50 Years Ago

Sunday, Aug. 1, 1972

‘There’s no easy way to win,’ says Stovall

Jerry Stovall, former LSU AllAmerican and Saint Louis Cardinal All-Pro, told over 400 persons at the national conference of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, underway at Berry College, that “there’s no easy way to win.”

“One way you don’t have to worry,” he said at an assembly program, “is not to enter the contest. But there’s one contest you have no say-so over as to whether or not you’re in it, and that’s the game of life.”

Stovall, who played nine years of pro football with the Saint Louis Cardinals before retiring last year to join the South Carolina coaching staff, told the conference conferees: “What a great opportunity you have to be a man before you leave this campus. Before this week ends say, ‘I would see Jesus because you want to because he wants to see you.’ ”

Dr. Loren Young of Atlanta, director of special programming for the FCA, is the morning platform speaker of the week.

“Many of you are wondering what you’re doing here” Young said in his opening address. “If you are the kind of men we think you are, this week is going to be a special kind of week.”

The former Duke University track star added: “It’s what you are to other people that makes you a special kind of man,” which is the theme of the conference.

“Being a member of an athletic team is like being a member of a church,” Young observed. “It’s difficult to be interested in the church without being active. The church is the body of Christ. Seek the church that needs you.” Young urged.

Homer Rice, athletic director at the University of North Carolina, was the speaker Monday night.