CIAA Basketball Roundup
CIA A Cage Teams
Dominate MEAC
Special To The Post
HAMPTON, VA The Cen
tral Intercollegiate Athletic
Association basketball season
opened last week with moet of
the teams seeing action.
The basketball season is just
getting underway but there
are already indications that
the CIAA will again dominate
over the MEAC as Winston-Sa
lem, the 1976-77 CIAA Cham
pions wallopped Delaware
State 111-38 and Hampton In
stitute downed Maryland-ES
90-84 Virginia State and Nor
folk State traveled south to
New Orleans, LA to meet
Xavier and Dillard in their
Thanksgiving tournament.
Shaw University, Fayetteville
Slate. Saint Augustine's and
Elizabeth City State saw ac
tion in the Rocky Mountain
Tip-Off Tournament. Living
stone College played in the
Athens Invitational and Ham
pton Institute traveled to
Maryland to meet the Uni ver
Coca-Cola To
Present Golden
Helmet Awards
Coca-Cola USA will present
its Golden Helmet Awards to
an outstanding player from
each team at the second an
nual Gold Bowl Classic on
December 3, at the Richmond
City Stadium in Richmond,
Va.
The inter-conference Gold
Bowl will pit the winner of the
CI AA Conference, Winston-Sa
lem State University, against
the winner of the MEAC Con
ference, South Carolina State
College.
In addition to the Golden
Helmet Awards, representa
tives from Coca-Cola USA will
present wrist watches to play
ers of both teams and their
coaches. Making the presenta
tions from Coca-Cola USA will
be Charles H. Boone, Vice
President and Manager of
Special Markets; and Area
Managers Eugene McCullers
and Reddrick Martin.
South Carolina State College
won the first Gold Bowl by
defeating Norfolk State 26 -10.
A gala week of events will
lead up to the Gold Bowl,
highlighted by a banquet ho
noring the football players the
night before the classic.
Scheduled halftime activi
ties include the colorful bands
from the participating schools
and the introduction of the
Gold Bowl Queens and digni
ty ri»
East Will Face
Rocky Mount
For State Title
The Eagles of East Meck
lenburg High School will play
Rocky Mount High School in
the State 4-A Championship
Game here Friday night.
It will be the second time in
three years the Eagles have
played in the state finals.
East Meek got to the finals
by defeating Ashevilie 14-7
last week The game was
marred with rain, a slippery
field and a lot of busted plays.
Coach Hipps hopes for clear
weather when he sends his
Eagles on the field Friday
night "There will not be that
many new things shown but
barring injuries it should be
one of our better games,"
Hipps said
sity of Maryland-ES. Johnson
C Smith University opened a
few miles from home against
Belmont Abbey.
Johnson C. Smith got their
season started in high gear as
they beat Belmont Abbey 102
85. Herbert Entzminger, 6'β"
senior forward and 6'4" sopho
more forward William Harris
both scored 22 points. Harris
was also the teams rebound
leader with U.
Norfolk State loet a squeak
er in their opener to Xavier
80-79, but came back the next
night to beat Dillard 91-77. la
the two nights of play Henry
Green, Norfolk State's 67"
sophomore forward-center,
junior college transfer scored
36 points and grabbed 24 re
bounds; 6'3" «ophomore Ken
neth Evans, contributed 30
points and 7 rebounds and
junior forward Greg Williams
had 27 points and 14 rebounds
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Livingstone found the going
rough as they were beaten
twice in two days, losing to
Concord College (Athens,
WVA) 91-74 and to Atlantic
Christian 96-89.
CROSS COUNTY
The CLAA Croes Country
Chamoionshii» was held in
Norfolk and St. Augustine's
took first place with a score of
34. Virginia State College was
second with a 49, and J.C.
Smith was third with a score
of 89. St. Augustine's Dennis
Sweet and Va. States Walter
Spain tied for first place with a
time of 26:12. J.C. Smith's Sim
Fogel took third place with a
time of 26:19.
City Hikes Fines
For Leaeh Violations
Since 1968 Charlotte has had
a leash law requiring dogs to
be leashed when off the own
er's property. The Charlotte
City Council recently hiked
the fines for violations of the
law. And much of the reason is
based on repeated violations.
The charge for a dog without
a valid City license tag was
also raised from $5 to $10. It's
much cheaper (and more
pleasant for your neighbors) if
you obey the ordlance and
avoid the fines.
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DR. LEROY T. WALKER
...Notable contributions
Ur. Leroy Walker To
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Get Britannica Award
ur. L*Koy T. walker, who
has coached a number of
Olympic and Pan American
games teams including the
U.S. Olympic Men's Track
Team in 1976, is one of the nine
men and women who were
honored this month with a 1978
Encyclopaedia Britannica A
ward for Achievement in Life.
Dr. Walker, of North Caro
lina Central University in Dur
ham, will receive his award
for Achievement in Sports.
The announcement was made
by Mortimer Adler, Chairman
of the Board of Editors of
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The honorees all have made a
significant contribution or at
tained a special goal within
their own field.
