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HILL JOHNSON
BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THAT.... ***
Some people can’t do their Christmas shopping
early because they don’t know who their friends
will be by Holiday Times.
Willie Jeffries, who will send his Bulldogs of
South Carolina State College against Norfolk
State of the CIAA in the Bicentennial Bowl in
Richmond, Va. Saturday, has been named
“Coach of the Year” in the NAIA District 26. In
addition to winning his third straight MEAC
football title, Jeffries has posted 32 wins against
only 20 defeats and two ties in just four years at
the Orangeburg, S.C. institution.
Long-hitting Jim Dent has finally broken into
1 the winner’s circle. The Floridian set a course
record in winning the Riviera Country Club Golf
Tournament in Florida recently. Dent shot a
closing 61 and was nine under par, before picking
up the $2,000 prize money.
Smith Parnlina Stato finichorl oinhth in tVio final
NCAA Division II standings. Alcorn, which was
No. 9, was the only other predominately Black
school in the top ten.
Progress would be faster if people could go
forward on excuses.
List this reporter among those who believe
that the current major league players draft is
bad for baseball. Common sense dictates that no
one gives his best with the kind of security now
being offered top players. And long-term con
tracts take away the incentives to go all out on
the field. It also takes away the threat of a player
being traded for poor performances and for
various other reasons.
Grambling College, which has a grand tradi
tion for producing top quarterbacks, may have
one of the best signal-callers ever on its roster.
Junior Doug Williams, has thrown 54 touchdown
passes in three years of collegiate play to shatter
all passing records for the State of Louisiana.
Jarnes Harris, who is currently riding the bench
for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, held the
old record of 53 TD strikes.
The Bicentennial Bowl, which shapes up as a
gigantic affair, will get underway at an ungodly
hour. Imagine a football contest of this magni
tude kicking off at 11 o’clock on a Saturday
morning. The parade featuring both bands will
begin at 10.
Did you notice that Morgan bashed UMES,
56-10, to grab a share of the MEAC football
championship with S.C. State? It’s the second
straight year that the two teams have served as
the co-champions of the young league.
MnrfK Pornlinn A urifVt q linaiin that /Iaac
not include James (The Bird) Sparrow, and
Winston-Salem State, which has a fresh crew of
young players, will stage their annual shootout
in the Greensboro Coliseum Saturday night. It’s
a top attraction, notwithstanding the fact that
A&T has dropped its first three games. Winston
Salem is undefeated with two big victories.
Johnny Rogers, the All-CIAA tight end at
Winston-Salem State, is among the first players
from the East Coast named to play in the
Freedom Football Classic in Los Angeles, Calif,
on January 8.
Make note of the fact the Bicentennial Classic
will be televised to five different parts of the
country. No local television is included.
Federal Aid to education should start with the
teaching of arithmetic in Washington, D.C.
Have you heard the one about the action at a
basketball game being so dull and uninteresting
J that the fans in back began shouting: “Up In
Front!”
Lary Doby has returned to baseball as a coach
with the Chicago White Sox...And, Anally, It
wouldn’t make much difference, one way or the
other, if Muhammad Ali should retire from
boxing.
Hotshot Jerome Mobley
Gains “Player Of Week” Honors
dj james cuuiDertson
Post Staff Writer
He flys down the court,
makes a couple of fancy
moves with his slender rub
bery body, antagonizes defen
ders and leaps to the stars to
lay a basket in the milky way.
Sounds like Superman,
doesn’t it? Or for the fans of
today, try the Rubberband
Man.
All wrong!
The agile roundball artist is
this week's Player of the
Week, Jerome Mobley of
South Mecklenburg High
School. The slender, 6’1’*'
forward has been several pla
ces in his two years of varsity
experience.
The South Charlotte native
who lives on Loblolly Lane
comes from a family of great
basketball tradition. His rela
tives are Lew Massey who is
starring with UNCC, Waiter
Davis, who is starring with
UNC, and, of course Hubert
and Herbert Davis, the twins
who integrated South Meck
lenburg and later starred at
Johnson C. Smith University.
Ask Jerome who will win the
Southwestern 4-A this year
and he will tell you. "South, of
course,” he says with a smile
characteristic of the smile he
wore last March when South
won the state 4-A champion
shin. You sap hp Haq hppn to
Jerome Motney
...Scored 29 points
the top and is looking forward
to going again.
The road this time will be
a little tougher, however. O
lympic, North, Garinger, West
Charlotte all are predicted to
knock the Sabres off their
throne.
