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Sports
Robert Eller
Sports Editor
Here’s a nice little riddle for you. What do
Muhammad Ali and Jim McKinley have in common?
The answer?Bothare bold, brah, self confident and tend
:o brag. And what is the biggest difference between the
wo? Ali backs up what he says and McKinley? Well
let’s just say that Jim has a lot to learn.
For the past few months both Ali and McKinley have
leen doing a lot of talking. Ali had been boasting about
he lesson he was going to teach Leon Spinks, the man
■ho wrestled his heavyweight title away fi’om him in
'ebruary, in their return match.
“I’m going to teach him a lesson. I’m going to dance
11 night. It will be like a professor and a student, and so
in went the 36 year old dethroned champion as he
irepared to try and become the only man to ever regain
he heavyweight title on two occasions.
Meanwhile, McKinley was preparing to begin his
lecond season as head coach of the North Carolina A&T
ggies. In addition to his football coaching duties he
lad just been made the schools acting Athletic
(irector, giving him the reigns of the schools athletic
irogram.
‘1 thought we were the best football team in the
lEAC at the end of last season. Last season the
layers had to learn our system but this year they are
ot new at it. I*m not making predictions but we are
oing to be a great, great football team,” etc. etc. etc.
In February Ali was confident he would beat Spinks
nd retain the title but it didn’t happen and last year
■hen McKinley assumed the reigns at A&T he said he
spected to go undefeated and he lost the first game of
le season.
So here they were the fellows who were so sure they
)uld do what they had predicted. McKinley lost the
rst game of the season again. But he still could claim
le MEAC title.
Ali got his shot first on Friday night in the New
jrleans Superdome. He taught Spinks a lesson, he
need throughout the 15 rounds, it was like a
ofessor and a student as he confused Spinks and won
11 of the 15 rounds according to this writers scorecard.
|e had done the thing he set out to do, regain the title,
d become the only man to ever win it three i times;-
d at age 36 no less.
Now it was Jirn’s turn to back up his talk. Into
eensboro came the South Carolina State Bulldogs,
e team that had wrestled the MEAC crown away
m the Aggies.
The same South Carolina State Team that had dealt
[cKinley’s team a 52-0 whipping in Orangeburg, S.C.
1st last season, McKinley’s first. The team McKinley
lew he must beat if the Aggies were to be a great
itball team, at least at this point in the season.
[The Aggies played galantly in the first half on
jfense, forcing six Malcolm Montgomery punts and
abbing an interception and a fumble recovery. But
ile the defense was super for A&T the S.C. State
ense was allowing the Aggies but one first down and
6 yards total offense.
Aggies even took the lead scoring first early in ■
« third quarter. Then S.C. State decided to make
Kinley eat his words scoring 34 points over the next
minutes.
>0 the moral to the little story is, “If you can’t
dice’ what you preach then stay out of the pullpit or
n t let your mouth sell tickets, your actions can’t
h.’’
Tere’s hoping Ali will quit while he is ahead and that
Kinley’s “great, great team will at least play well
'Ugh to stop the not so loyal, (or at least not Saturday
ht), fans from booing.
oethune Cookman 11 - Livingstone 6
WSSU 24 - NCCU18
Alcorn St. 16 - Alabama St. 12
Broadwater, Va. 25 - St. Paul’s 0
Elizabeth City St. IS - Virginia St. 14
Florida A&M 21 - Albany, Ga. 7
Hampton Inst. 24 - Shaw 19
Jackson St. 41 - Prairie View 14
Kentucky St. 7 - Morehead St. 7, tie
Norfolk St. 34 - Fayetteville St. 12
S. Carolina St. 34 - N.C. A&T 7
Tennessee St. 20 - Alabama A&M 0
Tuskegee 17 - Morris Brown 7
Virginia Union 36 - JC Smith 0
—Maryland-Eastern Shore 23 - Howard 21
By Robert Eller
Sports Editor
It’s showdown time in the CIAA as first Willard
Bailey and then Dick Price will try to beat “Wild Bill”
Hayes to the draw and lay claim to being the baddest
dude in the league. And although “Wild Bill” still
stands as the top gun after a duel with the new kid Ray
Green in his own home town, no less, last Saturday, his
days could be numbered.
You see Bill’s boys have showed a slight weakness to
the passing attack early in the season and in Virginia
Union’s Garfield Mizzelle they will face the young man
who has dropped eight enemy defensive backs with
touchdown passes this season in only two games.
Mizzelle has also run for a score, putting points on the
board like he was using a calculator.
Bailey not only has Mizzelle in his gang but another
“quick cat” by the name of Judge Thomas. This fellow
Thomas has the pros falling all over themselves to get a
stop watch on his speed and a seat in the stadium.
Then there is this mean man called Nathan Fairley
who wants to run over people and don’t forget this guy
named Malcolm Barnwell. You see he is doubly
dangerous because he can run with it and run under it
when ole Mizzells throws it.
