Intramurals

Libery's crawling with 'em Fat Boys, Smut Bellies, Barbarians, Beach Bums, Terminators,

Most of them hang out on the fields up by the guard shack, kickingup turfand slamming intoeach other and having a great time doing it.

Others populate the gym, spiking and blocking, or the tennis courts, slamming and lobbing

No, Liberty'snot full ofstreet gangs orpunk rock groups. It's full of intramural teams. The above were men'stouchfootballteams in1985.

Of course,the names ofthe girlsvolleyballteams weren'tso rough-and-tumble — theMickey-Mousers the Champettes, Nutra Sweet. Sweet Sixteen.

Intramuralsare big atLiberty realbig Yearly participants number notinthehundredsbut in the thousands. The 1985 men's touch footballcompeti- tion, for example, had 24 teams with 20 members each fora total of480.

Women's volleyball had 14 teams with 20 members each fora total of280.

Director Ralph Gold saidformer director Roy Yarborough conducted a study at the end of 1984-85 and found that 3,000-3,500 participated in intramurals. That was well over half the student body that year

Gold and his two assistants Beno Chappell and Terry Jordan scheduled a number of sports— touch football(men's and women's), soccer,indoor soccer, tennis,volleyball,basketball, three-on-threebasketball, softball.

Students must choose a team manager and a referee

Before any competition is scheduled, managers must meet and go through all the rules. Themanager signsa contract,saying he willpay $4.50 for every game that'sforfeited.Managers are urged to be punctual, encourage fairplay and help control team emotions.

Gold didn't give a prize for the wierdest name But,ifhe had, itno doubt would have gone to O.F.M.M.B. (oldfashioned malted milkballs)

Dolph Bell

TakeahotSeptember day Addavacant lot on a Virginia countryside, a gang ofguysandyou've gotintramuralfootball (upper left),soccer (left) tennis (above), oryou can go inside and bump a volleyball