January, 1950
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER
Page Three
Pirate Basketball Squad Sail High Seas
VIRGINIA SEMINARY
On January 5, 1950, the Good
Ship “Miss Tillie” piloted by
“Rev.” Underwood left the home
port of State Teachers College for
foreign shores. The first port in
vaded was Lynchburg, the home
of the Virginia Seminary Dra
gons. Admiral Vaughn’s Pirates
were victorious by a score of
“71” to “5”. The leaders in the
attack were Ernest “Huskie” Da
vis and Frank Henry with “18”
each. Other valiant Pirates were
Atlas Davis with “7” and Lil Hank,
“Snow” and Bynum, with “6”
each. After a much deserving vic
tory, the Pirates withdrew for a
night’s rest.
STOREK
Early on the griQrn of January 6,
the Good Ship “'Miss Tillie” lifted
anchor to follow 'the course char
tered by “Navigator” Williams to
the historic port of Harper’s Fer
ry, Virginia, the home of the Gold
en Tornadoes. The mighty Pirates
tamed the Tornadoes to the tune
of “40” to “28”, led this time by
Henry with “16” and Atlas Davis
with "8”.
MINER
On January 7, a dismal morn, the
Pirates boarded “Miss Tillie” for
the “Capitol City”. Miner led by
Push Braddock who scored “28”
of their “50” points, humbled the
weary Pirates “50” to “30”. Lead’
ers in the defensive battle were
■Rocky”, “Lil Hank”, “Huskie”
and Bynum. Frank Henry and
“Huskie” tallied 9 points each. The
Pirates being low in spirit after
their defeat visited the “Howard
Theatre’ for an evening’s enter
tainment by none other than Mr.
Lionel Hampton.
NORFOLK UNIT OF VA. STATE
At 1600 (4:00 P.M.) January 18,
1950, the Good Ship “Miss Tillie”
set sail for the highly defended
port of Norfolk, the stronghold of
the Virginia State Trojans. The
Trojans fought valiantly but were
overpowered by the Pirates. The
Pirates took command early in
the first quarter, with their lead
being challenged only once, this
being late in the last quarter with
less than two minutes to play,
when the Trojans hit 8 fast points
and pulled within 3 points of the
Pirates, the score being 45-46. The
Pirates then caught fire and pull
ed away. The game battle ended
52-43. High point man of this
game was “Hviskie” with “20”. He
' was followed by Frank with “11”,
Atlas “9”, Bynum “7”, and Rocky
with “5”. The high point man for
Lil State was “Drew” with “12”
points.
“DEFENDING the HOME PORT”
SHAW
The night of January 14, 1950,
at the home port the mighty Bears
of Shaw marched away with “87”
valuable points while the hard
fighting Pirates got “43”. The
Bears, while being led by R. Rob
inson who scored “15,,’ had 6 men
with over ten points. The brunt of
the battle for the Pirates was car
ried by “Huskie” with “14”, Frank
Henry, “11”, and Atlas Davis with
“10”. This left the Pirates with a
two won, two lost record. In Con
ference play the score stood two
won and one lost.
LIVINGSTONE
The 20th of January found the
Pirates back in the old rendezvous
with a new threat to security. This
threat being the “Bears” of Liv
ingstone. In a fray which the
“Bears” held the lead emerged
victoriously by the score of 58 to
57. The high point men for the
Pirates were Henry with 21, “Hus
kie” with 12, Atlas Davis and
“Skeeter Hawk” with 10 each.
This was the fourth conference
victory and the first on the home
court.
MINER
January 21st the home port v.-as
invaded by the lanky “Maroon
Raiders” of Miner, “Pirates” by
the score of 56 to 51. The “Raid
ers” were led by “Push” Brad
dock who scored 21 points and
Hansford with 13 points. The scor
ing lead for the Pirates was shar
ed by “Skeeter Hawk” and Hen
ry with 12 each followed by Hus
kie with 10 and ’’Stump” with 9.
This defeat leaves the Pirates
with a 4 won, 2 lost conference
record.
ST. AUGUSTINE
January 23rd found the Pirates
defending the home port for the
third time in four days. The in
truders were the “Falcons” of St.
