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WOMEN’S HOOPS STATS; CIAA HOF CLASS
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WHAT 8 GOtNG ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COaEGE SPORTS
THE STAT CORNER
WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS
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LIVING LEGENDS: Former NC A&T head basketball coach
es Don Corbett 0.) and Cal Itvin (r) stand on marker and hold
plaque commemorating and naming the hardwood home
playing floor at A&T in their honor. The two led the Aggies to
basketball prominence winning 14 conference titles between
them Irvin, 81, and Corbett, 62, now reside in Greensboro,
NC, The ceremony was held Saturday prior to A&Ts nation
ally televised game on ESPN2 vs Bethune-Cookman
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takes Tuskegee post
After careful consideration of his search commit
tee's top recommendations, Tusk.egee University
President, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton. Tuesday named
five-time Division II national championship assistant
coach and former Temple University Offensive
Coordinator Willie J. Slater as the Goiden Tigers’ new
head football coach.
Though the new coach spent the last two seasons
«in Philadelphia with the Temple Owls under his former
University of North Alabama coach, Bobby Wallace, he
is no stranger to making winners out of Alabama teams.
(L-R) Dr Benjamin F. Payton stands with new head
football coach Willie J. Slater during the press confer
ence announcing his hiring Tuesday's at the Kellogg
Conference Center on the school's campus.
(L to R.) New football coach Willie J, Slater greets
Atron Jackson, a junior defensive player on the
Tuskegee football team, after a team's first meeting
with the new coach. Tuesday.
Slater. 49. holds five Division II national champi
onship rings from his work at jhe University of North
Alabama and Troy University. He is also a five-time
NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year recipient, and
helped coach the Jacksonville State Gamecocks to the
2003 Ohio Valley Conference title with a 7-1 (84 over
all) record.
"Coach Slater is a proven winner who believes in
recruiting the hard to find best players available and
coaching them well," said Payton who made the
announcement at a press conference at the Kellogg
Hotel and Conference Center on campus Tuesday
morning. "He knows the importance of leaching play
ers to be the best they can be athletically and in life.
That, coupl^ with his winning record and spirit, makes
him the top selection to lead our Golden Tigers’ football
team."
Slater, who was elevated to offensive coordinator
at Temple this season under then head coach Wallace,
replaces Rick Comegj’ who resigned after ten success
ful years leading Tuskegee to become the head coach at
Jackson State.
Slater brings 28 years of coaching experience, 24
of them on the collegiate level and 15 of lho.se as an
offensive coordinator to his new position.
Slater was offensive coordinator at North
Alabama under Wallace when that school won three
consecutive NCAA Div. II national championships
from 1993-95. He won national assistant coach of the
year in each of the title seasons. In all.'he spent eight
years at North Alabama, six under Wallace.
His first full-time position at the collegiate level
was at Troy Stale, where he served as running backs
coach under Chan Gailey from 1983-84. Gailey is
now the head coach at Georgia Tech. In total. Slater
spent eight seasons at Troy Slate, also working as
quarterbacks and running backs coach. Troy State
went to the playoffs three limes during his stay and
won NCAA Div. II championships in 1984 and 1987.
Slater won national a.ssisiant coach of the year honors
in both those title seasons.
He began his coaching career as a graduate assis
tant at his alma mater. West Alabama, in 1978 and
earned his degree in business eduction from the
school in 1979.
He was a four-year starter at quarterback for
West Alabama, then known as Livingston College,
and helped the Tigers to a third place finish in the
1975 NCAA Div. II playoffs. He is a native of
Coffeville, Al., and a 1974 graduate of Coffeeville
(Ala.) High School, where he was a prep All-America
quarterback and the Class lA State .Most Valuable
Playei.
BCSP Notes
ClAA announces 2006
Hall of Fame class
The Central Intercollegiate .\thletic Association is
proud to announce its 2006 class of inductees to the
CIAA .McLendon Hall of Fame, who will be formally
installed at the John B. McLendon Hall of Fame
Luncheon during tournament week in Charlotte, NC on
Friday, March 3 al the Weslin Hotel, 11:00am.
Hal Jackson, former sports editor of the Washington
iDC) Afro-American Newspaper, is being honored for his
service to the CIAA Basketball Toumament. dating back
to its inauguial year al Turner Arena in Washington. DC.
Jackson was the radio promoter for the first idumamenl,
and also sened as announcer while it was in Washington.
This former owner of Ihe Washington Bears, a black pro
fessional basketball team that went 66-0 in 1942-43, was
one of the first advocates for broadcasting black college
bowl games on major networks. JacLson has been on Ihe
radio since the late 30's and currently senses as host and
executive producer of "Sunday Classics" on New York's
107.,S, WBLS.
Winston-Salem Stale I'niversity's William "Bill"
English will join this class as the ClAA's single-game
scoring record-holder with 77 points against Fayetteville
State. A member of Ihe WSSU Hall of Fame and two-
time All-America selection in 1968 and 1969 and all-
C1AA and all-N AlA, this high scorer (2.113 points) ranks
in WSSU's history books in categories including scoring,
free throws. Field goals made and rebounding.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Art Shell played both
football and basketball al Maryland Eastern Shore, then
known as Manland State, and went on to become the
JACKSON SHELL
first African-American head coach in the NFL's modem
era when he was head coach of Ihe Oakland Raiders
from 1989-1994. Drafted out of Maryland Stale, Shell
had an outstanding career with the Raiders as an offen
sive tackle from 1968-1982. After his playing career. Art
became the,Raiders' offensive line coach from 1983-
,1989. Since 2002, Shell has worked for the National
Football League supervising all NFL football operations
and development.
Mike Davis, an elite basketball star from Virginia
Union University, spent three seasons with the
Panthers. As VUU's all-time leading scorer with 2,758
points, Davis received all-conference honors each of his
three years and was named the 1969 CIAA Player of the
Year. He is Ihe second all-time leading scorer in the
CIAA. second only to WSSU's Earl Monroe.
Sandra Shuler, women's Coordinator for North
Carolina Central University from 1974-1980 was a
pioneer by developing the championship format for
CIAA volleyball, in 1973 she coordinated NCCU's tran
sition from women's sports governed under the Women's
Athletics Association to intercollegiate athletics. The
following year she organized and coached the first
NCCU intercollegiate volleyball team. She also did the
same for softball at NCCU. She is the author of two
books on intercollegiate athletics and has also written a
history of NCCU’s Physical Education and Recreation
Department from 1937-1985.
AURN names 2006
grid All-Americans
American Urban Radio Networks has announced
the members of the 2005 SBN Sports Black College
All-American (BCAA) Team. The team will be hon
ored during the annual BCAA Awards Weekend
February 17-18,2006 in Atlanta. Georgia.
The Grambling State Tigers led the way with
five players selected. Grambling QB Bruce Eugene
was named SBN Sports Doug Williams Offensive
Player of the Year, Hampton University linebacker
Justin Durant was named SBN Sports Mel Blount
Defensive Player of the Year and Hampton University
Head Coach Joe Taylor was named SBN Sports Eddie
Robinson Coach of the Year.
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Jason hlatcher. Sr. Grambling
Alton Pettway. Jr, Albany State
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