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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Page Three „Jons, Scoring Every Period, 5 Defeat Erskine Freshmen, 34-0 -IS ^•kirlUth Carolinians Go Down ,1 Before Whole Mars Hill Squad m w or e _ ;onfirhe Erskine Freshmen Flying te,” et was overpowered by Mars iTou 1 on October 21, by the score 3UCJ1 34-0. It was the Lions’ fourth I’ve i, and their goal line is yet to ou i crossed. iblistCoach Roberts’ backfield turn- ■e W on the heat against Erskine, resc4 the forward wall outcharged irant Freshmen’s line. For the first rd Vie of the season the coaches m ini a chance to exhibit the re- ig nive power, which showed up mendously well under fire, ying a greater portion of the ^°'‘rd and fourth quarters. )thcrj,j^g entire Mars Hill team u inspired ball. The reserves ^ >wed up unusually well under i. There seemed to be no let vn after the tough Lees-McRae . Small, McGaha, Farrar, and *”ward sparked the backfield for the locals. Ingle, Hall, cieyfiitaker, Davis, and Fitzgerald 1 heads-up ball in the line, mce Brown, stocky little guard, hurcf®*'^®^ a bad cut over his left nom? removed in the first ^jj.prter. The long runs of Jimmy j^jjiall and Cecil McGaha electri- d the large gathering of fans, riers*'^^ also looked good for the le he was in the game, le t^rownlee and Batts bore the pliant of the visitors’ offensive is while Williams, Harris, Djtjd Captain Bundrick played well the forward wall. tUl'i' First Quarter wasWith only five minutes of play V shider their belts the Lions be- ine to drive. Edwards and Farrar her ^ked up a first down to the sitskine 42-yard line. On the next D ev®y Jimmy Small took the ball d swung wide around right end. iautiful blocking got him into :ep fe secondary, and he streaked leartwn the right side of the field see It a touchdown. It was a beau- nproHil bit of running as he out- g tlitanced two Erskine men to pay frieitt. Crawford Coward came in- u sfi the game and bisected the up- izinerhts. Mars Hill kicked off. Er- :t Sine kicked back to the fifty, iod Iwards skirted the end for fif- [• mfen yards, but here the drive ,x oiVs stopped. After an exchange punts. Mars Hill had the ball ice, the quarter ended. Score 7-0. 6 Second Quarter und«The Lions lost the ball on wns. Huff charged through and -notcovered an Erskine fumble on 3he e Erskine forty. From punt Wiffrmation Howard trucked twenty- 'e yards before being hauled 'wn. Erskine held at this point • id took possession of the ball, om deep in their own territory ‘Pe' ey kicked to the thirty-three ^’^'^^ker quick thrust liDi^s in the making for the Lions. ^ which was good B r 29 yards to “Pap” Davis, ist, “Bruiser” Farrar ripped the ^ touchdown on the ^xt day. Again Howard con- en irted the extra point. Farrar eked off, and hten an Erskine ence*®® intercepted by Howard. n Erskine man took Small’s ^j/ss out of the air just as the ^j/lf ended. Score: Mars Hill 14, 0. gfi Third Quarter 93^ ®^®kine took Farrar’s kickoff in 1'“ returned it to the 25-yard ll’s Brownlee kicked to Mars abff”^ ^ twenty. Erskine was penal- reail^^ two successive plays, and ‘e ball was on the 30-yard ■ripe. At this point Cecil Mc- Kjitoha took the ball and cut off Hil s right tackle into the second- (j ify* He shook off two tacklers ;n 15 midfield and sped like a flash 5 the five-yard line before being 1, girought down. The little speed er had trucked exactly 66 yards. On the next play John Farrar knifed through the left tackle for his second score. The try for point was blocked. Erskine re ceived the kickoff and made no gains. Brownlee kicked to the Lions’ 42-yard line. McGaha and Joliff made 18 yards and then were forced to kick. After two exchanges of punts, the Lions held the ball on Erskine’s 45. Howard picked up fifteen to Er skine’s 30, and, with good block ing, Smith, who had come into the game, swung around the right side for thirty yards and a touchdown. Howard added the point as the third quarter end ed with Mars Hill leading 27-0. Fourth Quarter Coach Roberts began to send in his reserves at this point of the game. The Lions’ lineup was dotted with substitutions. After the kickoff an Erskine pass was good for 25 yards. An intercepted pass and an exchange of punts gave Mars Hill the ball on their own 46-yard line. The Lions be gan to roar. Joliff hit the line for 12 yards. Howard revet sed his field for 15 yards, and then Smith picked up another fifteen around right, putting the ball on the five-yard stripe. Joliff crack ed the center for the fifth touch down of the day. Howard split the uprights and the score was 34-0. Erskine tried pass after pass for the remaining moments but they were to no avail as the Mars Hill secondary covered their men to perfection. Erskine had possession of the ball on their own forty as the game end ed. Final score: Mars Hill 34, Erskine 0. The Lineups Erskine Pos. Mars Hill Williams LE Davis Horton LT Ingle McCormick .... LG Fitzgerald Bundrick lc)..C..