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Sports Scene Flying high The 1970 basketball season came early for the Guilford Quakers. Very early. For head coach Jerry Steele and five players from his nationally ranked team, the season started June 23. Location: West Africa. For ail-American center David Smith, the season started July 5. Location: the Air Force and Naval Academies where select athletes tried out for upcoming Olympic, Pan- American, and World University Games. Coach Steele and five of his conference champions who finished fourth in the NAIA national tournament accepted an invitation from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to serve as good will ambassadors on a six-week West African tour sponsored by the U. S, State Department. Accompanying Steele are sophomores M. L. Carr and Ted East; juniors Tom Ennis and Jerry Crocher; and senior Bert Feik. All are from North Carolina except Crocker who is from New York. Flying first to Washington to meet with State Department officials, they were wished well by Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina and Congressman L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro. Among those also waving good-by as they flew from Washington was the executive director of the NAIA, Al Duer, who came all the way from Kansas City to personally see them off. Coach Steele's first post card from West Africa reported the tour was going well. Arriving first in Dakar, capital of Senegal, the Quakers met the Senegalese team made up of the best players from amateur groups and sports clubs in the nation. With Dakar as headquarters, the visiting Americans made trips to other Senegalese towns such as Zi- guinchor, Thies, and Kaolack for games, exhibitions, and clinics. Since most of the courts were expected to be out of doors, the team took with it some fifty outdoor basketballs for presentation to the host groups. Travel was not always easy. For instance, it took the Steele-men eight hours to go by jeep and ferry from Dakar to Gambia, a distance of less than a hundred miles. The coach noted proudly, however, that the boys were showing "guts, poise, and determination through a demanding schedule." A study of the itinerary and a map of Africa shows that the Quakers are seeing much of the continent, from the western coastal nations to the interior to North Africa. Their schedule calls for stops in and around Bamako in Mali, Nai- mey in Niger, Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Douala in Cameroon, Fort Lamy in Chad, Tripoli in Libya, and Algiers in Algeria. If the schedule remains as planned, Coach Steele and his good will ambassadors will fly from Algiers to New York City on August 4, reaching the Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem Airport near Guilford College the following day. While his teammates were together in Mali on July 5, David Smith was a loner as he flew from Greensboro to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He was invited there to take part in the first U. S. Olympic Basketball Planning Program, set up to give potential Olympic and Pan-American Games talent an op- The Guilford basketball team boarded the plane at Greensboro for the first leg of their six-week good will tour of Africa. Boarding from left to right are: Bert Feik, Tom Ennis, Jerry Crocker, M. L. Carr, Ted East, followed by Coach Jerry Steele. The airline hostess is Joy Michaels. 12
Object Description
Title | Sports scene: Flying high |
Date | 1970-07 |
Subject headings | Guilford College |
Topics | Race relations at Guilford College |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | This 1970 Guilford College Bulletin article report on a trip taken by the five starting players for the 1970 Quaker Men's Basketball team. Bert Feik, Tom Ennis, Jerry Crocker, M.L. Carr, Ted East, and their coach Jerry Steele went on a six week "good will tour of Africa." The first integrated basketball team in Guilford College's history, this trip was also significant in that these five players, "tried out for upcoming Olympic, Pan-American, and World University Games." |
Type | text |
Original format | reports |
Original dimensions | 8.5" x 11" |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Guilford College |
Language | en |
Contributing institution | Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College |
Source collection | Guilford College Bulletin |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
Object ID | GUI_BulletinCRG.0795 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
OCLC number | 884367896 |
Page/Item Description
Title | 2.11.795-01 |
Full text | Sports Scene Flying high The 1970 basketball season came early for the Guilford Quakers. Very early. For head coach Jerry Steele and five players from his nationally ranked team, the season started June 23. Location: West Africa. For ail-American center David Smith, the season started July 5. Location: the Air Force and Naval Academies where select athletes tried out for upcoming Olympic, Pan- American, and World University Games. Coach Steele and five of his conference champions who finished fourth in the NAIA national tournament accepted an invitation from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to serve as good will ambassadors on a six-week West African tour sponsored by the U. S, State Department. Accompanying Steele are sophomores M. L. Carr and Ted East; juniors Tom Ennis and Jerry Crocher; and senior Bert Feik. All are from North Carolina except Crocker who is from New York. Flying first to Washington to meet with State Department officials, they were wished well by Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina and Congressman L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro. Among those also waving good-by as they flew from Washington was the executive director of the NAIA, Al Duer, who came all the way from Kansas City to personally see them off. Coach Steele's first post card from West Africa reported the tour was going well. Arriving first in Dakar, capital of Senegal, the Quakers met the Senegalese team made up of the best players from amateur groups and sports clubs in the nation. With Dakar as headquarters, the visiting Americans made trips to other Senegalese towns such as Zi- guinchor, Thies, and Kaolack for games, exhibitions, and clinics. Since most of the courts were expected to be out of doors, the team took with it some fifty outdoor basketballs for presentation to the host groups. Travel was not always easy. For instance, it took the Steele-men eight hours to go by jeep and ferry from Dakar to Gambia, a distance of less than a hundred miles. The coach noted proudly, however, that the boys were showing "guts, poise, and determination through a demanding schedule." A study of the itinerary and a map of Africa shows that the Quakers are seeing much of the continent, from the western coastal nations to the interior to North Africa. Their schedule calls for stops in and around Bamako in Mali, Nai- mey in Niger, Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Douala in Cameroon, Fort Lamy in Chad, Tripoli in Libya, and Algiers in Algeria. If the schedule remains as planned, Coach Steele and his good will ambassadors will fly from Algiers to New York City on August 4, reaching the Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem Airport near Guilford College the following day. While his teammates were together in Mali on July 5, David Smith was a loner as he flew from Greensboro to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He was invited there to take part in the first U. S. Olympic Basketball Planning Program, set up to give potential Olympic and Pan-American Games talent an op- The Guilford basketball team boarded the plane at Greensboro for the first leg of their six-week good will tour of Africa. Boarding from left to right are: Bert Feik, Tom Ennis, Jerry Crocker, M. L. Carr, Ted East, followed by Coach Jerry Steele. The airline hostess is Joy Michaels. 12 |