Kings Mountain
Closing Assault
Nine Yards Short
Kings Mountain and Belmont
fought to a thrilling 7-7 tie at Bel
mont last Friday night before
some 4,000 fans, with the Moun
taineers failing by nine yards to
push over the winning marker
late in the contest.
With many of thfe large crowd
pushing onto the edge of the field
and the remainder hanging onto
their seats, Kings Mountain
drove to the Belmont 11-yard
line with about three minutes
left.
But the Mountaineers, without
the services of their hammering
fullback, Mearl Valentine, failed
to reach paydlrt. Four plays net
ted two yards, with Belmont re
covering a fumble on the fourth
down play on their 9-yard line.
Belmont marched smartly out
of the hole on three line smashes
by Fullback J. C. O'Daniel good
for 13, 6 and 6 yards but on the
final series of the game missed
the stervlces of thbir ace tailback,
Doug Man Idin, in a bid to pull
Jie game out of the fire. The
Raiders lost three yards on two
running plays and failed to con
lect on two passes as the game
jnded.
? Valentlnfe and Mauldln were
?Jected from the game after the
Belmont tailback had tackled the
>ig Kings Mountain fullback at
"he Raiders' 11-yard line in the
'inal Mountaineer stab.
Kings Mountain marched 56
'ards to score Its touchdown on
hte third play of the final chapter
ifter Belmont had taken a 7-0
ead In the opening quarter.
Taking over on their 44 after !
t Belmont punt, the Mountaineers
vent the' distance In nine plays,
lalfback Charles Smith covfered
HOW THEY DID IT
RUSHING:
Kings Mountain
PLATES T O L Ret At*.
K Marlowe 11 82 1 81 7.*
Valentine 14 77 2 75 5.4
C. Smith 9 33 Q 33 3.7
Harris H 11 13 ? 2 ?.25
TOTAL .4* 293 IB 117 A.S
Belmont
O'IMplcl 12 A3 O 63 5.3
Mauldln 15 ?3 25 66 4.5
Kale 3 16 12 4 1.3
Maynafd 1 O 0 0 0
tlnloe 1 O 3?3 ?3.0
TOTAL 11 171 40 111 4.1
PASSING:
Kings Mountain '
PASSES Att. Cotnp. Had Int. TcU.
E. Marlowe 1 1 0 14
Harris 4 l l 10
TOTAL 5 1,1 14
Belmont
Mauldln 8 2 1 lt4
Knloe 2 0 0 0
TvTAL 10 1 1 17 I
RECEIVING:
Kings Mountain
PLATES Caught Yd..
Goforth 2 14, 10 1
Belmont
O'Danlel 1 5 1
Kale.. l 12|
hie tolling tumble for a six-yard
gain and ran for four on the next
play for a first and ten. Halfback
Earl Marlowe ran for four' and,
after Valentine was stopped for
minus yardage for the only time
of the game, Harris hit End Ed
die Goforth with a spot pass for
10 yards on the key play. The
drive picked up momentum as
Marlowe smacked for four on the
final play of the third period and
Valentine made seven afid Mar
lowe 11 to the lielmont 13.
Valentine smashed through the
tough Belmont line from 13 yards
out to score standing up and Tac
kle Ken Cook calmly split the up- 1
rights for the seventh point, knot
ting the score. .
Marlowe Intercepted a Mauldin
pass five plays later and ran the
ball back nine yards to set up
the final Kings Mountain push 51
yards from the Raidbrs' goal. The |
Mountaineers marched methodi
cally to cover the 40 yards to the
Belmont 11 In- seven plays but
were unable to sustain the effort
after the flalr-up of tempters.
Belmont took the opening kick.
off and marched to Its touchdown
without giving up the ball. With
Mauldin running for 22 yards on
?weeps and Fullback O'Daniel go
ing for 20 more on line plays, the
Raiders marched to the Kings
Mountaih 22 after returning thfe
klckoff 21 yards. Mauldin made
four yards but the Raiders' drew
a 15-yard penalty for holding, set
ting the stage for a 37-yard scor
ing dash by the speedy tailback.
Mauldin ran over the extra point
to give the Raiders a 7 point fead.
Kings Mountain drew three
penalties on the next six plays
and was unable to get an attack
going (one penalty cost the
Mountaineers a flrst-and-ten on
the stecond offensive effort) and
Matildln kept the visitors in a
hole with punts downed on the
four and five-yard lines during
the next several series of downs.
Belmont began applying offen
sive pressure after the second
punt exchange gave the Raiders
the ball on the Kings Mountain
40. The Raiders marched to the
14-yard line in four plays but the
Mountaineer defenses stiffened
and threw the attack back to the
26 where Co-Captain Ken Clonln
ger and Tackle Cook recovered a
fourth-down fumble to halt the
threat.
