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Eagles Claw J* €• Smith Bulls ;s.****** ★ ★★ ******* * ** * Hillside Grabs Crown; M-M Wins Ist Playoff MIDDLEWEIGHT MIDDLEMAN —(Monticello, N. Y.) Middle weight champ Emile Griffith hangs on at two older boxing NCC Avenges '65 Loss To Charlotte Squad With 28-7 Shellacking at O'Kelly Field on Sat. North Carolina College's de fensive team came close to out scoring their mates on offense as the Eagles romped to a 28- 7 win over the Johnson C. Smith University Golden Bulls Saturday on O'Kelly Field, avening last year's 42-0 de feat in Charlotte. Center James Smith snagged a first quarter fumble by the Bulls' Steward Oatman for the Eagles' first touchdown. The burly, 233-pounder picked his way through a dazed Smith backfield for a 55-yard scoring run to start NCC's march to its fourth consecutive win. Defensive End Louis Bell helped set up the second six point play when he blocked and recovered a punt by Oat man. Bell's move gave the Eagles the ball on Smith's 44- yard line. Herman Mathews' third-down pass to end Julian Martin put the Eagles on the three-yard line. Mathews tossed to Roosevelt Robertson in the end zone on the next play. The extra-point attempt again was unsuccessful, making the half time score 12-0. North Carolina College picked up 16 points to seven for the Golden Bulls in the third quar ter. Mathews tossed an 11-yard er to halfback Ollie Carson for the Eagles' third score, after a fumble recovery by Bell on the 30-yard line set the play up. Richard Howard's extra pointer made the score 19 to 0 for Coach James Stevens' men. Three plays after the post touchdown kickoff, Bull Quar terback Lee Bohlfer found him self trapped back of his own goal line for a two-point safety to give the Eagles a 21-point Football Broadcasts THIS WEEK END ON WSSC and WSRCFM V SAT. NOV. 12—1:45 P. M.—N. C. COLLEGE at VA. UNION, Richmond (on AM) SAT., NOV. 12—1:46 P.M.—WAKE FOREST vs. MEMPHIS STATE (on FM) greats, Joe Loui* (Left) and Billy Conn show off thair mus cles hare. Griffith passed his New York physical for his fight lead. Oatman, in to punt for the Bulls a few plays later, elected to pass and threw the pigskin to Eagle End Thomas Cameron, who made his way 48 yards through the entire Smith team to the goal line. Howard's kick was good for a 28-0 score. The Bulls put toegther a 90- yard march, including a 26- yard kickoff return by Quarter back James Johnson, for their only touchdown. Passes by Boh ler to End Richard Dawkins, for 25 yards, and to End Nath aniel Baccus, for 12 yards, took the Smith men to NCC's 37- yard line. A pass interference call against the Eagles put the Bulls on the 18-yard mark. Fullback Wayne Staples car ried for three yards, a personal foul against NCC put the ball on the 9 and Bohle passed to Flankerback Joe Johnson to the one-yard line. Bohler's sneak play made the score 28 to 6. The point after touch down was good to make the score 28 to 7. The Eagles attempted a fourth-quarter field goal after being driven back from Smith's 14 to the 21-yard line, but Howard's kick fell short. Smith then recovered two. successive Eagle fumbles, the second after a pass interception by Ben Frank Bullock for the Eagles, but could not get past their own 48-yard line in sub sequent plays. Neither team threatened again as Howard intercepted a pass by Bohler on the North Carolina 32. The Eagles sent Roy Anderson to their 49, then lost 14 yards as Quarterback Walter Funderburk was trapped on the 35. Willie Taylor car ried to the 43 and Shropshire I, with Joay Archer in Madison • Square Garden this week. (UPI Photo) punted to the Smith 38 Smith had time for one play only as the game ended, with the score 28 to 7. The Eagles now stand 4-1 in conference play and 4-3 for the season. Bull Coach Eddie McGirt, whose season record is now 2-5, is assued of his first losing season in his nine years at Johnson C. Smith. NCC meets the Virginia Union University Panthers next Saturday in Richmond. The Bulls are at home to Fayette ville next week. ' ■■■■■■■Ml ■PfV b ■ LOOSE BALL (Cincinnati)— Oscar Robertson. No. 14, it caught In MM middle aa Now York player* Dave ttallworth Tigers Smother Smifhfield In Defense of Two-Year Title The Merriek-Moore Tigers took the first step toward de fense of their two year state 3-A title by defeating Smith field's Johnston Central, 31-6, last Friday night at the County Stadium in the first round of the NCHSAC Eastern 3-A play offs. The Tigers scored 19 points during a period of eight min utes and 44 seconds during the last two quarters to advance to the finals of the Eastern Triple A playoffs. Merrick-Moore will meet the winner of the E. J. Hayes-W S. Creecy game. James Johnson and Phillip Barker each scored a pair of six pointers while the defen sive unit picked off four passes in the contest which was close for three periods. The Tigers led 12-6 with three seconds left in the third stanza, but Coach Harry Edmonds' aggregation put 19 points on the scoreboard in the next nine minutes to put the game out of reach. The Tigers gained possession of the ball for the second time in the titular contest at the Hawks' 14 after a high snap from center on fourth down. John