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' BY JOHN STECK Vi presidents and adminis trate". a powerful policy force in the NCAA, exploded a bombshell in act’xu : passage of a rule elimi i: • me free substitution in foot ball l,i t week by the rules com pter in session in Florida. It marks the end. at least for a vt ar. of the grid specialist, and c expected to Iseathe new life into small in tituti ns which had taken a financial beating trying t i keep pact in the two-platoon ei a In the modern era. oO small ivile V . across the II. S. have ; .1 t'ii p football as t o expensive.

The nrv regulation which brings back tSp pra of the all around "iron man" offensive and defensive performer, states llpit players removed from the game during the first and third periods may not return to ac tion in those periods. Players withdrawn before the final four minutes of the sec ond and fourth periods may go hack into the game in those last four minutes. Football coaches were 4 to 1 a poor of k-epim; the free suit 'd::; a rules but the rules com t a'.tv. felt the pressure from .■ani' Font men who must pay i;: 11 ire responsible for their .t ;■;(ums and who must sign rtbl 'aiements the presidents an i udr mWtrnt ws. ; iarit aien-Sydncy Coach Jim i '<!■;. wiu) was as surprised n« ipyt mintor. feels that it v.ill ;H1 to the -mall school. "A p .p ! of 15-18 rood men available • "a sip ill schools can pretty • i! Id r's own acain-t 30 play ers o-i a larger .squad." It was ■!c 40-50 man squad, with sdc i i' ■1 s for every occasion, that kc '' - gnal! squad's back, he ; *>; : •' "f'-j 1 ;i>i conferences it will r •!;>• little clnrnto in game re • '.it- Well all :c on the same un the new rule." Hickey said. Smuig Drills Set l'he Ti. will begin spring ' 1 . " (: ill . went her permit - toe From pi 1 after mid-term ■> : l .'•• out of the way. Hickev O'l"" is to spend two weeks of pri Liiiin i: rs without iiaris. and . hid .p with two weeks of con tad work 'I lie T; ig .quad w ; 11 work nu‘ ' l flu - , ■ ■■', of t be r nil- •« eeks. ; High Schools l neffretrd

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Elimination of the two-platoon 1 system in football won't effort high schools, it appears. Under a completely separate ruling body, high schools are expected to con tinue operating with the free sub . stitution rule, which is believed to be physically beneficial to the : younger boys. The high school governing body is the National Federation of High School Athletic Asociations. H V. Porter, executive secretary of that group, said last week the Asso ciation's rules tor 1953 are already made up. For high schools free substitu tion enables more boys to partici pate. and helps protect them against injuries. The latter are known to occur more frequently when a boy is exhausted from protracted playing.

JERRY ADAMS Faces Tigers ll-S Tigers W in Oxer W-M 69-63 Second Victory In Conference Hampden - Sydney s Tigers, hammered out their second Mason-Dixon Conference basket ball victory of the season. Friday night, at Hampden-Sydnev. They chalked up a 69-63 score on Western Maryland. The Tigers' Jerry Adams broke loose for 32 points to cinch the winning game. Adams flipped in a dozen field goals and had a perfect eight-for eight from the foul stripe in helping the Tigers snap a four game losing streak. The visiting Green Terrors were never able to .stop this driving layup and jump push shot. Western Maryland forged out in front at the start and held a 20-18 margin at the end of the first quarter. The Terrors length ened the lead to six points at 29-23 shortly after the second period opened, but at this point Hampden-Sydney abandoned its zone defense and went into a man-to-man. Hampden - Sydney was never headed after the half although Western Maryland kept within striking distance. The Green Ter rors were only four points behind, at 63-59. with a minute and a 1 alf to go in the final stanza, but poor shooting at the foul stripe cost them an opportunity to close the gap. They connected on only 17 of 41 free throws.

Jack Needleman and Bui Bopst tallied 13 points apiece to pace the Western Maryland attack. Nobody on the Hampaen-Sydney squad reached double figures ex cept Adams, who had his hottest night of the current season Western Maryland g f rr Needleman f. 6 1-5 13 Ripes 4 3-5 11 White f ... .’. 3 0-0 6 Phiefer f 11-1 3 Jackson f 0 0-0 0 Bopst c. 3 7-13 13 Doll g 3 1-10 7 Campbell g .2 2-5 4 Phipps g . 1 2-5 4 Whitehurst g .... 0 0-0 0 Totals 23 17-41 63 Hampden-Svdney g i rr Adams f 12 8-8 32 B. Curtis 1 1 4-7 6 R Curtis f 2 3-8 7 Hoffman f ....... 2 2-4 6 Key c . .2 2-9 6 Joyce g . 0 1-1 1 Mottley g . 2 1-3 5 Slaydon g.0 0-0 0 ( Shelton g . 2 2-2 6 Totals . 28 23-37 69 W-M . 20 16 10 17—63 H-S . IS 19 1C 1G— 09

FHS Takes Inter-District Contest 34-47 Over Friend High Saturday

Farmville High's basketball forces invaded South Boston Sat urday night and came up with a 54 to 47 victory over C. H Friend High, a perennial power m District 4. , The scrappy Friend five put up more of a fight than anticipated during the inter-district tussle be tween the schools which have re presented the districts at the state tournament the past four years. The Wolverines came from be hind a first period one-point de ficit to take a 27 to 22 half-time lead. They increased it to a 12 point lead go^pg into the final quarters, when Friend suddenly came to life with strong rebound ing and shooting. For Fa-mville it was the seventh straight victory. Eddie Thornton contributed 20 points ta keep up his fine scoring pace, while Clyde Shelton hit for 14 to follow in the point-getting department.

