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The Augusta News-Review - September 6, 1973 -
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When Morris Brown
College’s long and difficult
1972 season ended, Coach
Ray Ross very calmly made
up his mind that he had to go
out and recruit the type of
players that put Grambling,
Alcorn and Tennessee State at
tire top of the heap in black
college football. Morris
Brown’s first practice session
proved that Coach Ross
wasn’t kidding.
Recruited from Baton
Rouge, Louisiana is 6’6”, 290
lbs. Jerome Blakes; 6’4”, 250
lbs. Joe Jackson from South
Dade, Florida; 6’3”, 240 lbs,
Alphonso Taylor from New
York City; 6’4”, 230 lbs,
Joseph Robinson from
Birmingham, Alabama and
6’o”, 240 lbs. Freddit
Welborn from Valdosta,
Georgia.
Last season the Wolverines’
offense moved the ball with
authority passing wise. In
both 1971 and 1972, the
Wolverines led the SIAC in
passing offense. But last year
the defense left a lot to be
desired. The Wolverines rolled
up 183 points, but the
defense yielded 301.
In the Johnson C. Smith
contest, the Wolverines scored
39 points, yet loss 41 to
39-other losses where the
offense overshadowed the
defense were the Wolverines’
34-24 loss to Alabama A&M,
and the 30-20 loss to Albany
State. The offense scored 20
points against Jackson State’s
great defense in the
Wolverines’ 20-14 win, and
scored 14 points against
Tennessee State in a 24-14
loss to the Tigers.
So defense is a number one
priority at Morris Brown this
season.
WINGATE URGES BLACK
SUPPORT FOR WHITNEY
YOUNG GRID CLASSIC
In a stirring speech at a
reception held for the
Grambling/Morgan game,
Livingston L. Wingate,
executive director of the New
York Urban League, thanked
the many major corporations
that have supported the
Annual Whiteney M. Young,
Jr. Memorial Football Classic,
but reminded the gathering
that support from Black
people is the key to success in
Black ventures.
“The annual football game
featuring the teams of
Grambling and Morgan
Colleges, has been a model to
the world that success in he
Black community is
dependent on Black support,”
said Wingate. “To fill a
stadium, ” he confined, “to
its 64,000 capacity each and
every year is a tribute to the
awakening and awareness of
the Black community towards
support of Black ventures.”
Wingate went on to say,
“The Morgan/Grambling game
is just a small, almost
insignificant, part of a total
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Calls For Safeguards In Local
Revenue Sharing Money
WASHINGTON - Proposals
for special revenue sharing
programs, as now written, ,
would have the effect of
shortchanging poor and black
residents of many townsand
cities, Eddie N. Williams,
president of the Joint Center for
Political Studies, has warned.
Any legislation establishing
block grants or special revenue
sharing must include safeguards
1 requiring state and local
governments to take into
account the needs of minorities
I when they spend their federal
money, Williams told the 63rd
annual conference of the
National Urban League here.
“I cannot support a revenue
sharing concept which gives
unrestricted powers to those 1
levels of government which have
historically been the least
responsive to our (blacks’)
needs,” Williams said.
Any such legislation without
protection, he said, would put
minorities in a “hatchet fight
without a hatchet,” because of
their relative lack of political
“clout” in many cities, he said.
He suggested that “any move 1
toward block-type grants must
be accompanied by a
continuation and a refinement
of categorical programs aimed
at specific purposes.” i
Further, he said, “It is ]
essential that block grants or 1
special revenue sharing contain 1
explicit national goals which
picture of the sleeping giant
awakening. The giant is the
Black community in the
Harlems across the
nation...awakening to the
reality of self-doin and
self-support.”
Wingate pointed out that
Black colleges have been the
greatest institutional support
in the struggle of Black people
and that the New York Urban
League’s football game, the
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Memorial Classic, is giving
financial support to the Black
colleges as a result of the
game.
