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The Chronicle, Thursday, November 12, 1981-Page 1? s c o r e s Last Week’s Livingstone. Bowie St.. . 20 .3 Fayetteville St. UDC 14 . 8 Sporty Hampton 39 St. Paul’s 0 NCCU 37 J.C. Smith 6 Norfolk St 36 Virginia St 12 Virginia Union 38 Morgan St 0 Alcorn St 24 Mississippi Val 14 Ft. Valley St 45 Savannah St 16 Grambling St 19 Alabama St 7 Morris Brown 26 Albany, Ga 2 Tennessee St 43 Cent. St., Okla 0 Tuskegee 20 Miles 8 W. Georgia 35 Morehouse 21 Winston-Salem Chnonicle v.Twni; 'hr / .ivf msfon ( (.mmumrv Sini f' 1974 Black On Sports : Robert Eller s ' Sports Editor ' Norfolk State basketball coach Lucious Mitchell esigned his position late last week after the Central Inter- lollegiate Athletic Association conducted an investiga tion into the basketball program and found the school ^had violated NCAA regulations. Had Mitchell not resigned, Norfolk would probably not have been able to play its 16 league contests in basket- jball. With Mitchell resigning, conference Commissioner iBob Moorman has said Norfolk will be levied a $500 fine, the maximum allowed under league guidelines, and that the school would be placed on a year’s probation. ; Mitchell, in three seasons at Norfolk, has posted a !6I-28 record including a 19-10 record last year and two visits to the NAIA national tourney. Mitchell had come to Norfolk from Kentucky State, where he won three NAIA titles in eight years. He left there after an NCAA investigation into charges that he .served as an agent for two of his players. Earlier, Norfolk State had conducted its own investiga tion into charges by Mitchell’s players to a local newspaper that the coach treated them inhumanely, made misleading recruiting promises and conducted excessive and long practices. Following the internal probe, Norfolk State President Dr. Harrison B. Wilson, decided that Mitchell should re main as coach but should be more compatible with players. The CIAA investigation was completely different, ac cording to Moorman, who said the league inquiry showed that Mitchell had given his players $25 each after last season. This, according to Moorman, “is a violation of provisions in the CIAA and NCAA constitutions on misappropriation of money and affects the players’ ieligibility.” Moorman said he would petition the NCAA to excuse the athletes because they didn’t know it was a violation. The man who will replace Mitchell, who will remain on the Norfolk faculty, is Charles Christian. Interestingly, Mitchell replaced Christian, who resigned after winning the CIAA title in ‘78, his fourth in six seasons of coaching. And ironically, Christian said when he resigned that he no longer wanted to coach. The problems at Norfolk are just another case in point of what is happening in athletics from the pee wee leagues on up. The key now is winning, no matter what the costs, no matter what it means doing to the players. Examples of that right now are the plights of coaches like Wylie Harris of J.C. Smith and the axing of two coaches in two years at Virginia State. In a league such as the CIAA, where coaches have very limited funds and even more limited time and facilities, it doesn’t seem to make much sense to demand a constant winner, but while the pressure is not as intense as, say at Notre Dame or UCLA, it is just as real to the man whose job is on the line. Of course, it’s hard to mold anything but winning into a kid’s mind when all he sees is slogans like, “Winning is not the best thing, it’s the only thing,’’ and “Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser,” and, of course, people like George Steinbrenner and his long-lost buddy Billy Martin. For all of our sakes, and not just those of our kids, let’s hope that somewhere sport is still just that, a game played for the fun of it. BlackSchoolsSeek White Players Since the beginning, Mack college football teams have been just that: black. Now, all of this may be changing. Several black college coaches have gone on the record to say they Would welcome white players, and one well, known coach, Grambling’s Eddie Robinson, went as far as to say recently that he plans to actively.; recruit white players in 1982. "Black athletes have got •o become American othletes,” Robinson said. We’ve got to drop the Nack. That’s what we’re hying to do at Grambling.” White players certainly Won’t be totally new at Brambling. The Tigers Eagles Win CIAA Southern Division UPI Photo MADISON, WIS. - Northwestern’s coach Dennis Green looked anything but happy as he watched his Wildcats lose to Wisconsin 52-0, tying the record for the longest major-college losing streak in history, 28 games. The record was set by Kansas State in 1948 and duplicated by Virginia in I960. Charlotte - Freshman sensation Gerald Fraylon amassed 354 yards in total offense, ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as