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PAGE EIGHT THE CAMPUS ECHO Friday, December 4, 1970 Redden (Red) Leggett comes down with the ball in a well wel-l corned victory over Shaw. Slade (left) and Bass (right) help keep off the Shaw Bears. Basketball Eagles Have New Look This year's edition of the NCCU Basketball Eagles will see a new coach at the helm. Harry J. Edmonds is the new mentor. His task is to build a team that will not only produce a record better than last year's in-confer ence mark of eight wins and eight losses, but mold a team that will make the ClAA Tour nament. That is the challenge, and only time will tell whether the likable coach will meet it. He has five lettermen returning along with eight veteran ball players. The starting five come from these ranks and include Redden Leggett at center. Wil liam Slade and Paul Stround aS the forwards, with Ronald Phil lips and Lewis Ellis aS the guards. Slade is the tallest man in the front court at 6-5, but he played sparingly last year. He will have to do an adequate job on the boards to make the team a contender. Slade’s counter parts in the front court. Stroud and Leggett, are 6A and 6-3. re spectively. They both gave away a lot of inches to the opposition last season. Leggett, in spite of this disadvantage, battles the op ponent’s big men well at center. Stroud will have to be more aggressive in his play to comple ment his teammates under the boards effectively. Since graduation claimed both Herman Rose and Ronald McCrimmon, the backcourt will have a completely new look. Ronald Phillips will guard one of the main slots, while Lewis Ellis handles the other. Phillips was a 6-2 forward, who sometimes scored well from the corner last season. His move to guard should provide more scoring op portunities. His running mate, Lewis Ellis, played well although sparingly last season. Coach Ed monds plans to make ‘tieers’ out of his relatively small team to make up for the height vantage they win tiieir opposition. The liagle team will play a hustling brand of ball, capitalizing on the fast break opportunity when it pre sents itself. The freshman, ballplayers will of see some action, according to Coach Edmonds. He said. "Wc plan to use as many as we can ." He cited the play of Johnny Crump, a 6-4.1^68 pounder from Hillsborough. N. C.. as outstand ing. Lewllyn Woods, a 6-1'/: guard from Lynchburg. Va.. has also looks impressive. The tallest man on the team is A1 Grafton at 6-10. Grafton is a freshman from Durham, N. C. where he played with a winning ball club at Durham Higli. He has missed a number of practices due to an extended illness and it is questionable whether he can gain the fundamental skills'* he has missed in those practices in time to be included in the new Coach's plans. The Eagle basketball roster is rounded out with Vernon Allen, a 6-0 junior guard; Marvin Bass, a senior guard measuring 6-0; Lennit Bligen, a 6-2 freshman guard; Harrison Davis, a 6-2 sophomore guard; Allen Red dish, a 6-6 freshman forward, and Roger Washington, 5-10 senior guard. Tlie Eagle Five will journey to Winston-Salem during the Yule tide to participate in a Christmas tournament on January first and second. The tourney will involve Winston- Salem State University, Howard University, Fisk University, and the Maroon and Gray. What bet ter would there be to start the New Year than to bring that trophy back to Durham? In recent years there has been some question about the caliber of basketball player NCCU was recruiting. One answer supplied by last year’s Head Coach was the inadequacy of the budget. This made it difficult to keep pace with other conference powers, who allocated more lunas lo iliC-ir baskethaU Coach Edmonds com mented, “The financial budget has improved, but not to the ex- iop flight players. However, we are still looking for more money to get better ballplayers.” Maybe the financial budget will increase as it must for bas ketball in future years, but for -Class Of 74- (contiuned from page 1) they hope to achieve the "im possible dream” of accomplish ing unification of the class and serving the NCCU and Durham community. “Closing the com munication gap within the class and gaining total involvement from all class members” are their primary objectives. The Freshman Class was in troduced to the open-dorm poli cy at its first meeting, November 10. Jerry Walker, president of the Student Government Asso ciation discussed the mechanics of the S.G.A. Percy Peele, asso ciate justice of the Student Court, related information con cerning that body.. Johnny (Jay) Joyner, chair man of the Freshman Election Board, stated that 62.5% of the freshmen voted in the elections. He thanked the freshmen for their cooperation and congratu lated the newly elected officers. Milton (Frog) Lewis, the new- now Coach Edmonds will send team against the ClAA’s best. His success will depend on your support, and how well this year's team can function as a unit. Go Eagles!!! Education Conference — (continued from page I) live in it as brothers and sisters. There was' a symposium on "Our Changing Environment”. The panelists consisted of repre sentatives from Hillside Higli School of Durham and Andrew Higli of Burlington. Awards were given to Mrs. Catherine Stanback, an alymna of NCCU, and Mr. 0. A.-Free man of Orange Higli and Cum mings Higli, respectively, for outstanding service. Other awards were given to higli schools according to student del egation. One citation was given by the N. C. Biological Supply Co. to the most outstanding stu dent in science in the high ly elected president, presided. The new Freshman Class officers were introduced; Leslie (Philly) Bullock, vice-president; Stellyne Boyd, secretary; Gwendolyn Boyd, treasurer; Larry Wilson, freshman Student Court mem ber; and Gregory Bethea, busi ness manager. Celestine Ramsey, the newly elected Miss Freshman was also honored. Mrs. Betty J. Merritt. Freshman Class advisor, was among those present. President Lewis said the up coming activities include a talent show and a fashion show. schools represented. The student had not been selected at that time. The afternoon session con sisted of a series of workshops including consultants from state and federal agencies and sur rounding universities of the Re search Triangle area. Topics such as drugs, Afro-American studies, desegregation, geography, human relations, mathematics, mental health, reading, science, and guidance were covered dur ing the workshops. 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