Rookie Coach Makes Impressive Debut

Rookie Coach Mills Makes Impressive Debut

BY WALT DREWRY

There's a bright future for University of Richmond basketball for youthful coaches Lewis Mills and Gale Catlett are doing exceptional jobs and have laid a solid foundation for years to come.

The Spider varsity, picked by the critics to finish at the bottom in the Southern Conference race, had captured five games ( the Spiders won only seven all last season) and lost nine at the break for examinations. The Richmond freshmen won their first 11 games before suffering a defeat.

With only three lettermen, a lack of height and speed and a weak bench ( the squad numbers only nine players), Mills faced a task few rookie varsity cage coaches would tackle. Yet, this scrappy squad holds a pair of upset victories over The Citadel and single triumphs over William and Mary, Florida State and East Carolina. Furthermore, Davidson's fifth ranked Wildcats had all they could handle to prevail, 52-49.

Senior Forward John Telepo, co-captain with Buddy Enck, has developed into a fine all-round player. He's third among Southern Conference scorers with an 18.4 average. Junior Tom Tenwick, who teams with Telepo at forward, is averaging 16.1 points and the pair are averaging better than 18 rebounds.

Enck (9.6) has developed into a fine playmaker. Sophomore Spike Welsh (9.3) is improving rapidly as is George Atwell, non-lettering 6-8 junior center. Larry Weathers, a junior college transfer, is the

Richmond's John Telepo (50) leaps to launch a jump shot as Davidson's Fred Hetzel (44) and Dick Snyder offer resistance. Spider Tom Tenwick is at right. The Wildcats won, 52-49, at the Arena. only other man to see much service.

After dropping a 77-53 decision to Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, the Spiders upset East Carolina, 71-67, in their home debut. Richmond bowed to Virginia, 91-71, and West Virginia, 79-71, on the road, but Enck ta1lied 20 points as the Spiders upset The Citadel, 77-73, at the Arena. Tenwick missed the second half with a hip injury as George Washington edged the Spiders, 6057, at the Arena. Mills' lads bowed to Ea!>t Tennessee, 83-79, and to Eastern Kentucky, 77-62, on the road but returned to the Arena to upset Fforida State, 69-65. Tenwick and Telepo tallied 22 each as Richmond edged The Citadel, 67-65, at Charleston but lost to poised Furman, 74-63, at home.

Richmond, which never trai~ed, controlled the ball most of the second half and edged rallying William and Mary, 53-52, at the Arena. A standing-room crowd of 4,500 watched in amazement as the Spiders twice rolled up seven-point leads (20-13 and 2821) over unbeaten Davidson. The Wildcats managed to take a 4 7 -44 lead in the second half and then went into a 10:45 freeze. However, a layup by Telepo put Richmond within two points with 49 seconds to go.

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BRUTAL SCHEDULE TRIPS GRIDMEN

The 1963 University of Richmond football squad, called upon to play the strongest schedule in the school's history, did a creditable job, finishing the year with three victories, six losses and one tie. With a break or two along the way, the record could have been much better.

The Spiders defeated East Carolina, 10-7, in the season's opener and the Pirates didn't lose another game all season. Davidson bowed to Richmond , 21-13, and the Spiders won an impressive 26-6 victory over The Citadel. A pass interception forced the Spiders to settle for a 7-7 deadlock with V.M.I. after Richmond had driven to the Keydet 10-yard marker in the fourth period.

Coach Ed Merrick's team, which had bowed to Tennessee, 34-6, put up a brilliant battle before losing to Florida, 35-28, and lost a hard fought 7 -0 decision to rugged Southern Mississippi, gambled on a twopoint conversion pass against Virginia Tech, the team which captured the Southern Conference title, and had it intercepted. As a result, Tech won a 14-13 thriller . The brutal schedule and a breakdown in the defensive secondary finally caught up with the Spiders in their final two games and they were defeated by powerful Syracuse, 50-0, and arch rival William and Marv, 20-6.

Halfback Kenny Stoudt and end Pete Emelianchik, both juniors, were named on the All-Southern team and Senior Guard Joe Kessel was chosen on the second team. Stoudt averaged 5.7 yards a carry and caught 20 passes for three touchdowns. Emelianc\1ik caught 21 passes, four of them for touchdowns.

