FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1948
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
J'm Telling You . . .
By ROCCO SILEO
Xiocal fans who were unable to
attend our Turkey Day classic
missed what we believe to be the
greatest defensive exhibition put
on by any team in the state this
year. We are reluctant to agree
with the statistics publislied in
local papers, especially those giv
ing Guilford a plus 15 yards net
iushing.
It doesn’t seem possible w'hen
time after time “most valuable”
Calude Gentry broke through to
throw . a Quaker back for a big
loss. And when Gentry couldn’t
make it, it seems that All-Confer-
ence Arnold Melvin, Bill Johnson,
Claude Manzi, Sal Gei'o or John
Zurlis would be the fifth man in
Guilford’s backfield.
Bill Johnson, comparatively un
known until the Guilford clash,
turned in a great game at end. He
played much of the game offen
sively and defensively, made his
share of the tackles and snagged
a cii’cus catch in the first half to
set up Elon’s first score.
Christian Cagers Win And Lose In First Two Starts
Defeat Fie!daleYMCA43-40;
Lose To Carolina Team 66-32
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Our Fighting Christians ushered in the basketball season with
a 43-40 victory over the Fieldale YMCA quintet here Friday night,
and then fell to defeat at the hands of a classier caroUna com
bination at Chapel Hill Monday night by a score of 66-32 in the
first of five games scheduled to be played before the holiday va
cation.
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IF
who professes to be a sports w'riter
wants to contribute his All-Amer
ican team about this time of the
year. Rather than attempt to se
lect one. I’d like to contribute an
All-American squad selected by
Hollywood’s curvacious blonde—
Betty Grable. . ^ play, the South Dorm Engineers j
The cinema starlet came up with sv.-ept through the playoffs with,
33-2 victory .over Oak Lodge'
First Annual Intramural Team Selected
Business Ad Prof. Has Varied Interests
Mike Kozakewich, Bobby Har
ris, Fred Claytor and Zurlis aus
piciously closed their college foot
ball careers with this tussle. Har
ris and Claytor provided the two
tallies and much of the yardage, ^ a 10-man team composed, not of a
By GEORGE STANLEY j
Undefeated in regular season
FOOTBALL TEAM FINAL STANDINGS
A^ORTH STATE CONFERENCE
ALL OPPONENTS
while Zurlis turned in what, was ^ the best runners, pasers, kick- in the opener and a 13-7 win over
probably his best performance, gj.g^ tacklers or blockers, but of Vet’s Apartments in a final hard-
since pre-war days at Elon. Gen- j claims to be the hand- fought game that featured vicious
try and Melvin were in every way , , i,. , . ^ ,
• somest players around the coun-ame play by both clubs,
worthy of tljeir recent respective ■> i
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selections.
It seems from this corner that
the coaches wha failed to nomi
nate Gentry on their all-confer
ence squad missed the boat en
tirely.
The well known cry, "Wait un
til next year,” once more echoes
around the campus, but this fa
miliar chant may prove more cor
rect than ever come autumn and
another football season. With
only four lettermen expected to
be lost via graduation, Coach Mal
lory should have a veteran eleven,
well drilled and experienced in
the single wing. Remember, our
boys caught fire in the Newport
News tilt, and in tlie latter part
of the season they were a much
stronger club than most people
•realize.
Every character in tile country
ti'y- j Again Ernie Klutz and his pass-
Her backfield consists of Doak es proved to be the difference be-
“best-looking legs” Walker, Billy tween the two teams. Two of his
“maternal instinct” Bye, Norman fo,, ^D’s. The first
Van Brocklin and Yale’s Fred completed to Larry Gaither,
Nedherny. The line includes
„ , , A- oni aH-mtramural end who made a
Barney Poole and UCLA s Bill
Clements at ends. Bill Fischer' spectacular'catch. Later he and
and Rod Franz at guards, and Bill Hopkins, the other end, in
Alabama’s Pat O'Sullivan at the the end zone for the final tally
center slot with Phil O’Reilly of
Purdue the only tackle nomina- Shumar and Hanel sparked
tion. the Vet’s team, but they could
never overcome the early lead
taken by South. Jack Hanel pull
ed a Swiaki in the second quarter
with a circus catch in the end
zone for the Apartments’ only tal
ly.
Prof. A. J. Hook was elected
commissioner of athletics for the
Norfh State Conference colleges
at the annual fall meeting held
last w'eek.' Tentative plans call
for conference tournaments in
tennis, golf and track which gives
Elon a great opportunity to ex
pand in its athletic enterprises.
