fficial Publication of the National Collegiqte Athletic Association March 16,1988, Volume 25 Number 11 NCAA scholarships aimed at minorities, women College graduates can apply now and have been accepted into a sports women in intercollegiate athletics is Subcommittee to Review Minority in this project is allowing us to get for postgraduate scholarships in administration program at an ac- a top priority of the Association, Opportunities in Intercollegiate Ath- off to a quick start.” sports administration that the credited NCAA member institution. and we believe that a scholarship letics and the NCAA Committee on Application packets can be ob- NCAA plans to provide for the The scholarships are being offered program is one of the most effective Women’s Athletics. tained from the national office and 1988-1989 academic year, including to increase the pool of qualified and ways to provide better access to a Although details of the scholar- completed applications will be ac- a specific number of scholarships available minority and women can- career in the field.” ship program await Council action, cepted until June 1. It is hoped that that will be set aside for minority didates for coaching and adminis- Establishment of the scholarship applications are being accepted now applicants will be notified no later and women candidates. trative positions in intercollegiate program is one of several recom- in an effort to aid students who are than July 1 whether they will receive Although the NCAA Council athletics. mendations related to enhancement making plans for the coming aca- scholarships for the 1988-1989 year. still must determine the number of “We’re pleased that we have this of minority opportunities that the demic year. Further information about the scholarships that will be available opportunity to open a new path for Council will consider at its April 18- “We are pleased that we will be program and application materials and their amounts, applications are minorities and women into the 20 meeting (see The NCAA News, able to establish these scholarships can he obtained by writing to the being solicited from ethnic minori- sports-administration field,” said March 2). The Administrative Corn- and make them available for the following address: NCAA Sports- ties and women who have completed Richard D. Schultz, NCAA execu mittee forwarded the recommenda- coming year,” Schultz said. “The Administration Postgraduate Schol- or will earn an undergraduate degree tive director. “The enhancement of tions after considering several prop- expeditious work of the various arship, P.O. Box 1906, Mission, during the current academic year opportunities for minorities and osals by the Special Council committees that have been involved Kansas 66201. f NFL balks Committee reinforces at loosening ban on play-off fights Fighting by student-athletes p&- 2-(o) permits a governing sports draft rules ticipating in the 1988 Division 1 committee for an NCAA cham- NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle Men’s Basketball Championship pionship to reprimand, disqualify said March 14 that the league’s will not be tolerated by the Division or ban from participation in subse- owners seem firmly opposed to loos- I Men’s Basketball Committee, quent championship competition a ening league rules to allow under- which has the responsibility to ad- student-athlete or coach who is classmen to be drafted, and at least minister all aspects of the tourna- guilty of misconduct. one influential figure said he would ment, the NCAA announced March “We’re going to warn players that be willing to test the stand in court. 11. if they throw a punch, their chances “Coaches and general managers The committee reviewed miscon- of missing the rest of the tournament and owners whom I talk to think it duct that has occurred in college are very, very good,“NCAA Execu- just doesn’t make sense to change basketball games this season, espe- tive Director Richard D. Schultz for anyone,” Rozelle said at a news cially in recent weeks. said. conference following the opening It agreed to instruct game officials “We’re also going to tell them session of the annual-winter meet- and the games committee that is that if somebody throws a punch at ings. appointed at each championship them, they’d better walk away from “Particularly in football. You have site to deal firmly with any miscon- it, or they could wind up out of the to be completely developed physi- duct that may arise during the tour- tournament along with the player cally. You take a kid who’s a sopho- nament. who threw the first punch.” more in college, he signs an initial “The procedures to deal with Schultz made it clear that NCAA contract; then he doesn’t make it, misconduct have been in place for officials