"SATURDAY, AUGUST 21. 1382-TKE CATJCLINA TlSES-5
Seek CIAA Championship . "
Mrst Week Of Practice
NCCU concludes its
first week of pre-season
practice with the CIAA
Championship as its
goal.-V1 Last year they
established themselves as
contenders for the 1982
' crown 5 by winning the
Southern Division
Championship, having
lost to Virginia Union in
the CI AA Championship
game. Central won the
'80 crown. ,v
Central opens ; the
quest for the '82 crown
when they travel to Liv
ingstone College on
September 4 for a 7:30
p.m. clash with the
Fighting' Bears. NCCU
won last year's opener in
O' Kelly Stadium 7-3.
Sophomore quarter
back Gerald Fraylon
hopes to establish
himself as a household
name in North-Carolina.
Fraylon, a strapping 6-2
175 from Charlotte's
Myers Park, will lead a
vastly diversified attack.
He was selected ALL
CIAA quarterback and
Co-Offensive Player of
the Year by the CIAA
coaches. Gerald com
pleted 75 of 198 passes
for 1203 yards and 10 ds.
He received national
recognition by finishing
1 1th in scoring with 12
tds and 4 extra points.
Fraylon had a career
high 222 yards passing
and 131 yards rushing
against ' Johnson C.
Smith on the Golden
- Bulls Homecoming a
37-6 romp by Central,
rour times ne -was
Fraylon's favorite
receivers return intact.
Seniors Victor Hunter
and James Foster are the
Eagles primary
receivers. Hunter, 5-9
175 from Laurens, S.C,
led, the team for the se
cond straight year with
32 catches for 559 yards
and' 5 touchdowns.
Foster, a, 6-3 205 tight
end from Henderson,
N.C, was .second with
16 receptions for 229
yards. Hunter had a
career high 1 34 yards in
receptions against -Va.
Union in the champion
ship game on 8 catches.
Other receivers who
will see considerable ac
tion; are senior wide
recievers Audrain
Melton (8 catches, 156
yds., 2 tds), Gary Mc
Queen, Mitchel Bouie
and sophomore Paul
Laney.
Three year starters
Ken Sheppard and Sa'm
Washington anchor the
offensive line. Shep
pard, 6-2 275 from,
Hamlet, - N.C., and
Washington, 5-10 215
from Jacksonville, N.C.,
, will vie for conference
honors. Senior guard
. Sammie Stroud , (6-0,
230, Laurens, S.C.) and
junior ; center Mark
Foushee (6-2. 202.
Chapel Hill, N.C.) are
the other starters. Miss
ing will be Charles Bush.
However junior William
Hager (6-2, 240, Kings
Mountain, . N.C.) will
replace Bush. Top
reserves ' are sophomore
guard Floyd Nixon (6-1,
235. Nyack, N.Y.),
sophomore tackle Mark
Slade (6-4, 265, Burl
ington, N.C), and con
verted defensive tackle
turned tackle Joshua
Paige (6-2, 24 1, Norfolk,
Va.).
"We could
'outstanding
Fayetteville State
Defensive Back Is
Top Thief
By John B. Henderson
FSU Spoitt laformlllon Director
Wait a minute, he's a
nice young man and not
the criminal you might
be thinking.
Fact is, Jerome does
all of his thievery very
legally on the football
field, intercepting enemy
thihk about his exploits
of last year when he led
the Bronco secondary
with three interceptions,
86 yards returned, and
scored two touchdowns
defensively. '
"Well, I feel that 1 was;
fortunate but everything j
have an
season,"
lamented " Lattimore. 7
"That will be a reality v
with total team intensity
and an avoidance of in
juries to our fronjl line
players. It will be an in
teresting season, and we
look to do a few more
things offensively that
we weren't able to do
with a freshman quarter
back last year."
The Eagles have seen
their offensive output in
crease from 191.4 ' in
1979 to 294.4 last season.
