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By LONZA HARDY
Staff Writer
Mardi Gras comes early in the
Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Somewhere between tours of the
French Quarter and samplings of
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time Nov. 26 to witness college football's
post-Thanksgiving Event.
The occasion, of course, was the
10th annual Bayou Classic, THE
football game among black schools
which yearly pits the Grambling
State Tigers (the Notre Dame of
black college football ? or is Notre
Dame the Grambling of white college
football?) against the Southern
Jaguars.
But forget a moment the people
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and the atmosphere and the fanfare
of the premier sporting event in
Black America.
And forget the fact that the
Classic now yearly grosses in excess
of $1 million, more than most
maior-collece howl aamiK
The Bayou Classic is good, oldfashioned
SWAC football at its
best. And it took on even added
significance this season with the
1983 league championship on the
line.
"People talk about me tying Pop
Warner's career wins total (313),
but 1 wasn't thinking about chasing
anybody's record," said Grambling's
Eddie Robinson, the winningest
active coach in college football.
"What I was thinking about
was winning the SWAC champion
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Still, it didn't look good early for
? GrambHng, which went into the
game with a precarious half-game
lead over Southern and fell behind
quickly in the first half.
After jumping out to a 7-0 first
quarter lead on a 58-yard
touchdown pass from Hollis Brent
to Patrick Scott, the Tigers saw
Southern storm back to score 10
unanswered points in the second
tjuaiicr, ursi on a seven-yard
touchdown toss from Herman Coleman
to Tony Good, at the 14:48
mark, then on a 37-yard field goal
by Roger Serrano at the 7:12 mark.
The Jags, who owned a two-game
Classic winning streak, led 10-7 at
. halftime. But the beginning of the
end for Otis Washington's team
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would come with less than three
minutes gone in the second half.
After the Jaguars received the
second-half kickoff and failed to
move the ball, Southern's Kim
Davis booted a 57-yard punt to the
Grambling 15-yard line.
Then came the play of the game.
Five-nine Dwayne Jupiter took
the kick and raced 85 yards through
the Jaguar defense for the go-ahead
touchdown. GSU led 14-10 after
Jorge Rosales' extra point with
12:13 left in the third quarter.
Grambling struck again late in the
third quarter when game MVP
Reginald Pugh plunged over from
the one-yard line with 1:12 to go,
giving the Tigers a 21-10 lead.
Rosales connected on a 26-yard field
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