In the VMI game the Keydets scored first on a one-yard plunge set up by Andy Tucker's 29-yard punt return, but Richmond evened the score at 7-7 on the passing of Quarterback Ronnie Smith, the payoff pitch being a five-yarder to Emelianchik. In their futile bid for victory the Spiders moved from their 20 to the VMI 10, chiefly on the tosses of Smith to Stoudt, Emelianchik and Kirk Kressler, but Keydet end Dan Phlegar's interception halted the advance.

Stoudt's 72-yard run gave Richmond a 7-0 lead over Virginia Tech, but the Gobblers, paced by brilliant Quarterback Bob Schweickert, stormed 80 and 78 yards for scores and a 14-7 lead. A fumble, recovered by Kressler, a 23-yard run by Stoudt and a Smith pass to Stoudt which carried to the two set up the Spiders' touchdown by Ken Wilbourne. Going for the win rather than the tie, Richmond faked a kick. Bill Silvi rolled out and passed but Tech's Mike Cahill intercepted to preserve Tech's one-point victory. ·

Playing fine offensive ball, the Spiders easily defeated The Citadel as Smith threw two touchdown passes and Wilbourne tallied twice. Syracuse, however, intercepted five Spider aerials and scored three of its touchdowns via the air lanes.

A 12-yard Smith to'Emelianchik pass gave Richmond a 7 -0 lead over William and Mary in the Thanksgiving Festival Elash, but it was the Indians' day. Tribe quarterback Dan Henning tossed two touchdown passes and set up another score with his aerials as W&M defeated the Spiders for the first time since 1958.

Coach Joe Downing's University of Richmond freshman eleven completed a highly successful campaign. After an opening 6-0 loss to Bullis Prep, the Baby Spiders defeated the VMI Rats, 24-7; the William and Mary Papooses, 9-0; the East Carolina freshmen, 36-6, and a strong Chowan Junior College team, 20-13.

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means whereby those in the community who have had no opportunity to pursue systematically a formal liberal arts program beyond their undergraduate work may continue their intellectual development on a sophisticated level. The curriculum is carefully defined, broad and diversified, while allowing some measure of choice to meet the specific interests and needs of the degree candidate.

The degree requires neither a thesis nor mastery of a foreign language. It is not designed to prepare students for doctoral work. It is specifically planned to appeal to the college graduate regardless of the orientation of his undergraduate work. It should appeal to adults who are currently engaged in business, education, engineering, government, homemaking, as well as other fields of endeavor.

Evening Classes m the Liberal Arts

Another feature of University College's offerings are courses in the liberal arts for evening students. These will supplement the current commerce and business classes that have been given in the evenings. The need for these classes in liberal arts was demonstrated last September when two courses were offered and filled to capacity.

Students will be able to take more of their degree work in University College as more liberal arts courses are added to the curriculum. For those who graduate from the Junior College the courses in commerce given in the evenings will enable them to complete their requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce in University College.

The Management Development Center

A unique feature of University College is its new Management Development Center established in 1963 to provide area industry with high quality professional management training and services. Richard S. Underhill, a former vice-president of a firm in Battle Creek, Michigan, was appointed director of the Center. With the support of University College full-time faculty, the Center offers non-college-credit professional courses, conferences, attitude surveys, consultation, and individual development programs.

The activities of the Center are financed by membership fees and tuition fees, as well as charges for special services. The nine ten-week conference programs in progress since the Center began its operations is proof enough of the Center's utility to the City's business community.

Ever Present Needs The growth and development of University College is in keeping with the changing skyline of Richmond itself, and like downtown Richmond, University College needs a renewal of its facilities. The Columbia building does not meet the needs of a fastgrowing institution. Classrooms, science laboratories, faculty offices, and library facilities-the core of the college-need to be expanded as rapidly as possible.

Few people would question the imperative nature of the services offered and to be offered by the College or Richmond's need for these academic increments. Universities always have crucial needs, and to the University of Richmond and to those in particular whose task it is to make the College a strong branch of the whole University these needs are opportunities and challenges for continued growth. University College will have an exciting and essential role to play in downtown Richmond.

