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FAMU Rattlers Rally Past NC A&T In Road Thriller, 22-21
Henry Louis Gates
Makes Largest Literary
Donation In HBCU History
To Spelman College
Noted historian Henry Louis Gates has donated more than 14,000 of his per- sonal literary volumes to Spel- man College, in what school officials are calling the single largest recorded literary dona- tion ever made to any histori- cally black institution.
The donation, which will be housed at the Atlanta Univer- sity Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, will be on display for library visitors and archival research.
Library officials say that more than 800 of the books will be placed in circulation, and more than 512 works will be kept in the center’s special collections.
Famous historian Henry Louis Gates.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 13) – Yahia Aly’s 26-yard field goal with four seconds left lifted the resurgent Florida A&M Uni- versity Rattlers, to a thrilling 22- 21 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference victory over the the defending Black College and MEAC champion North Carolina A&T Aggies, at Aggie Stadium Saturday afternoon.
Saturday’s game was a classic with the up and rising Rattlers taking the champ’s best shots and dishing out enough of their own in a close quarters fight to score the late-round knockout before a national tele- vision audience.
After the Rattlers had climbed to within two points, 21- 19 on Ryan Stanley’s 11-yard scoring strike to Chad Hunter with just over five minutes left (the two point conversion failed), the FAMU defense im- posed their will on the ensuing Aggie drive, stopping the home team short on third down, forc- ing A&T to punt the ball away
FAMU’s Herman Jackson races to the end zone for a FAMU TD.
with just over two minutes left. Saturday’s game, billed by many in the NCAA FCS and Black College media realm as the FCS Game of the Week, turned into the anticipated close quar-
ters fight to the finish.
The challengers from FAMU
(5-2, 4-0 MEAC) won their fourth straight game, and tight- ened their grip on the proverbial catbird’s seat atop the confer- ence, standing now as the lone undefeated team in league play. Meanwhile, the vanquished Ag- gies (5-2, 2-1), who came in
ranked No. 10 in the STATS, Inc. FCS Top 25 Polls, dropped their second last second heartbreaker at home this season.
SNAKEBITES: The Aggies were the highest ranked foe beaten by a FAMU team (No. 10 in FCS) since 1999, when the Rattlers took down another North Carolina team on the road, No. 4 Appalachian State, 44-19 in the opening round of the FCS playoffs.... Their 4-0 start in MEAC play is their best start since 2001, when they won their first four games before los- ing to North Carolina A&T, 55- 23 in Greensboro on this date, October 13, 2001.... FAMU can clinch their first winning season since 2011 (7-4) with a win in their final four games.
WHAT’S NEXT: FAMU will have a bye week on Oc- tober 20, before returning to action the following week, October 27 against the Morgan State Bears in Bragg Stadium at 4:00 p.m.
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