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MAiROON and GOLD
Saturday, November 1, 1947
ELON UPSFTS FAVORED
NEWBERRY TEAM 3-0
ELON AND ERSKINE
TO DO BATTLE FOR
ALUHNI
A 22 yard field goal by “Jumbo
Jim” Huyett in the fading moments
of the second quarter gave Elon a
3-0 victory over Newberry in the last
home game here.. Huyett kicked the
field goal just two plays before the
first half, and Elon had its victory
margin although the Christians
threatened on countless occasions.
Several fine goal line stands by the
visitors prevented Elon from get
ting into the touchdown bracket.
The field goal climaxed a drive of
62 yards, featured by a 50 yard pass
piay from Fred Claytor to Mike Ko-
zakewich. The latter was finally stop
ped on the Newberry 12, and three
downs later Huyett went into his
act.
Every time Newberry looked up,
Elon was threatening. In the first
minute of play the Christians moved
to the Newberry 10, thanks to a 22
yard jaunt by Bobby Harris. New
berry threw the home team back to
the 24 and the threat fizzled.
The Indians put in their only bid
in the second quarter. Henry Witt
passed 34 yards to Tom Coleman but
F!on held on its own 15 yard line.
Three minutes before the end of the
first half, Huyett missed a field goal
from the 15, but he made good a
few minutes later.
Driving to the Newberry one foot
line in the third quarter the Chris
tians were stymied when Harris lost
five yards on fourth down.. A few
minutes later Jim Murray intercept
ed Witts pass and raced 40 yards
to the Newberry 23 but the visitors
held. Fine play by the Elon line fea-
ired the game. The Christians piled
up 391 yards to Newberrys 119 and
16 first downs to the South Caro-
linans six,
Pos. Newberry Elon
LiE, Jackson Perry
LT, Vaughn Melvin
LG, Alpater Nichols
C, Davis ^ Domenick
RG, Scarborough Manzi
RT. Evans ■■ Zurle?
RE, Hodge Gentry
QB, Maxwell Russell
LH, Witt - Claytor
RH, Coleman ^ Braxton
FB, Hoople Murray
Score by quarters:
Newberry , * 0 0 0 0—0
Elon 0 3 0 0—3
GOLF TEAM TO BE ORGANIZED;
REID TO LEAD
The smack of club against “crow
flight” will once again be heard on
the golf courses of this community
when “Fighting Phil” Reid once again
organizes his golf team which went
through last season undefeated.
Those interested in golf are urged
to see Phil in room 4, East Dorm.
UNSUNG HERO
These pages come out with a little
praise here for the lowly substitute
on the “suicide squad” of the foot-
bell team. Never heralded the sub
keeps plugging. In particular we
praise one “Bus” Wigmore.. Wigmore
may not possess the ability of the
first stringer but he makes up for
it in spirit and the never die fight.
A salute to you H. C.
LANGSTON CHALLENGES ALL
James “the quiet type” Langston
has entered the athletic field this
week with a challenge to all ping-
pong players. Anyone who dares face
the wrath of Jimmy’s paddle is urged
to make arrangements with him for
a match.
“E” MEN’S CLUB
OUTLINES PROGRAM
Tonight after a big pep rally and
'onfire the Elon Fighting Christians
go forth into battle with a rugged
Orskine College eleven from Due
'Vest, S. C., in the Homecoming game.
Elon welcomes all its alumni and
promises them an interesting game.
The choice of Erskine is a good
one. in that both schools are denom
inational, co-ed, about the same size
and have the same colors and school
song. The teams seem well matchec*
with Erskine a slight favorite due to
n imposing record.
Last year the teams met at Spar-
enburg, S. C. and Elon was return
ed the victor by a 12-0 count in one
of the muddiest games ever played.
Both clubs are improved this year.
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In a recent meeting of the “E”
Men’s Club, a new constituti-on was
drawn up with important and en
couraging new specifications. The
driving force behind the scenes of the
club’s activities, this year, is Fred
Hoffman’s potent personality as the
president of the club.
The most important move of the
club’s activities to date, perhaps, is
the effort; to have available for each
home game a physician. This need
manifests itself at almost every game.
The idea is one belonging to the “E”
men and in conjunction with Coach
Perry, they hope to achieve the badly
needed medical attention. They have
suggested that it be brought before
the North State Conference author
ities.
In keeping with tradition the club
will' present to each “E” man senior
a sweater with the letter thereon.
