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GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1969 PAGE A Great Competitor, A Friend We’ll Remember Dogs Train In Gym On Rainy Morning Ci:. i ■ ■■ ^j'Um F ^1# 1^1 Gardner-W ebb Football Schedule Sept. 13 Sept. 20 Sept. 26 Chowan Newberry Davidson Fresh Guilford Away Home 7:30 Newport News Home 7:30 Ferrum Away Bluefield State Homecoming 7:30 Mars Hill Away 7:30 Furman Frosh Away 7:30 Gordon Military Home 7:30 Elon Away Karl Neilson Football Coaches Harris And Froctor Proctor Joins Bulldogs A Connecticut Yankee will help make some Southern Bull dogs tougher this fall at G\V. Cole Proctor of Wallingford, Conn., comes toGW from Lees- McRae College where he was line coach for one season. Lees- McRae ended the year 10th in the nation and in two games with GVV tied them and defeated them once. A graduate of More- head State University of Ken tucky, the 27-year-old Proc tor received his M. S. there in 1968. He and his wife and their two children will live in Boiling Springs. Looking more like a player than a coach, the rugged for mer offensive tackle for More- head University coached as a graduate assistant at his alma mater before taki^ the Lees- McRae post. His first two sea sons of college play were at the University of Northern Iowa. During his final two sea sons at Morehead the Eagles were a power, winning the Ohio Valley Conference title in Proc tor’s senior year. Coach Harris expressed pleasure with Proctor’s deci sion to join the BuUdogs in a year when they have five sen ior college opponents with which to contend. He and Proc tor took part in a two weeks advanced football course at the University of S. C. in Colum bia. Other members of the GW staff are Kon Sanford, back- field coach and Ken Daves, end Big Art Goes Big Time With $75(aday)Job (From AP) Gardner-Webb’s former 7’2” Artis Gilmore earned $75 a day for a play ground job in Jacksonville, Florida this summer. Sports Editor Jack Hairston said Artis, who will be a junior at Jacksonville University this fall, would earn between $3,000 and $3,750 for 40 to 50 days “It’s all very legal and very precedented and has been clear ed with the National CoUegiated Athletic Association,” Hair ston said. Coach Joe WiUiams of JU said he contacted Art Berg strom of the NCAA to ask whe ther it would be legal for him to help Gilmore, a Negro, to get a summer job. “He told me I could get him a job,” Williams said. “But he said there were two rules he would have to go by: 1. He couldn’t be paid to play bas ketball or other sports; 2. His salary would have to be com mensurate with what other peo ple in that type of job were getting.” Williams said Bergstrom told him All-American Lew Al- cindor and a lot of other ath letes had jobs working with un derprivileged children and that the work was perfectly legal. “I located the program in New York,” Williams said. “They explained that Alcindor and the other athletes receiv ed $25 a session as athletic consultants, conducting clinics, and averaged two to three ses sions a day. In other words, about $75 a day.” Williams said he contacted officials of the Federal Anti poverty Program here and found they were looking for some one like Gilmore. Gilmore was underprivileged kid and a member of a minor ity group,” Williams said, “and this is who he’s working with.” A*# ❖ Go Football ‘Dogs’^ The cool, “clutch basketball player who, more than any other individual, carried Gardner- Web b College to its first na tional basketball tournament, was killed in an early morn ing automobile accident Wed nesday, August 13, 1969, inBir- mlngham, Alabama. Karl Neilson, 6-5, 185 pound forward for the Gardner-Webb teams of 1966-67;and 1967-68, died instantly in the one-car accident. He was a passenger In the vehicle which overturn ed on a Birmingham city street, rolled several times and then hit a utility pole. A rising senior at Samford University where he had lead that school’s team in scoring as a junior, Neilson was show ing bright promise for his final year of college basketball. Funeral services for the 22- year-old were held Saturday, August 16, 1969 at the First Presbyterian Church of Mi ami Sprir^s, Florida. Few BuHdog fans can forget the many “key” plays of Neil son but the best remembered is the shot which ended four years of frustration in Region 10 tour nament action and won the GW lads a spot in the national tour nament. With the game in an overtime and tied 110-110 with Ferrum (Virginia), the Bull dogs had the ball and 12 seconds. A desperate attempt to get the ball to 7-2 Artis Gilmore un der the net was not successful and Neilson drove to the free throw line and put in a jump shot which cleanly stripped the basket. In that same year it was NeUson who stole the ball from a Wake Forest Frosh guard and drove in to score the win ning bucket (76-74) before over 3,000 fans in Winston-Salem who had come out to see if the GW squad was all it was crack ed up to be. Then in the na tionals it was Neilson who pick ed up a GW unit down by 10 to Northeastern of Sterling, Co lorado, and brought the club to a 74-74 regulation game tie. The Bulldogs lost but Neilson’s 16 points and his team leader ship were brilliant. Despite injuries, Neilson pla yed 31 or 33 games that season and averaged 8.7 points per game and grabbed 189 re bounds. Neilson was always a crowd favorite and today many of the individuals in that crowd are making plans to remember him in some manner. Pigskin Preview Tonight Area football fans will get a look at their favorite teams August 28 during the Second Annual Pigskin Preview at Er nest W. Spangler Stadium at Gardner-Webb College. Teams from Crest, Chase, Shelby, Kings Mountain, and Gardner-Webb will run through intrasquad play beginning at 7 p.m. There will be a public address commentary to assist fans in learning about each AU profits from this event will go to the athletic scholar ship fund of the Bulldog Club, and Bulldog Club members will handle duties surrounding the event. Coach Gerald Allen of Shel by High School will have a clinic session with special in formation crffensive football and general football termino logy and rules. His club, load ed with a host of lettermen from 1968’s championship squad, is ex^cged to be a po wer again this season. Gardner-Webb, facing its first season of senior college competition, will give a de monstration of its new offen ses and some highly touted freshmen. Chase High, which shared in area championship honors last season, will be on hand with numerous lettermen. The Crest team which surprised every one last year with its display of improvement wiU also be on
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