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Thursday, May 3, 1984 Akron Beacon Journal B5 an 'I raEu7 NFL DRAFT NOTEBOOK Zips' Black looking fit Browns, 3 others From Beacon Journal staff, wire reports The Cleveland Browns are one of four NFL teams interested in signing University of Akron tailback James Black as a free agent. 2 Black said his agent was talking with the teams, and he would mm mum ran swig snriior GushionGci (k 1 make his choice according to both the offer and where he thought he would fit in best. In addition to the Browns, the teams are New York's Giants and Jets and the Green Bay Packers. "I think I can play for all of them," said Black, who is Akron U's all-time leading rusher. "I'm partial to Cleveland because it's the team I've watched for a long time and I think I could fit in real well there.

I'm very excited about the offers. Whomever I play for is going to get a good running back." The Giants, Jets and Packers all have timed him "and every time I ran a 4.5," he said. The Jets also flew him to New York 2 James Black several weeks ago for a series of tests along with two Akron tgammates halfback Jim Reynolds and kicker Dennis Heckman. Leak-proof, gas-filled cell eliminates shock Big 32mm (W) piston is larger than major competitors' l3i6M size for cars and light trucks. For all types of tires and specially tuned for radials.

Limited lifetime warranty for as long as you own your vehicle DID DALLAS do it again? The Cowboys drafted Houston sprint-erhurdler Carl Lewis with the third-from-the-last pick, No. 333. It brought back memories of the Cowboys' signing of Bob Hayes, who gave up track for pro football and brought a new dimension to the league with his lightning speed. Lewis, who could win three gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, has never given any indication he cares about playing football. But Dallas management is excited nonetheless.

"If he can't outrun the defensive back, he can jump over him. He's a 2-pronged player, a runner and a jumper. He's got so much potential, and he's a class guy. He's really an unbelievable athlete," sajd Gil Brandt, the Cowboys' director of player development. is Unlike previous track and field stars who turned to pro football, stjfch as Hayes, Renaldo Nehemiah, John Carlos and Jimmy Hines, the 22-year-old Lewis has no football background or inclinations.

"I'd have to learn how to take hits, which I'm not interested in getting," Lewis said, adding, "I was hoping the Eagles would draft me. I said a long time ago I was not interested in football or getting pfcked by the Cowboys, no less. It's a first-class organization, but it's one you like to hate. Maybe they drafted me to boost attendance." PITTSBURGH'S VETERAN receivers may be feeling a draft. 90-day free replacement trial? Never wait for trouble.

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Among them, they caught 116 AC-Delco. The smart parts passes for over 1,700 yards and 13 touchdowns last fall. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION NOTEBOOK Philadelphia traded Carl Halrston (to the Browns) and Frank LaMaatar, and whispers that maybe dollars and cents were becoming more important to owner Leonard Tote than winning and losing started. Then, 12-year veteran Guy Morris was given the heave-ho and those whispers turned to shouts. But for a club that supposedly is pinching pennies, the Eagles did a very strange thing they dratted Kenny Jackson, And then they signed him to a 4-year, contract, which is more money than Hairston, LeMaster and Morriss earned combined.

The draft ended at 2:44 a.m. EOT Wednesday after 18 hours and 42 minutes, making it the longest draft Boo SfiocExs since 1977. Seventeen players from the University of Texas were drafted that's one short of the record set in 1946 by Notre Dame, which had 18 players taken. Illinois was next with nine. For the first time since 1974 when Dallas took Danny White in the third round, no quarterback was chosen in the first round and only one running back, Notre Dame's Greg Bell by Buffalo, was picked in the first.

The first quarterback, auslislble iis vt Boomer Eelaaon of Maryland, went in the second to Cincinnati. Overall, there were 48 running backs among the 336 players drafted and 15 quarterbacks, including Colorado's Randy Eaalngton, the last player chosen. More linebackers, 56, were taken than players at any other position. Six went In the first round (28 players) and seven were taken in the second. Six teams drafted as many as four, and 25 teams took at least one.

Mi THERE WERE SEVERAL picks of note: In the second round, Tampa Bay picked Southern Cal linebacker Keith Browner, the fourth member of the Browner family to be drafted by an NFL team. The best known of the group is Rota Browner, a defensive end ot. Cincinnati. In the third, Washington chose Jay Schroeder, a 1-time UCLA quarterback who was released by baseball's Toronto Blue Jays this spring after hitting .206 last season as a catcher with Kingston of the Class A Carolina League. In the fourth, the Jets picked Missouri linebacker Bobby Bell, son of former Kansas City Chief Bobby Bell, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame.

The Giants took Missouri tackle Conrad Good. the stepson of Irv Goode, who played for St. Louis, Buffalo and Miami sin the fourth. Detroit took a linebacker named Jlmmle Carter (New Mexico) in the seventh. New Orleans took a tackle named Byron Nelaon (Arizona) in the 12th.

The Cowboys used the 26th pick of the fourth round to pick Boston College linebacker Steve DeOatle, who was a No. 1 pick of the USFL New Jersey Generals. Then the Cowboys announced they had signed him. The Rams did not have a pick until the fifth (East Carolina DE Hal Staphana) They went for immediate help, giving up tirsi and fifth choices tor Kansas City defensive back Gary Green, a 3-time All-Pro. Earlier, they gave up their second pick for the rights to Ron Brown, the world-class sprfnter who declined to sign with the Browns last year after being dratted in the second.

BREAKDOWN OF DRAFT selections bv conferences: (Number of da yen selected conferences): 7J Independents; 40 Southwest Conference; 3S Big Ten; 31 SEC; Bi Eight; 28 Pac-10; 20 IJ WAC; 10 PCAA; I MVC; 4 Southern; Big Sky; 4 Lone Star, MAC, Mid-Eastern, Southwestern Athletic; 3 Ivy League, OVC, Southland; 7 New England College, Rocky Mountain Athletic; Arkansas Intercollegiate, Heart of America, North Central, New Jersey College, OAC, Southern Intercollegiate, WFjC, Yankee; 3 Unknown. Total 336. Selections bv position: Quarterbacks IS, running backs 48, wide receivers 40, tight ends 21, centers 10, AKRON BUD'S AUTO SERVICE 1996 East Ave. Akron, Ohio 753-4244 ED REEVES GULF 2124 E. Market St.

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