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By
DICK WOODWARD
Small Colleges On Way Up In N. C.
Two of the fastest growing colleges in North Carolina
met Saturday night in Norfolk, Virginia.
Davidson, the fastest growing college anywhere with
regard to national basketball prominence, met the Pirates
of East Carolina, the fastest growing school in the state,
and probably on the east coast, with regard to increased
student enrollment over the past ten years.
The two teams have quite a bit in common when one
sits down to think about it.
Davidson reached the No. 10 spot in the national
rankings for the first time in the history of the school, and
East Carolina played a top ten team for the first time in
its history.
Davidson is a member of the Southern Conference,
and East Carolina is seeking membership. So, although
there are no tangible similarities when comparing the two
schools, they tend to be moving in the same direction, UI.
The Wildcats are looking forward with great anticipa
tion to the February 15 meeting with the Duke Blue Devils
in Durham. Most followers of backetball seem to think
that Davidson will give Duke a good ball game, and not
many would be surprised il the Wildcats come out with a
victory.
East Carolina Is "Exploding"
The population explosion which has been receiving a
lot of attention throughout the world for the past few
yenrs is being felt greatly at East Carolina.
Ten years ago the eastern North Carolina school, lo
cated in Greenville, N. C., had an enrollment of 2,500 stu
dents. But today there are over 6,000 students enrolled,
and the school is on its way up in many, many ways.
The sports program has been stepped up to an a
mazlngly last pact? as East Carolina is hoping to join the
Southern Conlerence next year.
Ex-Lenoir-Rhyne head lootball coach Clarence Stasa
vich took over at the helm for the Pirates last year and
posted a 6-3 season with a starting team which consisted
01 nine sophomores. He also added the single w'ing, for
which hr was so tamous while at LR.
Additional funds were allocated by the Athletic Pe
pnrtment for the purpose of producing outstanding at hie
tic teams at East Carolina.
This year’s EC team posted a 9-1 record, having beat
en highly regarded teams such as Citadel and^ (although
they haven’t Won very many recently), Wake Forest.
The Pirates participated in the Cement Bowl at
Allentown Pennsylvania last week, and won a decisive de
cision, 27-6.
Great things are expected from the EC gridders next
year as the majority of the ’63 team will be back to prove
that East Carolina can compete with the Southern Confer
ence foes.
If recuperating Coach StaShvich fully recovers from
a recent heart attack, his team will win its share of games.
Winded Carr. ex-Wake Forest basketball star, has
taken over as head basketball coach replacing veteran
coach Earl Smtih, who has been at East arolina for ten
years. Smith has been named baseball coach and should
develop a fine team because ol his valuable baseball ex
perience as a scout for the San Francisco Giants for a
numbei of years.
Bowl Games Highlight Sports Calendar
Two major bow l games have been played, but the four
biggest games will be played New Year’s Day w'hen the
Rose Bow 1, Orange Bow 1, Cotton Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl
teams square off in the annual first day of the year battles.
N. C. State met Mississippi State in the Liberty Bowl
game in Philadelphia Saturday and lost a dose 16-12 de
cision, and the Baylor Bears scored a come lrom, behind
11-7 decision over the Louisiana State University Tigers.
The otton Bowl game at Dallas, Texas has been giv
en the title as being the most outstanding game. The No. 1
ranked Texas Longhorns (10-0) butt heads with the No.
2 ranked team, Navy.
Both teams proved to be outstanding during the reg
ular season with Texas having the outstanding lineman of
the nation in the person of Scott Appleton, 6’3’’ 240 pound
All-America tackle, and Navy sporting Teisman Trophy
winner quarterback Roger Staubach, who is the most pub
licized quarterback in Navy's history.
The odds makers have given Texas a slight advantage
(a mere half point), but it is the contention of this writer
that the Longhorns w ill win by two touchdowns.
