NOVEMBER 5, 1965
THE PILOT
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BULLDOGS ARE HUNGRY FOR CHOWAN
First Row. left to right: Doc Clements, assistant to coaches; Don Melville, Tony Mauldin, John Taylor, Roy
Thompson, Don Peterson, Jim Bovender, Wayne Fortune, Tom Gillis, Edward Hauser, Ron Hendrix and Buddy
Hamrick. Second Row, 1-r: Fred Styles, Larry Kaasa, Ken Morris, Stan Berkshire, Tommy Thomason, Jim Tay
lor, Jerry Eskew, James Bird, Vaughn Dagenhardtt, Bobby BaU, Pinky Guerard, Bobby Spain and Larry Hos
kins. Third Row, 1-r: ,Coach John Spencer, Robert Cone, Paul Armes, Joe Broughton, Larry McCoy, Gary Henry,
Larry Harrell, Joel McKinney, Gerald Mathis, Alan Dunnagan, Johnny Burton and David Langford. Fourth
Row, 1-r: John Black, Gene Morris, Charles Magness, Gene Grigg, Jack Rippy, Wayne Rock, Ronnie Howard', Al
fred Shires, Foster McLane, Malcome Singleton, Hugh Pennell, Raymond Francis and Coach Norman Harris.
by Eddie Owens
Gardner - Webb College’s
Bulldogs will observe Home-
eoming on Nov. 6 when they
play host to Chowan College’s
Braves in George Blanton Mem
orial Stadium. This will be the
second meeting of the two
teams this season. Chowan in
vited the Bulldogs to their
Homecoming game Oct. 9 and
beat Gardner-Webb 21-13. But
Chowan’s head Coach Jim Gar
rison will have spent many
hours trying to devise a way to
beat Gardner-Webb in the sec
ond encounter.
Gardner-Webb outplayed his
Braves in the first game but
lost when several key breaks
went to Chowan. The Bulldog
defense limited Chowan to a to
tal of only 91 yards and held
the Braves to a 21-yards on the
ground. The Bulldog offense
Bulldogs Down
Davidson Freshmen
The Bulldogs of Gardner-
Webb rebounded from a 6-0
loss to Ferrum Junior College,
ranked 3rd in the nation am
ong Junior Colleges, to whip
the Wildkittens of Davidson
University 29-0 on Oct. 29.
The Bulldogs played Fer
rum to a 0-0 tie until the last
2 minutes of the contest when
a bad snap from center on an
attempted punt set up Fer-
rum’s onl,y score.
The Wildkittens proved
to be no match for the Bull
dogs as they were completely
dominated by the Gardner-
Webb squad. Tom Gillis led
the Bulldogs with two touch
downs. His first came on a 14
yard run in the second quar
ter and second of the day
came !hi the third quarter
from three yards out. Also
scoring touchdowns for Gard
ner-Webb was Robert Spain
and Malcolm Singleton. Spain
scored on a 3 yard run and
Singleton on a 14 yard pass
from Pickney Geurard. Jerry
Eskew also scored as he cau
ght Davidson’s punter in the
end zone for a safety.
Winning Is A G-W Tradition
Head coach at Gardner-Webb
College for the past 14 years,
Harris can look back over sea
sons fat with victories and few
years when he didn’t finish
above the .500 mark.
Winning traditions are hard
to come by but the 81-55-14 rec
ord to date is evidence of grid
iron success by the Bulldogs
while many other junior col
leges have been quitting the
sport to lump all their athletics
into one basket — basketball.
Homecoming, however, is a
special tradition. In the 18
years Harris has coached or
been head coach of the Bull
dogs they have won all but two
of the Homecoming games.
Named “Coach of the Year”
in Region 10 last season, Coach
Harris can look back over six
conference championships. He
hails from Ridgecrest, N. C.,
and attended Lees - Edwards
High School where he captain
ed the footbaU team his senior
year. The famed grid star,
Charlie (Choo Choo) Justice
was a teammate of Harris at
Lee-Bdwards.
From high school, Harris
went to Duke University and
COACH HARRIS ... His Team Seeks Homecoming Win
then to High Point College. He
was captain of the High Point
team his senior year. He receiv
ed his M. A. Degree from
George Peabody College.
His philosophy of athletics at
Gardner-Webb is “that the
sport which is in season is the
most important one at the col
lege.” His belief in a well-
rounded athletic program has
resulted in a well-founded pro
gram of football, basketball,
baseball, track, tennis and golf.
picked Tip 11 first downs to.
Chowan’s 8. Garrison will have
to stop the strong right arm of
Alan Dunnagan, if he stops the
Bulldogs. Dunnagan led a sec
ond half comeback to bring
Gardner-Webb from a 14-0 first
half deficit to challenge the
Braves at the end of the con
test. Dunnagan fired two touch
down passes to account for both
of the Bulldog scores.
Add to all of this Gardner-
Webb tradition of just not los
ing at Homecoming and you
have a hard time in store for
the Braves on Nov. 6. During
Coach Norman Harris career at
Gardner-Webb he has compiled
an envious record of Homecom
ing victories. In 16 Homecom
ing classics, Gardner - Webb
sports a 13-2-1 record. Last year
Gardner-Webb w'as having the
type of season you like to for-
won only three ball games. Fer
rum Junior College was having
the type of season one talks
about for years afterward. But
they made one mistake, they
played Gardner-Webb at Home
coming. This game turned out
to be Ferrum’s only loss of the
season as the Bulldogs beat
them 14 to 7.
Gardner-Webb has lost only
two games out of 7 attempts,
this season and both of them
were heartbreakers. The Chow
an game was lost on bad breaks.
The other loss came at the
hands of Ferrum Junior Col
lege who, of now, is the only
undefeated Junior College east
of the Mississippi. This game
was a 0-0 tie until the last two
minutes of the contest when a
bad snap from center on an at
tempted punt gave Ferrum a
touchdown and a 6-0 victory.
Gardner-Webb has both a
fine offense and an outstanding
defense. The offense which con
sists of Alan Dunnagan, at
quarterback, Tom Gillis and
Malcolm Singleton at halfbacks
and Gerald Mathis at fullback,
has scored 111 points in their
first six ball games with Mathis
accounting for 36 points on six
touchdowns. The Gardner-
Webb defense led by David
“The Bear” Langford, Charles
Magness, Jerry Eskew, and
Jack Rippy has been more than
effective this season. Both
Chow,an and Lees-McRae will
confirm this fact as they were
held to minus yardage on rush
ing against the Bulldogs.
Coach Norman Harris stated
that he feels, “as if this will be
a very typical Gardner - Webb
Homecoming gam,e” and also
that “I am looking for our 14th
Homecoming victory.”
So barring exceptionally bad
luck for the Bulldogs, it looks
as if Chowan’s Braves are in
for bad medicine come the 6th
of November.
PARENTS MEET PLAYERS — The
parents of players of Gardner-
Webb’s football team were guests of
the College Oct. 16 when the Bull
dogs played host to the Lees-McRae
Bobcats in George Blanton Memorial
Stadium. The parents were intro
duced to a large crowd at halftime
and also met all of the players and
coaches. The parents were invited
at the discretion of the players with
the Coach’s recommendation. Co
captains Ronald Howard and Ger
ald Matthis are shown as they lead
the players in greeting the parents
in a pre-game ceremony.