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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Fon THE Week of November 22-28. 2005
GROUND
WAR
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EVEN MATCH: RB Alonzo
Coleman leads Hampton's
potent rushing attack
against Richmond's stout
defense in l-AA playoffs
T ANTI-CLIMATIC CLASSICS IN HOUSTON
AND MONTGOMERY; SMALL OUT AT A&T
UNDER THE BANNER
WHATS GONG ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS
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SMALL: Out at A&T
after three years of a
four-year contract
NC A&T CANS SMALL ■ North
C'arolina A&T Director of Athletics. Dee Todd.
announced Monday that head
football coach (veorge Small and
his staff will not return to the
Aggie sideline in 2006. "Today,
Coach George Small and hi.s staff
were dismissed after careful
review and consideration of the
direction of our football pro
gram." said a release from Todd's
office. "In line with our commit
ment to the development of stu
dent-athletes and to our Division
l-AA status, we feel that it is in the best interest of our foot
ball program to make this change. This allows the
University to begin the process of finding Coach Small’s
successor." Small, a 1979 A&T grad and former all-MEAC
lineman and Aggie captain, took over the program in 2002
after the firing of 15-year head coach Bill Hayes. The
Aggies, who had finished 4-8 overall and 2-6 and at the
bottom of the MEAC .standings in Hayes’ final season,
went on to post a 10-3 mark including winning the 2003
MEAC championship and representing the conference in
the I-AA playoffs. Small was named the conference's
coach of the year. Since then he has posted back-to-back 3-
8 marks. The Aggies have been the lowest .scoring team in
the MEAC both of the last two sea.sons. The four-year con
tract Small signed in 2003 includes a provision that allows
for a buyout after the third year at fifty percent of his
$110,000 salary.
LADY EAGLES FALL: the .wo-.ime
defending CIAA volleyball champion North Carolina
Central Lady Eagles came up short in their attempt to
defeat No. I seed Lock Haven, losing 3-0 (30-14, 30-12,
30-25) on Lock Haven's home court for the second consec
utive year in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional play
offs. NCCU (29-14) was led with 11 kills by Brenda
Brown, who also added .seven digs. NCCU all-time kills
and blocks leader Danielle John.son-W'ebb finished with
eight kilts and four block assists. Senior setter .Ariel
Ciermain contributed a match-high 24 assists, while senior
defensive specialist Dorian Mills amas.sed a team-high
nine digs.
LADY RATTLERS TAB MALONE:
Florida A&M has announced the
appointment of Maicel Malone as the
university’s head women’s track and
field coach. A graduate of Arizona
State University, who also enjoyed a
supremely distinguished track career,
Malone comes to FAMU after a
lengthy stint as assistant women's track
coach at Florida State University. Malone joined the FSU
staff in 1999, becoming instrumental in the success of the
women's program in Atlantic Coast Conference competi
tion. She also assisted with men’s 2002 and 2003 ACC
championship teams.
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MALONE
STITH
STITH GOING TO HULA BOWL:
Three seasons ago. Waller Stith began his
collegiate career as a 265-pound tight end
at Western Michigan University. Now, he
stands as a 6-foot-8. .520-pound National
Football League prospect at N.C. A&T.
Stith has been invited to play in the 60th
annuat Hula Bowl on Jan. 21. 2006 at
Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, an environment that
showca.ses talent in front of scouts from every NFL team!
The game will be televised on ESPN2. Stith was honored
as the MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Week after open
ing holes for a 252-yard rushing perfonnance by the
Aggies in a win over Norfolk State. Stith also had an out
standing performances against N.C. Central. He has been
a consistent blocker all season with an average grade of
87% on his blocking. Stith becomes the third Aggie player
in eight sea.sons to play in the Hula Bowl, joining All-
Americans Chris McNeil (1997) and Curtis Deloatch
(2002), now of the NFL's New York Giants.
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2005 BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL (Results, Standings and Weekly Honors)
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MEAC PUYERS OF THE WEEK
OFF06E
ALBERT CHESTER R-So.. OB. FAUU • 14-10
lor 175 yds. 11 car. 75 yds. in wnoverBCC
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SAMMY DOUGHTY. Sr.. FS. FAMU • 12 tscMss.
