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Henri Freeman
JUST THE BEGINNING
Now that the Wildcats of Lucy Laney have clinched the
Region IV AAA title they must now look at the upcoming
game or games if they expect to move forward in their quest for
the State crown. They can go all the way if they can get
everything together. This they’ve got to do for the oppositior
from this point on will be much stronger than most of the
opposition they have faced during the regular season.
Coach David Dupree has the potential running game to
complement the passing of Brian Oatman and Derick Neely, but
the offensive line and the backs must do what they have not done
well all season-block effectively. An effective passing and running
game makes the Wildcats a team to be seriously reckoned with for
the Georgia AAA crown.
Although the defense for the most part has held its own, there
needs to be more sharpening there, especially against the pass.
Too often the defensive backs have been caught flat-footed when
playing a passing team. They can’t afford to make such mistakes
in any of the play-off games.
Coach Dupree will not know until tomorrow (Friday) night
which team will serve as the first opposition for his Wildcats.
However, he does know that it will be either Grover High of
Savannah or Wayne County; they tangle tomorrow night to
decide the Region 111 AAA champ. The site of the next Laney
game will also be decided shortly after Region 111 winner is
known.
ARC’S STRONG PUSH
TOO LATE
As the season ended in Region IV AAA football, the ARC
Musketeers was the hottest team in the Region. They had rocked
Baldwin County twice and avenged earlier season defeats at the
hands of the Butler Bulldogs and the Region Champs, Lucy
Laney. The wins over Butler and Laney came as a result of the
Musketeers completely outplaying them.
Having come on strong at the tail end of the season, ARC was
primed for a third meeting with Laney. However, since they
failed to get the needed assist from Baldwin County last week in
the Baldwin-Laney game, their chance at a shot to compete for
the Georgia AAA title went down the drain. There is, though, a
lot of conjecture about the outcome of a third ARC Laney game.
In numerous circles it is felt that the Musketeers would have
taken the measure of the Wildcats and thereby wind up as
champions of the Region. Their late season play strongly
supported this belief, as well as the shabby performances of the
Wildcats during the same period.
PAINE’S TOLBERT GETS APPOINTMENT
Dr. Garland Dickey, Chairman of District 25 (Georgia-Florida)
of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has
announced the approval of Coach Ernest Tolbert of Paine as a
member of the District Executive Committee. In this position he
joins Coach Marvin Vanover of Augusta and Coach Sonny
Clements of Columbus as representatives from the independent
colleges and universities in Georgia and Florida. They along with
Coach James Hawkins of Ft. Valley and Coach Albert Frazier of
Savannah State representing the S.I.A.C. schools plus Coach
O’Neal Cave of Piedmont and Dr. Marinus Kregel of Georgia
Southwestern representing G.I.A.C. have been approved by Dr.
Charles Morris of NAIA home office in Kansas City, Missouri as
the governing board of our area schools. Competition in golf,
tennis, track, cross country, baseball, and basketball will be held
during the year 1971-72 according to the chairman. Dr. Obie
O’Neal of Albany is vice chairman.
IDAHO STATE’S COACH
LIKES EX JOSEY STARS
T.W. Josey basketball Coach James Roundtree has received a
progress report on two of his former Josey stars. The affable
Eagles’ coach is now all smiles because of the report.
Coach Jim Killingsworth of ISU informs Roundtree that Leroy
Gibbons, a sophomore at ISU, is coming along fine and has an
excellent chance of winning a starting berth on the team. “For a
sophomore”, states Coach Killingsworth, “he is doing a superior
job.”
The other ex Josey star, Chris Grier, although a freshman, has
quickly caught the coach’s attention and has caused Killingsworth
to comment that “Chris as he continues working hard will
become undoubtedly one of the fine players in the Rocky
Mountain area.”
WELCOMED ADDITION TO LIONS FIVE
Coach Ernest Tolbert at Paine College is all smiles these days.
He has a newcomer to his 1971 edition of the Paine Lions
Basketball team that he is very high on. He is Lester Paige, a
transfer student from Southern University who has already set
out his prescribed time for eligibility.
Paige is one of the brightest prospects that Tolbert has had in
his tenure at Paine. He is a slender 6 foot youngster who can do it
all. His quick hands make him an adept ball-handler, and his
shooting ability ranks with the best. He is already touted as the
quarterback of the team because of his ability to lead and work
well with his teammates.
ATHLETIC-GRANTPLAYERS
BOOSTS PAINE’S STOCK
This season the Paine College Lions will have two players
performing on the hardwood who will represent FIRSTS for the
College. They are Lawrence Hurley and Johnny Nimes, the first
to receive athletic grants to attend Paine.
Although the two are freshmen, Coach Ernest Tolbert is
counting on them heavily as he shapes his cage forces for the
upcoming season. The fact that they are 6’5” gives Tolbert some
needed board strength. This he will need as the Lions face the
likes of Florida A&M, Fisk, Morris Brown, Morehouse and
Knoxville during the season.
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Home run hitter Hank
Aaron pushed for a stepped up
federal effort against sickle cell
anemia Friday. And Sen.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said
he is dismayed at a lack of
Nixon administration concern
for checking the killer disease.
Kennedy, concluding two
days of Senate Health
Subcommittee hearings on the
S9O million sickle cell program,
said he hopes to have the bill
heading toward Senate floor
action next week.
Aaron of the Atlanta Braves
and former Pittsburgh Steeler
running back John Henry
PAIGE
Hank Aaron Asks 'Cell’ Funds
Johnson, appeared with Horace
Davis for the Black Athletes
Foundation, which has
sponsored a sickle cell
detection program in
Pennsylvania’s Allegheny
County.
“Ninety million is a token as
far as the Black Athletes
Foundation is concerned,” said
Davis, a former minor league
baseball player is executive
director of BAF.
Kennedy said some $1.5
billion is spent each year for
medical research with only $5
million earmarked for sickle
cell which affects mainly black
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people.
“Probably no other disease
has affected as many people in
this country as sickle cell
anemia and has been as
unattended as this disease,”
Kennedy said. “Fifty-eight
thousand people suffered
during the 1952 epidemic of
polio. Despair and fear from
that killer brought a shock to
the nation ... but sickle cell
anemia, which occurs much
more frequently, has been
neglected and ignored, just like
most other conditions that
affect only black people.”
Davis, Johnson, Aaron, Rep.
William Clay, D-Mo., and
several doctors testified that
enough is known about sickle
cell for testing and detection
education and counseling
programs to begin across the
nation in existing facilities.
There is no cure.
“The point has been made,
Mr. Aaron”, Kennedy said,
“that if we passed this
legislation it would brighten
the black community and
others, that it would scare
people.”