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' At the 1973 Black College All-American Football TEam Awards Luncheon (L-R)
Entainer James Brown, Defensive Player of the Year Eddie “Too Tall” Jones holding
his trophy with Chevrolet Motor Division National Advertising Director Carol Uren,
who presented the awards, Mutual Black Radio Network Sports Director Frank
Bannister, and Offensive Player of the Year Walton Payton with his trophy.
Jones, 22, a 6’9‘A” 260-pound defensive tackle for Tennessee State University in
Nashville, and Payton, 19, a running back for Jackson State University in Jackson,
Miss., were selected by Chevrolet Motor Division and the Mutual Black Radio
Network, Wednesday, Dec. 19, in he New York Hilton Hotel.
Twenty-two out of more than a thousand players representing 39 schools in the
Mideast, Central, South, and Southwest Inter-Collegiate Athletic Conferences, along
with six participating independent schools, were voted on by 13 Commissioners and
Athletic Directors from the Conferences and colleges in 15 states and the District of
Columbia.
Chevrolet Motor Division presented $5,000 to the general scholarship funds of
both players’ universities, in their names. James Brown personally presented both of
the men with a scholarship in the amount of SI,OOO.
Twenty-two players named to 1973
Black college all-American football team
Twenty-two out of more
than a thousand players
representing 39 schools in he
Mideast, Central, South, and
Southeast Inter-Collegiate
Athletic Associations, and six
participating independent
schools, were selected as
members of the 1973 Black
College All-American Football
Team by the Chevrolet Motor
Division and the Mutal Black
Network, Wednesday,
December 19, at an Awards
Luncheon in the New York
Hilton Hotel.
Outstanding among them
were Eddie Jones, 22, a
defensive tackle for Tennessee
State University in Nashville,
selected Defensive Player of
the Year; and Walter Payton,
19, a running back for Jackson
State University in Jackson,
Mississippi, selected Offensive
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Player of the Year.
The Black All-American and
Players of the Year were
selected by 13 Commissioners
and Athletic Directors
representing the Associations
nd independent colleges.
Chevrolet Motor Division
and the Mutual Black Network
cosponsored the selection of
the 1973 Black College
All-American Team, and
Network Sports Director Frank
Bannister was on hand to
announce the 22 players.
Broadcast coast to coast on
more than 78 stations in 73
ccities in 27 states and the
District of Columbia, highlights
of the ceremony are expected
to reach more than 23 million
Black Americans on the Mutual
Black Network.
Chevrolet Motor Division
presented scholarships of
$5,000 to both Tennessee
State and Jackson State
Universities for their general
scholarship funds, in the names
of the Players of the Year. The
presentation was made by Mr.
Carl Uren, National Advertising
Director for the Chevrolet
Motor Division.
It brings to a total of
$225,000 Chevrolet Motor
Division has awarded in
scholarship funds to colleges
and universities in he names of
their outstanding players. In
i the first 12 weekends of this
season along, $60,000 has been
awarded.
“Chevrolet is indeed happy
to have this opportunity to
recognize the athletic
contributions made by these
players and also those made by
their schools over the years to
the game of football,” R.M.
O’Connor, Chevrolet General
Boler tells why
he chose Georgia
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Sylvester Boler holds Peach Bowl Trophy which he
added to his growing collection of awards. He won the
trophy as the Outstanding Defensive Player in the Peach
Bowl - By R.L. Oliver
Sylvester Boler, the Augusta
freshman line-backer with the
University of Georgia Bulldogs,
was named the outstanding
defensive player of the 1973
“Peach Bowl” game last
Friday.
This is the second award of
the 1973 football season Boler
has received for outstanding
Sales • Manager, said in a
statement. “Most people do
not realize that virtually one of
every six men on National
Football League rosters this
year come from these 45
schools.”
Tennessee State dominated
the roster with Defensive
Player of the Year, Eddie
Jones, and four other men
selected: Wide Receiver John
Holland, Offensive Tackle
Gregory Kindle, Quarterback
Ken Pettiford, and Linebacker
Waymond Bryant.
