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r> •' '1 > ''I n Coach ‘Big House’ Gaines ‘Bighouse’ Gaines Inducted Timmy Newsome The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame inducted Win ston-Salem State’s Athletic Director and winningest active basketball coach in the nation Clarence B. Gaines in Win ston-Salem. Newsome Player of the Monih By Debra McCUun Staff Reporter Timmy Newsome, a 20 year old junior from Ahoskie, North Carolina, is Winston-Salem State University’s most out standing player for the month of November. Timmy has had many honors bestowed upon him recently such as CIAA offensive back of the week for three consecutive weeks. He was named District 26 Player of the Week and Offensive Player of the Week in NAIA. Chevrolet Motor Company honored his outstanding foot ball playing by donating one thousand dollars to WSSU for the purpose of establishing a Timmy Newsome Scholarship Fund. Timmy is indeed an excep tional young man with an exceptional football record. In the CIAA Division he started the season third in rushing. By the end of the third game, he was first in rushing and averaged nine yards per game more than the number two man, Kermit Blount. After the fourth game he was 46 yards ahead of the number three man in rushing and five yards behind Kermit Blount. At the end of five games, Newsome was thirty-five yards ahead of the number three man in rushing and thirteen yards behind the new offensive leader Johnnie Wil liams of Elizabeth City. When the sixth game ended he was twenty-five yards ahead of the number two man in rushing. Timmy was fifty-one yards ahead of the number two man by the end of the seventh game, Timmy was fifty-one yards ahead of the number two man by the end of the seventh game, and gained four hundred thirty yards more than the number two man in rushing. By the end of the ninth game Newsome’s total rushing average per game was fifty-one yards more than the number two man, and his total yards gained this season went well over one thousand yards. At the end of the ninth game he was nine teen yards ahead of the num ber two man in rushing, Kermit Blount. After the seventh game, Timmy was named District 26 Player of the Week, and National Offensive Player of the Week in NAIA Schools. When the ninth game was over, Newsome was number one in rushing, averaging 25 yards more per game than the number two man. On the national level, the NCAA Division II* Newsome, after the third game of the season, was ranked fifth in the nation. By the ninth game, he was number three in rushing and only fifteen yards behind the number two man. Timmy Newsome has helped WSSU to become first in Rushing Defense, Total of fense, scoring often, and rush ing offense. Everyone who knows him is pulling for him. That includes some new fans who caught his act on" ABC’s regional telecast on Saturday, October 21, 1978, during the game between WSSU and Elizabeth City. In the second quarter of the game. New- some touched the ball and burst 49 yards for the first of his three touchdowns. The other touchdowns were runs of seventy-six and five yards. Although Timmy Newsome certainly has a lot to boast about, he never brags or shows off. Those closest to him describe his as a very quiet, easy going person who never complains. He is a team player who would never ask for the ball if he thought that he wasn’t helping the team. One day last summer, head coach Bill Hayes walked into the WSSU weight room where some of the players were working out. He took a look at Timmy Newsome and said, ‘Hey Timmy, if you get any bigger and stronger. I’m go ing to move you to tackle”. Everyone in the room laughed except Newsome who is six feet, three inches tall and weighs 218 pounds, he just looked up and said, “Okay coach, but I never played it before.” Timmy loves to hunt and fish. He is majoring in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Science. The NC Hall of Fame recog nized Gaines for his 620 wins, 1 national title (NCAA College Division in 1%7), half-a-dozen trips to NAIA playoffs in Kansas City, Mo., 12 CIAA titles 6 NAIA District 26 titles in basketball. Gaines has already been inducted into the Morgan State College (class of ’46), CIAA, and NAIA Halls of Fame. In addition to directing win ning basketball teams. Big- house has shared his talents around the world. He has conducted basketball clinics in Mexico, Peru, Germany and 5 African nations. Gaines is pleased with the honor, but not overwhelmed. “I am glad that achievement at small colleges is being recognized, “He remarked re cently, indicating that the CIAA and all other Black schools shared his moment of triumph and could look for ward to more recognition in the future. Ram Named Amon During the week of Homecom ing, the athletic department sponsored a “Name the Ram Contest.” More than fifty names were submitted. The entries were based on origin ality and meaning. Out of all the names submitted, none of them held as much signifi cance or meaning as the name “Amon.” Amon, the name chosen for the mighty ram mascot, means “all powerful.” It is of West African orgin and was thought to be a god of man kind’s welfare, represented by a ram. Amon is the first mascot of the Ram family. Cleo Hyman, a former student of Winston-Salem State Uni- veristy furnishes Amon with a home. The winner of the contest wishes to be kept anonymus. He or she is a member of the faculty here at WSSU. The name Amon was selected be cause of its significance and historical background. It was felt by the committee who chose the name that the mascot’s name should stand for something. The name Amon adds pride and dignity to the Ram family. We are proud to have him reprsent us and become a member of olur family. To Amon, we say “Welcome,” to the winner of the contest, we say, “Thank- you for giving us such a proud name.” Rams Trounce News Argos Staff Two perfect records went on the line November 11, 1978 when the Winston-Salem State University football team traveled to Raleigh. The CIAA Champion Rams (9-0) were the homecoming guests of the Shaw University Bears (0-9) in the last game of the regular season. Shaw and WSSU have play ed 15 times since their first game in 1949. The Rams have won 8, Shaw 6, and there has been 1 tie. WSSU has won the last 4 games, 23-8 in 1975, 29-18 in '76, 46-6 last year and 72-0 this year. This year the Rams were 46-point favo rites on the Dunkel Rating System.
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