Jackson Advocate from Jackson, Mississippi • 1

rMIRATIONS EXTENDED TO RICHARDSON I ackson Advocate Volume Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday, January 19, 1963 PRTrp Willie Richardson Day In Jackson Makes History THE FOOTBALL PLATER: SUte College Tigers Star Willie Richardson, honored by the city Monday, is a model of concentration as he watches from the sideline while awaiting the call from his Coach Merritt to enter the game. Richardson To Be Honored For Play In North South Game Name Award Winners For 28th Annual All-Sports Jamboree Atlanta, Ga. Andy Gustafson, head football coach at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, will receive Pioneer of The Wrong Club on the occasion of the 28th annual All-Sports Jamboree of the Atlanta Daily World-sponsored club at the Waluhaje Apartments, February 1, Atlanta, Ga. Coach Gustafson will be cited as outstanding football mentor and leader in the sports according to A. L.

Thompson, president of the Atlanta sports group. The University of Miami coach is direc tor of the North-South Shrine football classic, which in 1962 played Negro boys on the South team for the first time in its history. The point out that their pioneer honoree has a long-time record of competing with teams, regardless of the racial identities of the members of their playing rosters. In last Shrine game in Miami, the South team had two Negro boys on its 24-player roster, Willie Richardson, Jackson (Miss.) State College, and Robert Paramore, Florida University. Richardson and Jerry Woolum, University of Kentucky quarterback, who guided the victorious South team, have been named recipients of the citation.

Baltimore (Continued On Page Two) JSC Footballers Meeting Their Assignments On Time These Days If Jackson State College footballers are meeting their assignments on time these day, the chances are that some of them are keeping up with the time better by referring to watches given them recently by the Royal Crown Cola Bottling Company of Columbus, Georgia. Forty-five Jackson State players received antimagnetic, waterproof, shock resistant, dustproof watches symbolizing their participation in the Orange Blossom Classic in Miami in December. In the game, Jackson defeated the Florida Rattlers 22-6. By virtue of this victory, Jackson claimed the National Negro Collegiate Football Championship. Players and managers who received watches are as follows: Willie Richardson, Gloster Richardson, Daniel Pride, Johnnie Robinson, Lonzo McHuley, Albert Greer, Arthur Turner, Thomas Richardson, Landers Bacon, James Hayes, Vernon Biggs, William Robertson, Ben McGee, Frank Moldin, Sherman Matthews, Harold Cooley, Johnny Bender, Bobbie Minard, Otis Young, Fred Thomson, James Carson, Robert Cowherd, Robert (Continued On Page Eight) WILLIE RICHARDSON KEEPS THE COMMON TOUCH By JAMES BUNDLES Jackson, the tall and talented athlete, whose gridiron achievements during: the past six yean were spawned from the rich Delta country around Greenville, and applauded on Miami's shone and in the canyons of Arizona, and the seldom disturbed anas of Maryland, has not lost the common touch.

the possible exception of a few disgruntled persons who have never really known the guy, everybody lovee him because he still remembers his high school and college team, mates, his instructors, advisors, neighbors, critics and cousins with a sincere affection closely akin to hit love far his mother, religion, and the principles of right While standing on the steps of the City Hail in Jackson on Willie both wanned and won the hearts of the (Continued On Page Four) PROCLAMATION CITY OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI WHEREAS, Willie Richardson, a Senior student of Jackson State College, has performed brilliantly on the football team of the College during his entire college career; and WHEREAS, he sparked his team to a 22-6 victory over Florida University in the Orange Blossom Classic, Miami, Florida, on December 8, 1962, and established the Jackson State College Football Team as National Negro Collegiate Champions; and WHEREAS, he was selected to appear in the annual Shrine North-South post-season game in Miami, Florida, December 22, 1962, and was selected to play in the All-American Bowl Game in Tucson, Arizona, December 29, 1962, and was selected to play in the Crusade Bowl game in Baltimore, Maryland, January 6, 1963; and WHEREAS, he was an outstanding performer during the Jackson State College regular football season when the Tiger Team compiled a record of 9-1 to win the Southwest Athletic Conference Championship; and WHEREAS, he is the current holder of the all-time passreceiving record in small American colleges and has exemplified good sportsmanship and fair play on and off the athletic field and has consistently done creditable academic work in the College; and WHEREAS, he has brought honor and recognition to Jackson State College, to the City of Jackson, to Greenville, Mississippi, his native home, and the entire State of Mississippi, NOW, THEREFORE, Allen C. Thompson, Mayor of the City of Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, do hereby proclaim Monday, January 14, 1963, as "WILLIE RICHARDSON to be celebrated in the City of Jackson in the honor of his sterling perfromance as one of the outstanding collegiate athletes of the 1962 season. Signed at the City Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, this the 10th day of January, 1963. Allen C. Thompson Mayor AT CITY HALL: A partial view of the crowd that braved the sab-freezing weather to gather in front of City Hall here Monday and heard Mayor Allen C.

