December 14. 1955
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREB
Elon Quint To Enter Holiday Cage Meet At Paris Island
Basketeers
Viftors In
Belmont Tilt
starting slowly and closing with
bang-up performance, the Fight-
Christians Elon grabbed
eir second successive win of the
season at LeSington on
hursday. December 1st, by turn-
j back Belmont Abbey 90 to 83.
The game stirred memories of
952 as Ben Kendall and Dee
tkinson. a pair of Elon service
eturnees, teamed up once more
P pacing the Christian attack
endall racked eight field buck-
,s and seven free throws for 23
uints while Atkinson hit for four
leld goals and ten free throws
„() 18 points. Two other Elon
alters were in double figures,
ith Ed Juratic getting 14 and
ay Whitley 12 points for the
ight.
It was Ben -Kendall who got
ot in the closing periods as the
hristians pulled further ahead
11 the third quarter and main-
ained the lead through the final
en minutes.
Roger Marcil was top man foi
elmont Abbey team, hitting sev-
n field shots and an equal num-
er from the charity line.
'os. Elon (90) Belmont Abbey (83)
-Juratic H4) Theberg (8i
-Kendall i23) Grayson (18)
-Atkinson (18) York (13)
—Whitley il2) Marcil (21)
-Citty i8) Tagliari (17)
Half-time — Elon 46, Belmont
bbey 43.
Elon subs — DeRita (9), Mc-
onald (4), Stout (2), Rickover.
elmont Abbey subs — Lehan
4'. O'Leary (2), Meade.
Senior Gvi
;’cl8
ul Fighting Christian
Cagers Lose
To McCrary
The powerful McCrary Eagles
anded the Christians their only
efeat of the early season when
hey met at Asheboro on Satur-
ay night, December 3rd, the
emi-pro outfit grabbing a close
to 91 decsiion in a high-
coring game.
Ben Kendal, rapidly regaining
e form that made him a feared
ompetitor in North State play
n seasons gone by, racked eight
Ray Whitley
Leading: the Elon Colleg:e Ag-
ers this year as co-captains are
a pair of sharp-shooting senior
guards, each of whom is a dead
ly threat with the two-hand set
and the jump-push shot. The
Christian leaders are Ray Whit
ley (left), of Winston-Salem, and
Ben Kendall (right), of KTtkomo.
Ind.
Whitley, now in his fourth
successive season for the Christ
ians, was one of the top scor
ers for last year’s Maroon and
Gold quint, hitting for 283
•points to rate just behind Dave
Maddox and Ed Juratic. The
Twin City sharp shooter has
improved steadily since his
freshman year and shows a ca
reer scoring record of 171 field
baskets and 86 free throws for
448 points.
Kendall, who played here
through all of th^ 1951 and
1952 seasons and part of the
1953 campaign, rejoined the
Christians this season after two
years of Army duty, and he has
picked up where he left off in
a career that saw’ him twice win
All-Conference and once take
All-State honors, the only Elon
cag'er to place on the All-State
squad since 1947.
The Kokomo comet, with a
scoring record that shows 566
field goals and 273 free throws
for 1,205 points prior to this
K-eason. already has the second
highest career scoring mark in
Elon history, and he has an ex
cellent chance to smash Big
Don Haithcox’s career recorrt
before tHe season ends.
Marines Will PUiy Host
In Three-Day Tourney
Kloii Cage Caines
83.
Elon 78, Pfeiffer 62.
Elon 90, Belmont Abbey
Elon 91, McCrary 100.
Elon 124, DuPont 70.
Elon 106, High Point 101.
(Remaining: Games)
Deo. 13—Guilford, away.
Deo. 31—Belmont .\bbey, away.
Jan. 2—Dupont, away.
Jan. 4—Pfeiffer, home.
Jan. 7—East Carolina, away.
Jan. 11—C. C., home.
Jan. 14—Catawba, home.
Jan. 16—Belmont Abbey, home.
Jan. 18—Appalachian, home.
Jan. 21—West Carolina, away.
Jan. 25—liPnoir Rhyne, home.
Jan, 28—Catawba, away.
Jan. 30—McCrary, home.
Feb. 1—Hish Point, home.
Feb. 4—West Carolina, home.
Feb. 8—Appalachian, away.
Feb. 11—East Carolina, home.
Feb. 13—A. C. C., away.
Feb. 16—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
Feb. 18—tluilford, home.