This year’s Cotton Bowl match-up marks the second
consecutive year that Bowl Games have pitted the No. 1
and No. 2 ranked teams. In the last Rose Bowl game, No. 1
ranked Southern California outlasted No. 2 Wisconsin 42
37.
In the other major January 1 games, Auburn was giv
en the nod to take Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, Illinois
over Washington in the Rose Bowl, and Mississippi over
Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.
On Saturday, December 28, the North Carolina Tnr
Heels meet the Falcons from the Air Force Academy in
the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville.
North Carolina has been established a slight favorite
over the Air Force, w hich won 6 and lost 3 during the reg
ular season. But don’t forget, the Academy has posted
wins over two Bowl teams, Washington and Nebraska. In
Terry Isaacson, the running-passing quarterback, they
possess one of the more spectacular players of the season.
On the other hand the Tar Heels have All-America
Bob Lacey, who has been the key player for Carolina dur
ing the season which saw the Tar Heels post an 8-2 record,
best since 1948.
North Carolina end play through the years, has been
remarkably sound. Five of the school s nine All-Americas
played end: Andy Bershak, Art Weiner, Ken Powell, (Wein
er and Powell together on the ’49 team which produced
three All-America players, Charlie "Choo Choo” Justice
being the the other)’ A1 Goldstein and now Lacey,
Jim Hickey, Carolina head coach, said recently at the
Lions Club Football Banquet that it is a real tribute to
have an All-America player, but every team must have
two ends and reserves behind them. Hickey added that the
’63 Carolina team was fortunate to have Lacey plus some
great help for him.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
’63 Was Banner Year For High School Teams
Cagers Bomb BC
In ’63 Finale
The girls and boy# basketball]
team# finished the 1963 high]
school athletic year Thursday j
night with a double win over ^
non ■ conference foe Bessemer j
City. The girls winning the open-1
er, 39 to 17, and the boys taking!
,he nlghtacap easily 65 to 46. j
The girls got off to a slowj
start In the first half, scoring j
eight points in the first quarter !
ind only two In the second. Bes-(
jemer City held a slim 1110 lead
at the end of the low scoring
first half of piny,!
The local lassies came back af
ter the ten minute Intermission
and put the game out of Besse
mer City's reach with a 19 point
third quarter with Joyce Bolin,
Margie Muffatetler, and Becky;
Webster leading the offensive at- j
tack.
Bessemer City managed onlyj
three points during the third,
quarter and fell behind 29-14 go-,
lng Into the final period of play, j
j
Kings Mountain added ten
points in the fourth quarter, and
Coach Hussey substituted freely j
in the waning minutes of play.
The 'Mountaineers posted thej
highest score of the young sea
son in the second game as the
local lads racked up a 65 to 46
victory to bring the season rec
ord to three wins and one loss.
Ken Bunkowski and Richard
Gold set the fast moving Moun
taineer pace In the first half, but
the visitors racked up 10 points
in the first quarter and added 17
In the second with Robbie Bryw
er and Ronnie Crockcraft leading
the Vellow Jackets to a 27-23
first half lead.
Kings Mountain caught fire in
the third and fourth quarters as
Bunkowski and Gold, along with
Lewis Cook, led the home team’s
scoring which netted the Moun
taineers 42 points.
Kings Mountain knotted the
score early In the third quarter,
and led 14 to 3k as the fourth
quarter began.
Eleven players sow action dur
ing the game with substitutes
Jimmy Cloninger. Terry Leonard,
and Nral Cooper registering two
points each to aid the victory !
Other players who saw action
were bc’i Grimes and Mickey
Bell.
The local cagcrg resume action
January 14 at Shelby in the first
conference game of the season.
Local Citizen
Lands Big Catch
Woody London, local Drut>
Store owner, fishes fifty-two
w eks a year.
Last Sunday afternoon London
caught thirteen large mouth Bass,
which weighed a total of thirtv
pounds, the largest single catch
tipping the scales at live pounds.
