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SDOHi Dtfll - ·ΗΗ·11]Κβ- % ·Μ^·3««ΝΝΜΤΐΒ····Η*-- <a.v¥iW1M>WI IT OCCUR S TO ME THAT Ε nyatteviUç Stote U niversity has made a very win move in namin g J oe Robinson its new athletic director and head basketball coach..7.7777 Remembered as one of the greatest quarter backs J ack Martin developed at West Charlotte. Robinson directed the basketball Hawks of old M dryland State University to great heights in the CI A A. He should do well at F ayetteville L ist this writer am on g those who would like to see Muhammad Ali go through with his plans to quit the fight game. Most of the great fighters of the past century stayed around too long. Let's hope the man who has done so much for boxing will give it up while still at the height of his very colorful career. We havelearned that Dr. Jack S. Brayboy, one of the greatest athletes ever to perform with the Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith University is ailing. It is hoped here that the former three time All Ajrierican will, mend auicklv. Alcorn State University's football Braves and theGrambling State University Tigers will play in the opening collegiate contest in the New Or el ans Superdom e. The game is billed as one of thehighligts of the dom e's opening and fans from Mississippi, Louisiana and surrounding states areexpectedtofillthe81, 187 seats for the Sept. 6 clash. The famed Braves of Alcorn will make an appearance in Durham on September 27 for a 1 o'clock encounter with the North Carolina Cen tral Ε ogles. Beginning F riday August 8, WBTV will carry play-by-play the entire Washington R edskins pre-season football gam es. Jim Τ hacker will call the action and Sonny Jurgenson will do the color. Τ hree of the four encounters will be played on F riflav niahts and one on Saturday night. Only three of the eight Johnson C. Smith U niversity football players now working out with the Charlotte Hornets have better-than-average chances of making the World Football League squad. They are Dan Whyte, Bruce Dukes and Β ill Dulin. Harry Carson of Florence, S. C. and Neely D unn of Coca, F la. have been chosen co-captains of the 1975 South Carolina State College football squad. Both are rising seniors. An All-Am erican, Carson led the 1974 Bulldogs in both tackles and assists. fc ddie Harris, Johnson C. Smith University s golf coach, is readying plans for a four ball golf tournament at a local par 3-course. He likely wilT stage the event in mid-July. Hornsby Howell, the veteran head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University, has announced the Aggies will open football practice on August 10. He expects 60 candidates. "With our first game less than one month away after we start our drills," Howell explains, "my staff and I just don't havethetimeto work with a lot of players." Τ he Aggies, who open their 1975 schedule with powerful Virginia Union in Greensboro Me morial Stadium on Sept. 6, have a tough schedule with Howard, Morgan and Grambling back to' back. π ανβ you ever wondered how the top 40 basket ball players in the U SA are chosen? Τ he list is a compilation of seven scholastic Ail-American teams, two recruiting services and a special panel of 15 college coaches around the nation. Β et you didn't know that the veer averaged one . turnover per 23.0 plays last year, while all other offenses averaged a turnover every 22.4 snaps. Τ hat's football! Would you believe that a true sign of growing old is when your vital statistics aren't very vital anymore? At Fayetteville State Λ Joe Robinson Named ; Head Basketball Coach By JOHN HENDERSON Special to the Host Kayetteville -- A native of Charlotte, North Carolina has been named the new Director of Athletics and head basket ball coach at Kayetteville State University. tte~re~Dr. Joe K-Robm-son. . Kayetteville State Oniver sity Chancellor, Dr Charles "A" Lyons. Jr made the announcement last week and said the appointment is effect ive July 1. Robinson, 37 succeeds Dr William Bell as Athletic Dir ector and Otis Hawkins as head basketball coach Bell announced his retirement after five years as head of the athletic department