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Keith Jackson, popular an- A Georgia native, he partici- joined KOMO-TV in Seattle and nouncer for ABC-Sports and the pated in several high school remained there almost 10 years television voice of NCAA College sports, including basketball and until joining ABC in Los An- Football, will be master of cere- football. He graduated at age 16 geles. monies at the NCAA’s Honors and began a four-year Marine “I’ve been a real itinerant,” Luncheon, January 16, in St. Corps enlistment. Jackson said. “In 20 years in the Louis, Missouri. His career in sportscasting be- business, I’ve had only two jobs.” The Honors Luncheon spot- gan by accident. He heard a stu- In addition to his college foot- lights the awarding of the pres- dent announcer broadcast a foot- ball assignments, Jackson has tigious Theodore Roosevelt ball game one afternoon for the covered other sports, from pro- (‘Teddy’) Award, which will be Washington State University fessional golf to “ABC’s Cham- presented to Admiral Thomas J. campus radio station and Jack- pionship Auto Racing,” major Hamilton, USN, Ret., and the son, who enrolled there after league baseball, the “Profession- College Athletics’ Top Ten, which completing his military obliga- al Bowlers Tour,” and numerous recognizes five current student- tion, thought the individual did other events for “ABC’s Wide athletes and five former athletes a bad job. World of Sports.” He also has who completed their eligibility hosted ABC’s extremely popular Jackson stopped by the station 25 years ago. It is one of the “The Superstars,” “The Women the next day and told the profes- highlights of the Association’s Superstars,” and “The Super- sor he could do better. “I don’t Annual Convention. teams,” telecasts. need you coming in here telling Jackson has been the principal me. You want to show me?,” the Jackson’s professional honors play-by-play announcer for the professor said. include the George Foster Pea- NCAA College Football series body Award, the Headliners the past two seasons, and twice The following Friday night, he Award. and the Sylvania Award. has been selected Sportscaster of announced a local high school He also made the first radio the Year by the National Asso- football game, and he has been broadcast of a sport event from ciation of Sportscasters and broadcasting since. the Soviet Union to the United Sportswriters. Upon graduation in 1954, he States in 1958.
Six From Fall Sports Today’s TopF ive Enalrjts Selected Six student-athletes represent- Finalists demic all-America as a wingback ing fall sports have been selected The winter-spring finalists are and earned second-team all-Big as finalists for the Association’s Richard M. Cashin, Jr., Harvard; 10 Conference honors. Academi- Today’s Top Five Awards. Peter John Farmer, University of cally, he maintains a 3.33 grade The Today’s Top Five Student- Texas-El Paso; Bruce Alan Ham- point average (on a 4.0 scale), Athletes combine with the Silver ming, Augustana College; Wayne majoring in finance. He is a co- Anniversary Top Five to form the Robert Young, Brigham Young founder of the Free Athletic Ce- College Athletics’ Top Ten. The University; Steven Michael lebrity Elocutionary Service, a Awards will be presented during Green, Indiana University; Mar- combination entertainment bu- the Association’s Honors Lunch- vin Lawrence Cobb, University reau, leadership foundation and KEITH JACKSON service club providing speakers eon, Jan. 16, in St. Louis, Mo. of Southern California; Stephen Honors Luncheon M.C. for youth groups, charitable in- Two-time Heisman Trophy F. Danosi, Wayne State Univer- stitutions and service clubs. winner Archie Griffin of Ohio sity; and I’atrick Timothy Moore, State University is among the six Ohio State University. He is a Rhodes Scholar nomi- finalists from fall sports, as is his Finalists are selected for their nee, active in the Fellowship Buckeye teammate Brian Basch- athletic ability and achievement, of Christian Athletes, and par- ABC-TV A wardedR iyhts to nagel. character, leadership, campus and ticipated in the NCAA co-spon- of-campus activitirs and aca- sored National Youth Sports Pro- Outland Award winner Leroy demic achievement. Only seniors gram. He is a National Football Selmon, from Oklahoma, UCLA 19764977 TelevisionP lan Foundation Scholar-Athlete and quarterback John Sciarra, Naval of the calendar year preceding the Convention are eligible. is on the Dean’s List and i 1 the ABC-TV, which has televised the Executive Committee with Academy’s Chester C. Moeller II, the NCAA College Football scr- the total of all five not to exceed Following is a capsule biogra- business administration honors and University of Kansas two- ies for the past 10 seasons, has the $150,000. phy of the fall finalists: program. sport star Kurt Knoff also are been granted the rights to the Roone Arlcdge, president of finalists. BRIAN BASCHNAGEL ARCHIE GRIFFIN 1976-1977 Television Plan, ac- ABC Sports and Executive Pro- They join eight winter-spring Baschnagel is thr co-captain of GriAin became the first athlete cording to Dartmouth College’s ducer of the NCAA College Fool- finalists selected earlier this year. the No. l-ranked Ohio State to receive two Heisman Trophies, Seavcr Peters, chairman of the ball Series, said, “We are de- The Today’s Top Five will bc Buckeyes and is a three-year symbolic of the nation’s top col- Television Committee. lighted to continue our fine re- elected from the combined list. starter. As a junior, he was aca- Continued on page 4 “This has been a tremendous lationship with the NCAA. “It is year for college football,” Peters with particular pride that we said after negotiations were con- have shown a 20 per cent in- cluded in Kansas City, MO. “At- crease in our viewing audience tendance has been up, TV ratings during the 1975 college football have reached an all-time high season.” and we anticipate even greater The 1976-1977 Television Plan, heights in the next few years.” which was overwhelmingly ap- The two-year contract be- proved by the membership in a tween the Association and ABC referendum, calls for coverage of Sports calls for the NCAA to re- 13 national and 28 regional ceive $18 million each year of the games each season. Each region plan. of the country will receive 20 Of that amount, $500,000 is for games during each season. the Division II and II Champion- Member institutions have been ships. In addition, two regular- limited to three basic appear- season games of each division ances over a two-year period in will be telecast. past TV Plans, but the new plan In addition to the College permits an institution to receive Football Series, the sum includes four appearances in the two- UCLA $150,000 for the rights to five year plan, in addition to cxcep- other NCAA Championships dur- tion telecasts, such as that of the ing each year. The individual Wildcard game, Thanksgiving JOHN SCIARRA ARCHIE GRIFFIN LEROY SELMON rights fee for each additional Day game, and weeknight con- UCLA Qoorferbock Heismon Winner outland Award telecast will be determined by tests. The Editor’s View