Former Elonites In Sports..
’ I Warren Burns, star and captain
ed the center position because of: of the 1946 basketball team, is
Ids bruismg line smashing per-1 now teaching and coaching at
formances. .nearby Burlington High and
studying for his M. A. at the Uni
versity of North Carolina during
« .Claude Gentry, 200-pound end performance against Guilford,
ilelnse, who was recently selected Thanksgiving Day. The spectacu-
as the most valuable player on lar defensive play of this Junior
the squad by his Fighting Chris-from Greensboro kept the Quak-
tian teammates, topped off a bril- ers in the hole throughout the
iliant campaign with a masterful traditional classic.
South Dormitory and Vet’s
Apartments, finalists in the play
offs, dominated the Maroon and
Gold all-intramural selection. The
Engineers placed four and the
Vets two. Kappa Psi, East, and
Carlton House placed one man
each.
The group includes Ernie Klutz,
captain of the squad, whose run
ning, kicking and passing featured
for South. He learned his foot
ball at Concord High where he
starred three years. During his
Senior year he participated in the
Shrine Bowl game at Charlotte.
Bill Hopkins, end deluxe from
South, helped better Ernie’s com
pletion record by making catches
all over the field. He' was run-
nerup in the scoring parade with
42 points.
The other end slot goes to
elongated Lawrence Gaither. Also
a fine receiver. Gaither pulled
in four TD passes and had four
points after for a total of 28
points. He was also a standout
on defense.
Rocco Donato won one of the
tackle posts with his heads-up
playing. Heaviest starter on
South’s squad, he was a hard man
to keep out on defense and was
a stalwart in the line on offense.
The other tackle slot goes to
“Tubby” Johnson of Kappa Psi,
who was the most consistent ball
player of the year. “Chubby”
Brown, a day student performing
for Vet’s Apartments, was award-
In the backfield with Klutz are
Steve “Doak” Walker, Jack Hanel |
and Bill Rakes. Walker did ev-1
erything with the ball and did it j
well. He chalked up 63 points
during the season to take high
scoring honors, and set the single
game record of 40 points against
Vet’s Court.
Hanel, diminutive speed mei’-
chant of Vets’ Apartments, and
Carlton House's Bill Rakes round
out the backfield. It was the run
ning of Bill and Jack that kept
their respective teams in the
league running all season.’
the summer months.
West Team Wins
Volley ball Crown;
Goes Undefeated
With the close of the girls' In
tramural Volleyball league play
Monday night, undefeated We-«t
Team “A” were crowned league
champions, and an Honorary
Girls’ Volleyball team was named
by Miss Cecile Hope Pate and a
committee of students.
Players on the championship
team are: Shirley Honey, Jane
Paterson, Jean Carroll, Jane Rust,
Jane Upchurch, Virginia Davis,
Frankie Fer.guson, Virginia Re-
bick and Jeanne Pittman.
Runner-up in the league was
West Team “B,” with only one
loss for the season. West Third
Floor and Ladies’ Hall finished
third and fourth respectively.
Girls selected for all-league
honors are: Shirley Boney, Rosa
mond Bromley, Sue Edwards, Jean
Harris, Evelyn McNeill, Jeanne
Pittman, Jane Rust, Doris Taylor.
Sophie White and Lacala Wilkins.
W. G. Causey, who has played
for the Christians, the Randolph
Field Service team and the
Greensboro Pro team, then later
returned to Elon as coach, has just
completed his first year as head
coach at Goldsboro High.
Although their performance in
these two encounters was far
from exceptional, the outlook
doesn’t appear too dim for the
Fighting Christians,* considering
the fact that we have a rookie
coach at the helm and a compara
tively green squad on the court.
As a matter of fact, of the 11
players who have seen action thus
far as varsity cagers, only Leo
Kampman, Ed Drew, Lacy Gane
and Bill Hopkins are veteran let
termen. All the others are fresh
men with the exception of Chips
Chabalko, who played some Jay-
vee ball last year.
In both issues to date. Coach
Pope has opened with Kampman
and Billy Rakes at the forward
posts. Drew at the center slot and
Gane and Nelson Cooper in the
back court. The appearance of
Rakes, classy eager for the Har
grave Military Institute last year,
and Cooper, flashy ball-handling
star of High Point's championship
club of a year ago, adds plenty of
speed, hustle and aggressiveness
to an otherwise slow and appar
ently sluggish quintet.
