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I Winston-Salem State and Hampton University will be
E?Jf*”1*® ro** all the marbles when the bitter rivals meet
-®y afternoon in Winston-Salem Bowman Gray
Stadium. *
-Game-time is 1:30 o’clock.
Both teams reached the championship contest via
last-minute extrications from the close combatants in
uieir respective divisions. Hampton escaped in the
Northern Division when Norfolk State lost to Virginia State
two weeks ago and Winston-Salem State had to take care of
its own business, whipping Livingstone’s surprising Blue
Bears ill Salisbury last Saturday, to claim the Southern
Division for the third time in the last three years.
The odds favor the host Rams, who have defeated the
Pirates in 10 of 16 contests in their private series, including
the last four meetings. Winston-Salem mauled Hampton,
47-13, earlier this season.
. However, the Pirates bounced back to win five straight
j^games and finished their season 6-1 in the CIAA and 9-1
*g® Hist everybody. Coach Fred Freeman’s gladiators will
be looking for their first CIAA championship since 1926.
They have won six championships, all prior to 1926.
Winston-Salem, which has won the coveted title three
tin#* in 39 years of competition in the league, will be
seeking its first title since 1979. They have failed in their
, last three opportunities, losing to Norfolk State in 1984 and
to Virginia Union in 1983 and ’82.
V. Winston-Salem State possesses the big guns. They lead
the CIAA in rushing offense, eighth in passing and they’re
^Jthird in total offense. Meanwhile, the Pirates have been
tough to nm and pass against. Hampton is third in
^pushing defense, fifth in passing defense and second in
total defense.
The Rams will match their highly impressive 343.2 yards
in total Offense against Hampton’s equally impressive
nine-game yield of only 196.2 yards in total defense.
Charlotte native Bobby Junior will guide the Rams’
attack from the vital quarterback post. Junior has
^ connected with 37 percent of his passing attempts. He has
hit the receivers with 35 of 94 aims, including four for
touchdowns. Junior has been intercepted nine times.
Hampton has no passer among the conference’s top 10
The- Pirates do have the league’s individual rushing
leader in Carl Painter, who is averaging 5.9 yards per tote,
with 941 jfafds dn 159 carries and a 164.5 game average. *
Leroy Wonsley has been the Rams’ greatest threat on
land. He is rated fourth among the league’s top individual
rushers with 366 yards on 84 rushes for a 4.3 average per
rush. Wonsley’s teammate Lonnie Pulley is also perform
ing well for the Rams. Pulley is averaging 6.7 yards per
' carry on a net gain of 450 yards with 67 rushes. He has
, scored five touchdowns and owns a 40.0 yards per game
average.
2\ Coach Freeman has two other runners the Rams will
haye to watch very closely. They are kickoff return
specialist Clarence Bailey and punt-return artist Darryl
Skinner. Bailey has hauled back 11 kickoffs 290 yards in
nine contests for a return average of 26.2. In the meantime,
| Skinner was returning 12 punts 232 yards in nine contests
i for an average of 19.1 each time he laid hands on the
football.
Place kicker Craig Barber is another serious threat for
the Pirates. He has hit the targets with 25 of 27 extra punt
tries and with five of six field goal attempts;
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^NEITHEB here NOR THERE .SouthrifeCarolina
State, which won a dramatic victory over Grambling on
national television last Thursday night, ranks up there
with Georgia Tech, Southern Methodist and Oklahoma
State with nine football players each on NFL rosters,
i, It probably will be a long, long time before the World
Series returns to afternoon games. ABC enjoyed a very
high rating of 25.3 in the seven games of the 1965 Series and
NBC, which has TV rights to the Series in 1966, isn’t about
to tamper with that success. *
Another factor is an afternoon contest would go head
and-head with the highly popular NFL. The primary
reason is that games played at night will result in more
money. Advertising sales for the networks are down
; sharply.
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'- My early prediction for the New York Knicks and
Patrick Ewing is that Knicks’ management will have to
• get the Big Guy some help! Ewing has had little help in
games thus far.
Archie Cooley, the highly successful coach at Mississippi
( Valley State, is telling everyone he will succeed Rudy
. Hupbard as the head football coach at Florida AJcM
University. Coach Hubbard has been under Are from A&M
alumni and boosters since posting a 3-7-1 record in 1964.
The Boston Celtics are on the verge of a publicity
campaign to disclaim the belief that they’re racial. At a
time when 70 percent of the players in the NBA are Mack,
the makeup jrf the Celtic team is eight white players and
four black players.
Tlib team’s track record indicates the issue isn’t simply
a case of black-and-white, they argue.
Major league baseball owners are thinking seriously
about reducing their player roster from 2S players to 23
fhen. That would cut the tremendous cost of the players’
salaries.
Monday night football’s TV rating is up 19 percent from
1964 and 26 percent since Howard Cosell vacated the
BAK*.
,r ABC to carry Sunday afternoon baseball games
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Carolina State’s Bill Davis is not alone in taking
ut his record and listening to rumors about Ms
[enry C. Lattimore’s job is on the line at North
Central.