Reprinted below is an excerpt from Zh: writing of n news columnist commenting petlin.enlZy about college uthlelics. I1 is selected because Exciting Basketball SeasonAhead the NCAA News feels it makes a point and discusses a topic which will interest NEWS readers. College haskctball, 1975-76 style, prom- States of America (ABAUSA), which now ises to he one of the most exciting seasons of controls international competition in place of recent years for several reasons. the Amateur Athletic Union. Harvard-Yale One Choice Financial aid limits have made available However, there will be one thing missing better players for more teams; there ap- from the 1975-76 College basketball season. For THE Big Game Honors pears a legitimate challenger to UCLA, Coach John Wooden. By TOM SUER which has won 10 of the last 12 National Wooden retired at the end of last season Knoxville Seniinel (:ollegiate Championships ; and expanded after leading UCLA for 27 years and carving Woody Hayrs may not be an entirely impartial observer of the television coverage will keep more teams in perhaps the most astounding dynasty in the football scene, but he said the Ohio State-Michigan fuss is the great- the public eye all season long. history of sports. est rivalry in the game. Wrong, dead wrong. On the very day that he was dispatching The travel squad limit of 10 players should More than 6000 fans turned out recently Michigan, 21-14, The Game was being played in New Haverl, Corm., in IJCLA’s Pauley Pavilion to honor Wood- have little, if any, effect on the outcome of the 92nd meeting of Yale and Harvard. en on his retirement and his 65th birthday. games if the celebrated Indiana-UCLA game Yale and Harvard first played in 1875, which was well before is any measure. Despite a ZO-point lead e&ah- The party was a tremendous success, hut Coach Hayes discovered the forward pass. lishetl early in the second half, Indiana coach the contributions of the fans could not match Harvard won this time, 10-7, which just happens to be the school’s Kohby Knight did not use his 8th, 9th and what Wooden has contributed in turn to col- lirst undisputed Ivy League championship. Quarterback Jim Kubarki 10th men until the final minute of play. lege basketball. His dedication to the game gambled on a fourth-down pass and connected. That set up Mike and to the teaching of fundamentals to his Lynch’s game-winning field goal from 26 yards out. Several of the nation’s top college teams players resulted in UCLA’s success, which 35th Victory defeated the touring Russian National team, may well never he matched by any other which is the defending Olympic gold medal That was Harvard’s 35th victory in the series Yale has won 49. team. Eight were tied. winner. Many of the top college stars have Wooden will be missed, hut he leaves a Tom Bergin, a one-time professor of English literature at Yale, been groomed in international competition college game which is better for his HSSO- recalls m the Yale Alumni Monthly that Harvard won that first for the 1976 Olympiad, thanks to the Ama- ciation with it, and which is poised for a fine game in 1875, which was played under what hr called “nrgotiated” teur Basketball Association of the United season. rules, half soccer, half rugby. Tim Cohane, football historian and former magazine sports editor, said the rules on that day favored Harvard, but that Yale got the ball it wanted, a round soccer-type. “There was, of course, only one ball used,” writes Dr. Bergin. Steering “For that matter, there was only one team for each side instead of the relay of myrmidons who rush off and on the field nowadays. Two Committee thousand spectators came out, even though the price of admission was SO cents.” Seeks Input Thus, as you can see, Yale and Harvard, known as Simon-purcs, brgan the football commercialism that is spiraling to insanity these Suggestions for possible dis- days. cussion topics of interest to Di- vision I member institutions arc I’d better clrar up that word, “myrmidons,” too. A myrmidon is being sought by thr Division I “an unquestioning follower or subordinate who carries out orders Steering Committee, according to without scruple or hrsitation.” The word originally came from a its chairman, J. Neils Thompson, Ic~gc~nciary tribe of warriors in ancient Greece. Any questions’! University of Texas. Football Firsts Division I Round Table discus- Harking back to 1875 again for a moment, Tufts began playing sions are planned Thursday. Jan. football that year. In fact. Tufts’ historians claim the Princeton- 15, from 2:45 until 4:15 p.m. dur- ing the Association’s 70th An- Rutgers contest in 1X69-supposedly the first in college football- nual Convention, and again Fri- wasn’t football at all. more likely rugby. It is Tufts’ claim that its day, Jan. 16 from 8:30 until game with Harvard in 1875 was the real beginning of football. 11:15 a.m. Tufts is hardly r-cnawncd in football, but it’s had its moments: The Steering Committee, which 1. Showman P. T. Barnum gave the school an elephant hide in is composed of the NCAA Council 1890, hence the nickname Jumbos. members from Division I institu- 2. The late Dwight D. Eisenhower sufl’rrcd a knee injury in the tions, already has scheduled a re- Army-Tufts game, 1913, blighting his carrrr as a promising half- view of the record number of proposed legislation which is to back. be considered by Convention del- 3. The Tufts team began to wear helmets in 1884, the first team egates, but welcomrs additional to do so. Before that, most collegians played bareheaded. input from the membership. 4. In 1916, Tufts was playing at Indiana. The Hoosier band played Some of thr items for discus- incessantly, drowning out the Tufts’ signals. Coach Charles Whelan sion concern travel squad limits, instructed his bcwildcrrd lads to huddle around the quarterback and the reorganization of the foot- deridr what play they would run, the first time any team ever em- ball-playing mrrnbrrship of Dim ployed the huddle vision 1, the proposed national championship for football in Dim vision I, and others. Suggestions for additional topics should be forwarded to Thompson or other members of NCAA Membershb the Strcring Committee-Ralph AS OF NOVEMBER 21, 1975 E. Fadum, North Carolina State; District Grand Harry E. Troxrll, Colorado State; Div. I Div. II Div. III Total Total Edward S. Betz, University of the Pacific; Ernest C. Casale, Temple District One 16 18 54 88 University; J. William Orwig, In- District Two 46 25 89 160 diana University; John W. Wink- District Three 56 69 40 165 in, University of Maine, and Ed- District Four 34 29 57 120 win L. Saxcr, University of District Fivr 21 19 16 56 District Six 19 9 3 31 SPIRIT OF ‘76 COIN TOSS-Official F rank Baird flips the official Bi- Toledo. District Seven 20 5 2 27 centennial Coin to start one of the nation’s premiere small college District Eight 26 18 13 57 football games, the 82nd DePauw-Wabash ‘Monon Bell’ battle. Wait- Most Improved Active 238 ~192 274 704 ing for the toss are DePauw co-captain Gerald Hammes, left, and Holy Cross ranked as the na- Allied 30 13 14 57 Associate 24 Wabash captain Aubrey Bright, right. The series is the oldest con- tion’s most improved basketball major in 1975, finishing 20-8 Affiliated 39 tinuous football rivalry west of the Alleghenies. The two Hoosier teams compared to 8-18 in 1974 for an GRAND TOTAL .._._ .._....., ._.....__ 824 have played every year without fail since 1911 and have played 82 improvement of 11 games (12 [NOTE: Percentlgc of increase in total NCAA membership times since the matchup started in 1890. The winner claims the 350- more victories and 10 fewer de- for the most r-ccrnt six month period is 1.1 per cent; increase pound Monon Bell. In this year’s match, DePauw lost the coin toss but feats). Next was Kentucky, up for past one year is 2.4 per cent; past five years is 14.4 per lO’/‘r games from 13-13 to 26-S, rrnt.] won the game, 14-8. The Bicentennial Coin was furnished by the In- including a runnerup finish in ternational Paper Company. the National Collegiate Cham- pionship, and third was Pepper- dine, up 9% games from 8-18 to Rebounding Great 17-8. Four majors improved eight Morgan State’s Marvin Wcb- 68 to top the all-time collegiate i NCAA games ~ 17-9 California, 13-11 ster finished his career in 1975 (or all divisions) record cf 2334 as the srrond most prolific re- Cleveland State, 22-2 Pan Amer- by Steubcrrville’s Jim Smith in : NEWS Editor .Dave Daniel ican and 18-8 Auburn. If you go bounder in collrgc basketball back two years, Pan American history. With 2267 in four sea- 1955-58, and might have made it Published 18 times a year by the National Collegiate Athletic except for a pre-season bout with hsociation, executive and editorial offices, U S llighway 50 and takes the cake with a jump of sons, Webster easily topped play- hepatitis that sent his weight up Nail Ave.. P.O. Box 1906. Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66222. Phone 19 games. The Rroncs were 4-22 crs likr Tom Gola, Paul Silas, (AC 913) 364-3220. in 1973 before coach Abe Lem- Bill Russell, Elvin Hayes and and hurt his rebounding in early ons took over. Marvin Barnes. Webster needed season. Director of Productions Added to NationalStaff Jack N. Clark has joined the> Association’s National Ofhcc staff as Director of NCAA Produc- tions, a new position which rn- compasses NCAA Marketing and Film Service Liaison. Clark, 32, formerly was the Branch Sales Manager for the Xerox Corporation’s Portland, Ore ofice. He replaces Grayle W. Howl&t, who resigned in Septcmbcr to enter private busi- ness. In another national office staff development, Dave R. Daniel, editor of the NCAA NEWS since September, 1972, has resigned to accept a position with the sports department of the Santa Monica, Calif., Evening Outlook. Clark has extensive expcri- ence in the marketing arca from basic selling techniques to the management level and taught a course at Oregon State Univer- JACK CLARK sity on Management Learning Joins NCAA Staff Systems and Sales Management. Corporation since 1969 and ad- His primary assignment will be vanced from sales represrntative further development of the to Branch Sales Manager for the NCAA Marketing program, Portland office. which already is underway. He served two years in the A native of Glcbndale, Calif., Army, receiving an honorable he attended the University of discharge as a first lieutenant in Oregon, where he played varsity Septrmbrr, 1969. He also served football. He was a four-sport the University of Orrgon as as- star in high school in football, sistant freshman football coach. baseball, track and hockey. He is married and has two He has heen with the Xcsrox children
PHOTO-FINISH-Vin Fleming (right) of University of Lowell, catches leader Joel Jameson of Occi- 5ay, Roberts Elected to dental College in the final steps near the finish line to win the Division III Cross Country Champion- ships at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Jameson led all the way until the finish as both runners Wres tiing Federation Posts were clocked in 24:27 with Fleming getting the nod as champion. (Photo by James O’Brien)
Rick Bay and John Roberts played football three years and Division III Cross Country have been rlrctcd to posts with twice was a Bit Ten wrestling the United States Wrestling Fed- champion. eration (USWF). Vinct Zuz+ro of the U.S. Wres- Ray, 1974 national coach of the tling Officials Association and Fleming, North Central Take Titles year and a member-at-large of Theo Heap of thr National Ju- Defending team champion the Governing Council, was nior Collcgr Athletic Association Close was the word for indi- 1 could win the whr)le thing and Mount 1Jnion Collcgr slipped to elected first vice president, sue- were rc-elected to two-year vidual honors at the third NCAA the adrenalin really started to eighth place. cceding Wrrncr Holzer. terms on the USWF executive Division III Cross Country Chan- Bow.” pionships at Franklin Park in Robrrts, a representative of committee. A pair of Ireshrncrl linlshed Besides Jameson, no runner Boston, Mass. who had finishrd in the top 10 in the National Federation of State Mark Massery, former NCAA third and fourth as Peter Kun- 1974 was ablr to crack that list High School Associations, was champion at Northwestern Uni- Vin Fleming of the Ut1ivc.rsity mant of Casl. Westerll Was only again. Stcvc Rrynolds. who was electrd sccret3ry~treasu~er. versity, and Jay Robinson of the of Lowell caught leader Joel one second behind 1;lcnling and 19th a yrar- ago, mavrd up to arl Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling Club Jumeson of Orcidcntal in the and Bruce Fischer of Bay is director of licld activi- .I amcson, llth-place firlish and Dale Kra- were elected to the Governing final yard to takr the individual ties for the LJnivcrsity of Michi- North Central was another scc- mer, 2Ist last year, was 12th this Council as active athletes, suc- title as both runners were clocked gan Alumni Association. He ond hack time around. Dan Cooper of AU- ceeding Hen Peterson and Ken in the identical time of 24:27. wrestled for Michigan in 1961-65, Jim Mitchrll (13th), Scott gustana, who finished fifth in thrn joined the Wolverine staff Levels. North Central College of Illi- Gyssler (llltli J, Bob Patrick 1974, slipped to 20th as assistant coach and assumed Ken Krsft of Northwcstcrn is nois captured the team title with (31st) and John McNidrr (42nd) A total of 195 runners and 39 head coaching duties in 1970 br- prcsidcnt of the USWE’ and Jerry 91 points, 20 less than runnerup rounded out thr North Central complrtc~ teams took part in the fore assuming the alumni post in Miles of the NCAA is second Occidental. Host Brandeis Uni- iinishers. meet. 1972. vice president. Jack Stanbro of versity was third, followed by Roberts has sc.rvrd for 19 years New York is a member of the ex- Carleton College of Minnesota as executive director of the Wis- rcutivc committee. Each is srrv- and Southeastern Massachusetts. consin Interscholastic At h 1 c t i c ing the second year of a two-year Jameson, a senior at Oxy, fin- Association. He attcndcd the term. Stcvc Combs is executive ished second for the second year University of Wisconsin alid dirrrtor of USWF. in a row. Hr led the entire race C~d~Cti... until Fleming, a junior, caught him at the finish line. r Golf Non-Compliance With Title IX “1 had hoped to finish in the Participants in the Division I Golf Championships, to be tOJ., lo,” Fleming said, “so J dc- played June 9-12 at the University of New Mexico, ~111 not tided to hang on to the leaders have to survivr a 36-hole “cut” this year Announced by BYU, Hillsdale as long as I could. I moved up The Exctcutive Cornrnittc?c has approved a recommendation slowly over the final milt and of thr Golf Committrc to specify that all participants will Hillsdalc College and colleges pendrnce has been based upon with about X80 yards to go I complete 72 holes of )Jhy with no elimination proccdurr to br affiliated with thr Church of “the non-accrptancr of Federal thought second place was within utilized, in view of the reduction in the number of participants .Jcsus Christ of Latter-Day Saints funds for any purpose whatso- my reach in that cavcnt. (Mormons) have made srparatc ever.” “Then,” he added, “with 100 Handbooks announcements that they will not The Mormon collrgc,s, includ- yards to go, I suddenly realized obey sections of the Title IX rrg- ing Brigham Young University, Production of handbooks for all NCAA wintrr charnpion- ulations on sex discrimination. BYU’s Hawaii campus, Ricks * * * ships llow is underway, according to Jerry A. Miles, director College in Idaho and thr LDS Hitlsdale College, locatcd in of events Business College in Salt Lakr Hitlsdalr, Mich., said “that such Individual Results “We hope to have all handbooks completed soon and they City, will not obey six scctinns regulations are excessive of the 1. VI” Fleming iLowell) 24:27 2 will t)c furwarded to thr rncrnbership well in advance of all of the Title 1X regulations for authority grailted by Congress Joel Jamrson (Occ,drnt;rl) 24 27. 3 rharnpiollstlips,” Milrs said. moral and religious reasons. Peter Kummant (Case Western) 24’- and violative of the inalienable 2X. 4 Bruce Fisrhrr (North Central) Division II Basketball rlghts of freedom and choice of One of the six sections the 24:29 5 Frank Rlchardsvn (MIT) 24.- this institution and nrr thrrcfore Mormons will not comply with is 31. 6. Jonathan Sisler (OccidentalI Dccrmber 31 is the final dradline for proposals to be sub- athletics, stating: “The sections 24’33. 