However, at this point the team
seems to be suffering from a bad
case of the jitters more than any
thing else. In that event we
should expect a smoother, quick-
thinking ball team by the time
the Fighting Christians play host
to Atlantic Christians Jan. 10 in
the conference opener.
For reserve strength. Coach
Pope must look to freshmen
wealth once more, with the excep
tion of letterman Hopkins and
Chips Chabalko, a couple of sea
soned sophomores. Don Haith-
cox, an elongated pivot man wiio
broke high school state scoring
records last year, is slow and in
experienced, but he will be more
valuable as the season rolls on.
Larry Gaither turned in a spark
ling floor game in the Fieldale
tilt to attract considerable atten
tion, while a couple of diminutive
26 Games To Go;
First North St. Tilt
Jan. 10 With A.C.C.
Coach Harold Pope has releas
ed the Elon basketball schedul2
for 1948-49. In the schedule fol
lowing. it will be noted that games
with Fieldale Y.M.C.A. and U.N.C.
have been omitted, due to their
already having been played.
Dec. 11.—Portsmouth Gridiron
Club, home.
Dec. 15 — Richmond Institute,
home.
Dec. 16—McCrary, away.
Dec. 31 — Fieldale Y.M.C.A.,
away.
Jan. 3 —• Naval Air Station,
home.
Jan. 4 — Naval Air Station,
home.
Jan. 6—Hanes, home.
Jan. 7.—Lynchburg, home.
8—McCrary; home.
10 — Atlantic Christian,
Jan.
Jan.
home.
Jan.
Jan.
13—Hanes Hosiery, away.
14—East Carolina Teach
ers College, home.
Jan. 15—Catawba, away.
Jan. 25—Guilford, home.
Jan. 28—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
Jan. 29—Catawba, home.
Jan. 31—West Carolina Teach
ers College, away.
Feb. 1—West Carolina Teachers
College, away.
Feb. 3—High Point, away.
Feb. 8 — Appalachian Stale
Teachers College, away.
Feb. 9—Lenoir Rhyjie, away
Feb. 11 .— Appalachian State
Teachers College, home.
Feb. 15—East Carolina Teach
ers College, away.
Feb. 16 — Atlantic Christian,
away.
Feb. 17—High Point, home.
Feb. 19—Guilford, away.
O. “Buck” Mann, Elon gradu
ate and ex-coach at Greensboro
High is now director of the
Greensboro Recreational Depart
ment, while Jim Day, former Elon
gridster, holds the same position
at Reidsville, N. C.
The two hottest halfbacks in
the Far West thi sseason, Nevada’s
Stan Heath and California’s Jackie
Jensen, were teammates on the
Farragut, Idaho, Naval Base team
in 1945.
Jack Boone, All - Conference
back on the ’41 championship
team is now assistant coach at
E.C.T.C. Boone is a logical con
tender for the head coach post
made vacant by the resignation
of Jim Johnson.
J. W. Knight, recent graduate
from Elon’s ranks, is assistant
coach of the Reidsville Lions.
Ed Sauer, baseball star who was
mentioned in the last issue, is now
playing in the Mexican League
preparatory to joining the Cards
next spring.
Men's Voiteyba!! Ploy
Now In Full Swing
Intramural volleyball is now
in full swing with two eight-team
leagues battling it out for a spot
in the extra-curricular athletic
sun.
Winners in each league will
meet at the end of the season to
squabble over the championship,
and the winning team will be giv
en points toward the Intramural
Team Trophy which is to be
awarded at the end of the year.
Last year the volleyball crowa
was taken by the I.T.K. Frateml
ty. .
Football's longest run was
chalked up by -Wyllys Terry of
gbards. Jack Graham and Jack | Yale in 1884—115 yards. The
White, are anxious to see plenty Afield at the time w'as 110 yards
of action this season in the back' long,
court. i
Frankie Albert, the San Fran- Bob Higgins, Penn State foot-
cisco 49ers’ passing wizard, has ball coach, rates Fran Rogel “one
hurled at least one touchdown | of the best fullbacks Fv.e ever
pass in the last 16 games. seen.”
Arnold Melvin, Elon’s 230-pound
pride and joy, rose to the greatest
heights of his football career this
season. By virtue of his bruising
play throughout the year, the big
tackle was first named to the Daily
News All-Conference team and
then won a berth on the second
team Small School All-South
ern. Melvin, who blocked six
punts during the campaign, is a
Junior from Greensboro.