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JANUARY 30, 1954 THE-CAMPUS FCHO PAGE SE\|BN / i CIAA Cage Tourney Here In Feb. i Gagers Split On Eastern Tour; Edged By West Virgina State College Samuel “Sad Sam” Jones, above, was named Most Valu able Player of the two day Holiday Basketball Festival held at A. and T. College, Greensboro, during the Christ mas recess. Jones, who currently leads his team in scoring, chalked up 81 points in the meet, an average of 27 per game. The 6’ 4” ace is an excellent play- maker and all-around-team- man. Jones is 20-years-old and hails from Laurinburg. He scored 327 points last season. BALTIMORE—A 71-65 over time pasting of the Morgan Col lege Bears here Jan. 18, gave the NCC Eagles an even split in their trek east. They dropped a close decision to the Howard Bisons in Washington Saturday. The fracas with Morgan saw the Eagles sink 15 points in the five minute overtime period. Jones And Tex Sam Jones and Tex Harrison, the NCC one two punch com bination, accounted for 20-19 points respectively. Jones was high scorer of the game. Lead ing in the pay-off department for the Bears were Garrett, who sank 16, and running mates, Lewis and Williams, who garn ered 14 and 13 respectively. It was an uphill battle for Coach Floyd Brown’s chargers who trailed 28-27 at half time and went into the final frame with a seven point deficit. Put ting on the steam under pres sure, Jones, McCullough, Har rison, Barrick 'and Sligh, drop ped in 15 points while holding Morgan to only 9. This knotted count afr 56 all and sent the fray into overtime for the dramatic NCC decision. Howard Wins Howard’s win over the Eagles came in the waning moments on two quick buckets by Ted Har ris, guard, who rung up 21 points for the evening. These overcame a slim NCC lead to which Sam Jones contributed 18 points, and Tex Harrison 15. By quarters, NCC scored 17, 10, 10, 8, and 7 in overtime, to Howard’s 17, 9, 8, 11, and 9 in the tacked on stanza. Against Morgan, NCC scored 12, 15, 14, 20 and 15 in the four quarters and overtime period, while Mor gan hung up 10, 18, 20, and 8. West Virginia Trips Eagles INSTITUTE, W. Va. Wilbur Hooper made a neat steal of the ball from North Carolina College in the closing seconds here Jan. 23 and drop ped in a field goal to give West Virginia State a 67-66 triumph over the visiting Eagles. The Eagles held a three-point advantage going into the final minute of the nip-and-tuck CI AA struggle, but a basket by Frank Casey cut the margin to a lone point and set the stage for Hooper to provide the dra matic finish. It was the second league set back for the Eagles in nine out ings. The victory gave West Va., a 5-4 loop record. Sam Jones, NCC forward, led the scoring JEor the night with 23 points while Hooper was se cond with 22. Tex Harrison col lected 19 points for the losers with Casey pvunping in 18 for West Virginia. The Eagles and the Mountai neers have a future meeting sla ted for the Eagle home grovmd in Durham. James “Chip” Sligh Sam Jones And Coach Brown Cop Fest Honors Although the Eagle quintet lost to Virginia State in the finals of the basketball festival at Greensboro during the holidays, “Sad Sam” Jones, Eagle star, and Floyd Brovi?n, mentor, walk ed away with individual honors. On the strength of a remark able showing, Jones was named most valuable player, and Brown, who master-minded the Eagles’ was named outstanding coach. Even-Up The 61-58 victory which gave Virginia State the tourney mere ly evened the season’s score with the NCC cagers who had beaten the Trojans earlier this season on the home court. The two teams are scheduled to meet once more this season. In fighting their way to the tournament finals, the Eagles bested both Morgan and Win ston-Salem, 73-66 and 72-69 respectively. Jones tallied 20 points against Morgan, 37 against Winston-Sa lem, and 24 against Virginia State. His three game total was 81, an average of 27 points per game. He had 31 field goals and 19 charity throws. Tex Playing his usual stallar game at center, Tex Harrison trailed Jones in the scoring department with 60, 21 against Morgan, 14 against Winston-Salem, and 25 against Virginia State. In the three game spread, McCullough scored 11 points, Heartley scored 15, Badger, 6, Sligh, 13, Bar- lick, 13, and Green 4. Overall, opponents scored 196 points to 203 for the North Caro lina College Eagles. -AJFARDS- (Continued from Page Six) Tasker, Cuningham and Walsh, tion requiring special work. The tion, requiring special work. The basis of the award is nomination by an instructor and the submis sion of evidence of personal ac complishment in the study of marketing research. By avoiding a prize competi tion and distributing the awards to students on the basis of al ready proven merit and interest in the subject, the Council hopes to obtain a large number of can didates and maximize the effec tiveness of the awards in stimu lating interest in marketing re search on college campuses throughout the country. NCC Eagles Best Hampton And Saint Augustine Coach Floyd Brown’s scien- tilating basketeers made a clean sweep of their post-holiday three game series played in Durham and vicinity earlier this month. They turned back Johnny McLendon and his Hampton Pirates 76-63 here on the 7th, silenced the St. Augustine’s Fal cons in Raleigh 69-63 on the 9th, and drubbed the Shaw Bears, 76-64 in the local million dollar area on the 11th. The NCC-Hampton setto pit ted Coach Floyd Brown against his old teacher, the ever popular