Bill Tolling it like it really isi. „ ®ein? born P°°r need not be a permanent handicap... But only hard work will erase it! Livingstone’s Blue Bears will come to town for a Saturday night date with Johnson C. Smith and local football fans will get a rare opportunity to see for themselves if the once-beaten team from up the road apiece is for real. The pieces don t fit. The Blue Bears are coached by David Corley, a young man with very little experience who also coaches the school’s basketball team. Before the 1985 football season began, Livingstone owned the CIAA’s 10th best won-lost overall record, with only 59 victories and 95 setbacks in 24 years of turf operation. The Blue Bears had consistently finished near the bottom on the conference standings. Corley has apparently stopped the landslide. He has strung together a string of upsets, including wins over North Carolina Central and Virginia Union and has won four of five contests this season. Gardner-Webb is the only team to outscore Corley’s youngsters since the season began six weeks ago. Corley’s Blue Bears are the new tenants in first place of the Southern Division standings, with a 4-0 loop record. They may encounter trouble here Saturday night as they search for victory No. 5. Johnson C. Smith coach Horace Small has a quality, but inexperienced, leader in freshman quarterback Mel Westmoreland. The Greensboro native, who stands 6’6” and weighs 170 pounds, owns a rifle arm that has connected with 39 of his 116 tosses for 335 yards and four touchdowns. He’s completed 33.6 percent of his throws and is averaging 63.6 air yards per game. Westmoreland is not listed among the JCSU Bulls on the team’s squad roster. He came to Charlotte via Princess Anne, Maryland, where he spent a short period of time on a basketball • scholarship at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Football was his first love, however. That’s where Small benefited and when first stringer Willie Dixon went to the sidelines early in the year with fractured ribs, Westmoreland took over and has been improving steadily with each appearance. Saturday night could be the night when the young quarterback and his Bulls teammates explode. Is the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association going big time? ' The predominantly black conference will stage its annual Basketball Round-Up at the swanky Richmond, Va., Marriott Tuesday, October 22. It promises to be a grand affair. ' f According to beCopfn (jfennway, publig relations direc tor, it’s going to be a fun event, “because each coach will have the Opportunity to. give his prospectus on how he thinks the season will progress.” The event will also afford the CIAA basketball coaches another opportunity to take a closer look at their pre-season predictions for 1985-86. A recent conference news release reported the coaches voted Norfolk State and Fayetteville State as the teams to win their respective divisional races. I would like,to cast my vote for Virginia Union to win the Northern Division and Winston-Salem State to capture the title in the Southern Division. The loop experts picked Winston-Salem State to finish sixth in the South and Virginia Union to wind up second in the North. They have Livingstone as the serious contender to Fayetteville State. Dante Johnson, J.C. Smith’s high-scoring forward, has been named to the Pre-Season All-CIAA Squad. So has Raynell Jones and Wayne Miller of Livingstone and the sensational Alexander Hooper of Winston-Salem State. Reports from California have the Los Angeles Raiders L buying USFL Arizona Wranglers’ quarterback Doug Williams as a replacement for the injured Jim Plunkett, who is expected to be lost for at least six weeks. Currently serving as an assistant coach at Louisiana Southern University, Williams is a former NFL quarterback who performed for a number of seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NCAA is finally going to do something about the serious drug problems that’s plaguing all sports. Accord ing to John Toner, NCAA committee chairman, the full NCAA membership will vote on the proposal for man datory drug testing at its January convention. If New York Mets’ ace pitcher Dwight Gooden does hot witf the National League Cy Young Award, the officials who are eligible to vote on such things should be hijacked! r After five straight weeks of success, hitting correctly on 42 of 51 picks, the Old Crystal Ball’s record stands at a highly respectable 42-8-1 for the season. This week’s schedule offers a test to the OCB’s skills, with touch contests on tap between Winston-Salem State and Fayetteville, J.C Smith and Livingstone, Hampton and Norfolk State, and South Carolina State and Bethune Cookman Taking the easier ones first: Elizabeth City will maul St. Paul’s; Virginia State will defeat Howard; Virginia Union will wallop UDC; and Towson State will whip Morgan in a close contest. Now for the “toughies’’: Livingstone will edge Johnson C. Smith in a real thriller here Saturday night; Winston-Salem State will prove too strong for Fayetteville State; Hampton will upset Norfolk State; and Bethone Cookman will down South Carolina Staftfp^ ’ Wish I’d Said That! Former majar league owner Bill Veeck—who is noted for speaking his mind—is giving his views on the Pittsburgh drug trials; “They strolled into the courthouse in $500, three-piece suits, $150 custom-made shirts, $200 shoes by Gucci, and a quarter’s worth of' character.” Overwhelming odds will favor the American League when the 83rd World Series begins next week. Led by the ■New York Yankees, the American League has been victorious 47 times in the fall classic since 1903. The National League, in the meantime, has won only 33 Series, f including four of the last six. The Yankees have 21 World Series' banners in its trophy room In CUA Shootout J*C. Smith Bulls Host Livingstone’s Blue Bears By James Cutbbertson ' tkh A Post Sports Writer Back in 1892, Biddle College and Livingstone College played the first football game between predomi nantly black colleges in the United ^States. They will tangle again at Charlotte Memorial Stadium in a 7:30 p.m. game that will feature the explo sive Livingstone attack that has posted a 2-0 conference record and a 4-1 overall record. The Blue Bears beat North Caro lina Central, 24-21, Clark, 31-7, District of Columbia, 51-6, and Vir ginia Union, 13-12, before losing to Gardner-Webb, 34-27. The Blue Bears were open October 12 and got a much needed rest. One of the Blue Bears to watch for is Carl Boldra. The 6T”, 200-pound junior quarterback from Lawrence, Kansas, completed 25 of 44 passes for 391 yards in the loss to Gard ner-Webb. He passed for one touch down and ran two in from the one yard line. He only played two series in the first half. He guided the Blue Bears to 24 second half points. Offensive linemen Jay Martin, a 6'4’’, 200-pounder junior tight end Tim Roberts Freshman tightend from Greenwood, South Carolina, finished the day with eight recep tions for 143 yards and one touch down. Junior running back Angelo Chapman of Livingstone, a 5'10”, 210-pound junior linebacker from Kannapolis, has 12 solo and four unassisted tackles, along with a blocked extra point, which broke Gardner Webb’s extra point streak. They had made 134, dating back to 1979. Boldra has completed 53 of 104 passing attempts with five intercep tions for a 51 percent clip that has netted four touchdowns and 922 yards for a 184.4 yards per game average. Jay Martin is the Livingstone receiver who has made 17 catches for 385 yards and three touchdowns. The Livingstone team is averag ing 81.6 yards per game rushing and giving up 105.4. They are averaging 250.6 yards per game passing and giving up 187.0 yards. The Blue Bears average 29.2 points per game and give up 16.0. Mel Westmoreland, the Golden Bulls’ young quarterback, has completed 44 of 129 passes for an average percentage of 33.6, with four touchdowns and 335 yards to his credit. The Golden Bulls are averaging 125.2 yards per game rushing and giving up 76 2. The Bulls are averaging 63 per game passing and giving up 180.2. Z Johnson C. Smith is averaging 11.J points per game while giving up 23.£ Tim Roberts of South FlorencC High School is one of the young BultyC around which this team is built. - The 6’4”, 215-pound South F1 QN*WI£l£dlOTJ