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Volume LXVItt, No. 10
Wahoos ...New Orleans or Bust!
By Susan Chase
Intramural championship
teams are usually not a very big
issue. They win some games and
that's about it; no one except
dedicated participants know
about it. HOWEVER, there's
something different and exciting
about this year's championship
flag football team, the Wahoos of
English dorm. This team is going
to national competition over
Christmas vacation.
Usually intramural competi
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tion and national competition
have nothing to do with each
other, but there exists a National
Collegiate Flag Football Sugar
Bowl Classic, a flag football dou
ble elimination tournament that
hosts champion intramural
teams from 24 colleges all over
the country. Guilford has been
chosen as one of the at-large par
ticipants.
The English Wahoos won the
Guilford Intramural champion
ship so team members will travel
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410
to New Orleans, as the Guilford
College Quakers, to compete in
the national tournament, which
runs from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2.
In its fifth year, it is an
"organized, prestigious tourna
ment" according to Wahoo co
captain John McFall, and
"Everybody's real excited about
going, obviously."
The other captain, David
Bradley, said, "At first we were
just excited about going; now
winning is important, too."
The Wahoos have been practic
ing daily since winning here, and
team member Brian Furlow said,
"We'll be prepared. I think we'll
go all the way." Although accus
ed of being cocky by his room
mate, Furlow has good reason to
be confident.
The Wahoos finished the season
undefeated, and were not scored
upon during the regular season.
They allowed only 14 points in the
Guilford single elimination tour
nament, and ended up scoring a
cumulative of around 150 points
against strong competition.
The team has two significant
assets, speed and organization.
"Speed is important because a
team of seven men has to cover a
40-yard-wide field, and organiza
tion is important according to
teams that have gone to the tour-
Senate Notes
by Becky Gunn
At the Senate's last meeting of
the year several things were
discussed, including the Service
committee auction which will be
held Jan. 27th, the Craft Center's
constitution, and the Senate Ban
quet on Dec. 11th.
Derek Maingot also brought up
the concern that there is not
enough office space for student
organizations. When Jim Keith
suggested space in Dana, Ma
ingot observed that, at one time,
Founders was a student center.
The meeting, though, centered
around the previously brought up
concerns about racial problems
on the Guilford campus.
Philip Young brought members
of the AACS, Afro-American
Cultural Society, to the Senate
meeting to once again emphasize
not only his, but many others con
cern about the racial problems on
campus. The Senate agreed to
start a committee that will ad
dress racial, international and
sexual prejudices. The commit
tee will work in conjunction with
the Afro-American faculty com
mittee, International Affairs
Committee, and Women's Studies
to help look at the problems on
both the student and faculty
level.
December 14, 1983
nament before," said McFall.
Another advantage for the
Wahoos is that Guilford in-
tramural rules are the same as
the rules that will be used in New
Orleans.
The Wahoos aredefinitely team
oriented. "One person doesn't
stand out. Everybody has a job to
do," said Bradlev
Their tough defense is a 2-3-2
zone defense. Defensive linemen
are Carl Caudle and Keith Bell;
linebackers are Dave Tomlin,
Mark Oates, Erich Witzel, and
David Bradley; and John
McFall, Chad Kirk, and Brian
Furlow play safety positions.
On offense, the team uses most
ly passing attacks, and they have
about thirty named plays. McFall
is the quarterback, Bradley plays
running back, and Bell plays
center, while Kirk, Witzel,
Furlow, and Oates are wide
receivers, and tight ends include
Tomlin, Haynes, and Caudle.
Team members represent all
classes, from freshmen to
seniors, and they obviously have
a chemistry that results in vic
tories.
Dave Tomlin said, "We're go
ing with the attitude that we're
i going to try to win. We're not just
going for the heck of it, although
we will have a good time too.
Everyone's working hard."
Some other participants in the
tournament will be teams from
Arizona State, Auburn, Georgia
Tech, Florida, Florida State,
Ohio State, and last year's cham
pion, University of Illinois. It
would seem a small school like
Guilford would be at a disadvan
tage, but this is not necessarily
the case. As Carl Caudle said, "A
good thing about the tournament
is that it's the school's champion
teams that go; it's not all-star
teams."
Aside from the luxury of spen
ding a week and New Year's in
New Orleans, Wahoo participa
tion in the tournament has other
advantages. The championship
game will be held in the Sugar
Bowl right before the Sugar Bowl
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