-. (cc)Whitaker Harris RG Brown Falkenberry .. RT Hall Coley RE Saunders Plampin QB Small Botts LH McGaha Brownlee RH ..(cc)Edwards Mills FB Farrar Substitutions—Mars Hill: Dov er, McClesky, Tweed, Monroe, A. Johnson, C. Johnson, Howard, Smith, Huff, Joliff, Griffin, Royal, Hicks, Groom. Erskine: Sloan, Carson, Hen derson. Lees-McRae Falls Before Lions, 6-0 ♦ Mars Hill Scores In Second Quarter; Staves Off Last Period Threat Wagner Takes The Cake Vaught Warner won first place in the annual cake race sponsored by the Hilltop on October 21. He dashed in from the two-mile jaunt with a nice lead over his competitors. Mel vin Webb came in second, with Alex Moore just behind him. Ernest Cox, Joe Woodruff, Gattis Redfern, Rufus Hog- wood, Marvin Nobles, and Paul Brunner all came in very close. Some good runners were discovered in the race. The first twenty boys that crossed the line were awarded cakes. The Hilltop is indebted to the citizens and the business houses of the town for the cakes that were given in order to sponsor the event. The pa per wishes to take this oppor tunity to thank each contribu tor. Smearing a constantly threat ening passing attack in the last quarter, the Mars Hill Lions de feated Lees-McRae 6-0 before a large crowd of wind-torn, thrilled spectators, who saw the Ifions take advantage of a penalty in the second quarter for the only touchdown of the game. The Lions held the upper hand of the battle for the first three quarters, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter the Bobcats opened a running and passing at tack that carried them inside the Lions’ ten-yard line two times and to the two-foot line once, the threat being stopped by Howard and Small, who knocked Hendrix out on the two-foot line after Davis had taken out his inter ference. The other threats were stopped by Farrar and Edwards when they intercepted the Bob cats’ passes. First Quarter A kicking duel existed between Edwards of the Lions and Hen drix of the Bobcats during the first quarter, with Hendrix get ting a slight advantage because he was with the wind. After sev eral exchanges of punts, Edwards tore loose for a fourteen-yard gain on a reverse around left-end. Farrar made five over center. Crews failed to gain. Farrar made one over guard. Another ex change of punts then gave the Lions the possession of the ball on their own twenty-yard line, as the quarter ended. Second Quarter Howard went in for Edwards. Howard failed to gain on two re verses. Crews made three over left-tackle. Howard then got off a beautiful kick to the Lees- McRae twenty-yard line, good for sixty yards. After several line plays failed, Hendri.x kicked to the Mars Hill 47-yard line, where it was down ed by a Bobcat. Howard, taking the ball on a reverse, lost two yards. Crews took it off tackle for four yards. A pass from Crews intended for Davis fell from the receiver’s finger-tips. Howard kicked out on the 10-yard line from his own 49. Lees-McRae was stopped sev eral times by the alert Brown and Davis. Mars Hill started their touch down march when Hendrix kick ed a bad one out on the Bobcats’ 33-yard line. From this point the Lions, led by Crews and Farrar, carried the ball to the 19, where Lees-McRae was penalized 15 yards for holding, giving the Lions the ball on the four-yard line and a first-down. Farrar car ried the ball across for the pay off touchdown in two power plays over center. Howard failed to convert the extra point. The Lions kicked off to the Bobcats and participated for a few moments in exchanging pos session of the ball. The half end ed with Mars Hill on Lees- McRae’s 35-yard line and with Mars Hill leading 6-0. Third Quarter The second half opened with the Lions kicking off to Hendrix on the 27. Brown and Whittaker led a defensive attack, forcing the Bobcats to kick. This quarter, having a kicking duel between Edwards and Hen- Mars Hill College Salutes Cullowhee Mars Hill college, through sending its fighting Mountain Lions to Cullowhee this after noon, is glad to have a share in the huge three-fold cele bration being staged today by Western Carolina T eachers" college, a celebration that in cludes the dedication of six new buildings, the observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the institution, and the home- corning of alumni. Truly this is a gala day. Normally when an individ ual reaches the ripe old age of fifty, he sits down and dreams about his accomplishments. But Cullowhee, as Western Caro lina Teachers’ college is affec tionately knoivn, is too young and alert at fifty to be satisfied with its accomplishments, as the three-quarter million dol lar building program, recently completed, clearly indicates. On this fiftieth anniversary Cullowhee is looking, not back- loard, but forward. Founded in 1889 by Profes sor Robert Lee Madison as a mountain school for training teachers, Cullowhee has de veloped remarkably and now holds an