Shepherd University - Cohongoroota Yearbook (Shepherdstown, WV)

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O O For The firsT Time in Shepherd College hisTory, The school's fooTball Team finished a season undefeaTed. AfTer The lasT Touchdown and The lasT cheer, The gridiron maThema- Ticians goT busy. They found The 1955-56 Team, in eighT games, had scored a ToTal of 299 poinTs. This meanT ThaT The Shepherd College Rams were members of one of The highesT-scoring fooTball clubs in The counTry. The Team was The only undefeaTed and unTied college gridiron group in VVesT Virginia and Virginia. The Rams averaged more Than 5 Touch- downs and 37 poinTs for each game. They covered 2,181 yards by rush- ing The ball and 1,002 yards by passing iT. This gave Them a ToTal neT gain of 3,183 yards. IT was This kind of record which won Shepherd College firsT-place honors in iTs league, The VVesT Virginia lnTercollegiaTe AThleTic Confer- ence. IT also helped To place QuarTerback John Shearer, Halfback George HoTT, and End Dick Widdows on The VVVIAC All-Conference fooTball Team. fThe WVIAC Trophy appears on The nexT pagej. AddiTional honors wenT To QuarTerback Shearer. He made The LiTTle All-American Team of The NaTional lnTercollegiaTe AThleTic Associafion. He was The only member of a VVesT Virginia fooTball Team To do so. However, The Rams probably would have won none of Their baTTles if Shearer, HoTT, and Widdows had noT been supporfed by superb in- fanTry, The men in The line. IT was an ouTsTanding season for all players, and iT was a season boTh players and specTaTors will never forgeT. Much of The crediT goes To Coach Don Fuoss and AssisTanT Coach Dick Mackey. For his work, Coach Fuoss also was honored. The WesT Virginia SporTs WriTers AssociaTion named him Coach of The Year. The Rams also won The ZeTa Memorial Trophy. The Trophy was creaTed To honor The laTe Dr. Calvin DirTing, himself once a Shepherd Ram. IT is because of all These greaT honors ThaT The 1956 ediTion of The COHONGOROOTA is dedicaTed To The incomparable Rams.

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79 The professor studies his lecture notes and his books, meets his classes compiles grades, plans courses, and sponsors student organizations and activities. Through the faculty committees of which he is a member, he also provides advice to administrative officials. But, as everybody at any college knows, only administrative officials really run the college. If it were not for them, there would be no bacteria- killing chlorine in the college swimming pool, no coal in heating plant bunkers, no books for students to buy, no desks for their classrooms, no food in their cafeteria, no television in their dormitory lobbies, no classes for them to attend, no professors. ln short, of course, there would be no college. There is a great deal more to administering the functions of a college than merely running it, day after day, in the same old way. There is planning, planning which can never end. Sometimes the plans are mere wishful thinking , . . at first . . . like the wishes Shepherd has for a new women's dormitory, new library, new addition to the men's dormitory, and a student union building. At other times the plans result in the slow but methodical materialization of a new men's dormitory and a new gymnasium. All this is characteristic of administration at Shepherd College, as it is of most American colleges. Administration means planning for present and future enrollments, for buildings, for instruction, and for students, but most of all for students, for without them too, there would be no college. W wi S QW!! '21 'r