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five weeks of experiments, cuts, and
;t disputes the exhibition season has finally
a close and the 1977 NFL season gets under
pday.
have been few drastic changes over the past
the league and as a result the top teams of 76
again dominate the 77 season,
writer’s fearless predictions for the 77 season
follows: In the NFC the tops teams in each
should repeat. The Dallas Cowboys are the
rC power who helped themselves in the
on. They acquired the draft rights to Tony
and should have no trouble making it to the
owl in 78. Their chief challenges should come
leir own division where they must beat both
igton and St. Louis to get to the playoffs. The
jrg have more defense than any other top NFC
•ith the exception of the Rams and should
St. Louis has more offense power than
Igton and should grab the Wild Card berth. In
itral Division the Bears are on the rise and the
are on the fall but Fran Tarkenton to
Foreman, Sammy White and Ahman Rashad
too much for the rest of the division. The
vill have to wait for next year. In the West the
iefense should carry them through the season
Joe Namath can't. With Larry McCutheon
mpany the Rams have enough running to get
49ers should improve but not enough and
ts could be the leagues surprise team.
[AFC picture is again clouded with outstanding
There should be a super battle in the east
in the Colts and the Patriots. The Pats have
iiest schedule and should win the division title
j! pick here is the Colts because of the defense.
— (entral division of this conference has four
ial playoff teams if two of them could be
d to the NFC but since this will not happen
here is for the Bengals to finally catch up
Steelers and win the title. Here is even more
iws for you Steeler partisans. This writer
even see the Pittsburgh club making it to the
as Patroits will use their easy schedule to
the Wild Card berth.
West the Raiders will easily take the title
lew AFC power wRl begin to emerge in San
The Chargers will surprise quite a few teams
ason including the Broncos who are used to
second behind Oakland,
r the Super Bowl the AFC wiimer is a sure bet
it. Any smart writer would stop at saying that
the reader pick his own conference winner,
mart vvriter would not stick his neck out and
iredictions, so here goes.
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0 junior goiters tee off at Reynolds Park.
[ynolds Park Holds
tinners Golf Program
I Robert EUer
Sports Editor
Reynolds Park
ers golf program is
1 its second year at
ids Park golf course
lore than 65 kids
aken advantage of
ogram to learn to
golf. During the
r six trophies were
■d to the beginner
e best score of that
or nine holes. The
under the direction
illiam Sims and
Gamer was started
6 as a result of
Ints that children
aturbing golfers by
? across the course
ing balls. With the
the Reynolds Park
ry Council and golf
the course, Dutch
program was
to teach youths to
ate in the sport,
ag the summer the
d.
classes were held from.9
until 12 o’clock each
Thursday. The group
plans to continue to hold
the classes from 4 to 5
each Thursday this fall as
long as the weather
permits.
Sims, one of the
instructors, talked of how
the course is conducted,
“The students are given
the basic fundamentals as
well as the rules and
regulations and then they
must pass a qualifying
test before they can go out
on the course and begin to
learn to play.’’ Sims
added that the pro shop at
the course has helped by
loaning clubs to the kids.
“We plan to expand the
course next year and have
a new group. It's a good
way of getting kids off the
street and learning them a
new sport,’’ added Sims
of the course designed for
children from ages 10
through 18.
Winston-Salem
Chronicle
Saturday September 17, 1977
Sports
Ram of the Week
WSSU AU-America cen
ter Robert Weeks has
been selected as the
Winston Salem Chroni
cle’s “Ram of the Week”
ClAA Schedule
Norfolk St. at Fayetteville St.
Va. Union at J.C. Smith
Bethune Cookman at Livinstone
N.C. Central at Winston-Salem
Bridgewater at St. Paul's
Eliz. City at Va. Union
Hampton at Shaw
Cerrudo Wins
Lee Elder Pro-Am
Williamsburg,
With all ey6s
President Gerald Ford and last “weekend '(^ptember
comic Bob Hope, veteran 3 and 4).
Va. brity Pro-Am at the
ex- Kingsmill Golf Club here
professional Ron Cerrudo
quietly carded a one under
par 140 to capture the
36-hole Lee Elder Cele-
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r-
A
Playing the first day
with Elder and the second
with Big Jim Wiechers m
a fivesome that included
ex-basketball great K.C.
Jones, Mr. Ford suc
cumbed to the heat,
humidity and tricky layout
of the Kingsmill course.
Meanwhile Cerrudo
parlayed the comparative
lack of gallery attention
and some steady golf to
shoot 69-71 and a $1,700
top prize, two strokes
better than Australian
Bruce Devlin and four
under John Jacobs of San
Diego to finish as best
pro.
Cerrudo picked up an
additional $375 when his
Robert Weeks,
for his outstanding play in
last Saturday’s victory
over Hampton Institute.
The 6-1 225 lb. Weeks
graded almost a perfect
score for his blocking in
the game. The senior led a
group of offensive line
men that aUowed Ram
backs to roll up 283 yards
rushing against the Pirate
defense.
The Charlotte native is
in his fourth year as the
Rams starting center and
has been a standout
throughout his career. He
was named NAIA Player
of the Year in his
sophomore year and was
named to the Pittsburgh
Courier AU-America team
last season.
This season he was
named to the CIAA
pre-season AU-Confe-
rence team. The Rams
offensive captain played
his high school bil aat
Olympic High school in
Charlotte and came to
WSSU at the urging of
Harold Clauson who also
sent LondeU McClary to
Ramland. “Mr. Clauson is
a close friend of my family
and he knew Coeich (Cleo)
WaUace (WaUace was
head coach of the Rams
when Weeks was recrui-
ted)-I had offers from
Livingstone and North
Carolina Central but I
came to visit the campus
and liked it,” he recaUs.