Ben Kendall
Walking The
Chalk-Liiies
By BILL WALKER
Christian Cagers Down
High Point, 106 To 101
The Christian cagers will hit the
tournament trail during the early
part of the Yule vacation, for the
Elon hardwood squad will travel
southward to Parris Island, S.C.,
next wfrek. where the Marine
Training Base is sponsoring a
three-day tournament and playing
host to seven college teams from
four states.
The first annual Christmas In
vitational Tournament will find
the powerful Parris Island Marine
squad as one of the entries, along
with four teams from North Caro
lina and one team each from Ken
tucky, South Carolina and Georgia.
The North Carolina teams which
will compete in the meet are Elon,
High Point and East Carolina from
the North State Conference and
the independent Pfeiffer College
squad. Other entries are George
town college of Kentucky, Pied
mont College from Georgia and
Krskine College from South Caro
lina.
The tournament gets underway
next Wednesday night, December
23rd. The schedule will be plan
ned along the same lines as the
annual Dixie Classic in Raleigh,
with four games to be played each
day, beginning at 1 o'clock.
Advance information indicates
that competition in the meet will
be fast, with the host Rfarine
team likely to be a big threat. The
Marines will feature a group of
former college stars, paced by Ron
Unleashing the greatest scor- Heyen, one-time ace of the West
ing barrage in the history of Elon ern Missouri Teachers.
College basketball, the Fighting! Local fans are familiar with the
Christian cagers rolled to an easy brand of ball played by the three
124 to 70 victory over the Du- North State teams from Elon. High
Pont Star sof Martinsville, Va ,'point and East Carolina, and Pfief-
last Wednesday, December 7th, in fer has already established itself
a game which marked Elon’s first as a definite independent threat
1 ttrill Wa
Neiv Record
h Set In
DuPont Tilt
appearance of the year on the
home court.
The attack, which averaged bet
With the coming of winter and
the advent of basketball on the
Elon sports scene, there was one
.. seasons gone by, racked eight ^oUeeable difference in the
.eld baskets and mne free throws the year s first home
or 25 pomts to lead Elon’s at- ^ ®
game and the first hoi-.ie game of
a year ago. The difference lay in
the fact that there was no J-V
game.
Upon inquiry later, I learned that
the J-Vs had been disbanded for
the year, the reason being that
the squad had failed to produce
any great show of talent and had
not shown as much improvement
as had been hoped and expected.
It is with real regret that many
of the students heard of the dis
continuance, since the added
games on the home programs had
ck. Other Christian cagers in
ouble figures were Dee Atkin-
on with 17, Ray Whitley with
4 and Ea'rl Stone with 11 points.
The summary follows:
os. Elon (91) McCrary (100)
-Juratic (8) Langdon (20)
-DeRita (6) Atkins (4)
-Atkinson (17) . , Jordan (35)
—Kendall (25) Likens (27)
-Whitley (14) Wallace (3)
Half-time —
Elon subs — Stone (11), King
Rickover (3), Sharpe (1), Mc-
II), Citty (2). McCrary
ubs — Shoaf (5), Allen (2), Slay-
'W 2). Callicutt (2), D. Nance.
onald
Twenty-Four Elon Gridders
Get Letters For 1955 Play
Award of football letters to
24 members of the Elon College
Jootball squad for services during
* e 1955 season have just been
announced by Coach Sid Varney,
en of the group received their
'rst awards in football, while five
seniors received their final Elon
letter.
award group included four
®nds, four tackles, six guards, two
'enters, one quarterback, four
allbacks and three fullbacks,
rouped by class rank, there were
"'e seniors, nine ' juniors, six
^Phomores and three freshmen.
P receiving their first
. ” ^°®tball letters, listed in al-
„ ®^®Ucal order, are Richard
Sumter,
t-srcaterra, Inwood
Tony DeMatteo. Pottsville, Pa.;
Bob Dunlap, Pelzer, S. C.; Jack
Henderson, Towanda, Pa.; Lynn
Newcomb, Richnujnd, Va., Tom
S, C.; Tony
—, L. I., N. Y.;
-’ason Cubbage, Sumter, S. C.;
DelGais, Inwood, L. I. N. Y.;
Shepperson, Danville, Pa ; and J.