have kept a wary eye on the and he also doesn’t have a college NCAA championships for some fights that have erupted in several education. People I talk to are just time,” said committee chair C. Ar- games this season. very much opposed to it.” nold Fcrrin, IJniversity of Utah. The NCAA has no authority to The NFL is the only professional “The committee has in the past enforce antifighting rules during the league that does not regularly draft disciplined players and coaches for regular season. That’s entirely up to underclassmen, allowing only those misconduct that has been detrimen- the conferences and the schools players to be drafted who have used tal to the tournament, hut we are themselves. four years of eligibility, have spent placing special emphasis on fighting But the NCAA intends to move five years in school or have gradu- Pairings announced and the adverse effect it can have decisively against any players who ated. not only on the tournament, but get into lights during its 64-team But the eligibility issue has be- C. Arnold Fetrin, chair of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basket- also on intercollegiate basketball. tournament. come increasingly controversial in ball Committee, talks with members of the media in Kansas “Our committee was unanimous “It will he a special edict dealing recent years as underclassmen, de- CiM Missouri, following the announcement ofpaidngs of the in its feelings on this issue,” Ferrin with the possibility of lighting,“said clared ineligible for collrge play for 64-team fiefd for the NCAA Division I Men5 Basketbalf said. Schultz, who resigned as chair of SW NFL, page 2 Championship. NCAA Executive Regulation l- See Committer. page 2 Final Four in 1960s: UCLA begins its record run of titles (The sixth of‘u IO-purr series corn- vise the La Salle-Bradley game from “You can’t ignore what Eddie had to be talked into it by J. D. memoruting thr* 50th anniwrsary of Kansas City. Three years later, an Einhorn did for the tournament,” Morgan, our athletics director. He the NCAA Final Four) 1 l-station network carried the Kan said Big Ten Conference Commis- told me it was too good an opportu- sas-North Carolina triple-overtime sioner Wayne Duke, who served as nity to pass up, not only financially Two words best describe college game. the championship game’s director but for the exposure it would give to basketball and the NCAA Division But it was not until 1963, when for the NCAA during the 1950s and the game of college hasketball. He 1 Men’s Basketball Championship young Chicago lawyer Eddie Ein- early 1960s. “Tclcvision was becom- was right.” in the 1960s: ing a big part of people’s life. ‘IO bc By the end of the 196Os, NBC-TV Television and dynasties. a truly top-drawer event, you needed would pay more than $500,000 for They dominated the scene, push- the exposure television could pro- the television rights; and in 1969, ing the championship to a new level vide.” the tournaments’s net income ex- of appreciation among American Maybe the biggest television event cceded $1 million for the first time. sports fans. in college basketball history came in On the college campuses, student TV was coming of age in the 1968, when UCLA, with Lew Alcin- unrest was making itself evident in 1960s. It was a decade of turmoil dor, faced Houston, let by Elvin the form of demonstrations and and war that was brought into our Hayes, during the regular season at student strikes. Yet, on the basket- living rooms through television. horn negotiated a six-year contract the Astrodome in Houston. It was ball floor, all was calmed by the And, for the first time, the NCAA with the NCAA for the champion the two best players of the day and great dynasties of Cincinnati and championship game became an an- ship game, that it became a yearly the two best teams facing off before UCLA, two schools that won seven nual fixture on television. Many part of the picture. The television 50,000 fans and a national television of the 10 championships in the previous games had been televised rights fees totaled $140,000, and audience set up by Einhorn and his t 960s. in the cities of the teams competing; Einhom and college basketball he- TVS network. It started with Ed Jucker’s Cin- and in 1954, a modest network of gan a relationship that would benefit “I was against playing that game,” cinnati Bearcats. With Oscar Ro- stations was strung together to tele- both. UCLA coach John Wooden said. “I See Final Four. page 2 John Wooden 2 THE NCAA NEWS/March 16,1966 Final Four Continued,from page I kind of looked down their nose at remembered. “Several times, we bertson as the star, Cincinnati had us. Ohio State was the Big Ten; we thought we had enough players to finished third in the 1959 NCAA were the Missouri Valley.