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Harold Bennett of the Reynolds Park boxing tear
in thel 32-pound division of the Winston-Salem
tourney's most outstanding novice boxer, was om
- Other winners from Reynolds Park were Mike Mi
(139) and Bill Murrell (super-heavyweight). Patt
(125), Dean Flanagan (201) and Kent Hardee (li
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By BARRY COOPER
Syndicated Columnist
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USFL isn't The Savior Some Had Hoped For
When the United States Football league burst upon the
scene as this country's second major professional football
league, coaches at small colleges hailed the uew arrival
as a godsend for their players. ^
After all, the USFL, which had announced that it
Would not compete with the National Football League
for players, was intent upon scouring smaller schools for
talent and signing those players who were not good
Enough to make NFL rosters^
f-'Although much of that has happened, the USFL has
opLheen quite the bonanza that the smaller schools had
fact! the new league has all but exploited
some players,.enticing them to leave school a semester
early to attend training camp, only to cut most of the inj
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vitees a few days later.
Often, the players, disappointed over having failed the
rryout and no longer on scholarship at school, fail to
return to campus to complete their studies. There
is another angle to the USFL story, too. Even
the small-college players that do make the USFL rosters
are often taken advantage of. Most start out with meager
contracts that call for no signing bonus and a base salary
of no more than $40,000 per year. Some players from
small'knd historically black universities play for much
less than that, like around $22,000.
So, while the newspapers are full of names like Mike
Rozier, who signed with the USFL's Pittsburgh Maulers
for $5 million and the New Jersey Generals' Herschel
Walker, who got $6 million ? including a $1 million signing
bonus ? little is said of the many players around the
league who are playing for chump change.
Granted, the USFL gives many players a chance to play
pro ball that they would not otherwise has gotten. A case
in point is Eric Truvillion, a wide receiver for the Tampa
Bay Bandits who played at Florida A&M. The NFL's
New York Jets cut Truvillion a year ago, but he signed
with the Bandits, accepted a contract of about $25,000
per year, and then developed into one of the superior
receivers in the league. All in one season.
Bandits owner John Bassett quickly tore up
Truvillion's contract and signed him to a much more
lucrative one, the terms of which were not disclosed.
But, while players such as Truvillion can expect to have
their contracts rawAptiated, * what about the nonT
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Her (106), Darrell Harriett (119), Thomas Warren
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32) (photo by James Parker).
te a savior
superstars who keep the league going? After all, the
superstars have to have someone toj^lay against, and
right now, at least, the USFL is filling its rosters with
talented players who are settling for little money.
All this has not gone unnoticed by the smaller schools,
particularly the historically black institutions.
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