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Tis the season to be jolly, and since it is let's start
off this week with a few sports comments and
happenings that have given this writer a chuckle or
two in the last few days.
First, there's the comment made by Kansas City
Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt when talking about the
Chiefs 2-12 season and the firing of two head coaches
in less than a season. "I don't think the Chicago
Bears are any better a football team talent-wise then
the Chiefs," said Hunt. "Maybe a leadership factor
is involved." Too bad Lamar doewr^t have a Walter
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drafting on the first round? The first person to send
me a card with the answer to that will win a prize.
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1 INC hpqd fnnthwll r^flr'n when he failed to single out
the injury of a star runningback Amos Lawrence as
the main reason why the Tarheels were unable to
beat Nebraska. "I don't want to use Airas as an
excuse. He's obviously a great football player and I
thought Doug Pascal did a good job for us as a
replacement." Dooley must have forgotten that
Carolina's two losses this season came with
"Famous" Amos not in the backfield.
What about the Liberty Bowls Most Valuable
Player (UNC quarterback Matt Rupee) being
announced just before he committed his second
turnover in the final quarter. That gave Nebraska the
ball so sub quarterback Randy Garcia could turn it
into his second touchdown pass, after a Rupee
Or take a look at St. Louis Cardinal Head Coach
Don Coryell's remarks when making a public
apology for stating that Owner Bill Bidwell was a
tightwad. Coryell went on to predict that the Cards
would win only four games next season and two the
following year. "I'd like to say something to Bill
Bidwell," he stated. "I regret very much saying
whaLl didin public expressing myself as Idicf? Cm tr
very poor loser, ^had to blow pp. I guess it's better
to blow up than commit suicide. I thought it waaan
off-the-record conversation with a friend who also
happened to be a sportswriter,'' he commented after
the Cards had been eliminated from playoff
contention by the Redskins. That's only good for a
laugh if Coryell doesn't commit suicide after failing
to blow up in the wake of Sunday's 17-7 loss to the
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lampa nay bucs.
Finally, The Bucs got their jollies when they beat
the New Orleans Saints after Saint quarterback
Archie Manning had said it would be a disgrace to
lose to the winless expansion club. "It's disgrace
ful," said the Bucs players aa the final seconds
ticked off the clock.
Here's wishing everybody a Merry Christmas
even the fans of the Chicago Bears, Minnesota
Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Oakland Raiders
whom I pick to be eliminated from Super Bowl
contention Saturday and Monday.
Four Rams Make All
ClAAAcedemic Team
Four members of the attend Med school.
1977 CIA A championship Sherard received the
WSSU football team were Chase award as the
named to the conferences CIAA's outstanding schofirst
annual All Academic athlete last season,
team. The coaches now Junior linebacker Baxter
plan to make this an Harrington, a Medical
annual affair in recogni- Technology major who did
tion of the leagues out- work with cells over the
standing scholar athletes, summer and discovered a
Hampton Institute led new area of ceil developthe
list with seven team rnent, and Johnny Wilkermembers
being selected, son, a sophomore defensLivingstone
placed five ive end who is majoring in
players on the list. The Business Administration.
four members of the Elizabeth City placed
WSSU squad on the lisjjp^hree football players on
were, All-American center team, while Norfolk
Robert Weeks, a senior state had two representaHealth
and Physical Edu- tives. Virginia Union,
cation major, ^e&hiajd_shaw, Fayetteville State,
Sherard, a senior defens- and Virginia State each
ive back who is majoring ^ad one player on the
in Biology and plans to team
Florida A & M Tops
Among MBN Pollster
Washington, D.C. ~ the season last week with
Florida A&M University, an impressive 37-15 O11-0,
and its first unbeat- range Blossom Classic win
en season since 1961, was over ninth ranked Delanamed
the No. 1 ranked ware State. In the final
football team in the final balloting by black college
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football rankings for 1977. casters, the Florida team
nosed out Grambling for
The Rattlers, coached the top spot. Many of
by Rudy Hubbard, ended those lasting votes cited
Florida A&M's 31-28 upset
victory over Tenn State
B 1 j as the deciding advantage
B|Tj I for the Rattlers Tennessee
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the season 26-7.
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Carolina State finished
third, upstart Winston
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Di-Gel. and Tennessee State
Tha Anti*Gas Antacid. rounded out the top five.