Plans are being made for the an-
Inual banquet for all athletes TheSe
banquets are usually something .to
write about, for the men engaged in
the function are of a quality unex
celled in the college medium, in-so-
far as the ability to hide food is
concerned. For this reason they pre
pare more than most other banque-
teers.
Tlme.s-News — The Catawba Ind
ians defeated Elon College Saturday
night 38-0 on the winners gridiron
and tied the record of scoring in
consecutive games, set by Yale over
50 years ago. In loop play this
season CataWba has not been scored
on.
Elon played a good first half hold
ing the Tribe to two touchdowns,
one of these a blocked punt. It was
not until the second half that Cataw
ba took the commanding lead by
scoring two touchdowns, quickly, on
pass interceptions, to break the mor
ale of the Fighting Christians.
Coach Gordon Kirkland used four
.•omplete combinations with three' of
these teams counting the touchdowns.
Claude Manzi, John Zurlis, Claude
Gentry and Paul Causey led the Elon
forward wall on defense and offense
during the entire contest. C. K. Siler
and Hugett .Braxton led the Chris
tians with their running and kick
ing.
The Indians scored their first mark
er in the opening quarter when a
Irive gave out on the -Elon 10 yard
marker and Gudger broke through
o block the attempted kickout by
Braxton.
The entire second stanza was even-
By ROCCO SILOC
Standings
Teams W. L. Pet.
Oak Lodge 6 0 1.000
East Dorm. 4 i gOO
South Dorm 3 i .750
Alpha Pi 3 1 .750
Kappi Psi 3 3 .500
Vet’s Court 2 4 .333
South North 1 3 250
I- T. K 1 4 200
North North 0 6 .000
Although Oak Lodge remained un
defeated with victories over Vet’s
Court and I. T. K., East proved the
biggest winner in the Intra-mural
Touch Football League with three
victories since October 14, including
a 12-6 win over Vet’s Court — a close
6-0 victory over South North and a
forfeit from North North to move
into second place in tlie standing
ahead of South Dorm, defeated 6-0
by Alpha Pi in what was probably
he roughest game of the current
season. Jim Widenhouse of the fourth
place Alpha, Pi team continues to
lead the scorers with five touchdowns
for 30 points while Ed Ellis has four
touchdowns for 24 points to hold
down the runner-up spot. Scorers
who have at least two touchdowns
include;
Player, Team Td Ep. Tp.
Widenhouse, Alpha Pi 5 0 30
Ellis, Oak Lodge 4 0 24
Walker, East Dorm 2 3 21
Wright, H., Oak‘Lodge 3.1 19
Brown, Oak Lodge 3 ' 0 .18
Taylor, Kappi Psi 2,1 13
Mobely, Alpha Pi 2 0 12
Woolridge, Oak Lodge 2 0 12
Hardy, East 2 0 12
Ganes, South 2 0 12
Godwin, Oak Lodge ...... 2 0 12
ly fought except for a 65 yard sus
tained drive by the Indians to score
in the closing minutes.
Two pass interceptions gave the
Indians quick touchdowns at the be
ginning of the second half and before
tlie period ended Bobby Gore raced
52 yards behind good blocking to
add another score..
The final marker was scored by
the Catawba Jayvees after a series
of pass and running plays from their
own 49 yard marker. The game ended
with Elon in possession of the ball
on its own five yard line after a
pass interception by Gentry to stop
a Catawba scoring threat.
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By ED MULFORD
Mr. A1 Burlingame
Indiana University
Bloomington, Ind.
Dear Al;
Methinks its about time I brought
you up to date on the sports scoop,
so in the form of a column, here
goes. Two weeks ago Elon upset
Newberry 3-0 in a fine performance
by virtue of a field goal by likeable
Jim Huyett. Spirits were high during
the week before the Catawba game,
but something went wrong, perhaps
the Indians were just too powerful,
for they scored in their 72nd straight
game and laced us 38-0. Wake For
est lost to Duke once again, so it was
indeed an unhappy day. Of course
Lou Little was th* man to finally
stop Army in a 21-2(' thriller so there
was some solace. ^
Although the Catawba game was
disappointing, we still have a good
team and anything can happen to
night in a game with strong Erskine
from Due West, S. C. By REQUEST
and with apologies if it seems some
what braggodocio, here are
this col-
umns predictions for Elon these past
two seasons and results.
1946
Opponent
Pred.
