December 18, 1928.
THE WEAVER PEP
Page 3
TALMAN PRAISED
BY COACH BAKER
THE ROMANCE LANGUAGE
CLUB PROGRESSES
Weaver College football teams
have been victorious for two years,
■without the stain of defeat. There
must be a reason for this unusual
record. Nearly every football team
has an off day and sustains defeat at
the hands of an inferior within the
course of a season.
The reasons for Weaver’s record
are two fold; first Weaver teams are
better coached than any of the teams
they have played, second; the men
who have played on these teams are
unusua(. in, their spirit. o|^ competi
tion.
Coach Talman knows football from
A to Z having played, and coached
for twenty-five years. Besides know
ing the game he has the ability to
impart it and bring the best results.
He knows football so well he can de
vise plays which exactly suit the team
he has.
Coaches are often unduly criticized,
if they lose they are no good, if they
win it is because of good material.
No coach can build a good team out of
poor material, but good material does
not make a good team without a good
cocah. Win or lose, Talman knows
football and can teach it so as to get
the most out of material available.
The men who have played on these
two great teams, have been men of
a football breed. They have in their
heart the keen spirit of competition
which will not admit defeat at the
hands of an inferior team. Through
the grind of practice they have never
grown stale but one time and for but
one quar+!fei>-tvnni. Pindinsr 'themselves
13 points behind regained their fight
and won from a team equally as good
in every way except in fighting spirit.
At no time have the substitutes been
plentiful, both seasons have been
played by less than 15 men each.
Weaver College is fortunate in hav
ing such a coach as Talman, many
colleges might envy the spirit of the
men who have played for him.
Those members of the Romance
Language Club who have not attended
recent meetings have been missing
something really worth while. The
club feels that its work is not only
interesting and entertaining but ex
ceedingly valuable in the promotion
of interest in class work.
At the meeting of the Spanish sec
tion on October 29, a short one-act
play was well presented by Wm. Zim
merman and Ernestine Fincher. Other
features of the program were Span
ish songs and games. On November
>26 this* section held its. second/!mi^--
ing when the main feature of the pro^
gram was a baseball game with Span
ish words as balls.
The French section on November
19 gave a short play in French repre
senting a school room scene. A vocab
ulary game was an interesting part
of the meeting held December 10, and
all enjoyed the singing of the Marseil
laise. At this meeting in celebration
of the approach of the Christmas sea
son Miss Hayes delightfully served
tea and cakes to the members.
FALL ATHLETICS
EVENING
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WEAVERILLE, N. C.
Colors fade in the sky,
. Mother croons in lullaby
Birds sleep in their nest.
All the world is at rest—
At the close of the day.
Stars twinkle up above,
Everything speaks of its love.
All is calm—all is quiet—
Over us all comes hush—
At ~tKe close of ^day. ^
A hush—as the sun’s last rays,
Ends—at length—a perfect day.
So sweet, so calm, so very dear;
For it seems to us that He
Our Savior ia near.
At the close of day.
—ANGUS B. JOYNER.
Mr. Kendal intends to donate to the
College $50.00 to be used in putting
the finishing touches on the new Gym.
The faculty have ruled at theiif
meeting that the students should en
joy one whole month vacation for
Christmas.
Mr. Duncan will spend a quiet
Christmas at his home in Weaver-
ville. orrecting term papers.
While football has been holding the
attention of most of the student body
during these early fall months, the
campus has seen other seasonal activ
ities as well.
The football team has gone through
an unbroken winning streak of eight
een games against schools and col
leges of our own class and the record
for two seasons shows two Junior
College championships annexed and a
team score total of 542 points against
opponents 38.
■A tennis tournament in boys’ singles
and doubles was held during the first
^quarti^ and hiking has had, its pUice
during j this wonderful fall weather.
Mrs. Pylant has taken her girls out
on a number of interesting fall jaunts
over hill and dale.
Weaver had entered a cross-coun
try team in the Thanksgiving Day
race in Asheville and some of our
longstanding athletes are expected to
show genuine class.
With the close of football, basket
ball and volleyball will fill in the long
winter season. The coaches are plan
ning to have a co-ed team to meet
other teams of this section on the
court, while they expect to enter the
college team in the Asheville City
league for a regular one-game-a-week
schedule. A few other games for Wea-
verville and nearby towns will also
be arranged.
Most of last year’s girl’s team has
graduated or left, but a good nucleus
still remains. The boy’s team still ni-
cludeg Robinson, Teague, Begley, Lat
ham and Walters; although Driskell,
Ross, and Crenshaw are gone.
are-often-found~on
' the tennis courts and do some lusty
cheering at the football games where
Weaver’s black and gold has long
waved on high. Long may she be vic
torious.
—COACH TALMAN.
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