TOURNAMENT — Members of
th« CIAA Baskelbell Tournament
in GrMnsboro last Sunday 1o
plan the annual tourney ^ be
playtd in Greensboro's War
Memorial Coliseum were offi
cially welcomed by Greencbore
Mayor, George H. Roach and
Waldo C. Falkener, city council
man, both at center. Members of
the visii'ing group are: at left—
L. D. Smith, Richmond, Va.
and at right: William M. Bsll,
Greensboro; Floyd H. Brown
and Frank G. Burnett, both of
Durham.
BRAXTON GAINS MOST RUSHING
Winston-Salem Leads Conference in Team Offense;
Rams Quarterback Tal(e$ individual Offense Title
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By JOHN A. HOLLEY
For CIAA News Service
Hezpkiah Braxton, Virginia
l/nion’s barreling- fullback, copped
th6 CIAA individual rushing and
scoring titles according to the
final football statistics released by
the CIAA News Serv.ice Monday.
' ^\^inston-Salem won the team
(^'4! offense and rushing offense
-the sixth consecutive week
to .nail down team offense hon-
•rt.'fer the 1959 season.
Braxton, a 220 pound junior
from ■ Baltimore, Md.. moved into
tl|;L» league lead in rushini> last
W0^k, and picked up 102 yards
i^aii>st Hampton on Thanksgiving
tijf. him a total of 636 yards
il^ 0 games for an average of
70.9 per game.
‘ Uis closest pursuer was Earl
Bowen of Morgan State with 552
yards in 8 games for an average
of 69.0 per game. Billy Gray of
Maryland State, last year’s rush
ing leader, finished in third place.
Winston-Saleiti piled up a tot-
•I of 2,939 yards, more than any
^er team in the l«op, to lead
^Ke- CIAA in total offense. The
Rams averaged 374.1 yards per
iUt. Tom Conrad's club picked
up 1,890 yards of that total on
Hie ground to top the league
in rushing offense also.
They averaged 236.2 yards per
gi>me for ■ 8 encounters. Virginia
State ranked second in total, of
fense with 2,234 yards for an aver-
Maryland S'ate ranked socond in
rushing with 12fi0 yards in 7
e^nles for an avciutgc of 18'J.U
.game.
^Vernon ‘^Skip” McCain’s Hawks
t^ped the loop in total defense,
lijmiting iheir opponents to only
S^7 yards in 7 tills for an average
Winston-Salem’s Bobby ' RoWe
crown on 936 yards, all on pass
ing. The Hickory senior compilea
this total in 8 games and on 07
plays. In second place is A&T’s
Paul Swann who has a total of
807 yards, all of them coming on
the aerial. Last year’s winner, De-
Wayne Jeter, Virginia State’s jun
ior quarterback, finished third
with 714 yard.s.
Glenfield Knight, Shaw’s junior
end, an all-league choice last year,
repeated for the second successive
year as the loop’s top pass re
ceiver. Knight pulled in 27 snags,
7 more than his league high total
in 1958. Warren Williams of Vir
ginia Union was right on his heels
with 27 catches.
North Carolina College’s Regi
nald Pryor won his third punting
title with a 38.2 kicking average
in 9 games. The Eagles’s quarter
back, a junior from Charlotte,
BOBBY ROWE
936 Yards Via Air
COLISEUM VISITBD
Preliminary
Plans Underway
For Tourney
GREENSDORO — Plans for the
5th annual CIAA iJasketball
'ournament to be held here at
he Greensbnro War Memorial
Coliseum, February 25-27, were re
viewed here last Sunday. Decem-
her 6, by the Tournament Commit
tee.
The group, headed by L. I),
jmith, chairman, Richmond. Va.,
vorked out preliminary details
or the event and set a series of
neetings to be held in Greens-
)oro in January and February.
Following the morning sesision
at A&T ColleKe. the visitors were
.velcomed to the city by Mayor
George H. Roach and were con
ducted on a lour of the Coliseum
by Robert Kent, the director.
Ellis F. Corbett, A&T public
relations director, was apooinetd
chairjnan of the tournament ad
visory public relations committee.
Smith said Corbett would “be
involved with publicity and pro-
tiiotion at all levels.” He will have
he cooperation of the CIAA News
Sei’vice, conference service
agency.
Among the committee members
attending the day-long -meet, in
addition to Smith and Ray were:
William M. Boll, athletic director
at A&T; Floyd H. Brown, Durham,
secretary: Joseph H. Thompson,
St. Paul’s College, Lawrenceville,
Va., and F. G. Burnette, confer
ence basketball commissioner.
THE CAROLINA TIMtS .
SAT., OCC. 19, 1959 "TMI niTTH UNMWLm"^AM 9
Can't Allow Cheapening of Game
“Refs” Urged To Stress Control
of Conduct by Players and Fans
BASKETBALL CLINICIAN — J.
