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The Augusta News-Review - September 6, 1973 - »JT I S 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 •get a Chicken Dinner Box 149 Wrightsboro Road Phone 722-0632 3007 Deans Bridge Road Phone 793-2827 l\ Wishbone Fried Chicken fflW Fried chicken, the way it ought to be. ttwmx-nr ■»»»* ,m Nv C.' h.-enk-U’'* Atlanta Gao»«*a j 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. Page 6 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. 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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. 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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.