Marlowe brokte through on a
27-yard dash on the next play but
two plays later Blocking Back
Gary Cannon intercepted a Harris
pass and ran 46 yards to the
Kings Mountain 22 to put the
Raiders in threatening position
again. The Mountaineers threw
back the threat and contained thte
Raiders the rest of the game,
Belmont only penetrating two
yards into Kings Mountain terri
tory during the remainder of the
evening.
Kings Mountain dominated thte
statistics, holding the vaunted
Mauldin to 68 yards net gain
rushing. It was the only game of
the season tha? the tailback ter
ror had been neld under 100 yards
rushing. He netted 80 yards in
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YARDSTICK
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FINAL SCORE 7 7
Touchdowns rushing ... 1 l
PAT, rushing 0 j
PAT, placxant . ..... 1 0
1st Downs rusBing ..... 9 8
let Downs passing 2 l
Total Pint Downs 1) 9
Yds. gained rushing .. 303 172
Yds. last rushing ...... 16 40
Nat Bushing Gain .... 187 132
No. rushes attempted ... 42 32
Average per rush 4.5 4.1
Passes attempted 5 10
Passes completed . 2 2
Yds. Gained Passing .... 24 17
Net Rush-Passing 211 148
Passes Intercepted by 1 l
Yards Runback ........ 9 48
Number of plays (not
counting kicks myl
penalties where play
is nullified) 47 42
Avg. Gain Per Play 4^ 3.6
Number of punts 4 4
Yards punts went .... 128 137
Punts had blocked ..... 0 0
Yds. punts averaged 31.5 34.5
Yds. Punts Returned . . . . 4 2
Number of kickoffs 2 2
Yds. kickoffs went 68 90
Yds. kickoffs averaged 33 45
Yds. KO Returned ..... 43 21
Ball lost on downs 1 2
Ball lost on fumbles l i
Number of penalties 8 8
Times enforced ........ 5 5
Yds. Penalised 51 55
TOTAL YARDS GAIN- '
ED IN GAME (add
yards gained run -back
punts, kickoffs. inter
cepted passes. & re
covered fumbles to net -
rushing and passing
yardage plus penalty
gams) 322 268
the first half but the Mountain
eers stopped him for minus 12 In
the last two periods as Belmont
had the ball for. only 10 scrim
mage plays in the last half prior
to the final Kings Mountain drive.
Marlowe and Valentine paced
the Kings Mountain ground at
tack which rolled up a net of 187
yards. The senior halfback got
81 yards on 11 efforts for an ave
rsfgte of 7.4 and the big junior |
fulLback rolled up 75 on 14
smashes for a 5.4 average.
After the heated battle, players
from the two teams "huddled" on
the field as one of the Belmont
players fed the group In a prayer
and all Joined in repeating the
Lord's Prayer in closing.
LINEUPS
K>S. rwas mtm. belmont
Gofarth Carroll Trull
LT-?iddy Mayea Tony Smith
Ctonlnger Dean Autcn
C? P*lm*r HuffsteUer .... Ronnie Helton
J2 ? ?h?riea Yelton Eugene Byers
5X ? Ken Cook Eddie Thrower
RE? Dewltt Bl&nton Denny Williams
?S~9j?r|l:e Harrl" Gary Cannon
RH ? Charles Smith Hall Kale
"J? Earl Marlowe Doug Mauldln
KB ? Mearl Valentine J. C. O' Daniel
SCOBE ST QUARTERS:
KrNGS MTN. 0 O 0 ?-7
BBJIONT 7 0 0 0?7
? ?co"n*?' "WOS MTW. ToockMw
Valentine 1 (13-yd. smash. 4th quarter).
?*I-C?o. 1 (placement.) BELMONT
Touchdowns ? Mauldln 1 (37-yd. run. 1st
quarter). FAT ? Mauldln 1 (line plunge).
WBS.1 KIKOS MTN. ? ends. ChAea
Bridges; guards. Leonard Wright; center*.
Joe Ormand; backs. Mike Houser. BEL
MOKT ? en>ts, Kelly Kee; tackles, joe
l^wls; guards, Jimmy Untz. Truett Line
berger: backs. Buddy Eller, Dusty May
nard. Tommy Mclntyr*. Charles Enloe. Don
Thomas.
OFFICIALS! Hick Ognovlch. Charlotte,
Referee; Prank Shaver, Salisbury, Umpire;
Albert Saleeby. Salisbury, Linesman ; and
Charlea Voight, Charlotte, Judge.
