PAGE 4 THE PILOT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1970
Coaches Announce Big Plans For Athletic Program
(By Frank Ballenger, Shelby
Daily Star) Now a full-fledged
member of the NAIA (National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics) for small colleges,
G. W. appears ready to exploit
much higher level sin the not too
distant future.
Dr. Poston optimistically told
an overflow group of Bulldog
Club members, alumni and
other G-W supporters at the
CID Campus Center Saturday
night, February 14, “We’ll play
some of the larger schools in
the next five years.”
Eddie Holbrook, recently
appointed athletic director and
finishing his sixth year as head
basketball coach, assured the
G-W supporters, “My goal is
to devote the necessary time
to develop a successful ath
letic program in all phases. I
pledge to have an outstanding
one. I have high ideals, I’ll
work 24 hours a day.”
George Litton, coming on the
G-W scene just a little over
than five weeks ago, remarked,
“I’ve got some big plans in
football. The enthusiasm at
Gardner-Webb is a big factor.
I want to be a part of it. I
want to get the job done.”
Jerry Bryson, successful
G-W head baseball coach, was
the fourth to take part in the
pancake supper and pep rally
to re-assure all that the Bull
dog aims are big. Bryson has
twice carried the Bulldogs to
the National Junior College
playoffs.
Carson-Newman, Tenn. has
already agreed to football
games with the Bulldogs in
1971 in Boiling Springs, and
at C-N in 1972. Litton said,
“I’m just waiting to get the
signed contracts in the mail.”
The always powerful Lenoir
Rhyne Bears, Presbyterian
College and Georgetown will be
new football foes in 1970 as
G-W begins its second season
against senior college teams.
The Bears open the 1970 sea
son at G-W Sept. 12.
Holbrook aroused the bas
ketball followers. “Austin Peay
College and Oral Roberts, Okla.
College have already been
signed for the 1970-71 season,”
Holbrook said.
Bryson assured G-W baseball
fans they’ll see some of the
best teams during the 1970
season. “Belmont Abbey and
Wofford play us twice each in
practice games. We open the
season against Elon at home.
We have 16 home games,” Bry
son said.
California State, Pa., Akron
U., State College, N. Y., Davis-
Elkins, W. Va., Western Caro
lina, The Broyhill, Ark. Chiefs,
AAU Champions; Davidson Col
lege, Guilford, Eastern Caro
lina and Pfeiffer are other new
teams on the G-W baseball
slate.
Poston said, “Only five sch
ools are larger than us in the
state. We’ve just begun our
progress.”
Holbrook outlined a number
of his primary aims. “We will
be seeking to involve more stu-
• orogram. Pll try
Jolley Signs With Bulldogs
Gardner-Webb has signed
six foot eight, Doug Jolley, of
Kingsport, Tennessee to a
grant-in-aid to play basketball,
according to Eddie Holbrook,
athletic director.
Holbrook said Jolley weighs
230 pounds and has averaged
more than 14 rebounds pergame
as he has led his high school,
Dobyns Bennet, of Kingsport,
to a 11-0 record in the Big-
Seven Conference. The teams
overall record is 22-5.
Outstanding Freshman Player
By TERRY KNIGHT
A good sixth man can mean
the difference between a good
team and a great team in the
game of basketball. “Right now,
I would have to say that he’s
the most improved player on
the team,” said head mentor
Eddie Holbrook. A good sixth
man is one who can relieve a
player and keep the tempo
going. A1 Graves 6-4 frosh
forward from Cherryville, N.
C., is that type of player. “Al’s
come a long way in the past
several weeks,” said Coacli
Holbrook before a recent game.
A1 has scored well over 100
points this season while play-
Holbrook New Athletic Director
Coach Eddie Holbrook, 30
year-old basketball coach at
Gardner-Webb was named the
school’s athletic director. Hol
brook succeeded Norman Har
ris who was earlier promoted
to an administrative position.
The appointment was announ
ced by Dr. E. Eugene Poston,
president of the school, follow
ing a meeting of theexecutive
committee of the board oftrus-
Holbrook is a native of El
kin, North Carolina, and a grad
uate of Lenoir-Rhyne College
where he was an outstanding
basketball player. Following
graduation from Lenoir-Rhyne
he was named head basketball
coach at Chase High School,
Spindale, N. C.
The new athletic director
came to Gardner-Webb in 1964
and his first basketball
every means to enlarge the
Bulldog Club. Better relation
ship is to be sought with the
public. We’re on a new horizon
in scheduling,” the G-W ath
letic director said.
Bulldogs enthusiasts were
urged, “We’re approaching a
new horizon. The Bulldogs will
need your suj^ort in every way.