and Haw kins was relieved of coaching duties after two seasons as head basketball coach Joe Robinson Former W Charlotte ace l)r Hobinson. who t West Charlotte High School, received his undergraduate training at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Princess Anne. Maryland in 1961 and the M S degree from Indiana University, Blooming ton. Indiana, in 1967. He received the doctorate degree from Arizona State University FSl' Chancellor Lyons said on the appointment of Robin son TTelias thti capabilities for both positions and is keen on doing both He certainly has the background This is a plus for us." No stranger to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Asso ciation Conference CIAAi. Robinson was head basketball coach at Maryland Eastern Shore in 1966. Over the next •five years, his teams won 75 percent of their games, includ ing one unbeaten season. Mary land-Eastern Shore, then ,i member of the Central In· BATCH Stages Fii*t Tennis Tournament By James Cuthbertson Post Staff Writer "That was a good shot, orother," remarked a specta tor at Saturday's and Sun day's round-robin tournament of the Black Association, for,· Tennis in Charlotte. (BATCH Shouts of "good shot" "watch that line!" "what do you mean man!'' That was on the line, it wasn't out.'' echoed through the air on a day that was expecially made for ten nis. sunny and beautiful Tii> rays reflected shadows on thi beautiful asphalt courts at North wood Estates. And the spectators and participants alike, enjoyed the new interest in tennis that i* being generated by BATCH Last year tennis was revi ved as a cultural and recrea tional activity of and for the Black community by the Board of Directors: Joseph L Alston, Robert D. Hicks. John B. Mickle, and Floyd D Young. This year according to Mickle, Alston has left Char lotte to become athletic direc tor at North Carolina Central University and Harvey Gantt, Claude Saunders and Alex Thompson are the new board members. Membership in BATCH is open to all Blacks in Mecklen burg County and other accept able interested individuals The first general membership meeting of the group was held at 7:30 p.m. on June 25. Future events for the em bryonic group are a Westside Invitational Junior's Tourna ment on August 2 and 3 at the West Charlotte courts and the Adult Westside Invitational Tennis Tournament to be held from August 23 to August 31 on the same courts. BATCH is a non-profit or ganization^ ..Check the ads in the Char lotte Post each week for OL'T STANDING BUYS. Tu warm up. the group played bot three of fix e game series in doubles and singles pla\ In singles play. Harvey Clanlt defeated Claude Saund ers i l. Bill McCombs de· foaled Tennyson .Johnson 3-D. Alex Thompson defeated Ko bert Keeves 3 2; Doc King defeated Brown. 3-1. Kobert Hicks deteated Harvey Gantt 3-0.: Claude Saunders defeated James Cuthbertson 3-1. Bill Mcfnmbs defeated Brown 3-0; lohn Mickle defeated Tenny son Johnson 3-0: Alex Thomp son deteated King 3-0; Kobert Hicks defeated Kobert Keeves 3-0 Claude Saunders defeated James Alston 3-2; and Bill McComiis defeated Otis 3-0, In doubles play. Alston-King defeated Brown-Johnson 5-3. Hicks-Cuthbertson deteated SaundersOtis 5-2 and King Alston deteated Thompson Keeves 5-2 ici iiiiu'giaie Hinicuc ^socia ; ιοί ( ΙΑΑι. was runner-up in •hi· National Association of Ititci-collegtiite Athletics NAI.-V tournament once and reachecf the quarterimais an other time under Robinson Kobinson has not coached since leaving the Maryland school in i97l He was an a>-iNt;mt professor ot physical education and director of in tramural athletics at Jackson State Lniversity tor two \ears. then a teaching assis tant at Arizona State two mo. c. years. Ί had to get out of coaching loi a while in order to get my doctorate. ' he said. •"How ever. ii was always my inten tion to get back into it as μη athletic director and for a few more years of coaching." tin the basketball program at FSl' Kobinson said: "I'm a winner by tradition. Fayette ville State University won the CIAA basketball champion ship in 1973 wants to regain the image. 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