GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1969 PAGE 3
’69 FOOTBALL SQUAD (From L. to R.) 1st Row: David Hart,
Alton White, Terry Purvis, Bill Howell, Ronald Belue, Skipper
Queen, Sterling Hall, David Gibbons, 2nd Row: Gary Blackwell,
Ray Hannon, Gary Gist, Dicky Sherril, Hardin Davis, Timothy
Frazier, Jerry Caldwell, Ryan Hendley, Ray Miller, 3rd Row:
BiUy Scott, Sid Bryson, Gary Phillips, George Spencer, Bert
Smith, Charlie Roberts, Steve Phillips, Stanley Napier, Duke
Burnett, 4th Row: Miles Aldridge, Jim Seacord, Larry Sechrist,
Lucky Cothran, Meredith Scruggs, Ed Lawrence, John Wright,
Charles Teague, and James Washburn.
Getting Ready
Pups Pep Dogs
Cheerleaders prepare to pep
bulldogs to victory this year
with Saundra Howell back at
the chief position and Susan
Arrington at co-chief and
Toucha Chandler as the buil
der. Assisting the cheerlead
ers at all home games will be
the newly selected majorettes.
Twirling their way onto the
football field in “shocking” uni
forms will be Diane James,
Carolyn Landrum, Juanita Car
penter, and Neal Ann Webb.
Competing for cheerleaders
were sixteen G-W female stu
dents and of those sixteen onlj'
nine were chosen. A group con
sisting of several faculty and
students were given the privi
lege of selecting the girls who
will cheer G-W’s bulldogs onto
victory in the football season
and the fast approaching bas
ketball season.
The new advisor of the Pop
Club is an addition to G. W.
faculty this year, Mrs. Dan
Proctor. Included in the Pep
Club are all students inter
ested in aiding the cheerlead
ers to urge G. W.’s teams todo
their BEST.
Not to be forgotten is G. W.’s
ever loyal Pep Band! They will
prove to be one of G. W.’s
greatest assets at all athletic
activities.
GW Ready
For Four
Year Flay?
September 6,1969 saw Gai^-
ner-Webb’s football team tra
vel to Appalachian State Uni
versity to scrimmage their var
sity team. The scrimmage last
ed only two hours and thirty-
five minutes.
Both squads hit hard and
several times tempers flared.
Gardner-Webb looked strong
against the older school. The
passing attack was not as strong
as expected, but the ground
game made up the slack.
Gibbons and Spencer com
bined several times for long
gains in the air, and Gibbons
and Howell showed their de
sire and ability by time after
time plunging through holes
made by the offensive line of
the Webb,
Hardin Davis was the de
fensive standout at left tackle
and Jim Seacord at linebacker.
The question: can the Buil
ders survive the test of four
year competition?
The answer:
3 will tell.
Go Bulldogs
Beat Newberry
Pigskin
Preview
Success
The Pigskin Preview held at
Gardner-Webb recently was
classified as a success. Spon
sored by the Bulldog Club, the
Preview’s proceeds will pro
vide scholarships for worthy
Gardner-Webb athletes.
The night was filled with ac
tion as seven local high schools
battled for twenty minutes each
in seiarate intrasquad games.
To top off the night’s turmoil,
the Bulldogs from Gardner-
Webb displayed their speed,
agility, and determination as
the offense and defense squared
off. From the looks of things
that night, the team for this
year will provide more than
enough competition for any and
all of their scheduled oppon-
Fans Lookins
Forward To
Senior Program
It would take an area foot
ball fan with little curiousity
to miss the Gardner-Webb Col
lege football games this fall.
For years fans have dis
cussed the prospects of senior
college football for the area
and in 1969 they will get their
first look at Cleveland County’s
own representative in this play.
Past games have been with
freshman units and junior col
lege teams. Scheduling has
been difficult, travel long, and
football continued because ofthe
loyalty of fans, coaches. Bull
dog Club members and a feel
ing on the part of the college
administration that it had a
vital place in the educational
set-up.
Although the nation’s top
junior college team, Ferrum of
Virginia and a Southeastern in
dependent, Gordan Military, re
main on the schedule there is
every reason to believe that
those units can test the Bull
dogs. Contracts with Chowan
Junior College and Newport
News Apprentice School must
be played out in 1969.
Gardner-Webb players, after
spring practice games, feltthat
generally Ferrum was the equal
of the senior college foes fa
ced. Gordan each year plays
senior colleges and with some
good results as they use play
ers headed for Georgia Tech and
Miami.
Except for being “fired up”
against their old and now big
ger foe, Chowan and Newport
News are not expected to trou
ble the Bulldogs.
Baseball Footnotes
Unknown to many Gardner-
Webb students, the baseball
team for this past season was
a very impressive organiza
tion. The team, with strong
hitting and superb pitching,
fought their way to the Wes
tern Carolinas Conference
crown. Eastern Regional ti
tle, and to Sixth place in the
nation in national tournament
action at Grand Junction, Co
lorado.
Pacing this team was a first
team Junior College All Am
erican, an Honorable Mention
to All American status, and
one player named to the All-
National Junior College Tour
nament team.
Respectively these team
leaders were Joe Brown, Ro
ger McSwain, and Gary Wiley.
Joe Brown, a native of Salis
bury and now living with his
wife, Laura in Shelby, is the
college’s first baseball player
to make the first team All
American.
Roger McSwain, a local lad
from nearby Swainsville, was a
very prominant punch in the
batting lineup and also a very
sure-gloved fielder.
Gary Wiley, who hails from
Charlotte, played high school
ball for East Mecklenburg. Wi
ley’s selection for tournament
play came on the basis of his
four for eight at the plate, col
lecting three singles, a double,
and four R.B.I.’s.
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Cheerleaders for ’69-70 are (left to right) (back row) Linda
Klutz - Gastonia; Gail Wasznicky - Richmond, Va.; Saundra
Howell (Chief) - Greer, S.C.; Brenda Albea - Hendersonville;
Amy Freeman - Charlotte; Vicky Jackson - Charlotte: Ella
Harison - Greenville, S. C.; (front row) Touche Chandler (the
Bulldog) - Greenwood, S. C.; Susan Arrington (Co-Chief) -
Charlotte; and Nancy Simpson - Salisbury.