7. Brian Dodge IPlattshurgh immoral and illegal” 1n a rc*solu- State) 24’311. H Lawrrn~e Garner mitted for sites for future Division II Basketball charnpion- ticIt by the Trustees of the regulations dealing with (Widener) 24.41 9 Dave Munyon ships to the National Office. athletics arc not clear. (Glasslroro State) 24.45 10. peter The Division II Basketball Committee will review and President Georgr C. Ruche IIJ Smith (Southcnstern Massachusetts) stated: “The issur at stake is not “They have been the sublrct of 24:4x scrcc’n all proposals received by December 31 at its January equal treatmrnt for minority widespread rontrovrrsy over Team Scores merting during the Association’s 70th Annual Convention in thrir mranlng and coverage. We groups or women. Hillsdalr Col- 1 North Central 91. 2 Orcidental St. Louis. lrgr had already pioneered in do not concede that these regii- 111 3. Urandeis 151 4 Carleton 200. Finalists will be invited to attrnd the March meeting of lations apply to our athletic pro- 5. Southrastern Msssachuxtts 214. 6 norl~rliscrimirlatory treatment for the Committee during the 1976 Championship at Evansville, over a century before. thr first gram, which is not an ‘education Krrne Stair 2.16 7. MIttrrsvillr Stat? 278. 8 Mount Union 2% 9 C;lassb>ro Tnd., according to Andy Laska of Assumption Collrge, ehair- Federal Icgislation on the sub- procram or activity receiving State Pxx. 11). Cullc~:r of St. Thomas man of the Conlmittce. ject.” Hc said the college’s inci+ Fcdcral firlancial assistance.’ ” 2%
NCAA NEWS / December 1, 1975 3 No loneliness For These long Distance Runners
START AND FINISH-Runners at the 37th NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship are still bunched tightly at the one mile mark at Penn State University. However, near the finish line (right) winner Craig Virgin of Illinois is nearly all alone as runnerup Nick Rose of Western Kentucky is quite a ways back, as is third-place finisher John Ngeno of Washington State, who is just coming into view over one of the final hills. (Phofos by Dick Brown, Centre Daily Times) UTEP, Virgin Sweep Six From Fall Sports Cross Country Titles Craig Virgin of the University points. Providence College, which of Illinois won the individual title had finished fifth a year ago as at the 37th National Collegiate the top Eastern institution, moved Today: Top Five ilirrrllkts Selected Division I Cross Country Cham- up to third place ahead of host pionships at Penn State Univer- Penn State and East Tennessee joring in systems engineering. youngsters and active in Athletes sity, but no team could overcome State. the depth of team champion legiate football player. He was He is a huddle group leader for a Better America. Defending champion Oregon, Texas-El Paso. player of the year in the Big 10 for the Fellowship of Christian He took part in the NCAA- despite William’s high finish, and the conference MVP each of Athletes and a member of the ABC College Football Promotion Virgin, a junior who had fin- missed the top 10 by finishing in the past three seasons. He also is choir. He is on the Superinten- Tour this summer and has been ished 12th a year ago, won hand- 11th place. The Ducks had won the career rushing leader in dent’s List and the Merit’s List. part of UCLA’s National Youth ily by clocking 28:23.3 over the the past two Division I meets and NCAA history. He twice has served as company Sports Program three summers. six-mile course. It was a 15-sec- three of the last four. Illinois, He is an industrial relations commander as well as serving as He also is a National Football ond victory over defrnding in- paced by Virgin, finished 10th major who will graduate one aca- battalion commander and a mem- Foundation and Hall of Fame dividual champion Nick Rose of behind Big 10 Conference oppo- demic quarter early. ber of the battalion operations Scholar-Athlete. Western Kentucky. nent Wisconsin. staff as a junior. Griffin is an active speaker for LEROY SELMON Rose also had a comfortable UTEP also won the 1969 cham- margin over 1974 runnerup John pionship and the Miners also are a number of youth groups. includ- JOHN SCIARRA Selmon, the 1975 Outland Ngeno of Washington State, who defending Indoor and Outdoor ing the Fellowship of Christian Sciarra, the 1975 consensus all- Trophy winner, is a four-year was another 14 seconds back. Track and Field champions. Athletes, the Columbus Cornmix- America quarterback, has been letterman for the Sooners, earn- nity Track Club and Police Ath- the top offensive player for ing all America and all Big 8 Terry Williams of Oregon fin- Western Kentucky, which had letic L-ague and Inter-City Bet- the past two seasons and was the honors as a defensive lineman as ished fourth, followed by Paul finished second behind Oregon ter Chance, encouraging ghetto team’s MVP. He twice has been a sophomore, junior and senior Stemmer of Penn State. last year, dropped to sixth as the youngsters to pursue an educa- selected as the Chevrolet Player Nos 3-4-5 teams from 1974 as well as academic all-America James Munyala led the cham- tion and also participated on the of the Game on ABC telecasts moved up to l-2-3 this year. honors the past two years. pion Miners finishing sixth and NYSP. and four times has been the He is majoring in special edu- he was followed by teammates Herb Lindsay of Michigan He is a fund raiser for the Pacific-8 Conference Player of cation and maintains a 3.36 GPA. Frank Karuki in eighth, Antonio State, who had finished 22nd a American Cancer Society, Easter the week. Selmon was selected the out- Zuniga in 25th, Kiptanui Sirma year ago, moved into the No. 12 Seals, the Special Olympics and Hc is majoring in sociolcgy standing black student in the in 28th, and Sammy Martin in position this year and Jeff Wells the Ohio Chapter of the MIA/ with a 3.304 GPA. College of Education and a mem- 42nd place. of Rice University, 23rd last year, POW. A general representative to the ber of the Dean’s Honor Roll. He moved up one position. KURT KNOFF UTEP totaled 88 points to nar- student government, Sciarra is a National Football Founda- Knoff has been a four-year rowly defeat Washington State, serves on several student com- tion and Hall of Fame Scholar- * * * starter in football for the Sun which finished second with 92 mittees. He is involved In a tu- Athlete and active in the Little Bowl-bound Jayhawks. He was Individual Results torial program for deprived Brothers Association. an all-Big Eight selection both 1. Craig virgin (Illinois) Z&23.3. 2. Nick Rose (Western Kentucky) 23:- as a sophomore and a junior. 38.8. 3. John Ngeno (Washington He has lettered three years in State) 28’52.4. 4. Terry Williams (Ore- gon) 2a:57.9 5. Paul stemmer (Penn baseball and was the all-Big State) 28:58.3. 6. James Munyala Eight second team selection as (Texas-El Paso) 29:00.9. 7. Paul Cum- pitcher each of the past two sea- mings (Brigham Young) 29:02.2. 6. Frank Karuki (Texas-El Paso) 29:03.6. sons, leading the team in six 9. David Merrlck (Pennsylvania) 29:~ offensive categories as a junior, 05.2. 10 Steve Bold (Alabama) 29:Os.S. including posting a ,325 batting Team Scares average. 1. Texas-El Paso aa. 2. Washington He is a business administration State 92. 3. Providence 183. 4. Penn State 256. 5 East Tennessee State 268. major with a 3.54 CPA. He is 6. Western Kentucky 271. 7. Brigham active in the Big Brothers Asso- Young 292. 8. Colorado State 300. Y ciation, the Fellowship of Chris- Wisconsin 301. 10. Illinois 312. tian Athletes and the Sachem Honor Society. High Averages CHESTER C. MOELLER Only four players have aver- Moeller has been a three-year aged more that 30 points per starter for the Midshipmen, and game in at least seven games of is a consensus all-America de- National Collegiate Basketball fensive back. He was the national Championship Tournament play. player of the week in the game They are Notre Dame’s Austin against Pittsburgh, an honor he Carr (41.3), Princeton’s Bill also earned as a junior against Bradley (33.7)) Cincinnati’s Os- CHESTER C. MOELLER Notre Dame. KURT KNOFF BRIAN BASCHNAGEL car Robertson (32.4) and West He maintains a 3.1 GPA ma- Ncwal Academy Konsor Two-Sport Star Ohio State university Virginia’s Jerry West (30.6).
