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* Page B2-The Chronicle, Thursday, May Black College Sports Does NFL black collet By BARRY COOPER Syndicated Columnist It is widely believed that pro football scouts spend much of their time wandereeamwW*jn^JirAun?L^Jiftw.countryside? with stop watches- dangHng^ronr-thetite?cetor!ww#^ magnifying glasses glued to their eyes. On these expeditions, the scouts look for raw football talent that has not yet been discovered. The most diligent of these football detectives are said to even go as far as peek under decaying rock and tip over trash cans in their never-ending search for a few men who can play football. After these sundry searches are completed, the snoops gather at team head"It seems that too many of the guys from the predominantly black institutions have to be free agents and get paid (the big money) three or four years later. Even then, they never catch up to what some of the other guys are making. " -- Rudy Hubbard quarters, compile their notes and wait for draft day to come. Then, supposedly, the best players in the country -- 336 of them -- are selected during a 12-round marathon. History tells that this is not always true, however. Everson Walls, who now seems destined to become one of the best defensive backs ever, was not drafted out of Grambling a few years ago. All Walls did was step in as a rookie and start every game for the Dallas Cowboys. When a player such as Walls is not drafted, he often is signed as a free agent.. That brings us to the subject of this week's column. . Chances are that Ray Alexander, a superb wide receiver for Florida A&M, would like to call Walls and talk about how if feels to be left out. In this year's draft, 336 names were called before the NFL called it quits, and MBJJJ***ilf aV^ W V JlSflgp SS^ ? * y.yt ^ < ^ jfl K K kjW N;^to 1^ Heave-Ho! Kennedy High shot-putter Monica Da metal far enough last week to place James Parker). ?28 Rebuilding / GREENSBORO -- Realizing that j season lies ahead, veteran North Ca basketball Coach Don Corbett has sign school standouts, hoping to offset the starters from last year's NCAA Tourna Included in the list of Aggie recri players from North Carolina who have 1 to play in the East-West All-Star Greensboro in July. Those two players are Norman Johns< Central of Wilkesboro and Lee Robinsor County of Laurinburg. Johnson averaged 19 points and nine r t 5 1 17, 1984 " i S ? > draft exploit *e players? not a one of those names was Ray Alexander's. So the man who most felt to be the best wide receiver in black college football this year went unclaimed. Fortjmaxalyythf?.! ?I Bj_AiLuili?jillHHwi??iniimi1I?> trtMn?WWnn i t -11 hiij uuTVJij/' crj- quii'Kty signing Alexander to a free-agent contract. And chances are excellent that the Broncos will find themselves with the same kind of bargain that Dallas did when it inked Walls. There is a prevailing school of thought that says the NFL intentionally creates such fire sales by looking the other way when names of black college players are mentioned at Draft Central. Of course, the NFL would staunchly deny this and point to the hordes of black college players that are drafted each year. However, even though black college players go on to become stars in the NFL, few are ever picked during the first few rounds. And, yes, it is a big deal to be picked on, say, the first, second or third round. A first-round draft choice can expect to be paid a signing bonus of $300,000. That's not salary, mind you, but simply a lump-sum bonus that the player gets up front and can keep even if he doesn't make the club. A second-round pick gets about a $200,000 bonus and a third-round pick . about $100,000. Surely Everson Walls should have been | a first-round pick. Not being taken in the ~ initial round means he lost more than $500,000, counting bonus and salary. The Cowboys are believed to have signed Walls for a naltrv SOH Knnnc ar?rl o ? W ? f- ? / f v/v V/VilUO UIIU U $35,000 salary. Says Florida A&M Coach Rudy Hub- ^ bard: "It seems that too many of the guys < from the predominantly black institutions have to be free agents and get paid (the big money) three or four years later. Even t then, they never catch up to what some of c the other guys were making." 1 Pro scouts say that players such as t Walls and Alexander slip through the Please see page B3 g |Vd R^HBr^p ^| IPaL^Hr * ll jgJJp^^^^BH^ i vid gives her all in a regular-season cor second in the local 9-10 conference ch <+ Aggies enjoyin a rebuilding guard at Central. He stands rolina A&T pounds. In addition to beinj n f~\ Pit/A U t />U T/\U t^r/M1* e* r\ 1 #? **. r+ r />1?*4 W^lll iwu iifw mgii juuiiduu is aidu a suuu uctlll loss of three Robinson (6-6, 200 pounc rnent team. wjty1 21 points and 1 "ts ar^ tvv? season. Robinson will be on 3C5!| se.cct^ ing a starting position in th assic in fered the losses of three-tir Year Joe Binion, James Ho 3n of Wilkes 1 of Scotland Darryl Holton will be vy frontcourt, too, and brings ebounds as a A&T. Holton (6-6, 210 pour ports We cores, Standings, Columns, Fe I I I ,* jm " jHtJH . JwHB -3k SSSSSfSwiMkK^jjB^j^^ ... ' !'