Frank Bannister, sports
director for Mutual Black
Network, was master of
ceremonies at the reception,
which was held at the
Schenley Building for press
and community
representatives. Heard over
900 radio stations daily,
Bannister traced the history of
Black colleges’ athletics and
their importance in the
educational process.
The Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Memorial Football Classic, in
its 3rd year, will be played at
Yankee Stadium on Saturday,
September 22nd, at 3:00 p.m.
Members of the football
committee are: Claude
“Buddy” Young, chairman;
Bernard Jackson, co-chairman;
George Norford, board
coordinator; Mrs. William
Anderson; Robert A.
Bernhard; Michael Burke;
Victor Collymore; Charles
E.F. Millard (president of the
New York Urban League &
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of
New York); John Murray;
William H. Toles (New York
Urban League Board
Chairman): Livingston L.
Wingate; Carol J. Wellington,
game coordinator; and Lemuel
M. Wells, secretary.
Tickets for the game are on
sale at the New York Urban
League, 2090 Seventh Avenue,
New York City; Yankee
Stadium; Grand Central
Station; Ticketron outlets; and
Urban League offices around
the nation. Tickets are priced
at $4, $6, SB, $lO, and sls.
For ticket information call
(212) 749-7452.
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take into account the needs of
the poor and of minorities.
Where possible they should also
provide financial incentives to
governments which strive to
meet these goals.
There must be a reasonable
application and review process
which will ensure that those
localities most needing funds
actually receive them and that
those that recieve them actually
use them consistent with the
national objectives.
There must be explicit and
binding civil rights protections
written into the law, which take
full account of the continuing
need for federal enforcement;
and there must be strong
provisions for effective
community participation in the
decision-making process.”
The Joint Center for Political
Studies, which Williams has
headed for one year, is a private
non-partisan organization
which provides research,
information and support
services to the nation’s black
and other minority group
elected officials, and others
representing minority group
interests.
Williams is a former vice
president for public affairs of
the University of Chicago -- the
first black to hold such a
position at that university -- and
former head of the university’s
Center for Policy Study.
Os the four “special revenue
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sharing” programs proposed by
the Nixon administration,
Williams aimed most of his
criticism at the “Better
Communities Act”. This would
replace several existing
programs for urban renewal and
community development,
including the Model Cities
program.
The administration’s
proposed formula for allocating
money to various localities
includes language which seems
to provide for more money to
areas with large numbers of
poor residents, but actually
there would be “a hurt put on
the cities, where we are, and a
bonanza for the suburbs, where
we ain’t,” Williams said.
He observed that a clause
guaranteeing that no locality
would receive less under the
new bill than under the old
programs would expire after
five years. Then, he said,
“central cities would experience
a sharp drop or at best a slight
gain from the revenues they
presently get under the
categorical programs. Urban
counties, on the other hand,
including many well-to-do
suburbs, would receive much
greater amounts.”
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Army Names Three Blacks As Generals
WASHINGTON - The
Army has nominated three
Black colonels, including a
Medal of Honor winner, for
promotion to the rank of
brigadier general.
This action, which was
announced last Wednesday,
means that the number of
musch less holding hands. On
June 22, 1938, Joe Louis and
black gernerals and admirals on
active duty will be increased to
16.
Col. Charles C. Rodgers, 43,
of Indiapolis, who is currently
assigned to Germany, will be
only the second of 508 Army
generals now on duty who hold
the Medal, which he received
Max Schmeling were trading
punches, even if only briefly,
for rallying his men to repulse
three human wave attacks on
his artillery battalion at a fire
base in Vietnam in 1968 when
he was wounded three times.
The other new nominees are
Cols. Roscoe Robinson Jr., a
44-year-old West Point
graduate from St. Louis, who is
during championship fight. Joe
KOd Max in round one.
now assigned to Ft. Bragg,
N.C., and Fred C. Sheffy Jr.,
44, of McKeesport, Pa., who i f
assigned to the Pentagon.
Fifty-five colonels haa
been nominated for Senate
approval to be promoted to
brigadier general.