Defensively, the
Eagles have seen their
total defense mark drop
from 247.8 to 175.5
yards allowed during a
corresponding period.
Central finished third
nationally in the NCAA
and NA1A in total
defense. Thgy were 11th
in the NCAA Division II
in rushing defense (90.6)
an fourth in the NCAA
and NAIA in pass
defense (84.8).
Nine defensive starters
return and another ban
ner year of defensive ef
fort is expected. Leading
the unit are a pair of
ALL-CIAA per
formerssenior defen
sive end Lorenzo Ingram
and senior cornerback
Andrew ' Riddick. In
gram, (6-0, 200,
Winston-Salem, , N.C),
led the team with 20
quarterback sacks. He
was second in tackles
with 87. Riddick (6-0,
J'! J v if
Gerald Fraylon
(20) QB
James Foster
(91) TE
Victor Hunter
(83) WR
Clifton Kersey
(22) RB
Allen Pierce
(24) DB
Andrew Riddick
(27) DB
Lorenzo Ingram
(72) DE
Beajamin Tate
(44) RB
ir mm , mm 11 , - 1 11 n inn m in
mnet - Ka a tAam effort
passes and advancing the 1 nt .
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nis f enow Broncos, yv,); .' . ..-. . v wj -i':.i.h4istinnc tnr
selected CrA SWo
... Wit Hi rkrvt Mill" Uaai
Reece Carson
(33) RB
Myron Dupree
(281 LB
James Faison
(36) QB
William Frizetl
(29) DB
to
twice CIAA Offensive
Back of the Week; and
once NAIA District 26
Offensive Player of the
Week.
"There is no question
that we would have had
an extremely difficult'
time winning the
Southern Division
without the inspiring
play of Fraylon,"
retorted fourth year
NCCU coach Henry C
Lattimore. "He brought
a dimension that had
been absent the year
before an effective run
ner as well as passer ffor
a quarterback. We look
for continued improve
ment in his play,"
Head
calls the senior physical
education major from
Charleston, S.C a very
valuable person to the
Bronco squad.'
"No doubt about it,
Jerome is a very valuable
player and is a heck of a
nice fellow. . Jerome's
play last year on defense
was certainly ofle of the
highlights of the Bronco
campaign," said the :
likeable Bronco boss.
Actually German is
from the small town of
Mount Pleasant, S.C (a :
short distance north of
Charleston). He is the ,
seventh son of Rev. and
Mrs. Joseph German'.
What does German
"We were strong in,
the defensive secondary i
last year ,and I feel that
we will have more
strength this upcoming
season," said the young
mart who has his eyes set
on a career as a physical
therapist.
German believes fhat
playing "left corner" in
the defensive secondary f
is one of the toughest
positions to play.
"My idol is Oakland
raider's Lester Hayes.
He's calm, plays the
game as it's supposed to
be played. Even when
the game is tight he's
calm and that's the way
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his" had 3' interceptions for
TTS'l ''yards','' including a 40
yard touchdown against
Fayetteville State
The other end is three
year starter Nate
Johnson. Johnson, fa
smallish, 6-1, 185 from
Fayetteville,; N.C, had
1 1 quarterback sacks and
2 fumble recoveries. He
finished with 47
tackles 22 unassisted.
Joining Ingram and
Johnson on the forward
wall are sophomore Eric
Perry and senior Alvin
McNeil. Perry forged
his way into the starting
lineup and effectively
threw his 6-1 280 frame
against the opposition.
John Hunt
(71) DT
1
Nate Johnson
(87) DE
Eagle Mascot
Stacy Ross
(68) L
NCCU Swimming Coach Publishes New Text
Monday Night Football Now An
American Past Time
By Elson.Armstrong Jr.
There was a time when
I detested Mondays like
the plague. Like Garfield
in the comic strips
nothing good ever seem-;
ed to happen to me on
Mondays.