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Winston-Salem ? The Champions an overall reWinston-Salem
State ' cord of 6-? g?inS int0 the
Rams moved into first Christmas break. Their
place in the CIAA South- non-conference wins were
em Division with Confe- over Delaware State
rence wins over Living- 111-58, High Point 83-71,
stone 91-73 and Shaw North Carolina Central 80Tlwivnrafry"
7ft,Sti FmTr 66, and North Carolina
non-conference wins give A&T 84-74.
the 1977 CIAA defending Carlos Terry last year's
Bears Drop (
Raleigh,?N.C.?=?The the teams they: JieaL in
ShaW" University- bears; Kocky Mount,
after winning their first The final score was
two games, have now Fayetteville 89, Shaw 68.
"dropped six straight, losing
four times last week. Edward Jefferson led
A close look at their all scorers with 31, followschedule,
however, could e*l_by Kenny Howell_with_
explain some' reasons Dwight Marley with
why. 13, and Jeff Ballard with
The Bears, under new Ernest Perkins led
Head Coach Ira Mitchell, Shaw with 17. Claudius
are basically a freshman ?J?nes added 14r Jake
oriented team, though R?dgers, who had his
there are some experienc- nose broken in the game,
ed players out there. This, Pu^ed down 12 rebounds
plus facing the three top ^or Shaw in just 12 miteams
in the CIA A, has a nutes ?f playlot
to do with it. ^ . , . , .
a,, ? . . iL . Saturday night, the
The Bears, playing their ? . ^ , ,
r. x , ... Bears met the Eagles of
first home game this sea- XT ^ ^
A , , t, . N.C. Central in the conson,
took on the Panthers , .. r? ,
......... ... solation game. The Eagles
of Virginia Union Umver- ,ed 43.42 at and
_s.ty on Wednesday _De-wonth ame 87.8] The
cember 7 in the Raleigh r. , .
x final two points came on
Civic Center. , ,
.. , the one-and-one shooting
Shaw got off to a good of Ear, Sanders after the
start, getting the lead
behind the inside pjay of jwrz 5 r*
big 7' 1 Jake Rodgers, who S /Mil
took control of the boards,
and outside play of Ronald
Cash, who, along with The WSSU Women's
Phillip Holmes, kept Un- Basketball Team is off to a
ion out of their offense. fast start this year. At this
John Waller out-leaped P?int in the season the
Shaw's Mike Heard under Rams are 8-0, with victothe
Shaw basket, drawing ries over North Carolina
the one-and-one with :29 Central 93-68, Shaw Uniremaining.
Calmly he hit versity 70-52, Gardnerboth
shots to put the game Webb 102-82, Bennett
away. College 77-51, Livingstone
Waller led the Panthers College 83-63, Guilford
with 25, followed by College 88-70, Greensboro
Charles Benson and Larry College 99-51 and Shaw
Holmes with 14 each. University 93-50. The
Mike Heard led Shaw with Lady Rams are an improv13.
followed by Jake Rod,. ed squad this year. The
gers with 12. plus 13 hig return of seasoned players
rebounds. and additional talent on
, the bench has made the
Shaw traveled to Dur- Rams a much stro
ham on Friday and Satur- team
day, December 9 and 10,
to participate in the Bull The Rams compiled an
City Invitational Tourna- 18-6 record last season
ment. Their first foe was with Brenda Winfield
Fayetteville State, one of leading the way with a 24
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CIA A Tournament's Most season CIA A title from the
Valuable Player is leading Augustine s Falcons.
the team and the confe- The next appearance of
rence with a 28.6 scoring Karns be in the
averages" is getting Winston-Salem Holiday
strong support from Re- Festival on December
. , . ? . ? . 30th and 31st when they
_ginald Gaines (14.5 ppg) wiU gerve h t t
a"d M.kc Robinson (121 De|aware E,izflbeth
PPG). The Rams would Ci and Carolina
like to regain their regular gtate
3th Straight
game was over. alive.
? _ "? In the second half^tKI
Ronald James led the Rams wore the Bears
Eagles with 29, followed down, building up leads of
by John Roberts' 18, Aud- 16-18 points7behind Terry
win Saunders' 14, and Reginald Gaines and Mike
Edward Roper's 13. Er- Robinson. The Rams won,
nest Perkins had 16, as 78-56.
"did Willie Murphy, Clau- -We went out and did
dius Jones had 12, and exactly what I told them
Walter Harper added 10 not to do", said Mitchell. .
for Shaw. "Wp 111?-r->aA
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Playing their? third ,
game in as many days, the ^?. 1 ' os our
Bears took on Winston P,0,se ,.and they kePl
Salem in Raleigh's Civic *
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Center in a 2:30 p.m. _ir. , . ? .