4 DOUBLE-CHECKING-California, Irvine freshman Ralph Serna finishes first by a wide margin in the Di- vision II Cross Country Championships (left) but double checks the finish board (top) to make sure no one slipped in ahead of him. Irvine also won the team title in the 18th title meet. -
Division II Cross Country . -....:* .7 Irvine ‘Youngsters’ Capture Crown University of California, Irvine eaters totaled 59 points. Dwyer’s second-place finish showed members of Division II Host institution N or t h r i d g e was one notch higher than last College Shooting at All-Time High it is a team to be reckoned with State finished second with 91 year when he finished third be- Shooting accuracy reached an goals per game (62.9, both teams in the future as the Anteaters points as California institutions hind Slack and C. W. Post’s John all-time high in collegr hasket- combined) also reached an all- won the Cross Country Cham- wrestled the top spot from de- Biedrzycki. Larson improved 20 ball last season. All of the na- time high and scoring went up pionship for that division with a fending champion Southwest Mis- places over his 1974 finish of tion’s major collegians combined almost four points per game to flock of underclassmen. souri State, which finished fourth 23rd. for a .460 field-goal percentage, 153.1 (both teams combined). Paced by individual winner despite a second-place individ- Other top 10 finishers return- on 386,450 goals in 840,194 at- That’s only 2.1 points per game Ralph Serna, a freshman, UC. ual effort by Dan Dwyer. Eastern ing from last year did not fare as tempts - smashmg the previous short of the all-time high set in Irvine placed all live runners in Illinois, which won back-to-back well as S.W. Missouri’s John all-time high of .454 set in 1974. 1971, when the average game the top 30 individual finishers to titles in 1968-69, was third. Prasuhn, fourth in 1974, slipped The jump of six percentage produced 35 free throws in 51.3 capture its first championship in Serna covered the five-mile to eighth; Northridge’s Ed Chai- points was the biggest sincr it attempts, compared to 27.4-for- the sport in the race run at course in 23:40.6, just off the dez, eighth a year ago, finished went up eight points to .425 in 39.7 at the line last season in the Irvine Coast Country Club in NCAA record pace of 23:33.8 by 12th; and S.W. Missouri’s John 1964. Not surprisingly, total field third year of the new foul rule. Newport Beach, Calif. The Ant- Carry Bentley of South Dakota Wellerding, ninth in 1974, was State last year in winning his 18th. Warren Eide of North Da- second consecutive Division II kota State finished sixth for the championship. second year in a row. 1975 Specirrl Convention A ttendance Analysis Steve Scott, a sophomore, was A total of 161 runners com- fourth for U.C. Irvine in 24:06, peted for individual honors with Chicago, Illinois followed by freshman Brian 20 full teams represented in the Hunsaker in 11th place, Robert title chase. DIVISION I DIVISION II DIVISION III TOTALS Slick, a sophomore, in 22nd place, No. Inst. Del. No. Inst. Del. No. Inst. Del. No. Orgn. Del. and sophomore Ed Ahlmeyer in District One 1G 15 20 18 12 12 5 5 12 12 89 39 44 30th position Smart Players District Two 46 41 59 24 16 20 89 31 33 159 88 112 The 1975 academic all-America * * * District Three 56 SO 94 68 40 SO 39 19 19 163 109 163 basketball tram selected by the nation’s university division SIDs District Four 34 34 90 29 24 35 61 35 45 125 93 170 Individual Results included three winners of NCAA Distrirt Five 21 21 45 18 16 22 15 6 7 53 43 74 1. Ralph Srrna (U.C. Irvine) 23:40.6. Postgraduate Scholarships ~ District Six 19 19 45 9 9 14 3 2 5 31 30 64 2. Daniel Dwyrr (S W Missouri) 23:52. 3. Michael Larson IEastern Illinois) Duke’s Bob Fleischer, I!-diana’s District Seven 20 19 36 5 2 2 2 1 2 27 22 40 24’00. 4. Steve scott 1u.c IIViIlC) Steve Green and Kentucky’s Bob District Eight 26 21 40 18 9 14 12 1 1 56 31 55 24:06 5 John Christy IEastern Illi- Guyette nois) 24.07. 6. Warren Eide (N. Dakota Fleischer’s 3.9 grade average Allied 29 19 27 13 9 10 11 5 5 53 33 42 St) 24:09 7. Pat Curran (Northridge TOTALS 267 239. h56 202~ i3T 179 28-r 112 129 756’ 488’ 764 State) 24.15. M John Prasuhn (SW. (4.0 is perfect) as a philosophy Missouri) 24:lfi. 9. Doisr White (SE major was highest on the team, Attendance Per Crnt .x95 ,678 390 Missouri) 24 16 10 Peter Hresen (East Guyrtte was next at 3.8 as a pre- Stroudshurg) 24:ZO. Associate .._...... _..._.. ___._._.____ ..,._...____ ,_ _. 26 1 1 dental student, followed by Okla- Affiliated ..___._...... _._._...__.._..___...... _ ._.___ 39 10 15 Team Scores homa’s Alvan Adams at 3.65 as 1. U.C. Irvine 59. 2. Northridee a pre-med major and Missis- Visitors _...... _.. ._._._.__ .._._._. . ..____..._. _._...._.. 4 4 State 91. 3 Eastern Illinois 109. -h NewsMedia _.._.....__.____...... _...._._... _...._ ._..._.._.._ - 29 37 Southwest Missouri State 143 5. U.C. sippi’s Dave Shepherd, 3.56 in Davis 154. 6 Central Mwxouri State Education. Other first team GRANDTOTALS .______.____.. __..___._..., __._...... if1 532 821 157. 7. South Dakota 210 6. North choices (all with at least B aver- No.-Indicates total number of members in district or category. Dakota State 227. 9 South Dakota State 22M. 10. Indiana of Pennsul- ages) were Kentucky’s Jimmy “‘Of the Association’s 75G voting membrrs, 488, or 64.6 per cent, were represented at the Special venia 252. Dan Conner, UCLA’s Ralph Drol- Convention. linger, Fordham’s Darryl Brown, Vanderbilt’s Jeff Fosnes and Ill- inois’ Rick Schmidt. Shepherd was shortest at 5-8, Drollingrr NCAA Convention Records tallest at 7-11/4. Number of Total Organizations Registered Active Divislon 1 Division II Division III Legislative East Produces Year Site Delegates Represented Voters and %, = Members Members Members Proposals Members All four of major-college bas- 1968 New York City 638 441 392 .609 364 ketball’s 1975 individual statisti- 1969 Los Angeles 630 426 372 .571 341 cal champions played high school 1970 Washington 733 485 435 .635 403 67 basketball on the Eastern Sca- board-Richmond’s Bob McCur- 1971 Houston 698 445 403 .587 371 48 dy (scoring, 32.9) at Deer Park, 738 483 436 ,624 401 1972 Hollywood, Fla. 93 N.Y., on Long Island, Seattle’s 1973 Chicago 834 539 479 .675 446 121 Frank Oleynick (free-throw per- 71973 Chicago 573 423 407 .576 376 221 .x4ti 110 539 76 .315 14 centage, .888) at Bridgeport, 1974 San Francisco 786 506 453 .638 415 235 .X97 121 579 97 .406 118 Conn., across the Sound from 1975 Washington “932 *589 ‘:‘538 .:,.725 “495 _:246 ‘: ,928 134 ‘:‘.680 “.I58 “..564 169 Long Island, Tennessee’s Bernard / 1975 Chicago 821 532 488 .646 455 239 .895 “137 .67X 112 .390 ‘:181 King (field-goal percentage, .622) at Brooklyn on the western tip tIndicates Special Conventions. =Percentage of voting members represented at Convention. of Long Island, and Hofstra’s *Indicates Convention records. John Irving (rebounding, 15.4) at Wilmington, Del.
NCAA NEWS / December 1, 1975 5 Kick-Scoring
