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*? ' ? ? /^1 J 1 'JiiiiliJiiiiiii ? ViUiWRiiUiiiiiiiMiiii ^WW >4#WwVW ^WWWWWWWWwwwWW^ | |**^^ - 4S / < ,-/^.<^jl?^ ^T ISDOrtS Rob^tEllerl | r Sports Editor g It will all come to a head Saturday night at Groves Stadium.The bickering over an A&Tassistant coach spying on the Rams practice, a counter charge by A&T assistant coach spying on the Rams practice, a counter charge by A&T that the Rams sent a spy over to watch them last year and the general argument over which team is the best black college football team in North Carolina will be settled at least for some ten weeks. The game has been moved to Groves Stadium, home i of the Wake Forest Deamon Deacons, because of the overflow crowd the game is expected^to draw, Some?j 30,000 fans are expected to fill the stands for what some for black schools. Still others, this writer included, see this-game asa? possible Gold Bowl preview. That is if Jim McKinley shoujd lead the Aggies to the MEAC crown and doesn't decide to enter playoff competition and the IRams can repeat as CIA A winners. The game should be a very emotional one for both teams. The Rams beat the Aggies for the first time in history last season in the opener for both teams and the { Rams gathered momemtun ajs the season went along ftnishins with an 11-0 refftllar seasnn mark Th*v i beaten in the Gold Bowl by South Carolina State 13-6. A&T lost two more games while still in shock from - the Ram game but after adopting McKinley's system won 7 of their last 8 games losing only to Central Michigan, a Division I school, by a single point. Both teams are loaded with returning stars from last year squads. WSSU returns their entire backfield but must replace offensive line standouts Robert Weeks, an ALL-NAIA selection, guard Dwayne Finch and tackle . Terry Jackson. On defense the Rams will miss N AlA^ ALIrAmerican safety CorneliusJWashingtonamiz^ ALL-CIAA and team captain James Winbush. The Aggies return 10 defensive starters and the nucleus of thq most potent offense in the MEAC. McKinley's main problem on offense will be replacing three-time ALL-MEAC quarterback Elsworth Turner. J against the Ranis. lHe is an excellent passer and should 1 test the new Ram secondary minus Washington and Reggie Sherard. 4 This years game should be much closer than last ^ years when the Aggies were slightly overconfident and 1 underprepared. The game could boil down to a battle between the ^ Aggies super defense and the Rams potent offense led by Kermit blount, the CLAA's total offense leader in 1 1978. Blount has plenty of horses to carry the ball and a core of good receivers to catch it. The question is can 1 the reconstructed offensive line hold lthe Aggie ( defensive lilne which averagesf 6-6 250. ( The Ram offensive line averages 6-0 210. If so, Timmy Newsome, Randy bolton, a.U. Jones, Chris Kirkpatrick, Smiley Watson and a number of other backs lurking in the woodwork (not the kudzu < vines) should have a field day. If not, it will be up to the Ram defense led by ends Anderson Noble and Winfred Mack, linebackers Baxter J Harrington and Joe Ashe, and Willie Jordan and Carl Redd up front to stop the running of freshman sensation Charlie Sutton 6-2 225 with 9.6 speed and * transfer Cleotis Johnson. Watson has a numlber of fine recievers set to test the Rams new secondary which includes former quarter- J back Harold Timmons to go along with returnees Robert Johnson and Dennis Bullock. Look for a hard nosed battle with the outcome hinging on one big play-the kind of play Kermit Blount 1 has made a habit of. PREDICTION: WSSU ZUA&T 14 PRIDE OF PHOWNERSHIP ! Among the collection of i For years, the telephone fashionable phones available has served as a necessity of from General Telephone & modern living. And now, con- Electronics Corporation, is t sumers can combine fashion the Starlite? telephone ?a ^ with function through diminutive and elegant model i the purchase of their own that makes a perfect bedside telephone. In essence, the companion. The Starlite ymit, 1 telephone ?as a decorating designed and manufactured item?serves as an extension by GTE Automatic Electric, . of one's personal tastes. And is available in both rotary dial the many styles and colors and Touch Calling models, J available today-*llow the user and in contemporary shades J to own a phone that comple- of arctic white, light blue ments rather