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MAROON TIGER
February, 1948
Sports Flash-Back Reveals How
George Coffee Turns Tide On Clark
And so Coach Forbes’ charges
downed the fierce Clark Panthers in
the hallowed Sunset Casino, January
10, 1948. But the day is truly one
for the history books, for it was way
back there in the golden yesterdays
when we garnered our last victory
in the proverbially “jinky” Casino.
Morehouse was no different in those
days than it is today. Men were still
fired by the same impulses; men,
who in later years were to preach
the saintliness of vision and foresight,
lived from hand to mouth and hewed
the line, letting the chips fall where
they would. Let’s you and me take
our magic carpet and travel back to
the Morehouse of 1937. Presto, we
push a button and we’re off, sailing
through space and times that used
to be.
It’s the year 1937 and V. Trenton
Tubbs is the guiding light of the
Maroon Tiger; William Holmes Bor
ders has recently been chosen “the
most popular teacher”; S. W. Wil
liams is the religious editor of the
Maroon Tiger; William “Billy” Nix
is sports editor of the same organ
and C. Lamar Weaver is an enter
prising reporter; Roscoe Johnson is
a bruising football player and
“Roughhouse” Haynes has recently
been chosen All-American.
TIGERS POSED FOR ACTION
This motley crew and countless
others journey to the old Sunset Ca
sino, where young Coach Forbes has
not won a game since he first be
gan coaching in 1928. Out on the
floor come the ’37 Tigers, regally
clad. There are “Ramp” Page, Oslon,
Felix Harris, Charles Braden and
Norville Clark on the immediate var
sity. A formidable Clark quintet is
their opponent. The preliminaries go
on and on with no one paying much
attention. Catcalls are exchanged be
tween the two sides representing the
arch rivals.
COFFEE CLINCHES CONTEST
Finally the two varsity teams take
the floor and the battle is on. When
the smoke clears the score stands,
Clark 21; Morehouse 20, with 45
seconds remaining in the game. The
crowd is cn its feet; everyone is yell
ing—30 seconds remaining. Hurried
ly, Coach Forbes substitutes Coffee
—20 seconds remaining'in the game.
Coffee moves around; Oslon feeds
the ball to him. Coffee steps across
the center line and lifts the ball into
the air—the whistle pierces the air
—the ball arches up, up and descends
slowly—it hangs momentarily in the
air. Hearts flutter. It drops sudden
ly, “swish”—Morehouse wins, 22-21
—our first victory in the “jinky” Ca
sino.
Hours, days, months, years pass.
Men, once young and gay, are ab
sorbed in the rigorous process of mak
ing a living. V. Trenton Tubbs is a
reporter for the Afro American; S.
W. Williams is a well known philoso
phy teacher; William “Billy” Nix is
the efficient head of the Morehouse
Personnel department; C. Lamar
Weaver is on the staff of the Atlan
ta Daily World. Johnson and Haynes
have gone their respective ways and
others replace them—William Ben
nett, Robert Johnson, Bernie Harris,
Joe Brooks, James Mack and Charles
Willie.
VICTORIOUS AGAIN
Back to 1948 and another genera
tion trample to the recently reno
vated Casino now known as the Mag
nolia. Irving Tompkins, Silas Da
vis, William Bell, Coot Warner, Hill
and Calvin Williamson form the bulk
of the ’48 quintet. They engage
“Slide” Williamson, Paul Sweeney, et
al, in polite mayhem and the final
whistle finds Morehouse on the larger
side of the scoreboard (42-39) for
the second time in 20 years. Yes, it’s
been a long, long time.
Omegas Lead 14
Neophytes Across
Burning Sands
Recently, Psi chapter led fourteen
pledgees across the burning sand.
They are as follows: Julian A. Tarle-
ton, sophomore, Sumter, S. C.;
George Arterberry, sophomore, Fair-
field, Ala.; Wm. Bowens, senior,
Newnan, Ga.; George Brown, sopho
more, St. Louis, Mo.; Wm. Bush,
junior, Atlanta, Ga.; Rudolph Car-
son, junior, Fort Valley, Ga.; Love
Collins, sophomore, Columbus, Ga.;
Charles Boseman, senior, Syracuse,
N. Y.; Alonzo Davis Jr., Dawson,
Ga.; August Curly, sophomore, Hel
ena, Ark.; Theodore Fleming, soph
omore, Lexington, Ky.; Louis Hol
man Jr., Charleston, S. C.; Calvin
Singleton, sophomore, Atlanta, Ga.;
Albert Smith, sophomore, Gary, Ind.