Note: Publication of an interpretation in this column constim tutes official notice to the mcmbrrship. New 0.1.~ printed herein Record Taken may hc rrv~rwtd by the annual Convention at the request of any mcmtxr. C&cstions concerning these or othrr 0.1,s should be di- r-cr%cd to Warrc,rl S. Uruwn, assistant executivr dirrctor, in the By Coloradan Association’s executive o&cc. It was like the plot of a Boy’s Life short story. It is suggcstcd each set of interpretations be clipped from the Goirlg into the seaso~~‘s final Naws ;clld placed it1 the back of the reader’s NCAA Manual. It game with the Coloradci School alsu is rc~romrnended that a reference to the 0.1. be made in the of Mlncs, Wolfgang Taylor knew Manual at the appropriate point. hr would be playing his last rrg- ularxcason game for the West- Official Church Mission Definition ern State Collflge of Colorado Mountaineers, after four years of Sltuatiori: Constitution 3-9%(a) excepts time spent on official surcrssful place kicking. church missions from the five-year period of rligibility. (423) The yamr was irnportarlt: A Qtccslifm: What is Ihe definition oj an “o~JmaZ chwch mission” for win wo111cl mean 3 third consecu- parpcwes of this Irqislation? live conference title and he had Answer: An oliicial church mission is one which is required by a chance to ram a place in the the church of which the individual is a member and results in the NCAA record book. Hc had a individual being unable to attend a collegiate institution during shot at the career record for the period of the mission. [<:3-9-(a)] scoring by kicking. His 227 points had already passed the old record of 215 for Associate Membership Requirements Division II colleges, but so had Situation: An institution is an associate member of the Associa- the 234 points by Pat Bolton of t1on. (417) Montana State IJnivcrsity. who had finished his season and ca- reer a week earlier. “Wolf” nccdcd scvcn points to tie the record, eight to make it his. Off Campus Contacts The first one came on a point- Situation: A men~hcr institution’s normal recruiting of prospcc- aftrr-touchdown late in the first tivth stllti[tnts in general includr~s the involvcmcnt of either represen- quarter. tativc>r trf the instituti~,n’n athletic interests or :I member of the in- Finally, about the middle of stltlctlotl’s athletic departmrnt staff. (430) the third quarter, he got his Grst chance for a field goal-a 40 Q~tcslio~t: Are STCCh contacts, cohich are u part oj an tnstitutton’s yarder-and he made it with dis- normal rc~crlcltilr~ proclrclrrr, uffected by the provisions of NCAA tance to spare. That gave his Bylnur I-l-(c)? team a l&7 lcad. Answer: Yes. Any in-person off-campus contacts by an athletic In the final qualtcr of the department staff member or representative of the institution’s ath- game, he got his chance-to kick letic inlrresls as a part of such a program would be affected by both a 57-yarder, tough by any stan- the three-contact limitation and permissible ronlact period pro- dards. Hr made it. again with visions of Bylaw l-l-(c). IBl-l-(c)] distance to spare. Now he had a tie. Financial Aid Defined--Bylaw l-7 Time worfx on, and with just a minute and 12 seconds to go, Situation. A student-athlete transfers from a four-year collegi- the Miners had the ball. Chances ate instltutioll tu an NCAA membrr institution without appropri- for a record seemed remote ate permission as reyuircd by Bylaw 1-7 being granted by the first With six seconds on the clock, institution’s dIrector of athletes. (91) Taylor got one final chance from Q1ccslioTt : Whctf I?/pc of finuncicll aid is the studen~athlete pro- WOLFGANG TAYLOR 50 yards. hibifetl frotr~ receiving dw-iwg his first academic year in wsidence? The kick was high and true. Answer: The prohibition includes all institutional funds such as lop K,
6 Elsewhere in Education 1 Student-Aid Panel new criteria developed by the faculty of arts and Studies Olympic Sports Seven persons have been appointed to three- s:icnccs for awarding student honors. The action The President’s Commission on After a September meeting in year terms on the Advisory Council on Financial was taken after it had become evident that “grade Olympic Sports has conducted Washington, the Commission Aid to Students, according to the U.S. Office of inllation was making the attainment of honors too easy.” two separate series of meetings convened in New York Novem- Education. in the past three months to de- For the academic year 1974-75, about 60 per cent brr lo-11 and heard testimony John X. Jamrich, president of Northern Michi- termine the fate of the United from Walter Byers, rnrcutive di- gan University at Marquette, was designated of the Dartmouth student body was awarded some States’ Olympic Games move- form of honors. The new criteria will limit the rrctor of thr NCAA (whose testi- chairman of the Zlmember council which advises ment. mony begins on page 8 of this number of honors to a total of 35 per cent of each the U.S. Education Commissioner. The Commission, appointed by issue of the NEWS), and several graduating class. The new members are: Roy T. Cogdell, Gover- President Ford, is charged with members of the USOC, including determining “what factors im- rors State University; Lola J. Finch, Washington Fuel Rebate Philip 0. Krumm, president. pede or prevent the United States State University; J. Wilmrr Mirandon, United The Federal Energy Administration has been from fielding its best amateur Members of the Commission Student Aid Funds, Inc.; Thomas C. Naylor, stu- urged by the American Council on Education to athletes for participation in the are Gerald B. Zornow, chairman, dent at Stanford University; Judith A. Sarum, include nonprofit colleges and universities in any Olympic games and other inter- Donna dc Varona, W. Michael El- University of Maryland; Felix Taylor, student at rebate proposals being discussed to offset higher national amateur sporting events liott, Barbara Forker, Jerome H. University of Arkansas law school; and Thomas J. energy costs. . Special emphasis will be (Brud) Holland, Lamar Hunt, Wiens, Summit County Bank, Frisco, Colo. Rafer Johnson, Mickie King, Rhodes Scholarships placed on organizational struc- ture of Olympic sports including #James A. McCain, Howard K. Holmes Resigns Women may br eligible for scholarships to br the U.S. Olympic Committee and Smith, Bill Toomey, Ernie Van- dewephe, Willye White and Prtrr E. Holmes has resigned as director of the awarded in December, 1976 by the Rhodes Schol- the individual sports federa- Charles (Bud) Wilkinson. Office for Civil Rights to accept a position on the arship Trust, it has been reported as the British tions.” The Commission will exist for In addition to the Prrsidcntial stafl’ of Senate Minority Whip Robert P. Griffin Parliament is considering legislation to make it 12 months and will prepare two appointees, Congressional w- (R-Mich.). illegal for an educational trust to discriminate on Women’s Meeting the basis of sex. reports for the President The pointaes are J. Glenn Beall first report is due at the end of CR-MCI.), Richard Stone (D- HEW Secretary F. David Mathews and repre- The British Government has announced plans the fifth month and will present Calif. j, John C. Culver (D-Iowa) sentatives of 17 women’s organizations have to implcmrnt thr legislation on Dec. 29 and the an organizational analysis of thr and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) agreed on Dec. 18 as the date to discuss sex dis- Rhodes trustees have announced they will move U.S. Olympic Committrc. The from the Senate and Jack Kemp crimination issues in Washington. promptly to take advantage of it to eliminate their second report is due at the end (RmN.Y.), Ralph Metcalf (D- male eligibility requirement. Each year, 75 schol- of the 12th month and will ana- 111.j, Robert Michcl (R-Ill.), and Tougher Honors arships are awarded with 32 of them going to lyze the problems in each Olym- Norm Mineta (D-Calif. j from the Trustees of Dartmouth College have approvrd Americans. pit Sport. House
