December 19,1984, Volume 21 Number 45 Official Publication Oft Ational Collegiate Athletic Association
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_~The NCAA December 19,1984, Volume 21 Number 45 Official Publication oft ational Collegiate Athletic Association Ralph H. Boston Muj. Gen. Willium Carpenter Paul J. Choquette A hner Ha.ynes Oscar Robertson Silver Anniversary. award winners selected Five men whose athletic achieve- track and field athlete; Maj. &n. Association also will honor the recipi- A six-time Amateur Athletic Un- a medical research technician at Los ments include a world record, Olym- William S. Carpenter Jr., IJ.S. Mili- ents of the Today’s Top Five awards ion all-America performer, hc won Angeles’ Mount Sinai Hospital and pit medals and all-America recogm- tary Academy football and lacrosse and the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the Olympic gold medal m the long Research Clime. Hr became assistant tion for athletics and academics have player; Paul .I. Choquette Jr.. Brown the highest honor given by the Asso- jump in 1960, the silver in 1964 and track coach at Tennessee Spate in been named recipients of the NCAA’s University track athlete and football ciation. the bronze in 1968. 1963 but left that post in 1968 to Silver Anniversary awards. The player; Abner Haynes, North Texas He was captain of his college track become the coordinator of minority awards honor former student-athletes State University football player, and Ralph Boston team twice, and he served as a tutor to affairs and special services at the who have led distinguished lives after Oscar Robertson, University of Gin- The world-record holder in the Tennessee State students and young- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. outstanding athletic careers In college cinnati basketball player. long jump from 1960 to 1968, Boston sters in local primary and secondary Boston has served as a cornmen- 25 years ago. Presentation of the awards will be competed in the long jump, triple schools. He was a jumor Olympic tator for ESPN since 1980 and has Recipients of the awards are Ralph made January I4 during the NCAA jump, hurdles, high jump, pole vault coach for three years. been an account executive for South H. Boston, Tennessee State University honors luncheon in Nashville. The and javelin throw at Tennessee State. After graduation, Boston served as Central Bell since 1982. The first inductee into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame (I 974), Agenda announced for faculty representatives forum Boston also has been enshrined by Johy B. Slaughter, chancellor of Slaughter and Ramer will speak on represemative at Tennessee from 1961 other two members of that subcom- the U.S. Track and Field Hall of the University of Maryland, College the role of the faculty representative, to 1978. He served on the NCAA unittee-Francis W. Banner, faculty Fame. He was the first Black elected Park, and Earl M. Ramer, former fat- with Slaughter presenting a chief exe- Council from 1964 through 1970 and athletics representative at Furman to the Mississippi hall of fame. ulty athletics representative at the cutive officer’s view and Ramer pro- was president of the NCAA in 1971 University, and Charles H. Samson, Boston was an original member of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, viding an in-depth perspective based and 1972. He then served on the faculty representative to the NCAA the Special Olympics staff and has will highlight the agenda for the spe- in part on his study, “Athletic Com- NCAA Executive Committee from at Texas A&M University-who will served on the President’s Council on cial meeting of faculty representatives mittees and Faculty Representatives,” 1973 through 1978. chair the remainder of the meeting. Physical Fitness and Sports. to be conducted Sunday, January 13, that was published by the NCAA in The January I3 meeting will be After the presentations by Slaugh- He served on the U.S. Olympic at the NCAA Convention in Nash- 1980. opened by William D. Bradford, ter and Ramer, Bonner and Samson Committee in 1972 and was an ath- ville. M.D., faculty representative at Duke ,will lead an open discussion of the Slaughter, chancellor at Maryland letes’ representative to the games that The meeting, first announced in University and chair of a special need for a continuing forum for fac- since 1982, is a member of the NCAA same year. the November 26 issue of The NCAA Council subcommittee that planned ulty representatives and possible agen- Presidents’ Commission, vice-chair News, is intended as an attempt to the meeting. He will introduce the das for future meetings. William Carpenter establish an ongoing forum for faculty of the Commission’s Division I sub- Army’s fabled “Lonesome End,” athletics representatives at NCAA committee and chair of its Presidential Carpenter earned first team all-Amer- member institutions. It is scheduled Nominating Committee. ica honors in 