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February 1; 1979 Page 10
The Maroon Tieer
Pittsburgh’s Bill Robinson
Receives Carver Award
SPORTS
Pittsburgh Pirate Bill Robinson,
outstanding athlete and commune
ity leader, received the National
George Washington Carver Award
at the 35th annual George
Washington Carver Luncheon
held at the William Penn Hotel in
Pittsburgh, January 5.
The event, sponsored by
National Achievement Clubs, was
the highlight of national obser
vance of the first week in January
as Geroge Washington Carver
Week.
Robinson, 35, has been with the
Pittsburgh Pirates since the 1975
season. He has been an outstand
ing player and in 1976 he was
named Pirate Player of the Year in
a vote taken by his Pirate team
mates. He received the 1976
Roberto Clemente Award in honor
of the late Pirate rightfielder given
by the Pittsburgh Baseball Writers
Association.
He was born in Elizabeth, Pa.
and reared in McKeesport, Pa.
Robinson has been very active in
community service work and is
actively involved in the national
fight against Lupus.
The award he received on Janu
ary 5 reads: “National George
Washington Carver Award to Bill
Robinson for using his God-given
athletic abilities in service and
leadership to the community,
exempliying the ideals and beliefs
of George Washington Carver.”
The major speaker at the Lun
cheon was Elaine Thomas, one of
the nation’s foremost experts of the
Bill Robinson
life and significance of George
Washington Carver.
Bill Robinson headed a list of
local honorees who were in attend
ance at the Luncheon, which was
instigated 35 years ago by the late
Alma Illery, a Pittsburgh woman
who influenced the United States
Congress to honor Carver with a
week, a stamp and a coin. Dr. Illery
of Pittsburgh’s Hill District also
founded Camp Achievement, an
interracial summer camp near
Connellsville, Pa., which is the
beneficiary of the Carver lun
cheons.
The 1979 Baseball
Outlook
The Tigers of Morehouse have
gotten underway with their stren
uous practice in preparation to
defend their Division-2 title.
Last season, the Tigers captured
the title with a record of 20-4-1;
and now the question is being
asked, “Can the Tigers do it
again?” Well, to answer this ques
tion, we must take an inside look at
the Tigers.
The Tigers depend a great deal
on their pitching staff. It is said
that, if the pitchers hold up, the
defense will back them up.
Though, the Tigers lost two of their
best pitchers, Eric Dubose and
Andre Pattillo. The Tigers feel as if
veterans Eugene Hickson, Rick
Rawls, and Charles Bell can
account for the lost of Pattillo and
Dubose. The Tigers may have lost
a great pitcher in Pattillo, but they
may have gained great recognition
because Patillo traveled to the
Atlanta Braves to become a
member of their staff.
The Tigers have nine veterans
returning for the l§79 season
which consists of three sopho
mores, two juniors and four
seniors. The veterans that are in the
infield are Mike Strong, Frank
Ellison, and Perman Thomas; and
the outfielders are Edward Harris,
Jeff Hammond, and Arthur Neal.
But along with the experienced
comes the inexperienced. This will
have to be accounted for by longer
practices and more time, but I am
sure that the new comers can hold
their own.
The Tigers are said to have a few
tough opponents in Fort Valley,
Savannah State, and the Rattlers
of Florida A&M University. But I
am sure that the Tigers of More
house will over come any obstacle
that is put before them.
1 asked the players how did they
feel about their new coach, McFar-
lin? The response was as if Coach
McFarlin had been there for quite
some time. The players feel as if
McFarlin is a valuable asset and
that he has nothing to worry about.
But 1 would say, actions speak
louder than words. What I mean is,
1 hope that McFarlin plays his best
players and not his favorites. I feel
that the football team was involved
in favorites and not the best.
So as the season nears, Coach
McFarlin’s knowledge is ready to
be tested with the complete back
ing of his players. Coach McFar
lin, the players are not only looking
forward to recapturing the title for
themselves, but for you as well
GOOD LUCK CHAMPS.
Down, Set, Dicked!
By Russell J. Green, Jr.
Every suummer many of the top
college prospects come to More
house College to play football for
this great black institution. Some
of these athletes have great poten
tial that could possibly aid a slum
bering Morehouse College football
team. However, a few of these ath
letes never get the chance to show
that they could be an asset to the
football team for they are unjustly
cut from the team. One such per
son is Emmit Tucker, an All-
Conference and All-Regional
Football Team member from Chi
cago, Illinois.
Emmit, who played his high
school football at Mendel High
School, received athletic scholar
ships from various schools such as
Oklahoma State University, Mich
igan State University, DePauw
and Simpson College. When asked
why he accepted the scholarship
from Morehouse, he replied, “1
was tired of the big white schools.”
Now Emmit feels that he should
not have come to Morehouse to
play football for he was expecting a
better program.
While out for the football team,
Emmit says, “1 wasn’t given a
chance to show; i wasn’t given a
chance to scrimmage once.” How
can a coaching staff cut one of its
players without giving him a
chance to prove himself? Well, the
reason given to Emmit was that he
was out of shape. This may very
well be a good reason for his termi
nation. However, from my own
observations of the football team, 1
have seen members of the team
drastically out of shape until the
first game of the season, but they
were not dismissed from the team.
When the head coach of the
team was approached by Emmit in
regards to what he felt was his
unjustly termination, the head
coach said that he could not go
over the heads of his assistant
coaches. Is this that Morehouse
College has a puppet head coach,
and the assistant coaches really run
the football team?
Whatever the circumstances, the
fact still remains that the players
out for the football team may be
getting “dicked” by the coaching
stall. And if this persists, many
other top quality athletes may slip
througlrthe fingers of Morehouse
College, leaving her standing at the
bottom of the conference saying,
“Wait until next year.”
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