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Page Six THE COMPASS September, 197| Something To Cheer About!!! Did you come from a high school that had a basketball team and a football team that seemingly no one cared about? Did the sports writers and newscasters predict that your team would lose agame after game, season after season? Did this ever happen to your team? But wait a minute, suddenly some thing big happened! One the the greatest 'game in the district was held in your school’s gym. Your basketball team, the long forgotten team in the woods, was schedule to play the big team from the city. Predictions were bad for your team. At half-time your team is winning by five points and at the end of the game your team wins by ten points. No one be lieved that this would ever happen, but it did. And your team went on from there to defeat the big private school across the way. And the long awaited moment had arrived; at last you and your teammates and schoolmates had something to cheer and brag about. Did that ever happen to your school? Maybe not as described above but within similar terms. I know how it feels to have some thing to cheer and brag about be cause it happened to us, it happen ed to us for real. I remembered the day we played The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the big university in Greensboro. It happen ed that day and it was some beauti ful baby. Sportscasters predicted grim out looks for our small town team — that we would lose to the big uni versity team by a long shot. Any way, that Saturday the A & T Aggies arrived in little Liz with buses for days, Continental Trail- ways, at that. About 1:00 in the afternoon we put the Aggies on Memorial Field and stumped muddy ground for days. We stumped and stumped the Aggies to sheer em- brassment. It was a good game - The Aggies lost and the Vikings won. Now that was something to cheer about. No one in Elizabeth City community really believed that we would de feat the Aggies until the very last quarter of the game, but you see the Vikings knew it all along. You just don’t tamper with a Viking and get away with it. And then the basketball games, mercy, mercy me. And the years we went to Kansas City were the best years. We think that the sports program at Elizabeth City State University is really together. Not only as a means of entertainment, when the Vikings really break out in mean threads, but also as a show of good, strict competition and skill. Athle tics at ECSU is something the stu dents really look forward to, how ever basketball and football are by far the most popular sports. During the basketball season the \ M ECSU QUARTERBACKS Mike Gale and Israel Oliver f. I Vikings fans really got down to see the games and the football team is also widely supported by the Eliza beth City community. Because of out standing performance at the level of local, state, district and national both the basketball and football teams, have brought nationalwide recogni tion and honors to Elizabeth City State University. The football team has, for the past two years, been a strong con tender for the CIAA Championship title. In 1969 the football team was ranked number two in CIAA and number eighteen in the NAIA. In 1969 Coach Caldwell also received the Coach of the Year Award. Even though 1969 was our most outstanding year in basketball, the 1970 team did a very splendid job finishing in very high position both in the NAIA and the CIAA. Michael Gale received national honors as a QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (Continued) Q. What is Candlelighting Serv ice? A. Candletighting service at ECSU is a tradition and it is one that is well respected at the University. It is significant because it signifies your entrance into a world of know ledge - the University, and as an end-product-your accomplishments. At the end of your studies you carry your light out into the world and make a contribution to society. valuable player and was selected a an All American player. Howeve the 1969 basketball team, the bes in the history of ECSU, was tl« CIAA Tournament Champions, Cl AA Visitation Champions, Phiblaii Christmas Tournament Champiorn College of Charleston Tip-Ol Tournament Champions and fourtl in the NAIA National Championship competition. In 1969, three basketball playen achieved ALL CIAA Tournameiit honors; one, ALL CIAA honors one, ALL NAIA District 29 honors two, all NAIA National Tournamert honors; and one, ALL AMERICAN NAIA honors. The basketball coacl was named “CIAA Coach of tin Year. ’ “Most Outstanding CIM Tournament Coach,” and “NAU Coach of the Year.” The man re ceiving these honors was our o»i Coach Robert (Bobby) Vaughan, Chairman of the Department of Health and Physical Education. —HEW COMPASS Elizabeth City State University Student Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Robert Earle Woii Associate Editor Donald Liverttifl* Monogrng Editor Pedro HoHfy Exchonge Editor Wilbert Wilson Treasurer Leander Horriso*' Feoture Editors Lemuel Hley C. McKnigW Contributing Editor Mmnie J- Typists Ko-Esbic Phillips Lindo Pendergroft
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