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HERE AND THERE WITH WITH ELON MEN IN SERVICE R a m b lin g THE ALUMNI Perhaps some of you gentle readers Hood Sporting Goods Co. would like to know just what the sons Phil Gearing and Mary Hill Byrd of Elon now in service have to say NATIONAL SPORT NEWS BY “FLASH” STEED were married recently. Mr. and Mrs. when they write back to friends, etc. Byrd both attended Elon in 1941-42. Here are excerpts from the letters of IS ELON COLLEGE’S NEAREST SPORTING Rena Black, ’43, is working with the a few of them. FOOTBALL’S HEROES . . . Wright Aeronautical Company in Cin This letter was written to the Ma GOODS STORE cinnati, Ohio. roon and Gold staff some time ago by There was definite dearth of good football this wartime season. Most Ale John Pollard, who is stationed at Marjory Reidt is doing office work of the college teamswere too farapart in quality. The man-power situation Yale University. Pollard was for SCHOOL SWEATERS and JACKETS and making her home at 28 Welling this year was not evenly distributed among the teams. The teams that had merly. among many other things, staff ton Street, Waltham, Masachusetts. photographer for the M & G. BICYCLES and BICYCLE REPAIRING it were humiliatingly superior to those that didn’t. Thus came the big scores Miss Reidt attended Elon 1941-43. Dear Editor and Staff of the M & G (Bikes Painted Like New) and the tremendous routs that were (especially the circulation manager): evident in a season that clearly Rachel Earp, class of ’43, is teaching PAD LOCKS FLASH LIGHT BATTERIES showed the marks of war and the English and Physical Education at I have just received a copy of the MAROON AND GOLD. If it weren’t lack of the usual stiff competitive the high school in Albemarle, N. C. KEYS MADE LOCKS REPAIRED fire. so near payday I would have waked up Carl Allen, Jr., a former student, is BABY CARRIAGES Yet the season of 1943 wil be Mr. Nash with a telegram to you all— now stationed at Camp Hood, Texas. but. However, just to show you my forever memorable as the autumn that TENNIS RACKETS RESTRUNG brought forth one of the greatest ever Professor and Mrs. A. L. Hook have heart (?) is on the right side, here is to wear the football colors. It was announced the marriage of their a coDy of our paper, (Ed, note—It FISHING TAC;KLE ------HUNTING CLOTHING the year that saw the FIGHTING was a very interesting paper,) daughter, Irene, to Mr, Cade Coving IRONING CORDS ------POCKET KNIVES All of you have my deepest sym IRISH of NOTRE DAME surge back ton, of Sanford, N. C. Mrs. Covington to the place they once held in the pathy and my best wishes for a good is a graduate of Elon, and is teaching vear on the paper. If things are as football firmament. And they did it BUY A BOND And Spend The Difference r ‘. HOOD’S in a manner that left witnesses be at the Eli Whitney school, usual, you need copy, I am sorry I wildered and stunned so great was the Fred Gray, who attended Elon in can’t send you a picture of me getting Where Your Investment Pays Most in Health—in Life power and precision of this team 1942-43, is taking an engineering up at 4:15. but it is against regulations lo eive comfort (or something) to the turned out by FRANK LEAHY, the course at Louisiana State University. softspoken, grim-faced coach of the enemy. Now that my presence is 205 W. FRONT ST. OPPOSITE FIRE STATION Irish. The course will last eighteen months, knov/n. I hope I can have another Notre Dame thundered over after which time he will be commis M & G in the near future. Thank you. Georgia Tech, 53-13; Michigan’s sioned a second lieutenant. Sincerely. strong conference powerhouse, 35-13; Bill Zipperer, a former student, is Pollard. Wisonsin, 50-0; and Illinois, 47-0. When they beat Navy. Notre Dame really working with the Kirk Engine Com Just a few lines from a letter from Ensign James Darden, stationed at Lit didn’t beat them, they “murdered” a good, strong team that wasn’t to lose an pany, and making his home at 605 S. other game all year. The score was 36-6, but it didn’t begin to tell of the tle Creek, Virginia. “How are things Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles, Cali at Elon? I think about the place smoothness, the power and precision that was Notre Dame’s. fornia. often and wish so much that I could It didn’t tell of that great Irish line of seven husgies that held a Navy Raymond “Pud” Antonio, class of be there. I know it isn’t the same team that was to roll up the incredible yardage of 559 yards on Columbia’s this year, but even so. it’s still Elon, ELON STUDENTS ’43, is now teaching history and phys game Lions to minus seven yards along the ground. Nor did it tell of the ical education up in Pennsylvania. and you know how much I love the place.” -o—o- passing genius of ANGELO BERTELLI, who wound up his career that after Pud is also coach of the basketball team of the junior high school. See, there’s something about the noon with one of the greatest passing