Weeks remembers the
lean years of 74-75 when
the Rams were near the
bottom of the league.
“We didn’t have the
See Ram, Page 10
team, including former
Keimit Blount bites the dust as a Hampton tackle
throws his weight around in the WSSU/Hampton
skirmish.
WSSU-34, Pir Hampton-6
Rams Humble Pirates
said Rams coach BiU
Hayes after his surpri
singly strong squad had
just whipped CIAA favo
rite Hampton Institute on
the Pirates home field
‘In a dog fight poor them a first down at the The Rams continued to
kids wiU whip rich kids,” Pirate 16. A missed field pile it on in the final 15
goal halted that drive, minutes. Brewington, the
Robert Johnson recovered conferences leading scor-
a fumble moments later er, connected on a
but the Pirate defense 41-yarder making it 27-6,
forced a punt. Derek two minutes later
Brewington missed a ComeUus Washington
Saturday to take over the 55-yard attempt at a three picked off his third
drivers seat in the CIAA pointer as the half ended, interception of the season
title chase. “This was a Hayes said he was and returned it 26 yards to
battle of the poor kids somewhat concerned with the Hampton three setting
against the rich kids and his team’s offensive play “P Arrington Jones scor-
we simply out hit them,” in the first half. “We had “g run of six yards,
tried to do too many
things in the first half, we
tried every trick play in
our book. I told the kids at
halftime that we came in
Hayes remarked in refe
rence to the game
between his Rams and
Hampton, the Ivy league
school of the CIAA.
Coach Hayes who has
NFL defensive back Dick
“Night Train” Lane and
Buddy Clarke, an Anheu
ser-Busch beer distributor
from Maryland, finished
in second place as low net
team with a 111 compo
site.
A sleeper, the team of
pro James Brisker who
plays out of the Langston
Golf Course in Washing
ton, D.C., won best team
with a 110 low net, one
better than the Cerrudo
quintet.
A late arrival. Bob
Hope’s golf activity week
end tournament was
limited to a nine-hole
outing the second day.
In good form both
comedy and golf-wise,
Hope quipped and
chipped his way to a
respectable 43.
Even though they did
not play together, Messrs.
Ford and Hope did get
together at one party at
Kingsmill and they met on
For the man who's
already made it.
The Rams, in taking here as the number six
their second consecutive team in the conference
impressive win over a and that we would leave
highly favored opponent, as the number six team or
again got outstanding play the number one team. In
from their defense. On the the second half we went
been hesitant to blow his the golf course when the
own horn since taking ex-President was making
over as the Rams head the turn on the second
coach last season was a day. “Don’t take any golf
little more talkative after tips from this guy,” Mr.
the big win. “I think we Ford cautioned the gallery
are number one now,” of Hope,
she said smiling slightly. Other notables partici-
“We beat the number one pating in the tournament
blues singer Joe WiUiams,
actor Greg Morris, ex-
See Cerrudo, Page 10
games third play AU- back to basic football ran Tm an optimist but included Willie Mays
CIAA defensive back the veer, and played Uke
Reginald Sherrard picked we wanted to be number
off a Russ Seaton pass and one. ’ ’
returned it to the Pirate The Rams did indeed
23-yard line. Three plays play like they were
later Randy Bolton broke number one in the second
off tackle and covered the half. They took the
23 yards for the Rams first opening kickoff and
score. Derek Brewing
I’m also a realist. At the
beginning of the season I
said if we could win three
of our first five games
then the Lord would have
been real good to us. But
we have already blown out
two fine teams and now
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ton’s PAT put the Rams
up 7-0.
Less than a rhmute later
the WSSU defense came
up with another turnover.
Willie Jordon recovered a
moved to the 34 and were we will be hard to beat!”
faced with a punting In the first two games the
a
situation but a penalty
gave them a first down at
the 50. With a second
chance fullback Timmy
Newsome, the team’s
Hampton fumble giving leading rusher last season
the Rams a first down at before suffering a knee
their 42. Kermit Blount injury, took a veer handoff
directed his team to the from Blount and rambled
Lord has indeed been
good to the Rams but so
has the tough Rams
defense under the direc
tion of Charlie Griffin.
Pirate six but a holding
penalty halted the drive
and Derek Brewington’s
44-yard field goal attempt
was wide.
50 yards down the right
sideline for the score.
Brewington’s conversion
put the score at 17-0 with
12:59 remaining in the
Media
Reviews:
After a Hampton punt third quarter,
the Rams again moved the The Ram defense again
ball into Pirate territory held on Hampton’s initial
but a 46-yard attempt at a second half series and
field goal missed. forced a punt. Brinkley,
Early in the second however, misjudged the
quarter Anderson Noble ball and Hampton recov-
came up with the Rams ered on the Ram 28. Russ
second interception givng Seaton passed 14 yards to
the team a first down at Larry WiUiams for the
the Hampton 29. Three score. The kick for
plays later Brewington conversion failed and the
connected on a 31-yarder Rams lead was cut to 17-6.
extending the Rams lead Brinkley atoned for his
to 10-0 with 13:27 left in miscue on the kickoff. He
the half. returned the boot 78 yards
The Rams had three to the Pirate 28. Five plays
more opportunities to later Blount ran 16 yards
score in the first half as for the score. Brewington
Monty Brinkley returned a added the conversion with
punt to the Pirate 37 and a 4:08 remaining in the
face mask penalty gave third quarter.
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