6 solos. iin(. 1 ra n wn ovsr BC
TADREAN CHARLES. Jr., MLB, B-CC • 11
tacldss,15TFL.1FFvs FAMU
SPEQAL TEAMS
WESLEY TAYLOR So., P/PK, FAMU - 43 yd
FG to lofce OT, l7-yd game-wnnervs B-CC
ROOKIE
DON CAREY, Fr., FS. NSU - 5 lacUes. 4 sokis.
1TFL1 F, 1 rt, r wn over Uborty
□NEMAN
RAYMOND HARRISON, R-FR, C. SCSU
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SWAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
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JEREMY McCOY, Jr., RB. ALC. ST. - 29 c».
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DEFENSE
TYLER KM6KT, Jr., LB, HVSU -10 isckles. 4
solos. 1 FF. 5 sack. 3 (XH ie SE La
SPEOAL TEAMS
MARK) SANCHEZ, Fr., PK. PV - 3-3 on FGa (35.
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ANTHONY MITCHELL. Fr., WR,AAaU-4fec
143 yds. 1 TO r wn over F^awie View
INDEPENDENTS
Langston
Texas Coiege
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Allen
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Edward Waters
Tennessee State
Cheyney
W Va State
Central State
Savannah State
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
OFFENSE
I- AA playoff game tops holiday schedule
II- 0 Hampton gets No. 3 seed, hosts Richmond
LUT WILLIAMS
BCSP Editor
Mid-Eastern Athletic Confe-rence champion
Hampton completed the only undefeated season in
NCAA Div. I-AA football Saturday with a 44-6 win
over Savannah State and wa.s awarded Sunday with
one of the top .seeds in the national playoffs.
The two-time MEAC champ Pirates (li-0),
received the MEAC's automatic bid and will host the
University of Richmond (8-3), the Atlantic 10 co
champion, in the first round of the NCAA Division I-
AA playoffs this Saturday (Nov. 26) at Arm.strong
Stadium. The Pirates earned the No. 3 overall seed in
the field-of-16 championship field announced
Sunday.
Two-time MEAC runner-up South Carolina
Stale, who finished 9-2 for the second consecutive
year, wa.s again left out of the playoffs.
Hampton or Richmond will face the winner of
the Furman-Nicholls Slate game in the quarterfinals.
If Hampton wins the first round game over Richmond
it would also host the quarterfinal game.
This marks the third time a MEAC team will
play at home in the first round. Florida A&M played
host to Troy Slate in 1998 and Bethune-Cookman
was host to Florida Atlantic in 2003.
Hampton captured its second consecutive
MEAC title and fourth overall while going undefeat
ed (8-0) in conference play. This marked the second
time the Pirates were undefeated in league play. They
were 7-0 in 1997 when they won their first MEAC
title. The last team to go undefeated in conference
play prior to this season was North Carolina A&T.
who finished 8-0 in 1999.
Richmond bounced back from a 1-3 start to win
its final seven games and earn a share of the Atlantic
10 championship with No. 1 seed New Hampshire.
The Spiders finished 7-1 in the A-10, including
Saturday’s 41-7 victory over William & Mary.
The Pirates finished the season with a dominat
ing performance in thrashing winless (0-11)
Savannah State. In the game, senior RB Ardeil
Daniels rushed for 142 yards to join junior RB
Alonzo Coleman topping the 1,000-yard mark for
the second year in a row. Daniels finished the season
with 1,015 yards and nine TDs while Coleman, the
MEAC’s top rusher, had 104 yards and two TDs
Saturday to finish the season with 1,309 yards and 19
scores.
Rushing defense is the strong suit for Richmond.
BCSP Notes
SWAC Alumni Association
to honor three
The SWAC Alumni Association will present its
Lifetime Achievement Award to former Prairie
View women's track co^h Barbara Jacket, former
SWAC president Dr. Norris Edney and USA
TODAY reporter Roscoe Nance at its 6th annual
Legends Reception at 6 p.m. Dec. 9, the day before
the SWAC Football Championship game, at the
Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham. Ala. The award is
given in recognition of the recipients' contributions
to athletics in the Southwestern Athletic
Conference.