than dictates and avocado ?all with color- * decor. matched cords. t JkSl The Chroi Emphasis on condition- on quickness and speed," ing aqd football funda- said the 5-8l/j, 1977 CIAA mentals has ended at leader in total offense. Winston-Salem State, head Gary Raiford, all CIAA coach Bill Hayes has trim* tackle and Blount^s corned his squad to 67 for the captain thinks the Rams' season's opener against the smaller line can handle the A&T Aggies at Groves Aggies. "Last year they Stadium in Winston-Salem were the easiest team on at 7 p.m., September 2. the schedule to block. We "The Aggies are always just kept low and blew them tough," commented out. We couldn't believe it Hayes. "Our offensive line las year. We can't block averages 6-0 and about 210, them highD they've got and their defensive line great upper body averages 6-6 and about 250. strength." But we'll come ready to Raiford knows that the play football, not basket- Aggies do not want a repeat ball." of last year's 33-13 rout in Kermit Blount, quarter- Greensboro. "They've got back and offensive co- to be different this year, captains, concedes that the They made a real turnabout Ageies' size will give him last year, and I 'know problems, "I'll have to rely they'rereally getting ready L^ pi^^ 4H GREENSBORO-North Carolina A AT all-American defensi Board takes a break from pre-seaaon workouts to get m Debbie Richardson [1] and Angela Watson. Board and the business on September 2 when the team travels jM> Wlnstoi GfovesStidhimr ~ ? Aggies Tout Defi GREENSBORO, N.C. -As MEAC defensive tackle North Carolina A&I State Lucien "Nibbs, 6-7, 260(Jniversity approached the pound transfer from Cen1977 football season, the tral State, Ulysses thomp\ggies were extremely con? son and 6-4, 240 pound C j A i-1 Al I J t_ ? ? ? tiucni mai incy wouia nan- sopnomore, Oerry Oreen. die their opening opponent, To compliment the tall Winston-Salem State, with and talented front-line, the ittle trouble. The Aggies had domina- /.ll; :ed the series by an 18-0 .'.liiiiiiliiiiiiii margin and even cancelled Milt :he series once as the 'IISS :oaching staff sought stiffer :ompetition. # But, last season the Ml*t Rams stunned A&T 33-14 - # jefore 20,000 fans in # _ _ r\ r Greensboro to start a per- l\r :ect 11-0 regular season. 'Milt The revenge-minded \ggies will travel to '.TIIS Winston-Salem's Groves HIlS Stadium on Saturday, Sep- Milt ember 2 to open their 1978 '.III* :ootball campaign. i "Billy Hayes and his (^^5 itaff did a fantastiac job Milt vjafl ast season and returned a Milt lucleus of that team for this Mlli season," said second-year Milt \&T head coach, Jim - J ^ VfcKinley. -? "There is a natural rival- Milt y that exists between our schools which could make -'Ulltl! \~ \ li/Wv :his game one of the most I jxciting in terms ot tan 111 Hi ^V\ ippeal and quality of com- i'.IIJl >| petition in the east." '"12* \ The Aggies will counter 'Milt (\ J he powerful Ram attack 'Mil tK W, { vith . one of the best de- vi\ m/ enses in A&T modern Mlli The A&T front defensive ine headed by 6-5, 245- ""22 ifflt )ound All-American iiUSS uH >waine "Pee Wee" Board ""2i JKNA^H it defensive end, also >o?sts 6-7, 262-pound All- Stiff' ; a 9 ? j I !}{!!f!!!j!fH!!j}||ltl!|{}f}}lt}{}|}}||}! ?CHRONICLE licle-Saturday, September 2, 1978 13 iiiti*EUUiEEUiiEto * j for this game. IWe've just got to stay low." _ The contest in Groves 7L.7_.I_ ?_ promises to be the largest crowd to watchBlack foot- " . ball in North Carolina. Ac- g. cording to Athletic Director C.Er "Bighouse" Gaines, ^1%% " "Tickets are selling like hotcakes," for the 30,000 The Rams schedule starts with tough A&T and gets tougher. The following week theTRams host peren^ ' nial power Hampton Institute at 7 p.m. back at Bowman Gray Stadium, I and then the CIAA champs go to Durham, then come back to host Virginia Union ? i?; -? uuiuie piaymy?always? Norfolk State and ve end Dwalne "Pee Wee'* 1 )mc good Inch kisses from rest of the Aggies will be all l-Salera to pl*x the Rjun? at ?!-= - " ? ?_^_ a5W<tww..^.v.v..A.Aa..-'i..-:Y-..^VA'ji^ffffpSBMl - ,'--.jj ja^? ~ - - ? gns ezzzz^?1==^=^ Aggies return the "Greens- . * -^B boro - Gang' --defensive - , ISSI backs Thomas WarrenTGerald Johnson and Tony Currie, who combined for a oC-MLl IZ JnAUI ?AA?n 1 /~v Ifl *^- " ~ ~ ~' *>P ^?I iuiai ui 17 ui uic icaius interceptions last season. 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