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ational Collegiate Athletic Association Official Notice to be mailed The Official Notice of the 1984 included in copies to athletic dents) and vacancies on the NCAA NCAA Convention will be mailed directors, reminding them that Council, as proposed by the November 22 to the chiefexecutive the chief executive officers of Nominating Committee. officer, faculty athletic represen- their institutions receive the This is the second year that the tative, director of athletics and delegate appointment forms. Nominating Committee’s recom- primary woman administrator of Also included in the Official mendations have been distributed athletics programs at each active Notice is an up-to-date schedule to the membership prior to the member institution, as well as to of meetings being held January Convention. The committee’s officers of allied and affiliated 6-12 in conjunction with the 78th recommendations also will be members. annual NCAA Convention. featured in the November 2 I issue Included in the annual publi- of The NCAA News. cation are all 162 proposed All members are urged to review Accompanying the Nominating amendments to the Association’s the opening section of the Official Committee’s recommendations in legislation that were submitted Notice, which sets forth in detail the Official Notice is a review of by the November 1 deadline. the procedure for appointing dele- the Council-approved procedures Chief executive officers receive gates and other pertinent policies for nominating and electing with their copies the official forms regarding Convention operations members of the Council and on which CEOs appoint their and voting. NCAA officers. That information delegates to the Convention, which The official Notice also contains also will be reprinted in the will be held January 9-l I, 1983, an appendix listing the candidates Convention Program, which is at Loews Anatole Hotel, Dallas, being proposed for NCAA offcers distributed at the Convention Texas. A special notice will be (Divisions I1 and III vice-presi- itself. Convention delegates to review 11 academic-related proposals Editor’s Note: Thefollowing is the Proposal No. 24, sponsored by probation as defined by the certifying first in a series of articles covering the Big Ten Conference, seeks to institution in order to meet the legislation to be considered at the establish qualitative academic pro- requirements of the satisfactory- 78th annual Convention. The topical gress requirements for eligibility. The progess rule. grouping to be considered in this proposal would require a student- The proposal also would require issue is academics. In the remaining athlete to earn a 1.700 accumulative Divisions I and II members tocertify issues of The NCAA News leading minimum grade-point average (based annually to the NCAA Academic up to the Convention, legislation in on a 4.000 maximum) to be eligible Testing and Requirements Committee the following topical groups will be for the first season of competition their compliance with the satisfactory- considered:governance, fmancial aid, after the freshman year. The CPA progress rule, and it also would eligibility, championships. recruiting, requirement would increase to I .850 authorize spot checks by authorized membership/classification. amateur- after the second season and 2.000 representatives of the NCAA to verify ism, playing and practice seasons, after the third or fourth season. compliance. personnel limitations, and general. Developed by the American Two other satisfactory-progress Delegates to the 78th Convention Council on Education and sponsored proposals deal with junior college will consider 11 amendments relating by seven NCAA member institutions, transfers. Proposal No. 27, sponsored to academic requirements, with six Proposal No. 25 would require a by the NCAA Council as recom- of the I I dealing with the satis- student-athlete to be in good aca- mended by the Select Committee on factory-progress rule. demic standing and not on academic Athletic Problems and Concerns in Higher Education, would require a junior college transfer who was a AIAW appeal hearing set 2.000 nonqualifier to show satisfac- tory progress toward a specific 11. The identity of the three judges Oral arguments will be heard Jan- baccalaureate degree, as well as will be known earlier in January. uary I I, 1984, in the Association for graduate from the junior college, to The AIAW is appealing the Feb- Intercollegiate Athletics for Women’s be eligible immediately for financial ruary 28.1983, ruling by U.S. District appeal in its antitrust litigation against aid, practice and competition upon Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson Swimming and diving preview the NCAA. transfer to a Division I member that the NCAA committed no viola- institution. Stanford University is expecting its best