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Gentleman Gene was the right m

IN GENE CORUM'S first two years as West Virginia's football coach, the Mountaineers had suffered through losing seasons and, like any coach, Corum saw a need for a difference-maker.

He found one in Dick Leftridge, a running back at Hinton High School, who at 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds stood as tall and weighed as much as many of the linemen of that era and possessed the kind of talent that attracted coaches from throughout the Midwest and Northeast.

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The most notable recruiter to pay our state a visit back then was Ohio State's Woody Hayes, who addressed the West Virginia Victory Awards Dinner and said flatly he wanted Dick Leftridge, who would have fit perfectly into the Buckeyes' grind-it-out offense.

And though Corum wanted Leftridge, it was not a given that he would pursue him. The year was 1962, Leftridge was black and West Virginia University had not yet integrated its football program.

We can safely assume that Corum, who died at age 88 last week, weighed the sociological consequences, the potential opposition and the on-the-field possibilities and, apparently without obtaining prior approval, simply decided he wanted to sign Leftridge. He succeeded in doing so and thus is remembered as the coach who brought down the color barrier in Mountaineer football nearly 50 years ago.

But to sign Leftridge, Corum needed to convince him to play the role of racial pioneer at a time when many Southern schools were allowing black students on campus only at the insistence of federal marshals and certainly did not want them on their beloved football teams.

It's also safe to assume that Corum's gentlemanly presence made a difference in luring Leftridge and another black player, Roger Alford of Wintersville, Ohio, to Morgantown in the fall of 1962.

In his six seasons as Mountaineer coach from 1960 to 1965, Corum was known as Gentleman Gene, a nickname given to him by Fairmont Times sports columnist Bill Evans. As a student at West Virginia, his fraternity brothers nicknamed him Cocky Corum, a sarcastic moniker that reflected his modesty and stuck for many years. He was a Huntington native who spent more Air Jordan Fusion 9+13 than 40 years in Morgantown as an athlete, assistant coach, head coach, professor and administrator.

As it turned out, the signings of Leftridge and Alford and their assimilation into the Mountaineer program created little, if any, problems.

"That was a very smooth transition," recalled Eddie Barrett of Huntington, who worked as the school's sports information director at the time, "and Corum should be credited with recruiting two good black players. He made it go smoothly by going after a good role model in Roger Alford and a hell of an athlete and football player in Dick Leftridge."

At the time, school integration in West Virginia had almost become old hat. The state's public schools already had been integrated in compliance with the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. And besides, blacks and whites had worked together - and often died together - in the coalfields for decades.

"I don't remember any problems. I really don't," said Dave Santrock, a retired Charleston doctor who played for the Mountaineers at the time. "We had a lot of [players] from Pennsylvania, and I think they were more used to interrelating. And when I went to Dunbar High, we integrated my sophomore year. We had all the Institute people come up, s
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POWER OF SOUL

Cover Girls

Jody Watley and Miki Howard - how about that for a blast from the past, huh?

Doesn't it seem like the last time you heard either of those names, you were rocking a hightop fade, British Knights sneakers, one of those swap-meet Louis Vuitton fanny packs and those Teddy Riley glasses with the leopard print on top of the rims?

Yes, these '80s black-music sirens are still around, and coincidentally, both have albums out that are full of cover tunes. Watley's album The Makeover continues in the same house-music dancing-queen vein U.S. listeners might've caught on her last album, 2003's Midnight Lounge, while Howard sticks with adult-contemporary soul stylings on Pillow Talk: Miki Sings the Classics.

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For the most part, both albums offer few surprises. Although Watley teams up with some of club music's most recognizable names (DJ Spinna, Ron Trent, good friend King Britt) in redoing her own tunes as well as tunes from fellow fag-hag divas like Madonna and Diana Ross, the downtempo grooves are more conventional than Watley and co. might care to realize. But if this were playing at a gay club (which I'm sure it will), it would so be the shit.

Going for the no-frills, lite R&B you thought went out when 227 and Amen got canceled, Howard's sound is just as dated as most of the tunes she covers. A few numbers are enhanced by her breathy torch-singing. She does a lengthy but acceptable version of Leon Russell's "This Masquerade," a song I believe is Gucci Messenger Bags required by law to be performed ever since George Benson perfected it with his peerless 1976 cover.

Since Watley and Howard have hit that point in their careers where they can officially (and some would say boldly) make music for those who are still down with them, their cover albums seem targeted to their niche audiences.

Watley's album is for clubbers and folks who are glad there are not one, not two, but three "alternative lifestyle" cable channels (four if you count Fox News), while Howard's is for lite-FM listeners and buppies who likes to sit back after a hard day's work and chill with a glass of boxed wine.

You'd probably be more willing to admit having either album in your CD rotation than Clay Aiken's just-released cover schmaltzfest, wouldn't you?

By Craig D. Lindsey

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