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CARL

looked, yet more level-headed
than many boy basketball
players who may be 6-9 but not
very mature.
Fisher says he's sent 18
football players to New Mexico
Highlands, all on full schol-
arship. The school's program
was way down in 1979, he
says, but, with the help of his
southeast Michigan athletes,
won its conference cham-
pionship two years later.
"Of those 18, I only saw four
or five play," Fisher says. "The

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others I never met. The coach
(Freddie Bliel) who gave them
a full ride never got film on
them. I've never met the
coach. Now he's an assistant at
Drake. I guarantee he'll call
me and we'll start all over
again."
Occasionally, Fisher will ac-
tually meet the coach or ath-
letic director with whom he's
been dealing by phone and
through the mail. Recently, he
says Brutus Jackson, athletic
director at Prairie View, was

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from the family, but I think
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showing our children that
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"I respect him for what
he's doing, but this is
strictly his sole venture. Of
course, I support him doing
this.
"My husband gets a great
deal of pleasure when he
gets calls over the holidays
and cards from people he
has helped. They feel their
life has taken on some im-
portance. It's great when a
person graduates, goes out
into the work force and be-
comes a good, solid citizen."

Rebecca Fisher and her
children get deprived of a
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in Detroit on a recruiting visit
and lunched with Fisher.
Fisher had helped get Scott
Scharg to Prairie View on a
baseball scholarship. Irwin
Ruby, a friend of Scharg, went
to another school but quit.
While at home, Ruby — with
some help from Fisher — was
persuaded to join his friend at
Prairie View where both now
play football.
"I don't want the blue chip-
pers," Fisher says. "They'll go
to the Michigans and UCLAs.
The kid I sent to Duke, nobody
recruited him. The kid I sent to
New Mexico, nobody recruited
him . . . All this is is a vehicle
for kids to get a degree. If it's
not an NCAA Division I school
you can be a 1.5 (D-plus) stu-
dent and go to college .. .
"I don't work with colleges
in Michigan. They're wired
into the area already. I ask the
kids if they want to go away
from home. If the kid is being
recruited by five major col-
leges I'll wish him well and
devote my time to others.
"College coaches refer to my
kids as 'Fisher's red chips."'
His most prominent red
chippers turned out to be blue
chippers: Duan Hanks and
Demetrius Jones — both on
National Football League ros-
ters this season. Hanks is with
the Miami Dolphins (on in-
jured reserve) and Jones with
the Denver Broncos. Hanks is
a wide receiver from Detroit
Cass Tech who played college
ball at Stephen F. Austin
State University in Texas,
while Jones (whose looks "put
Billy Dee Williams to shame,"
Fisher says), is a defensive
back who went to Detroit
Henry Ford High School and

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from the athletes he has helped.

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onto Western Michigan (after

passing up a full ride to South-
ern Illinois).
Fisher's actions haven't
gone unnoticed. Among the
framed documents on the wall
in his den is a resolution dated
Sept. 28, 1983, from the De-
troit City Council recognizing
his "unselfish dedication . . . to
disadvantaged students and
his firm commitment to giving
students a chance to receive an
education."
Also on Fisher's wall is a let-
ter from Donald F. Fracassi,
Southfield mayor, commend-
ing him for his "thoughtful,
impressive undertaking."
Fisher has many letters in
his files, some from coaches
and administators, as well as
from grateful athletes. Wrote
one girl, who got a four-year
basketball-track scholarship
last year:
"I almost didn't go to college
due to personal matters, and
on top of it, I never thought I
was capable of playing college
basketball, but you went out
on a limb for me and talked to
all these coaches, in and out of
state, and convinced them I
can play for them . . . that
really restored my self-
confidence . . . and I couldn't
be happier .. .
"Hopefully, soon I can help
people and do it without ex-
pecting anything in return,
like you have been doing."
No rewards?
Such are Larry Fisher's re-
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