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Page 2 Kings Mounfaln. N. C'., TKurW/y.'Oetob'ef 7, I^6S Thursday, November 4, 1965 ountaineers Lose Sixth Straight At Rutherfordton ' , *< V 'i ^ wm H ,,1. Ss,. Kings Mountain’s Mountain- onrs lost thoir sixtii straight fool- ball cMU'Ountor at Kiitliorforcllon FrlJay night, falling to the hanils of R S Central by a 27 G count. The Mountaineers, led by .senior fullback Danny Kiser, moved llie ball well on tlie ground but an under - average defense allowed Rutlierfordton to pick up tile yards when they needed them, and connect on long passes to .set up important touchdowns. Kiser, a ISO pound Ictterman, was the game's leading ground gainer. He picked up a net total of 101 yards in 19 carries for a .'j.S rushing average. Senior let- termen Jay Powell and Steve Go forth chipped in C) and 18 yard.s respectively, Dennis Smith had 13 yards gained. Tommy Finger, 8, and Clilp Crisp, 2, to account for the Mountaineers’ 187 yards rushing. On the other hand, R-S Central had 161 yards rushing, but add ed 8.5 passing to account for 245 total yards. Junior halfback Mike Guffey led the R-S Central rush- MOUNTAINEERS — Pictured above is the Kings Mountain high school football team which plays hosts to Belmont here Friday night and Lincolnton next week in the final two games of the 1965 season. The Mounties are currently tied with Belmont for sixth place in the standings, and a win Friday would move them into a fifth place tie with Rutherfordton. To date, the Moun taineers are 2-5 and Belmont is 1-6. Both teams are 1-4 in South western Conference play. I ing column with 47 yards in four I Irii's. lie also scored two of the I team’.s four touchdowns. I Junior halfback Carl Barlles I got the R-S Central homecoming i crowd to its feet early In the ! game when he returned Crisp’s ; opening kickoff 95 yard.s for a 1 touchdown. End Johnny Davis ] attempted the point after, it fail- I ed, and the hosts led 6-0 with I only 16 seconds gone by. ] j Kings Mountain’s running at- j tack sparkled early but after a i ' penalty caused a fourth-and-ninc j ] situation on the Central 44, Sop- j homore Paul Gaffney was called I upon for punting duties. R-S Central failed to get any ground and the Mounties took over again but wore forced to re turn the kick when three plays netted only eight yards. Rutherfordton then set up its second touclidown drive from the KM 43. Southpaw quarterback Warren Goforth passed incom plete on first down, then Guffey broke through the middle of the lino for a 40-yard gain to the i Mountaineer three, setting up a first-and goal situation. Guffey then crasherl off left tackle for the .score and Davis kicked the point after, giving Central a 13-0 lead with 10:,hu left in the half. Kings Mountain then launched a 69 yard touchdown drive wliich was climaxed with a one yard plunge by Kiser. The Mountain eers used only nine plays eti- route to the score (tlieir first in . five games) with a 38 yard run by Kiser highlighting the romp, j Crisp attempted the conversion, j Central’s third touchdown drive began at midfield after the Hill- , toppers relumed Crisp’s kickoff from the 15 to the .3.5. but Rutli- erfordton was given the pig.skin at the 50 because of a 15-yard penalty against K.M for tackling by the face mask. In three running plays the Hllltoppers had a first down on the 37, then Goforth let fire with a 34 yard pass to Davis, setting up a first-and-goal situation on the three. Fullback Mike Gilbert later scored from one yard out. Davis booted the point after and Hie Ililltoppers led 20-6 at half time. , Central's final score of tlie niglit came with 5:20 left in tiie game witli Guffey ag.iin scoring on a one-yard plunge. The Ililltoppers Iiad taken pos- ses.sion on tlioir ow'n .18, after KM had to punt on a fourth-and-13 situation. That drive was spark ed by a 43 yaril pass from War ren ballon to Davis. Davis again kicked the extra point, ending the game scoring at 27-6. While Kiser was llie game's outstanding player on olfcn.se. Chip Uridges and I’liilip Bunch played an impressive game on defense for the losing .Mounties. Each boy aided on many tackles and had five una.ssisted stops eacli. Tackles Bobby Keever and Garry .Sprouse siiearheaded tlie Central defensive cliarge. The win marked Ceiitrars sw- ond SWe victory in as many I weeks, making tlie Ililltoppers 3- i5 overall. The loss marked the sixth straight defeat for the KM eleven. 