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SAY YOU SAW IT HERE...
Knowledgeable people in the Central Intercol
legiate Athletic Association are picking Johnson
C. Smith to finish fifth in the Southern Division
basketball race...Let’s fool ’em BULLS!...
Look for North Carolina A&T State University
to drop Johnson C. Smith from its football
schedule. This reporter picks Barber-Scotia to
win the seventh Tip-Off Basketball Tournament
here this weekend.
Here we go again! The rumormill has Virginia
State College looking for a new head football
coach. Also that Baxter Holman will likely leave
Livingstone before the leaves change colors next
A vear
Fayetteville State has ample reasons to be
proud of its football program under Raymond
McDougal. The Broncos finished out of conten
tion for the CIAA championship, but Fayetteville
placed six players on the NAIA District 29’s “All
Star Football Team.” That’s as many as Norfolk
State, who won the title for the second straight
year. Elizabeth City, Shaw and Hampton each
placed two players on the team.
Have you given consideration to the fact that
one evidence of maturity is the failure of an
individual to blame someone else for his
troubles?
Coach Joe Robinson has named three prized
rookies to his starting lineup at Fayetteville
State. The former local prep ace is high on 6-4
Jeff Ballard, 6-7^ Reginald McLeod and 6-5
Elwood Jeffries. Incidentally, Robinson informs
us that the Broncos’ game with Johnson C. Smith
iwill be played in the 12,000-seat Cumberland
Arena in Fayetteville this season.
A^e you aware that the only thing worse than
being old and bent is being young and broke?
Generally the pre-season polls are not worth
: the paper they are written on. An example can be
' found in the fact that Wake Forest wasn’t given
much chance for defeating N.C. State or North
Carolina this season.
Charles Christian, head basketball coach at
iiui iuik ouue, was in uurnam aaturaay nigni
scouting Livingstone. Christian will have you to
' . believe that his Spartans should not be listed
! : among the “favorites” in the CIAA' basketball
race this season. He says he feels that Virginia
State and Elizabeth City should be rated as the
top teams. Of course, Harold Deane of Virginia
State disagrees. This reporter is also among
those who can not buy Christian’s predictions.
Norfolk State, which is as accustomed to
winning as Buick is to making better cars, should
be in the driver’s seat, with St. Paul’s, Virginia
State and Elizabeth City in strong competition.
Winston-Salem is in a class by itself in the
Southern Division.
Stat sheets of UNCC’s first basketball game
revealed the “Mean Green” shot a loftly .571
. from the floor against Georgia College. Lew
Massey hit 12 of 21 for a spectacular .571 and
Kevin King went 10 of 17 for .588. Cedric
Maxwell was slightly off form with only a .500
accuracy rating with only four of eight from the
field.
Quarterback Russ Seaton of Hampton lost his
bid for a position on the NAIA District 29 “All
Star Football Team.” Steve Graeff of Norfolk
State won the honors and Maurice Banks of
Virginia State beat out Seaton for second place.
It would appear that coach Jerry Fitch of
Johnson C. Smith does not have much chance of
fusing 6-6 Robert Lewis very much longer. It’s
^unlikely the CIAA will rule Lewis eligible to play
after this semester.
: Top-ranked South Carolina State will take on
: Winston-Salem State in the Winston-Salem Coli
: seum Wednesday night, prior to coming to town
to compete in the seventh Charlotte Tip-Off
; Basketball Tournament.
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Tip-Off Tournament, which
begins here Friday night, are
defending champs S.C. State
Bulldogs and the Sabers of
Barber-Scotia College.
Winners of the first round of
play will vie for the tourna
ment championship Saturday
at 9 p.m. A consolation game
is scheduled for 7 p.m. Satur
day.
The Sabers were first run
ner-up in 1975. They will open
the tournament against St.
Augustine Friday at 7 p.m.
At 9p.m. Friday, the Golden
Bulls of J.C. Smith will face
S.C. State.
Favored S.C. State, now
vastly improved, expects to
better last year’s 17-8 record.
Last year’s leading scorer
at 14.2 point per game was
6’6” guard Harry Nicken. He
will be joined in the starting
lineup by top rebounder Carl
Green to lead coach Tim
Autry's Bulldogs. Green gar
nered 12 rebounds per game.
