Inside Hotlanta and The SIAC
October 28, 2004

by Hal Lamar
Onnidan Online Columnist

Richard Cosby Quits as Stillman Athletic Director

INSIDE has learned that Richard Cosby, the athletic director at Stillman College, has resigned. The apparently sudden decision came October 16. Stillman Sports Information Director Wesley Petersen confirmed the resignation, saying the AD would only cite "personal reasons" for his decision.

Greg Thompson, the former head football coach and Athletic Director at Morris Brown College, has been named interim AD. Thompson was hired by Cosby earlier this year as the school's football offensive coordinator. Cosby and Thompson had worked together in the past when Cosby was AD at Clark-Atlanta University in the late 90s.

Neither Thompson nor Cosby have been immediately available for comment.

John David Washington

Comer and Washington platooned at tailback with each getting the chance to show their stuff and both showed plenty, scoring four of Morehouse's five touchdowns and collectively rushing for 310 yards.

Byron Comer

"We felt like Washington would run but when he needed a breather, I had to step up," Comer told the INSIDE after the contest. " My helmet is off to the offensive line. They blocked and they blocked and they blocked."

Even Duwan Burton, Morehouse's big quarterback, who seems more in place as a fullback or lineman, had a productive day, completing 9 of 14 passing attempts for 118 yards and throwing for one score in the first half.

But the CAU game was essentially the calm before the storm for the Maroon Tigers who collide with Albany State as, of all things, their homecoming opponent Saturday. The Rams are coming to Atlanta for the first time this season with an unmolested 8-0 mark, two games away from a perfect 10-0, a wrap up of the conference title and a possible trip to the NCAA Division II playoffs.

ASU Head Coach Mike White privately takes a dim view of his Rams being scheduled as homecoming fodder for an opponent though in this instance, we've learned that originally, Morehouse's homecoming contest was scheduled for October 16 against Lane but the date was reportedly changed by the school administration

CAU meanwhile, will also be engaged in a homecoming tilt against powerful Tuskegee. The Golden Tigers are 6-1 , bowing only to Albany State and squeaking by Fort Valley a fortnight ago, 33-29. They, too, are likely not thrilled to death with being scheduled as a homecoming opponent. The two homecoming tilts are being played at the same time which cheats Atlanta fans of the opportunity to see both the number 1 and 2 teams in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

WORTH NOTING: Former Clark-AU all conference athlete and head coach Curtis Crockett was remembered by his teammates Saturday just before the start of the Morehouse game.

Nominees for induction into the 2005 National Football League Hall of Fame include Atlanta native and former Crim (then called Murphy) High school and Tennessee State star Richard Dent. Also on the list is former Atlanta Falcon defensive end Claude Humphrey.

Most people don't know that Humphrey, a product of Tennessee State University, was the Falcons first round pick in 1968 and the first NFL player from a black college picked as a first rounder (although history records the first black college first round pick as Grambling's Buck Buchanan in 1962, he was picked by the then Dallas Texans of the American Football League who moved to Kansas City IN 1964 and became the Chiefs).

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