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N.Y. URBAN LEAGUE
ANNUAL
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR.
MEMORIAL
FOOTBALL CLASSIC

SEPTEMBER 1985
YANKEE STADIUM

Grambling University's Tigers, lost the annual Urban League Classic football game in the Boston College Terriers last Saturday at Yankees Stadium. But the New York Urban League won thunderous applause from the crowd of 40,000 in presenting awards to three prominent national figures. In photo on left, Mrs. Harriet R. Mitchell, left, President of the New York Urban League, is shown at left, after presenting award to towering John Thompson head basketball coach at Georgetown University, for his winning success in coaching basketball at GWU. At right is clarence Smith, editor of Essence Magazine. In second photo, Delta Sigma Theta National President Hortense Canady, is shown after receiving the Whitney Young Award of the Urban League. At right is Mrs. Whitney Young, wife of the late Urban League leader. In last photo, husky Willie Davis, former ace of the Green Bay Packers, receives a Whitney Young Award from Mrs. Dolly Christian chairperson of the Urban League.

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