Willie Brown, a 6’6” forward,
will also start. J
“We must rely on some of
last year’s vets like Vincent
Sanders, James Cunningham,
Floyd Evans and some new
comers as well," said Coach
Autry.
J.C. Smith offensive aces
are Robert Lewis and Robert
Terry. Coach Jerome Fitch
has indicated that freshman
guard Americus Adams will
start in the tourney effort
against S.C. State.
Lewis, a 6’6” forward from
Virginia, averaged 28.6 points
towards the Golden Bulls
overall record of 13 wins and
14 loses. He was the leading
scorer and third leading re
bounder in the Central Inter
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The Farmers Market at 208
East Fifth Street will be open
for three Saturdays in De
cember, with hundreds of
handsome gifts and Christmas
greenery for sale from 9 a m.
to 2 p.m. each week.
The Market is located in a
heated warehouse, beside the
Seaboard Railroad tracks that
cross East Fifth Street. It will
be open December 4,11 and 18.
Many of the vendors who
participated in the Market
during the summer season
will be there with original,
handsome decorations, stit
chery, baked goods, plants,
and many other items which
they have produced.
Operated under the sponsor
ship of County Government,
the Market closed for the
season in November. The
Christmas schedule has been
planned in response to sug
gestions made by the vendors
and the buyers who came
regularly to the Market on
Saturday mornings during the
summer and early fall.
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you are interested in selling ai
the Market - or, if you ar<
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when the Market opens Satii
day, December 4!_
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lotte Post each week for the
best bargains in town.
- JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY
...Starting Five
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(CIAA) last year. Lewis had
362 rebounds.
Smith placed fourth in the
Southern division of the CIAA
a year ago.
Center Reginald Williams
and forward Embee Shaw led
the Sabres of Barber-Scotia
College to a 17-12 record last
year. They will lead the team
into the tournament match-up
with St. Augustine.
“Our returning players can
give us the leadership and
experience we need to go with
the youthful enthusiasm of the
new players,” said Saber
Coach Aldon Coefield.
Dark horse St. Augustine
had teamed senior forwards
Addison “Sarge" Ingram and
Calvin Preston with a 6’4”
transfer student. He is Larry
Rhodes of Westchester Com
munity College in New York.
Ingram is a 6’5” native of
Benson, N.C. and Preston is a
6'6” native of Rocky Mount,
Va.
Senior guard 3ean Powell,
who broke his foot against
Virginia State last year, is
expected to be ready for the
tourney tip-off. He is from
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Coach Harvey Heartley has
hopes for his relatively young
team.
Sports Information Director
FAYETTEVILLE-Coach Joe
Robinson of Fayetteville State
University is talking rather
quietly and deliberately about
the upcoming 1976-77 basket
ball season.
In his second season, coach
Robinson experienced a 4-21
record last year because a
number of games had to be
forfeited due to the use of an
ineligible player on the team
early in the season.
“We would really like to
forget about last year's night
mare," began the talkative
coach, “but it's understand
able about how the men on the
team felt when this happened
and I think they took it well
and are ready to get started
Jhis season."
Dr. Robinson, also Director
of Athletics at FSU, immedi
ately hit the recruiting trail at
the end of the '75 campaign
and came up with some new
comers he hopes will blend
with the nucleus of veterans
Leading veterans returning
to the Bronco cage camp
include leading scorer <17.5
pg) guard-forward Arnold
Chamber. The 6-2 senior from
Wilmington. Delware. hauled
down six rebounds a contest in
23 games.
Senior guard-playmaker
John Barrows, last year's
"Most Valuable Player” ave
raged 17.5 baskets per outing
and led his feam in toal
scoring for the year at 419.
The 5-11 Hempstead. New
York native was selected
"CIAA Player-of-the-Week"
and NAIA District 29 "Basket
ing the early part of the
campaign
Barrows is the key quarter
back for the Bronco club and
coach Robinson will rely hea
vily on his leadership for the
.upcoming 25-game schedule
which begins December 1 at
home with Hampton Institute
The only big man with expe
rience from last year's squad
is 6-9 junior Marlon Moore
who played in 18 games
snatching down seven re
bounds while pouring in the
same amount of baskets
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