We were successful in junior
college but we’re at a much
higher level now. You should
have been with at Carson-New-
man in basketball. Everyone
kept waiting for us oblowtheni
out of the gym. Butthere was no
way. It will take time to reach
that level.”
Holbrook said, “We’ll chal
lenge the Carolinas Conference
teams anywhere, anytime. We
don’t want in their conference
now. I hope we can advance
much higher. We’re going to
test the Bulldog Club and a-
lumni.”
Four or five outstanding bas
ketball prospects received
standing ovations. Mark Nordin,
6-7 forward from Thornton, 111.,
was introduced along with his
parents. Tony Byers, 6-3 guard
from Bessemer City and
sought-after by many schools;
Chuck Dordell, 6-1 guard from
Marion High; and Doug Jolley,
6-8 center from Kingsport,
Tenn., were visiting. Jolly has
alrea^ signed a grant-in-aid
with G-W.
Holbrook credited Roger
Banks, capable G-W aide, with
recruiting and signing Jolley.
“Banks has practically lived
with the Jolleys in recent
weeks.”
“I have one more bit of good
news. George Adams, our big
scoring star this year, has al
ready told me he’d be playing
for us next season,” Holbrook
said. Adams had departed to
dress for the Campbell College
game. The crowd gave Adams
several minutes of thunderous
applause.
Litton, who opened spring
football drills with some 70
prospects at the G-W campus
practice field, said, “Our re
turning players have given us
better than 110 per cent in our
pre-spring preparations. We
hope to finish in time for a
spring game March 20 before
the Easter holidays.”
The former successful Lees
McRae coach continued, “We’re
looking for quality more than
anything else in filling our sch
olarship quota. We’ll try for a
balance among transfer players
and freshmen. Right now our
efforts are to bring some new
comers in the line.”
Litton, however, said, “If
the weather holds us up, we
might get another wed^afterthe
holidays. But, 1 hope we can
wind things up with a spring
game before the holidays. I
don’t go for a lot of tiring and
long drills.”
Three future Bulldogs were
presented. Arnold Smith, All-
Southwest Conference linebac
ker, and tackle Mike Godfrey,
All-Southwest Conference and
on the West All-Star team for
the July All-Star game, botli
from East Rutherford High,
have already signed football
grant-in-aids. Tom Hutchin
son, linebacker from Thom
son, Ga. was present. Hutchin
son has also signed at G-W.
Many more outstanding foot
ball prospects attended.
Bryson, returningto baseball,
said, “We should have our best
ever. That’s what I said last
year. However, we didn’t lose
any players. We have 14 letter-
men back.”
The baseball Bulldogs have
already been throwing some in
the G-W field house. “We’ll
get outside probably the first
week in March,” Bryson said.
Another highlight of the G-W
affair was Holbrook’s pre
sentation of plaque to Presi
dent Poston signifying that
Gardner-Webb College is a
full-fledged member of the
NAIA. It will be eligible to
compete for championships in
all si»rts for the 1970-71 sea-
Holbrook also termed the
G-W coaching staff, “One of
the bestamong small colleges.”
Score Clock Dedicated At G.W.-Campbell Game
3 well pleasedtoknow
that Doug is going to enter
Gardner-Webb,” said Hol
brook. “He has good speed, is
tal 1 and has the mobility that
I feel will make him a fine ball
player. I feel that with his
quickness he can develop into
an outstanding player.”
Doug’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Jolley. His high
school coach is Buck VanHuss,
of Kingsport.
ing in 19 of 21 games thus far.
He has contributed 20-point-
plus efforts at Mars Hill and
Pfeiffer. A1 also hit a shot
late in the UNC-Ashevillegame
and intercepted a key pass to
preserve an 89-88 victory.
The Bulldogs will be depend
ing very heavily on A1 Graves
next year when Coach Hol
brook’s forces take on High
Point, Western Carolina, and
Appalachian along with other
new rivals. A1 will hopefully
get help from sharp-shooting
Tony Byers, an all-stater from
Bessemer City, N. C., along
with other Coach Holbrook
recruits.
had a 15-9 record. His record
since coming to Gardner-Webb
is 135 wins and only 33 losses.
His 1968-69 team won 31 and
lost five ranking tenth nation
ally. This year Holbrook’s
team is 16-6.
As athletic director Holbrook
wUl direct the entrie athletic
program of the school. He will
retain his position as basket
ball coach.
In announcing the appoint
ment Dr. Poston had nothing
but praise for the young coach.