the defending CIAA champion North Carolina Central Eagles blasted Johnson C. Smith 37-6 in Memorial Stadium. A Homecoming crowd ol 10,152 witnessed the Eagles assault of 558 yards in total offense - 324 rushing. Fraylon, a graduate ot Charlotte’s Myers Park, returned home and com pleted 12 of 20 passes foi 222 yards and rushed 14 times for another 132. in'- two touchdowns give him 10 for ..the year and 64 points. He is ranked eighth in scoring in NCAA Divi sion II. The Eagles clinched the CIAA Southern Division with a 5-1 confciencc mark. They are 5-3 overall. Smith fell to 2-4, 3-6. Junior fullback Bennie Tale opened the scoring for Central with a 5 yard run with 4:27 left in the first period. The Eagles had marched 58 yards in 7 plays. Fraylon scored his first touchdown on the first play of the second period on a quarterback sneak. The Eagles had marched 49 yards in seven plays. Tate set up the Goldei' Bulls' only touchdowti when he fumbled at the NCCU 22 with 6:43 left in the half. An interference call gave the Golden Bulls a first and goal at the one. Jeff Steele bulled the final yard at 5:51. Central .scored with 30 seconds left in the halt when Fraylon tossed a 25 yard strike to junior split end Vietor Hunter. The Eagles moved 63 yards for the score in four plays. Fraylon scored his second touchdowti on a four yard run climaxing a 70 yard drive with 8:11 left in the third stan/a. Freshmati kicker Joel Massey booted ;i 28 yard field goal with 2:54 left iti the gatne atul the sophotnore reserve corner- back had a 16 yard intercep- tioti for a score to rap up the scoring. S.C. state Wins MEAC Championship Durham - The South Carolin State College Bulldogs took on the strong challenge by conference rival Bethune-Cookman Statuday, came away with a 10-6 victory, and won the 1981 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Football title. It was SC State’s second crown in a row, and seventh in the MEAC’s eleven years. Only this year, there is an added attraction. The conference champion has an automatic berth in the NCAA Division I-AA Playoffs. The game in Orangeburg, SC had been billed as, the “championship game”, and it was played that way. Both teams were undefeated in conference play, SC State was the total offense leader, B-CC the defensive leader, and both squads were allowing only ten points per contest. SC State opened the scoring early in the second quarter when quarterback Ben Mungin scampered nine yards and Alex Gardner kicked the extra point. Dennis Daniels kicked a 22-yard field goal and a 46-yarder late in the quarter to close the gap to 7-6 at See Page 21 Two Make AH CIAA were the first black college team to recruit and sign a white player. That was several years ago, and a recent TV movie, “Grambl ing’s White Tiger” told the story to millions of viewers. But now Robinson plans to actively search out and recruit white athletes, and it appears other schools plan to use the same tactic. Delaware State, whose head coach is white, plans to recruit a larger number of white players next year, and other schools such as Florida A & M and Tennes see State appear to be interested in white players. Why are black college coaches suddenly coveting See Page 11 Pamela Glenn and Fay Strother, members of the WSSU Women’s Volleyball Team, were chosen for the CIAA All Tournament team last week in Elizabeth City. St. Augustine’s successfully defended their 1980 cham pionship. The WSSU Ramettes finished fourth, losing to Norfolk State in the consolation game. Wrestlers Open Season The WSSU Wrestling Team opened the 1981-82 season with a victory over the Norfolk State Spartans at Norfolk last week. The final score was 38 to 10, as the Rams won 8 of the meet’s 10 matches. It was an impressive win for Coach Mike Edwards’ defending CIAAchampions and included wins for the first year wrestlers, Grady Armstrong, Paul Poore and Ronnie Locust, each of whom pinned his op ponent for the victory. The Rams were without their All- American Horace Williams, who remained home for im portant examinations. The team will conduct a wrestling clinic on Thursday, November 12, in the Gaines Center from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The public is invited and there is no admission. Coach Mike Edwards urges elementary and high school students to attend the clinic with their parents. The Rams will host their wrestling tournament on Saturday, November 14, in the Gaines Center, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Participating teams will be Appalachian State, Clemson University, Campbell College, N.C. A&T State and Pembroke State. The Rams followed their victory at Norfolk State with outstanding performances in the N.C. A&T State tourna ment on Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7, in See Page 18 Horace Williams
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