The NCAA December 14,1983, Volume 20 Number 44 Official Publication of the ational Collegiate Athletic Association ~~- John Frank Elizabeth Heiden Terry Hoage !<fan Humphries Sieve Young TpI oaay1 / s T I op l-0mve award winners selected Three National Football Founda- awards. and quarterback Steve Young, nounced in the December 2 I issue of of ceremonies for the event. tion and Hall of Fame scholar-ath- The student-athletes selected are Brigham Young University. The NCAA News. The Today’s Top Five awards are letes, an academic a&America selec- tight end John Frank, Ohio State These current student-athletes will The awards will be presented at presented to student-athletes who tion with medical-school aspirations, University; three-sport star Elizabeth join five former varsity letter winners the 19th annual NCAA honors have achieved athletic success, shown and a three-sport standout who has Heiden, University of Vermont; de- who will receive Silver Anniversary luncheon, to be held January 9, leadership qualities and displayed won an NCAA cross country skiing fensive backTerry Hoage, tlniversity awards to become the College Ath- 1984, in conjunction with the NCAA academic prowess. Only seniors from title have been named recipients of of Georgia; offensive lineman Stefan letics Top Ten for 1983. The Silver Convention. CBS news correspondent the current calendar year are eligible. the Association’s Today’s Top Five Humphries, University of Michigan, Anniversary winners will be an- Charles Kuralt will serve as master John Frank The Ohio State tight end has averaged more than I I yards per NCAA Award of Valor will go fo ]oe Delaney reception during his career. Frank Joseph Alton Delaney, a former all-America completing the requirements for his under- holds all records for tight ends at the performer in football and track at Northwestern graduate degree at the time of his death. school and is fourth on the all-time State University (Loutsiana) who died last June Delaney played in I5 games m the NFL pass-catching list. He was named all- 29 while trying to save three youngsters from a spanning the 1981 and 1982 seasons. His 1,121 Big Ten Conference, and the team rain-swollen water hole, is this year’s recipient yards in IYXI ranked as the seventh highest total captain has earned three varsity of the NCAA Award of Valor. for a rookie in NFI. history letters. Delaney, who was a budding star with the He was selected to the 1981 Pro Bowl after Frank is one of three National Kansas City Chiefs of the Nattonal tootball setting Chiefs’ records for most yards in a Football Foundation and Hall of League, will be recognired January 9 at the season ( I, I2 I), most yards in a game ( 193 vs. Fame (NFFHF) scholar-athletes NCAA honors luncheon rn Dallas, held in Houston), most consecutive IOO-yard-plus games among the winners. He maintained a conjunction with the NCAA Convention. (three) and most loo-yard games in a season 3.820 grade-point average with a Delaney’s widow, Carolyn. will accept the award, (five). He averaged 4.6 yards per carry and 9. I chemistry/ premedicine major. Twice the first Award of Valor madr posthumously. yards per reception during his brief career. named CoSlDA academic all- According to newspaper accounts, Delaney’s The NCAA Award of Valor is not awarded America, Frank also has received love for children had led to his driving a group automatically on an annual basis. The award the John Galbreath Outstanding of neighborhood youngsters to Monroe, may be presented to a coach or administrator Student Award and the Ohio State Louisiana, from his home in Haughton for a currently associated with intercollegiate athletics Scholar-Athlete Award. “Kids Day”event sponsored by a local television or a current or former varsity letter winner at an station. NCAA institution who, when confronted with a He has been active in the Big While at the park in Monroe, Delaney respon- situation involving personal danger, averted or Brothers of America volunteer pro- ded to cries for help from three youths who were mtmmtzed potential disaster by courageous gram, the Sphinx service organiza- floundering in a water hole left by recent action or noteworthy bravery. tion, and the Bucket and Dipper and construction work. The 24-year-old rushed to Previous award winners have included Romophos campus service organiza- their aid and died trying to rescue them. Only Timothy J. McCarthy, agraduate of the Univer- tions. one of the three boys was able to make It to sity of Illinois, Champaign, and member of Frank has served as a research shore. President Ronald Reagan’s security staff, 1982; assistant at Ohio State for three Delaney was recovered from the water hole Dwayne A. Wright, a former baseball player at years and has coauthored a published after the two youths