Score
Atlantic Christiaii
20-0
14-0
Eastern Carolina
13-6
13-6
Appalachian
0-33
0-40
Newberry
.....; 0-25
0-20
Erskine
.. 19-7
12-0
High Point
7-27
6-31
Lenoir-Rhyne
12-14
13-14
Catawba
0-50
0-40
No predictions
were made on the
Fort Bragg game, won by
Elon 7-6
and the Guilford
game in which an
under-rated Elon
team tied
13-13.
1947
Davidson 0-20 0-19
Atlantic Claristian 21-0 14-6
Appalachian 7-14 13-21
Eastern Carolina 26-7 7-0
Newberry 7-6 3-0
Catawba 33-7 38-0
This year’s predictions however
were made at the beginning of the
year and when we thaught about
the. Erskine game to be played to-
aight, we figured that the Seceders
A’ould have the same team as last
year. But they don’t, they have come
up instead with a powerful outfit that
nas beaten Rollins 19-9, ECTC 14-0,
Guilford 19-0 and Atlantic Christian
27-0. That same Rollins team upset
the University of Richmond and was
barely beaten by Miami 7-6. We had
picked Elon to trounce Erskine—now
,ve are turning CHICKEN! Unless
'Ion plays an inspired game tonight,
lliey' are in for a trouncing. Elon
.• ill have to be up. We have a lot of
faith in Zurles, Manzi, Kozokewich,
Nichols, Claytor, Murray, Perry, Gen
try, Domenich, Causey, etc. In fact
every man on the squad plays hard
and has ability. But we see Erskine
the winner by a touchdown. Here’s
,!>iiig we are wrong.
Baekeball practice started- last
week. Must be about 60 men out
and some fine material. It will be
needed however. Our 22 game sche
dule starts December 8 at Chapel
Hill with the University of North
Carolina. We play all the teams of
the North State Conference this year
including two games with Western
Carolina. Probably about 10 men will
be kept on the varsity squad and
another 10 on the Jayvee team which
may play such junior colleges as
Phfieffer, Campbell, Lees - McRae,
Mars Hill, Louisburg, Brevard, Oak
Ridge, Belmont Abby and several
high schools. Again by request, the
record of Elon’s basketball teams
since it was reactivated are:
1944 - 45; Won 4, Lost 19.
1945 - 46: Won 17, Lost 8.
1946 - 47; Won 16, Lost 10.
Intramural football is getting along
at a great clip with Oak Lodge, Alpha
Pi, South Dorm and East in a dog
fight for the top four positions. The
Lodge seems to be the powerhouse
of the circuit with a potent array.
Softball took a downfall last spring
with the Elon Vets team only play
ing 15 games as against the 70 odd
contests of the year before. This year
however the team will again parti
cipate in a big schedule and perhaps
undertake another nation-wide tour.
Of all the things that have occurred
at Elon, the tour of the summer of
1946 gets our vote as the finest. Plans
are already underway to duplicate it,
which is why I mention it at this
early date.
On November 8th we play the
powerful Purple Panthers of High
Point, one of the tough teams around
here. They have beaten Atlantic 33-0
and Newberry 26-0. But this writer
saw them in their 0-0 tie with the
Duke 2nds and believes that Elon is
capable of pulling an upset. Lenoir-
Rhyne is met at Hiokory on Novem
ber l&th and will also prove a capa
ble opponent. The Bears tied High
Point 6-6, beat ECTC 27-9 and bow
ed to Newberry by 19-13. Then a week
before Thanksgiving Elon gets anoth
er home game when Fort Bragg pays
us a visit. Little is known about the
soldiers but Elon licked them last
year 7-6 when Bob-a-ie-3ob Harris
skipped over for a score and saved
the day. The last game of the season
of course is on Thanksgiving Day
with Guilford. That’s our big rival and
of course that’s the game Elon is
gunning for. At this dale the Quakers
have only won two and lost four and
our record is three and three against
tougher opponents. Things look ripe
for a win on Turkey Day.
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It was noticed recently, at the Ca
tawba game, that the spectators on
their side of the field, numbering
near the two thousand mark, were in
tlie game .with their team. This may
sound silly to you but they were
actually supporting element that was
organized to near perfection. The
cheerleaders stood before them and
led the cheers only to be drowned
by the thunderous roar that left the
i+ands in answer to their efforts.
The cheering would commence with
a few simple directions and then in
perfect coordination the entire Ca
tawba group of fans would sway with
the leaders in one compact unit. It
was inspirational to the spectators
across the field to watch a school with
a team on the field with no one to
cheer'for them. The team without
W’as heroic though, in that they plung
ed on in a futile attempt to crash
the inspired teams strong line. :They
were outplayed but, they might have
done better had there been support.
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