THE TROJAN
“STUDENT PUBLICATION OP IiOUISBURG COLIjEGE”
VOLUMN 1
DECEMBER 12, 1936
NUMBER 2
TROJAN BASKETEERS TO PLAY 20 GAMES
Coach David March announced
recently that the Louisburg Col
lege quintet would play a total of
twenty games in its 1936-37 sea
son. This year’s edition of the
Trojan cage team will be built
around Cooper, Shannonliouse
and Crawley, the only letter men
returning. March is optimistic
over Louisburg’s chances for a
successful season, and made this
statement—“We have a very
tough schedule, but I believe that
we will win a good share of the
games.”
Approximately 50 candidates
reported for the initial practice
l.er.ods. After two briel scrim
mages, Coach March reduced bis
squad to 20 men and settled down
to hard work in preparing his
team for the opening contest
against Atlantic Christian Col
lege here on December 15th.
The following clubs have been
scheduled: A. C. C., Chowan, E.
C. T. C., Duke “B”, N. C. State
“B”, Carolina “B”, Guilford
Campbell, P. J. C., william &
Mary (Norfolk Division), Wake
Forest, Randolph-Macon, Virginia
Freshmen, and Hampden-Sidncy.
Some of the teams will be met
twice during the season. Nine
of the contests will be played at
home. SUPPORT YOUR TRAM!
UOXING DROPPED FROM IN
TERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS
The manly and gentle art of
fisticuffs, boxing to you, has been '
dropped from Louisburg'a athletic
program. Athletic Director March
claims that the cost of support
ing a team is prohibitive, and
therefore should not be a part of
the college’s Intercollegiate pro
gram. Louisburg has put out a
boxing team for the past several
years, and last year’s squad drew
favorable comment for its credi
table showing. It is extremely
regrettable to many of the stu
dents that Louisburg’s athletic
program is thus being curtailed
under the present head of the
Athletic Department.
Mr. Jack White, of Bonlee, N.
C., will be a guest of Mr. B.jwors
Wilson, of Littleton, N. C.. for
the Christmas holidays. Mr.
White and Mr Wilson have been
closoly associated in campus ac
tivities.
GIRLS PLAY OFF VOLLEY
BALL TOURNAMENT
Your correspondent has re
cently had the most wonderful
experience, girls, and I’m just
dying to tell you about it. I had
the rare privilege of being a wit
ness to that perfectly divine ■vol
leyball tournamenf. which was
played on the college lawn re
cently. The details are rather
vague to me, but it seems that
the young ladies had been divid
ed up into three separate circles
or teams, and that they were 1o
run and skip around until it was
decided which circle was to be
called the “duckiest” one of the
three. The Preshwomen had a
club, the girls of the Senior class
were represented splendidly, .-md
the ladies of the Business Depart
ment also placed a team in the
contest. The members of tho
Preshwomen team were attired in
the loveliest pink tulle creations
and pranced upon the greensward
daintily. The Senior girls
I very beautiful dresses
with long flowing skirts and the
cutest embroidery you have ever
seen. The colors of their ensem-
baby blue and maroon.
White lace was the theme of the
Business girls’ “uniform”, and it
was just too, too thrilling to
watch them. Well, It seems that
they had some sort of a contest,
but that’s not important anyway,
^ quite sure that someone
probably was victorious. After
the game, tea and sandwiches
were served to the guests. Miss
Ewart poured.
archery popular ajiong
girls of COLLEGE
Archery has been introduced
among the girls of Louisburg Col
lege as a part of the women’s
Physical Education program Miss
Ewart, head of the Physical Edu
cation Department for Women,
reports that the sport is proving
very popular. This is the hrst
time that archery has been used
as a part of the women’s atiiletic
program at Louisburg, and its
meeting with such enthusiastic
approval on the part of the young
ladies will probably insure its
use in the future. At pr3sent
thirty-two girls take part in this
phasj of Physical Education.
PANTHERS-BUTCHERS PLAY
TO DRAW IN INTRA-MURAL
GRID CONTEST
For the first time in several
years two intra-mural teams mot
in a football contest as the Pan
thers, captained by C. W. Roun
tree, and the Butchers, led by
“Butch” Kennedy, fought to a
6 to 6 tie. Both teams display
ed surprising ability especially in
defensive work. The game was
well played and a great deal of
interest was shown by the student
body in this type of school ath
letics.
The Panthers scored in the first
quarter as the result of a long
pass. Hill to Rountree, which
placed the ball on the five-yard
line. The forward wall of the
Kennedy aggregation refused to
yield the necessary yardage, and
the Panthers were forced to re
turn to the air route to score.
Another pass from Hill to Roun
tree was completed in the end-
zone for the touchdown. A line
play for the extra point failed.
The teams battled on oven
terms for the second and third
quarters. In the fourth period,
however, the Butchers started a
scoring drive that would aot be
denied. Chauncey and Kennedy
swept off tackle and skirted the
ends in a series of plays which
brought the ball from mid-field
to the twenty-five yard line of
the Panthers. Chauncey then
went around his own left end be
hind effective interference to
cross the goal line for the tying
score. A line plunge failed to
yield the extra point. With the
score tied, both teams tried des
perately to score but the final
whistle found the ball in mid-
field.
Rip Tutor, after suffering man
fully oyer the vocal efforts of Ben
Robinson and Red Wimbrow, has
finally broken down under ihe
strain and made the motion ihat
these masculine songbirds con
fine their singing (?) to the music
room. The motion was pu.ssed
unanimously.
With Apologies to Kipling—
“Hitch-hikers to the right of us.
Hitch-hikers to the lift of us.
Thumb Fun, I’ll say!”