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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, October 10,Jj!.| Lions Display Awesome Offense by Frank Farrell The best offensive display of the season by Mars Hill College was to no avail as the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets handed the Lions their second loss in three games by a score of 41-35. On Saturday, Sept. 19, the Lions traveled to Ashland, Va. to meet the Yellow Jackets who were in posses sion of a 20-game home winning streak. Jeff Davis stunned the Yellow Jackets on the third play of the game with a 44 yard run around right end for a touchdown. Explo sive offense of this type character ized the rest of the game. Ra rtdo Iph-Macon quarterback, Doug loan, quickly retaliated with two touchdowns in the next seven and a half minutes to go ahead 14- 7. Lion quarterback Marvin Parrott scored in the same fashion with an 18 yard touchdown run on a broken play. However, the extra point kick by Larry Brock was no good leaving the Lions behind 14-13, at the end of the first quarter. The Lions next break came when they recovered a fumble by Pete Keyser on the Yellow-Jacket 18 yard line. Four plays later halfback Jeff Davis plunged over from the 2 for the score. Mars Hill was successful on a two point conversion attempt to take the lead 21-14. Intramural Action Thrives The intramural football program is now well under way and participa tion is good according to Coach Ed Shields. Only one of the 12 teams has dropped out. As of Oct. 1 there were four un defeated teams. The Melrose team and the Brown Gridders are unde feated in the Blue League while Cottage Cheese and the Spilman Studs are without a loss in the White League. Coach Shields said the intramural football season would last only one more week. At the end of the sea son, playoff teams will be announced and other statistics will be posted. Intramural volleyball will begin when classes resume after fall break and will be followed up by basket ball. The Yellow Jackets attempted the expected on-side kick and unex pectedly were successful. A. J. Sligh recovered the ball on the Mars Hill 49 yard line. Seven plays later Wayne Duncan carried around left end for eight yards and a touch down with 33 seconds left in the game. The extra-point was blocked but the Yellow Jackets still lead 41-35. Mars Hill got the ball back but were unable to score in the few Measuring Up The following are the Mars Hill Lions statistics for the first three games against Glenville State University, Catawba College, and Randolph-Macon College. Individual Total Offense Net rush Net pass Total Game Avg. -28 464 436 145.3 193 10 203 67.7 Individual Rushing Net Yards Game Avg. Avg. Per Carry 193 64.3 4.0 108 36.0 4.2 Individual Passing Att. Comp. Intercep Compl. % TD Net Yds. Game Avg. Name Marvin Parrott Jeff Davis Name Jeff Davis John Dawkins Name Marvin Parrott 56 464 154.7 Name Bill Tom Britton John Dawkins Game Avg. 64.0 53.4 Name Jeff Davis Yards 561 Avg. 40.1 Name Dennis Hefner Net Yds. 20 Avg. 27 3 48.2% 2 Individual Pass Receiving Catches Net Yards 8 192 7 159 Individual Punting No. Punts 14 Individual Punt Returns No. Ret. 9 Individual Kick-Off Returns No. Ret. 9 Team Totais for ail Games to Date Rushing Passing Times Carried Net Yards Game Avg. Att. Comp. Net Yds. Game Avg. 141 343 114.0 60 29 474 158.0 Total Offense Rush Pass Total Game Avg. 342 474 816 272.0 5.0 Name Dennis Hefner Net Yds. 132 Avg. 14.7 remaning seconds thus losing to a fine Randolph-Macon team 41-35. Coach Taylor said that “this was the first game that he felt the offense did the job they are capable of doing.” Mars H ''ol. XLV, No. 5 Randolph-Macon’s Wayne Duncan ended a nine minute scoring drought with a four yard touchdown run to tie the score at 21-21 with 1:51 left in the half. On the next play from scrimmage Parrott threw a 83 yard bomb to Bill Tom Britton for an other TD. The Lions completed their second two point conversion of the afternoon to go into the locker room at half-time leading 29-21. • The Lions travel to Bluefield State today to resume action after hav ing an open date Oct. 3. The Lions suffered many injuries in their loss to Randolph-Macon that may hurt them in the Bluefield