0 , ,.u Winston s inside play hurt
Sunday afternoon tilt. ,, w. , ? / itT
us. Mitchell said. "In
The Rams, behind 6'5 the second half, we got
forward Carlos Terry, muscled around. They
were methodical, but were too strong and wore
could not pull away from us down."
the Bears in the first half, Shaw is now 2-6 overall,
holding only a 30-24 lead. 0-3 in the CIAA. Their
It was Terry's 6-7 from the next outing will be Janfloor
and 6-7 from the line uary 6, 1978 in the Capital
that kept Winston Salem City Tourney.
sketball Team Off To Start
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Brenda Whitfield Laurice Jenkins
point per game average. Per Karne. Carla Kincaid
Brenda was followed was also the leading reclosely
by Carla Kincaid bounder, pulling down 16
and Laurice Jenkins who boards per game. Brenda
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Mutual Black Network Names
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Hayes Coach
Of The Year"
WASHINGTON, DC - come off its worst season
Winston-Salem State Uni- iR history, 0-9. The Rams
versity head football coach finished 4^6 in 1976, and
Bill Hayes, was. named this year Winston-Salem
Mutual Black Network, won H straight games
Black College Coach-of- before losing to South
the-year, for 1977. Carolina State 10-7 last
Hayes, a former offen- week in the "Gold Bowl",
sive line coach at Wake "It's great," Hayes
Forest before moving on commented when told of
to Winston-Salem State in the award. "This culmina1976,
nudged out last ted my greatest season in
year's coach-of-the-year, football," Hayes said.
Willie Jeffries, of South Hayes, a graduate of
Carolina State, and Rudy North Carolina Central
Hubbard of Florida A&M University, where he was
in halloting. h?* ?^.iilfl?iu.T^cent^^and liinebacker
college coaches. on. the 1961 team, also
jeffries and Hubbard carried Winston-Salem to
were tied for second, if8 fast Central Intercollewhile
Grambling coach gisteAthletic Association
Eddie Robinson, who re- championship in 19 years,
ceived the honor in 1975, Hayes also coached high
was third, and Ed Wyche school football at Durham
of Delaware, State was Hillside, Winston-Salem
fourth. Forsyth, where^e won a "
When Hayes took over state championship in
at Winston-Salem two- 1971, and at Winston-Sayears
ago, the school had ^em Parsley High.
S,C, State. Domingte
Mutual Black College
All-Americah Team ?
Washington, D.C. - For the second straight
Graffiblinc State?Univer^ _ ?
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sity and South - Carolina Carolina State placed
State dominated the 1977 more players on the team
Mutual Black Network than any other black colAll-American
Football lege.
Team with four players For Coach Eddie Robineach
on the fifth annual son's Louisiana Tigers,
team chosen by black Williams was joined on
college coaches across the the team by his two top
nation. Grambling s rifle- notch receivers Carlos
armed quarterback Dou- Pennywell and Mike
g'as Williams and Be- Moore, along with defenthune
Cookman's Earl sive end Russell Hall, a
"Country Boy" Inman led strapping 6'8" 231 lb.
the balloting. senior from Houston,
Williams, who passed Texas,
for 8,082 yards and 89 South Carolina State dicareer
touchdowns in four vided their four players
seasons, was named the evenly with runningback
Offensive Player-of-the- Rickey Anderson, who be- year'
came the schools first one
Inman, a 6 3 222 lb. thousand yard rusher in
linebacker from Umattilla, history, and tackle A1
Florida, led " Bethune- Lester on offense, and end
Cookman to a 7-3 season Anthony Clay and cornerand
was called by coach back Tommy Brown on
Andy Hinson, "A top pro defense. Jackson State
prospect was named De- University of Mississippi,
fensive Player-of-the- placed three players on
year. The 22 man squad the team, runningback
will be honored at a Rickey Patton, a repeater
banquet in Atlanta, Geor- from 1975, tackle Lou
gia, January 7, 1977. BullarH nnH rnm orKaolr
Williams and Howard Charles Williams.
University guard Keith WSSU's Cornelius
Napier along with Alcorn Washington who tied for
State Linebacker Johnny the national lead in interThomas
were the only eeptions with 12 was namrepeaters
from the 1976 ed to the squad,
team.
Mutual Black Network
Coach-Of-The
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-Year Awards ~
1973 John Merritt Tennessee State University
1974 Marino Casern Alcorn State University
1975 Eddie Robinson Grambling State University
1976 Willie Jeffries South Caro. State University
1977 Bill Haves. Winston-Salem State University
Willie Jeffries South Carolina State University