1959. A national statis- from I to 3 p.m. January 13. Ramer, now retired, was faculty tical leader in 1958 with 22 catches for 453 yards, he tied the Army record for catches in a single season. As a Football attendance in ‘84 senior, he caught 43 passes for 591 shows increase of 350,000 See Silver, page I I By James M. Van Valkenburg varsity teams (501 are NCAA In the News NCAA Director of Statistics members). It is the 29th increase in Head football coach Jerry Claim Record years in per-game average the past 31 seasons, with small borne has built the University of by the Big Ten, Atlantic Coast and decreases in 1974 and 1983. Kentucky program into a model of Western Athletic Conferences and by After major-attendance declines in integrity and decency. .2 Division I-A Southern independents the early 1950s with no television offset big losses by the “grass roots” restrictions, the NCAA Football Tele- Season previews in indoor track teams and helped college football vision Plan was instituted. Attendance and skiing . 6-7 attendance reach an all-time high. started back up in 1954, reaching I7 Championships highlights in Divi- The increase was 350,302 million, and is now more than twice sion I men’s soccer, Division I wom- spectators, making the total that figure. en’s volleyball and Division I-AA 36,652,17Y for all 654 four-year Division I-A attendance increased football .8-9 colleges in the United States with See Foolhall, page IO John B. Sluughfer firl A4. Ramer Legislative Assistance I I Resolution would reaffirm commitment to amateurism A resolution to reaffirm the NCAA amateur sports organizations in the that it does not intend to follow “the tutions to reaffirm their commitment l Require any member institution membership’s commitment to the Umted States and internationally.” recent tendency of our Olympic move- to amateurism principles outlined in that competes in such achampionship Association’s principles of amateur- NCAA President John I.. Toner, ment to loosen those standards of Articles 2 and 3 of the NCAA constIm to meet institutional and individual ism and a proposal to establish a followingthe Council’s October meet- amateurism_’ tution and directs the Eligibility Com- eligibility rules of the division in mittee to maintain these principles in which a two-thirds majority of the National Collegiate Championship ing, said the Council’s action means The resolution asks member insti- for any sport in which only one cham- considering appeals for restoration of institutions that sponsor the sport are pionship is conducted headline I2 the eligibility of affected student- classified (as well as rules of its own amateurism and championships prop- Change announced in Council slate athletes. membership division). osals facing delegates to the 19X5 The Nominating Committee ha announced a change in its slate of Proposal No. 90, sponsored by the l Allow any National Collegiate NCAA Convention. candidates for vacancies on the NCAA Council. In a telephone conference Council and supported hy the NCAA Championship (for which all divisions The Council is sponsoring Proposal December 18, the committee nominated Frederick Hemke, faculty athletics Executive Committee, tops six cham- are eligible) to continue so long as at No. 84, which was recommended by representative at Northwestern University, as the Big Ten Conference pionships proposals. In addition to least 50 member institutions sponsor the NCAA Eligibility Committee in candidate, replacing Gilbert S. Banker, who is leaving Purdue IJniversity. establishing a National Collegiate the sport. response to “growing differences be- The complete slate appeared in the November I9 LSSUCof The NCAA News Championship In a sport m which l Not permit such a championship tween the amateur regulations of the and the Official Notice of the 1985 Convention. The corrected slate will be only one championship is conducted, to receive transportation expenses if Association and those of various other printed in the Convention Program. the proposal would. See Resolution. page 11 2 December 19,1984 I I The NCAA Comment Old-fashioned ideals give new life to Kentuckv By Billy Reed gave him when she caught him lying about sneaking a cigarette. Once he took over, Claiborne was appalled by much ofzhat Louisville Courier-Journal He was six or seven at the time.. he found, especially in the area of academics. He rolled up his The national publicity and the big awards will go, as always, “I never lied to her again,” he says, “and I never smoked again, sleeves and got out his broom. to the coaches of the teams that finish highest in the polls and do either.” When he first imposed his old-fashioned sense of discipline the best in the bowls. His mother died of a heart attack in 1949, the first day of and order, the initial reaction on the part of some players was to But it says here, there should be a special award somewhere practice in Jerry’s senior year at UK ~ but by then her principles snicker.