Augustine who swooped down and
flew away with 83 points while
the Pirates trailed with 61. The
“Pirates” were pushing the “Fal
cons” at half time by the score
of 28 to 34, but there was no stop-
ipng “Eagle Eye” Evans who scor
ed 32 points. The Davis boys led
the “Pirates” (Atlas and Huskie)
with 12 each. “Slick” and Henry
followed with 7 each. Skeeter
Hawk and “Lil” Pruden trailed
with 6 and 5 points respectively.
Keeper of the Log
L. H. Trotter
CAN YOU FIGURE IT OUT ?
If you substitute figures for the
letters in the question here, you
will get a numerical equation as a
result:
ate'— ETA — EAT
There is only one possible solu
tion, and you will find it on the
The Life of The Party
Who’s in the Zoo? The Zoo we
are going to visit in this quiz con
sists of a score of people or things
—historic and ficticious, each of
which bears the name of an ani
mal. With a score of 12 or more
you are the cock of the roost.
1. Who was history’s most fam
ous nurse?
2. Who wrote the “Essays of
Eliz”?
3. Who was painted by Thomas
Gainsborough ?
4. Who built So. Paul’s Cathe
dral ?
5. Who sat down to winner and
ate the leg of a frog?
6. Who was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth for circumnavigating
the globe?
7. Who is the hero in the poem
by Thayer?
8. Who laid the first submarine
telegraph in New York Harbor in
1843?
9. Who satirized 18 century
England in his books ?
10. Whose daddy went a hunt
ing?
11. Who has the title role in an
opera by Puccini?
12. Who wrote the “Red Badge
of Courage?”
13. Who is portrayed in a fam
ous painting by Picasso ?
14. Who is the Man From Home
by Tarkington?
15. What author spent many
years in China as teacher and
missionary ?
A WILY WILLER
An Uncle willed that $1,000
should unequally be distributed
among his five nephews: A, B, C,
D, and E, so that A gets as much
more than B as D gets more than
E, and D gets as much less than
C as C gets less than B. Can you
tell how much C was willed by the
Uncle ?
FOUR THINGS
“Four things a man must learn to
do
If he would make his record true;
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellowman sincerely;
Ta act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven se
curely”.
Humor As We See It
This reporter has had the pleas
ure of watching a romance blos
som until now it is in full bloom.
If L. B. and E. S. do not invite
me to the wedding, I shall be an-
gry-
What has happened to “Hus
kie” ? J. B. seems to have him go
ing around in circles. He already
has enough hours for the B. S.
degree in that love affair.
I see now that S. T. and F. M.
are doing all right. I wonder if his
basketball ability has anything to
do v/ith it.
We should like to commend Dr.
Monk for giving those boots a
rest. We were about to wonder.
Jokes
Joe: Do you like cigars?
Bill: Yes, but—
Joe: No! No! I mean whole ci
gars.
He: A new dress? And how
can I pay for it?
She: That’s your business. I
didn’t marry you to give you fi
nancial advice.
Bright: What is play?
Dumb: A very important busi
ness that school interrupts.
ELIZABETH CITY STATE
TEACHERS COLLEGE
PIRATES
1950 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Home Games Date
Shaw University Sat. Jan. 14
Livingstone College Fri., Jan 20
Miner Teachers Cot. Sat., Jan.21
St. Augustine’s Col JVTon., Jan 23
Norfolk Division Sat., Jan. 28
Fayetteville Teachers .. Sat., Feb.11
Storer College Wed., Feb. 15
Virginia Seminary Fri., Feb. 17
Morristown College Tues., Mar. 7
Games Away
Virginia Seminary ’Thurs., Jan 5
Storer College - - Fri., Jan 6
Miner Teachers Col Sat., Jan. 7
Norfolk Division - Wed., Jan. 18
St. Augustine’s Col. ...Fri., Jan. 27
Fayetteville Teachers, .Feb. 21
Livingstone College ...Wed., Feb. 22
I Morristown College Sat., Feb. 25
answer page.
Admiral Vaughns Pirate Squad
t- loff tr. rip-ht- Robert Hailes, Leon Thomton, Lee Booth, John Bynum, Frank Henry, Carroll
Front row left to rightwau^ Luther Trotter, (Manager) Ernest Pru-
det^Eme?t Davis^P^^^^^^^ Paul Williams, Winfred Collins, Vernon Randall, John Jackson, Walter
Underwoon, (Statistician).