Morehouse Alumni
Contribute To New
Religious Volume
Four contributors to the new re
ligious book, The Christian Way in
Race Relations, are graduates of
Morehouse College. Edited by Dr.
William Stuart Nelson, dean of the
School of Religion at Howard Uni
versity, the volume is the result of
a cooperative enterprise by members
of the Institute of Religion, spon
sored by the School of Religion at
Howard University.
The Christian Way in Race Rela
tions contains 12 views of how the
Christian practices may be applied
to race relations. Contributors were
selected because of leadership in
their various fields.
On the theme “Guiding Principles”,
Dr. George D. Kelsey, Morehouse
’34, and director of the Morehouse
School of Religion, has written on
“The Christian Way in Race Rela
tions”.
On the theme, “Basic Difficulties”,
Reverend J. Neal Hughley, Morehouse
’29, and professor of social sciences
and chaplain at North Carolina Col
lege, has written “Economic Forces
and the Christian Way.”
Dr. Howard W. Thurman, More
house ’23, and co-minister of the
Fellowship Church of All Peoples in
San Francisco, Calif., has written on
the theme “The Outlook.” His essay
is entitled “Judgment and Hope in
the Christian Message”; and on the
same theme, President Richard I.
McKinney of Storer College, West
Virginia, Morehouse ’31, has writ
ten “Judgment and Hope in the Na
ture of Man and Society.”
One of the chapters in the book
has been written by President Ben
jamin E. Mays of Morehouse Col
lege. It is entitled “The Obligations
of the Individual Christian” and is
written on the theme “Resources-
Individual.”
CAMPUS CUDDLES
ATTRACTIVE CONSTANCE JEWEL BURTS, freshman at Clark College, and Clarence G
Littlejohn, junior at Morehouse College, win the title of “Campus Cuddles" for
February. Miss Burts comes from Columbus, Ga., and Is majoring in English and
minoring in French, a member of the Philharmonic Society, and the YWCA, while
Mr. Littlejohn hails from Gaffney, S. C., and is majoring in Chemistry and Biology
with a minor in Mathematics, a Maroon Tiger veteran football star, member of Psi
Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, member of the N.A.A.C.P., and a World
War II veteran.
Silas Davis
(Continued from Page Three)
ship. Playing on the Bama State high
school team were Jerome Harris,
Spears and. Brooks. “(Smoky” remem
bers even today with obvious enjoy
ment these victories over Harris and
Brooks who became his teammates.
ENTERS MOREHOUSE
Upon graduating in 1944, Davis en
tered Morehouse at the insistence of
his brother who had “that feeling”
although he was not a Morehouse
Man. This “Fighting Montgomerian”
played on a team his freshman year
which was coached by Marshall Arn
old. Harris, Brooks, Dooley, The Ri
ley Twins and Swain were the other
members of this team which placed
second in the conference ratings of
that year.
Davis’ education was interrupted
in ’45 by his induction into the army.
Stationed at Fort Benning, “Smoky”
played on the crack army quintet of
this reception center. Brooks, Edwin
Smith, Swain and Calvin Williamson
were also on this team.
Having served his time, Davis re
entered Morehouse in the winter of
’46. He returned to varsity basket
ball competition almost immediately,
sharing in the honors of the ’47
team.
Overshadowed by his fellow Mont-
gomerians for several years, ‘Smo
ky” released his latent abilities on
being shifted to the forward spot at
the beginning of the ’48 season. A
second team All-SIAA for his bright
work in the guard slot, Davis stands
a better than average chance of be
ing selected for the forward slot in
the ’48 selections. It is with regret
that we notice that this stalwart
Montgomerian will be with us for
only another year. But if the line of
“Fighting Montgomerians” must end,
it is fitting that it end with the cool
and brilliant “Smoky” Davis—per
haps the greatest of the “Fighting
Montgomerians.”