Then they got these two big ole fellows on the
Willard Bailey Dick Price
offensive line that was two of the best in the CIAA last
year. They call ’em Earnesto Young and Curtis Lyman
and both of ’um weigh more than 250 and then they got
three other big mean dudes on that line. Why they have
put 72 points on the board in just two games. Whew!
have them fellows got an offense.
But then on the other hand Ole “Wild Bill’s got this
fellow named Charlie Griffin that helps him figure out
how to stop these bad dudes from takin’ his title away.
Him and Bill have come up with this here defense they
call the Wide Tackle Six and that thing gets tougher to
move on the closer the other team gets to the goal line
and every time the other team seems like they gonna’
take Ole Bill’s title away they intercept passes and stop
teams on the one and all kinds of stuff like that. And
Rams Survive Eagles
Old “Wild Bill” and his sidekick Charlie will sure
working hard this week to keep that dude Mizzelle from
throwin’ a bunch of touchdowns and Judge and his
buddies from runnin’.
But don’t you forgit that “Wild Bill’s” got this little
bitty quarterback that runs like a scared rabbit and this
big ole tall fellow that runs right over people and a hole
bunch of other fellows that’s just waiting to git a chance
to run with that ball.
That little bitty quarterback can pass too and they got
this fellow called Billy Diggs that can’t make up his
mind if he is a football player or a basketball player and
he thinks he’s supposed to catch everything that comes
his way. then they got this cat with long hair that kicks
and runs and catches passes and all kinds of stuff.
Whew! they got a bad offense too, and Willard’s
gang give up 35 points one time and nothing the next.
Wonder how good they really are? Well tell ya’ what
I’m going with the fellows I thinks got the best defense
and that’s “Wild Bill” and Charlie.
Could be wrong though cause last year they run up
and down the field all night a scorin’ touchdowns until
this big ole tall fellow got mad and run the ball all over
everybody in the third quarter. Why they put 70 points
on that scoreboard between them before it was over but
Ole “Wild Bill” won anyhow. He just always seems to
win somehow.
Everybody deserves to be a little silly sometimes,
seriously, it should be a great game, so close that its
hard to predict, but here goes
WSSU 27 VIRGINIA UNION 24 WHEW!
By Robert Eller
Sports Editor
It must have seemed to
the Ralms secondary as if
they were in Pearl Harbor
last Saturday in Durham as
North Carolina Central
fired 42 bombs at the
defending CIAA champs.
But in the end Spurgeon
Thompson intercepted a
Steve Cauthorn pass with
1:11 left to save the Rams
15th straight regular sea
son win.
“We did what we had to
do to win,” commented
coach Bill Hayes after
Thompson(^ end zone in
terception had sealed the
victory. “It was terribly hot
out there and the secondary
got a little tired but they
rose to the occasion when
they had too,” said Hayes
defending his team that
had been outgained 388 to
340 yards on offense.
The Eagles had just
thrown a school record 42
passes in the game and
piled up 248 yards through
the air. “They completed
15 of 42 passes for one
touchdown and Kermit hit 8
of 15 for two touchdowns.
We scored three touch
downs and a field goal and
they scored one touchdown
and four field goals so I
don’t see anything to get
excited about,” added
Hayes almost in defense of
his teams performance.
The Rams fumbled 9
times during the hot muggy
afternoon and Central re
covered five of them while
controlling the ball for more
than 33 minutes. WSSU
had the ball for less than 27
minutes during the game.
Central picked up 19 first
downs to the Rams 14 but
WSSU showed their effici
ency converting 6 of 10
third down situations while
Central made good on only
5 of 15 third down conver
sions.
For the second week in a
row the Rams took off like
gang busters after Monty
Brinkley returned the open
ing kickoff to the 41. Randy
Bolton fumbled on the first
play fi’om scrimmage but
on second down Timmy
Newsome took off for 40 of
his 213 yards and the Rams
went on to march 59 yards
in 7 plays to take a 7-0 lead.
The score came on a five
yard pass from Kermit
Blount to Antonio Howard
with 11:46 left in the open
ing period. Ray Greene’s
rejuvinated Eagles came
-back to close within 7-3
early in the second quarter.
After a Blount fumble
was recovered on the Eagle
37 they used 11 plays to
move to the Ram 19 where
Eric Hines kicked the first
of his school record four
field goals from 35 yards
out 13:41 before halftime.
The Rams came back to
take a 14-3 lead at intermis
sion going 84 yards in eight
plays. Timmy Newsome
scampered 68 yards again
on the second play from
scrimmage after a Blount
fumble was recoveredby the
Rams. Five plays later he
scored from the one with
3:43 left in the half.
Central took the insueing
kickoff and moved to the
Ram 17 but the first of
Thompson’s two endzone
interceptions killed the
threat as the half ended.
The Eagles came right
back to take the second half
kickoff and march 80 yards
in only four plays highlight
ed by a 44 yard TD comple-
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