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( LARK PANTHER, DECEMBER 21. 1953, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Final Grid Statistics Show That
Eppsmen Overshadowed Opponents
In Every Phase of Game
Compilation of final gridiron
seasonal statistics by statistician
Ernest M. Pharr show that the
Cardinal and Black Panthers over
shadowed their opponents in every
phase of the game, including that
of penalties, during the now-ended,
but not forgotten football cam
paign. Individual standouts were
Eugne Melvin Brown and Offie El
liot Clark who are tied for the
rushing lead with a 6.2 average.
Ending the season with a 5-3
record via victories over Tuskegee,
South Carolina State, Alabama
State, Morehouse and Fisk and
losing to Fort Valley, Xavier and
Morris Brown, the Panthers racked
up a total of 1988 yards rushing,
losing 259 for a net of 1729 and
an average of 216.1 yards per
game. Their opponents accumu
lated 1232 yards rushing minus
141 for a net of 1091 and an av
erage of 136.4 yards per game
which is an excellent defense in
anybody’s league. Panther backs
carried the leather 358 times for
an average of 4.8 yards per try
while their opponents lugged the
mail 282 times for a 3.8 gain pel
try.
On the passing offense, the Epps
men attempted 77 aerials, com
pleted 27, had eight intercepted for
a gain of 463 yards. Their oppon
ents attempted 96, completed 27
for a gain of 385 yards and had
eleven intercepted.
The Clarkites made 86 first
and tens, 68 by rushing, fifteen by
passing and three via penalties.
Their opponents gained 73 first
downs with 51 rushing, 16 passing
and six through penalties.
Of the “loaded” Clark squad,
many opposing players were of
the sentiment that “Clark is the
only team where not one man hits
you, but the whole team.” This
roughness may be a contributing
factor to the all-time Panther high
of 665 yards in 37 penalties while
their opponents lost only 300 yards
for 35 miscues. The Eppsmen made
19 fumbles, recovered six of their
own and 19 of their opponents who
made 24 miscues, recovering five
of their own and 13 of the Pan
thers.
Clark and Brown Lead
Rushing Offense
Offie Elliot Clark, this year’s all-
SIAC first team quarterback, and
Eugene Melvin Brown led the
Clarkites’ rushing offense. Both
sport hefty and highly-respected
6.2 averages per rush. Melvin car
ried the mail 81 times for a net of
502 yards and Clark carried 67
times for a net of 415. In total
offense, Clark and Solomon were
the undisputed leaders. Offie car
ried 126 plays for a total of 702
yards while Newt was in 84 plays
for 388 yards. Brown sports a 15.6
and 13.0 yard return on kickoffs
and punts, respectively. Clark
leads in both departments with 32.4
and 26.6 averages. He also sports
a 39. 8average of punts while
Charles Stinson, all-SIAC second
team end, booted twenty-three
kickoffs for 1043 yards and a 45.3
average.
In the scoring department, the
Eppsmen racked up more points
this season than any Clark team
has in many a moon. Racking up
a total of 136 points, they have,
in one season, scored more points
than other teams have in the past
two years. For the first time in
four or five years, the opponents
were held to a small total of 69
points.
The Panther scoring punch was
of such variety that one could not
tell who was able to deliver a TD
for the Eppsmen, seen in the fact
that ten men figure in Clark tallies.
Offie Clark leads the parade with
36 points; Melvin Brown, 26; Wal
ter Vance, 18; Charles Stinson, 14;
Fred Bell, 12; and Newt Solomon,
Roman Turmon, Charles McClel
lan, Algia Barnett and Harold
Franklin complete the scoring elite
with six points eacn.
In standings recently released
by the Atlanta Daily World, the
Panthers were tied for fifth place
with Bethune - Cookman College.
Using the Dickinson Rating Sys
tem, SIAC Commissioner B. T.
Harvey released the figures at a
recent meeting with the Panthers
and Bethune having 18.75 points
each.
IS OUR SENSE OF VALUES DISTORTED?
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The selection and comprehension of values require creative and
reflective thinking; they require a critical and analytical eye that pene
trates below the surface of life. This is not an easy task. To say, “this
(or these) I value most,” and actually support that statement with
contributions daily through wholesome living is difficult. This is true
because of the dual standard that our society imposes upon us. By
this I mean that a person frequently has—(if he obeys the laws of
society) two sets of values—one for his personal life and others for
his business relations. It requires a great deal of personal courage to
maintain one set of values at all times and to carry convictions. It
often causes one to go contrary to social conventions and to the laws
of the state.
