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G1AK6E 3 cr till Jr. The poise Joe Gilliam ihowtd io Iradinf (he Pittiburjh Stee )m to a crucial 1 victory over the Houston Oilers Utt justified the faith Coach Ch Jct Noll had in the rookie quarterback from Tennessee State. There are those who second gurssed Noll when he didn't return Terry Hanrat ty to the feelers roster to replace (Jilliara. Noll, however, felt that Gilliam could hold his own in the clutch. He was proven right in the Houston 'fontest Another black quarterback.

Chuck Ealy. formerly of Toledo University is sitting on cloud nine this week. After being ignored by every team in the National Football League last season. Ealy was eventually signed by the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League. As it turned out Ealy proceeded to lead the Tiger Cats to the Canadian championship in his very first year of running the club.

They say he is the most exciting quarterback to play the game in Canada. And more than one person who has seen Ealy in action say he is better than a lot of quarterbacks who are starting in the NFL today. Bob Brown, Ike devastating tackle with the Oakland Raiders, kas aever beet oae to bold back what he's thinking. He recently expressed bis dit satisfaction to the Oakland coaches abort the way they were running their, plays. Brewa felt that Mt eMgh plays were feting ran over kit side of the line.

Any other tackle would have welcomed sack a situation. Not so with Browa, who may go dowa as the greatest offensive lineman to ever play the The internal problems of the Seattle So perSonics revealed by this writer several weeks ago, is sow becoming public knowledge. Spencer Haywood, one of the stars of the team, kas new come out with the statement that head coach Tom Mssalke isn't treating certain players with enough respect Since the players in question are Mack, it is possible that Nisalke might not be around as head coach by the end of the season. Reports in black college football circles indicate that Earl Banks, the very successful coach at Morgan State College, is contemplating retirement from the game. If Earl gives up the reigns at the Baltimore school he may be in a position to name his own successor.

His number one assistant. Nate Taylor, isn't interested in the job. Two names being mentioned as possible successors to Oree Banks as head football coach at South Carolina State College are Roosevelt (Sandy) Gilliam, currently a scout with the Denver Broncos and former head coach at Maryland State College and Willie Jeffries, currently an assistant coach at Pitt and a one time assistant at North Carolina Albany State College of Albany, may floor the best college team among the black schools and one of the best in the country. Two of the reasons are brother act of rare distinction. On the Albany five this season will be 7 2 Caldwell Jones and Major Jones, described by some as the best high school player in the country last year.

Why are the Jones brothers at Albany State? Well, the fact that their brother Oliver coaches the team might have something to do with attending the small Georgia school. A top Ivy League school may be on the verge of hiring a former coach at a top black school. If the man in question gets the job it will make big news. When Frank Robinson suits up with the Los Angeles Angels next season he will be rejoining one of his best buddies. Vada Pinson.

They were roommates when they played with the Cincinnati Reds. Now. however. Pinson will probably have to take a back seat to IVank. Angels plans have Robinson slated to play left field next season, with Pinson.

who played the position last season, going to the bench. Robinson will be the highest paid player on the team. He'll bring a $147,000 contract with him from the Dodgers. y'S i nvf TWO FOR TtUS FavettevUle state university guard Robert Tyus goes up for two pointe against Shaw uiuver sily in the recent Capital City classics at Raleigh, N. C.

Norton Arena. The Coach Reeves crew won the game 62 fiO and are undefeated in its first three outings. (FSU Photo by John 'Scoops" Henderson) tftc the field NEW YORK, N. Y. Floyd Harvey, a member of the black national championship Grambling squad, was one of 11 scholar athletes cited here during the 15th annual Football Hall of Fame Dinner.

House i nority leader Gerald Ford and Dr. Jerome H. Brud Holland retired ambassador to Sweden, received top honors. Ford, wfr.o played on two championship teams at the University of Michigan in the early 1930s, received the Gold Medal Award. Holland, an All American end during his playing days at Cornell, was presented the.

Distinguished A ri an Award. In addition to honoring scholar athletes fr om all sections of tf.e country who distinguished themselves in the classroom as well as on the football field, the dinner paid tribute to 11 inductees into the Hall of Fame. They included Malcolm Aldrich, Yale ha lfback (1921); Angelo Bartelli, Notre Dame quarterback (1943); Bob Fenimore, Oklahoma state halfback (1946); William Morton, Dartmouth quarterback (1931); Mort Kaer, Southern California Smith Rarrirr. executive sports editor of the Greensboro (N. Daily News.

Or. i FAYETTE V1LLE STATE UNIVERSITY center Terrence Murchiaoa lays la two pointer a (aunt fern broke State as the Broncos won their sixth straight cootest. Coach Tom Reeves and his club are 34 la the CI.VA. (FSU Photos by Jcfcn B. "Scoope" Henderson) RAMBLING.

La Powerful Grambling college vaulted into the No. 1 spot in the final Mutual Black Network football poll and was named bleak national champion. Mutual also cited Glum Eddie Robinson for a 6upcrb coaching effort, naming him coach of the year. Grambliug (10 2) a ranked third a week ago, but vaulted into the top spot after an unbelievable. 56 6.

victory over top rated North Carolina Central in the first annual Pelican Bowl. The final ranging didn't come as a surprise since Tigers actually won championship on the had this to 'say about the Mutual poll early in the week: "Those people who determine fte national black football ranking got a message Saturday. "It was just like the weather, clear and true. "There was the score: Gra. nbling 56, North Carolina Central 6.