Thompson read the Proclama tion designating Monday, January 14th, 1963 Richardson OFF: Wllbe Rfchaideon, No 89 top loft, nyn off to begin a 47-yard retain of a pant daring the game between the Jackson State College Tigers and the Florida AftM College in the Orange Bloaooai Bowl Claneie at Miami, Florida which the wan by the acorn of tt-8, to become the Na-! i tional Negro college, end the National Small College Champions. During the run back of the kick Richardson the pointed to Rattlers to be blocked out aa he ran, to display one of the moot remarkable and spectacular feats erer aeen in College Football Play. Parade And Ceremony At City Hall Marks Opening Of Willie Richardson Day Observance Here Mayor Thompson Reads Proclamation To Large Crowd In Front Of City Hall THE MAN BEHIND THE MEN: It is hardly possible to find a more enthusiastic backer of his team among College Presidents than Dr. Jacob L. Reddir, President of Jackson State College.

Jackson, Jan. was made here in Jackson, the capital city of the State of Mississippi, when for the first time since its founding some 160 years ago, by official proclamation a day was set aside, and the entire city called upon to join in the observance and celebration honoring a Negro. The man honored is Willie Richardson, of the Jackson State College Tigers football team, who culminated four years of playing at the end of the current season, and in this his last year as a college player performed feats on the gridiron that exhausted the descriptive adjec newspaper, radio, and ar ommentators from one end or the country to the other. The honor for displaying such magnanimity in one of the most trying periods in race relations in the history of the city, and of the state, goes to Honorable (Continued On Page Six) JACKSON STATE COLLEGE SPEAKERS LAUD WILLIE A capacity audience crowded Dansby Hall Auditorium here Tuesday afternoon and heard words of praise heaped on Jackson State College grid star Willie Richardson by educators, civic leaders and sports greats who gathered in special ceremony to pay tribute to the on Richardson Jackson State Coach Harrison Wilson, who served as master-of-ceremonies for the occasion, set the pace for the remarks of praise when he stated that of us are proud of Willi for his conduct on and off tne football field. He has done everything that was asked of him and much more much more.

I should like to take this opportunity to thank those persons who helped Willie throughout the season as well as the rest of the ball club. First of all there's Coach Cole man who literally gave up his health to do a dedicated job. Coach Coleman is the man responsible for the great Jackson College line when you look at the line looking at Coach Coleman. Then of course Coach Gilliam and all the other coaches but certainly we want to mention the man who directed the entire team to the National Championship, Coach Merritt. We want to thank all the teachers and the dining room staff and the members of the personnel department for their help throughout the year.

Without this combined and dedicated effort we be here Mr. R. E. Lee, Director of the Athletic Department for Jackson called Richardson type young man we are proud to salute on an occasion of this He spoke briefly of his (Continued On Page Eight) Be Richardsons At Jackson State For A Longtime During the Richardson program held in Dansby Hall on the Jackson State College campus Monday afternoon speaker after speaker talked about a new college spirit created by the Jackson State College Tigers football team and the outstanding per. formance, honors; and awards won by Willie Richardson, as something to be preserved at the college.

If the name Richardson is to have anything to do with the preservation and continuation of that spirit, it looks aa of now that there will be a Richardson at the college for a long time to come. Of the Richardson clan already attending the college there is Gloster, a sophomore; and Thomas, a freshman; both members of the football squad. In addition to these two there are three more younger brothers at the Richardson home with the oldest of these three having already announced his intention to enter Jackson State College next year. Hie graduates from high school in Jana. (Continued On Page Three) I Teach My Children To Behave Themselves Mrs.

Richardson The crowd in front of City Hall Monday Morning for the Ceremony where Mayor Allen Thmopeon read the Proclamation for Willie Richardson Day here applauded loud and long when before concluding his remarkes before the crowd Richardson paused and said, before I go any further I would like for yon to 4e end know my mother. Her name is Mrs. Alice Richardson. She lirea in Greenville, Miss. Following the ceremony the was immediately beeeiged by newsmen, radio and television camermen, and a flock of students and other spectators.

Aside from her now famous son Willie, there are five other boys, two of whom are now tending Jackson 8tate College, the three others in public school in Greenville. There la one girl in the family. When asked by the newsmen about Willie, who along with hie brothers at Jackson College, are (Continued On Page Four).