3'he Mounties are 2-6 . overall. MOUNTAINEER GRIDGRAPH Herald Sports By GARY STEWART Mounties-Belmont t Meet Here Friday SFirst Downs KM 15 R-S 13 Sfards Rushing 187 161 1 Yards Passing 35 84 1 Total Yards 222 245 l^’asses Att. 3 6 ■ Passes Comp. 3 3 I?as.ses Had Int. 2 0 1 Fumbles Lost 0 0 IPenalties 6—40 9—53 ■Punts 3—32.7 1—28 KINGS MOUNTAIN RUSHING Offense Shined, Defense Not Up To Par Kings Mountain lost its sixth straight game at Ruth erfordton Friday night, losing to Coach Max Beam s Hill- lopper.s by a 27-B count. After u inning their first two sea son games, tlic Mountaineers have been held to only lo points. . , • The Mounties scored 12 points at Chase while losing 3S-12 in the thiid game of the year, then were held score less for four straight contests. KM fullback Danny Kiser averted a fifth straight shutout Friday late in the second Quarter when he scored from one yard out. In past weeks the Mountaineer defense has looked fairly well and the offense has not been clicking. But last week, it was just the opposite. The offense clicked but the defense was not up to par. Tackle Chip Bridges played an impressive game on defense, as did defensive back Philip Bunch, but as far as the remaining nine positions — not too well. Kiser played probably his best offensive game of his career Friday, chalking up a net total of 101 yards rush ing in 19 carries. Kiser led the game in rushing and moved within 2.5 .yards of overtaking Jay Powell for the Moun taineer rushing lead. Comparing The Two—Kiser And Powell So far this season, Kiser has carried the pigskin 61 tim«« from cev'mmaee and has picked up a net total of 247 yards for a 4.1 rushing average. Powell has carried 72 times for 272 yards and a 3.8 average. Average-wise, Kiser leads Powell in rushing because he had cai'i'ied tlie ball 11 less times. An amazing thing about Powell’s mark, the 160 - pound tailback - fullback has not been thrown for a loss this year. In fact, Powell has been thrown for a loss only once in two years, that a one-yarder. Actually, Philip Wright, who was ruled ineligible after the completion of the fifth game, leads the rush ing column. Wright picked up a net total of 329 yards in 85 tries, good for a 3.9 average. He w as ruled ineligible because of poor grades and will have to wait until next year to rejoin the team. A couple of sophomores have the best rushing aver ages to date. Fullback Chip Crisp, who was just recently called up from the junior varsity squad, has carried three times this season for 16 yards, an average of 5.3 yards per take. Halfback Dennis Smith has carried the pigskin 17 times, has gained a net total of 71 yards, and has a 4.2 rushing average. Neither boy has managed a score — yet. The Mounties’ four senior lettermen continue to lead the team in just about every department. While Pow’ell leads the rushing column, right behind him is Kiser, and in third position in rushing is w’ingback Steve Goforth with 78 yards in 27 carries. Goforth, who, like Powell, has had to sit out a good bit this sea.son because of injuries, leads the team in pass receiving and is co-leader w’ith his brother Tommy in scoring. Steve has grabbed four passes good for 80 yards and two touchdowns. Tommy’s two touchdowns came on roll-outs. Tommy Finger, who just recently took over as the first unit quarterback, is second in pass receiving with four catches and 46 yards. Next comes Charles Carroll with three grabs for 22 yards, followed by Kiser with 19 for one catch, and sophomore Pal Cheshire with 17 yards for one grab. Wright follows the Goforth brothers in scoring with seven points, one touclidown and one conversion. Three boys, Kiser, Powell, and Carroll, have six points each, and Jerry Mitchem rounds out the Mountie scoring column with one extra point. Going to the passing rolumn. Finger has completed 38 per cent of hi.s tosses, three-for-eight. His pas.ses have been good for 20 .yards, no touchdowns. Goforth has com pleted 33 percent of his throws, 14 out of 43, good for 177 yards and two touchdow ns. Wright completed 40 percent of his passes, two-for-five. So far this year, eight passes have been intercepted DANMT KlSctR Kings Mountain’s Mountain eers entertain the Belmont Rod Raiders here Friday night at 7:30 before putting out the welcome mat to Lincointon in the 1965 finale next week. Both coaches. Bill Bates of Kings Mountain and Kay Shelton of Belmont, look for a close bat tle, since the two teams are tied for sixth