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;BY ED SAUNDERS:
Social trends and moral impulses are definitely at their lowest
ebb after a national mishap after which time men and women are
given more to promiscuity than propriety. However, even if it
takes being considered an outcast in his moral community, one
should not give in to the aid of their personality and tend towards
the most base kinds of relationships.
Love is wonderful! I think that sometimes I might be cate
gorized as being in love, but nevertheless, because there exists a
moral deficiency in my surroundings, I don’t give vent to my
emotions through public osculation, etc. Anything carried on by
lovers loses its importance when done in public. Petting has never
been condoned by society as a public act, is looked down upon if
done before marriage, either publicly or in some secluded haven.
When things aren’t going according to some die-hards policies,
we are prone to remark that veterans are the cause of the change.
Sociologists have proved that when an individual is taken from a
base environment and placed into one of decency, the good over
comes the bad. But when bad goes to bad then we have worse.
Some Morehouse men are rural and provincial and unable to
remove the mud taken- from the fields and straw from their barns
from their persons. Oftimes I am almost forced to believe that
adage: “You can take the man out of the country, but you can’t
take the country out of the man.”
One cannot so much blame the results as the cause. We have
two extremes in our community and an in-between that is hardly
worth mentioning. At Spelman, we tend towards piety and a lack
of freedom, last experienced by the Puritans in “Old Boston.” Of
ficials who are supposedly intelligent should consult Miss Grace
Overton and see what she says about confined young people who
are given the slightest opportunity for freedom—just like a wild
horse in a pasture. The other extreme is A. U., where freedom is
never the topic of discussion, and consequently, bags drooping
from eyes are sometimes trampled. Our dear neighbor, Clark, has
about the best system, but receives the fewest visitors—we seem
to like the extremist view or from the ridiculous to the more
ridiculous.
ANGEL IN DISGUISE
Each issue I take time to pay tribute to some person or de
partment which is an important spoke in the harmonious progress
of Morehouse and her men. This time with pleasure I present the
spirit of our postal system who has held her position for so con
sistent a period that she knows, without looking, who has and who
hasn’t mail. Her position is one of griefs-and-gripes receiver but
she stands under this continuous pounding like a stone wall. Her
smile is overwhelming lovely, and her sweet disposition a pleasant
note for a deflated ego. I pay tribute to you, Mrs. LaMar for your
concern and encouragement.
FISH STORIES—NARRATORS AND AUDIENCE
Thelma Southerland was quite a young lady before making
“Campus Cuddles’ with Eddie Sandiford. She still is to be exact,
but she never stops with one long enough to do much cuddling—
you’re next “gullible.” She calls herself Queen Villain so they say.
Mignon Lackey would make the California Chamber of Commerce
drop their heads in shame if she represented their weather. The
newest “he” is Harold Whalum, who is serving his third term.—
Miriam Walton has some very good friends. Johnny Johnson takes
her out during the holidays, and then turns her over to Eugene
Elliott to receive the finishing touches.—Juanita Sellers shouldn’t
have dropped Corrin. He is now a wolf on the loose. Even my
stake was shaken.—Our favorite playboy, Paul Gray, went to
K. C. during the holidays and brought back a petite bundle of
pulchritude. Girls I do mean wife. Cecil Jones looked up “Flop’s”
girl at Talladega and almost missed the basketball game. In a
1940 issue of the Maroon Tiger, Charles Maxey was quoted as
saying “I m through with love because she threw the splinters of
my heart into the fire of her forgetfulness.” Unquote. And we
still say Oh, yeah ?—Clarence Baskin wanted a change of scenery,
so he took a jaunt to Talladega and spent a most hectic weekend,
so he tells us. Seems as if things weren’t too bright for him on the
Spelman horizon before he left. Talladega must have an inspiring
climate, for upon his return, Baskin reunited with his “first lady,”
Dorothy Charlton, pronto! Emmett Proctor smartly moves out as
Irving Tompkins moves in on Altoise Chenaut. Don’t worry Proc
tor, basketball season will soon be over. Napoleon Johnson finds a
strong contender in Tidwell. All is fair in love and war. Charles
Hawkins is wondering why he is constantly receiving invites to
Spelman dances. Can’t the girls see that he doesn’t want to be
bothered? Muriel Corrin, why hold out on the Morehouse men of
today? “Bump” Jackson is at Meharry and a Morehouse man of
yesterday.
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