Mobley used a 29 point
scoring performance at Olym
pic last week to give the
Sabres an 88-75 victory over
the Trojans in their effort to
reassert their dominance of
the Southwestern 4-A confer
ence.
Previously, he had garnered
31 in a 68-66 loss to Hunter of
Huss of Gastonia.
Look out other members of
the league. It looks like Je
rome Mobley and the rest of
thp Ipacnip Arp hark
timer stars included Jack
Planter, the 5’11" Indepen
dence senior guard, who scor
ed 21 points in a victory over
Olvmnic and 17 in a loss to
Huss...Lester Therrell, 6,4"
Harding junior, who scored 12
rebounds in a 70-68 win over
Country Day. Michael Grant
of East who scored 22 points in
f 77-69 win over Richmond
County and 33 in a return
match for an 86-70 win over
the same team . John Parks of
West Charlotte who scored 20
points and pulled down 10
rebounds in a 71-68 loss to
Greensboro Smith...Willy Ro
binson of Harding who got 16
points in the rams win...John
ny Witherspoon, who garnered
14 rebounds in a Garinger
Wildcat win over Wadesboro
Bowman...Aaron Cunningham
of South who had 16 in the
Sabres win over Olympic...
Jeff Nance, Tun Harris, On
dra Richardson, and Gerald
Stevenson of Olympic who
garnered 27, 13, 13 and 13
points respectively in the loss
to South...Wyatt,Chase, Ge
rald McAfee, Mac Walls, and
Graylon Wallace of North who
scored 16, 16, 8, and 26 points
respectively in the win over
West 95-71...and.. Malcolm
Pharr. Lamonte Lindsay, and
Duane Berry who scored 18,
17, and 14 points in the win
over Concord 73-46.
All-Star Football Game Proposed
By Arnet Barksdale
Post Staff Writer
Football players from the
CIAA, MEAC, SWAC, SIAC,
and some more from the
independent predominately
Black colleges, will play what
is billed as The Black All-Star
game in Los Angeles on Satur
day January 8, according to
CIAA Commissioner, Bob
Mooran.
Coached by Norfolk State’s
head coach, Dick Price, play
ers of the Central Intercolle
giate Athletic Association and
the Mid-Eastern Athletic Con
ference will clash with players
from the South Western Athle
tic Conference and the South
ern Intercollegiate Confer
ence, coached by SWAC Al
corn's coach, Maurice Casern.
Both sides will be aided by
players from the predomi
nately Black Colleges that do
not belong to a conference.
The game, sponsored by
Sports Project Incorporated
(SPI) out of New York, will be
televised by Sports Ventures
Inc. and all proceeds are to go
to the National Scholarship
Services Funds for Blacks and
to the Edwin Goodwin Funds
for Children.
Mooran said that the last
game of this sort, during the
1971-72 football season, was
not a success and an attempt
to stage the game last year fell
through.
“As far as operation was
concern that game about four
I years ago wasn’t put together
well at all," Alooran said
"After last year's attempts
failed Joe Peters of SPI helped
organize the game for this
year."
Mooran pointed out that il
was Peters who suggested
that the coaches of the CIAA
and the SWAC champs coach
the two teams and next yeai
the coaches of the MEAC and
the SIAC champs would bt
selected as coaches.
Important Trend Developing
In Southwestern 4-A League
By Janies Cuthbertson
Post Staff Writer
The Southwestern 4-A bas
ketball season is still young
but some important trends are
developing. The best teams
seem to be South. North, and
West Charlotte. The middle of
the pack seems to be Olypic,
Independence, Garinger. and
East. Myers Park, West, and
Harding appear destined to
bring up the rear. j
The spotlight game for the
w eek is Friday night when the
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Sabres of South Mecklenburg
invade the Vikings gym to
tangle with the hot-shot run
and-gun team of Coach Leroy
Holden It will be a battle of
Graylon Wallace and Gerald
McAfee against Jerome Mo
bley and it should be a classic
Last year, the Vikings am '
bushed and embarrased the
Sabres by 17 points at the
same sport and memories
don't die that easily
The second biggest game
will occur Tuesday night when
the Vikings travel to” West
Charlotte to do battle with the
Lions, lead by John Parks,
Lamonte Lindsay. Malcolm
Pharr and Duane Berry Last
year the Lions embarrased
the Vikings and Coach Hol
den's crew has let notice be
served that this is a game they
w ant
other games Friday will t»it
Olympic at East. Garinger at
Harding, West at Indepen
dence and West Charlotte at
Myers Park ^
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