“We are most happy that we
have Coach Holbrook to step
into this new responsibility,”
said Dr. Poston, “We know
that this will mean added work
for him, but we are fully con
fident that he can do the job
that will be necessary as we
enter more fully into a senior
college athletic prc®ram.”
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Head basketball coach is school’s new athletic director.
Dedication services for the
new score clock at Bost Phy
sical Education Building were
held Saturday night, February
14th, when the Bulldogs of
Gariier-Webb played host to
Campbell College.
The score clock is one of the
finest that can be erected. It
hangs from the ceiling of the
Bost Gymnasium in the center
court for use during all Bull-
dcg basketball games.
Golf Team
Gardner-Webb College’s golf
team will take part in ten e-
vents this Spring opening March
12 against Catawba at Boiling
Springs.
The golf team is coached by
Dr. Garland Allen. Coach Allen
said the team would possibly
schedule two more matches if
suitable opponents can be lo-
Coach Allen had nothing but
praise for his team. He said
he had 16 men fighting for the
six places on the team. Accord
ing to the coach at least two
or three of the men are
“scratch” handicap golfers.
The entire schedule is as
follows:
March 12 - Catawba at Boiling
Springs
March 19 - High Point at High
Point, N. C.
April 3-4 - Furman Invitation
al in Greenville, S. C.
April 9 - Tri-Meet with Ca
tawba and Guilford in Salis
bury, N. C.
April 10 - Tri-Meet with High
Point and Presbyterian in Boil
ing Springs
April 13 - Tri-Meet with New
berry and Lenoir Rhyne in Boil
ing Springs
April 17 - Newberry in New
berry, S. C.
April 20 - Tri-Meet with Mars
Hill and Lander in Spruce
Pine, N. C.
April 23 - Tri-Meet with Pres
byterian and Erksine in Clin
ton, S. C.
April 24 - Lenoir Rhyne in
Hickory, N. C.
All home matches will be
played at the River Bend Golf
and Country Club, near Shelby,
N. C.
NAME Avg. GAMES
Per Game
ADAMS 31.6 22
CARTER 14.7 22
THOMAS 13.9 22
SPAGNOLA 8.6 18
McGILL 6.1 21
LAND 9.0 22
GRAVES 6.3 21
BROOKINS 2.5 11
GUFFEY .40 5
WEATHERMAN 1.20 5
94.0 22
The score clock was given to
the college by Mr. and Mrs.
Ned W. Bost of Shelby, N. C.,
and their daughter, Mrs. Bar
bara Bost Howie. The score
clock was given in memory of
Mrs. Bost’s father, John A.
Hyder, in honor of her mother,
Mrs. Galin Burrows Hyder.
It was dedicated at halftime
of the final home game for
Gardner-Webb. The Bulldogs
were out for revenge. They had
dropped a 98-94 match to Camp
bell at Buie’s Creek earlier
this season.
Kenneth Street, representing
the college’s Bulldog Club,
presided at the dedication cere
monies. Dr. E. Eugene Poston,
president, made the presenta
tion andMax Craig, vice-chair-
man of the Board of Trustees,
received the score clock in the
name of the school.
Tennis Team Posts Schedule
By JOE JENKINS
The ’70tennis schedule shows
a slate of fourteen games with
six familiar sounding senior col
leges of the Carolinas. Although
plagued with defeat in the past
years of junior college play the
tennis team is entering senior
college competition with a team
of eleven optimistic, hard
working players. Coached by
Jim Taylor, G. W. professor
of English, the following boys
are playing tennis: Lee Esk
ridge, Woody Gardner, Rich
ard Granger, Bill Hines, Rich
ard Jessen, Barry Money, Da
vid Mitchell, Larry Smith,
Billy Walters, Sherman Wil
son, and Chris VVorrock.
Scheduled matches are:
March 12 - Pfeiffer (away)
April 3 - Guilford (away)
April 9 - Wofford (away)
April 10 - Elon (home)
April 11 - Mars Hill (home)
April 13 - UNC-A (home)
April 15 - Pfeiffer (home)
April 23 - Wofford (home)
April 25 - UNC-A (away)
/>► April 29 - Guilford (home)
Junior Letterman Larry Smith
Basketball Statistics
NAME EGA FGM PCT FTA FTM PCT REB PTS
ADAMS 471 281 59.7 197 133 67.5 325 695
43.7 90 47 52.2 192 323
CARTER 316
THOMAS 279 132
SPAGNOLA 139 61
McGILL 129 49
LAND 175 77
GRAVES 91 50
BROOKINS 29 12
GUFFEY 89 0
47.4
65
41
63.1 123
50.0 111
305
45 199
56 132
2 100.0 3 2
2 100.00 2 6
377 62.9 944 2069