B. Vaughan, Graham.
Those who had previously won
letters, also listed in alphabetical
order, include Whitney Bradham,
Sumter, S. C.; Eddie Bridges,
Morganton; Pat Cafasso, Cedar-
hurst, L. I., N. Y.; Ed Davidson,
Brackenridge, Pa.; Homer Hob-
good, Oxford; Wayne Martm,
Morganton; Chuck Maynard, Nor
folk, Va.; Charlie Michaux, Fay
etteville; Furman Moseley, Colum
bia, S. C.; Kerry Richards, Ma-
hanoy City, Pa.; Bob Stauffenberg,
Morea, Pa.; Nick Theos, Charles
ton, S. C.; Glenn Varney, Powell,
Pa.; and Paul Watts, Taylorsville.
offered much entertainment for|
he students, and there have been
Tiany who expressed a wish that
the program might be resumed.
* * *
Basketball reigns as king in the
sports field ati this time; and
Elon, like other schools which ex
pect big things in the hardwood
sport, is glad of it. The Fighting
Christian cagemen have thus far
looked awful hard to handle, and
they show signs of becoming even
tougher with added experience.
In the five opening contests,
the Christians lost only one game,
that a 100-91 decision to the Me
Crary Eagles, while the win rec
ord shows victories over DuPont
Belmont Abbey, Pfeiffer and High
Point.
The Christians, paced by clever
shooting, good rebounding and a
fast-break style of moving the
ball, literally "tore up” the visit
ing DuPont squad by e 124-70
margin m the only pre-holiday
lome game.
With that victory Elon became
he co-holder with High Point of
he scoring title for the North
State Conference. The Panthers
had set the record a year earlier,
and the Christians could easily
lave broken the mark in the Du
Pont game if they had known they
were close.
The Christian bench was cleared
in the game, with everybody see
ing action except the manager and
Eton's fine, intelligent, over
worked and under-paid score
keeper.
Varsity Five
Wins Opener
At Pfeiffer
Here in North Carolina in re
cent years, when one speaks of
basketball, he is usually unable to
get out two sentences without say
ing something about N. C. State^
,This editor is not different, and
I (Continued on Page Four)
With four men hitting in double
figures and with ten different
players having a part in the scor
ing, the Elon Christians rolled to
an impressive 78 to 62 victory
over the Pfeiffer College cagers
at Pfeiffer on Wednesday, Novem
ber 30th.
Ed Juratic, husky Elon forward,
set the pace for the Christians in
the early portion of this opening
game, which saw the Maroon and
Gold quintet grab the front in the
opening period and hold a 35-27
margin at the halft time.
The Christians really began
moving in the third quarter as
they dropped 29 points in a ten-
minute stretch, pulling out to a
64-43 margin as the three-quarter
pole was passed. The Pfeiffer out
fit cut this margin slightly in the
final period when Coach Mathis
made free use of his reserves.
Ed Juratic and Frank DeRita
pair of towering forwards, topped
the Christian scoring with 14
points each, but they were trailed
closely by Ray Whitley with 13
and Dee Atkinson with 11 points.
Ben Kendall played a brilliant
floor game to set up shot after shot
for his mates.
A1 Hasbrough, former Long Is
land University star, hit 21 points
to lead the Pfeiffer scoring.
The line-ups:
Pos. Elon (78) Pfeiffer (62)
F—Juratic (14) Garmon (8)
F—Citty (6) Nuckles 2)
C—Atkinson (11) Hasbrough (21)
G—Kendall (8) Petrea (14)
G—Whitley (12) Bryant (4)
Halftime Score — Elon 35,
Pfeiffer 27.
Elon subs — DeRita (14). Stone
(4), McDonald (1). Stout (5), King,
Rickover. Pfeiffer subs—Thomp
son (4). Roberts (1), Hinson (2),
Rowe (4).
The nets were almost literally
smoking at High Point last Sat-
I'rday night when the Fighting
Jhristians outshot the High Point
Panthers for a 106 to 101 victory
:r. a North State Conference bat
tle. U may have been tlie first
time in Conference history when
Iwo teams racked a "double-cen
tury " score.
The teams swapped the lead
rapidly in the early minutes, with
High Point grabbing a scant 25-
23 margin at the ten-minute mark.
The count was tied and the lead
changed no less than ten times
in the second quarter of play, but
High Point forged ahead at 55-50
in the last two minutes ot the
half on quick baskets by Harold
Crump, Paul Stanton and Ken
Williams.
Dee Atkinson, Ed Juratic and
Ray Whitley paced the Elon at
tack in the first half of play, and
Frank DeRita joined with Atkin
son and Whitley in the Christ
ians’ second-half barrage that en
abled Elon to pull out front and
stay there. The Christians grab
bed the lead just four minutes
after intermission, and they were
never headed after that time.