"When they went into this first annual Pelican Bowl, a battle of the Mid Eastern and Southwestern Athletic, trasferred here because of campus difficulties in Baton Rouge. Central the No. 1 rank in the semi official poll conducted by Mutual BIjck Sports Network. "Grambling was No. 3, and maybe that had something to do with Saturday's Harvey cited at 'Dinner' halfback (1926); Charley O'Rouikc, Boston college tailback 1 94 0); Robert (Bones) Hamilton, Stanford halfback (1933); Joe Styda har.

West Virginia tackle (1935): the late Bruce Smith. Minnesota halfback (1941), and the late Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee end (1938). Lawrence "Buck" Shaw, who laved for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame and who later coached Santa Clara, fce Air Force Academy and pro footbaall teams in Philadelphia and San Francisco, will be honored as an addition to the Hall of Fame coaching lineup. Scholar athlete honored mow fulmar1 narvev 01 Grambling; Greg Marx. Notre Dame tackle; Bruce Biumon, Pcnn.

State end; Dick Jauron, Yale halfback; Frank Dowsing Miss. State defensive back; Williams Cahill, University of Washington sa ety and Richard Homburg, Air Force Academy end. Otihers were imothy Quinn, Dayton tackle linebacker; Fred Radke, Dartmouth defensive end; Charles Whitener, Southern Methodist linebacker: and Joe Wylie, Oklahoma Southern's Green high in rushing By FRED HEARNS Southern SID BATON ROUGE, La. Henry Green isn't exactly a fortune teller, but the muscular Southern Jaguar knew last that he'd be near the top in Southwestern Athletic Conference rushing statistics by the end of the 1972 season. "I think I'm as good as any running back in fee SWAC," the 6 1, 210 poundcr said following the Jaguars' annual Blue Gold Football game that climaxed spring practice eariier this year.

And although that may sound like a boast coming from anyone else, you have to know Henry Green to appreciate his self confidence. TKTTTi THE NEW CO I' IF. It DEC 23. 1972 9 FAYETTE1LLE STATE I'NIVERSITY forward Roy Birch lays in two points tfaiiut Pembroke State for the Broncos sixth straight win. mismatch before 22,500 fans who came expecting to sec the home Eagles offer considerable opposition.

Grambling made it known which was No. 1." With pro scouU all over the place, 32 total and representing every club in the NFL, Grambling seniors might well have kept one eye on the stands done just as well. They didn't need both eyes on the field." Tennessee State (9 1) losing on to Grambling 27 9) mil 18. fini. hed second.

Robiiwon a cagey veteran of 31 years, edged John Merritt of Tennessee State for coach of the year honors. After suffering back to back defeats early in tr.e season, Robinson pieced together an interior offensive line that enabled the Tigers to win nine consecutive victories. The mad Grambling squad played a coatit to coast schedule that included stops in eight states and the by Joe Black A Mm CIAA CAXDIDATE for the Fnyetteville State University Broncos Alton Cogdell foes up for two points against Pembroke State. Coach Tom Reeves' club has won the first six games and ire 3 0 in the CIAA. District of Columbia.

In addition to winning the Mutual poll, Grambling was a top suitor in final tabulations by the Associated es Dunkle Index and United Press International. The Southwestern Athletic Conference champions anked behind national champion Dcleware in the final Dunkle Index rating. After digesting slide rule statistics on over 700 teams, both the AP and UPI tabbed Grambling as the nation's eighth ranked club. The Mutual scramble ended this way: 1. Grambling college (10 2) 2.

Tennessee State U. (9 1) 3. Albany state (7 2 1) 4. Jackson state (8 3) 5. Nortfj Carolina Central (9 2) 6.

Fort Valley state (8 2) 7. North Carolina (9 2, 8. Fisk university (7 1 1) 9. Alabama (7 1 1) 10. Virginia state (7 3) What can you say about a man like Jackie Robinson that hasn't been said before.

Sure, you can say he was a super star. Baseball's man of the hour. The guy who always seemed to win the game. You can call him a man who was ahead of his time. A man of great courage, who kept his cool when a pitcher tried to dust him with a fastball.

Or a runner tried to spike him. Or when fans called him dirty names, or devilled him with crank calls and hate mail. Jt wasn't easy, of course, for a fighter like Jackie to turn the other cheek. To take a non violent approach. So you can say he was strong.

Plenty strong in the sense he set aside an ego trip to try and alter an ingrained attitude. Jackie Robinson accepted and absorbed humilities, heartaches, andliurt because he was determined to prove that, if given a real opportunity, Black people could compete and work with Whites on an equal basis. You can say he was a real brother. He was to me. At the beginning of my baseball career, Jackie quietly kept pumping me full of the self confidence I needed to be successful.

He also showed me the importance of doing "our thing," instead of merely "my thing." Vhat can you say about man like Jackie Robinson who spends a ljetimemaking things a little better for his brothers? I can say, he was my friend. So can you. JQeBhck Vice President The Greyhound Corporation.