The notion’s biggest spectacle was held January 20, 1968, when 52,963 fans filled Houston’s Astrodome for the Houston-UCLA game. Collegiate Basketball returns to Houston March 25-27, with better seating (arrows above) and press accommodations for the 1971 National Collegiate Basketball Championship. Basketball Practice BeclinsOct. 15 Plans Well Underway OCTOBER 15, 1970 VOL. 7 l NO. 10 For ‘71 NCAA Tourney In Memoriam The UCLA Eruins and the Jacksonville Dolphins each started four juniors for the finals of the 1970 College Basket- ball Championship March 21 at Cole Field House in College Park, Md. Nation Mourns Wichita Deaths UCLA’s , Curtis Rowe, Steve Patterson and The NCAA NEWS joins with Ben Wilson, head football , and Jacksonville’s , Pembrook the rest of the nation in mourn- coach, and his wife. Burrows, Vaughn Wedeking and Mike Blevins return this Marty Harrison, Argonia, Kan- ing the deaths of 30 Wichita year to once again make their respective teams strong con- State University football play- sas, student equipment man- ers, athletic personnel and ager. tenders for the NCAA Basketball Championship. friends of the University, who Tom Reeves, trainer. Other juniors of a year ago-such as Notre Dame’s and died when an airplane carry- And players: Western Kentucky’s Jim Daniel+also return, making the 1971 NCAA ing the team traveling party Randy Kiesau, 20, Clinton, haskethall parade of talent one of the strongest in years. went down 55 miles west of Okla. As brilliant as the basketball personnel may be, the Tournament itself Denver October 2. Don Christian, 20, Duncan, and the facility which will house it will be just as brilliant, indicating Okla. Ten persons survived the that the 1971 Tournament may well be the greatest spectacle in the crash. The plane had taken off Ron Johnson, 21, Platte City, tournament history, if not in all basketball. from Wichita, refueled at Den- MO. The site is the Houston Astrodome, where 20,000 seats already have ver, and crashed near the Carl Krueger, 19, Chicago, Ill. mountain town of Silver Plume Jack Vetter, 21, McPherson, been delegated to customers for the Dome finale. Because of the seats in rugged and forested country. Kansas. sold or committed to advance purchasers, the competing teams and A second plane carrying 23 Steve Moore, 21, Derby, Kan- the members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the other players and the rest of sas. tournament attendance record of 19,153 has been “broken.” That was the staff and boosters landed Marvin Brown, 19, Solomon, set in 1963, when Loyola of Chicago met Cincinnati in the finals in safely in Logan, Utah, where Kansas. Freedom Hall in Louisville. Wichita State was to have John Duren, 19, Oklahoma played Utah State. City. Practice Opens October 15 It was the third crash involv- Tom Owen, 20, Temple Ter- With Collegiate basketball teams around the country beginning prac- ing a plane carrying collegiate race, Fla. tice October 15, plans are well underway for the 1971 event, scheduled athletes. Ten years ago Cali- Rick Stines, 19, Kansas City for March 25 and 27, with NCAA and Astrodome administrative per- Kansas. fornia Poly at San Luis Obispo A. C. Katrenmeyer sonnel even now working hard to make the 1971 Tournament a great Ma1 Kimmel, 21, Ste. Gene- lost 16 members of its football one for the spectator. team in a crash at Toledo, Ohio, The Wichita State crash vic- vieve, MO. In the past the finals have been difficult to get into-the arenas only after they had played Bowling tims included: Tom Shedden, 20, Oklahoma have been able to seat a “mere” 15 to 20 thousand persons. Green. A. C. (Bert) Katzenmeyer, ath- City. In the spring of 1968, the letic director, and his wife. Gene Robinson, 21, Dayton, This year over 50,000 fans will be able to pack the Dome. coach and five members of the Lloyd Farmer, associate athlet- Ohio. Tickets are available from: Also dead were pilot Dan Lamar Tech (Beaumont, Tex- ic director. NCAA Basketball Finals Cracker, Stewardesses Judy as) track team perished in a Dr. Carl Fahrbach, director of Astrodome crash returning from the Drake admissions and records at Lane and Judy Dunne, Kansas P. 0. Box 1691 Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Wichita State. Continued to page 2 Houston, Texas 77601 Continlred to page 5 College World Series Chairman John D. Diesing (right) presents award to Ben R. Morris. At College World Series Meeting Morris Presented With l!t Award i The Board of Directors of the Omaha College World Series Distinguished Scrvicc Award” by G World Series Committee began making plans General Chairman John D. Diesing. for the 25th anniversary of the event in June, The award, a bronze plaque mounted on wal- = and recognized one of its promoters for his ser- nut, cites Morris for his “unrelenting energies Z vices at its annual meeting October 1 in Omaha, and enthusiasm as Ticket Chairman, which re- g Nebr. sulted in the banner year.” s Jerry Christian, sophomore basketball player at West Texas State Ben R. Morris was honored at a luncheon for A total of 3,516 books of ten general admis- s University, spent the summer working in the university sports infor- his leadership which resulted in College World sion tickets was sold this year. mation office. The 6-6 cager from East Liverpool, Ohio, helped com- Series ticket sales of 74,683 this year, an all-time The College World Series Committee also z record. went over financial records of the 1970 tourna- E pile