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Tolling it like it really isi.
„ ®ein? born P°°r need not be a permanent handicap...
But only hard work will erase it!
Livingstone’s Blue Bears will come to town for a
Saturday night date with Johnson C. Smith and local
football fans will get a rare opportunity to see for
themselves if the once-beaten team from up the road
apiece is for real.
The pieces don t fit. The Blue Bears are coached by
David Corley, a young man with very little experience who
also coaches the school’s basketball team. Before the 1985
football season began, Livingstone owned the CIAA’s 10th
best won-lost overall record, with only 59 victories and 95
setbacks in 24 years of turf operation. The Blue Bears had
consistently finished near the bottom on the conference
standings.
Corley has apparently stopped the landslide. He has
strung together a string of upsets, including wins over
North Carolina Central and Virginia Union and has won
four of five contests this season. Gardner-Webb is the only
team to outscore Corley’s youngsters since the season
began six weeks ago.
Corley’s Blue Bears are the new tenants in first place of
the Southern Division standings, with a 4-0 loop record.
They may encounter trouble here Saturday night as they
search for victory No. 5. Johnson C. Smith coach Horace
Small has a quality, but inexperienced, leader in freshman
quarterback Mel Westmoreland. The Greensboro native,
who stands 6’6” and weighs 170 pounds, owns a rifle arm
that has connected with 39 of his 116 tosses for 335 yards
and four touchdowns. He’s completed 33.6 percent of his
throws and is averaging 63.6 air yards per game.
Westmoreland is not listed among the JCSU Bulls on the
team’s squad roster. He came to Charlotte via Princess
Anne, Maryland, where he spent a short period of time on a
basketball • scholarship at the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore. Football was his first love, however. That’s
where Small benefited and when first stringer Willie Dixon
went to the sidelines early in the year with fractured ribs,
Westmoreland took over and has been improving steadily
with each appearance.
Saturday night could be the night when the young
quarterback and his Bulls teammates explode.
Is the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association going
big time?
' The predominantly black conference will stage its
annual Basketball Round-Up at the swanky Richmond,
Va., Marriott Tuesday, October 22. It promises to be a
grand affair. '
f According to beCopfn (jfennway, publig relations direc
tor, it’s going to be a fun event, “because each coach will
have the Opportunity to. give his prospectus on how he
thinks the season will progress.”
The event will also afford the CIAA basketball coaches
another opportunity to take a closer look at their
pre-season predictions for 1985-86. A recent conference
news release reported the coaches voted Norfolk State and
Fayetteville State as the teams to win their respective
divisional races.
I would like,to cast my vote for Virginia Union to win the
Northern Division and Winston-Salem State to capture the
title in the Southern Division. The loop experts picked
Winston-Salem State to finish sixth in the South and
Virginia Union to wind up second in the North. They have
Livingstone as the serious contender to Fayetteville State.
Dante Johnson, J.C. Smith’s high-scoring forward, has
been named to the Pre-Season All-CIAA Squad. So has
Raynell Jones and Wayne Miller of Livingstone and the
sensational Alexander Hooper of Winston-Salem State.
Reports from California have the Los Angeles Raiders
L buying USFL Arizona Wranglers’ quarterback Doug
Williams as a replacement for the injured Jim Plunkett,
who is expected to be lost for at least six weeks. Currently
serving as an assistant coach at Louisiana Southern
University, Williams is a former NFL quarterback who
performed for a number of seasons with the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
The NCAA is finally going to do something about the
serious drug problems that’s plaguing all sports. Accord
ing to John Toner, NCAA committee chairman, the full
NCAA membership will vote on the proposal for man
datory drug testing at its January convention.
If New York Mets’ ace pitcher Dwight Gooden does hot
witf the National League Cy Young Award, the officials
who are eligible to vote on such things should be hijacked!
r After five straight weeks of success, hitting correctly on
42 of 51 picks, the Old Crystal Ball’s record stands at a
highly respectable 42-8-1 for the season.
This week’s schedule offers a test to the OCB’s skills,
with touch contests on tap between Winston-Salem State
and Fayetteville, J.C Smith and Livingstone, Hampton
and Norfolk State, and South Carolina State and Bethune
Cookman
Taking the easier ones first: Elizabeth City will maul St.
Paul’s; Virginia State will defeat Howard; Virginia Union
will wallop UDC; and Towson State will whip Morgan in a
close contest.
Now for the “toughies’’: Livingstone will edge Johnson
C. Smith in a real thriller here Saturday night;
Winston-Salem State will prove too strong for Fayetteville
State; Hampton will upset Norfolk State; and Bethone
Cookman will down South Carolina Staftfp^ ’
Wish I’d Said That! Former majar league owner Bill
Veeck—who is noted for speaking his mind—is giving his
views on the Pittsburgh drug trials; “They strolled into the
courthouse in $500, three-piece suits, $150 custom-made
shirts, $200 shoes by Gucci, and a quarter’s worth of'
character.”