Dallas Shirley, left, Washing
ton, D. C., public relations di
rector of the Irt ernational As
sociation of Approved Basket
ball Officials, gives pointers on
basketball officiating to Rofoer^
Kornegay, center, and Ervin
Johnson, right, both of Durham,
executive secretary and presi-
den’' respectively, of the Benja
min Washington Board of Bas
ketball Officials. Shirley served
as guest clinician at the annual
clinic sponsored by the group
at A&T College last Sunday,
December 6.
booted 44 times and had none of
his punts blocked.
Childs Gets Blossom Award; His 3
TD's Led Florida Rattlers Victory
ORANGE BOWL, Miami—Fleet
footed, hard-driving, C1 a r e n c t
Childs, Florida A&M University’s
junior halfback from Lakeland,
Florida, and Prairie View’s 6 ft.-
6 in., Rufus Granderson, 272-
pound tackle from Temple, Texas,
were awarded the J. R. E. Lee
week’s Florida 28-Prairie View 7,
Orange Blossom Classic.
Standing 5 ft.-11 in., and weigh
ing in at 180 pounds, Childs scored
three of his team’s four touch
downs, gaining for himself the un
disputed . recognition as Rattler
Player-of-the-Game. Prairie View’s
of 77.3 per conttst. Win5lon Sal-| (jpandierson, mojntain of steel, left
cm’s eleven limited iheir foas to, no doubt in the minds of the
1,009 yards for 12b. 1 per eaine
In scoring, Braxton' cro.s.scd the
goal line for 11 TD’s and kicked
one coriversion fur a total of 67
points. His closest rival was El-
wod Robinson, a pass-catciiing end,
'who scored 9 touchdowns and three
conversions for 60 points. Last
yOar’s leading scorer, Joe Buggs
of- Elizabeth City, finished sixth
in the leauge with 38 tallies.
A&T, two-time champs in the
CIAA won out as tiie league’s
number one passing team. The Ag
gies completed .507 percent of
tljip^ passes for 1109 yards. They
connected on 66 of 130 passes
thrown, hitting 10 of them for
scoring markers. Winston-Salem
fanked second with 53 of 108 con
nections for .490 percent, 1103
yards, and 15 TD passes.
Herbert Buirows, junior quar
terback from St. Augustine's cap
tured the league individual pass-
ling- title with 28 of 49 connections
jfor 428 yards and three TDs. He
' was successful on .571 percent of
I hi| '^jasses. Irvin Heath of Dela-
IW^re State finished second with
2F of 56 tosses for a percentage
i^f'.BOO and 253 yards.
judges—sports writers and ratlio
Tv folk covering the game— that
he was the big Panther man. and
as such was without doubt winner
of one of the coveted Lee troph
ies.
The Lee trophies are named for
FAMU’s vice president J. R. E.
Lee, Jr., son of a late distinguish
ed former president of the Talla
hassee institution^ who founded
the classic event in 1933. Bottlers
of Coca-Cola at Miami and Bren
ham, Texas, donated the Player-of-
the-Game Av.-ards, which the
Orange Blossom Classic commit
tee will present annually at the
close- of the nationally famous
bowl game. The awards are desig
nated for the outstanding player
of each classic team.
This 27th-edilion, classic win was
a big one for Coach A. S. Jake
Gaither, Florida A&M athletic di
rector—w h o had never beaten
Coach Biilly Nicks’ Panthers in an
Orange Blossom Classic—who had
never had a 10-0 season at Florida
A&M and—who had never seen
43,645 fans watch one of his teams.
The fighting coach from the North
Florida campus had challeniied his
team to “win this one for Joyce”
“Rattler’’ player Olive J iyep. who
died early in the season froin
scrimmage injuries. For Jake
Gaither, it all came true.
Mary Potter's Home Contests to be
Played at Hawley, Toler Gymnasium
OXFORD—All basketball games
for the current season scheduled
for Mary Potter at Oxford will be
played in either the Hawley or
Toler Gymnasium.
Local facilities are very limited
and this arrangement has become
necessary in order to provide a
regulation court, accommodations
for students and patrons, toilet
I facilities and other necessities rel-
a:ive to the welfare of the players
and spectators.
Hester and Johnson Lead Smith
To 98-96 Victory Over Shaw
Mary Potter has an enrollment
of 820 students and the gymna
sium accommodates about 100 per
sons.
Home games scheduled for the
Hawley gymnasium at Creedmoor
are as follows: Rocky Mount. Jan.
5; Hawley High, Jan. 7; Fayette
ville. Jan. 12; Reidsville, Jan. 22;
Raleigh, Jan. 29. The Dec 10 home
game against Toler High, of Gran
ville County, was at Toler.
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CHARLOTTE—Sparked b.v the,
brilliant shooting of sophomore Jas. i
Hester and the rebounding of [
freshman Leonard Johnson, the
Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith j
University defeated the Shaw Uni-j
versity Bears &8-96, in overtime
at Raleigh Saturday night.
A 6 foot Detro.it, Mich., guard.
Hester dumped 10 baskets and 10
of 10 free throws for a game
high total of 30 points, while 6
foot 8 inch Johnson, who hails
from Westwood, N. J.. was wip-
GRRENSBORO — Basfcrtball of
ficials were last week nrged to
place considerably more emphasis
on the control of conduct by
coach and phyers.