Jacket's track teams won eight NAIA outdoor
championships and two indoor
championships, eight SWAC cross
country titles, nine SWAC indoor
JtBf titles and five SWAC outdoor
titles during her 26-year career
from 1965-1991. Her teams also
won titles in the Association of
JACKET Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women (AIAW) and the U.S. Track and Field
Federation. Jacket was SWAC Coach of the Year 23
times and NAIA Coach of the Year five times. She is
a member of the NAIA. Texas Women's and
Tuskegee In.stitute Athletic Halls of Fame.
Jacket, a 1958 graduate of Tuskegee. in 1992
became the second- black woman to coach the U.S.
Women's Olympic team. She guided Team USA to
four gold medals, three silver medals and three
bronze medals at the Barcelona Olympics, the most
medals for any team since the 1956 Olympics. Jacket
also serv ed as athletic director at Prairie View and is
currently a member of the school’s faculty.
Edney was SWAC president from 1975-84 and
has been credited with saving the conference from
The Spiders give up just 115.8 rushing yards per game,
.second best in the A-10 and 18ih be.si nationally.
The RB duo will lead a Hampton offense that
averages 33.2 points per game and a rushing attack that
is eighth best in the nation at 251 yards per game. QB
Princeton Shepherd (126-70, 1,018 yds., 8 TD, 5
inis.) will start for the Pirates but has been spelled in
each game by Antwan Smith.
Hampton has excelled defensively, leading the
nation in scoring defense (11.82 ppg.) while finishing
fifth in total defense (263.5 ypg.), second in pa.ss effi
ciency defense (83.78) and fourth in pass defense
(139.36 ypg.). The Pirates will have to contend with a
Richmond offen.se led by QB Stacy Tutl, who has
passed for 1,964 yards and 14 TDs and run for 665
yards and another 10 scores, both tops on the team.
Hampton senior Andrew Paterini and Richmond
junior Joseph Fore are two of the top placekickers in
the nation. Paterini has hit on 19 of 27 field goals and
43 of 44 PATs while Fore has converted 15 of 19 field
goals and 29 of 32 PATs.
GAMES THIS WEEK
THURSDAY, NOV. 24
CLASSICS/TV GAME
d2n(i Turkey Day Classic (ESPNU)
Alabama St. vs. Tuskegee in Montgomery, AL t :00pm
SATURDAY, NOV. 26
CLASSICS/TV GAME
Rescheduled Labor Day Classic
Texas Southern vs. Pr. View in Houston, TX 1:00pm
Bayou Classic XXXII (NBC)
Southern vs. Grambling State in Houston, TX 1:00pm
PLAYOFF GAME
NCAA l-AA First Round
Hampton vs. Richmond in Hampton, VA 1:00pm
Three Classic games all but finish out the
regular sea.son - Thursday's Turkey Day Classic in
Montgomery, AL, Saturday's Bayou Classic
moved from New Orleans' Superdome because of
Hurricane Katrina to Houston’s Reliant Stadium
and Saturday's re-scheduled Labor Day Classic.
2nd ROUND NCAA DIV. II PLAYOFFS
N. Alabama nips N.C. Central, 24-21
University of North Alabama senior Beau
Tanner, who had not kicked a field goal all sea
son, knocked through a 37-yarder as lime expired
to give the Lions a 24-21 win over CIAA cham
pion North (Carolina Central in a second round
NCAA Div. II playoff game in Durham Saturday.
Tanner got his chance after freshman Yuia
Fakuda mis.sed two field goal attempts earlier.
Head coach Rod Hudspeth said it was a "gut feel
ing" to turn to Tanner who lost his job to l^akuda
after UNA's second game.
NCCU scored all of its points in the second
quarter and look a 21-14 halftime lead as they
rode the legs of RB Greg Pruitt (118 yards, 32
carries) and the play of QB Adrian Warren and
back-up QB and WR Charles Futrell.
UNA struck first needing only four plays to
score after the opening kickoff. But the Eagles
came back to tie it at 7 when Futrell hauled in a
nine-yard strike from Warren three plays into the
second quarter.
