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1Hg CAgOLlMA TIMM SATURDAY, OCT. 7th, 1950
SPORTSDUST
By McLENDON
Union Univ. Falls To A.&T. Aggies 33-0
FOOTBALL FORECAST FOR 1950
Sin illan- sii n'liu'tftiit to tell tlu- truth 4ihoul
• . r ti-.iii > i ill tlif uridiron rat'c, I will apply thi'
"M.Uiuii System" to llic entire CIAA niid li’t the chips fall
whcri’ ihi'v >iui\ Tlii' is 'upixivd to Im' jiiorc soinid than
iii. r-’ iriic^v ^\ork, iiiiismiu'li as it taki-s iiitci accoiiiit the iinporlant
faclitrs vhich lii'ciiic the forUiucN of tcaiiis.
Thi-; factitrs, listed t>i'ldw, arc driven a ccrtain weiirht iji a
p. i-aii'ulntion and the rdHtivf and the n-lativf position
of iht' i‘oiifi rfn-i' t-aiii'' arc di'tfrniincd thcrcltN.
1. The fix - ,\t ar rc‘ord of the ti-iiiiis in wins, losses and tics.
'2. Til. reiiu'd of the team.
3. The fxjierii nt'c in years of the head coach at the colletrc
named.
-}. The experience in years of tlie i liief assistant under th>’
liead-coai'h's direction.
The number of assistant coaelies on the staff otlier than
tl;an the head coach and first assistant.
6. Percentage of experienced i>layers remaining' after 1949
lossi's by rradnation, poor scholarships, etc.
7. The peneral administrative attitude toward the promotion
of a first-class athletic program.
Several of these factors may app‘ar to l)c too sid)jective to
calculate objectively, hut 1 suggest that Item tnnidier 7 is the lone
subjective element in my system. I can be rated also, however,
('onscrjuently, it is without trepidation or hesitation 1 prive yon
the 1950 ratinqr of ClAA football teams and their tot.il ratiiiR
fifrnre based on the factors named. True, subjective elements will
enter in. J’oor morale, over-confidenee, big-headedness, coachinpr
mistakes, player’s boners, etc. A certainty’ if ever there was one.
Despite all that. I believe that it is extremely unlikely that any
team will finish more than two places ahead of oi’ two places be
low the rating assirned them. T did not say it was impossible.
1950 FOOTBALL PRE-RATING
(How the CIAA will line up after the 1950 seju^on) plus or
minu.s not more than two places.)
1. Morgan State College 969
■J. Xortli Carolina A. and T. College 823
3. Howard University 822
4. West Virginia State 789
5. North Carolina College 749
6. Hampton Institute 711
7. 8haw University . 693
8. Virginia State College ' 690
0. Winston-Salem Teachers’ College 630
10. Lincoln University 631
11. St. Augustine’s College 600
12. Bluefield State College 480
13. Delaware State College 478
14. Johnson C. Smith University 475
15. Virginia Union University 386
16. St. Paul College 217
McLENDON
' -m :
Last }\eeks
Results
fullback for the North Carolina
College Eagles, accounted for
151 of the 262 yards gained by
the Eagles when they took a 12-
6 verdict from the St. Augus
tine’s College Saints in the sea
son’s opener for both teams at
Durham, Saturday, September
23.
The piston-like legs of the 197
pound, six foot senior from
Bowling Green, Ky., ground out
a neat 7.2 yards per try aver
age for Coach Herman Rid
dick’s Eagles.
Britt was also one of the seven
North Carolina College grid-
ders to score against the Fay
etteville State Broncos last Sat
urday. He bulled his way 20
yards early in the first quar
ter for the first of the Eagles’
seven TD’s. The Eagles routed
the Broncos 46-0.
CIAA
N. C. COLLEGE . . .
. 4()
Fayetteville Teachers . .
. 0
A. and T. College . ■ •
. .‘{0
Union University . .
. (i
iWest V'irginia . . .
. U
Howard Uniwrsit'.- . .
. I)
Johnson C. Smith . . .
. 27
Saint Paul
. 0
St. Augustiiie
18
Shaw University . . .
. (i
OTHERS
Florida A. and M. . . .
. 43
(Baby Rattlers)
Stevens High
6
Texas College ....
Sam Houston
Alcorn College ....
. (!0
Edward Waters ....
0
Elizabeth City ....
. 1.1
Vorhees
. 0
Xavier Uiiivei-sity . . .
. (J
AlahaTua State ....
0
Maryland
ru
Grambling
()
Gastontia High ....
24
HILLSIDE IlIGfl . .
. 0
(’iri'ensboro The ,\. and i'.
('ollege Aggies went on a seer-
! ing spree late in the last quar
ter, after scoring oidy once in
|51 minutes of unimpressive
football to down the Virginia
Union rniv«>rsity 300, here yes
terday before ap|)roximately
5,(M)0 fans, to gain their third
win of the season.
The powerless visitors fn^m
Richmond, Va.. oidy penetrati‘d
the Aggie territory on three i'■
cttsions, and then never dec|);‘r
than the 46 yard line.
Two plays before the* end of
the first (puirter the Ag'.'i ■>
showed a faint sembhniee -)l
life after their ace passer, Wil
Mam '‘l{‘d" .lackson, wa.s in
jured on liis own 1’.') yard line.
Ilelbiirn .Mefilo\\s, Aggie linll-
Imek, scooted ten yards for a
first down, and on three pla.\s
accounted for 18 additional
yards t(» spark the .As'gies T-')
yard touchdown drive. The in
itial Aggie tallv came on the
end of a 3.'{ yard pass from
liCroy Washington, and 'I'
fullback, to his hall'haek, Alfred
.Mnr|r,n!i, who se.nmperefl the re
maining live vards to scoie. Hill
iHlakely annexed the extra point,
came with approvimately nine
miinites playing time remain
via th(' placement route.