IN BOWL GAME ? Mountain
Mrs Ken Cloninger, top. and Do- ,
wltt Blanton. bottom, hare boon |
?elected on the East team for the
annual Asheville Optimist Bowl
game to bo played Thanksgiving -
Day. The two seniors will man
guard positions on the all-star
club, which will bo tutored by
Coach Shu Carlton, also of Kings
Mountain high. Cloninger is be
ing sponsored by the Jaycees
and Blanton by the Lions club.
Narrow Victories
Feature Bowling
"" ~ * ? i
Close matches featured action j
in Kings Mountain Bowling Lea
gue play at Shelby Recreation
Center Monday night. ' j
The leading Alley Cats edged
the Lucky Five by 16 pins and
the Keglers defeated the Indepen
dents by 26.
The scores:
MATCHES or NOV. IS
Allay Cats (11-1) Lucky FIt. (s-7)
Carpenter 294 Herndon 291
Kendrld 307 Arrowood 324
Bl?er 276 Howell 270
Gamble 312 Houaer 294
Ware 299 Clark , 393
TOTAL 14M TOTAL 1471
High Line ? GamMV. 116.
Hljh Set ? Arrowood. XM.
Be&feqot Pl< Ruled Ineligible;
Hilltoppers Awarded Loop Bunting
MOUNTAINEERS
FINISH IN TIE
FOR 3RD PLACE
The executive committee of the
Western North Carolina High
School Activities Association, in
special meeting at Moorfesville ;
Monday afternoon, ruled that
Belmont high had used an ineligi
ble player in five Iccp games and
handed the Red Raiders' crown
to Rutherfordton - Spindale high's |
Hilltoppers.
The action left Kings Moun
tain high's Mountaineers in a tie {
FINAL STANDINGS
South Group, Western AA
Conference WNCHSAA*
Team W L T PCT.
RUth.-Splndale 5 1 0 .833
Shelby 4 2' 0 .667
KINGS MTN. 3 2 1 .583
Forest City 3 2 1 .583
Lincolnton 2 3 1 .416
Cherryville 2 4 0 .333
Be)mont 0,5 1 .083
('?includes Belmont wins for
feited to Ruth.-Spindal?. For
est City, and Lincolnton and
Belmont tie forfeited to Char
ryville by action of WNCHSAA
Executive Committee on Nov.
-
for third place in the final stand
ings of the South Group, Western
AA Conference! a unit of the
WNCHSAA. and earned the Hill
toppers the right to meet thte win
ner of a North Group playoff
game between Valdeee and Wilk
es Central for the conference
crown.
The North Group playoff game
is scheduled at Hickory Friday
night, with the conference cham
pionship to be decided on Novem
ber 26. Valdese and Wilkes Cen
tral deadlocked with 6-1 loop re
cords for first place in the "Yan
kee" group.
Tip-off to Monday's action
K*?l?rs (S-7) Independent! (4-9)
Jonas 272 Rhea 305
Falls 293 Barber 259
Wright - ' 270 MorrUon 259
Everhart 306 Hamrlck 296
W 11 son 331 Brack ett 327
TOTAL im TOTAL 14M
High Line ? Bracket t. 125.
High Set ? Wflion. 331.
came before the Kings Mountain
Belmont clash in Belmont Friday
night. Belmont officials announc
ed that Donnie Wentz, starting
left end, would not play. After
the gruelling 7-7 tie went into the
records, apparently dropping
Belmont from undisputed posses
sion of the loop crown into a
three-way deadlock with R.-S. and
Shelby, Belmont Coach Wrather
Johnson announced that Hilltop
per Coach V. M. Morrison had
Investigated the Haider squad and
had discovered Wentz to be over
age. Wentz's school records indi
cated he was within the age limit,
Coach Johnson said, but his offi
cial state birth, certificate belied
the school records. Belmont offi
cials werfe unaware of the dlscre
pency, he added.
The ruling changed Belmont
wins over Rutherford tbn-Spin
dale <13-0>, Forest City (34-6) and
Lincoln ton (27-6) to losses and
moved an opening game tie with
Cherryville (13-13) into the :uld
fera' loss column. Belmont lost to
Shelby (6-25) and the 7-7 tie with
Kings Mountain was not changed .
because Wentz did not play in the >
game.
Belmont was the defending
Western Conference champion,
winning the loop crown last 4fea
son prior to division of the loop
into North and South groups. The
Raiders lost to Albermarle of the
South Piedmont conference tor
the WNCHSAA crown last sea
son. No WNCHSAA champion- -
ship game is scheduled this sea
son under the ntew group setup.
CARDS OF THANKS
The family of Mrs. John White
rides acknowledges with grate
ful appreciation your kind ex
pressions of sympathy. 11:18 pd ?
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