Recommendations for USOC Reform Offered control the Board of Directors, and the need for a time, under the same pressure, th USOC purported meeting in Orlando, the USOC compensated the broadly representative Board of Directors must be to repeal the Grccnbrier Amendment. AAU for its resultant loss in voting power by giv- balanced with the need that the Board of Directors ing the AAU double Board be able to get something done. Illustrative of what Anyone who examines the steps in fact taken by voting power at the we have in mind are the following proposals: the USOC at Orlando must immediately be struck of Directors level in both swimming and track and (i) That the Board of Directors be composed of 30 by two things. First, the UCOC sport committees field, and for the first time, authorizing the AAU persons, 12 from Group A members, 8 from USOC wcrc eliminated, thus placing total control of a not only to be a member of Group A, but also a member-with added voting power-of USOC mem- members of Groups B through I and 9 athletes (8 particular sport in the hands of each individual be:ship Group B. representing Summer Games competitors and 3 Group A member, without even minority voice by from the Winter Games). Adding the USOC presi- While thus we submit that the 1974 internal other TJnited States organizations active in that dent, this would constitute the Board of Directors at sport. USOC reorganization is little more than a cruel 30 persons. joke on American world-class athletes, the Ameri- Scrond, and coven more important, after setting (ii) That the Executive Committee be composed up an elaborate and expensive arbitration device- can Congress and the American public, I am not here primarily to focus on the USOC’s purported of 13 persons- 5 from Group A, 3 from Groups R carefully drawn to favor the incumbent Group A through I and 4 athletes, including at least 1 from member-the USOC added the afterthought that if reorganization of itself. The point is that such a the Winter Games competitors, plus the USOC the incumbent were found less qualified than the reorganization from within is impossible. president. challenger to act as the Group A member in a par- Other Interests (iii) That no individual be permitted to serve on ticular sport, the incumbent would have a reason- Specifically, the USGC has been dominated over the Exccutivr Committee or Board for more than able time to place its housr in order, and thrrrby the years-not by competing athletes and individ- eight years, cxcrpt as president, and there be man- retain Group A membership. uals who from day to day and year to year are datory retirement at the age of 67. Thus, under the guise of reform, the Group A directly involved in the training and development Shortcoming members insulated themselves against challenge by of competing athletes, but rather by a group of 2. A major shortcoming of USOC developmental a biased arbitration procedure which leads to a men who currently devote the principal portion activities is that rather than conducting an ongoing dead end. What organization in the IJnited States of their time and energy to matters other than the developmental program, the USOC’s program is is going to spend the time and monry nrcrssary to development of opportunities and programs for ath- both sporadic and narrowly based. Effective devel- challciigc a Group A member, when the ultimate letic competition. The USOC will never, in my opment cannot occur mrrcly through quadrennial rrsult is an admonition to the Group A mrmber to judgment, become successfully involved in the de- build-ups to the Olympics; it must be a continuing do a better job’! velopment of American athletic talent, rather than program. It can best be accomplished, we belirvc, Arbitration Charade merely in the erstwhile purveying of American through: In short, the arbitration device is a rharadc, and athletic talent, until this fundamental approach of a. A comprehensive 1~s~ of thr “Junior Olympic” concept, with the right to use that appellation being the USOC knows it. Those of you who have ex- avocationism is changed. accorded each qualified group or organization which amined the transcript of the USOC Board of Dirrc- If it is ever to be a valid, American institution, offers a legitimate devrlopmcntal me&, event or tors rnrrting at Milwaukee, at which proposrd in- the USOC must be forced into a position of account- program Then, and only then, will thr Olympic de- ternal IJSOC amendments were first discussed in ability to the American people. velopment effort begin to reach the American youth Scptrmbrr 1974, will be aware that the arbitration Given these convictions, what then does the and public, and begin to arouse their interest and device was characterized in open meeting by an NCAA see as specific directions for reform? They financial support. ofiicer of thr USOC as, and I quote, “a public rela- are basically these: b. Group A members control U. S. Olympic fi- tioris gimmick for us, in Washington.” 1. The power enjoyed by the Group A members nances. Money contributed under the present sys- The callous deceit of the 1J.S. Olympic Committee in the USOC is not In the best Interest oP the tem by the American public to the “II. S. Olympic” should be a sufficient indictment to expel the pres- United States. Under the present system, each movement too often is used by Group A members, ent Olympic officeholders. Group A member exists as a Group A member not should assume on their own. This practice diverts to mrrt costs which they, as Group A members, Lrt mr illustrate further. The NCAA, in resign- because the American public, American athletes, Olympic funds to thr brnrfit of Group A members ing from the USOC, criticized the USOC for failing American athletic administrators or the American instead of gcncrating broadly based youth Olympic to focus its attention upon the needs of American Congress want it to be, but because it has been so development activities. Federally enacted guide- athletes The Committee for a Better Olympics, an named by an international organization consisting lines should safeguard the use of money contributed independent group of recent Olympic athletes, ath- of individuals who represent the interests of other by the American public for purposes of the tJ. S letic administrators and intrrestcd citizens formed nations. We recommend the presently unresponsive Olympic movement. following the Munich Olympics, shortly thereafter power of the Group A members in the USOC be 3. The USOC must. on a regular and continuing proposed a major restructuring of the USOC which diminished by two means. basis, be brought to account before the American in part would have accorded athletes a major voice a. First, the establishment of an effective do- people. It would appear that the most effective in the governing bodies of the USOC. mestic mechanism by which Group A members can means by which this can be done is to require an- Jn response, the USOC, at Orlando in December be challenged and replaced. Inevitably, we believe, nual, detailed reports by the USOC to the Congress with oversight responsibility concerning USOC op- 1974, changed the voting structure of