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A new outfit that continues to just roll, roll along ?
| is BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION, bet- f
ijij ter known as BETrThe outfit received a big shot in 4?.
ijij the arm recently when Phillips Petroleum became a jij
g major sponsor. The company will present Most jij
ijij Valuable Player awards during this season's basket- j:j
jiji ball telecasts, which begin next month ... BET, by the iji
jiji way, is the nation's only black cable television iji
jiji satellite network providing black oriented entertain- iji
ijij ment and sports programming to cable households ij;
ij-j across the country. If BET isn't offered in your area, jij
ijij check with your cable system ... First basketball jij
jij: game on BET will be Dec. 12, and will match South iji
jiji Carolina State against powerful Alcorn ,.. i;i
jiji Biggest black college football game in a while mat- ?
ijij ched Grambling against South Carolina State, jij
g Grambling won the big game, 26-3, dropping S.C. jij
g State's record to 10-1. Grambling went to 9-1 with the iji
jij: win. Loss was particularly brutal for S.C. State, since
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the Bulldogs could have wrapped up a Division I-AA
playoff berth with a win ... Grambling won behind a iji
g big-play offense. Quarterback MIKE WILLIAMS, iji
brother of Tampa Bay's Dog, fired three touchdown g
ijij passes, including scoring tosses of 80 and 8 yards to jij
ijij JERRY GORDON ... Williams passes 40 yards to jij
g TRUMAINE JOHNSON for another score, and jij
-g- ROBERT -PAHHAM ran -32 ya^dsTor another Tiger g
g score ... ijij
jij! Tofrblack college running back in Division 1-AA? g
g This year it's Gregory James, the bullish one from g
ijij Alcorn. Through nine games, he had 986 yards and jij:
ijij five touchdowns. He was averaging 109.6 yards per g
g game, and seemed a safe bet to top the 1,000-yard ijij
jiji mark ... Grambling's Mike Williams continues to ?:
| lead all 1-AA passers. He's passed for 1,934 yards. 441 jjj
aon i Know it Williams will get drafted," said one
ijij college coach, "but he should." - ijij
~ijjj Some say soccer, not football, is the big sport at &
;i;i Howard. Maybe there's something to do that. The ijij
;ij: school's sports information director, Donny Tuck, iji;
:jj: covers soccer, and lets an assistant take care of the ijij
;i;i football ... So far this year, Howard is ranked 11th ;i;i
jij: nationally in soccer ... Bison, who have won a couple jij;
of national championships in soccer, are anxious for j-ji
ijij this year's playoffs to begin?^ jij;
Black College Tidbits
More Football
From the Still-No-Word Department: Folks were
whispering recently that Delaware State Coach Charles
Henderson was in danger of being dismissed from his
football coaching position, but so far, there's been no
word from the Delaware State administration.. And
Howard LJnKersiiv mvitk ri'lmMnni m r*n
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brought against football coach Floyd Keith...Several
players charged that Keith had physically abused
them...Keith has got the Bison off to a 5-2 start, their
best beginning in years...
Grambling finished second in final Division I-AA football
poll, with South Carolina State tied for third...Both
were hoping for spots in the playoffs...Black college
coaches figure they've got to stop knocking each other
off in the race for the l-AA playoffs. E\ery year, it
seems, Alcorn will knock off Jackson State or Florida
A&M will knock out Southern or Grambling will knock
out South Carolina State..."What we've got to start doing,"
said Rattlers' Coach Rudy Flubbard, "is start playing
some of these white schools, two or three every year.
Then we can start knocking some of them off."
Toughest schedules in black college basketball this year
go to Alcorn and Delaware State...Besides its usually
tough Southwestern Athletic Conference schedule,
Alcorn plays in the Indiana Classic, in the All-College
Tournament, and also ha*, eanirs, with Tnlr?Hn sa 1 oni<.
and Dayton...Delaware State lias South Alabama, St.
Louis, Pittsburgh, East Carolina, Boston University and
a tough Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference slate...
Longest name in black college basketball? How about
Morgan State's Yarharbrougb Roberts? And what does
Mr. Roberts like most about college ball? "It's very exciting
to travel and win big games on the road," he says.