The awards was presented
at a formal reception and
dinner in Chicago, Nov. 30.
Besides a career as teacher
and coach at the university
level for more than 30 years,
Dr. LeRoy T. Walker has had
a deep involvement with in
ternational athletics.
Most recently, he was head
coach of the U.S. Men's Track
Team at the Olympic Games
in Montreal. Prior to that, he
has been coach of the Israeli
and Ethiopian Olympic teams,
advisor to the Trinidadian
National Team in the Mexico
City Olympics, advisor to the
Jamacian National Team at
the Pan American Games,
chief program planner for the
Peace Corps in Africa and
head track and field coach for
a number of U.S. and Western
Hemisphere teams in interna
tional competition.
In his years as coach at
North Carolina Central Uni
versity, Dr. Walker helped
build the best track record of
any black college, with 30
national titles, eight Olympic
winners and 77 All-Americans.
The selection of those who
will be presented with the 1978
Britannica Award for Ach
ievement in Life was made on
the basis of notable contribu
tions to society in the areas of
government, business, scien
ce, the arts and education;
significant personal achieve
ment - the setting and accom
plishing of meaningful goals in
their own lives; dedication to
knowledge and human elight
enment which typify the ideals
of Britannica.
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160 Grambling Gridders In NFL
By George McClelland
Special To The Post
Norfolk, Va.—First, there
was Tank Younger. The Gra
mbling gave the National Fo
ootball League the Willies
Davis and Brown.
And soon the trickle became
a stream, than a river of
Ulent.
a streem, then ariver of talent.
"Football players at black
schools were invisible as far
as the NFL was concerned,"
Collie Nicholson was saying.
"Until Grambling."
More than 160 Grambling
graduates have played in the
NFL now.
"And we only count the one
who actually played, not those
who just had tryouts," Michol
son emphasizes.
Next in line will be Doug
Williams, a 6-4,214-pound qua
rterback from Baton Rouge,
La., who already has shatter
ed every intercollegiate pass
ing record imaginable.
Only Williams, Grambling
sports information director
Nicholson hopes, will stop off
and pick up the Heisman
Trophy en route to the NFL.
The Heisman is annually pre
cpntpH hv Mou/ Vnrk'c Hnum
town Athletic Club to college
football's outstanding player.
In the ballot box, Williams
will be locked in mortal com
bat with such notables as Earl
Campbell of Texas.
If Williams wins, it will be a
first, not for a black player, of
course, but for a black player
from a black school. From the
talent source that no longer is
invisible.
"I've been so busy trying to
make it happen, talking to
writers and TV People, that I
haven't had a chance to figure
Douglas' chances," hedges Ni
cholson when you ask for a
percentage estimate of his
candidate's chances for elec
tion.
And Doug Williams, proud
and confident and at the same
time shy and humble, says,
"I'm not campaigning. All I
do is play."
But Nicholson is emphatic
on how far coach Eddie Robin
son and Grambling football
have come in 30 years.
Today, Grambling is known
from Yankee Stadium in New
York to Korakuen Stadium in
Tokyo. Collie Nicholson vivid
ly remembers the first trip
from Grambling, La., to Mor
gan State in Baltimore.
"We traveled by bus, and I
was in the back, sitting on the
uniforms." He still feels
every bump.
"T\venty years later, we
sold out Yankee Stadium with
Morgan. And now we're to
black America what Notre
Dame is to Catholic Ameri
ca."
Eddie Robinson, fourth on
the list of all-time coaching
winners behind Stagg and Wa
rner and Bryant, is the big
reason Grambling has made
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it.
Micholson, the trumpeter,
Gramblin's Gabriel to the fou
rth estate, is another.
"And we're poor people. I
went to Grambiing from a saw
mill," Micholson says. "Ed
die was working in a feed
mill."
All before Douglas Williams
and the Heisman dream were
born. ...
And what really are the
chances? Can a Grambiing
Tiger compete in the voting
booth with a Texas Longhorn?
Nicholson thinks he can,
further he plans to see to it
that it happens Maybe he
hasn't stopped to calculate the
chances.
Collie Nicholson can go on
and on. And does.
What if Douglas Williams
does upset Earl Campbell and
the odds? Wouldn't that be the
greatest thing that ever hap
pened to a sports information
director at Grambling.
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Fred Roberson came to the Southern in 1964
as a yard switchman Now he runs the yard
"F.L." helps to manage all the operations at the
Oliver yard in New Orleans, Louisiana He has
thousands of rail cars under his personal supervision
as a terminal trainmaster for the Southern Railway
Looking back, Fred likes the way Southern promotes
its people solely on the basis of ability and perform
ance. "Southern has been good to me: says Fred
As part of Southern Folks, Fred s future is bright
because Southern's future is bright Railroading is
one of America's real growth industries
Railroads now carry more freight each year
than all the trucks, airplanes and barges combined
And by 1990 we expect a 143 percent increase in
railroad traffic levels
We think this means a profitable future for
Southern Railway and Southern Folks.
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