Farmville Cl F TP Shelton, f .* .3 8 14 Newman, f 10 2 Vale, f. 4 0 8 Drumeller, c . 2 1 5 Franklin, g . 0 5 5 Thornton, g . 9 2 20 Hubbard, g . 0 0 0 Totals . 19 16 54 Friend G F TP Vcrman. f 3 1 7 Hodges, f 3 3 9 Shelton, f . 4 0 11 Childrey. c ... 3 2 8 Dunavant, g 113 Riddle, g . 4 2 10 Wilkerson, g 0 2 2 Adams, g ....... 0 0 ’ 0 Totals . 18 11 47 Farmville 12 15 18 9—54 Friend 13 9 11 14—47 Fouls missed: Farmville, 10. South Boston, 8.

McCracken Cets 17 As Powhatan High Downs Smith 50-31 Milas McCracken's 17 points was the top effort for the Pow hatan High Indians' fine team performance Friday night as they piled up a 50-31 victory over G. T. Smith High. The victory brought Qcarh A1 Sardelli's squad average to .500, with three victories against three defeats. Jim Layne and Doug Manley contributed 13 and 11 points re spectively. as every Indian broke into the scoring column. Powha tan still is playing without the height and experience of Capt. Buddy Spencer, out with an in jured knee. The Powhatan girls lost the preliminary game 39-22. Boy's Box Score: Powhatan G F TP McCracken, f 8 1 17 Worsham, f . 10 2 Layne, c 6 1 13 Manley, g . 4 3 11 Perkins, g .237

Totals ..... 21 8 50 C. T. Smith G P TP Satter white, f 6 1 13 Pugh, f ....... 0 2 2 Stevens, c 10 2 Parr, c ... . 2 3 7 Allen, g 2 0 4 DuiTCtt. g 0 3 3 sr --- Totals ...... 11 9 31 Amelia High Edged By Crewe 40-3.3 The Amelia High Orioles and Crewe High Railroaders played a close point-for-point game Tues day night at Crewe with the Railroaders finally emerging with a 40-33 triumph. It was a team battle minus individual stars. Amelia collected seven of them, but Crewe took the period 10-9. An even second period made it 17-16 at half-time in favor of Crewe. A third period spurt by the Railroaders during which they outscored Amelia 11 to 5 was the decisive one a 12-12 scoring

LOOKING AT THE H.-S. C. TIGERS

/ '.if "f SMB HHMBB FRANK R. HOFFMAN Frank It. "DOddic'’ Hoffman. 6'3 ", 195-pound co-captain of the Death Valley court squad, is a product of Richmond's John Marshall High School. He is a rebounding specialist for Coach Waldo Matthews and holds down the center post. Despite a knee injury which handicapped him last year, he scored 63 points in nine games lor a seven-point average. A knee operation has straightened out’ the injury and Hoffman has been a rugged performer for the Tigers in his senior year. At John Marshall. Hoffman played football, basketball and baseball. At Death Valley, he has limited sports activity to the lat ter two and is captain of the 1953 baseball nine. lie is a main stay of the mound corps aT Death Valley and last year had the thrill of whipping Randolph-Macon’s strong diamond squaa. The Jack ets were one of the state's top collegiate nines last year. stand-off in the final period gave the game its final count! Crewe's Bob Murphy and Jerry roller tied for scoring honors with 11 points each. Bob Kidds nine points led the Amelia effort, with Harry Warren chipping in seven more.

FIIS, Statesmen Still Unbeaten Crewe Toppled In District 3 Farmville and Rai)dolph-Henr\ continued their unbeaten pace, while Crewe High's Railroader.; fepl frem that loftv plain as a re sult of District 3 basketball con tests last week. In District play. FHS has a S-0 standing followed by the Ran dblph-Henry Statesmen with 4-0 The Statesmen edged Crewe 33 31 Friday night at Charlotte C. H; It was Crewe's first loss in six tries, and the sixth straight for R-H. The results set up the January 30 meeting between Farmville and Randolph-Henry with the possibility of a contest between unbeaten fives for the district lead.

Week's Results Blackstone. beaten only by FHS took three district names during the week to close with a 7-1 standing, followed by Crewe 5-1 and Emporia 3-1 District 3 results last week: Emporia 65 Lawrenceville 44 Crewe 40 Amelia 33 Blackstone 59 Burkeville 23 Blackstone 59 Victoria 34 Kenbridge 27 Burkeville 24 Victoria 36 Amelia 26 Blackstone 50 Lawrenceville 34

Girls Standings In girls contests, Emporia High ’ends the district with a 5-0 re cord. with Randolph-Hcnrv also undefeated and boasting a 4-0 re cord. Despite Farmville's losses, Ph.vl ’’s Penrlove has compiled a ter rific 25.5 average in six games The Wolverettes are getting •troncer with each game, as down bv their pushing Emnoria ‘he limit before losing 43-37 Fri day.