exhibitions I know of. Two days later Pfc. Herbert Spivey, Jr., is with place that gets ’em. WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS he marched off to join the Marines. the 580th Ambulance Co. Motor, Sa- Here is what Ray Kern has to say. Nor did it tell of CREIGHTON MILLER, the seventh and last in a long lernus Garrison, Fort Ord, California. “Boy! these G. I. shoes are really big Make Our Filling Station 4ine of Millers that have played brilliant football for Notre Dame. The Pvt. Lawrence Paige and Miss Sadie —I do mean big. How I would like to Your Headquarters be back at Elon with my old loafers youngest of the royal family is the closest thing to the unstoppable force that! Whitley were married October 25, on and walking down to the drug Sandwiches. Drinks, Ice Cream. Smokes and Candy I know of. He not only has the speed and elusiveness of a frightened fawn, 1943, Both of them attended Elon. Lt. John Mitchell has recently re store to get a coke during chapel.” tout he has the brute power to break a good tackler’s grip. turned to his home in New Bern after This from Lewis Nance, who is tak -o—o- RED BLAIK, the coach of Army, said this about MILLER, “This Miller 51 bombing missions in the Mediter ing training at Alfred University in ■e of the greatest backs I’ve ever seen.” Notre Dame beat a good Army ranean district. He wears the Air New York: “Hone everything is going team 26-0. Medal and one silver cluster and four fine at Elon. Miss the place and all the students who used to go there. College Service Station There are other stars on the Irish eleven, JULIE RYKOVICH, wingback, bronze oak leaf clusters. Kate White, former commercial stu However, I am slowly taking to the BEN WHEELEV, Prop. JOHNNY LUJACK, back, JIM MELLO, fullback, JUMBO YONAKAR, PAUL dent, is working with the C. & O. Northern wavs. Alfred University is LIMONT, ends. JIM WHITE, tackle, CHARLIE CZAROHSKI, tackle, PAT Railway Company and making her a great deal like Elon. so I feel at FILLEY, guard. JOHNNY PERKO, guard, HERB COLEMAN, center. home in Richmond, Virginia. home here. Incidentally, we have to Remember these names well; you’ll never see any better. Kenneth Utt and Angie Henry, both work hard—exams every four weeks.” of the class of ’42. were recently mar; This is Miller Basnight’s impres ried. The couple are making their sion of life in the Marine Corps. “We get out of the warmest, most PORTSMOUTH LAD MAKES GOOD home in New York City, where Mr. TItt is engaged as an entertainer for comfortable sacks (beds) in the world Uncle Sam’s troops. (they seem that way) at 4:30 in the C A. LEA <»■ I imagine that very few people at Elon now remember “WADDY WEL Moses Crutchfield is guarding pris morning. We march to chow and then LINGTON SAEKER” but there is one lad on ye old campus that can tell you oners of war. Camp Opelika. Alabama. come back to calisthenics at 7. After the lowdown on the lanky, tidewater star of yesteryear. This gent is none J. L. Georgeo, football player who that we keep going all day doing one Phone 777 thing or another. And in case I ever other than DON MILLER, former manager of the flash Elon eleven. Elon attended Elon in 1941-42, was recently want to hear the sergeant sing out, is one little school that has a lot of tradition wrapped up in its sports depart commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force. Georgeo is a native of ‘818—FALL OUT!’ I just have to sit ment. Football has been a great asset to the school as well as a source of en Charleston, S. C. down and get comfortable—then it Bus and Taxi Service joyment to the students. Out of the haze that surrounds the past football Miss Louise Hauser of Greensboro. comes, ‘818—FALL OUT!’ I cuss and tussels, SAEKER stands out in my memory. N. C., is teaching English in the Siler rave, but along with the rest of the lowly privates—out I fall. It’s a great Call 777 For Quick, Dependable Taxi Service To and From As a football player he was tops. He stood 6’2” and tipped the scales City high school. Miss Hauser grad life.” at 195 pounds. HORACE HENDRICKSON, the coach who hailed from Beaver uated from Elon in ’43. Burlingt n A nd Elsewhere Pvt. Warren Ellington, who at Falls, Pa., put a lot of faith in “WADDY.” He said that he was a fine de tended Elon 1941-43, was a recent vis Students live as if to die today: but study as if to live forever. fensive end that it was quite a problem to turn his end on the defense. In itor on campus. West Front Street his freshman year, Saeker caught his first long pass in a game against GUIL —Dr. Wicker. FORD and, strange as it seems, caught his next long pass in his senior year EEGUL.\TIONS REGARDING The great use of life is to spend it j Burlington, N. C. against the same team, on the same field. This doesn’t mean that he couljl CLASS ABSENCES AND CUTS for something that will outlast it. not catch a long pass, but a short pass was his specialty. —William James. JACK BOONE and SAEKER. the two Portsmouth aces, teame