The speaker was J. Dallas Shir
ley. Washington, D. C., director of
public relations for the nterna-
'..ional Association of Approved
Basketball Officials. He appeared
at A&T College all day on Simtlay,
December 6. as guest clinician at
.he second annual baskebatil clinic
sponsored by the Benjamin Wash
ington Board of Officials, an affi
liate of the lAABO.
He told the group that offictM
can ill afford .o allow poor con
duct by piaycrs or coachM ••
“chcapen the game."
After explaining minor changes
in the rules for the current sea
son, Shirley asked the o( ficials to
"have the whistle ready, but bloW
It less," observe caution at the
loss, and to give closer scrutiny
to traveling violations.
Nearly 2tM) persons, includins
"oaches and players, attended the
sessions held in the Carver Hall
uuditorium in the morning and at
ihe Charles Moore Gymnasium that
afternoon. ^
E.'vin Johnson and Robert Kome-
gay, both of Durham, are president
and executive secretary, respec
tively, of the sponsoring group.
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100 ptoor
w
ing the boards with 17 rebounds.
Other Smith double figure shoot
ers were senior John Crawford
with 24, junior Clarence Barnes
with 15 and freshman Roy Hin-
nant, 13
Shaw had five performers to
fire in twin figures. Galloway
Polhill led with 25 points, follow
ed by freshman James Bassett's
18, Tyrone Reese, 16. and George!
Jones and Robert Parker 10 each.;
Rcece set the rebound pace for
the Bears with 16 retrieves.
Reece hit with an easy lay-up
to effect the 13th deadlock in the I
xhrill-packptl contest, 86-86. with I
24 seconds loft in regulation
lime. But Sh?w proved no nvatch
for the fast-breaking and taller
Johnson C. Smith team during
hte five minutes in overtime.
Til? Eu!ls grabbed the lead, ^
P2-IU. on George Johnson’s three-|
point play, but it look a lay-up
from IleskT to seal the triumph
wih 22 second left.
Md. Tack. Picked
By Detroit Lions
By JOHN A. HOLLEY
Roger Brown, a 6-4, 275 pounder,
was selected on the 4th round of
the National Football League an
nual player draft meeting at Phila
delphia last Tvesday.
Four other CIAA footb^UfKS.
were grabbed by the play-tbr pay '
clubs, three of them beinc from
North Carolina College and one
from A&T College.
Brown, a tackle at Maryland
State from Nyack, New York, was
a unanimous AU-CIAA choice io
1958 as a junior. As a senior tfais
year, he has been a bulwark in
the Hawks’ forward wall. He was
plucked on the fourth round by
the Detroit Lions, who picked Uni
up on a draft choiice trade to them
by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Brown's selection on the 4th
round by ths Lions marked the
first time that a player from the
CIAA had been drafted so eariy.
John Baker, formerly of North ^
Carolina College and now with the
Los Angeles Rams, was previous
ly picked on the 5th round.
-CIAA
Ccntinued from page 8 i
'.■ember 8 to develop proposals for
uonsideraiion by the Council of
CIA.\ Presidents and th-- CIAA at
its annual meeting in March.
It was deci'!e.l to avoid confu
sion by hoUling lAtil later the ten-
-tativc • recomrnendations of the
conference. Primarily, considera
tion was given to proposals relat- ^
ing to scheduling, aid to athletes.
and coordinating the various func
tions of the CIAA.
The 13 persons present repre
senting 10 of the 18 mt-mbcr
schools, were unanimous in aere*-
ing that the CIAA should not Be
split into two awferences. but
they would consider the Feasibility
of awarding two chaiiioKinships in
the future.
BEFORE AND AFTER—The re
cent Orange ‘Blossom Classic at
Miami wllnessed the establish
ment of a new series of awards
known as The J. R. E. Lee
Trophies, which wer^ created
for the outstanding players-of-
the game in honor of J. R. E.,
Lee, Jr., vice president of Flori
da A&M University and founder
•f the 27-ypar .old clyuic avent.
The awards will go annually to
the ou standing players-ot-the-
game, which features Florida
A&M and its opponent, as se
lected by the working press and
radio at the game. In lower sh^,
Lee is flanked by winner* of
trophies a f t • r last Saturday
night's game—No; 45, Florida's
fleet halfback, Clarence Childs,
and No. 77, Pr«iri« View's Rufus
Granderson, tackle, with Marion
E. Jackson, left, sports editor,
Atlanta Daily World and coordi
nator of The 1Q0 Per Cent Wrong
Club, and Moss H. Kendrix, right,
the Coca-Cola Company, as on
lookers. Above, left to right. Dr.
George W. Gore, Jr., FAMU
president, Charles B. Bottoms,
Jr., The Coca-Cola Comp«ny, and
Lae wa«h Sidney J. Reaves,
Miami Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany, fake christening of the
Lee trophies, with witness Coach
William Nicks, Prairie View,
standing by. Brenham, Texas,
Coca-Cola Bottling Com ^a n y
sponsors trophies in cooperation
with R|avM' company. Florida
defeatM Prairie View, 28-7.
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