place in the Southwest ern Conference standings w'ith identical 1-4 records. Over-all marks show the Mounties "just a little bit better” than Belmont, as the Mounties sport a 2-6 rec ord and the Red Raiders are 1-7 lor all games. Coach Shelton of Belmont re ports that he will have only one letterman starting this week be cause of the fact that injuries have plagued his team all sea son long. Three ’64 standouts, tackles Barry Farmer and Tom my Fuller, and guard Danny Ab ernathy will all miss the game. Fullback Charles Orren is the only letterman in the lineup. Or ren, a 180-pound senior, to date is the team's leading rusher. Other backfield starters will be quarterback Warren Garrett, a southpaw, and halfback.s Wayne Barr and Danny Adkins. Tommy Tate, one of the top pass receivers in the conference, and Steve Wilhelm will be Shel ton’s starting ends, at tackles will be junior Dan Conard and .senior Mike Feimster, and guards will be seniors Barry Fislior and i Dennis Dotson, and the center : will be junior Ton.v Chaney. Shelton’.s starting lineup con- .sists of four seniors, six juniors, and one .sophomore. Wilhelm is the sophomore. "Going by games that we’ve played with other teams in tins conference, we should be evenly matched," said Shelton. Shelton added that his team is pretty W’ell balanced between running and passing, but added that "they’re not too tough on defense, but move the ball well on of fense.” KM Coach Bates said that his starting team will look about the same but added that a lot of the younger boys will sec a great deal of action in this week's game, as they have in the pass couple of weeks. Bates added, that at the ends especially, he will bo working with a lot of the younger boys. Sophomore Pat Cheshire, a 5-10, 145 pounder, looked good on of fense last week against Ruther fordton, and will probably see much action for the next two weeks. Coach Bates added that senior fullback Danny Kiser is the only back assured of a starting posi tion for tills week’s game. Kiser, a letterman, gained 101 yards last week to lead the ground gaining column, plus, did a com mendable job on defense. KM’s starting line will prob ably consist of Fred Wright and Scott Cloninger at the ends. Chip Bridges and Roy Medlin at the tackles, Chucky Gladden and Paul Gaffney at the guards, and Sandy Mauney at center. I At quarterback will be either I Tommy Finger or Tommy Go- , i forth, Kiser will bo at fullback. | j and top halfback choices will be i Dennis Smith, Jay Powell, and ! Steve and Mike Gofortli. Kings Mountain will ho.st Lin- colnton in the season finale here i next Friday. Lincointon is cur rently tied for first place in the SWe standings with East Ruth erford. and if the two manage to end the season in a tie. East will represent tlie conference in the po.st-.season pla.voffs, thanks to a 7-0 “sudden death" win over the Linc.s. In other games this week, Chase will play at Shelby, Cher- ryville will visit Mt. Holly, and R-S Central will play at Dallas. Lincointon has an open date. Elsie's Stretches Loop Lead To Three Elsie’s Beauty Shop won four games off Cash’s Grocery to stretch it.s Ladies’ Bowlln.g League lead to three games over second plaee McGinnis Furniture in action at Mountain Lanes Bowling Center Tuesday night. In other action, Oates Hender son Shell defeated Kings Moun tain Drug Co., three games to one. to move into fourth place in the loop standings and Mc Ginnis Furniture was a 3-1 victor over third place Plonk Brotlicrs. , The standings now show Mc- i Ginni.s Furniture trailing Elsie's by three game.s. Plonk Brothers I in third place, seven games out. ' Oates Henderson, Shell a game back of Plonk’s, Kings Mountain Drug Co. in fifth place, and I Cash’s Grocery bringing up the I roar, 14 games out of first place. j Lib Gault copped night scor ing honors by combining games of 123. 123. and 126 for a 372 set to lead Elsie’s to its four game win over Casli’s Grocery. Two other members of the winning team. Charity Gofortli and Dot Etters, topped the 300 sot mark, with Goforth registering a 334 and Etters chipping in a 316. I Betty Cash had a 121 line and a 288 set for the losers. 