(Continued On Page Four)
The Georgetown squad will be
coached by Bob Davis, former
i.ic oiiovn., head mentor at High Point, and
ter than three points per minute the Kentuckians are expected to
for the victors, equalled the be anchored by "Little Humphrey
Alexander, ’who played his first
tolled basketball for Davis at
North State Conference scoring
record for a single game. The
mark originally set by High Point
last year with a 124-72 win over
the High Point "Y” quintet. The
win gave Elon a mark of three
victories in four starts for the
year and a team scoring average
of 95.5 points per game.
Thirteen Christian players
broke into the line-up, and e'Sch
of them scored, with six of them
hitting for double figures. Tops
for the night were Frank DeRita
and Ray Whitley with 21 and 19
points respectively. Others in the
double digits were Hugh Citty
High Point. The Erskine squad has
been one of the top teams in this
district of NAIA play in recent
years, and Piedmont is one of the
best small - college teams in
Georgia.
Cage S(|uad
Scores High
The Christian basketeers, witli
four wins in their first five starts,
with 16, Ben Kendall and Dee At- have been averaging a thumping
kinson with 13 and Jimmy Crumppoints per game thus far in
.xU— nn r-rtoe/-\n \l/nif>n hAQ
IVo Elon Stars
All-Conference
Whitley Bradham, speedy
halfback, and Glenn Varney, a
TUfsged guard, were two Elon
gridera who W'in berths on the
1955 All-Conference football
squad, which was chosen for
the Greensboro Daily News by
the North State Conference
coaches at the close of he re
cent season.
It was the first time on the
honor list for Bradham, the
Sumter speedster, who led the
Christian offense throughout
the past !);ason; bujf Varney
was a reiMater on the squad,
having placed at a guard post
a year go. Two other Elon play
ers. Pat Cafasso and Kerry
Richard, were given honorable
mention on the 1955 squad.
with 10 points.
Ray Whitley and Hugh Citty, a
pair of sharp-shooting outside
men, led Elon to an early 28-10
lead midway the first half, and
Frank DeRita assumed the lead
at that point to pace the Christ
ians to a 57-35 margin at half-
time. Whitley, Ben Kendall and
Dee Atkinson were the leaders in
the third quarter, with Frank De-
Rita banging in 11 points down
the stretch.
The DuPont squad, which posted
91 points against High Point just
two nights before, was handi-
capp>ed by the absence of Sam
Belcher, a 6-foot 9-inch forward.
Belcher had been called home due
to illness in his family, and the
scoring leadership for the visitors
the new cage season, which has
already seen the squad set a new
Elon game mark and tie the exist
ing North State Conference mark
for a single game in downing Du
Pont 124 to 70.
Dee Atkinson, the jumping jack
center, is pacing this scoring drive
for the Christians with 92 points
and an 18.4 average, but no less
than five of the Maroon and Gold
cagers are averaging in double
figures In the early battles.
Seven of the Christians have
scored in double digits at least
once this year, but Atkinson and
Ray Whitley are hitting a furious
pace and have been over the 10-
point mark In every one of the
first five games.
Individual scoring totals through
went to Jack Wallace, former |the High Point game are as fol-
Carolina star, and Don Cook, eachjlows:
of whom counted 19 points. Player Games FG
I ... . K 26
34
26
23
25
The line-ups; i Atkinson 5
Pos. Elon (124) DuPont (70) ^
F—Juratic (6) Wallace (19)
F—Kendall (13 Davis (7)
C—Atkinson (13) Cooke (19)
G Whitley (191 Bowden (10)
G—Citty (16) Carter (4)
Half-time — Elon 57, DuPont
35.
KertdBll 5
; DeRita 5
Juratic 5
Citty 5
Stone 4
Sharpe 3
Crump 2
King 3
Stout 2
Elon subs —■ DeRita (21), Crump McDoneld 3
(10), Stone (4), King (4), Rick
over (31, Ooss (5), Sharpe 81,
Watts (2). DuPont subs — Rob
ertson (5), Joyce (2). Gerringer
(2), Woolwine, Stanley.
Rickover 4
Goss 1
Watts 1
ELON TOTALS 5
OPPONENTS 5
12
6
3
4
3
3
2
2
2
1
FT
40
13
26
26
8
10
8
5
2
1
1
2
2
1
0
TP
92
81
78
72
58
34
20
11
10
7
7
6
6
5
2
172
143
145
130
489
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