Elon Football

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Their media guide:

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/athletics/fbmedia.xhtml

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Four Phoenix Football Players Named Preseason All-SoCon

Three Players on First Team

7/24/2007

Terrell Hudgins - 1 of 4 Phoenix named All-SoConGREENVILLE, S.C. – Four Elon football players were chosen to the Preseason All-Southern Conference teams by the league’s coaches as announced at the 2007 SoCon Football Rouser.  Claiming First Team All-SoCon honors were sophomore wide receiver Terrell Hudgins (Rocky Mount, N.C.), junior linebacker Corey Weaver (New Bern, N.C.) and junior punter Brandon Lane (Greensboro, N.C.).  Junior kicker Andrew Wilcox (Richmond, Va.) earned Second Team All-SoCon accolades.

Hudgins was a Second Team All-America pick by The Associated Press, a First Team All-South selection by Football Gazette and an all-SoCon pick by both the league’s coaches and media as a red-shirt freshman in 2006.  Last year, Hudgins became just the second Elon receiver to eclipse the 1,000-receiving yard mark by hauling in 62 balls for 1,027 yards.  He led the league and ranked second in the nation by averaging 102.7 receiving yards per game.  Hudgins led the squad with eight touchdown catches and had at least 100 yards receiving in six of the 10 games in which he appeared.  He set a career-high with 186 receiving yards against Wofford and grabbed a career-high 14 passes versus The Citadel.

Weaver finished the 2006 campaign with 93 tackles, ranking second on the squad.  His 8.5 tackles per game ranked in a tie for 58th nationally and he made a career-best 25 tackles at eventual National Champion Appalachian State.  For that performance Weaver was chosen as the Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Week and Football Gazette National Defensive Player of the Week.  Weaver tallied at least 10 tackles in four games as a sophomore and was chosen as the team’s Most Outstanding Linebacker.

Lane, who earlier this summer was named a Preseason Second Team All-American by College Sporting News, was a Football Gazette Third Team All-South selection and a First Team All-SoCon selection following the 2006 season.  He averaged 42.4 yards per punt to lead the SoCon and rate 11th in the nation a year ago.  Nine of Lane’s punts ended up inside the 20-yard line.  At Georgia Southern, Lane booted a career-best 62-yard punt and was named Football Gazette National Special Teams Player of the Week following that outing.  He was chosen as the team’s Most Outstanding Special Teams Player.

Wilcox was a First Team All-Southern Conference selection by the media and a second team choice by the coaches following the 2006 campaign.  He was also a Football Gazette Honorable Mention All-American and Second Team All-South honoree a year ago.  Wilcox was successful on 12 of 18 field goal attempts and connected on a career-long attempt of 43-yards against Wofford.  He also knocked home 29-of-30 PAT attempts and led the team with 65 points.  His 1.1 field goals per game led the league and ranked 20th in the country.

[Brad]

I can't help but think if there were some sort of scandal there it would be called

ELONGATE

Am I off-topic?  Sorry.

[E.T.]

Elon Phoenix

Conference: Southern

The CFI Shows: If Elon ever starts getting good enough to win SoCon and I-AA Championships, this number will get much better, guaranteed.

How To Improve: Aside from getting Appalachian State, Furman, and Georgia Southern to downgrade to Division III, the only alternative is to win more SoCon football games.

Upshot: Dog? Alien? Or mythical bird that rises from the ashes? Even though the Phoenix was recently voted the “most improved mascotâ€Â, this indeterminate fuzzy mascot makes one wonder: An improvement… from what?

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[E.T.]

I can't help but think if there were some sort of scandal there it would be called

ELONGATE

...

Christian Persecution

Mascots with Indian themes, however, are hardly the only endangered emblematic species. Protestant fundamentalists also seem to be at risk.

Up until 1999, the mascot of Elon University’s 16 varsity sports teams was the Fightin’ Christians.8

In 1921, local sportswriters, making a clever play on the University’s founders, the Christian Church, dubbed Elon’s football team the “Christians.†The “Fightin’†portion of the moniker, according to the Wikipedia, “is said to have been coined by a sportswriter covering a contest in the 1930’s between Elon and nearby Guilford College, a Quaker school. .. The nickname was chosen due to Elon’s proximity to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and the Duke Blue Devils.â€Â

Campus officials made the change from Fightin’ Christians because the historic link to the church is no longer apparent, causing puzzlement about the team name.9 Others felt that the original nickname was not universal enough for a team making the transition to Division I athletics. The specifics notwithstanding, a new mascot, the Phoenix, was adopted. The name, “Phoenix,†originated from the school’s historic rebuilding following a 1923 fire that destroyed almost the entire campus. Yep, that should clear up that puzzlement about the origin and significance of the team name.

Consequent to the nickname change, “Mr. E,†the bearded, barrel-chested figure with balled fists and a deacon’s hat who had represented the school was sent to mascot heaven, where he and The Chief have, no doubt, met and commiserated over their fates. The only graphic of Mr. E. I could find is displayed below alongside his replacement, the Phoenix. Also shown is the Nike Swoosh, which, it appears to my untutored eyes, shares a tad of the Phoenix’s designer DNA.

[Beancounter]

You've got to love a team thats 4 most notable players includes the kicker and punter :

Maybe we could convince the punter to transfer

[crambone]

Cheerleaders look hawt...

[smazza]

usf should beat this team 70-0

[Brad]

usf should beat this team 70-0

But we won't.  There are more important objectives than totally destroying a weaker opponent.  We've never been about that so I am sure you'll see a lot of players on the field and very few plays.  If it turns out 70-0 so be it.  But solely trying to "make a statement "against Elon would be stupid and out of the ordinary for this program.