The second A. and T. marker
nig, when Jim Fisher, a st'ni«>v
fullback from Steelton, Pa., and
Robert Park Smith, a classmate
from Morristown, X. J., alter
nated to gain 81 yards aid(>d by
costly 15 yard penalty. Jesse
Jackson, went over from the
one on a quarterback sneak.
Blakely’s attempt at the con
version was gool and the score
.stood 14-0.
Union, went to the air in a
desperate attempt to S(“ore. Lin-
wood Bates, panther halfback,
completed a pass to his end,
Jimmy Simms, good for 13 yards
and a first down on their own
SI. They triel a running play
fiood for one yard and two
jtasses, wdiicli f’ell incompleet,
before punting down to the Ag
gie 29. Jack Gibson, Akron,
(•hio speed merchant who has
been on the injured list all sea
son, returned it to his own J!>.
Sleadows advanced to the 45
and Guy Mills, Aggie substitute
quarterback, passed to st'iiior
end Milton .Fohnsou Avho lateral-
c l to Robert Park Smith for the
third Aggie touchdown. Blake
ly misKed the extra point and
t le homc-town ti'am was cii.jov'-
iiig a 20-0 advawtage.
Still trying to s(‘ore. Bates
threw a pass from his 29 yard
I ne which was intercepted by
tieorge Jolinson, Thonia^ville,
ireshman, who \ enl the dis
tance behind superb blocking.
Blakely kicked tiie extra j)oint.
Back on their own 23 yai'd
line. Bates fu’i rjled and \^'il-
liam Bush, a freshman from
Danbury, (’on., recovered. Dim
aid Quarles, freshman halfback,
from Baltimore, ild., ]iicked up
three yards, Fishers added i ive
and Meadows advanced five lor
the visitor’s ten. With time a
a first down to place the ball on
matter of seconds, Blakel.v, tjic
Aggie place kick specialist, boot
ed a field goal to end llie seoi'-
ing at 30-0.
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N. C. College Eagles
To Meet Shaw
University Bears
North Carolina College’s 1950
Homecoming Day cla.sh with the
footballers of Raleigh’s Shaw
University in Durham Athletic
Park, Saturday, October 21, not
only brings together two of thi-
State’s leading elevens, but it
also brings together some of
(Continued from Page Four)
If school spirit will spur Coach what the Eagles hope will be
Herman H. Riddick’s 1950 foot
ball team into a conference
championship, you may as well
count the Eagles in now. North
Carolina’s College 1,400 stu
dents are solidly behind the boys
in maroon and gray, on omen
that spells ill for opponents on
several sad Saturday afternoons
this Fall.
Reading clockwise, the prin
cipals in North Carolina Col
lege’s morale units are Co-eds
Delores Darden, Brooklyn, New
York; Laura Ann Penn and
Delphjme Webber, Winston-Sa
lem; Captain Butler ‘Bluejuice’
Taylor (64), Newport New^
triple-threat candidate for all-
Conference honors at half back;
the Eagle brain trust, left to
right. Line Coaches Jim Younge
and Ben Whaley; head coach,
Herman H. Riddick, backfield
Coaches Hajrwood Allen and
Roy Campanella’s Major League All-
Stars To Meet Jacksonville Eagles
A roster that reads like “The
-100” of I\Iajor Ijt'ague baseball
will accompany Hoy Cam-
panella’s ]\lajof League All
Stars when they meet the Jack
sonville Eagles at the Durham
Athletic Park on October 11.
All well kno^n players frui.i
the Xiitional and American
Leagues will be with I’o.v Cani-
panella of the Brooklyn Dodgers
which will lu* the largest assetn-
blatre of colored talent from the
Maior l.ea'riies to plav as a
N. C. College Eagles
Defeat Fayetteville
Teachers College
By Clathan Ross
Fayetteville — The North
North Carolina College Eagles
ran roughshod over the hapless
his dusty bat! He is credited I in the 9th inning may cost the
with iiitting some long balls Yankees the pennant. Second
this season and bis home run in guessers say that he should have
Cleveland against the Yankees | been walked.
unit and to give an exhibition
contest; that was ever a.ssem-
bled.
The supporting cast to Cam-
panella are namely his teammate
Don NVwcoinbe. Larrv Dobv
Fayetteville State Teachers’I and Luke Ea.slcr, that mighty
College eleven here last Satur
day afternoon, scoring seven
touchdowns and kicking four
extra points for a ghastly total
of 46 points. The Broncos were
held scoreless.
The Eagle reserves, played
almost exclusively during the
second half, outdid the first
stringers as they raced up four
touchdowns in that period while
their betters could manage on
ly three in the first half.
Eagle captain Butler “Blue-
juice” Taylor, all-America and
all-CIAA candidate, and James
Robinson, sophomore qurter-
back, were the only Eagle grid-
ders to figure in more than one
scoring play.
one-two ()uncli of the (Uevi'land
Indians. Others on the great
team are Monty Irvin and Hen
ry Thompson of the New York
Giants.
Campanella did not stop with
taking tjie .stars of the majors
on his team he also added great
players from the Negro Lieague
which includes participants
from the Negro-All Star and
East-West games to give him a
solid club through and through.
Big Don Newcombe, when not
pitching w’ill probably play the
outfield so that the fans can see
him at any rate. Don can hit
and has more hits than any
pitcher in the National League.
It is a treat within itself to
wateh big Luke Easter swing
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into smash a threat from enemy
back Stan McGuire of Saint
Augustine’s College in Kid’.s
Day opener on Sept. 23.
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