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CLARK PANTHER, OCTOBER 13, 1951, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Pianists Allison Nelson, and
Harry Lee Neal, in private life Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Neal, will open the
All Star Concert Series of the Sun
day Evening Cultural Hour on
Sunday, October 14, at 7:30 in Dav-
age Auditorium.
These youthful artists have both
concertized extensively as soloists,
and the joining of their talents
provides a singularly satisfying
experience.
For a year and a half they pre
sented a weekly television program
from Philadelphia, and during 1950
—their first year of touring since
leaving television, they played be
fore 153 audiences in America and
Australia. Together and solo, they
have performed in all the principal
cities of Australia and New Zea
land, and have played with most of
the major orchestras.
This feature is a presentation of
the College Committee on Cultural
Activities and programs.
Epps Assumes Head
Football Duties
NOTES ON
FOOTBALL
Continued From Page Two
States was the game of association
football played on November 6,
1869, between Princeton and Rut
gers. In 1875 Harvard University
and McGill University of Montreal,
Canada, played the first inter
collegiate game in the United
States played according to Rugby
rules (organized by the Rugby
Football Union in England). A
year later Rutgers, Columbia, Har
vard, Princeton and Yale formed
the American Intercollegiate Foot
ball Association which adopted the
Rugby rules which allowed ball
carrying in addition to the rules of
the kicking game, called soccer.
American football originated in
the United States, in the last third
of the 19th century. In its begin-
ings the game was played accord
ing to the rules which were derived
from association football, or soccer
(a- spherical ball is kicked or
“headed” between goalposts for
scores, eleven men constitute a.
team, and a game last ninety min
utes) and Rugby football, princi
pally the latter; the rules in force
today came about through a long
process of evolution. It was not
until 1880 that eleven men con
stituted a football team: before
then the number was fifteen. In
1882 a rule providing for downs and
for yards to be gained was intro
duced; to make a first down a team
was compelled to advance the ball
five yards in three downs; failing,
it yielded possession of the' ball.
At the turn of the century so
many injuries had been caused by
football that President Theodore
Roosevelt declared that football
be made safer. In the winter of
1905-06, football leaders met and
accomplished this end by a number
PANTHERS LICK
FORT VALLEY
Laurence Gates was the ball car
rier when the Panthers made their
only touchdown of the game to send
Fort Valley State College into thei
ranks of the defeated on September
21, at Fort Valley.
Playing almost all the way in tor
rential rain both teams limited their
attack to the ground almost entirely
with only three passes thrown in
the first half.
Not opce during either period did
the Wildcats threaten to score. Such
linesmen as Cannon, Turmon, Lewis.
Odum (w h o played the entire
game), Larkin and Pat Bell, Jack-
son, and Stinscn hel,d the Fort Val
ley team beyond their thirty-yard
line for the (whole game.
The only score of the game came
after Fort Valley failed to get off a
kick deep in their own territory and
lost the ball on a fumble. Laurence
Gates, freshman from New Orleans,
took a hand-off from Offie Clark
and smashed through a hole made
toy Larkin Bell and Roman Turmon
to send the Panthers ahead 6-0 with
ten minutes remaining in the game.
Arthur Johnson who had done all,
the kicking and whose kick put the
opponent deep in their own terri
tory, kicked the extra point and
Fort Valley’s doom was sealed.
The rest of the game saw Solo
mon, Evans, Muldrow, and Gates
knock down several of Fort Valley’s
passes and after another long kick
by Johnson, take possession of the
ball on Fort Valley’s five yard line.
When the final whistle was sounded
the Panthers were five yards from
another touchdown.
Starters for Clark were Hartsfield,
Clark, Muldrow, Solomon, Cannon,
Lewis, Hobbs, Larkin Bell, Roman
Turmon, Odum and Jackson.
In the Panther’s backfield Offie
Clark showed the results of good
year-round training (he and Tur
mon are the only three-lettermen of
the varsity). Clark did most of the
quarterbacking and managed to
send fullback Norris Muldrow
through Fort Valley’s line for sev
eral; long gains, complete four pas
ses, and carry the Panthers into
scoring position three times.
EUROPEAN DIARY, Continued From Page Two
France, particularly Paris and near-by places such as Versailles,
Barbigon, and Fontainbleau are living on tradition and history. The cul
ture of the past is being preserved and commercialized. Thousands of
visitors are conducted on tours daily, the income from which is a very
large part of the economic strength of Paris.
It can easily be understood why the French capitulated when attack
was made on Paris during World War II. They had too much to lose. If
Paris were bombed, art and culture produced,, accumulated and preserved
over a period of at least six centuries might be lost to civilization which
could never be replaced, because there are not the numerous geniuses of
art to produce equally great masterpieces, nor is there the great spirit
of the Renaissance to inspire artists to recapture what was felt and giv
en to the world by men like Dante, Bocaccio-, Lorenzo da Medici, Le
onardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Millet, et. al.