its Board of the establishment of such a procedure will force Directors and Executive Committee to decrease the erations centered in a Joint Congressional Com- Group A members to focus primarily upon their mittee. This seems highly appropriate in light of the voting participation of athletes in those bodies, from responsibilities to the American public and Ameri- Federally chartered, exclusive status of the KJSOC 12 per cent to seven per cent on the Board of can athletes, because if they do not, challengers who as an agency of the IJnited States. Dirrrtors, and from 14 per cent to less than four are willing to do so will be at hand to replace them. 4. A fundamental defect of USOC operational per cent on the Executive Committee. b. Second, we propose to limit the control of the methods is the lack of authority enjoyed by its One final illustration. It is by now a well known Group A members over the USOC by total reorgan- professional staff. In my judgment, the USOC’s in fact that the AAU-with right franchises the largest of the USGC’s Board of Directors and Executive effective use of the leadership role granted it by Group A member by far-has lost in recent years Committee. The Board of Directors is so large as to the Congress is a direct product of diffusion of rem its membership in the international federations gov- be impotent as a governing body. There is no re- sponsibility within the USOC--with most respon erning gymnastics and basketball, and accordingly, quirement in the IOC rules that Group A members sibility bring assumed by individuals who devote has lost voting strength in the USOC. At its recent only a small portion of their time to USOC affairs.
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Qb&{‘: Testimony Before Olympic Commission USOC Must Be Reformed From Outside-Byers -1 (EDITOR'S NOTE: NCAA Executive Director Walter mission will give its attention. In doing so, we do it refuses to be inhibited by the careful15 contrived Byers appeared before the President’s Commission not intend to recite the dreary and, indeed, some- USOC threat that if forces within the United States on Olympic Sports in New York City in November. times disgusting examples of Olympic maladminis- but outside of the USOC change thr structure of Following are ercetpts from his testimony. See re- tration which have accumulated in the records of the U.S. Olympic Committee in a manner not ac- Zated story on Page 7.) many proceedings over the past decade or so. We ccptable to the USOC hierarchy, then the United The NCAA thus appreciates the opportunity to assume that all thoughtful people recognize that States will bc thrown out of the Olympic Games. present to this Commission its views concerning something is seriously wrong with the administra- I say the USOC will never change becausr during necessary reorganizational reforms of the USOC. tion of our international sports competition and, recent years when it has been under the greatrst Each member of the Commission is probably aware particularly, that phase of it related to the admin- pressure to reorganize, the USOC deliberately has istration of the U.S. Olympic Committee. that the NCAA is not today a member of the USOC, become more insular, more private-and less repre- having resigned its membership in 1972. Suggestions sentative of the United States. As we stated at the time, the NCAA resigned be- Let me illustrate. For as long as I can remember, Something must be done and, in drciding what the all-powerful Group A members of the USOC- cause of our conviction that the then current USOC to do, we urge this Commission to think in these apparatus was not properly serving the interests of this nation’s international franchise holders--have, terms: the nation or its citizens and was not responsive to when their individual power or their collective I. The U.S. Olympic Committee ml-st be estab- the needs of those it was primarily supposed to dominance of the USOC was threatened, caused lished as a representative organization of the United serve-the athletes-and, also, because of the re- changes to be made in USOC organic documents in States of America and its citizens. In the United peated refusal of the USOC to alter its discredited order to make their control and power more secure. States, the Olympic Games at this point in history system. are a quadrennial spectacle which increasingly at- Both the Sulger Amendment (which required that At the time of its resignation, the NCAA called tracts less attention and one of the reasons is that the Group A members control the all-important for a total reorganization of the USOC. We do so concerned citizens of this nation are deliberately USOC sport committees) and the Greenbrier again. denied any significant role in U.S. Olympic affairs. Amendment (which required aspirants for USOC Nothing has happened since 1972 to lead the II. Meaningful procedures must be established to Group A membership first to run the roadblock of NCAA to reconsider its status as a non-member of application to the USOC before application to an the USOC. Specifically, the widely touted internal make the management of our Olympic affairs re- international federation was in order) were de- reorganization of the USOC, purportedly completed sponsible to this nation, and the athletes who rep- at Orlando, Florida, in December of last year, is in resent the USA, and not permit the United States’ signed to solidify the power and invulnerability of the judgment of the NCAA an outrageous charade. destiny in Olympic competition to be controlled by the Group A members. It properly can be termed outrageous because the international agencies which presumably are be- Following the Olympic debacle at Munich in 1972, USOC -through its media release - claimed one yond the reach of the United States Congress and the Congress and many others brgan to focus on thing while knowing full well it had done just the the American people. obvious need for a restructuring of the USOC, and opposite, The only positive aspect of this capricious III. Guarantees must be developed whereby the most particularly, upon the drvclopment of a mrch- escapade was to demonstrate beyond doubt that the atmosphere of administration and the conditions of anism to permit the most qualified American orga- nization reprcscnt this country to the various USOC is absolutely incapable of meaningful in- training and competition are such to encourage the to international sports federations ternal reorganization and does not deserve the sup- athlete to participate in the Olympic Games and port of the American public as it is currently struc- make him proud to represent the United States of In response to intense Congressional pressure, the tured and operated. America. IJSOC purported to establish an arbitration mrch- anism for hearing challenges to the qualification of It is our fervent hope that this Commission will These projects clearly cannot be left to the U.S. a particular Group A member continuing to repre- not interpret its assignment narrowly or sell itself Olympic Committee to accomplish, as it is struc- sent the United States in that sport. At the .s;lmc short as to its capacity or influence. We wish to tured at the present time. Your Commission may identify critical issues to which we hope this Ccm- be able to accomplish these objectives, but only if Conlinued on pnge 7
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