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Maroon Tiger
Sept. 15. 1977
SPORTS
Basket Briefs
Coach Arthur McAfee’s
Maroon Tigers completed the
1976-1977 season with an
overall 10-15 record.
Conference wise, the record
was 8-6, enough to get the
Tigers into the S.I.A.C.
Division Conference Playoffs.
The team compiled a game
average of 85.48 points per
games led by Junior Forward
Keith ‘Wimp’ Winfrey who
averaged 17.16 points per
game.
Fortunately, Coach McAfee
will loose only one starter, 6'1"
guard Tyrone Harris of
Ferndale, Michigan. Along
with Winfrey, alumni should
UNCONVENTIONAL!
BRILLIANT!
THE ULTIMATE FOOTBALL
INDICATOR.
Astroiogically speaking, Pro football is a
paradox of stellar influences. Born in Virgo, the
sign of the virgin, professional football is in
constant struggle between opposite forces.
It is this struggle between the opposing
planetary forces of Venus (the sign of love) and
Mars (the sign of war) that gives professional it's
zealous appeal ..beautiful and barbaric.
Given birth in Canton, Ohio on September 17,
1920 as the American Professional Football
Association, the NFL is strongly influenced by its
dominant planet - Mercury, the messenger of
speed and grace.
Quite often, the Virgo influence foretells years
of industrious labor with little recognition or
reward. Certainly the case with the NFL, it took the
mass imagery of television before the sport, on the
professional level, came of age The effect of the
Virginian sign is felt in the day-to-day operations
of the league - the careful and methodical work
that goes into the draft, game plan preparation,
and the complicated plays are all byproducts that
are clearly qualities of this earth sign
History shows that the NFL at one time
displayed some of the more negative charac
teristics associated with Virgos. As the American
Football League formed and gradually came into
prominence, the NFL was often critical to a point
of sharp and blatant attack. Yet, in the end, the
stronger Virgo traits won out. The older league,
with its respect for a struggling entity and, of
course, its incisive wisdom, adopted the younger
teams.
Ruled by Mercury, the NFL has had, as one
might suspect, a quicksilver history that has run
the gamut of separating, sifting, classifying, and
arrangement of materials and men. And - in
keeping with the energy of Virgo - its in-
dustriousness and exacting traits have paid off.
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"Cosmos"Jones
watch 6'6" Junior Guard
Michael Manley, who
averaged 12.12 points per
game;6'6" Junior Center Keith
Danniel, who averaged 13.68
per game and 65" Freshman
Forward Clayton Winfrey,
who averaged 8.40 per game.
Next year, each player men
tioned will be one step higher
in academic classification,
and one step closer to that
elusive Divison Cham
pionship.
The Tigers have always
made the Division Playoffs,
but have always lost in the
first or second round. This
year, the Tigers lost to FAMU
by one point in the round.
Tigers Win
SI AC Title
The Maroon Tiger tennis
team which is coached by the
newly appointed coach James
E. Haines won the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (S1AC) Men’s ten
nis tournament.
In a recent interview Coach
felt that his Tigers were not
strong enough and would take
a second or third in the
tournament. The Tigers won
with a total of 18 points
followed by Fisk University
and Tuskegee Institute who
were tied for second with 16
points; Florida A & M
University with 8, Alabama
A&M University with 3 and
Clark Collge with 2. Glen Bat
tle, Michael Tatem, Chris
topher Newborn, Michael Mit
chell, Eugene Edwards and
Philip Ransom are the six
young men who make up the
traveling Tiger tennis team.
With losses to Howard
University and Tuskegee
Institute the team has a season
record of 8-2. Although
Morehouse is experiencing cut
backs in sports, the tennis
team is here to stay.
1977 Tiger Football
Schedule
Opponent
Place
Time
September
17
Ft. Valley
There
8 p.m.
24
Savannah State
Home
8 p.m.
October
1
Lane College
There
8 p.m.
8
Morris Brown
There
1:30 p.m
14
Tuskegee Institute
Columbus,- Ga.
8 p.m.
22
Fisk University (HC)
Home
1 p.m.
29
Clark College
Home
1 p.m.
November
5
Knoxville College
Home
1 p.m.
12
Miles College
There
1:30 p.m
(HC) Homecoming
Home Games Played
Lakewood Stadium
At
Money
or
Apathy
by Fred Nixon
The increasing problems of Intercollegiate Athletics has
become critical at Morehouse College and the other schools in the
Atlanta University Center.
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JOE PEPITONE PELTED 2 §
HR'S IN ONE INNING TO
TIE THE ALL-TIME MARK.
WHO HOLDS THE A.l. CAREER
RECORD FOR 2 OR MORE
HR'S IN ONE GAME?
A. LOU GEHRIG
9. BABE RICH
C. MICKEY MANTLE
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continuing baseball at Morehouse was made. This decision was
greatly opposed to by many of the students, coaches, and players
of Morehouse College. Many supporters felt that Baseball had
been the school’s most productive competitive sport since the dis
continuation of the Swimming Team. Although the baseball
team will continue to compete in the S.I.A.C. in 1978, financial
assistance has been cited as the major problems affecting the
sports program.
Morehouse College is now experiencing severe cutbacks in
their Sports program. Coaches at Morehouse state that apathy
among students and the administration is the basic problem,
while the administration argues that the lack of money is the
problem.
Coach Michael Gray agrees that the lack of money is a problem
it Morehouse, nevertheless Gray cites several other reasons for
he poor economic situation; low gate attendance, a lack of
coverage from the media and an insufficient fundraising
irogram for sports.
Dr. Hugh M. Gloster (President Morehouse College) says that
money is the basic problem with the sports cirrjculum at
Morehouse. Dr. Gloster says that being a small college, getting
limited income from student fees and low gate receipts are the
reasons for the lack of the money for sports.