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Pag» 8 Portland Observer Thursday, December 1, 1977. Grmbliag betting against odds 6 LX *5 IL Blazers in action (Photos by: Jock Rubeck) Winter Hawks benefit S.Army Sports Talk by Ron Sykee S ;w ts Editor “There are no better judges of football talent than the coaches themselves,’’ said In spite of an early season injury. AFCA President Eddie Robinson of Pittsburgh quarterback Matt Cavanaugh Grambling in announcing the winners. was named by the coaches as the best in Now. Robinson must have made that the Country. statement with his tongue in his check. Cavanaugh not only was injured early, Because if he believes, as he says he does, but was also ineffective both early and that his quarterback. Doug Williams is a late. Grambling quarterback Douglas bona fide human candidate, and then say Williams has been rumored of having a the coaches made the right choice in chance at the coveted award. By Cava Cavanaugh, then something is mislead naugh's nod from the coaches, then. I ing. My belief is simple: if you can't make think. William's chances are very slim. Notre Dame placed three players on All-America, then Heisman is out. this year's Kodak All-America Team Joining Cavanaugh in the offensive announced on November 23. 1977 by the backfield are Texas superstar Earl Camp American Football Coaches Association bell. who was named to the Kodak team The fighting Irish are represented by as a sophomore in 1975. the sensational repeat All-Americans Ken MacAtee and Terry Miller, who holds the State of Ross Browner, along with defensive Oklahoma 60 yard dash track record with backfield standout Luther Bradley. a time of 6.1 seconds, and did a fine 9.6 Ross Browner is considered the best hundred during his senior year in high defensive lineman in the Country, an school; and Louisiana State's Charles honor he won hands down last year. Pitts Alexander along with John Jefferson of burgh also placed tackle Randy Holloway Arizona State round out the backfield. on the coache's squad. Phil Banter. 8-7, 185, F r land Í alifomia Oak Dorchester. Maaaachusette« Meet the new Ducks Barner arrives at Oregon with impres sive credentials for a first-year forward at the college level: his recruiters de scribe him as having the ability to “shoot the ball from the outside, put the ball 'on the floor and drive to the basket." Suffice it to say, he is expected to add some firepower to the Kamikaze attack before his freshman year is over. He led his team to the mythical Northern California title, and was named Most Valuable Player on the All North ern California team, on his way to prep All American recognition Made the “top 13“ at the San Diego Superstar Camp, and was judged one of the five best "big finesse forwards" in the nation. He averaged 18.5 points and 12 rebounds a game. Sealey not only hails from the area that produced the original “Kamikaze Kid," Ronnie Lee; he is said to play in a style reminiscent of the Oregon great at the same stage of his career. And, believe me, that's saying something because Lee made all Par-6 four years running. Like Lee, he fits one of Coach Harter's favorite terms: “super competitive”. A prep All-American, he led his team to a three year record of 74 7, including a state title in his junior year. As a senior, he averaged 24 points. 16 rebounds, six assists and in typical Lee style...four steals a game He was recruited by 300 colleges, and is describ ed by New Englanders as ranking with Lee and Holy Cross sophomore, Ron Perry, as the three top prospects out of Massachusettes in the past seven years. Dick Harter has picked a plum The only team in the late season “top ten" which failed to place a player on the Kodak All-America Team is Penn State. The only player from a team not luted in the top twenty is Gary Spam of Kansas State. From tackle to tackle, the defense averages 6-5. 249. The offense is heavier (257), but an inch shorter. All American capital of the World? Try Warren. Ohio, they have two players. Ross Browner and Aaron Brown, listing Warren as their hometown. And didn't the Lakers look terrible, disorganized, and not really doing a thing Sunday night against our Blazers. Is this the same team that established the best over-all record in the NBA last year, of course not, because we all know that Kareem is injured and they can't pos sibly be as strong without him. But they're hurting bad at the power forward position. James Edwards. ex-Husky center is filling in admirably at center, and Chris Ford. Laker power forward, leaves a good deal to be desired. Just gotta’ believe owner Jack Hent Cooke made one big mistake by not going after Sidney Wicks, how he could help the Lakers. Where have all the turnovers gone? Some will say they left with Sidney Wicks. If you believe that then the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus are all within your realm of reality. In all actuality the turnovers still remain, only the publicity is gone. It seems that a couple years ago we read continuously of the Blazer turnovers and most were a blatant attack on our power forward. Some, now, will agree that turnovers are misleading; and that if a player has no turnovers then he's not really doing anything, not assertive enough. Now, is this to mean that our power forward of a couple of years past was super-assertive, or was it just bad hands that caused all of those much publicized miscues. Does Bill Walton have bad hands? The answer to that is “no, absolutely not." But, then, looking at Blazer stats we find Walton as the team leader in that department. Walton has played 18 games and has a team leading 66 turnovers, which averages out to 3.62 a game. And if these figures were kept in NBA stats they would be league leading or close. Now, we understand that Walton is as good as they come, playing the middle. Again not knocking the big red head, just wondering what happened to the turn over publicity' now that Super Sid is gone The Portland Winter Hawks will honor The Salvation Army at a benefit game on Saturday. December 3, 1977. Children of twelve years of age and under, when accompanied by an adult, will be admit ted with the donation of two items of canned or packaged food Game time is 7:30 p.m. The Winter Hawks vs. Seattle Break era game will receive a prelude of Christmas music as The Salvation Army brass band plays in the lobby of the Memorial Coliseum prior to game time Accompanied by timbrelists from the Greater Portland Metropolitan area, the band will divide during the period breaks and play in the two end concouraes of the Coliseum Bandmaster Mike Verbout, who during the week is Music Specialist for the Portland Public Schools, is the Portland Tabernacle Bandmaster and Music Advisor for the Cascade Division. The contribution of canned and pack aged food items will be used by The Salvation Army to benefit needy families and individuals at Christmas time with Christmas dinners and throughout the year for emergency relief assistance. is to Catholic America." Eddie Robinson, fourth on the list of all time coaching winners behind Stagg and Warner and Bryant, '» tl* reason Grambling has made it. Nicholson, the trumpeter. Grambling's Gabriel to the fourth estate, is another. “And we're poor people. 