In September, 1970;
ABC-TV began broad-:
casting NFL football on '
Monday nights and as a
September in that now
far-off year of 1970,
ABC brought us the first
of what would be a
season long series of
Monday night telecasts
of NFL games.
In an attempt to catch
the biggest audience
possible, the games
would kick off at 9 p.m. 1
Eastern Time which
result what used to be my meant football would be
most hated day of the knocking heads with
during his interviews and
broadcasts of the
Muhammad Ali fights in
the mid-1960's.
In no time at all
Americans proved that
Saturdays and Sundays
were not enough to
satisfy their appetites for
football which had now
replaced baseball as
America's No. 1 sport.
Operators of bars and
drew as much attention
as the games themselves.
Meridith's folksy
down home style was a
fan favorite, Gifford's
clear play by play was a
stabilizing force, and
ala?, Cossell became one
of the most controversial
sports figures ever to ap
4jeaf before the camera.
Fans either loved or
detested Howard and he
week became one of my
favorites and American
sports habits were
revolutionized.
Before 1970, there had
been sporatic Monday
night telecasts of NFL"
games but the head hon
chos at CBS and NBC:
didn't think that John Qv
Public would go for a
regular diet of football
on prime time television,
thus they rejected offers '
some of the mosty
popular TV shows on the
air.
In no time at all we
would know if ABC's
bold experiment would
be a boom or an embar
rassing bust.
Much to the surprise
of NBC and CBS (but:
not to the sports fan) the
games were an im
mediate hit.
A part of the!
taverns were ecstatic as . thrived off the attention
patrons poured in after
work to watch the
By Josephine Scarlett
Jerome McLaurin
teaches swimming, but
that's not his only talent.
The 40-year-old North
Carolina Central Univer-V
sity swimming instructor
. is a writer and an ordain
ed Baptist minister as
well.
McLaurin, a Jackson,
Miss., native, has written
three textbooks on swim
ming, the most recent of
which was released on
August 12. "My book
has the basic swim
strokes that any begin
ners book would have,
along with basig life-guard
techniques," he
said, ."but it has two
areas that have not been
thoroughly covered by :
games.
Some fast food
restaurants offered
"Monday Night
As the 1982 NFL iother aauatic works."
season approaches Mon- "One ara is the
day Night Football is a chapter on swimming for
strong addition to this the handicapped. I nave
country's sports culture.
next to the Super Bowl,
Specials," beer sales on it's the biggest thing to
Monday nights increas- hit the NFL in the past
ed, workers on the east, 13 years,
coast often were "red Even the players on
eyed" on Tuesday morn- the sidelines seem to ham
ings. On the west coast it up with extra vigor on
where the games began Monday nights. The fans
to pre-empt such shows' American 'culture was!
as "Here's : Lucy" and ' changed forever. Sports
"Andy ; Griffith" in and , even - viewers who j.
favpr of the bouncing were not sports fans tun-!
pigiskin. . ed into the broadcasts, t
ABC at that time was ' ABC's broadcast crew.
the little guy on the block during the first season
it frainantlii finSkl !.-.J " t ) I.UL
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third in' the ratings
and the people in charge
were more than eager, to'
r try something new to get '
their network into the1
"Ball Game" of the all
important Neilsen
Ratings.
of : . Keith;
Jackson (who ; now
handles collegiate foot
ball), Frank Gifford, a
former all pro with the,
New York Giants, and
you guessed it "humble"
Howard Cossell, who
had come into the na-
at 6 p.m., the freeways
were filled with hurrying
traffic as people rushed;
to the nearest TV set
'after work; likt'-iir-By
1971, the public
was more than ready for
football on Mondays as
September rolled
around, ABC sent Keith
in the stadiums ; come
forth with their most im
aginative signs 'f when
Howard and Co. are in
towniH;"-i''''j;:.