Leonidas “Sonny” Epps, who led the Clark College basket
ball team to within two games of an SIAC Basketball Tour
nament championship last season, and who served for two
years as assistant football coach, is now head football, basket
ball, and track coach of Clark College.
Coming to Clark in the fall of
1951 Grid
Schedule Released
1950 “Sonny” Epps immediately
won the respect and admiration of
Clark athletes by showing a real
interest in them not only as mem
bers of the teams, but as individuals
as well after the season of their
participation had passed.
A strenuous advocate of strict
training rules, the former lieutenant
of the army insists that members of
his teams observe training habits
not only while they are in season
but out of season as well.
Coach Epps is a native of East
St, Louis, Illinois. Before coming
to Clark he filled the duties of
head coach at Gilbert Academy in
New Orleans, La.
William “Biff” Jones returned to
the practice field this season as
backfield coach. Also a former
lieutenant of the army, Coach Jones
has been with the Panthers two
seasons. Bringing back with him
habits formed in the Army, the
1947 Clark graduate is respected
by the football team for the mili
tary manner in which he leads
exercise drills and for his eye for
purictuality.
Coach Jones played halfback on
the Clark football team during his
stay at the college where he was an
outstanding student and an active
participant in campus affairs. After
his discharge from the army Coach
Jones came back to receive his
diploma and the following year
coached at Lincoln Academy, Kings
Mountain, N. C.
New to the team this year is
Coach Leroy Hambrick who starred
as quarterback on Clark’s football
team and made an exceptional re
cord in SIAC play. Coach Hambrick
has done considerable work in At
lanta as director of athletics at
several youth organizations and at
Washington High School where he
worked with the football team.
The College Athletic Department
released the following schedule for
1951. Coach Leonidas H. Epps has
succeeded Marion M. Curry as head
coach. He assumed his new duties
in August.
The schedule follows: September
23 (Night) Fort Valley State; Sept.
29, open; October 5, Tuskegee at
Birmingham; October 12 (Night)
(Night) South Carolina State; Oct.
19, (Night) Alabama State College
at Montgomery; October 27, More
house College; November 3, Xavier
University at New' Orleans; Nov.
10 (Homecoming Game) Fisk Uni
versity; November 22, (Thanksgiv
ing Game), Morris Brown College.
of new rules, chiefly for abolishing
plays in which masses of players
charged headlong into each other
and for allowing forward passing;
this commitee also established the
rule that a team must make ten
yards, not five, in three downs. In
1912 teams were permitted four
downs to advance the ball ten yards.
The rules of football are still ill
process of being revised. This work
is done annually by the Rules Com
mittee of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
Today over twenty million spec
tators annually attend the inter
collegiate and interscholastic games
played throughout autum.
Join the N. A. A. C. P.
The French are great people. It appears to me that they are great
nationalists but not militarists. They are a cultured people, made so by
hundreds of years of culture and tradition. It is my opinion that they
are not at present greatly disturbed about war and do* not intend to fight
another war soon.
It is my further opinion that the cultural background and tradition
of the French people have made them a people cosmopolitan in spirit
and too universal in their grasp of human relations to have much racial
prejudice. Liberty, equality, and fraternity is their motto in practice as
well as in print.
In Italy we visited Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan. Although
our stay in Rome was brief our experiences were rich. Historically, cul
turally and religiously Rome is a great city and probably the most unique
city in the World. One sees at once the emergence of the modern from
the ruins of the ancient. One leaves Rome with a feeling of the pre
dominance of four great influences: (1) Antiquity; (2) Art; (3) Catholi
cism; and (4) the secular and political life outside the Vatican.
The marks of antiquity in Rome are inescapable. The ruins of the
old acqueducts, the temples, the Coliseum, the Forum, the Catacombs, the.
Statues and the old roads constructed before Christ are interesting re
mains of a civilization two to three thousand years in the past, but hold an
'eminent place now in this unusual city just as they have across the cen
turies.
To Be Continued Next Edition
SENIOR MEMBERS of FOOTBALL SQUAD
CLOSE VIEW OF PANTHERS
There are only four two-hundred
pounders on the team: Turmon, Ev
ans, Daniels, and Edwards. Two men
who weigh less than 150 lbs.: Edin
burgh and Edwards. Atlanta and
New Orleans contributed more
players than any other city: 10
from Atlanta and 10 from New Or
leans, making two cities comprise
half the team.
Academically 20 freshmen, 6 soph
omores, 10 juniors, and 4 seniors
constitute the squad.
Back the Panthers
Jerry Hobbs, Larkin Bell, Coach Epp, Pat Bell