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At press time, Central State of Ohio
was undefeated, untied and moving
close to an NCAA Division II football
championship. Meanwhile, the sun
rises in the east, the sky is blue, the
earth is round,-water is wet and
Virginia Union wins thp HAA title. So
what else is new?
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10 A Rocky Road
If you think Rodney Dangerfleld has it?
tough, consider the plight of the Division
I black school struggling to gain
national respect - and perhaps a Ralph
Sampson in the process. Can the black
schools make it, or are they playing on
a level where they don't belong?
_ Mardi Gras
O In November
As if it needed an additional selling
point, the Southwestern Athletic Conference's
Bayou Classic determined the
league's champion this year ? as well as
settling Louisiana bragging rights,
making a pretty penny and giving
58,000 people an excuse to celebrate
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December 1983 Volume VII, No. 4
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- Bin Doings
v-lnHoFCanta ~
Though basketball season will be in full
swing by Jan. 14, the main attraction
; that day will be the Freedom Bowl AllStar
Classic in Atlanta, a football game
pitting the best in the SWAC against
the best in the MEAC.
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23 Than Losses
Winston-Salem State's legendary
Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines wasn't as
preoccupied with the fuss surrounding
his possible 700th career victory as he
was with Opening the new season with a
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win. nc gui duui.
22 The Rice Stuff
Our college football Player of the Year
is Mississippi Valley's Jerry Rice, a man
whose huge hands appear to have been
eustom-moldetHo-eatch footballs.-Ed
Hill reports.
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