State game, m; Mack Byrd will be out for six weeks while Larry Brock will be sidelined at least a couple of weeks with a knee injury. Ronnie McDaniel and Charlie Baxter are out indefinitely. On the bright side the Lions have Gary Fenley and Robert Griffin back at full speed. m 4 ii On the first play of the second half Wayne Duncan ran 65 yards for a Randolph-Macon touchdown. The score was tied for the third time when the Yellow Jackets were suc cessful in their two point conversion attempt. The Lions returned with a yard plunge by Randall Phillips for a touchdown that capped a 71-yard drive. The extra-point attempt was no good but the Lions still lead 35-29. Randolph-Macon’s biggest break of the game came when they recov ered a fumble on the Mars Hill 29 late in the fourth quarter. Wayne Duncan tied the game for the four th time on a two-yard drive with 2:30 left in the game. The extra-point kick was wide leaving the score tied at 35-35. Bluefield State has an extremely big team with tackles weighing be tween 250-255 pounds and a full back weighing 220 pounds. Blue- field’s quarterback Bailey uses the drop back pass 95 percent of the time and usually throws to his split end Sam Steward. Bluefield has been chosen to be contenders in the tough West Virginia Conference this year. 'Af- '0^ games. gain of the season for the Lions. (See related story.) Tragedy Strikes Wichita State Team Editor’s note: The following is a re print of an issue printed Oct 3 by Asheville Citizen. Siiver Piume, Colo. (AP) — A plane carrying members of the Wich ita State University football team, athletic staff and team boosters to a game in Utah crashed Friday in rugged mountain country near the Continental Divide. Thirty, including 14 football players, were killed. Ten persons — eight football players, a copilot and the team trainer—survived the crash of the twin-engine plane. Among those dead were a Kansas legislator, the head coach and his wife and a Wichita banker and his wife. The survivors were taken by am bulance and Army helicopter to hos pitals in Denver, about 55 miles east of where the plane went down near the eastern base of 11,992-foot Love land Pass, a main route across the Continental Divide. Most of the players aboard the plane that went down were first stringers. A second plane carrying 23 other players and the rest of the staff and boosters landed safely in Logan, Utah, where Wichita State was to play Utah. The game was cancelled. Assistant Coach Chuck Ramsey informed those aboard the second plane of the crash at Logan Airport. Sedatives were administered to many players at their hotel and they planned to go to church later. “It all happened so fast I didn’t really think about it until we got out,” said Glenn Kostal, a 20-year- old linebacker from Chicago who survived the crash. Kostal’s mother said her son called her soon after the crash and said: “Mom, I’m alive. It’s a miracle. My buddies are all dead.” Mike Bruce, 21, another survivor, of Sherman, Tex., said from his hospital bed in Denver: “Everyone was looking at the mountains. We kept getting closer and closer. We were enjoying ourselves—laughing. The plane took a dip ... or some thing. Next thing, the plane ended up in the trees.” “This is a sad, tragic history of Wichita State eidec' said Dr. Clark Ahiberg, oHO" the University, who kept a line open to St. Anthony’s Hosf' to keep track of condition r®P' ,0(15- THIS IS LION COUNTRY We have a new line: Great Selections — Priced Right Look Cool — Be Comfortable — Go Collegiate Winter Jackets, Windbreakers, Stadium Blankets, Umbrellas Knitted Headwear YOUR COLLEGE BOOKSTORE EDWARDS' BP SERVICE “Your One-Stop Service” Dial 689-2431 EXPERT WORKMANSHIP QUICK SERVICE THE MARS HILL SHOE SHOP Under Robinson’s Furniture SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONLY SHIRTS 30c plus tax MARS HILL CLEANERS "We Make Clean Friends" 163 ' Jeff Davis, sophomore halfback from Shellville, Ga., leads Mars Hill rushers w'*** . si*^ in the first three games. Davis' 44 yd. run against Randolph-Macon is the tongas Sheriff Harold BrumbauS .j,- Clear Creek County said ! crashed in timber just off a heavily travelled winter f Colorado ski country. 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