0-H Shell team captain Jenny Oates gained scoring honors in the Oates Henderson-K. M. Drug match by rolling linos of 127, 116, and 113 for a 356 set. Pat Panther topped the losers in scoring with a 102 line and a 282 set. Barbara Miller rolled a 127 line and a 333 set to lead the McGinnis Furniture team to its three game win over Plonk Brothers, Betty Fite added a 328 get for the winners and Evelyn Eailv had a 103 line and Pat Herndon a 275 set for the losers. ;v iPlayer T iKlser 19 *Powell 16 '3. Goforth 5 Smith 3 Finger 6 I Crisp N Avg. 101 5.3 ^'Player - Finger PASSING Att. Comp. 4 2 Int. 1 5r. Goforth 4 1 1 RECEIVING Goforth » %,'i *i -Green STANDOUT — Pictured above is Kings Mountain high school junior guard Chucky Gladden Mountaineeis this s e o s o n. Gladden will he starting ogoin this week when the Moun taineers host Belmont. Kiser Mountaineer< “Player Of Week’^ Player Caught Yards TD Ciser 1 19 0 Cheshire 1 17 0 ^risp 1 -1 0 R-S CENTRAL RUSHING Player T G L N Avg. Guffey 4 47 — 47 11.8 Gilbert 11 43 — 43 3.9 Goforth 4 30 1 29 7.3 Green 4 15 — 15 3.8 Dalton 1 10 — 10 10.0 Smith 1 9 — 9 9.0 Bartles 4 10 3 PASSING 7 1.8 Player Att. Comp] mt. Yds. Goforth 5 2 0 41 Dalton 1 1 RECEIVING 0 43 Player Caught Yards TD Davis 3 84 0 Team STANDINGS Plonk Brothers Oates Henderson Kings Mtn. Drug Cash’s Grocery VI L Pet. 25 11 .694 22 14 .611 18 18 .500 17 19 .472 15 21 .417 11 25 306 by KM’s opponents. Five have been intercepted against Goforth, two against Wright, and one against Finger. Bes- : semer City grabbed four of those tosses here a few weeks ' ago, when the 2-A Yellow Jackets won 7-0. 1 Sophomore guard - linebacker Paul Gaffney has punt- ; od 25 times this year, good for 842 yai’ds and a 33.7 aver age. He has had one punt blocked. Senior Scott Cloninger I has punted three times for 112 yards and a 37.3 average. I MISCELLANEOUS FIGURES — Kings Mountain j players have intercepted two passes (Mike Goforth and Dennis Smith, one each), and have blocked two punts, j (Philip Bunch and Gaffney, one each). They have recov ered seven fumbles, Charles Carroll getting two, and Chip Bridges, Tommy Dover, Tommy Finger, John Moore, and ' Smith, one each. Little Mounties Knock Oil East; Mullinax Now Has 13 Touchdowns Wayne Mullinax upped his sea son scoring pace to 13 touch downs Thursday night as he scor ed twice to lead the Kings Moun tain high school ninth graders to a 33-0 will over East Ruther ford. Mullina.x, who has thrown for three additional touchdowns, scored on runs of 31 and 71 yards, and led the ground gain ing department with a total of 127 yards rushing. Tlie Little Mounties, as a team, gained 270 yard.s rushing. The speedy halfback intercept ed a pa.ss and carried it back 31 yards for his first score of the game and went 71 yards on an off tackle play for his final TO. Quarterback-fullback Joe Corn- well also scored two touchdowns on runs of one and 12 yards and halfback Demetrius Moore ran 31 yards for the other TD. Corn well’s 12 yard touchdown gallop was set up by a fumble recovery by KM defensive end Ross' Springer. Kenneth Mitchem kicked three- out-of-five extra points for the Little Mounties. Hus.sey said that defensive tackles Stanley Brown and Barry Robinson played a real fine game on defon.se. Brown sustained an ankle injury in the contest and will miss the season finale a- gainst Hunter Huss. The ninth graders will travel to Gastonia today (Wednesday) to take on the Hunter Huss jay- vees in the final game of the '65 season. Coach Bob Hussey’s Lit tie Mounties finished conference play with a 4-1 record, second place in the loop standings. They are 5-1 over-all. Kings Mountain had only 19 points scored on them this sea son, all of them coming in the season opener against Lincoin ton, which the Little Mounties lost 19-13. Since then the Moun ties have not been scored on. Plonk Oil Defeats City Paint Store Clarence Plonk rolled a 1.54 line and a 426 set to lead the Plonk Oil Co. Men’s Bowling team to a three game win over City Paint Store Monday night. The action took place at Moun tain Lancs Bowling Center. The Plonk Oil Co. captain rolled the high game in the first game of action and led the Oil ers to a 28 pin win. Ho added a 132 line in the second game, which the Plonk team won by 93 pins, and added a 140 game in the final match, which his team lost. Allen Myers chipped in a 132 line and a 327 set for the win ners and Randy Blanton had a 128 line and a 356 set for the los- ers. Paul Ware added a 323 set for the City Paint team. In other action, first place Morrison Loan Co. moved into a five game lead by blanking Clyde Culbertson 4-0, and Dilling Heat ing moved into a fifth place tie by beating Griffin Drug Co. three games to one. The standings now show Plonk Oil trailing