enviable position a?nong the North Carolina in stitutions of higher learning. Its president is Dr. H. T. Hunter, an alumnus and friend of Mars Hill college. And so on this day of days for Cullowhee, Mars Hill col lege sends not only its unbeaten and unscored-upon Lions to as sure a peak game for the en tertainment of the hundreds of guests at the sister school, but also the heartiest of congratida- tions. Ancient Laundry List Is Found How long do you keep your laundry lists? The Oriental Insti tute of the University of Chicago has one written on clay that is more than 2,500 years old. It’s a list of garments and turbans sent to the cleaner in the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar. Another clay document which had been sealed in a clay envelope acknowledges the receipt of 13 donkeyloads of grain, 13 sheep, and one horse (total value: 30 shekels of silver) in return for a wife, which was a rock bottom price for wives that usually sold up to fifty shek els. Then there is the clay list of deliveries of butter and cheese to the palace of Sin-ishmianni about 2,000 B. C. drix, was about the same as the first. Crews was injured while re turning a punt and was replaced by Smith. Smith made seven yards in two plays, but was forc ed to kick. Edwards kicked out on the two-yard line. The third quarter ended with Hendrix kicking to the 60-yard line. Fourth Quarter Small went in for Smith. The Bobcats opened a running attack that clicked in three attempts for 41 yards, but finally they were forced to kick. A break for Lees- McRae came when McGaha fumb led on the Mars Hill 19-yard line and a Bobcat recovered. In the remaining ten minutes of the game, Lees-McRae was within the 20-yard line of Mars Hill, twice getting to the 10-yard stripe, and once to the two-foot line. These threats were stopped by a bril liant defensive stand of the line and the interception of two passes by Farrar and Edwards, Edwards intercepting a pass on the 18-yard line as the game ended. Solons Leave For Raleigh October 27 The dream of political minded students was realized October 27 when six Mars Hillians left for Raleigh to enact laws in the stu dent legislatuve held annually in the North Carolina capitol. Pro fessor J. B. Huff, head of the English department and forensic coach, has anYiounced four stu dents who will attend the legis lature. Bartlett Dorr and C. C. Hope will serve as senators, and Bruce Brown and James Thomas will serve as representatives. The other two representatives are Paul Meyers and Frank Venters. Three bills the “congressmen” plan to introduce are as follows: a bill for uniform marriage laws, a bill for the inspection of motor vehicles, and a bill proposing a pension for school teachers. The legislature will be in session from noon yesterday until noon today. The student legislature is one of the outstanding forensic tour naments of the year, and it will be attended by all the colleges and universities of the state. The purpose of this type of forensic tournament is to train students in practical government. EVERY OTHER WEEK & By Charles Greene Ground was broken .for one building and another was dedi cated in Mars Hill on Founders’ Day—and Jim Farley was not even present! It is understood that the Postmaster General had developed a wonderful technique in dedicating buildings, and his use of the trowel is as graceful as a brickmason’s; but it is a safe wager that Dr. Moore is far ahead of Mr. Farley in use of the shovel. An autumn breeze floated over the hills and the sky was as clear as a whistle when a gentleman, Honorable E. Frank Watson, his dignity punctuated with a white mustache and goatee, hushed the crowd with his opening remarks and presented Dr. Moore. Then came the climax. Dr. Moore, his thinning hair, slightly disheveled, stepped forward and compelled silence from everyone with his brief remarks. One-time farm lad. Dr. Moore placed his foot on the shovel, pushed, and removed the first bit of earth from the site of the coming science building. No WPA work er, Dr. Moore! Afternoon came. The breezes still blew, and the sky remained clear; but shadows fell heavily in Locust Grove, as a curious and reverent congregation gathered in a little log building. The service was simple but unique. The last of the log churches of Western North Carolina was dedicated. Almost within sight of the com modious Mars Hill church, stands this simple log hut—a church of two generations ago. It is proper that Mars Hill college preserve for posterity a relic of early Christendom that is as American as the corn pone or Will Rogers. It is a far cry from the little log church in Locust Grove to the architect’s plans for the pro posed science building, but a greater Mars Hill and a greater America have been built as a result of the work that has been done and the urayers that have been offered in the simplicity of the backwoods.
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