Johnny McLendon. Threatening a run away victory, the Mc Lendon coached Pirates led 16- 10 at the end of the first quarter and 31-27 at half time. The Brown-men took over in the last period, however, with a be wildering 31 point splurge. The rapid firing of Jones, McCul lough, Harrison, Barrick and Sligh, kept the crowd on edge while thoroughly wrecking the Hampton crew. St. Augustine’s The Eagle “held” gangling A. Bur}?e to 35 points in defeating St. Augustine. Harrison scored 22 points, Jones 18, Sligh 13, Heartley 6, Barrick 7, McCul lough 2, and Green 1, in down ing the Raleighites in their own floor. Helping Burke in the losing cause were Richards 12, Oldham 9, Young and Washington 3, and Cloud 1. Shaw University Tex Harrison’s 25 point paced the Eagle win over Shaw. Al though evening the count twice The Eagle's Nest By GEORGE W. GRIFFIN Most Promising Freshman James “Chip” Sligh is Coach Brown’s most promising fresh man eager. Sligh hails from Win ston-Salem and was chosen most valuable player in the state high school tournament in 1952-53. He also made the all state team. Playing for the first time at NCC against St. Augustines’ Sligh received the complete ap proval of the fans. Since then he has been a standout on the NCC quint. His swiftness and expert timing make him a dan gerous foe to competing teams. With more experience in college play, Slight may become one of the most brilliant performers in the CIAA. Good luck, “Chip.” S por tsmanship NCC sudents, it is unsports manlike too boo officials at any athletic event. The officials will call the game as they see it. Of course, we sometimes see an of ficial make a mistake at our ex pense. But remember they make as many mistakes in our favor. Any official at sometime makes a mistake. We owe it to oursel ves, to our teams, and to our school to be courteous to the of ficials at all times. Remember, if you can’t play a sport, be one. For the second year in a row, North Carolina College will be host to the annual CIAA basket ball tournament. The cage clas sic will take place February 25, 26, and 27, the tournament title to be decided in a play-off game on Saturday night, February 27. Should they maintain their present pace, the host Eagles of NCC should be among the top eight teams competing in the three day meet. Those parti cipating will be named on Feb ruary 20, when the conference statistician will officially notify the first eight teams of their se lection. On Top Ruling the roost at present is Virginia State College, traUed by NCC. Also near the top rung are West Virginia, Virginia Un ion, Howard, Winston-Salem and Johnson C. Smith. There will be four games on Thursday at 2, 4, 8 and 9:30. Semi-finals will take place on Friday at 8:00 a. m. and Friday night at 9:30. Losers in these two contests will meet in a con solation game at 8:00 a. m. on Saturday, and winners of the two Friday contests will clash Saturday night for the tourna ment crown. Biggest Net The tournament was played before a packed house last year and netted the conference a larger profit than it had ever before realized. Gross receipts were second only to those col lected in the top year, 1949, when the meet was held in Wash ington, D. C. According to I. G. Newton, member of the CIAA basketball committee, trophies will be awarded to the .three top teams, and the most valuable player as well as the outstanding coach will be selected. Roy D. Moore of St. Augustine’s-College. L. D. Smith of Virginia Union is chairman of the basketball committee. Associate members of the committee at NCC are Dr. C. A. Ray, Dr. I. T. Taylor, E. W. Phillips, James Younge, Floyd Brown, Dr. W. H. Robin son, William Jones, and Dr. S. B. Fulbright. Talmadge HUl of Morgan is also on the commit tee. College Eagles May Oppose Air Force Team On tap, according to Director of Athletics, I. G. Newton, is a probable basketball tilt between NCC and an outstanding service team. Slated to oppose the high fly ing Eagles are the crafty cagers from Pope Air Force Base. Al though the Air Force team has not participated in the college basketball circuit this year, it is sporting a fancy record again^st major army teams in this area. February 12 has been set as thfe tentative date for the meet ing between these two . teams, and the admission price will be fifty cents for adults and twenty five cents for students. The game will be played in the NCC gymnasium. in the first period, Shaw was un able to keep up with the high flying Eagles who led 18-14 af ter the first quarter, 39-31 at half-time and 60-51 as they en tered the last session. Swimmng Team Disbands The North Carolina College Swim Team, organized and coached by Mr. Clarence Pal mer, announced late this week that its program has been dis continued for the remainder of the season unless some immedi ate provisions are made to se cure funds to finance its meets. The team was scheduled to com pete with Morgan State College and Howard University in Washington, D. C. but had to cancel its arrangements at the last moment because of finan cial difficulties. There is a possibility that a meet will be arranged with Ten nessee A and I here at NCC. However, team members have reported that it is highly impro bable that the swimmers will be in condition to participate, since there have been no regular prac tices. Among the team members are: Harry Moore, Robert Cheek, Vernon DeVane, Curtis English, Archie Vann, Clarence Hodges, and Norris Woolfork, Manager.
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