Morrison Loan Co.. Clyde Culbertson and City Paint Store tied for third-fourth place, and Griffin Drug and Dilling Heating tied for fifth-sixth. Every member of the Morrison Loan Co. team rolled a 300-plus set with team captain Albert Brackett loading the way with a 363. Boyer Murray copped high line honors with a 142. Red Mor rison had a 356 set, Murray add ed a 351, Tommy Gamble had a 303, and Tom Gamble chipped in a 302. Harold Barber had a 125 lino and Clyde Culbertson chipped in a 340 set for the los ers. Ronnie Culbertson copped scoring honors in the Dilling Heating • Griffin Drug Co. match by rolling a 139 line and a 367 set to lead the Dilling team to a 3-t win. John Dilling and Rich ard Culbertson rolled 347 and 325 sets respectively and Steve Rathbone had a 128 line and Aud Tignor a 340 set for the losers. STANDINGS Team W L Pd. Morrison Loan Co. 33 15 .688 Plonk on Co. 28 20 .583 Clyde Culbertson 24 24 .500 City Paint Store 24 24 .500 Dilling Heating 18 30 .375 Griffin Drug Co. 18 30 .375 Senior Mountaineer fullback Danny Kiser gains "Player of the Week" recognition for the seoo'nci straight week as a result of his out.standing play at Rutherford ton Friday night. The 180-pound letterman was the game’s out.standing offensive player, leading the ground gain ing department with a net total of 101 yards for 19 carries, a 5..5 rushing average. He also took a .screen pass from behind the line of siTimmage and turned it into a 19-yard play. Kiser, who has been recogniz ed this year mostly bccau.se of his defensive play, turned in one of the most out.standing perform ances of the year for a KM play er. Besides being the leading ground gainer and pa.ss receiver, Kiser also scored hi.s team’s only touchdown in the 27-6 lo.ss to the Hilltoppcr.s. It was the first time tliC Mounties have scored in fi\c games. Although the Mountaineers were not up to par on defense, tackle Chip Bridges and defen sive back Philip Bunch should gain honorable monlion for their defensive work. Each boy turned In five unassisted tackles and aided other boys in making sev eral stops. STARTERS — Pictured above are two members of the Compact football team who will be starting when the Cobras ploy host to Reid high school of Belmont In Compact's Homecoming game here tonight. Stonding is letterman quarterback Johnny Thombe and kneeling over the btOl is tackle Sherwood Moore, CITY BASKETBALL Any industries, business es tablishment, communities, etc„ thort wish to put a team in this year’s City Recreation Basket ball League are asked to con tact Recreation Director Elmer Ross as soon as possible. Cots Lose Top Spot In Mixed Standings The Clyde Culbertson team de feated the Alle.v Cats four games to none Thursday night to move into first place in the Kings Mountain Mixed Duckpin Bowling standings, Alexander’s Auto Parts won four games off Clar ence Plonk to move within five games of third place. Randy Blanton and Clyde Cul bertson teamed up to bowl the Culbertson six into sole posses sion of the top spot with Blanton copping high scoring honors with a 146 line and a 370 set. Culbert son added a 140 line and a .361 set and Gary Hollifield led the losers with a 124 line and a 331 set. Alexander’s Auto Parts was given a 19-pin per game handi cap and went on to defeat the Clarence Plonk team four games to none. Roddy Houser topped the winners in scoring with a 139 line and a 360 set and Plonk had a 128 line and a 335 set for the losers. standings Team Clyde Culbertson Alley Cats Clareitee FlOnk AiexMider’s %- standout — Pictured above Is Mountaineer tackle Chip Bridges who played an out standing game on defense for Kings Mountain last week a- gainst R-S Central. Bridges, a senior letterman, is expected to be In full swing this week when the Mounties put out the welcome mat to Belmont's Red Raiders. W L Pet. 18 10 .643 15 13 .536 14 14 .500 • 19 A21 PLAY, CHEER. OR FIGHT . Steve Powell, (12i Seventh Grade Central School On tlie mist of the field Dusit has settled, dried and gone. The 8(gns of roughness also yi*ld Each player played alone. It was 1 a rough, tough game. In which many were to blaire. Each mtn played his best. To pie sse his cheering guest. The coai -hos shook hands to- goth pr. «t each other and sftid ‘Good Game ” One was good, the other better, „ was the best, bo this B lows even though ■Your t< am might not gleam show ^ came to fig ht the opposing-team.
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