More from the Thcy-Said-It Department: Alabama
State's Kevin Lodcr, on one of his best moments as a college
player: "After we had moved back to No. I in the
(Di vision 2) poll and coming home from Northern Kentucky,
we walked into a gym packed with Alabama State
fans chanting 'We're No. I'. W'c knew we were and that
was a great feeling, too."
Rumors were floating recently that said BethuncCookman
Coach Bobby Fra/ier wouldn't be back next
year if his Wildcats" didn't beat arch-rival Florida A&M
on Nov. 29...If the Wildcats fire Frazier, which I think is
. . unlikely, it'll mark the second time a Bcthune coach was
dismissed because of not beating FAMU...Andy Hinson
was let go in 1978 after losing to the Rattlers...
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j: Putting it kindly, these
have not been the best of
times for Coach Charles
; Henderson and his
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team.
The young Hornets wrap:
ped up their season recenti
ly, losing to Florida A&M,
57-9. Two weejts before
taking on the Rattlers,
: Delaware State had been
: trounced by Portland State,
I 105-0.
So, finishing the year
with a 2-9 record and a 57-9
: defeat doesn't make things
: too comfortable on the
; home front. In other words,
Henderson could be in a lot
: of hot water.
"I don't know if I'll be
: back next year,'' Hender!
son said after the loss to
FAMU.
Henderson has reason to
worry. When the Hornets
lost to Portland State by
Xhal horrendous margin,
Dover, Del. went up in
?arffls-.--P hones all over cam-?
pus lit up, with callers wanting
to know what in the
world had happened. It
didn't help matters any that
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coaches accused Delaware
State of being "unprepared."
Now, some
folks are call i rig for
Henderson's dismissal.
"Our coaches are on a
year-to-year contract," said
a Delaware State official,
"and they're reviewed every
year."
That's bad news for the
likeablc Henderson. What
he needs right now is the
security of a long-term contract.
"If I had to change
anything," he was saying,
"1 guess I would have been
H o ward
The Howard soccer team,
making its first NCAA
playoff appearance since
1976, dropped a disheartening
2-1 nail-biter to William
& Mary in last Tuesday's
South Atlantic Region
championship game.
The game, which was
originally scheduled for
Monday but was^postponcd
because of heavy rains,
almost had the spectators
waiting until Wednesday
for the final outcome after
a deadlock forced the game
to go into four overtimes.
H o w a r d s c o r e d fix e
minutes into the contest on
a shot from the left side by
forward Jacques Tadoucein
assisted by Bancroft Cordon.
The Indians came
back to tie the game eight
minutes into the second half
when Paul Wise look a Iced
from Mark Gardiner and
drilled it into the upper
right net.
The two teams battled to
a stalemate through the re- 1
maining 37 minutes of
regulation time and through four
15-minute, sudden- 1
death overtime periods. 1
H oward , w hi eh had 1
defeated William &. Mary <
4-2 two and a half weeks i
earlier, lost 4-2 on penalty
shots. The Bison ouishoi <
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more of a son-of-a ? this
year. I would have been
that way with the team, administration,
everything.
Maybe we would'nt have
had a winning season, but
..." Henderson's voice
trailed off. The strain of a
2-9 season ? make that a
miserable 2-9 season - was
starting to show.
4tNo, I'm not fed up to
here," he said, referring to
ar> atea above hh neck."
Constructive criticism never
hurt anything. I'll never
forget my last year (at
FAMU) with (Rattlers'
Coach Hubbard) Rudy. We
went 6-5 and Rudy took a
lot of criticism. Well, the
next year, he went 11-0 and
won the national (black college)
championship. So a
lot of times, you can take
things and turn them
around."
' Henderson, who played
at FAMU and graduated
from the school in 1969,
said he started a youth
movement this year in an
attempt to get the Hornets
back on track.
He explained that the
4 4 upperclassmen just
weren't getting the job
done." So Henderson and
sxnne erf?hts?assistant
coaches hit the recruiting
trail with a vengeance.