London would not reveal his
iecret of success with regard to
the type of bait that was used,
but stated that fishing during
cold weather is quite different
from warm weather fishing.
He further related that while
fishing Sunday afternoon, the icl
[ des formed on his fishing rod
Brrrr
Fishing anyone?
Compact Shells |
Washington High
In Twin Bill
The Compact: Cobras defeated!
Waco’s Washington High Yellow j
Jackets in a twin bill Tuesday j
night to complete the pre-holiday |
schedule, the junior varsity win-!
ning the opener, 52 to 30, and the.
varsity taking the nightcap by
77 to 42 count.
Both Compact teams have won!
four and lost one.
The junior varsity scored at
will in posting the high scoring
opening victory with John
Thombs leading the Compact
scoring with T9 points. Adams
collected ten points for the win
ners and Leach added eight as
the Little Cobras dominated the!
action throughout the game.
Miles Boyd set the pace in the
varsity game, scoring 16 points,
for the winners.
James Hood and Billy McCath- i
en. with able assistance from re
serves Lemar Payseur, were in
strumental In the Cobra defense,
as the three 6’4" players grabbed
rebound after rebound to keep
Compact on the offense.
GIRLS
Kings Mountain (39)
F—Huffstetler
F—Bolin
F—Webster
G—Lynn
G—Howard
G—Ramseur
Subs: Russell, Patterson, Put
nam, William, Lowery, Ruff,
Beam, Wilson.
8
12
8
2
7
2
6
9
2
Bessemer City (17)
F—-Costner
F -Schronee
F—Hook
G—Deck
G—Deck
G—Pruitt
G—Hunter >
Suhs: Dobbs, Huntsinger, and
Clark.
HALFTIME SCORE:
Bess. City 11—Kings Mtn. 10
Score By Quarters:
12 3 4
KM 8 2 19 10
BC 6 3 3 3
Kings Mountain (65)
BOYS
G—Gold 19
G—Goforth 2
C—Ballard 9
F—Bunkowski 17
F—Cook 12
Subs: Cloninger 2, Leonard 2 ■
Cooper 2, Grimes, Bell.
Bessemer City (46)
G—Brywer 13
G—Crock eraft 12
C—Adams 10
F—Payne 8
F—Fornehberger
Subs: Briseal 3, Long, Howell,
Sharpe, Millwood.
HALFTIME SCORE:
Bess. City 27—Kings Mtn. 23
Score By Quarters:
12 3 4
13 10 21 21
10 17 11 8
KM
BC
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HAYWOOD E. LYNCH LESTER L. LINGERFELT
Baseball And Football Teams Win
Conference Championships In '63
1963 was the year of championship teams in Kings
Mountain. Two high school teams won conference titles,
and one competed in the conference basketball tourna
ment.
The '63 baseball team compiled a conference record of
11 wins and 3 lasses to win the Southwest Conference
crown, and the football team shared the Southwest Con
ference championship with Shelby as the griddels posted
an undefeated season (9-0-1).
The girls basketball team advanced to the Bi-Con
ierenee tournament and lost to a strong Taylorsville
team.
HIGH SCHOOL
BASKETBALL
The 1963 girls 'basketball team
enjoyed one of its best seasons in
recent years as the local lassies
advanced to the conference tour
nament.
The Ivlouiitainettes were elimi
nated in the quarter final round
of the tournament by a strong
Taylorsville team, 79-41.
The boys found the going a lit
tle rough during the ’62-’63 cam
paign and managed to won only
eight games while losing ten.
Gail Huffstetier led the girls
scoring for the year with 28S
points in ltf regular season
games, and added 15 points in
the playoff game with Taylors
ville to bring her season total to
303.
Richard Gold led the boys scor
ing with 221 points, and is cur
rently leading the scoring for the
’63-’64 team after four games.
