Thursday, February 16, 1984
The Pendulum
Ballard is making it big
By Danny Hubbard
Sports Editor
A locomotive rolled into
Elon earlier this month and
has enrolled for the spring
semester.
He is Quinton Ballard, the 6
foot, 3 inch, 290 pound nose-
guard from the Baltimore
Colts, who is back to finish his
social science degree.
During Ballard’s college
career, Elon won two straight
national championships. Bal
lard was one of the most intimi
dating defensive players in this
area and served as tri-captain
his senior year.
He remembered those days
and he talked about former
head coach Jerry Tolley and
his new mentor, Frank Kush.
"He (Kush) and Tolley have a
lot in common; they do the
same things mentally, and they
like to take their image
seriously,” he said.
About the newly-named head
coach Macky Carden, Ballard
said, “I think he’s going to be an
excellent coach; he’s experi
enced.”
As for Wright Anderson,
under whom Ballard played for
one year, he said the WSFL’s
Oklahoma franchise offered
“an excellent opportunity for
Coach Anderson to take.”
Glen Raven
Mills donates
*80,000 to
PRIDE II
An Alamance County textile
firm has donated $80,000 to the
PRIDE II Campaign at Elon
College to challenge other
county donors to support the
fund raising drive.
Glen Raven Mills Inc. will
over $1,000 to Elon College for
every gift or pledge of $1,000 or
more that any individual, com
pany or organization in Ala
mance County makes to the
PRIDE II Campaign, up to
$80,000 toward the campaign
goal.
The challenge gift was
announced recently at a kick-
off luncheon of e Alamance
Campaign, a mini-campaign
within the PRIDE II schedule
of events. PRIDE II, an
acronym for “Providing Re
sources for Institutional De-
''elopment at Elon,” is a $5.7
million capital campaign, the
largest in the history of the in
stitution. Funds generated
through the campaign will be
used for endowment, current
expenses, campus improve
ments, and the construction of
a new fine arts tenter.
Elon College President Fred
"oung said the challenge was
fealistic but would require
^considerable effort on the part
"•volunteers in the county.
Discussing the change of
atmosphere from small-college
to big-time publicity, Ballard
said, “There is more mental
pressure than physical press
ure. The first week I was skep
tical, but I had confidence in
myself as the weeks prog
ressed.”
All of that confidence almost
went down the drain when a
knee injury struck Ballard dur
ing the pre-season. “I panick
ed,” he said. “I was more afraid
because I never had a knee in
jury before, and the hard part
was with the comeback trail.”
But Ballard made it back,
and in his first start on Nov. 6
he received the game ball for
his performance against the
New York Jets. “That’s prob
ably the biggest thing I remem
ber,” he said of 1983.
Other things he remembers
are the players he met and
played against, some of them
legends. Ballard said, “I re
member tackling Franco Har
ris, and after the game I told
him that I didn’t want to hurt
him because he was like my
grandfather. People don’t real
ize that when I was nine years
old. Franco was already in the
NFL. Well, he told me to stop
lying because he said that I was
trying to tear his head off”
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Ballard, came against Phi
ladelphia’s quarterback Ron
Jaworski. “I don’t know how he
(Jaworski) got up, because for
about five seconds my arm was
numb, so I know that he was
feeling some pain,” Ballard re
called.
For now, Ballard plans to fin
ish school and start 1984 train
ing. He said he is anxious to
play for the Colts again be
cause, “I am looking forward to
starting, and I want to be in the
race for the sack title.”
The adaptation of being a
professional has gone smooth
ly for Ballard as he explained,
“I do my job and I’m a survivor.
“The biggest thing is to protect
myself and my livelihood.”
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Worship Service
The Elon College Gospel Choir will sing at the Tuesday
morning campus-wide worship service in Whitley Auditor
ium at 9:30 a.m.
Last Minute Workshops
A resume help session will be offered tonight for seniors
who have not prepared a resume but who want to participate
in campus interviews. Come with a blank sheet of paper and
pen/pencil and leave with a rough draft at 7 p.m. in 105
Mooney (LRC).
Students are also invited to a discussion on interviewing—
what to expect, what to wear, getting prepared, controlling
nervousness.
United Pentecostal Church
You are invited to the United Pentecostal Church in down
town Burlington at 256 W. Davis St., a half a block off Church
Street between Goodyear and Northwestern Bank. Services
each Sunday are at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. For more information call 584-6057.
Two Locations
Mr
2423 S. Church St.
and
Cum-Park Plaza
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