BY
BILL JOHNSON
TELLING IT LIKE IT REALLY IS.
The revitalized athletic department at
Johnson C. Smith deserves lots of credit for
the expert job they’re doing in rebuilding
the Golden Bulls’ athletic program.
Wylie Harris has generated new enthu
siasm among the football players, Bob
Moore is putting together a basketball
dynasty and now words come to me that Bill
Lide has recruited four of the highly-prized
tennis players in collegiate ranks.
You can do your part by turning out
Saturday night to help fill up Memorial
Stadium and root Harris and his herd to
victory over Lenoir-Rhyne College. Game
time is 7:30 p.m.
Bet you didn’t know that there’s a move
afoot to organize a Black Baseball Players
Association. Most of the top professionals
are scheduled to meet this winter to discuss
the plight of Black players when their
careers are over.
Buddy Young and Wilma Rudolph are the
recipients of the 1980 Whitney M. Young Jr.
Memorial awards....Spencer Haywood, the
troubled NBA player who was suspended by
the Los Angeles Lakers during the cham
Sionship playoffs, is blaming Abdul-Jabbar
\r his troubles.
Virginia Union has plucked Joe Taylor
from Eastern Illinois University. Taylor
will serve as the offensive coordinator to
head football coach Willard Bailev. He will
Ialso be coordinating VU’s strength and
conditioning programs. Wylie Harris has
made some last-minute changes in his staff.
He recently added Bob Smith as a part-time
coach who will help out with the defensive
backs in addition to scouting during the 1980
season.
If Johnson C. Smith does not have the best
quarterbacks in the CIAA, it’ll not be
because of poor teaching. William “Red”
Jackson, who grooms the signal-callers and
helps out with defensive backs, is one of the
best ever to play the position. He was
picture book during his undergraduate days
at North Carolina A&T.
lam aooui overlapping seasons: At the
moment, we have football and baseball
going full blast and professional basketball
will join the parade when the new NBA
campaign gets underway on October 10,
with a nationally televised contest between
the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers
and the Seattle Supersonics.
If you’re looking ahead, the 77th World
Series will get underway in the National
league park the night of October 14. It’s not
encouraging to report that only 33 percent of
the players in the National Basketball
Association have their college degrees. It
means that an alarming 67 percent have not
completed their college requirements.
Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner has
announced publicly that Braves manager
Bob Cox can manage his team forever...
That’s a good sign that Cox will get the axe
in due time.
The California Angels have turned down
Bob Baylor’s bid for the extension of his
contract which calls for more than $1
million a season. The bottom line is that
Baylor likely will be placed on the trading
block at the end of this season.
The City of New York, which is struggling
(like most of us) to make financial ends
meet is faced with more money problems.
An engineering survey will shortly detail
the need for a major repair job at Yankee
Stadium at a cost of several hundred
thousand dollars. NYC officials are still
reeling from the more than $300 thousand on
the famed ball park.
You’d have to agree with Tampa Bay
quarterback Doug Williams, who recently
stated that the biggest critic of athletes are
the non-athletes who have never looked in a
play book and do not understand the game.
Are you aware that the better football
teams provide their quarterbacks with the
luxury of an average 3.2 seconds in which to
throw the football?
*7 would surprise no one if Frank Robin
son is named manager of the New York
Mets before the year’s end. My early
predictions are that the Houston Oilers will
not do as well with Kenny Stabler as they
did with Don Pastorini.
Our first week of picking the “winnahs”
is a rather hazardous undertaking since
most of the teams are playing in their first
game and our communications have broken
down.
Nevertheless, here goes! Elizabeth City
will cruise by Bowie State and Fayetteville
will get by St. Paul’s. N.Y. Tech will defeat
Hampton and Johnson C. Smith wiU sur
prise Lenoir-Rhyne. Norfolk State will
bounce back against Livingstone, Virginia
Union will blast Clark. S.C. State will rout
Delaware State. Bethune-Cookman will
edge Texas Southern, but the University of
Miami will send Florida A&M reeling to the
undefeated ranks. Winston-Salem State will
down AAT. Virginia State will upset N.C.
Central.
’ Here Saturday Night
Rejuvinated Bulls Open
1980 Football Campaign
Wylie Harris' rejuvinat
ed Golden Bulls will be able
to afford few mistakes
against an experienced,
veteran Lenoir-Rhyne of
fense.
The Bears operate out of
the veer, a showcase attack
for the slick option talents
of quarterback Craig Cor
bett. The senior signal
caller will have powerful
Larry Rucker, a runaway
locomotive of a fullback, to
ride down the line before
deciding to tuck it in, turn
Rucker loose, or pitch out
to fleet Tony Smith at
tailback. The Lenoir
Rhyne senior offensive line
has played together for
three seasons, led by All
NA1A-26 guard Steve
Strickland. Corbett will
take advantage of any de
fensive weaknesses that
the Bulls will show.
The visitors from Hick
ory will face the same
problem in trying to shake
the Golden Bull offense.
The line will average over
245 pounds from tight end
to tackle with the power
coming from the right side
in Jeff Coan and Ray Ellis.
Familiar faces also fill the
backfield with Cal Gill at
quarterback, Jeff Steele
and Darrell Riddenhour at
fullback, and Ray Rainey
and Mark Saunders at run
ningback. Look for coach
Harris to unleash a bevy of
promising, young speed
sters during the year.
It appears likely that
Memorial Stadium’s score
board will be lighting up
frequently Saturday night.