The outlook for the ’63-’64
teams is dim. Coach Bob Hussey,
in his first year as head coach
of the girls team, has only one
returning letterman from last
years squad, but the girls show
some promise as they go into the
Christmas holidays with a record
of three wins and one loss.
The boys team has won three
of their four non - conference
games, but the competition will
be keener after the holidays as
the conference schedule begins
January 14 at Shelby.
This year is a rebuilding year
for 'both squads. The girls team
has only two seniors, and the
boys team has some outstanding
young players in Mike Ballard,
Ken Bunkowsla, and Richard
Gold, who should gain valuable
experience this season.
Next year will be Kings Moun
tain’s year in basketball.
HIGH SCHOOL
BASEBALL
1963 proved to bo the year for
championship winners for Kings
Mountain and the baseball team
got things started early in the
year by winning the conference
title.
It was Kings Mountain’s first
championship in 23 years and
only the third Kings Mountain
!e *m to win a conference title.
The 1941 team, spearheaded by
Charlie Ballard, won the title,
and in 1935 Jake Early, who later
wont on to the major leagues
with the Washington Senotors,
was instrumental in Kings Moun
tain’s conference championship.
The 1963 team compiled a rec
ord of 11 wins and only three
losses during the regular season,
and lost to Hickory, 3 to 3 in the
Western Conference playoff
game.
Barry Gibson, ace pitcher for
the championship team, was a
warded the John Moss Most Val
uable Player award, which was
inaugurated by the Western Ca
rolina League president this year.
The prospects for a repeat in
’64 are good for the 'Mountain
eers with returning lettermen
Richard Gold, Warren Goforth,
Pat Murphy, and Lewis Cook
forming the nucleus for the team.
OTHER SPORTS
HIGHLIGHTS
Five Kings Mountain football
players were named to the All
Conference team in 1963, the lar
gest number of Kings Mountain
players ever to be named to the
squad.
Junior quarterback Pat Mur
phy, who directed the Mountain
eer attack, is the only player who
will be back in the lineup for the
Mountaineers next season.
Seniors Fred Dixon, guard,
Warren Goforth, halfback, Jim
my Medlin, guard, and halfback
'Mike Huff stickler were the oth
er ’63 Mountaineers named to the
squad.
The Margraee entry into the
Pony League won the champion
ship. An All-Star game was held
after the season, and the Mar
grace team took con All-Stars
from the other teams in the lea
gue. Margraee won.
Fred Dixon, 183 pound Moun
taineer guard, signed a four year
grant • and ■ aid scholarship to
Clemson..
Head football Coach Hanley
Painer of Lenoir Rhyne, who was
named Coach of the Year in the
NAIA in 1962 (National Associ
ation of Intercollegiate Athletics)
was guest speaker at the Kiwanis
Banquet in April. His team par
ticipated in the NAIA playoff
game last year.
Kings Mountain won its first
high school baseball conference
championship since 1941. The lo
i cal lads posted a 11-3 regular
season mark. Reports have it
that the CMounties will repeat as
champs in ’64.
Mike Huffstickler, voted 1963’s
Most Valuable Player, gained
HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL
The 1963 Kings Mountain foot
bali team shared the Southwest
Conference championship with
Shelby, both teams having iden
tical 6-0-1 conference records.
The two teams tied 7 7 in the
season’s regular meeting (Shel
by won the right to represent the
conference in the playoffs with
a 6-3 “sudden death” playoff vic
tory.
The ’63 Mountaineers compiled
the best record the school has
enjoyed since the 1955 and 1956
football seasons when the grid
ders were undefeated during reg
ular season play. The ’55 team
lost to Valdese in the post season
playoff game, and the ’56 team
was declared westerp champions
by defeating Lenoir in the play
off tilt.
This year’s team had little
trouble with eight of its oppon
ents, but Shelby and Lincolnton
provided the fans with two of the
best games over played at City
Stadium.
