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FORMER COACH OF NCC SUCCUMBS THURSDAY Eagles Open Season With Win Over Bears North Carolina College opened its 1968 grid season by thrashing the Bears of Liv ingstone College, 21-2, Satur day afternoon at O'Kelly Field here. The Bears, who lost their opening game of the season last week to Fisk, 9-7, were stopped cold by a Bred up NCC defensive team. So spirit ed were the Eagles that they allowed the Bears only 33 yards passing and rushing. Li vingstone's lone score came early in the game when Eagle quarterback Walter Funder burk, trying to elude a host of rushing linemen, was hit from the blind side and caught in the end zone for a safety. NCC got on the scoreboard early in the second quarter as big Doug Wilkerson hit Bear signal caller Allen Hinton with a tackle that caused the fresh man quarterback to fumble the *" ball on the Livingstone 41. Herman Matthews, the first string quarterback last season who was Funderburk's reserve Saturday, hit end Terry Cde with a pass to the 21-yard line. Ollis Carson took a nine-yard pass and two plays later, Roger Foust bulled up the middle for the score from two yards out.. With less than two minutes having gone by, Sam Single tary, the Eagles' 240-pound tackle, recovered a loose ball on the Bears' 35 yard line. Matthews nailed Cole with a 28-yard throw to the Living stone 7 and Gilbert Smith, on two consecutive runs, carried the ball over. Matthews passed to All-CIAA end Julian Martin for the two point conversion. The Eagles wrapped up the scoring for the afternoon with a 69 yard drive, capped by Funderburk's boot leg around right end from three yards out. Eagle mentor George Quiett, in his first year as head coach, said, "I was impressed with the defense, particularly the defensive secondary. Any time you hold a good passing attack to only 93 yards you have done a good job." The coach gave credit to all of his assistants who, he said, "did a wonderful job in pre paring the players for the game. "I was really displeased with our kick off coverage, though," Quiett said. Merrick-Moore Tigers Dump Reidsville 12-6 Merrick-Moore quarterback Donnie Pollard teamed with end Kenneth Hinton on a 63- yard pass play that proved to be the winning score late in the third quarter here Thursday night as the M-M Tigers squeez ed past Booker T. Washington of Reidsville, 12-6. The Tigers got onto the scoreboard first when Donnie Pollard went over from six yards out. The 60-yard drive started when Jerome Brown intercepted a Ronald Hopper pass, and the big play in the march was a 20-yard pass from Pollard to Hinton. Reidsville knotted the score late in the second quarter. With Merrick-Moore deep in its terri tory «nd having to punt, Bull dog tackle John Jones blocked a Pollard kick. The ball rolled dead at the Tigers' 33 yard line. After two personal foul pen alties, that carried the ball back to the 40-yard line. Hopper hit flankman Larry Neal with a pass that took the ball to the seven. Following two unsuc cessful running plays, Hopper .yin went to the air, this time to Tom Parker with the seven yard scoring toss. The Tigers opened the third quarter with the offensive flash HERMAN RID DICK DIES AT DUKE HOSPITAL THURSDAY * By CHARLES A. RAY Herman H. Riddick, 61, foot ball coach at North Carolina College from 1945 until 1964, died at Duke Hospital Thursday night. A heart attack in December, 1964, forced Riddick into re tirement as coach, but upon re covery he returned to NCC to teach biology and to help with an alumni fund raising cam paign. Death came virtually on the eve of the NCC alumni's long planned observance of Herman H. Riddick Day at O'Kelly Field Saturday when the NCC Eagles, now coached by George Quiett, a former Riddick aide, meet the Livingstone College Bears Of Salisbury. Riddick was a native of Gates ville, attended schools in his hometown, broke into athletics as a player at Elizabeth City Stale Teachers College where he finished high school, and went on to become an all-CIAA end at NCC under the late Leo Townsend. Riddick played four years under Townsend and grad uated from NCC in 1933. From 1933 until 1936 Riddick taught science ana coached basketball at what is now C. F. Pope High School in Burgaw. National recognition came to the quiet, unassuming Riddick after a nine-year stint as coach of Durham's Hillside High. Dur ing 1936-1945 Riddick-coached teams compiled a record of 82 wins, five losses and three ties. His career so paralleled that of another mentor of the period that Riddick was doubbed by the black press as "Sepia Paul Brown." The late Dr. James E. Shep ard, NCC founder and president until his death in 1947, persuaded Riddick to come to NCC in 1945. Riddick's record at NCC included 118 wins, 12 ties and 46 losses. The NCC years were Rid dick's greatest. Working under conditions that would have dis couraged many coaches, Rid dick raised money for recruit ment, often paying boys' tuitions out of his own pockets. He persuaded his many friends and alumni associates to help field teams when college funds were short. In a 19-year period Riddick managadwhat is now recognized as one of the most successful football programs in the pre dominantly black colleges of his day. Bolstered by a high school grid coaching career that in Jm l I Ir Hf >.j9 i I / WBa / ■BBOB ■ L-. vi WINNKR OF FIRST U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP —IX. Arthur Ashe, winner of the first U. 8. open tennis cham pionship with his Met victory over the Netherlands' Tom Ok- that has sparked them to an in credible 50 points per game av erage. Pollard, evading a tre mendous rush from the Bull dogs' front four, uncorked a perfect throw to Hinton, who broke one would be tackier, sidestepped another and need 62 yards with the ball for the score. Two minutes later. "Rap" Brown, who had fumbled two previous punts, csught the bell on his own 29-yard line and streaked 71 yards only to have the TD called back because of a holding penalty. The Reidsville team made another serious drive to the Ti ger 82-yard line but the inarch was halted by a combination of penalties and an Interception by Pollard With time running out in the pine, Merrick-Moore gam bled on a fourth and three situation on BTW's 46-yard line and lost BWCF" JfSkt * ■HHp K?* HERMAN RIDDICK ~ . Ex-Coach Dies eluded eight North Carolina high school football championships, Riddick regarded his 1943 team at Hillside as his most outstand ing. That year the Hornets were undefeated, untied and unscored on m nine games. The members of the 1943 squad are a formally organized and active group in Durham today. Their program was one of Riddick's consuming interests. During his NCC tenure, Rid dick's Eagles won four CIAA grid titles—l9s3, 1954, 1961, 1963, and finished the 1956 season as co-champions. One of the real highlights of his career was the designation of Riddick's 1954 NCC eleven as the mythical champions among the predominantly black col leges. A year earlier in recognition of what was then a phenomenal achievement for colleges like NCC, Riddick received the Wash ington (D.C.) Pigskin Club's award for "Outstanding East ern Area Coach for the Year." Ai one of the modern archi tects of the CIAA, the former NCC mentor received the as sociation's highest awards as "Outstanding Coach of the Year" for 1945, 1953, 1954, 1961 and 1963. As indication of full recogni tioin of Riddick's personal and i-*- professional contributions to the association, the CIAA at its 1967 meeting awarded him the group's special "CIAA Coaches Award." Riddick's impact on Ameri can sports remains to be evalu ker, and a surefire bet to rank within the top ten male tennis players in the soon-to-be-an nounced World Rankings in 1988, is shown at the West Tennis Club in Forest Hilia, ' ,A| v wfl Bshß ■ _ PORMM Oft NOW MFINSIVa STAR—Defensive halfback Mert 1 Cod* of A&T State University 1 te big reason the Aggies are 1 expected to be thick in the race ated in its totality. However, as a Negro coach in a college which never strongly empha sized athletics, he enjoys the distinction of having placed 17 Negro athletics in professional football and of being the first of the Negro coaches to place an athlete in the Chicago Tribune's All-Star Game in Chicago (John Baker formerly of Raleigh and lately of the Los Angeles Rams). Professional scouts found the taciturn Riddick an astute judge of professional potential. Always on the alert for CIAA prospects, Riddick also successfully boost ed 17 of his own athletes into professional prominence. Shortly after becoming NCC's head coach in 1945, Riddick recommended and the Los An geles Dons approved placement of John Brown with the Dons. Brown afterwards played with Winnipeg in the Canadian League. Other Riddick protegees to perform for tlie pros include: Carl Galbraith, back. Canadian League, now teaching in Fay etteville: Frederick James, hack, Chicago Cardinals, now teaching, St. Louis, Mo.; John Brker, defensive captain of the Pittsburgh Steelers; James Brewington, lineman, Green Bay Packers and San Diego Chargers, now coaching and teaching in Virginia; Charles (Bobo) Hinton, lineman, Cleve land Browns; James (Chip) Brewington, San Diego Charg ers, now coaching in Virginia; Paul Winslow, Green Bay Pack ers and Minnesota Vikings, now coaching at P. W. Moore High School, Elizabeth City; Robert McAdams, New York Jets and St. Louis Cardinals, at present player-coach with a Florida team; Robert Currington, Buf falo Bills, Canadian League, Pittsburgh, Richmond Rebels, and presently with the New Or leans Saints; Bobby Asmond, San Diego Chargers; Richard Sligh, Oakland Raiders; Ernest Barnes, Baltimore Colts, Oak land Raiders and Denver Broncos, presently an artist in Los Angeles; Aaron Martin, Los Angeles Rams and Phila delphia Eagles; Earnest War lick, Buffalo Bills; Winifred Til lery, Philadelphia Eagles; Oat ten Fisher, Canadian League, lineman; and William Alls brooks, Houston Oilers, present ly in tha armed services. Riddick was married to the former Miss Lola Ingram in 1943. The couple resided at 2010 Otis Street. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Thursday night. N. Y., with the Segrara Trophy. Smaller replicas of this 100-lb. Structured Sculpture will be awarded to the top ten male and top ten female tennis play ers. lor CIAA honors. A native of Seneca, S. C„ Code has already attracted the attention of sev ers! pro scouts. Dillard Knocks Hillside From Unbeaten Stool Fullback Herbert Edward scored on a one-yard run with 5:45 seconds remaining in the game as Dillard High of Golds boro knocked Hillside from the ranks of the unbeaten, 6-0, in a defensive standoff at Durham County Memorial Stadium Sat urday night. In what was thought would be a high-scoring game fea tured by the Tigers' potent passing attack and the Hornets awesome ground game, the game turned out to be a head and-struggle. The Goldsboro team had to stave off two desperation threats by the Hillside squad with less than three minutes left in the game. The Tigers first stalled the Hornets' drive late in the last quarter with a pass intercep tion by Michael Watson on the Goldsboro two-yard line. Less than a minute later, quarterback Walter Lyon fooled Dillard with a fake on a pass play. However, he didn't run and was hit hard and fumbled the ball along with the Hor nets' last chance to score. Dillard's winning drive start ed on its own 14-yard line. The biggest play in the drive was a penalty. The Tigers had a fourth-and seven from their own 45-yard line. On the attempted punt, Victor Morrison accidentally bumped the kicker and the Hornets were assessed with a 15-yard penalty. From the Hillside 40, quar terback Osceola Hicks took over from there and directed the team to the winning score. Another big play in that drive was a crucial fourth-and five bootleg play by Hicks that picked up si* yards to the Durham team's one yard mark. On two plays, hurley fullback Edward muscled his way over from the one. One of the oddities of the game was that each team beat the - other in which each Is noted. Hillside stopped the feared passing duo of Hicks to Qulncy Royall and the Tigers halted the powerful running of Rob ert Rivers .who in the two pre vious games, accumulated 254 yards on the ground. Most of Hillside's success with the running game was out of the I-formatlon on sweeps around left or right end. But tthe Tigers even checked them on that. William Covington, Rov Jones and Thomas Gilmer made life miserable for the Tigers but as It turned out that wasn't nearly enough. McClain and Gibson May Vie For Sports Car NEW YORK Pitchers Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardi nals and Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers, the leading can didates for the Most Valuable Player Awards in their respec tive leagues and probable start ers in the first game of the 1068 World Series, could have the inaide track on 14th an nual i World Series Sports Car Award, if precedent rules and hurlers dominate in the Fall Classic. In the 13 years that Sport Magazine has presented the award, a sports car, to the man the editors select as the Most Valuable Player in the Series, eleven pitchers have earned the prize, and of these, four had started the opener for their clubs. They were Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees in 1961, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1963, and Gibson in 1964 and 1967. This year's prize, a fully equipped 1969 Dodge Charger, will be presented to the win ner at a luncheon In his honor ■t the conclusion of the Series. If Gibson manages to win the Charger, it will be an un precedented third "Ports car and the second in two years that he will have won as the Series MVP. Former Dodger great Koufax is the only other player to have won the award twice. Gibson's powerful credentials going Into the Series include the best earned-run average in modern major-league history and his third 20-win season in the last four years. OUR WOR SPORTS I M _ ' w JKp w iLC I FOOTBALL WAS NEVER LIKE THIS —Jim Brown as Lyedecker and Raquel Welch as Sarita in "100 Rifles." The film also Ben Jobe Named Basketball Coach at South Carolina State ORANGEBURG, S.C.-Ben Jobe, who coached Alabama State College to third place in the SIAC last year, has been named basketball coach at South Carolina State College. Jobe, an All-SIAC guard at Fisk University in 1955, has replaced Ed. Martin who re signed after 13 years as the Bulldogs' basketball coach. Last year Jobe coached College Division All-American Willie Scott of Alabama State, the nation's second leading scorer. The Hornets compiled an 18-7 record, finishing third BOURBON IH $4 50 DELUXE IH 4 piHT | jji | yljj&gh $llOO THE BOURBON Of LUXE DISTILLERY COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 86 PROOF. CONTAINS 49% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRIT! SATURDAY .OCTOBER 5, 1068 THE CAROLINA TIMES— stars Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy and Hans Gudegast, under the direction in the SIAC tournament. Jobe bringp a wide range of basketball experience to State College. He revived the sport at Talledega College in 1964. Talledega gained basketball res pectability three years later by averaging 106.7 points a game, second among college division teams. That year the team finished second among NAIA District 6A teams with a 19-3 record. Jobe coached two seasons in Sierre Leone where his team was undefeated in 41 games. He also coached William Har- of Tom Grieg and produced b? Marvin Schwartz (or 20th Cen tury Fox. ley, a member of the U. S. limited height all-star team that recently toured Europe and South America. He holds a master's degree from Tennessee State and has studied at Southern and Adel phi Universities. A native of Nashville, Tenn., he was an All-District and All- National guard at Pearl High School. Patton Team Wins GLENVILLE - The Learn of Billy Joe Patton and Bob Kletcke defeated Chi Chi Rodriquez and "Choo Choo" Charlie Justice 1 up Sunday to officially open the 18 hole, Grandfather Golf and Country Club Sunday. The match was even through the first 9 holes with each team registering a best ball 36, is even par. 5B
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