Grambling College in
Grambling, Louisiana also had
five men at the top: Offensive
Guard Andrew Jackson,
Defensive End Ezil Bibbs,
Defensive Tackle Gary
Johnson, Linebacker Charles
Battle and Defensive Back
William Bryant.
Completing the Offensive
play. In his fourth game of the
season against Auburn
University, he made 13
unassisted tackles and 7 assists
to be voted the Associated
Press defensive player of the
week in the Southeast.
Boler, who only played in
four regular games at the
middle linebacker spot,
replaced the regular Bulldog
middle linebacker after he was
injured late in the fourth
quarter of the Tennessee game.
Boler took charge
immediately by making four
successive tackles, the last of
which was on the great
Tennessee quarterback
Condredge Holloway to stop a
line-up are Tight End James
Davis from Winston-Salem
State University,
Winston-Salem, N.C.; Tackle
Henry Lawrence, Florida
A&M, Tallahassee; Running
Back Larry Roberts, Virginia
Union University', Richmond;
Guard Thomas Saxon, North
Carolina Central College,
Durham; Center Dennis
Thomas, Alcorn A&M,
Lorman, Ms.; and Running
Back Randy Walker from
Bethune-Cookman College in
Daytona Beach, Florida.
Five men completing the
Defensive Black All-Americans:
Defensive Bek Eddie Bishop
from Southern University in
Baton Rouge, La.; Defensive
Back Eugene Hunter, Fort
Valley State College, Ft.
Valley, Ga.; Defensive Back
James Marshall, Jackson State
University Jackson, Miss; End
Michael Schoffield, Fisk
University in Baton Rouge, La.
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scoring drive deep in Georgia
territory.
Winning trophies and game
honors seem*, to be away of
life for the eighteen year old
Boler. His senior year at Lucy
Craft Laney High School, he
was voted the outstanding
athlete of the CSRA, and was
presented a trophy by the C&S
bank.
When queried as to why
he chose to go the University
of Georgia Boler, who had
received offers from one
hundred and three different
colleges, said there were
tempting offers from such
schools as Northwestern
University, Duke, Michigan,
Texas Tech, Ohio State, and
Notre Dame. “But I chose
Georgia because the other
schools are so far away from
home until it didn’t make sense
for me to go that far to get
something that I could get
right here. As far as Georgia is
concerned, as far as material, as
far as the way we are treated,
as far as money is concerned,
there was no reason for me to
go five hundred miles away
from home to get something I
could get right here in Athens.
“First of all, I’m close to my
family, my mother and father
can come to see me whenever
they get ready. I can come
home. I can come home to go
to church whenever I want to.
I can leave the game and come
home and go to church the
next day.”
He attends Thankful Baptist.
An honor graduate at Lucy
Laney, Boler maintains a little
better than a “C+” average at
Georgia. He says he expects
that to improve. He plans to
major in business
administration.
He is the ninth of ten
children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Sylvester Boler. The Bolers live'
in Augusta on Lucy Laney
Circle.
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Patriot fullback, John Tarver, chats with great uncle
G.L. Tarver during Augusta visit
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Augusta relatives
New England Patriot
fullback John Tarver spent
Christmas in Augusta visiting
relatives and friends.
His grandmother, Mrs. Idella
Tarver, lives in Blythe. Mr.
G.L. Tarver, a great uncle}
accompanied Tarver as he
drove around in a beautiful
white Cord. The Italian made ,
car is a replica of the 1936-37
Cord, but has a Chrysler engine
and all modem features. It was
custom ordered.
Tarver is the cousin of Mrs.
Louise Jackson and Mrs. Rosa
Tarver Beard. He talked with
the News-Review in Mrs.
Beard's home on Dewitt St. At
24 years of age Tarver is very
much aware of the money
earning possibilities of a young
talented athlete. He is also
aware of the rip-offs. Asked
what advice he would give
aspiring young athletes, the
University of Colorado grad
said, “If you have the ability,
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And the man is looking for
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A native of Bakersfield,
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Professional sports, he said,
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