1 went to Grambling from a saw mill." Nicholson says. "Eddie was working in a feed mill.*' All before Douglas Williams and the Heisman dream were born. And what really are the chances? Can a Grambling Tiger compete in the voting booth with a Texas Longhorn? Nicholson thinks he can, further he plana to see to it that it happens. Maybe he hasn't stopped to calculate the chances “The Heisman trophy winner should be clearly the best at what he does. Last year, Tony Dorsett was clearly the best. But this year not 20 yards separate the four rushers. Douglas leads the nation in total offense I in Grambling's first year in Division I) and he's passed John Reaves in yardage, 7,561 to 7,549. “Now those who say that Douglas hasn’t faced the best competition forget one thing. The majority of the comer backs in the NFL are from our conference (the Southwestern Athletic Conference) or from the MEAC or the CIAA. And those are the fellows Douglas is throwing against. “A Black quarterback in the NFL? There has to be a change in that thinking, too. because a lot of the best quarter backs at so-called white schools now are Black" Collie Nicholson can go on and on. And does. What if Douglas Williams does upset Earl Campbell and the odds? Wouldn't that be the greatest thing that ever happened to a sports information director at Grambling. “I don't know about that. Setting up a aeries of games in Japan was awfully important. I think. “If Douglas makes it, though, it won't be because of Collie Nicholson. It will be because of Douglas and because of Eddie Robinson. “It would be a major accomplishment, all right, but it would be an accomplish ment for those men and for Black college playing football." The trumpeter comes equipped with a mute. See This Today! fam o u s, to p -q u a lity Whirlpool BIG VALUE RANGE Recessed Spillguard* top EOP accepts new students For the first time, Portland State Uni veraity's Educational Opportunity Pro gram is accepting new students for winter term. New students were pre viously admitted only in the fall. The EOP program offers tutorial and counseling services, special classes in reading, writing and communications, skill development workshops, and finan cial aids for students who might not be able to make it in college otherwise, academically or financially. To be accepted to the program, stu dents must first be admitted to the University, and must demonstrate a need for the special services the program provides. Although students can be admitted to the program as late as January 31st, early application is urged since the number of students to be admitted is limited, and since an orientation for the new students is scheduled for December 1st. The joints have nothing to do w ith "double-jointed- ness." Actually it's the liga m e n ts t h a t a re lo o s e . “No man does an yth in g from a tin g le m o tiv e . Samuel Taylor Coleridge Am erican State B ank 2737 N .t Union NORFOLK, VA. - First, there was Tank Younger. Then Grambling gave the National Football League the Willies.. Davis and Brown. And soon the trickle became a stream, then a river of talent. “Football players at Black schools were inviaible as far as the NFL was concern ed.” Collie Nicholson was saying. “Until Gram bling.” More than 160 Grambling graduates have played in the NFL now. “And we only count the one who actually played, not those who just had tryouts." Nicholson emphasizes. Next in the line will be Doug Williams, a 6-4, 214 pound quarterback from Baton Rouge. Louisiana, who already has shat te n d every intercollegiate passing re cord imaginable. Only Williams. Grambling sports in formation director Nicholson hopes, will stop off and pick up the Heisman Trophy en route to the NFL. The Heisman is annually presented by New York's Down town Athletic Club to college football's outstanding player. In the ballot box, Williams will be locked in mortal combat with such not ablea as Earl Campbell of Texas. If Williams wins, it will be a first, not for a Black player, of course, but far a Black player from a Black school. From the talent source that no longer is inviaible. “I've been so busy trying to make it happen, talking to writers and TV people, that I haven't had a chance to figure Douglas' chances," hedges Nicholson when you ask for a percentage estimate of his candidate's chances for election. And Doug Williams, proud and confi dent and at the same time shy and humble, says. “I’m not campaigning. All I do is play " But Nicholson is emphatic on how far coach Eddie Robinson and Grambling football have come in 30 years. Today. Grambling is known from Yan kee Stadium in New York to Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo. Callie Nicholson vividly remembers the first trip from Grambling. Louisiana, to Morgan State in Baltimore. “We traveled by bus. and I was in the back, sitting on the uniforms." He still feels every bump. “Twenty y ea n later, we sold out Yankee Stadium with Morgan And now we're to Black America what Notre Dame 212-2216 Plug-in surface units RDE-3020 M an y easy-cooking and easy-cleaning features at a budget price. Push-to-turn "infinite" heat controls lets you set the exact temperature you need. Bake/Broil & surface unit indicator lights. Remov able oven door. Large storage draw er below for utensils. Large capacity oven Off-Stroat Foriti««. . . 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