This idea which was
born ' on the warm
September night 12 years
ago has now blossomed
into Saturday and Thurs
made some revisions in
this chapter," he a'dded,
"even though I did a
chapter on handicap
swimming in another
book that I wrote."
f: McLaurin also thinks
that a chapter on "Pool
Operations" will help his
book to be a more
helpful text than other
works on the subect of
swimming.
hi "This chapter will
Jackson to their col- day night NFL telecasts,
legiate football crew and : ABC struck gold with
replaced him with "Dan-
dy" Don Mondith, a
former quarterback with
the Dallas Cowboys.
In short order the
its : Monday Night
telecast ; and the ' sports
fans have been saying
thanks ever since
On a warmf night in ; tional sports hmelight" AC broadcast crew
cover the whole of pool
operations, from the
training of lifeguards
' through the structural
aspects such as different
proportions of chemicals
used in the pool," he
.said. "There have been
Other books that cover
bne or two 0f these sub-, national convention for
jects, but my book serves physical education in
7 to go into much more March."
detail on all subjects in- The first two books
volved with being a pool
consultant."
A pool consultant
handles swimming pool
administration and
maintenance.
McLaurin has also to
his credit a chapter writ
ten by the Duke Univer
sity Preventive Ap
proach to Cardiology
"DUPAC had been
using swimming as
preventive medicine with
heart patients and I had
some ideas relating to the
subject," he said, "so I
discussed my concepts
with them and we com
bined my knpwledge of
swimming with their ex
perience in the treatment
of patients through
aquatic methods and
they wrote the chapter."
.But having something
to say and McLaurin
has had three volumes
worth is not all there
is to getting a textbook
printed and properly
distributed. McLaurin,
after two attempts, is
now satisfied with the
way Burgess Publishing
Company of Min
neapolis, Minn., is
handling the distribution
and advertisement of his
latest book entitled In
structional Swimming
Program.
"The other companies
just print books, , but
Burgess also advertises
the book for you," hei
said, "They're a profes
sional company and they
send the book around to
universities and they will
probably display it at the
McLaurin authored were
printed by Seeman's
Printery, Inc., on Chapel
Hill Blvd., and
McLaurin said that that
company only printed
his textbooks.
But Burgess was
McLaurin's first choice
for printing his books
until he could not come
to a satisfactory agree
ment with them. "I had
talked to Burgess when I
wrote my first book," he
said, "but we couldn't
come to any satisfactory
agreement, so I had
Seeman's do the
publishing.".
Also a pool consultant
for Soul City Parks and
Recreation in Soul City,
N.C, McLaurin has
been an instructor at
NCCU since completion
of his graduate studies.
He came to Central on a
recommendation from
his sister-in-law, after
graduating from
Tougaloo College.
Tougaloo. Miss. But
even after graduate
school, it took the offer
from Central to keep
McLaurin in Durham.
"When I came to Cen
tral," he said, "I was
assigned to the pool as a
part of my master's pro
gram. But when they
hired me for the same
.position, it helped me to
relocate in this area." .
McLaurin is planning
to use his new textbook
in class this coming
semester but until school
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NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
1982 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Dati Oppwant - - Sit Tim
Sept. 4 Livingstone College Salisbury. NC 7:30
Sept. 11 VIRGINIA UNION . Durham. NC 1:30
Sept. 18 WINSTON-SALEM
STATE DURHAM. NC 1:30
2 Fayetteville State v Fayetteville. NC . 7:30
Norfolk State : Norfolk; VA 1:30
Morgan State ' , Baltimore. V0 :. 1:30
ELIZABETH CITY ' DURHAM. NC 1:30
Bowie State Bowie.' M0 -1:30'
JOHNSON C. SMITH DURHAM, NC ' 1:30 '
.(HOMECOMING)
N. C. AtT STATE
CIAA Championship.
Al home games are played at NCCU O'Ktttv Stadium. -
Henry C. Lattimore, Head Football Coach & Athletic Director
Oct.
Oct.
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Nov.
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DURHAM. NC 1:30