McLaurin passed 15 yards to Barker for the score after the homestanders were penal ized 15 yards. A run for the conversion was halted and M-M led. 6-0 with the clock showing 6:13 in the first quarter. Merrick-Moore, which finish ed the regulr a season with a 7-0-1 slate, went 54 yards in 12 plays for its second period score. Johnson plunged over from the one 9:15 before inter mission. Johnston Central's center Bobby Hillard recovered a Mer rick-Moore fumble at the Ti gers' 33 in the third period. Floyd Stevens passed six yards to Harold Richardson for the TD. A 26-yarder by the same combination set the stage for te score. Johnson scored from the one with three seconds left in the third canto. Barker raced 37 yards for a TD midway the fin al period and McLaurin passed 45 yards to Michael Turrentine during the nine-minute span. Bernard Bobbitt kicked one extra point. Barber gained 96 yards in 12 carries while Johnson added 81 yards in 19 attempts. and Willis R**d pounca on a loom ball off Hi# Knlcks' back board. Happy Halrston and Joi ry Lucas ara tha Royal* flank Pacesetters Win 6th Race HALIFAX, V*. The Be thune Pacesetters won their sixth victory in seven races this year by defeating the Streaks 15-63 in a Halifax County Cross - Country Lea gue three-mile race. Marvin "The Rocket" Rag land, the Pacesetters ace runner, ran away from the field in the blistering time of 16:49.7, four seconds off the school record. The Paceset ters' Kenneth "Antelope' Li> gan finished fast to take sec ond place from Horace "Gi raffe" Edmunds in 17:07. Trailing the Streaks was the Greyhounds (73 points) and the Striders (100 points). Billy Daniels Fights A Draw MILAN, Italy (UPI) Billy Daniels of Brooklyn, N. Y., fought to an eight round draw against Italian heavyweight Piero Tomasoni here last week. Tomasoni, the official chal lenger for the European heavyweight crown, weighed 189% pounds and Daniels was 191. Aggies-Trojans In Vets Day Tilt WASHINGTON, D. C. The A. and T. College Aggies and the Virginia State College Tro jans, two-arch rivals in the CIAA, will collide here in the annual Veterans' Day Football Classic on Friday afternoon, November 11. The game is to be played in the D. C. Stadium and kickoff time is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. The Washington battle be tween the two clubs is the first since 1951 when the Ag gies entered the Classic, unde feated as odds-on favorites, but were shocked by the Tro jans, 13-9. There will be the usual fan fare connected with the Wash ington Classice football games, a brilliant half-time show, and a merry round of social active ties. ing MM action. Tha Royal* akad oirt a 111-12* win to maintain Now York. (UPI Talophoto) "Sv/ • >" H. . • -« .J*- ?..-- Vr " V SETS UP NCC TD—Julian Mar tin (80) moves toward the end zona for North Carolina Col lege In the game with Johnson C. Smith University here Sat urday at O'Kelly Field to set Hornets Overcome Eppes High 22-12 For District Honors GREENVILLE—HiIIside High School Hornets won their first district crown since 1960 by •overcoming the Eppes Bulldogs here last Friday night, 22-12 in a NCHSAC Eastern 4-A confer ence game. Coach Russell Blunt's charges never trailed in the game but' the Bull City forces had to fight I off several gallant efforts by I the homestanders who tested | the Hillside inexperience de- i fensive secondary with a strong j passing attack. The Durhamites will meet J. T. Barber in New Bern Friday night for the Eastern 4-A cham pionship with the winner play ing host to Greensboro's Dud ley the following week. William Grice put Hillside on the scoreboard the second time the Hornets had posses sion of the ball when he caught a 31-yard pass from Johnny Williams. Moses Sumpter ran the two-point conversion to give the Hornets a 8-0 lead. Eppes stormed back to close the count to 8-6 when quarter back Sammy Joyner passed 65 yards to fullback Rene Laugh inghouse. Ernest Perkins was stopped short of the goal on the conversion try and the score stood 8-6 at the half. 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Harris extended his scoring streak to nine game by going over from six yards away. He now has scored a total of 84 points for the year. Hillside, finishing the season with an 8-1 over-all slate, held Eppes in check on the ground, but with the entire defensive backfield sidelined with inju ries, the Bulldogs were able to pick up 144 yards through the airways. Score by quarters: Hillside 8 0 8 6—22 Eppes 6 0 6 o—l2 There are three fathiful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. —BJ on the next play. NCC won lt» fourth straight game of the season, 28-7, over Johnson C. Smith. Making the stop for the Bulls is Andrew Penny (64). (NCC News Bureau Photo) 76ers Cut Ken Wilburn PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Ken Wilburn, a 6 - foot 6 rookie from Central State, was cut from the Philadel phia 76ers' roster, trimming the National Basketball As sociation squad to 10. umxi^S) L ■!. »il i BEE|EATER 111 BEEFEATER GIN s?° 2?° W FIFTH mm TEKTH FROM ENGLAND BY KOBRAND, N.Y. 94 PROOF-TRIPLE DISTILLED 100% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 5A
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