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Tampa Native Gets MEAC Top Award, Again; Bethune-Cookman Heads To N.C.
After a convincing 42-12 vic- tory over Savannah State in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Confer- ence opener for both squads, Bethune-Cookman took home two MEAC weekly awards as quarterback Quentin Williams was named Offen- sive Player of the Week, and punter Jonathan Cagle earned Special Teams Player of the Week accolades. The announcement came from the conference office in Nor- folk, Virginia.
Quentin Williams, a red- shirt senior quarterback from Tampa, completed 9 of 18 passes for 207 yards with two touchdowns, as the Wildcats defeated Savannah State, 42- 12. Also, Williams ran for 100 yards on nine attempts and became the first B-CU quarterback to accomplish the task of 200 passing and 100 rushing yards since 2004. Jonathan Cagle, a 6-3, jun-
Tampa native and former Jefferson High star Quentin Williams ran away with top offensive honors for the second week in a row.
ior punter from Pensacola, Florida, collected his first-ever Special Teams Player of the Week award following the weekend
Bethune-Cookman gets back to the gridiron Satur- day, Oct. 3, traveling to North Carolina Central for
a battle of two of last year’s Mid-Eastern Ath- letic Conference co-cham- pions at O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU with kickoff set for 4 p.m., in Durham, North Carolina.
Wife Of Famed Grambling Coach Dies
Grambling State University’s T.H. Harris Auditorium, to pay their respects to Doris Mott Robinson on Thursday (Sept. 24 2015) in a way she would have liked best: With stories and laughter, with faith and songs.
Doris Robinson, lovingly called “Baby” over a nearly seven-decades-long marriage by Grambling coaching great Eddie G. Robinson, passed at age 96 on Sept. 16, 2015, fol- lowing the 2007 death of her husband. She had also outlived her children Eddie Robinson Jr. and Lillian Rose Broaden, as well as her par- ents and daughter-in-law Glo- ria Robinson. Yet in that time, over those years of wid- owhood, Doris finally came to earn the profound respect and widespread gratitude that
DORIS MOTT ROBINSON
should have been hers all along.
As a museum in honor of Eddie G. Robinson posthu- mously opened on the campus of Grambling State University, so did an attached banquet room named in her honor.
FAMU Travels To Savannah To Meet Savannah State
Bethune-Cookman In Top 5 In HBCU Polls
Alcorn State University and Tuskegee University remained in the top spots following the fourth full week of HBCU foot- ball action. ASU solidified its position on top of the FCS rankings while, for the second straight week, TU’s Golden Tigers were unanimously picked #1 in Division II/NAIA HSRN Football Polls.
In the Division I FCS poll, Alcorn State QB John Gibbs, Jr. threw two touchdowns passes as the Braves breezed by Concordia-Selma 40-7 on Sat- urday at Spinks-Casem Sta- dium.
North Carolina A&T and South Carolina State remained #2 and #3 as Bethune-Cook- man and Tennessee completed
the top five.
#7 Grambling State and #10
Norfolk State entered the poll for the first time this season
In Division II, Tuskegee ran its unbeaten streak to four with a convincing 41-14 road win over Lane College. For the sec- ond straight week, the Golden Tigers captures all the first place votes of HSRN pollsters.
Virginia Union took sole pos- session of second place in the reshuffled rankings. Bowie State climbed to third followed by Chowan and Virginia State. Fort Valley State returned to the ranking while Fayetteville State, on the strength of is win over Virginia State, entered the poll for the first time this sea- son.
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