Chief Justice

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would only be inferred, while they are thus suffered to roll and luxuriate in these gross invectives against the administration, that they are furnishing the joys of a Mahometan paradise to the court as well as to their client. I hope that the court, for their own sakes, will compel a decent respect to that government of which they themselves form a branch.

These are the remarks, it seems, which Marshall disliked and which he desired changed in the records. Wirt protested against any meaning unfavorable to the Chief Justice, assured him that he would alter them, then promptly forgot his promise. Twenty years after the event Wirt, in writing to Judge Carr, was certain that he intended no injurious imputations, but immediately after the trial he was ready to consider John Marshall a lost soul. George Hay, United States District Attorney who led the prosecution, wrote to Jefferson on September 1, 1807 , after Marshall, through a narrow definition of treason, had made it impossible to convict Burr. "Wirt, who has hitherto advocated the integrity of the chief justice, now abandons him. This last opinion has opened his eyes, and he speaks in the strongest terms of reprobation."

Undoubtedly Marshall was troubled over several of his acts of commission or omission as they would appear in the records of the Burr trial. He approached not on1y Wirt but, with more effect, David Robertson, counsellor at law, who was to publish from his shorthand notes a two-volume account of the proceedings. He and other reporters were told by the Chief Justice, after the delivery of judgment in the case, that a particularly vigorous statement which he had used early in the trial "had no allusion to the conduct of the government in the case before him, but onily meant an elucidation of the general doctrine laid down by Blacks.tone." Robertson soberly incorporated the remark in a footnote.

Among the numerous "untoward circumstances" which Wirt believed had prejudiced the Chief Justice against him were the unfavorable comments broadcast by John Wick[ 14)

ham and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, prominent conservatives of the Richmond bar and Marshall's neighbors and fellow-members of the famous Barbecue Club. Wickham, described by the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, as "the only gentleman I found in America," opposed Wirt in the Burr and other trials. Leigh, whose second wife was Marshall's niece and whose third was Wickham's daughter, ran counter to Wirt in less famous lawsuits. These intimates of the Chief Justice were more convinced of Wirt' s eloquence than of his learning.

At the national capital, to which he repaired after his appointment as Attorney General in 1817, Wirt thought he saw new unfriendly critics in the New Englanders, Daniel Webster and Justice Joseph Story. According to Wirt, these "bosom friends" of the Chief Justice "have no great love for me." The Attorney General's suspicion of Story's ill will-Story was the learned Supreme Court Judge whom Marshall particularly esteemed-may be credited ninetenths to imagination. Wirfs skepticism as to Webster, his rival, before the courts, is more readily accepted. The Attorney General's brilliant and repeated triumphs in litigation might well have irritated Webster, a man of alpine ambitions, but one suspects that Wirt himseilf was not entirely free from jealousy. For it was Webster who shone with rare brilliance in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, when Wirt unluckily made his worst prepared and least convincing appearance before John Marshall. Incidentally , both Wickham and Leigh appear to have witnessed Wirt's inauspicious performance. And in Gibbons v. Ogden, a case which saw the two men as joint attorneys, Webster's opinion, not his, was closely followed by Marshall when giving the decision. "It was an accident, I think," remarked Webster when pondering the neglect accorded Wirt's presentation. Wirt probably thought otherwise.

In his letter to Judge Carr, Wirt's reference to Marshall's lack of imagination and his own "pretty strong seasoning, perhaps an overseasoning of it" underscores tl:i.e observation in the Spy, made twenty-£.qti.i'years earlier: "As to fancy, if she hold · i seat in his [Marshall's] mind at all, which I very much doubt, his gigantic genius tramples with disdain, on all her flower-decked plats and blooming parterres."

Wirt would have been the first to admit that his own love of prismatic effects had troubled him, but the eloquent lawyer resented the scornful label, "whip syllabub genius," which, he complained, had been appilied to him a thousand times in Marshall's presence.

Between the writing of the document under discussion and Wirt's death, less than seven years later, Marshall and Wirt, while never intimate, were drawn together largely through their common distrust of one man, Andrew Jackson. Wirt made one embarrass•ing faux pas, however, in the year 1830,

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