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SPORTS Page 4 Clark Atlanta Univ ersity Panther February 13,1990 Despite this three-point effort, CAD fell to Tuskegee, 79-76. Coach'Fall Guy* Soccer Sets Trend Editorial By ANTHONY GEORGE IH Staff Writer Clark Atlanta Univer sity’s football team won only three games last year, and only four in the two years that Coach William Spencer was the top guy. Yet, administration made Spencer the fall guy as he was dismissed in December and later replaced by De fensive Coordinator Willie Hunt. After speaking to many players, many feel that Coach Hunter will motivate them to play to their full potential. Also, CAU’s athletic director feels that Hunter’s philosophy con cerning education and ath letics is in accordance to the standards of CAU. This year, as I sat and watched the Panthers play, I noticed much improvement from last year’s team. Yet, there was one thing miss ing: DEFENSE. In each game the Panthers played, they were highly competi tive the first half, yet after the halftime pep talk, the defense stayed in the locker room as they opponents ran up the score. Some classic examples include: CAU’s defense held Morris Brown to only 10 rushing yards, and only 13 points in the first half. The wake-up call did not sound as the Wolverines churned up 33 second half points. CAU loses 49-7. Homecoming should always been a festive occa sion for most teams, with the exception of the team on the hill. Yet, facing a highly talented Albany State team, the CAU defense was ex tremely stinging the first half, turning away many scoring opportunities by the Rams. The Panthers trailed 14-0 at halftime. Yet, the defense must have not been motivated by Hunter as they gave up 30 second half points. CAU fell 44-14. The last and foremost classic example of point will be the game after homecoming against Ala bama A&M. Every year, Alabama makes the Pan thers seem as though they were playing the 49ers, but this year was special. After giving up three early scores by the Hornets, the Panther battled back to only trail 28- 21 at the intermission. Yet, the defense failed to return to the playing field as the Hornets rolled up (get your calculators out folks) 54 unanswered points as Ala bama broke several records The Panther defense causer the 82-21 loss. Aggregately, the Pan thers gave up 379 points or 37.9 points per game. With that kind of output, what team can win many games? I understand that Hunter’s accolades at Atlanta’s Ful ton High School were many, yet, he has not proven to me that he is a great motivator of players. During halftime, a team discusses what must be done to improve in the last half. Yet, the Panthers had a tendency to play worse. Truly I cannot say it was all Hunter’s fault why the defense performed so poorly in the second half. With the players’ pride at stake, they should have been able to motivate them selves. Maybe injuries or ineligible players were the cause for such massacres. Well, hopefully things may change for the better with an attitude adjustment, and maybe, just maybe, we can win this year’s homecom ing. We are only playing Tuskegee BY PIERCE W. HUFF Sports Editor In an effort to show Clark Atlatna University the right way to start the 1990s, the CAU Interna tional Soccer Club won the Atlanta Soccer League Championship in a 3-1 de cision over the Soccer Dogs. “It was the most exciting thing since the in- aguaration of Dr. Cole as president of Clark Atlanta University,” said Quinton Watson, left fullback. Led by player and coach Dr. Carlos Handy, the CAU International Soc cer Club shocked the At lanta Soccer League by posting a record of 12-2-2.. They won the Atlanta Soc cer League’s champion ship. However, despite the success of the CAU Interna tional Soccer Club over its past two seasons, it has played under relative ano nymity. “We really didn’t have any publicity,” said Wat son. “We didn’t go out on a publicity spurt. We just told people about the team. We went to the administration and we told them. We’ve had an article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution before, the uniforms were the first and biggest step toward the recognition, because now people can see us in our CAU colors.” Even though the CAU International Club is deal ing with the problem of anonymity, there is one problem that it hasn’t begun to solve: lack of support from the CAU Athletic Department. The lack of support from the CAU Ath letic Department is the main reason why CAU Interna tional is a soccer club and not a soccer team. “A soccer club operates differently. A soccer team will be sponsored by the athletic department or school, which in this case is CAU, and we’re not spon sored by CAU. So we call ourselves a soccer club, so we can have some sort of charter,” said Watson. “I just don’t think (the athletic department) is ready to recognize the soc cer team and is ready to support it financially. It’ll eventually come with time.” Led by co-captains John Abulu and Akpabio Akpa- bio, the CAU International Soccer Club finds itself fighting not against an op ponent, but to write a club constitution for a charter. “Writing a constitution is the process of getting your club chartered. To become a club you have to write a constitution in order to have guidelines to abide by,” said Watson. eague Champions.