Page Four
THE CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, November 15, 1963
Coach Riddick Says
Eagles Psychologically Ready For A&T
Despite 15-14 Lost To Virginia University
NCC’s football Eagles are
preparing this week to meet
the Aggies of A. and T. College
in the annual Carolina Thanks
giving Day Football Classic in
Greensboro, after losing their
first game of the season to Vir
ginia Union, 15-14, last Satur
day afternoon.
The contest with A.&T. will
not be an ordinary game for the
Eagles because, in addition to
playing their arch-rivals, they
must defeat A.&T. in order to
hold their current conference
lead and clinch the champion
ship.
A win on Turkey Day would
give the Eagles their second
CXAA crown in a three-year
span. A loss could deprive NCC
conference honors, and the fin
al Dickinson rating standing
could throw the CIAA title into
a possible three-way deadlock,
with NCC, A.&T., and possibly
Morgan State College.
Coach Herman Riddick, who
has not committed himself to
saying that his maroon and gray
charges will emerge victorious,
says only that psychologically
the name A.&T. is enough to
make the NCC team be up for
the contest next Thursday.
This aimual Turkey Day Clas
sic is considered one of the
great sports spectacles of the
CIAA, and it is the chief draw
ing card in the four-state con
ference, which includes Dela
ware, Maryland, Virginia, and
North Carolina.
Of thirty previous meetings
between NCC and A.&T. the
Aggies are on top with a 15-12-
3 record.
RANKED NATIONALLY
Despite a 15-14 loss last Sat
urday to the Virginia Union
Panthers, the Eagles have re
mained at the top of shifting
CIAA standings for six consecu
tive weeks.
Ranked fourth nationally in
the Pittsiburgh Courier's ratings
of 15 predominantly Negro in
stitutions, North Carolina is
topped by Prairie View A. and
M. College, Florida A. and M.
University, and Southern Uni
versity.
The NAIA lists the Eagles as
sixteenth nationally among
small colleges, placing them
sixth among the nation’s second
ten teams. The North Caroli
nians are tied with Linfield
(Oregon) College in the rank
ing.
The Eagles’ next opponents,
A. & T. Aggies, are second in
the conference with a 5-1 league
record and a 7-2 overall mark.
The Aggies, eighth in the
Pittsburgh Courier’s rankings,
are not included in the NAIA
list of the country’s top twenty
small college teams.
SUCCUMBS TO PANTHERS
First place NCC took ts first
conference setback of the 1963
season at the hands of fourth-
ranked Virginia Union Univer
sity at Durham’s O’Kelly Field
Saturday by a score of 15-14.
Going into the CIAA contest
with an unblemished record of
7-0, NCC ended with a 5-1 con
ference record and a 7-1 over
all mark.
The Eagles scored after re
ceiving the opening kickoff.
With the ball resting on their
own 44 yard line, NCC quarter
back Donald Thomas threw a
flare pass to halfback Robert
Currington on the first play
from scrimmage, and the speedy
Eagle romped 56 yards for the
initial touchdown. A Bobby As-
mond kick gave the Eagles a
7-0 lead at the end of the first
quarter.
The Virginia Union Panthers
struck back in the waning mom
ents of the second quarter when
quarterback Carl Watson threw
a 24-yard pas^ to halfback
Frank Carr for the visitors’
first touchdown. Union took a
half time lead of 8-7 after quar
terback Watson tossed a two-
point conversion to end Lossie
Robinson.
In the third quarter, the
Eagles missed a scoring oppor
tunity when end O. J. Williams
blocked a Union fourth-down
kick and George Partlow re
covered it on the Panthers’ nine
yard line. Quarterback Donald
Thomas rolled out twice on
keeper plays, but he was stopped
shy of the touchdown. NCC tried
uncessfully to kick a field goal
at this point, but neither team
tallied in this frame.
North Carolina College re
gained the lead in the final
stanza when halfback Curring
ton made his second touchdown
of the game, this time from 15
yards out. Currington tied the
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school record of 48 points for
one season when he scored his
first touchdown and set a new
school record of 54 points with
his second. His score climaxed a
72 yard drive by NCC. When
Bobby Asmond kicked the extra
point, the Eagles led 14-8.
The Panthers, undaunted,
struck back like a bolt of light
ning when speedy halfback
Jones Davis returned a punt 88
yards to the Eagles’ three yard
line. From here. Union haK-
back Samuel Graves scored
from one yard out to knot the
score 14-all. George Yancey’s
toe gave the visitors a 15-14
lead.
With four minutes remaining,
NCC went to the airlanes, but
an enemy defender intercepted
a pass. When the game ended,
the visitors had possession of
the ball deep in Eagle territory.
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imiversity that the degree was
granted on October 28 and will
be conferred later, possibly at
the school’s winter convocation.
A native of Trenton, N. C.,
Johnson, whose field of special
interest is legal education, at
tended NCC as an undergrad
uate and received the LL.B. de
gree in 1949. He joined the
joined the faculty of the NCC
School of Law in 1959.
Earlier experiences include
positions as head bookkeeper at
the Union Insurance and Realty
Co., Durham, and as an auditor
of non-appropriative funds in
the U.S. Army for 4 years. John
son engaged in the practice of
law in Durham from 1949 to
1958.
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