Overwhelming odds will favor the American League
when the 83rd World Series begins next week. Led by the
■New York Yankees, the American League has been
victorious 47 times in the fall classic since 1903. The
National League, in the meantime, has won only 33 Series,
f including four of the last six. The Yankees have 21 World
Series' banners in its trophy room
In CUA Shootout
J*C. Smith Bulls Host Livingstone’s Blue Bears
By James Cutbbertson '
tkh A Post Sports Writer
Back in 1892, Biddle College and
Livingstone College played the first
football game between predomi
nantly black colleges in the United
^States.
They will tangle again at Charlotte
Memorial Stadium in a 7:30 p.m.
game that will feature the explo
sive Livingstone attack that has
posted a 2-0 conference record and a
4-1 overall record.
The Blue Bears beat North Caro
lina Central, 24-21, Clark, 31-7,
District of Columbia, 51-6, and Vir
ginia Union, 13-12, before losing to
Gardner-Webb, 34-27.
The Blue Bears were open October
12 and got a much needed rest.
One of the Blue Bears to watch for
is Carl Boldra. The 6T”, 200-pound
junior quarterback from Lawrence,
Kansas, completed 25 of 44 passes
for 391 yards in the loss to Gard
ner-Webb. He passed for one touch
down and ran two in from the one
yard line. He only played two series
in the first half. He guided the Blue
Bears to 24 second half points.
Offensive linemen Jay Martin, a
6'4’’, 200-pounder junior tight end
Tim Roberts
Freshman tightend
from Greenwood, South Carolina,
finished the day with eight recep
tions for 143 yards and one touch
down.
Junior running back Angelo
Chapman of Livingstone, a 5'10”,
210-pound junior linebacker from
Kannapolis, has 12 solo and four
unassisted tackles, along with a
blocked extra point, which broke
Gardner Webb’s extra point streak.
They had made 134, dating back to
1979.
Boldra has completed 53 of 104
passing attempts with five intercep
tions for a 51 percent clip that has
netted four touchdowns and 922
yards for a 184.4 yards per game
average.
Jay Martin is the Livingstone
receiver who has made 17 catches
for 385 yards and three touchdowns.
The Livingstone team is averag
ing 81.6 yards per game rushing and
giving up 105.4.
They are averaging 250.6 yards
per game passing and giving up
187.0 yards.
The Blue Bears average 29.2
points per game and give up 16.0.
Mel Westmoreland, the Golden
Bulls’ young quarterback, has
completed 44 of 129 passes for an
average percentage of 33.6, with
four touchdowns and 335 yards to his
credit.
The Golden Bulls are averaging
125.2 yards per game rushing and
giving up 76 2.
The Bulls are averaging 63 per
game passing and giving up 180.2. Z
Johnson C. Smith is averaging 11.J
points per game while giving up 23.£
Tim Roberts of South FlorencC
High School is one of the young BultyC
around which this team is built. -
The 6’4”, 215-pound South F1<C
rence graduate went to the semi*
finals of the State 4A playoffs with
his 6-6 team, which lost to Harts
ville.
The tight end caught eight touch
down passes last year with the
longest one being 43 yards
His best game was in a 6-2 loss to
Conway, when he caught 10 passes
for 113 yards or an 11.3 yards per
carry average He made the All
Region team for his efforts
He came to Johnson C. Smith
because he visited the campus and
liked it.
His goal is to “be the best I can
be "
Although he would like to have a
pro career, he said he would not
pursue that goal if it were not
available
He is an 18-year-old business
administration major and the son of
Mrs. Thelma Roberts.
Three Chosen For “Player Of Week” Honors
By James Cuthbertson
Post Sports Writer
Sometimes it takes more than one
person to win a game and in this
case it took three.
Harding was trailing West Char
lotte, 9-0, in the third quarter when
Danny McKay, wide receiver, cut
across the grain and rode the
Harding offensive arm of Anthony
Houston 37 yards for paydirt. This
made the score 9-7.
With the ball on its 27 and fourth
and 23, the Ram knew they had to go
for it. Quarterback Anthony Houston
hit wide receiver Danny McKay
about 10 yards from the line of
scrimmage. It looked like the Lions
had held when suddenly from out of
nowhere like a blazing bullet,
Antonio Walker came streaking
down the sideline to take a lateral
from McKay and race 73 yards for
the straw that broke the Lions’ back.
Ricky Jackson scored on an in
terception as Neil Williams tried
frantically to bring the Lions back.
For their combined efforts, Danny
McKay, Anthony Houston, and
Antonio Walker are our first “Tri
Players of the Week” in the Char
lotte Post’s history.
It was a marvelous execution of
teamwoi^ that put the Rams at the
top of the heap in the Tri-County 4A
with a 3-0 conference and 6-0 overall
records and their first win over the
Lions in almost a decade.
In other games, Myers Park’s
Alvin Blakeney had two touchdowns
on 58- and three-yard runs in the loss
to Independence. In that same
game, Donald Donald scored twice
for the Pats, and Whit Neal hit a
41-yard field goal in the 24-14 win.
Donald Ray Colson of North
rushed 15 times for 125 yards in the
7-0 win over Olympic.
Junior Hall of Ashbrook rushed for
runs of seven, 39, and one yards in
the 47-0 win over Garinger.
Chad Grier of Latin had a fine
night passing with 16 of 31 for 170
yards as the Hawks beat Providence
Day, 15-0.
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