The Bears have a stronger,
established running game,
the Bulls a better receiving
corps. Both defenses must
fill in gaps with a half
dozen new faces. Both de
fensive lines are question
marks; while the Bulls are
sound at linebacker, the
Bears are solid in the
secondary.
rreshman defensive tackle Kimberly Byrum of
Fayetteville took the title of "Strongest Bull, Pound for
Pound" last week. The 18-year-old benched press 360
pounds and squatted 440 pounds Kimberly weighs 200
pounds. In a short time he is going to be one tough Bull
to deal with. Guard Jeff Coan took top honors in the
squats with a 555 pound lift.
This is the fifth meeting |
between the two schools.
Johnson C. Smith won the
opener in 1976 while Lenoir
Rhyne has since won three
straight. According to L-R
Sports Information Direc
tor Rick Strunk, the city of
Hickory is excited over
new head coach Henry
Vansant and will be flood
ing Memorial Stadium with
thousands of Bear backers
The new admission policy
that allows 12 year-old and
younger in free when ac
companied by a parent or
guardian is expected to
draw a large opening night
crowd. Game time is set at
7:30 p.m.
Revolution Golf
Course Closings
The greens at the City's
Revolution Park Golf
Course are being prepared
for winter. Therefore
several closings will be
necessary in the next few
weeks.
\IK4 C Football Roundup
Bulldogs Romn, Homests Lose
Durham - The Mid-East
ern Athletic Conference
opened its 1980 season Sa
turday with the South Caro
lina Bulldogs jumping on
the Virginia State Trojans
35-7, and Delaware State
College losing to Salisbury
State 27-18
S.C. State, the MEAC's
pre-season favorite, ac
cumulated 491 yards of
total offense, while the de
fense held Va. St. to 211
only 29 on the ground
Senior quarterback Prince
Phillips surprised the Tro
jans with touchdown pass
es of 55 and 36 yards to
flanker Charlie Brown, 29
yards to Marion Brown,
and handed off to Mack
Reed, who dashed 44 yards
for a score, as the home
standers took a 28-7 half
time lead. Phillips did not
play in the second half, and
finished up hitting four of
eight passes for 138 vards
and no interceptions.
Charlie Brown snared
another TD pass of 38 yards
from Ben Mungin in the
final quarter The Trojans,
who had not scored on S.C.
St. in the last two years,
managed a second period
28-yard scoring play on a
pass from Ivory Randall to
Darrell Chandler.
Head coach Bill Davis
jokingly said," "We got a
little lucky, and I hope it
continues We probably
threw more Saturdav than
we did most of last sea
son."
Delaware St. suffered a
bitter loss before a record
crowd at home The lead
changed hands three times
in the initial period before
Salisbury State took a 17-6
second quarter advantage.
Delaware State's Clarence
Weathers made it 12-17 late
in that stanza when he set a
school record with a 95
yard punt return. With the
score 24-18, Salisbury hit on
a 30-yard field goal to ice
the game at the 3:48 mark
of the final period
This week S.C. State will
play at Delaware State in
an early conference match
up. Florida A&M travels to
Univ. of Miami for a
regionally televised contest
by ABC. N.C. A&T goes to
Winston-Salem State.
Howard plays at West Vir
ginia State, and Bethune
Cookman entertains Texas
Southern.
Bridge Club
Winners at the Sept 2
meeting of the Metrolina
Duplicate Bridge Club
were as follows: In North
South. Edward High and
Joseph Scott took first
place honors Roseina
Gaines and Bill Gordon
were in second place. And
Vietta Neal and S.E.
Durante came in third
The East-West winners
were: first place-Naomi
High and Sara Wilson, se
cond place-Dorothy John
son and Rosalia Durante
and third place-Margretta
Rainbow and Corine
Thomas.
WHERE THEY PLAY
Saturday, September 13
Elizabeth City at Bowie NCA&T at Winston-Salem
State State
Fayetteville at St. Paul’s s c state at Deiaware
N.Y. Tech at Hampton State
Leonoir Rhyne at J.C. Howard at W. Virginia
Sm,th State
Livingstone at Norfolk Texas Southern at
• i o. . . _ Bethune-Cookman
Virginia State at N.C.
Cgntral Florida A&M at University
Clark at Virginia Union Miami
HOW THEY STAND
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
S.C. State 35, Virginia St. 7
Salisbury St. 27, Delaware
St. 18
CONFERENCE OVERALL
W L T W L T
S.C. STATE 0 0 0 1 0 0
BETHUNE-COOKMAN 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLORIDA A&M 0 0 0 o 0 0
HOWARD UNIVERSITY o 0 0 o 0 0
N.C. A&T STATE 0 0 0 o 0 0
DELAWARE ST. 0 0 0 0 1 0
Discover the extra
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— FOOTBALL AT ITS BEST —I
JOHNSON C. SMITH
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NIGHT
September 13, 1980
CHARLOTTE MEMORIAL STADIUM
7:30 P.M.
ADMISSION
$5.00 I (lults $2.00 t talents I
-ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE AT:
Eduards Barber Shop AJ). Neal's J.CN. I . Business Office
West Charlotte Drive-In Queen City Pharmacy
National Hat Shop D rake ford s Mobley's Barber Slutp
Charles Barber Shop Excelsior C.luh Barringer Barber Shop
Children 12 years of age and under are admitted free when accompanied
by parent or guardian•