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Page 5, THE PILOT, Wednesday, October 25, 1972, Gardner-Webb College BULLDOG SPORTS ^ Letter To Sports Editor: By BRUCE WADE On September- 30, Gardner-Webb had its first home football game of the season. As expected there was a big turn out for the game, and as anticipated by many there was definitely a lack pf school spirit. Why did so many of the students have an apathetic feeling? One might say, “It’s the cheerleaders fault, it’s their job to promote school spirit.” Bull! The cheerleaders work very hard to promote school spirit and they deserve much more credit than they receive. However if one wants to involve the cheerleaders a more appropriate angle would be to blame it on the cheers. "Kill, Kill, blood makes the grass grow.” Very Christian sounding don’t you think? From what I understand about Gardner-Webb there is a lack of spirit during the football season, and a great amount of spirit during basketball season. Why? I think the answer is very simple. Money. The basketball team at Gardner-Webb gets so much money from outside contributions, thus they can afford to give scholarships to many players, and thus they have a good team. People support a winner and with so much money how can they lose? When you’ve got a winning team you’ve got school spirit. This money idea could explain why we don’t have a soccer team or a wrestling team at Gardner-Webb. There are many students at Gardner-Webb who would very much enjoy participating on a soccer or wrestling team, myself include, but with no economic support we might as well forget it, this year anyway. There is, however, i in popularity each day w as the panty raid. 1972-73 Basketball Schedule Team Date Place Time Pikeville (Ky) Nov. 18 Home 7:30 Tennessee Wesleyan Nov. 21 Home 7:30 Asheville Tip-Off Tournament (High Point, GWC, Carson- Newman, UNC-A) Nov. 24-25 Asheville 7:00 Lee College (Cleveland, Tenn.) Dec. 2 Home 7:30 Belmont Abbey Dec. 7 Home 7:30 Bulldog Doubleheader (GWC, St. Augustine, Elon, Livingstone) Gardner-Webb Holiday Tournament (GWC, Carson Newman, Western Dec. 15-16 Home 7:30 Carolina, Fort Hayes (Kansas) Dec. 29-30 Home 7:30 Lenoir Rhyne Jan. 6 Hickory 8:00 Livingstone Jan. 11 Home 7:30 Catawba Jan. 13 Salisbury 7:30 Allen University Jan. 15 Home 7:30 UNC-Asheville Jan. 18 Home 7:30 Morris Brown (Atlanta) Jan. 19 Home 7:30 Livingstone Jan. 22 Salisbury 8:00 Western Carolina Jan. 27 Cullowhee 7:30 Hawaii Jan. 28-Feb. 4 Hawaii Lenoir Rhyne Feb. 5 Home 7:30 Behnont Abbey Feb. 10 Belmont 8:00 UNC-Asheville Feb. 15 Charlotte 6:00 Western Carolina Feb. 17 Home 7:30 Catawba Feb. 20 Home 7:30 GuiIfor4 Feb. 24 Charlotte 7:00 WOMEN’S SPORTS Women’s Intramurals at Gard ner-Webb College began Septem ber 7, 1972 with Powder-Puff Football. Eighty-nine girls are participating, representing H.A.P.Y., STROUP, NANNEY, and DECKER dorms. The games are being played at 6:00 on Tues days and Thursdays at the intra mural field. A double-elimination tournament is being played. An All-Star team will play the winner of the tournament this week. A variety of individual and team intramural sports will be of fered throughout the year. We encourage your enthusiasm and participation. Not only will intra murals provide fun and recrea tion, but it will also give you a chance to chalk up some points for yourself. Fifteen awards will be given at the end of the year to the girls with the most points. Also, a trophy will be presented to the dorm having the greatest number of points and to the dorm winning the sportsmanship award. The doi-ms will keep the trophy for a year. If the same dorm wins the trophy three consecutive years, the dorm will keep the trophy per manently. Gardner-Webb is fortunate this year to belong to the Association of College Unions—International Recreation Comm’ttee. One pur pose of this committee is to stim ulate interest and participation in the following activities at the campus level; Bowling, Billiards, Table Tennis, Bridge and Chess. A Regional Tournament will be held at the Universtiy of Tennes see at Knoxville on February 8, 9, and 10, 1973. No one student may participate in more than one tournament cate gory (except Table Tennis-doubles and singles may be played by same persons). We encourage you to take part in one of these five events. Not only vifill the tournament be en joyable, but you will also have the chance to meet other students and to represent your college. Gardner-Webb may send the following maximum number of people in each event: Bowling—5 man team, 5 woman Billiards—2 men, 2 women Table Tennis—2 men, 2 women Bridge — 2 pairs (3 pairs if 12 tables in campus tournament) Chess—2 players Cheerleaders To Hamit In an effort to support the Bull dogs, the cheerleaders are attempt ing to raise funds to cover their expenses when the basketball team plays the University of Hawaii. The cheerleaders are selling the wooden bulldog heads and they have sold balloons and hats at previous games. They also maned the Gardner-Webb display booth at the Cleveland County Fair in Shelby. If the funds are acquired the cheerleaders will accompany the Bulldogs to Hawaii. In the game of the season, the Bulldogs Faced the Newberry Indians. ’Dogs Want Revenge Against Mars Hill By CARROL GARRETT The Gardner - Webb Football Eleven are out for revenge this Saturday afternoon against the Mars Hill Lions in their annual Homecoming game. Winners of two out of th/ir first five games, the Bulldogs have had only moments of glory along with defeat on three occasions this season. Losing their first two games of the season, the Bulldogs bounced back with wins over Guilford and Georgetown before losing to the Catawba Indians. The ’Dogs trav eled to Carson-Newman last week. The results were not available at this printing. Leading in rushing after five games is Sophomore running back, John Mallory. Mallory has gained 231 yards and an incrediable four touchdowns with an average of 5.3 yards per carry. Dennis Dukes has 161 while Ray Hannon has 167. Scott Thompson has gained 132 since Coach George Litton changed to the Wishbone offense. Hannon leads in total offense with 664 yards and two touch downs. Hannon has thrown for 497 yards and one touchdown. Junior Split End Ken Reid has caught 13 passes for 277 yards and one touchdown. Mallory has seven receptions for 79 yards. The Bulldogs have gained 892 yards in five games for a 178.4 average. Hannon has gone to the air 84 times and completed 30 with five interceptions. With a rough second half of the season, the Bulldogs will have to get down to the nitty-gritty for the rest of the season. Scene from a scrimmage game against Western Carolina
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