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Staff Writ" Attrating people is the reason that
SOUTIfFIELO- The Alabama the Alabama versus Grambling
State Hornet and Grambling State game will kickoff at 7 p.m. Wash
Tigers will playa Southwestern Ath- said the 7 p.m. kickoff allows fans
letic Conference (SWAC) game in the time to do weekend chores and
the Pontiac Silverdome Saturday, till attend the game.
Novermber 9, said AI Wash of In addition to the conference
A.L.W. Enterprises, Inc., one of the game, there will be entertainment.
principle promoters, who expects "Our halftime is a show," Wash
32,000 to 37,000 fans will attend the said. "You don't do Black college
traditional rivalry. football without having a halftime
Quinten Perry of Detroit and show."
Turning Point of Birmingham, The game between the SWAC
Alabama are co-promoting the rivals promises to be an excittng o .
SWAC game. The Hornets, at this stage of
Wash, who was a defensive tackle SW AC season is in second place and
with the Houston Oilers in 1974, said many fans expect them to be in first
he has been promoting the Gram- place by November.
bling Tigers' 'games for the past On the other hand, the Tigers is
seven years. ' coached by the legendary Eddie
"1 led the nation with attendance Robinson. Wash said Robinson has
last year in NCCA Two A Divison the best win record of any coach in
with game averages of 3(f,OOO plus collegiate football. His coaching
fans," he said, adding that promoting wins passed the late "Bear" Bryant,
is not difficult with a proven track who coached at the University of
record. AJabama in 1985',
B W4EN2 D ex
Tige have become profe lonal
players, including fullback Paul
"Tank" Younger who wa the first
predominately Black chool player
to ign a tandard NFL contract.
,..4 Robinson ha been honored and
prai ed by orne of the who' who of
r Black football and from the "Giffer,"
former Pre ident Ronald Reagan.
A few of the Blac are: Jake
Gaither, the former coach of Florida'
: A&M, SWAC coach Marino Casem
and ex-Grambling players: Willie
Davi and Willie Brown.
Robinson has been inducted into
the NAIA Hall of Fame, Pop Werner
Hall of Fame and the Super Bowl
Hall of Fame.
In 1966, the Football Writers As-
ociation of America aid Robinson
was "the man who (had) done the
most for college football in the (past)
25 years."
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WASH PROMOTES games at
the Superdome and the Cotton Bowl.
He finds that each is looking for the
same thing: "Events that will draw
PAL FOOTB J,L ACTIO - Highl nd P r
wlnnin touchdown in overtime in t D trolt
tadium hi l ut!hl nd P rk. (photo by M. Har
I� 10 Y d ror the
the g me turday, to r 12 t Pol r Be r
Edward "FAdie" Robinson
ROBtN ON ERVED as presi
dent of the NAIA and the American
Football Coaches Association and
received the pre tigious Amos AJon
zo Stag Memorial Award.
This November 9 at 7 p.m. in the
Pontiac Silverdome, a legend in hi
own time, the winninge t coach in
collegiate football will lead the
Grambling Tigers onto the field
where they will meet conference
rivals, the Alabama Tigers in what is
expected to be one whale of a foot
ball game.
Be there.
Grambling matchup
ilverdome
ROBINSON, he added, is also
celebrating his 50th anniversary a
Grambling's head coach:
One of the Tigers outstanding
players is linebacker Sawn Burras.
But the Hornets counter with the ac
curate passer, Rickey Jones, the pass
catching ability of wide receiver
"Downtown" Reggie Brown and
their All-American linebacker Eddie
Robinson, Jr.
(The two Robinsons are not re
lated.)
At present, Black collegiate foot
ball players seem to belong to two
different schools of thought.
Some say that ever since the
nation's major universities
Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky.
and others-have been recruiting
Black athletes, the quality of players
the Black college have been getting
has declined. On the other hand,
some, like Wash, argue that propor
tionally, the Black colleges continue
to receive and produce major talents.
However, the megabucks that na
tional television brings h8;S not found
its way to too many Black colleges.
Wash said Garambling recently
signed a three-year contract with
CBS to televise the Biyou Classic.
The Biyou Classic is an annual
game played in the New Orleans Su
perdome.
Highland .'ark Hunican, quarterback, Jevon Jone who pa ed and ran for another touchdown durin
aturday' game again t Detrolt aints. The aints could otTer no defen e against the Highland Park
Hurricane pa 'sing attack. (photo by M, Harr )
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