TiVer Co-C^ntains 'nnnnncpd To ^rid Banqueteers Hampden - Sydney College's Athletic Association Saturday night tendered a steak dinner to members of the 1952 football squad and introduced the co Captains for 1953 while award ing monograms and gold foot balls. Stokley Fulton, All-Little Six. guard and linebacker, from Danville. Jim Stokes, of lxen bridge. the Tigers' fine tackle, will lead the 195.3 squad, the banqueteers learned. Gold footballs were presented to four seniors. Co-C aptain Lee LeComptc. Bob Johnson and Jim Harris, and to Lquipment M anagrr Henry Head. In addi tion. monograms were awarded to squadmen earning the covet ed *!-S. Dr. Fdear G. Gammon, col lege president, addressed the banqueteers during the event in the College Commons. Hoffman is president of the Pi Kappa Alpha and is also a mem ber of the campus leadership society. Omicron Delta Kappa. He is president of the Monogram Club and is on the Interfraternity and Honor councils.

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Area High School Basketball This Week ■Suesday, .Ian. 20: Cumberland - Marshall District at Buckingham. Caroline at Powhatan Friday, Jan. 23: Farmville at Lawreuceville Buckingham - Central at Em poria Amelia-Burkeville at Crewe Wash-Henry at Powhatan

CLYDE SHELTON FHS Scoring Threat

Wolverines’ Second Half Spurt Downs Emporia 6549 Here Friday

Fartmille High's W ivennos used a final period spurt to de feat Emporia High School here Friday night 65-49. It was FHS’s sixth straight win for a clean District 3 slate. Off on their rebounding and shooting in the first half. Coach Gilmer's team held a slim 26-25 margin at half-time. In tlie third period the Wolverines started to hit and in the final half out scored the visitors 39 to 24, ta win going away. Co-Captain Bill Drumeller v.as top scorer for FHS. counting on a jump shot in close. He collect ed 12 points m the torrid final neriod. All the Wolverines.turned in good scoring efforts after get ting underway in the later stages. Darden Livesay. the Eagles' fine renter and pivot man. was the top scorer with 25 points. The loss was Coach Ed Drew's Eagles' second in District 3 play.

They had a 5-2 record going into Friday night's game, a lo.vs to Blackstone being the only dis trict mar. Boxscore: Farmvile FG F TP Newman, f . 4 0 8 Shelton, t 5 2 12 Drumeller. c 9 2 20 Thornton, g . . .... 7 0 14 Franklin, g 4 3 11 Totals. 29 7 65 Emporia FG F TP Belmonte, f 5 7 17 Brantley, f 10 2 Livesay. c . 10 5 25 Jeans, g .... 2 1 5 Newsom'', g 0 0 0 Totals 18 13 49 Fouls missed — Farmville 6: Fmnoria 12. FHS 14 12 14 25—65 Emp. 8 17 8 16—49

Field & St "earn Largemouth Bass Stocking Completed

The largemouth oa.ss stocking program for 1952-53. carried on by the fish division personnel of the Commission of Game and In land fisheries, has been com pleted. G. W. Buller, fish division chief, reports. The first week in January brought to a close tiie 1952-53 largemouth bass stocking program with the last of some 105.000 largemouth bass being released m eastern Virginia waters. Of this number. 70.000 were keepers, averaging more than one pound. In addition to the thousands of bass stocked from tpe Commis sion's Stevrnsville largemouth hatchery. 38.000 crappie and 106.

000 bream were also stocked. Fish from Stevensville were distributed to 93 ponds and 58 livers in 44 counties and two cities open to public fishing in eastern Virginia. Stocking from Front Royal and ihe new Buller hatchery in south west Virginia was completed in December, with 140,600 small mouths being released in 40 rivets in 33 western counties. In addi tion. 167,300 sunfish and 13.000 rock bass were released in these same waters. The Commission's trout stock ing program will begin February 1.

Powhatan Boys Lose 34-33 In Last Second; Girls Whip W-Henry Washington - Hen r y H 1 g h School's forward. Cox, got only three points during Ine night, but two of them came on a long fling from mid-court in me last three seconds to give his team a 34-33 heartbreaker win met'the Powha tan Indians last Tuesday night. For the Indians. Miles Mc Cracken. Doug Manley and Jim Layne hit in double figures of 12. 11 and 10 respectively, but W-H Center Sledd's 11 topped the night's effort. In the girls' game. Coach John Guidon's Powhatan lassies were too strong for W-H. capturing the verdict 37-20. Phyllis Green, PHS forward, took scoring honors with 18 points. Also scoring fc* Powltfctan were Stokes, 8: Law i Continued on Pape 7)

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