Like any other football team, Tennessee State's Tigers love to score touchdowns. But they are rather ambivalent about kicking field goals and extra points during home games. Reason: the high cost of leather. Every ball lost in the stands costs the small, predominantly black college $26.95 that it can ill afford. Near the end of a recent annihilation of Florida A. & M. (45-0), a student aide on the Tennessee State football staff looked at the mounting margin and worried: "I hope we have enough balls left."
Somehow Tennessee State has managed to find...
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