UNA answered three plays later when star
receiver Anthony Merritt took a short pass in the
right flat and scampered 61 yards for the score.
Fakuda’s PAT put UNA up 14-7.
Futrell would again figure in the next
Eagles' score, this time from the QB position as
he kept the ball on an option play and ran around
right end on a 39-yard scoring run. Brandon
Gilbert's PAT tied the score at 14, 9:53 before
the half.
NCCU took its first lead of the game, 21-
14. four-and-a-half minutes later after Warren hit
WR Torey Ross with a four-yard TD pass. Just
before the half, Gilbert had a chance to add to
the lead but missed on a 32-yard field goal
attempt.
The score held up as the teams exchanged
punts in a scoreless third period.
Freshyan A. J. Milwee, who had spelled
.starter Vinnie Saylor in running situations, took
over at QB early in the fourth quarter and led the
Lions on a game-lying 8-play 79-yard drive cul
minating in RB DeMarcus Blount's 23-yard
scoring run with 8:27 left.
Milwee then directed the game-winning 12-
play, 72-yard drive that set Tanner up at the
NCCU 20.
financial ruin. $WAC was facing three lawsuits and
was $130,000 in the red when he took office. He
settled all three suits amicably, and the conference
was $1 million in the black when he left office.
During Edney’s tenure SWAC changed its affilia
tion. moving from NAIA and NCAA Division 11 to
NCAA Division I-AA in football and Division I in
ail other sports.
Edney also served as athletic faculty represen
tative at Alcorn Slate from 1971-2000.
Nance has reported on black college athletics
throughout his 30-year career
and covered the SWAC for
seven years for The Clarion-
Ledger in Jackson. Miss., from
1978-85. At times Nance was
highly critical of the conference
as he exposed its shortcomings
NANCE and miscues. But at the same
lime he sened as a voice for SWAC schools and
their athletes who for the most part had been voice
less.
Nance is credited with coming up with the
nicknames "The Godfather" fw fwmer Alcorn Slate
and Southern football coach Marino H. Casern
and "The Gunslinger" for former Mississippi
Valley State football coach .\rchie Cooley. Nance
currentlv covers the NBA for USA TODAY.
NC A&T to name court
for Cal Irvin and Don Corbett
When any one thinks of N.C. A&T basketball,
two names come to mind, former head men's bas
ketball coaches Calvin "Cal" Inin and Don
Corbett. For their success and-tremendous accom
plishments. Irvin and Corbett will be honored
before the Aggies nationally televised game
(ESPN2) on January 16 against Bethune-
Cookman at Corbett Sports Center by having the
court named in their honor.
Irvin came to N.C. A&T in 1954 and in 18 sea
sons his teams never finished below .5(X). Irvin's
success would carry the Aggies over into the Mid-
Ea.stern Athletic Conference, where he won the
school's first league championship in 1972. Among
his players was Al Allies, the only HBCU graduate
to coach an NBA championship team. Hugh
Evans, another star in the Irvin system, served in
the NBA as an official for 35 years. Irvin finished
with a career record of 401-132, including a 308-
105 record at N.C. A&T. His first CIAA champi
onship came in 1958. Irvin's teams won CIAA lilies
in 1959.1962. 1964, and 1967.
The 26 wins the Aggies totaled in 1958 under
Irvin would still be a record today had it not been
for Corbett. Cort)elt quickly rebuilt the program
after an 8-19 first season in 1979-80. His recruiting
class began a run that has been unparalleled in
MEAC history. In that class was the first of three
All-MEAC players to come out of Rixhester. N.Y.,
Joe Binion.
Binion would go on to finish his career as the
all-time leading scorer and rebounder in school his
tory in leading the Aggies to four MEAC champi
onships. Corbett won eight consecutive MEAC
tournament lilies and made seven consecutive
NCAA tournament appearances and finished with a
249-133 record to rank second on the all-time vic
tories list behind Irvin. He won 20 or more games
in six different seasons, including a school best
winning percentage of .897 (26-3) record in 1986--
87. Also under Corbett's direction, the Aggies ran
off a 37-gaine winning streak in Corbett Sports
Center which lasted nearly four years. Corbett was
named MEAC Coach of the Year six times.