An overflow crowd of 4,30f
witnessed the 7-7 tie with Shelby
and a capacity crowd looked oi
three weeks later as the Moun
taineers outlasted Lincolnton, 14
7 in the final game of the season.
Head coach Bill Bates will be
without the services of such
standouts as Fred Dixon, Jimmy
'Medlin, Terry Leonard, Jimmj
Owens, Mike Huffstiskler, War
ren Goforth, and Lewis Cook
next season, but optimism is the
keynote as returnees Pat Mur
phy, Richard Gold, Ly.i Cheshire,
Hubert McGinnis, Richard White,
Steve Baker, Jimmy Wright, Pete
Putnam, and Chip Bridges are
expected to lead the Mountain
eers to another successful sea
son.
1,003 yards in ten football games
this year.
Coach Bob Hussey, head men
tor of the Kings Mountain girls
team, won his first game as r
head coach. The lassies defeated
Dallas, 31-27 in the season open
er.
Punch Parker, Citadel half
back, was an outstanding runner
for the Bulldogs in ’63. He is a
rising senior.
Jerry Adams was voted line
man of the wreek by Carolina;
Conference sports writers for hi;
outstanding performance in the
Lenoir-Rhyne game. The big 220
tackle has one more year.
Barry Gibson, ace pitcher for
the ’63 baseball conference cham
pions, received a scholarship to
attend Lenoir-Rhyne.
Jim Hickey, head football coach
at UNC, spoke at the annual
Lions Club Banquet. Hickey’s ’63
Tar Heels compiled a season rec
ord of 8 wins and 2 losses, best
Carolina record since 1918.
Hickey sharec Coach of The
Year honors in the ACC with N.
C. State's head coach, Erie Ed
wards.
North Carolina sent three col
leges to bowl games in ’63. N. C.
State played Mississippi State in
the Liberty Bowl (Mississippi
State won, 16-12,), East Carolina
won the Cement Bowl, 27-6, and
UNC meets the Air Force Acade
my in the Gator Bowl December
29 at Jacksonville.
A record attendance of 4,300
Ti?m
siys
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makes the right connection
always point your gun
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TIE I1TWUL IffU ASSOCUTHM
‘63 Standouts
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ALL CONFERENCE — These six Mountaineer players received All
Conference recognition during the 1963 athletic year. Top Row: (5.
to r.) Warren Gciorth, halfback; Charles Goodson. baseball. Sec
ond Row: Mike Huffstickler, halfback; immy Medlin, guard. Third
Row: Fred Dixon, guard; and Pat Murphy, quarterback.
fans jammed City Stadium to
witness the 7-7 tie with Shelby.
Wake Forest won a footbal1
game.
The Kings Mountain American
Legion Baseball team lost a dis
puted playoff game to Ruthcr
fordton, 5 to !. Officials filed a,
protest but the outcome was ne
gative for Kings Mountain.
Kings Mountain’s basketball
teams completed the 1063 sports
j season with a double victory over
j Dallas.
Wood Grayson defeated Coman
! Falls, 1-up in a sudden death
playoff to win the Country Chit
Golf Tournament.
MIDGET FOOTBALL
The midget football league
i completed its fourteenth year of
! operation this year with East
i winning the title for the third
consecutive year.
A post season bpwl game high
lighted the ’63 season with All
Stars from , East, North, and
West teaming up to clown Green
ville, S. C. in the second annual
Turkey Bowl game by a 25 to 20
score.
CITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE
The Kings Mountain Recrea
tion Basketball League eompletuL
its first year of operation in If®
with six teams participating. ^
The Others, which led the new
ly formed league for most of the
season, downed the Kings Moun
tain All-Stars in the final game
of the schedule to win the initial
title by one game.
This year’s action has been un
ierwa* for three weeks and the
Kings Mountain All Stars are
currently leading the league by
one and one halt games.
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with
everything
your heart '
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