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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Friday, October 3, 1969.
Coach George Quiett Sizes Up Eagles
By PAUL JERVAY, JR.
In an interview with Coach
George Quiett, much insight
was gained on this year’s edi
tion of the NCCU Eagle football
team. Coach Quiett does not
anticipate the team’s being as
strong as it was last season in
all areas. Among the areas is
the offensive running game.
Six men who were not starters
at the key position last year are
figuring in this year’s running
attack. Coach Quiett feels that
experience is the key to making
this new unit function efficient
ly. This is essential since last
year’s offensive on—slot was
based on the running game.
In order to make the running
attack go, Coach Quiett feels
that the guards are the key.
Unforunately both of last year’s
starting guards are lost for the
season. A new look of some
sort will be necessary for the
Eagle team. Fans will see the
bail in the air a lot more this
season.
Defensively, an outstanding
tackle, Lonnie Page, was lost;
Russell Price will fill this va
cancy. The secondary also lost
key members, Ronnie Upper-
man and Frank Simmons, to
graduation, and injury respec
tively. Charles Bellinger, the
only freshman to make the
starting team the first ball
game in ’68, has a foot injury
that has not responded ade
quately to treatment. This is a
definite problem which may be
solved only with the emergence
of freshmen.
Coach Quiett cited the Hamp
ton scrimmage as being a valu
able experience for his fresh
man players. It gave them an
opportunity to see the difference
between college football and
high school football in regard
to contact and movement. The
scrimmage also gave the coach
ing staff a chance to evaluate
imm
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THE BtG FOUR CAPTAINS — Left to right; Sam Singletary,
Herman Matthews, captain and quarterback.
freshmen who would be able to
provide some help in the early
part of the season.
Livingstone, our first oppon
ent, has at least 30 members of
its line-up returning, and Mor
gan brings in at least 60 more
freshmen besides a strong re
turning club. Virginia State, a
team that finished fourth in the
conference, is our third oppon
ent. We play Winston-Salem
State and Maryland State in our
fourth and fifth games, respec
tively. As the team faces com
petition from three of the top
seven clubs in the CIAA, Coach
Quiett hopes that his freshman
players will find themselves as
quickly as possible.
The Livingstone game will be
s...'
a supreme test in regard to our
players’ ability to adjust and
launch a successful season. Liv
ingstone played a ball game last
week against Fisk University
and won an impressive 21 to 6
victory. Livingstone, however,
was not too revealing according
to scouting reports. Coach
Quiett emphasizes that we are
meeting a team that is one of
the strongest ball clubs in the
conference. Although they are
expected to win no conference
championship, they are a solid
team club which lost only one
game after they played NCC last
season.
This year a “new thing” is
being done concerning captains.
The coaching staff has decided
to spread the responsibiity
around with squad captains who
are Herman Matthews, Frank
Bullock, Samuel Singletary, and
Douglas Wilkinson. It is the
staff’s feeling that they are go
ing to give impressive leader
ship in showing the large num
ber of freshmen on the team
how they should function to ob
tain academic and athletic
sucess at NCCU.
The kicking game, which will
be handled exclusively by fresh
men, poses a question. Last sea
son a great measure of our suc
cess was a result of a strong
kicking game. Thurman Jones
gave some outstanding kicking
Doug WilkerSon, Ben Bullock and
the entire season. George Wil
liams, a freshman, has the po
tentiality to become a fine
punter but has not been tested
under fire. NCCU’s placekicker
Mr. Eggleston, who had some
success in the service as a field
goal kicker, is like our punter
untested under fire.
Coach Quiett feels there are
some freshmen who will give
a great deal in their perform
ances in the future. There are
10 to 15 of these men who are
going to have to mature and
play this season. Later, if these
men are successful in making
the team, they will constitute
the nucleus of the NCCU ball
club, since 15 seniors will be
lost again this season. Out of
the 41-man squad of 1968, 21
of them did not return. So it is
imperative that these fresh
men fill in and perform
satisfactorily. Coach Quiett
hopes for a respectable season
that will see the team break 5.00.
He prefers not to be so optimis
tic as to expect a repeat of last
season’s record. He does not be
lieve it farfetched at this date
to point out that in two years
we should have a very com
petitive ball club, if we are
successful in recruiting well
next season.
INTRAMURALS
OPEN SEASON
By ROBERT BOWLES
Welcome to the Intramural
Program, or welcome back
to the programs, as the case
may be. The Department of
Physical Education has planned
a complete program made up of
carefully selected activities de
signed to play an integral role
in making your daily experi
ence complete. A wide range of
activities and opportunities for
leadership is made available for
your selection. Team, individual
and dual sports are planned
purposefully to provide you
with opportunities to learn,
skills, make friends, improve
your health, develop your per
sonality, increase your ability
to meet effectively mental and
emotional stresses and to ac
quire lifelong leisure-time in
terests.
Thus the objectives of intra
mural sports may be summar
ized in terms of their educa
tional values: (1) To promote
leisure education, (2) Tt enrich
social competence, (3) To de
velop group loyalties, (4) To
provide healthful exercise.
The program does not require
the intensified training and
high degree of skill associated
with varsity athletics. Members
of intramural teams enjoy the
thrill of success which crowns
achievement and learn to take
defeat intelligently and gracious
ly.
If you are a returning stu
dent, we hope that you will
take an early opportunity to in
troduce yourself to us. We hope
that you will take an active
part in an even larger Intra
mural Sports Program this
school yeer.
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