information for the basketball press book. He wrote all the player Morris, vice chairman of the Series in charge ment, which confirmed reports of the best year !! sketches except one and then turned to sports information director of ticket sales, was presented the first “College at the gate for the World Series. Tommy Bryant and said, “I’ll write all of these sketches except my own. . The fellows on the team would never let me live down any compliment.” ‘Spearing’ Hit by Mother Nature: ?iiSE%!ZentUpsetsca ”ses Medical Group Judging from the preseason ex- The Sun Was Shining to rain in earnest. and “the next trainer Fred Oglesby and assistant periences of at least two teams, Coach Joe Prater of SCSC was thing we knew, the lightning had coach Don Stutters with saving Mother Nature is getting in on asked why he didn’t take his In- hit .” Nausler’s life by administering As “Dangerous” college football action this year. dians and run for cover when the Apparently, the lightning fol- artificial heart massage and mouth- ‘Spearing,” the technique of The appearance of this unex- storm clouds moved in. lowed a pass to DenniB Nausler to-mouth resuscitation immediate- blocking and tackling with the pected opponent certainly added “There was no storm-in fact, (a junior letterman end from ly. head, has been branded “a clan- an unexpected element to a prac- the sun was shining,” he said. Omaha). He “caught” it as he Even though all four athletes gerous and unhealthy practice” tice session at Southern Colorado “There was one cloud in the sky- caught the ball. are now out of the hospital, fully by the NCAA Committee on Com- State College when four gridders not an ominous cloud, a white, Nausler was then tackled by recovered, Prater is taking no petitive Safeguards and Medical were hit by lightning. fleecy cloud. At about 3 p.m., it Mike Jefferson (junior defensive more chances. Aspects of Sports. She popped up again at an Ari- floated over the field and great back from Fort Worth), Bob Good- “Everytime it sprinkles, we’re Dr. Donald L. Cooper, director zona State University football big rain drops started to fall. hue (sophomore defensive back going to head for the locker room.” of the student health service at practice in Camp Tontozona, send- “This brought cheers from the from Bear Creek, Cola.) and fresh- Oklahoma State University and Asked if hc felt this incident ing the worst flash flood in over team because it was a very hot man halfback Dave Mingus of chairman of the Committee which boded ill things to come, Prater 60 years through Tonto Creek to day-102 degrees, a record break- Widefield, Colo. All four were was established by the National optimistically replied, “We started submerge the mountain football er.” knocked out instantly. Collegiate Athletic Association in off with a bang . . we hope we field under two feet of raging In the distance, there was thun- Nausler’s heart stopped twice in 1958, stated on behalf of the Com- can end the season with a bang.” water, stranding the entire team der, he recalled, “but we could the moments following the freak mittee: for three hours. still see the sun.” At 3:45, it began accident. Coach Prater credits Unexpected Deluge “The head and neck were not The Arizona State washout was constructed to be used as batter- one of the more spectacular shut- ing rams, and any coach who outs of the year. teaches butt blocking, spearing or This upset, as the one at SCSC, ‘putting the helmet on the num- started innocently enough with a bers’ is endangering the athletes little rain, although it did ap?par under him, is putting himself in a to be raining harder higher in the morally dangerous situation and mountains. should be condemned.” At first, the slowly rising waters Research done by Dr. Richard of Tonto Creek were viewed with Schneider at the University of curiosity. When the first footbridge Michigan was cited by the Com- was washed out, the players mittee as evidence that spearing cheered it on its way downstream. is a dangerous practice. Laughter stopped and people started running for higher ground when the second footbridge, a Olga Connolly Volkswagen, parts of a summer cabin, a station wagon and another Joins Marymount cabin all tore loose and bounded down the creek. They scrambled College Faculty not a minute too soon, for seconds later the whole field went under. Former Olympic gold medal The team was stranded for three winner Olga Connolly has joined hours, all exits from the camp cut t.he faculty of Marymount College off. Finally, at sunrise, the Devils as a supervisor of Study Skills were able to back-pack all their and physical education instructor. belongings one mile out of camp Marymount is affiliated with Loy- and hitchhike rides into the valley. ola University of Los Angeles. Coach Frank Kush and his as- Mrs. Connolly is the wife of sistants had to rebuild a 50-yard former U. S. Olympic hammer Atlantic City’s Convention Hall, host of the NCAA Boardwalk Bowl, also will be the site of the 1970 section of road, all up hill, to get throw champion Harold Connolly. Knute Rockne Bowl. The Rockne Bowl, which features two College Division II members, will be most of the heavy gear and vehl- They were married in Prague, played at 8 p.m., Saturday, November 28. The Boardwalk Bowl, which will determine the Col- cles out of the camp and back to Czechoslovakia -Mrs. Connolly’s lege Division I East champion, will be held at Convention Hall December 12. Tempe. birthplace-in IYS7. 4