FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1969
maroon and gold
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Elon Tops Guilford 68 To 67
'cmiSTIAI^S PVT THREE BIG MEN OJS ALL COISFERENCE HONOR SQUAD Christian 5
Wins Battle
At Guilford
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Richard McGeorge, Henry Goedeck and Captain Bill Bowes, pictured left to right in that order in the
above picture, were all three named to the official Carolinas Conference all-star team at the conclusion
Tthe rSlL J969 season. Itwas the first time that Elon had placed three All-Conference men in a single
season since 1956, and Elon was the only team to put three men on the honor list this
junior forward from Roanoke, Va., averaged 17 points Pe^g^me during the 25-gamese^^^^
a senior forward from Central Islip, N.Y., averaged 13,3 points per
center from Lenox, Mass., averaged 13.5 points and 12.5 retounds 8^. •, ^ | throw accuracy
ference in field goal accuracy with a 61.1 per cent mark, and Bowes led the loop in free throw accuracy
with an 83.1 percentage.
Elon Places Three All-Conference Men
The Fighting Christian
basketball squad placed
three men on the official
Carolinas Conference
all-star team for regu
lar - season play, which
was released from the
conference offices in
Winston-Salem by Jerry
McLeese, the statistician
for the loop.
The three Christians
who won berths on the
team were Henry Goe
deck, who made the All-
Conference team 'or the
fourth straight year; a-
long with Richard Mc
George and Captain Bill
Bowes, both of whom won
the all-star recognition
for the first time.
In addition to their
Spots on the official All-
Conference team, Henry
Goedeck and Richard Mt:-
George also won spots on
the squad named by the
Greensboro Daily News,
with Bill Bowes getting
a high honorable mention
on the newspaper squad.
The official AU-Con-
ference included II men,
since there was a tie for
the tenth spot in the vot-
jng by the loop coaches.
The Elon quintet was the
only team to place three
with Catawba and
■'igh Point each winning
two spots and with single
players from Lenoir
Rhyne, Western Caro-
lina, Atlantic Christian
and Guilford.
The three All-Confer
ence berths marked the
hrst time in thirteen sea
sons for Elon to place
^i^ee men on the honor
group, and it is one of
few times that any
team has placed three
™en. Ths last time Elon
,ad three all-star picks
one season was in 1956
when the Christians won
the Conference title.
The three Christians
who won All-Conference
positions that year were
Dee Atkinson, Ed Jura-
tic and Ben Kendall, and
all three of them also
won spots on the five-man
first team at the close of
the Conference tourna
ment held in Lexington.
Other All-Conference
players named this year
were Gene Littles and
Jim Picka, of High Point;
Dwight Durante and Gar
land Davis, of Catawba;
Greg Wittman, of West
ern Carolina; David Smith
of Guilford; Ed Carra-
way, of Atlantic Chris
tian and Bill Davis, of Le-
noir Rhyne.
Henry Goedeck bec3.ni'^
one of the very few men
in the Conference cap
history to win All-^^on-
ference honors
successive years and be
came the first
ers since Ben Kendall
make the honor team four
yeTrs. Kendall’s honors
did not come in success
ive years, for his cag
play was broken by a
tour of military duty.
The other two Elon All-
Conference men wei
earned their spots,
they proved themselves
o be the most accura e
in the Conference in
shooting. McGeorge led
the Conference in field
goal accuracy with a ol.
per cent on 1^5 bastet
in 270 tries, and Bowes
topped the loop in free
throwing with ^0-3
cent on 69 baskets in 83
tries.
COLE FIRES SHOT AT GUILFORD
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Tom my Cole, brilliant freshman guard for the Chris-
Hanrwearing Number 35 In the dark jersey atove,
as he fired up a crucial field goal in Elon s
hard fought 68 to 67 win over the Guilford Quakers
fn *e closing game of the regular season on the
Guilford courf. Cole hit 13 points that night to give
Wm Se rtan an 11-point average for regular-season
play.
The Elon Christians
closed out their finest
basketball season in re
cent years with a thrill
ing 68 to 67 victory over
the Guilford Quakers on
the Guilford court on Sat
urday night, February
22nd, with the Christians
having to battle all the
way for the one-point win.
That victory, clinched
by Elon free throws in
the closing minutes of
the game, gave Coach Bill
Miller’s cage squad a rec
ord of 19 wins and 6 loss
es in a 25-game sche
dule, and it gave the
Christians a second-
place rating in the al
ways tough Carolinas
Conference with a mark
of 13 wins and 4 losses
in games with Conference
foes.
The Christians got their
last field goal of the tight
battle with Guilford when
Tommy Cole hit with2:41
left in the game for a
62-61 lead, but six free
throw baskets out of eight
attempts in the final mo
ments' of the game kept
the Fighting Christians in
com petition.
Noble Marshall hit the
last two charity tosses
for Elon with 46 seconds
left on the clock, and they
put Elon in front by a 68
to 65 margin. The Quak
ers came back after that
and cut the Elon edge
to a single point, and
Marshall missed two
charity tosses with twelve
seconds remaining, Guil
ford misseda last-second
floor shot that could have
won the game.
Big Richard McGeor
ge, Elon’s rugged junior
forward who proved to be
exceptionally tough on the
inside, led the Elon forces
to victory as he hit four
of seven floor shots and
sank 14 of 17 chances
at the free throw line for
a total of 22 points for
the night.
Other Elon players who
were in double figures for
the night were Tommy
Cole with 13 points and
Henry Goedeck with 13
counters. Bill Bowes, who
had missed a week of
practice due to a death
in his family, turned in
a fine game in spite of
that fact and pulled down
14 rebounds for the
Christians.
THE LINE-UPS
Pos.Elon(68) Guilford(67)
F. McGeorge(22)Crow(6)
F.Goedeck(12)Crocker(10)
C.Bowes(4) Smith(30)
G. Cole (13) Ennis (8)
G. McGee (6) Feik (6)
Half-time: Elon 35,
Guilford 35.
Elon subs — Marshall
2, Berry 3, Johnson 6.
Guilford subs — Dixon,
Dyer 7, Simmons.
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