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The Pendulum
Sports
Thursday. November 17,1983
Elon breaks 2-game losing streak with 27-12 win
game through three quarters
.SS; Playoff hopes alive as C-N loses The Buiidoes, a„ NCAA Dm;
BOWIE, Md. — On a windy,
brutally cold Saturday, Elon’s
Fightin’ Christians overcame
their own mistakes and a deter
mined Bowie State football
team to break a two-game los
ing streak with a 27-12 win
here.
The victory gave Elon a 6-3
Johnny Jacobs
record going into the season
finale at 2 p.m. Saturday
against Mars Hill in Burlington
Memorial Satdium. The Christ
ians’ slim NAIA playoff hopes
remained alive due to Pre-
bysterian’s 28-7 upset of Car-
son-Newman, the first-place
team in the South Atlantic Con
ference (SAC-8).
The Christians need a deci
sive win over Mars Hill, 4-5-1, to
have a chance to be ranked in
the top 12 of the final national
poll, which determines the
bids. The odds would still be
heavily against the Christians,
because although Carson-
Newman also has three loses
on the season, all of Elon’s de
feats came in the SAC-8.
Senior fullback Fred Jordan
and Sophamore tailback John
ny Jacobs were the offensive
stars for Elon in the Bowie
State triumph. Jordan, who has
done more blocking than ball
carrying for most of the season,
piled up his 133 rushing yards
on 10 carries, all in the first
half Jacobs got most of the car-
ries in the second half,
finishing with 118 yards in 16
attempts.
With the temperature about
40 degrees at game time and
with a chill factor well below
freezing due to steady 25 to 30
mile per hour winds, ball car
riers for both teams had diffi
culty hanging onto the pigskin.
The host Bulldogs lost two fum
bles in the game, while Elon
bobbled the ball seven times
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landings
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Quinton Ballard starts for Colts
Received game ball for play against Jets
and lost four of them — includ
ing three inside the Bowie
State five yard line.
Nevertheless, the Christians’
ground game produced 346
yards — only five of which were
recorded by tailback Jimmy
Smith. Smith, whose 160 yards
and three TDs against Newber
ry on Nov. 5 had earned him
SAC-8 offensive player of the
week honors, mishandled
several first-quarter handoffs
and pitches and played little
thereafter.
Elon quarterback Sam
Fromhart completed only six
of 19 passes in the gale, but he
connected for TDs on throws of
five yards to tight end Kelly
Stanley in the third quarter
and 10 yards to wide reciever
Jay Simmons in the final
period.
Quarterback Arthur Lee of
the Bulldogs pierced the Elon
defense for 250 yards passing
on 20 completions in 36
attempts for one TD. But he was
intercepted three times, one of
the pickoffs being returned
one yard for a score by corner-
back Derek Cross.
Lee’s passing kept the under
dog Bowie State team in the
By Kay Morrison
Staff Writer
Quinton Ballard, a starter on
two Elon College NAIA nation
al championship football
teams, has now earned a start
ing role with the Baltimore
Colts.
Signed as a free agent last
summer, Ballard got his
chance to start on Nov. 6, re
placing Colts’ starting defen
sive end Donnell Thompson
who was injured. Ballard lined
up against the Jets’ All-Pro
tackle Marvin Powell, but he
apparently wasn’t intimidated
by Powell’s reputation.
According to the Baltimore
Sun, Ballard was a “one man
gang” for the Colts as he made
eight tackles, had an assist, a
sack and deflected a pass.
The 6-foot-2, 285-pound Bal
lard was awarded the game
ball by his fellow teammates as
■ the Colts defeated the Jets, 17-
14.
“I was surprised because a
lot of people played well
together, but it’s nice to know
your teammates appreciate
what you did,” Ballard said.
Ballard had been passed up
► in the NFL draft and was cut
from the New Jersey Generals
mini-camp last winter.
Former Elon defensive
coach Linwood Ferguson, now
coaching at North Carolina
A&T, arranged the tryout with
the Colts for Ballard last
spring. After signing with Balt
imore, he had an impressive
early training camp, but in-
File Photo
SUCCESS CONTINUES: Af
ter a successful career at
Elon, Quinton Ballard is
now a starter in the Nation
al Football League.
game through three quarters.
The Bulldogs, an NCAA Divi
sion II team and a member of
the CIAA league, dropped tol-
9 on the year, but they earned
the respect of the crowd of only
about 200 people who braved
the cold to watch the game.
Elon missed two scoring
opportunities in the first quar
ter as Jonas Davis fumbled the
ball away on Bowie State’s one
yard line and kicker John
Thorne missed a 40-yard field
goal attempt when the ball
bounced back off the crossbar
But with three minutes left In
the period, Davis redeemed
himself by carrying off tackle
for a four-yard TD, and
Thorne’s PAT made it 7-0.
After a Bowie State drive
stalled on downs at Elon’s 15,
Jordan sprinted 41 yards up the
sideline to get Elon rolling
again. In six plays Elon
reached the Bulldogs’ one, but
Jacobs fumbled and Bowie
State’s David Johnson reco
vered. On the next play, howev
er, Lee’s pass out of the end
zone was picked off by Cross
who ran it in for a 13-0 second-
quarter advantage. An errant
snap from center prevented a
point-after kick by Elon.
The rest of the half belonged
to the hosts. Lee connected
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jured his knee in August.
Taking time off to allow the
injury to heal, Ballard was re
placed by Steve Parker who en
trenched himself at right de
fensive end. As a result Ballard
seemed destined to spend the
rest of the year as a role player.
Now, according to the Balti
more Sun, Ballard is a player
who symbolizes the Frank
Kush-coached Colts.
Even after losing to Pitt
sburgh last Sunday 24-13 (a
game in which Ballard also
started and played well), the
Colts have a 6-5 record this year
after finishing 0-7-1 in 1982.
Ballard is satisfied with the
way he is playing, but he hopes
to lose some weight in the off
season. He plans to return to
Elon in January to complete re
quirements for his degree in
social science. For now, he is
the only former Elon player in
the NFL.
Ballard is one of the many
Colts who doesn’t have a big
name. “We didn’t even know
where he came from,” said
teammate Greg Bracelin when
he awarded Ballard the Jets
game ball. But the way these
unheralded players are per
forming is a major reason why
the Colts are such a surprising
team this year.
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