Therefore, let us choose wisely our values. Of the worth for which
we and our institutions stand, let us be more cognizant. The greater
values must always be put before the less important ones, keeping
proper proportion in life.
Remember the words of Alice Cary in “Nobility”
True worth is in being, not seeming—■
In doing, each day that goes by,
Some little good—not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
and the poem “That Man Is Rich” by D. J. Orfield
That man is rich; . . .
Who gives the world the best he has
From day to day;
Who sees the good in every class
On life’s highway;
Who never robs another’s heart
Of any joy;
Who never tries good friends to part
Or to destroy
The hope that grasping for a start
In every boy; . . .
Whose soul within him never cowers
But upward looks;
Who values most the priceless things
Not bought with gold;
Whose voices with kindness ever rings
To young and old;
Who, with his sunshine ever brings
A joy untold.
Cage Squad Opens Season With 62-55
Conquest Over Savannah on “Robert Phillips Day”
About American
School Teachers
Chicago, 111.—(I.P.) —American
school teachers haven’t fallen down
on their job, but rather their job,
ridiculously expanded in response
to unrealistic theory and to popu
lar demands, has fallen down on
them, according to the Rev. Ber
nard Iddings Bell, Protestant Epis
copal Church canon and religious
adviser at the University of Chi
cago. Dr. Bell outlines five major
faults in our educational system.
First, proper drill in what he
calls “prerequisites to thinking” is
neglected. Included here are the
use of words in writing, speaking,
reading and listening, the use of
numbers in abstracting and gener
alizing, and the use of the five
senses in perception of size, form
and texture.
Secondly, Dr. Bell believes that
people are growing up today with
out tolerance, respect for age, or
physical consideration. He says
manners must be taught; they
aren’t acquired naturally. The third
thing Dr. Bell thinks needs chang
ing is the process by which every
one receives recognition for his
work when some deserve it more
than others. Because of this, he ex
plained, some students are passed
into the next class before they are
ready. They learn to expect “some
thing for nothing” all through life,
Fourth on Dr. Bell’s outline i:
religion. He feels this “fourth di
niension” of life should be included
in schools. His last point is that
the school of today treats all stu
dents alike. For this reason supe
rior students are retarded and dull
students are led to believe they
are “teachable.”
According to Dr. Bell, within the
next five years 80,000 teachers will
be needed to fill the gap in our
rising school population, but that
at present only 32,000 persons were
in training to undertake the job.
He further stated “that of the one
million teachers now working,
300,000 had been inadequately
trained, and at least 100,000 never
even got through high school.”
Joy to the world! the Lord is
come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him
room,
And heaven and nature sing.
From Psalm XCVIII
Isaac Watts
Problem English
Students
MADISON, Wis. —(I.P.) — Any
body can become rusty and lax in
his writing habits, especially vet
erans, whose letters home from
overseas are about the only writ
ing they have done for a year or
more, but an effective command of
English can be relearned. This is
the opinion of University of Wis
consin English Prof. Edgar Lacey.
“There are two major sources of
problem English students,” Prof.
Lacey noted. “Returning war vet
erans and transfer students.” He
described a new University writ
ing clinic set up to give individual
help on grammar, spelling, punc
tuation, sentence structure, organ
ization, etc. “We believe the writ
ing clinic will be invaluable to
such students, who, either through
poor training or lack of use of
written English, fail to keep up to
the college level.”
Prof. Lacey also revealed a
number of things “we are doing in
the English department to train
students—not to become ‘literary
writers’ but simply to be able to
use effective English. First of all,
with 2,000 freshmen students,
meeting in 90 sections, with a staff
of 58 instructors, we have to have
some means of judging how much
skill they have already acquired.
So entering freshmen are now
given a series of tests.” As a re
sult of the tests students are di
vided into four groups:
1. Those exceptionally well
trained, who need no further com
position training—given total ex
emption from freshman English;
2. Those well trained, who need
one semester of composition train
ing; 3. The great bulk of thee lass,
who need two semesters of com
position training; 4. Those so
poorly trained or equipped that
they are not in a position to profit
by composition training on the col
lege level—placed in a non-credit
course for one semester, after
which they may reapply ofr ad
mission into freshman English.
Those at the two extremes are
picked out for further testing,
Prof. Lacey said. “For both high
and low students, this further test
ing consists of essay-type writing.
