December, 1952
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER
Page Three
1952 E.I.A.C. CHAMPIONS
THE ELIZABETH CITY STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE PIRATES
SPORTS
CORNER
By A1 Marbley
The wheel of sports is taking its an
nual turn. Fans all over the nation are
moving from the gridiron to the hard
wood. Everyone is watching the
movements of five players instead of
eleven; and the dribbling rather than
the carrying of the ball.
Ehzabeth City’s eleven came up
with a conference championship, the
first since ’48. Coach White’s new
system has been very impressive and
has captured a great victory.
As the grid season fades from the
sports scene, the attention of the hard
wood shps in. Even here Coach
Vaughn has nine returning letter men,
six freshmen, and two players from
last year s junior varsity to mold as
an organized club. Ernest “Husky”
Davis, a senior from Petersburg, Vir
ginia, has retained his position as cap
tain for the third consecutive year . . .
Little Coach is attempting to place a
two-team system on the floor this
year ... Be on the lookout for two
freshman boys, James Miller and Ro
bert (Trizze) Watson, who are cutting
their way from the high school to the
‘-■ollege court.
The Globe of Sports
The Trojans of Virginia State will
SO down in history as one of the
greatest teams ever to represent their
institution—clutching the CIAA title
with an untied, undefeated, once
scored-upon record. Coach Sal Hall
received the crown after stepping in
t e shoes of Harry Jefferson four
years ago ... A. and T. College end
ed up in the eighth place in the CIAA
Bill Bell, once coach of the
race
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
1952-1953
Home Games
Dec. 13 -
St. Paul’s Polytechnic
Jan. 7
Shaw University
Jan. 8
Winston-Salem S.C.T.
Jan. 19
St Augustine’s
Jan. 24
Norfolk State College
Jan. 28 ______
Fayetteville S.T.C.
Jan 30
Miner Teachers College
Feb. 13
Livingstone College
Feb. 17
Virginia Seminary
Feb. 27 ---
Maryland State
March 6-7
N G. Colleges Tourn.
Games Away
Dec. 16 - -
_ Shaw University
Jan. 9
Winston-Salem (Ltitleton)
Jan. 15
Maryland State
Jan. 16 —
Bowie State Teachers
Jan. 17 —
Miner Teachers
Feb. 5
Winston-Salem S.T.C.
Feb 6
Livingstone College
Feb. 10
Virginia Seminary
Feb. 23
Fayetteville S.T.C.
Feb. 24
St. Augustine’s
Feb. 28
Norfolk State Golleeg
year was slightly strangled from the
fragile showing of his team. Coach
Riddick’s eleven came up with second
place in Conference standing.
Tennessee State’s basketball team,
last year’s NIT champs, recently trav
eled to Cuba and captured the Inter
national Amateur Title . . . Seton Hall
is relying upon six-fee-eleven inch
Walter Dukes to keep them in this
year’s basketball race. Dukes averag
ed 20.6 points per game last year and
was second nationally in rebounds, 20
a game . . . Coach McLendon leaves
NCC just before his baby chicks go
into their new College Gym which is
designed to seat a crowd of 4,500.
MAZE’S SPORTS ANGLE
By Mazor Slade
Girls!!!
The Intramural program has been
set up for your benefit. Every even
ing from 6 to 7 P.M., the gym will
be open. We are hoping that all girls
who signed up for the various acti
vities will attend the meetings regu
larly. Softball, basketball, volley ball
and badminton will be among the
games played.
The program of sports will be con
ducted so as to provide vigorous and
wholesome indoor and outdoor acti
vities in which you are interested. It
will also provide an opportunity to
compete with others of similar play
ing ability. It will give social educa
tion. Let us take advantage of these
activities.
Now that the Pirates have been vic
torious in football, we are looking
forward to a championship basketball
team. . . Your support will be needed
throughout the 1952 - 53 basketball
THE BACKBONE OF
THE PIRATES
We must all, here at State Teach
ers College, take into consideration
that when the Pirates rolled on to
victory, honor should have been giv
en to the head coach “Mr. Robert
White.” He has done a brilliant job
with the personnel with whom he
had to work.
He is the kind of coach that any
player would want to play for and
most surely be affiliated with. He
treats his players with such respect
as to develop their best skill. In treat
ing his players thus, he has won the
respect of every one of them, both
on and off the gridiron.
These are some of the traits that
make him most esteemed and in all
respects the backbone of the “Pi
rates.” My hat is off to a grand man.
—James E. Godfrey
ALL TIME ALL-STAR
A great boxer and dynamic puncher
for many years, Ray Robinson is rated
by many the best fighter, pound for
pound, in the history of the profes
sional prize ring.
PIRATES TAKE FISH BOWL
CLASSIC—6-2; CLOSE SEA
SON WITH E.I.A.C.
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Norfolk — Attending the Annual
Fish Bowl Classic were approximately
3,091 fans who watched Coach
White’s eleven shade the Norfolk
Spartans 6-2 and wrap up the 1952
E.I.A.C. grid championship.
This victory enabled Coach White
and his assistants to capture the crown
their first year at State.
After one quarter of head-on-work,
the Pirates found themselves trailing
2-0, but broke back the second period
to tally for the wining TD.
The Spartans launched the scoring
of the bowl game by quick kicking
from the Pirates’ 42 yard line which
went out of bounds on the six. A pass
from center was fumbled by Randall,
and he was smeared in the end zone
for the safety.
The Teachers’ winning score came
midway the second quarter. A quick-
kick from Norfolk’s Burney shielded
out of bounds on the Spartans’ 49.
Pirate half-back, Blakey, started the
march by carrying to the 41 and tak
ing a hand-off from Booth. Randall
rammed 22 yards to Norfolk’s 19. On
Coach White’s famous end-around
play, James Greer carried down to
the 12. Oscar Blakey bounced in
to the end zone where he fumbled
and Thomas recovered for the touch
down. Miller’s conversion was wide.
A few minutes after the opening of
the period, the Pirates pushed their
way down to the Norfolk State 19 on
the strength of a 19-yard screen pass
from Randall to Earl Thomas, but
the scoring threat was stopped by the
Spartans. Constant drives by the Pi
rates were broken due to penalties.
The Spartans made their final
threat in the closing minutes of the
fourth quarter when fullback Reuben
Jarvis tossed a pass to Moore and
Little to connect for 45 yards to the
Pirates’ 20, but the Spartans stopped
it there.
The defense activity was from the
hands of “Iron Man” Cashwell, Ends
Brown, Dewey Clark, Richard Hale,
“Little” Williams, and Raymond Red-
drick.
ALL E.I.A.C. “PIRATES’
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The fighting Pirates placed four men on the All E.I.A.C. first team. They were, left to right: Vernon (Rocky) Randall, Lee,
(Slick) Booth, John (Iron Man) Cashwell, and James Greer. On the the second team State placed Santiago Burrell.