schedule, but Coach Woody
feels sure that if all goes accord
ing to plans, and with an even
share of the breaks, the Bulldogs
will have as good a basketball
team as the school football team
proved to be this fall.
All home games this season will
be played in the City Auditorium
with a good preliminary card to
offer to the students of Asheville-
Biltmore and the people of Ashe
ville. Much of the success of any
team in any sport depends on the
support that it is given by its fol
lower. Let each member of this
school do his or her part and back
the squad.
DO YOU KNOW how to watch
a football game? Few do. Fifty-
yard-line seats are desirable for
social purposes. Otherwise there
are thousands of seats in all sta
diums just as good, back of the
goal posts, and high enough
which are far better. Sometime,
for your own information view
a game from the south end of a
field, looking down on the play
just as the players on the field
look at it. You’ll see more foot
ball and the real workings of a
football team. From that point in
one game you can observe more
than ten games from the fifty-
yard-line.
The average person spends all
his time watching the ball. At the
kick-off he keeps his eyes on the
ball from the time the pigskin is
placed down until the receiver is
stopped. On every play that fol
lows, the man with the ball is the
only one the fan sees. Now the
thing to do next time you go to
a football game is to note the line
plav of the team on the defense,
see if the guards drive into the
lino to get at the man with the
ball. Observe the center. Does
he pass the ball back and then
PAYING^ TRIBUTE to a couple of swell competitors, one a back,
the other a lineman. At left above is Cecil Roberts, steady tailback
who has sparked the Bulldogs through the entire season that has
just ended,_ and Paul Harris, who has made quite a name for himself
while pushing the opposition from up front. (Photo by Don McMahon.)
CECIL ROBERTS, PAUL HARRIS
INTRODUCED BY TEAMMATES
By Jack Stewart
Introducing the varsity tail-
bacK; ot tne Bulldog eleven, a
member of tne executive commit
tee of the Veterans Club, and
memoer of the Student Council,
wnom we all know as Cecil Kob-
eris.
Ceil graduated from Lee Ed-
waras ±iign Scnool of Asheville
in li)42, and went immediately
into tne Army Air Forces, where
ne served for three years.
Following his discharge, he
made a tour of the country until
his funds were exhausted. When
school opened for the fall semes
ter of 1946, Cecil entered Mars
Hill College where he played out
standing parts in the colloge, both
in athletics and in the social life,
and he was also a member of the
Euthat on Literary Society. He
was a member of the football
team and track squad.
In the fall of 1947, Cecil decid
ed to enroll at Asheville-Biltmore
Junior College. So far this year
he has been one of the most out
standing backs and has shown
some great football playing, run
ning from the tailback slot, he
has racked up three touchdowns
and has always gained yardage
when it was needed most.
His plans for the future of his
football and college are uncertain,
but the college he chooses will be
very fortunate.
drop out of play or does he carry
out a blocking assignment mak
ing him a double valuable man
for his team? Watch a game in
this manner and you’ll enjoy the
sport much more. Forget the
coaches and their master-mind
ing, brought about by the new
rule of free-substitution, and
you’ll leave the stadium in a hap
pier frame of mind even if the
home team does lose.
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By Horace Patty
The subject of this little story
is Paul “Curly” Harris, likeable
freshman here at Asheville-Bilt
more College and regular right
guard on the Bulldog team.
Paul attended Black Mountain
High School three years, two of
which he lettered in football. He
then transferred to Lee H. Ed
wards, where he starred in foot
ball and baseball.
While attending Mars Hill col
lege, Paul volunteered in the
army and in Oct., 1941, he entered
the Army Air Corps. He served
in this branch four and a half
years, two of which were spent
in combat missions in the vicinity
of Guam.
Entering Asheville - Biltmore
only this fall. Curly is well known
in campus activities, especially
that man-sized job of playing
guard every Saturday night.
He plans to enter Michigan
next fall and after hearing Coach
Coman’s praise of Curly’s fine de
fensive play, I would say Michi
gan will be adding a mighty good
guard to its roster next year!
Bulldogs Finish Season
Continued from Page One
won the Western Conference Jun
ior Championship of North Caro
lina. The rest of the schedule
was more than the team could
handle, and they dropped the next
three games in a row. This left
the results of the Bulldogs at six
wins, three losses, and one tie.
Not a bad record for a first year
squad. '
To name the outstanding player
of this team is impossible for it
was a team that played the whole
year as a unit rather than as a
group of individuals. They play
ed the game and gave it the best
they had. We should be very
proud of the team of 1947, and a
vote of thanks to the Coaches
Coman and Woody for building a
winning combination.
A-B Gridders
Lose Last Game
By 13-12 Count
HIWASSEE, Tenn.—THE IN
ABILITY TO KICK TWO
POINTS after touchdown cost the
Asheville-Biltmore college Bull- ’
dogs their final game of the sea
son here as Hiwassee college
came from behind in the fourth
quarter to win, 13-12.
Playing on a muddy gridiron,
the clubs battled on even terms
through most of the game, with
the passing combination of Joe
Harrell to IDon Baldwin account
ing for both Asheville tallies.
THE TEAMS FOUGHT even
ly in the Madisonville quagmire
during the first period, with Hi
wassee taking to the air in the
second stanza to set up the only
score in the first half.
After Bulldog tailback Cecil
Roberts had kicked to the Hiwas
see 45, Alvin Farley passed to
Frank North for 25 yards and on
successive line plays drove to the
Asheville 19-yard stripe. A pass
from Farley to Turpin placed the
ball on Asheville’s two and Far
ley bucked the score. Sizemore
dropkicked the decisive extra
point after fumbling the snap
from center. Hiwassee led at the
half. 7-0.
THE BULLDOGS came back
in the third period after Center
Tommy Robertson intercepted
Turpin’s erratic aerial on the Hi
wassee 47. Jack Mitchell gained
four more after Alger Rainwater,
wingback, had lost three and the
ball was placed on the Hiwassee
one-yard marker after the win
ners were penalized 15 yards for
unnecessary roughness. Three line
plays failed and on the fourth
down, after Asheville had been
penalized five yards, Harrell fired
a strike to Baldwin in the end
zone. Bob Vines’ boot for the
point was blocked.
The second and final Bulldog
score came soon after when J. C.
Mull got off a 50-yard punt out
of the Asheville end zone. At
tempting to receive, Turpin fum
bled and End Larry Carter re
covered for the Bulldogs. Jesse
Jayne caried for eight. Mull took
the leather on a hand-off for 18
and Harrell nassed to Baldwin
again on the Hiwassee 10 for his
second touchdown pass of the day
into the waiting arms of Baldwin.
Compliments
of
Joe Dave
There’s emerald green, kelly
green, pea green and turnip green
—but there’s no green like our
Taylor.
boil
Cannibal cook: “Shall I
the missionary. Chief?”
Chief: “Don’t be silly, that’s not
a missionary, that’s a friar.”
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