men’s swimming team A three-judge panel of the U.S. tions of the antitrust laws when it To be effective August I, 1984, the in school history and backstroker David Bottom is one of the Court of Appeals for the District of began offering championships and Council’s proposal would require a reasons. For a preview of the men’s and women’s swimming Columbia has scheduled the appeal other programs in women’s athletics 2.000 nonqualifier to complete a for 9:30 a.m. Eastern time January in 1981. and diving seasons, and the fencing season, see pages 8-12. minimum of48 semester or 72 quarter hours of transferable credit that is acceptable toward a specific bacca- Two coaches seek 700th basketball victories laureate degree to be eligible at the certifying institution. By Jim Van Valkenburg behind Oklahoma State’s Henry Iba last 20 seasons at Marshall. Wooden .806, Allen .768 and John In a related proposal, the Atlantic NCAA Director of Statistics but passed him during the season A total of 32 college coaches have McLendon Jr. .760 (523-165) at five Coast Conference is sponsoring No. Early this season, Clarence “Big- and reached 700-well ahead of Iba, won at least 500 games. Eight are colleges, including Tennessee State. 28, which would require a junior house” Gaines of Winston-Salem who did not make it until the final active this season-Gaines, Meyer, Interestingly, Allen learned the college transfer who was a 2.000 State and Ray Meyer of DePaul will game of the season. Washington’s Mat-v Harshman (596) game at Kansas in his undergraduate qualifier, but who has not graduated become the fifth and sixth coaches in Kansas’ Forrest C. “Phog” Allen Oregon State’s Ralph Miller (542, days under the game’s inventor, James from junior college, to demonstrate all of college basketball-all divisions was the first to win 700, and he did it not including 15 victories in 1976 Naismith (who once told Allen, satisfactory progress toward a degree and associations-to reach 700 career during his 1952NCAA championship forfeited by NCAA Council action), “Forrest, you don’t coach basketball, See Convention, page 20 victories. season. Western Kentucky’s Ed Grambling’s Fred Hobdy (532). you just play it”), and three 500- Gaines starts his 38th season, all Diddle was next, reaching 700 in Mount St. Mary’s Jim Phelan (530) victory coaches were Kansas grad- at Winston-Salem State, with a 699- 1960. Rupp finished at 875, Allen Houston’s Guy Lewis (530) and uates and Allen pupils-Rupp (1923), In the News 31 I record. Meyer starts his 42nd 771, Iba 767 and Diddle 759. Florida’s Norm Sloan (507). McLendon (1936) and Miller (1942). Many ideas that athletes have and final season, all at DePaul, with Next after Gaines and Meyer on The 500-victory list includes Leo Another Allen pupil, North about nutrition are wrong, according a 697-351 record. Gaines hopes to the all-time victory list are John Nicholson, 505-28 1 in 33 seasons at Carolina’s Dean Smith (1953), is to a leading consultant.. _. 2 reach No. 700 in the season-opening Wooden, 667, mostly at UCLA, Central Washington, ending in 1964. next in line to join the 500-victory Football notes and statistics in all Bighouse Invitational November 25 ending in 1975; Bloomer Sullivan, His son, Dean Nicholson, succeeded list. Smith has 496 victories and a NCAA divisions . .4-7 26 at home. DePaul’s third game is 662, all at Southeastern Oklahoma; him at Central and has won 435 .764 percentage, which would put Championships previews in Divi- December 3 against Illinois State at Ed Adams, a Tuskegee graduate games in I9 seasons, making 940 him ahead of McLendon’s .760. No sion III football, Division I men’s home. whose father founded what is now wins and still counting by one other college has more than one soccer and Division III women’s The last time any coach in any Grambling State, 645 at North father-and-son combination at one graduate on the “500” list. (Rupp is volleyball . 13 division of any association reached Carolina Central, Tuskegee and college over 52 seasons. not the all-time percentage leader NCAA legal counsel advises 700 victories was 20 seasons ago- Texas Southern; John Lance, 643, Comparing the 500-victory coaches among coaches with at least 10 sea- member institutions to protect their the 1963-64 season. Kentucky’s mostly at Pittsburg State in Kansas, on a percentage basis, the top five sons in Division I; that honor goes to copyrights on telecasts of athletic Adolph Rupp started that season and Cam Henderson, 611, with the are Rupp at .822, Adams .808, See lbo. page 17 events . .17 2 November 14.1983 The’ NCAA C omgnent There is no magic diet to aid the athlete By Bruce Lowitt most athletes at the Olympic level now know it’s just the amount of sary. If the kind of food is something pouring on the carbohydrates can Steak and eggs are the best don’t tend to have as many mis- training that determines it.