who drowned, and attempts St. Mary’s College (California), 1977; Charles medical-research paper. to revive him were unsuccessful. G. (Lefty) Driesell, agraduate of Duke University Terry Hoage Delaney twice was named all-America in and head basketball coach at the University of football while attending Northwestern State, Maryland, College Park, 1974, and the 1973 The 1982 NCAA leader in pass and he also earned a&America recognition as a Ursinus College basketball team. interceptions (l2), Hoage is a two- sprinter. He earned four varsity letters in football Other posthumous awards already have been time consensus all-America selection. and three in track and was in the process of See NCAA, page 16 Joseph A. Delaney See Today ‘s. page I6 Legislative proposals aimed at expanding championships Editork Note: This is the /ifih Other proposals in this category the Association’s membership to l-l-(b) to all championships instituted current championship in an Olympic article in u series on legislation to he deal with specific championships in establish a National Collegiate in 1982-83 or after. The effective sport established prior to 1982-83 consideredar rhe 78th annuul NCAA the various divisions, including the Championship and 20 percent of a date would be immediate. from the sponsorship requirements Convenrion. The roprcal grouping estabhshment of men’s and women’s division’s membershtp to establish a Going a step further in modifying of Executive Regulations I-l-(a) and treated in [his issue is championships. indoor track championships in Divi- championship within that division. championship requirements, Pro- l-f-(b) so long as other championship In the remaining issues of The NCAA sions II and III and a men’s ice Executive Regulation I-I-(b) requires posal No. 82 would exempt any See Leg&rive, page 16 News preceding rhe Convention. hockey championship in Division 25 percent sponsorship in either Iegislarion in the ,following topical III. situation. In the News groups will be discussed: recruiting. Proposal No. X0, the first in the The proposal is sponsored by 29 Two longtime athletics admmistrators discuss the issues surrounding membership and classifi:cation. ama- championships package, seeks to member institutions and carries an college football television controls _. _. _. _. _. _. _. 2 reurkm. pla ving andprucrice seasons, permit women’s championships in immediate effective date. Basketball notes and statistics in all divisions.. 4-6 personnel I~milalions. and general. sports that had no NCAA champion- Proposal No. 8 I, sponsored by I5 Championships highlights in Drvisions II and III football and Divisions II Proposals to modify the require- ships prior to 1979-80 to be organized institutions, would apply the pro- and Ill women’s volleyball ______. ___. __. __. _. _. _. __.__ .._ . 7-8 ments for establishing and maintain- before 1986-87 in accordance with visions of Executive Regulation I-I- More about Dallas and the 1984 annual NCAA Convention ing NCAA championshtps are among Executive Regulation l-l-(a) rather (a) (seven percent and 20 percent) to headquarters.. _. _. __.__. _____ __ ._ _. _____ ___. _. _. ___.__ ___ /(1-/l 14 championships legislative propo- than Executive Regulation I I -( b). all championships established prior The College Sports Information Directors of America announces its sals to be voted on by delegates to This action would lower the sponsor- to 1982-83 and would apply the academic all-America football teams _. _. _. _. 13 the 1984 NCAA Convention. ship requirement to seven percent of provisions of Executive Regulation 2 December t4,1983 I The NCAA Comment Majority should act on television matters . V By Wayne Duke determined by a majority of Division I-A, the policies on grants-in-aid, If national controls are no longer The central issues concerning the I-A-that is, 53 of the 104 members- coaching limits and like football permissible through the NCAA, it is present struggle over college football then they should pursue their televi- matters are determined by a majority my personal view that there will not television controls too often have sion objectives through the NCAA. vote of the members. The members be unity in the development of a been obscured by emotional rhetoric In the NCAA, there is an existing of the College Football Association, CFA or coalition package for the and diversionary, ad hominem refer- organization with authority and Big Ten and Pacific- IO Conferences reasons 1 stated earlier in this article. ences to some of the personalities power to enforce the rules adopted represent 81 or 77 percent of the In my view, the Big Ten Conference involved. The real issues are these: by the membership, and the powerful mstitutions in I-A Thus, thesegroups will have achoice of either developing I.