.; -. v; ' v A^ A- ': Legs, Arms And Shoelc Her left shoelaces dangling, Reynolds' / in the 200-meter low hurdles at a high tlonal track meet last week at Western C Hack College Briefs CIAA Tollman 3y BARRY COOPER , Syndicated Columnist RICHMOND, Va. ? As expected, the Cenral Intercollegiate Athletic Association has lecided to move its highly popular and , ucrative basketball tournament from Norfolk o Richmond, Va. The event, which annually is one of the big;est happenings in black college athletics, will H Junior By ROBERT ELLE Sports Editor The Road Runn Simpson, will host Olympics Track ar Winston-Salem Stai The meet, sanctic Triad athletic coun< to aspiring track ar five categories. Thnsf* r?t<*onrif?c midget division, men's or women's i ^ Those athletes en ^jjjjl^jjjjjjj$ y ^ Y t'l ,v Hampton Institu iMBm * iUV? II national tennis Chapman College c In addition, fresh a trip to the Divisic itest. David heaved the finals of the Divis ampionships (photo by R'za of Stephen F. Doumbia, sporti g a banner recr > 6-foot-3 and weichs 185 Ga.. and attends g a good outside shooter, compiled average* handler. He was named 1 Is) paced Scotland Coun- In addition to f 3 rebounds per game last bett has to come le of the candidates seek- well. A logical c le frontcourt, which suf- Stokes of San Die ne MEAC Player of the Stokes js ,jsted .race and Darryl Battle. Sam Morse, he av ing for a position in the To add depth in impressive credentials to Robert Sumler, a ids) is from Thomasville, Sumler averaged \ ek at u res B^^hF .'.;;;'JH I ~_ - JiiJ n tilif if-^ ices inn Hall competes ed second in the fli school girls' sec- Daniels) iuilford. Hall plac nent to move to R be played at the Scope Arena in Norfolk at the 3 end of this season, but will move to Richmond' for the 1986 tournament. t Richmond has a two-year contract to host the n tourney. Richmond won in what became an intense t bidding war. Last season's tournament, which t involved all 14 conference teams, attracted \ 50,543 spectators and had ticket sales of around c Olympics meet se :R sions may eluding rel women ms ers Track Club, coached by Virgil eluding rel the 1984 Winston-Salem TAC Junior Junior ( id Field Local Meet May 19 at the six finisher te University track. track and i >ned by the USA, North Carolina and The enti cils of the Athletic Congress, is open relay team id field participants falling in any of tioned clul The reg include, for both males and females, $2.00 fee p n, for participants born after 1974; tion. >orn 1972-73; junior division, born The top ite division, bom 1968-69, and young sectional n division, born 1966-67. Events t itered in the bantam and midget divi- tion, or to on tennis team pls te placed third in the NCAA Division season, is t tournament recently by defeating for Divisic )f Los Angeles 6-3. j, iman sensation Yaya Doumbia earned ^ _ :>n I national tourney by reaching the ion II event before bowing to Steve For the Austin University 6-3, 6-4. was 8-0 in ng an amazing 30-6 record for the tie. lilting year in b; & Central High School, where he He star 5 of 17 points and 10 rebounds. "We w Player of the Year in Region 1, 4-A. bett said, illing both forward positions, Cor- players w up with a replacement at center as s hoice to fill that void is Richard ta*n ^ rgo's Sam Morse High. but ' make an < at 6-9, 205 pounds. Last season at A&T is 'eraged 12 points and 14 rebounds. capture tl i the backcpurt, Corbett also signed in a row. teammate of Stokes at Sam Morse. the NO 18 points and 11 assists. postseaso f ) I 1 I bn ma'' # |U * ah j gl m B H lish with a 30.8 time (photo by Joe ?>;*. ichmond in '86 >350,000. CIAA Commissioner Bob Moorman said ournament fans spent more than $3.5 million vith Norfolk merchants during the eveftt. Richmond won the rights for the next two ournaments after its city council voted to give he CIAA a $200,000 guarantee each year, as veil as to provide a $3,000 scholarship for each )f the 14 teams in the league for two years. t for WSSU compete in a maximum of three events, inays. Youth intermediates and young men and ly take part in a maximum of four events, inays. Olympic ribbons will be presented to the first s in all events, which include competition in 18 seven field events. y fee is $2.00 per athlete and $3.00 per club and an athlete must be a member of a wnr. 5 in order to take part. istration deadline is May 16. An additional ler participant will be charged for late registrafour finishers in each event will advance to the leet June 9 in Greensboro, legin at 8 a.m. on the 19th. For more informaregister, call Virgil Simpson at 722-5517. ices third he fourth player in Hampton history to qualify >n I tourney play. "AA Division I tennis national tournament irsday, May 17, in Athens, Ga. season, Hampton finished with a 34-7 record, CIAA play and won its 11th straight CIAA ti laivctumi ids 5-10 and weighs 160 pounds, ill definitely be in a rebuilding year," Cor, "and it was important to recruit some ho could come in and play right away. Ding to be a tremendous challenge to mainind of success we've had the last three years, confident that our recruits will be able to early contribution." coming off a season which saw the Aggies le MEAC championship for the third year It was also the team's third straight berth in \A playoffs and fourth consecutive n appearance.
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