Judgment is madeb y experienced
readers and each paper is read by
at least two readers, he said.
Prof. Lacey suggested that a
proficiency test might be given in
the junior year to all students so
that poor training or lax habits
might be uncovered, and that the
clinic be made available to such
students.
Oh, Holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray,
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be bom in us today.
We hear the Christmas Angels,
The great glad tidings tell;
Oh, come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emanuel. j
Phillips Brooks
Turmon Hits 30
Basketball coach Leonidas S.
Epps unveiled his 1953 edition of
the Cardinal and Black hardwood
Panthers in good style December 5
when the CC aggregation squeezed
by Savannah State College’s Tigers
62- 55 on “Robert Phillips Day” in
Joe Louis Gymnasium.
Coach Epps who is rebuilding his
squad around five veterans—Roman
Turmon, Offie Clark, Harold Hub
bard, John Swain and Warren
Rouse—started the former four in
the season’s opener with freshman
stalwart Reginald Threat. It took
the Eppsmen almost a full quarter
to find themselves with Savannah
State jumping off to an early lead
which was overcome when “Doc”
Turmon commenced to show the
form which enabled him to make
the 1952 All-National team as cen
ter. When Roman flashed his 6' 4",
225 lb. frame around the goal—get
ting hot when his teammates fed
and choked him with the leather—
the Tigers all but threw in the
“crying towel.”
When Coach placed “pint-sized”
freshman guard, Julius Bunn, in
the game, the speedy cage player
augmented Roman’s “hitting” with
a few buckets of his own. The Pan
thers led 26-22 at intermission.
From intermission onward,
Clarks’ all-star pivot man, Turmon,
was in complete command scoring
21 points in the second half, 15 of
them in the third stanza. Bunn
came through with eight. Turmon
finished the contest as top man
with 30 points while Bunn came
second with 12. For Coach Wright’s
crew, Henry Prylo was top man
with 19 points in the till while Hoel
Wright followed with 14.
As always, Roman was top man
on rebounds with 24 of 50 that the
Panthers yanked off the boards
while the Tigers were racking up
38 rebounds. Displaying promise of
future usefulness were James Co
hen and Edward Jones from the
freshman crop who saw action.
NEW COURSE LAYS SOUND
BASIS FOR FAMILY LIFE
HATTIESBURG, Miss.—(I.P.)—
The new four-hour elective course
at Mississippi Southern College,
entitled “Living Within the Fam
ily,” involves cooperative proced
ures in the home economics, social
studies, and physical education de
partments, according to Dean R.
A. McLemore. He points out that
Mississippi Southern is one of the
first colleges in the nation to make
such a course available to all stu
dents.
The course is intended to lay a
sound basis for family living from
the viewpoint of sociology, health,
and home economics.
Some of the subjects to be taken
up in the course include: Under
standings Necessary for Success
ful Family Life, Relations Between
Housing and Health, Housing and
the Family Income, Books and
Music As An Influence in the De
velopment of Family Life, Recre
ation in the Life of the Family As
a Contributing Factor to Mental
Health, Problems Which Concern
the Family in the Growth and De
velopment of Human Beings, and
Budgeting the Family Income,
which includes wise buying, wise
spending, and the cost of living.
Dr. McLemore stated “The fac
ulty commitoee approved the new
course because of the need for
Americans to know the problems
that confront the family and how
to meet them. The course is in
tended to be very practical and to
have wide student appeal.”
A GRAVE MATTER
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common. Even in Georgia, there are liberal-minded people, as evi
denced by the University of Georgia student newspaper editors who
advocate the overthrow of educatioial segregation, but were placed in hot
water for taking a stand on a controversial issue which they felt would
soon demolish all the things that American Democracy is supposed to
stand for.
^ es, Santa is preparing for his long journey. We wonder what his
gift to the advocaters of segregation will be—his gift to the oppressed
Negro race? We wonder if 1954 can adequately finish the job 1953 and
past years have started? We hope that these and many other things
can be accomplished. We hope that with the emergence of the New
Year, “Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men” will really come.
I hope that that Almighty Power will keep up safe as we travel to
and from our homes over the holidays; that He will make us know
Christmas means more than a big dinner, a wild celebration, night-
clubbing, money thrown away and hangovers; that we will return to
collegiate activities with renewed vigor and meaningful resolutions for
the uplight of ourselves, college, race and nation. MERRY CHRIST
MAS TO YOU ALL AND MAY IT BE A WHITE ONE!