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Page 4 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.” SEE US NOW ABOUT F M and TELEVISION RADIOS MclVER 876 Hunter St., S. W. RA. 0410 Kampub M,erryj Qo (Round ;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? 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