Keith “Beer9 Greene Gives Bulk To Bulls9 Inside Game
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By James CatbberUen
Poet Sport* Writer
They call him “Beef’ because it
rhymes with Keith and because at,
6’4Vfc” and 200 pounds, forward
Benjamin Keith Greene of the John
son C. Smith University Golden
Bulls gives some bulk to the Bulls’
inside game.
Last year at the CIAA, he was a
happy Bull after winning theClAA’s
slam dunk contest. Coach Robert
Moore encouraged him to enter the
contest and he won over former
Golden Bull teammate Glenn
Phillips and a player from Winston
Salem State University.
This year, his goal is to be happy
for another season.
“I have two goals,” said the
smooth operator with the flashy
smile. “My individual goal is to at
least make Honorable Mention ALL
CIAA and the team goal is to bring
back the first CIAA tournament
championship to Charlotte.”
Keith has been practicing hard
and says things are beginning to fall
into place for the offensively strong
and defensively rebuilding Bulls.
i intend to contribute my re
bounding abilities,” he said. “I also
intend to improve my scoring.”
Coach Robert Moore has been
helping Keith by motivating him to
do the best that he can possibly do
Greene comes to Smith from
Goldsboro High School, where he
was his school's most valuable
basketball player and most athletic
student. He was All-Wayne County
and All-Mid-Eastem 4A Athletic
Conference.
"We had a real strong confe
rence,” said Greene. “We played
Wilmington Laney, Wilmington New
Hanover, Wilmington Hoggard,
Jacksonville, Southern Wayne and
Eastern Wayne among others ”.
Keith honed his talents against the
great Chicago Bull of the National
Basketball Association-Mike Jordan
who played for Laney-and Ken
Gattison of Old Dominion University
who played at Wilmington New
Hanover.
Keith “Beer' Greene
. Hones his talent
The pro player that he admires the
most is Julius “Dr. J.” Erving.
“I like the way he carries him
self on and off the court. He has a
good image. He doesn’t deal in drugs
William Hearn Jr.
Airman William E. Hearn Jr., son
of William E. and Shirley A. Hearn
of 1515 Pondella Dr., Charlotte, has
completed Air Force basic training
at Lackland Air Force Base Texas.
The airman, who is remaining at
Lackland for specialized training in
the security police field, studied the
Air Force mission, organization and
customs and received special in
struction in human relations.
Completion of this training earned
the individual credits toward an
associate degree in applied science
through the Community College of
the Air Force.
He is a 1985 graduate of Myers
Park Senior High School, Charlotte.
and is a very honest person.”
At Johnson C. Smith University,
Keith is a junior business admin
istration major. He attended Na
varre Junior College oqc pefore
enrolling there. A.
His high games lan year point
wise were against Virginia State b
Petersburg when he scored 14 poiifts
and reboundwise was in Charlotte
against Fayetteville State when fie
pulled down nine. The Bulls opfe
Saturday in Rock Hill at 4:30 against
Gardner-Webb.
Can We Keep Drugs
Off The Playing Fields?
By Alan Brown
Special To The Post
Hardly a day goes by anymore,
when a sports section of a news
paper or magazine doesn’t have a
news item or headline about some
athlete or situation involving drugs
One day the news is about the
concern over doing drug testing of
baseball athletes and personnel. On
another day it’s a story about
baseball players being sold and or
dealing drugs. Not too long ago it
was a story about race car driv
ers dealing drugs. Drugs are a
problem that span the width and
breadth of sports and the fact that
drugs are a real problem facing
sports, in general, is inescapable.
So one might say, “What else is
new? Everyone 'knows' there is this
proDiem. mars irue, dui wnai
seems to be missed is the question of
what is the solution to drug pro
blems. And, if one looks at some
recent examples, even that looks a
bit disheartening.
Recently a professional base
ball player, Steve Howe, was re
leased from the Minnesota Twins.
The reason? His continued drug use.
That in itself is bad enough, but what
is worse is that he was suffering
from his THIRD relapse of using
drugs after undergoing a “drug
therapy program.”
Steve Howe is not alone. Another
baseball player, Alan Wiggins, who
was an important part of the San
Diego Padres team, was traded to
the Baltimore Orioles shortly after
having gone AWOL because of drugs
during the early part of the 1985
season. Chuck Muncie, who was re
cently let go from the Minnesota
Vikings of the NFL, was let go
because of his inability to handle
drugs. It is important to note that
both of these players had under
gone “drug treatment programs"
without success. Why does this
happen? What do these “programs”
miss?
There are two ways that drug
problems can be approached. One
way is to help a person to “cope"
with his problem that he will con
tinue to have endlessly. In coping
with this drug problem one is made '
to accept his problems and live with
them. That means he will continue to
be affected by his drug problem
rather than being at cause over it.
The second way to handle a drug
problem is to HANDLE the drug
problem. Not only must one be
gotten off the drugs he is taking, but
he needs to discover and handle
those factors and or situations that
cause him to WANT to take drug*
Most usually people take drugs be
cause they are trying to change
some unwanted condition. TTje un
derlying cause of taking drugs is
what must be handled in order to get
someone permanently off drugs by
his own choice and purpose.
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