W h o n lha IrtK
TT iivn uiv jw was complete,
Henderson and Co.
had come up with some fine
prospects. Today, 38 of the
Hornets' top 45 players are
freshmen.
?^Lasi?year,? we were
4-5-1," Henderson said of
his first year as the Hornets'
coach. "We graduated our
entire offensive line. This
year, the oldest kid we've
Soccer
the Indians 23-11 in the eontest,
missing countless scoring
opportunities. <.
"1 am not upset," said
Coach Lincoln Phillips,
"just disappointed. We are
a better team than William
& Mary. Wc had our
chances but just did not
eapitali/c on them; out better
players missed shots that
they ordinarily make. I teel
especially bad for our
seniors."
Howard concluded the
season 9-2-2.
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Tech SGA
The Student Government
Association of Forsyth
Tech will be collecting
food, clothing and toys for
their annual "Christmas for
the Needy" program.
Contributions will be accepted
at the Parkway
Building of Forsyth Tech,
2100 Silas Creek Parkway,
until 5 p.m., December 19.
Boxes will be prepared from
the collection and
distributed to identified
needy families in the
Winston-Salem Forsyth
County area.
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is only 18. We're a
young club.
"But 1 think this (youth)
was the way to go. My at^
titude was to work on it,
build on it."
That embarrassing loss to
Portland State might have
destroyed some of Henderson's
building efforts, or at
least hampered them a little.
"The Portland State
game was a nightmare,"
Henderson recai fetf.
"Portland is a team that
tends to pour it on once
they get you down.
"They were leading 72-0
in the third quarter and
were still passing. In fact,
they only ran the ball 18
times the whole game."
Despite the loss to
Portland, all has not been
bad for the Hornets this
year. As Henderson says,
"up is the only way for us
to go."
?"We?are?basically?a
freshman ball club," he
said. "At one time or
another we havp hart 18 >? *
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counting on. And at
Delaware State, once you
get past the front line people,
it really becomes a
struggled
"We are a growing team
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with a program that is
developing well. The team
has a good attitude and we
tend to rally around each
other than rely on individual
stars."
Once those freshmen turn
into sophomores, and then
juniors, well Delaware State
could find itself transformed
into one of black college
football's top teams. There
are some GOOD players on
the team."
Running backs Johnny
Rowe and Anthony
Beamon are speeders who
can score from anywhere on
the field. Rowe broke open
Delaware State's game with
Central State of Ohio, when
he ran for a 73-yard
touchdown. Delaware State
won that game. Rowe
finished the season with 467
yards, while Beamon had
326.
On defense, the Hornets
have fine players in safety
Tim King and linebacker
?Floyd -Thompson.
Now, if the Delaware
State administration would
just give Henderson a couple
more years. With the
youth program the coach
has installed, the wins could
just be a few more years
down the road.
It would"be a shame if
' Henderson weren't around.
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Rams Take Early
Basketball Victories
Kevin McCray and Ther- the Rams, themselves, as all
man Green scord a total of pre-season polls and discus87
points as the WSSU si on nave just about
Rams turned back Bowie "buried" the hopes for
State College and St. even a respectable season.
Augusitne's College in the The two victories will not
Thanksgiving Classic cause any over-confidence,
played last Friday and for the Rams still -don't
Saturday in the C.E. Gaines have the height needed to
Center. match their opponents.
McCray displayed his However, the two wins
skill in dribbling in protec- make every Ram supporter
ting one and two-point Ram very, very happy,
leads in the closing seconds The Rams go against Winof
both contest. throp College in a charity
Bowie went down 75 to doubleheader in Charoltte,
71 and St. Augustine's bow - friday night in the Charlotte
tvl 77 to 74 in games that Coliseum. Johnson C.
were closely fought from Smith will play Benedict
beginning to end. After a College in the nightcap
poor game against Bowie, affair.
Therman Greene, another "Bighouse" Gaines will
protege of Cleo Hill's came likely continue experimentto
life against the FAlcons, ing with his starting line-up
scoring 27 points to go with and fresheman ballplayers.
MeCray's 23. The biggest prize during
The tournament win last week's Classics was the
suprised everybody except See Page 27
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