The record for the largest crowd to ever attend a basketball game at the Los Angeles Sports Arena The Final Count= is 15,742. The record was set in the semifinal game between UCLA and Houston in the 1968 National l&742! Collegiate Basketball Championship. The Championship returns to the Sports Arena, March 23 and 25.

Vol. 9 l NO.4 MARCH 1, 1972

Nine outstanding teams, with ence, Southern Conference, and a combined record of 188-33 (as Ivy. NCAA Files Suit of March l), have been selected Mideas’Mid-American Con- as at-large entries in the 1972 ference, and Ohio Valley Confer- National Collegiate Basketball ence. Championship. Midwest ~ Southwest Confer- Against Porter,I ABA South Carolina (20-4)) Villa- ence. A suit against the American Basketball Associa- falsely representing that such student-athletes had nova (18-6), and Providence (17- WesCBig Sky Conference, Pa- tion and former Villanova University player HOW- not signed contracts or agreed to play professional 5) were selected to participate in cific Coast Athletic Association, ard Porter has been filed in Common Pleas Court basketball in the ABA . . . ” the East. with Marauette (23-l). and Western Athletic Conference. of Chester, Delaware County, Pa., by the NCAA. Signed Affidavit and Florida State (23-4) tabbed In addition, the following have The suit seeks to enjoin the ABA from conceal- in the Mideast, Marshall (22-2), Porter’s position was compromised by his signing automatic qualification for the ing further secret signings of collegiate players Southwestern Louisiana (22-3), Regionals: with remaining eligibility, and seeks damages February 4, 1971, of an affidavit swearing he had not signed a professional contract, when later evidence and Houston (19-6) invited in East-Atlantic Coast Confer- from both the league and Porter. the Midwest, and Hawaii (24-2) ence. Porter led Villanova to second place in the 1971 proved he had signed in December, 1970. picked in the West. Mideast-Southeastern Confer- National Collegiate Basketball Championship, and “Mr. Porter assured both the NCAA and Villa- was named the Tournament’s Most Valuable Play- nova, verbally and in writing, that he had not First Round Games ence, and Big Ten Conference. er. It later was determined he had signed a pro- signed. The NCAA accepted his word, and Mr. The teams will compete in the Midwest - Missouri Valley fessional basketball contract December 16, 1970, Dolph’s word, and accepted Porter as being eli- Championship’s First Round Conference, and Big Eight Con- gible for the Championship,” the NCAA president and therefore had been ineligible for most of the games March 11 with nine con- ference. explained. collegiate season and for all Tournament play. ference champions, which auto- West - Pacific-8 Conference, The damages sought are general from Accordingly, Villanova’s place was vacated, its damages matically qualify for the opening and West Coast Athletic Confer- both defendants, special damages from both de- records removed and its share of Tournament re- competition. The automatic qual- ence. fendants and exemplary damages from Porter. The ceipts ($72347.84) forfeited. ifiers for the First Round include: The First Round pairings will bc: general and special damages total $116,663, the ex- In anouncing the legal action, NCAA President East-Middle Atlantic Confer- emplary damages $100,000. East-Middle Atlantic Confer- Earl M. Ramer, University of Tennessee professor ence vs. South Carolina (20-4) at “A principal purpose of this suit is to deter of education, emphasized the Association acted William and Mary; Southern Con- similar conduct by others who may be inclined to because of the secret nature of the signing, subse- ference vs. Villanova (18-6) at misrepresent their eligibility status. Since money quent denials under oath by Porter that the signing Princeton; and Ivy League vs. had occurred and assurances by ABA Commission- apparently is the governing factor in these situa- Coaches Back tions, the award of damages for this fraud and con- Providence (17-5) at St. John’s er Jack Dolph to both Villanova and the NCAA (N.Y.). that Porter had not signed a professional basket- cealment should make such actions appear to others NCAA’s Action Mideast at University of Ten- ball contract. to be much less profitable in the future,” Ramer nessee - Mid-American Confer- Protect Integrity added. The National Association of “The NCAA only can request involved persons to Basketball Coaches Board of ence vs. Marquette (23-l) ; and “The NCAA does not contest the right of any testify under oath concerning eligibility matters, Directors has unanimously Ohio Valley Conference vs. Flor- person to sign a professional contract-however and then seek legal redress when falsifications such endorsed the NCAA’s legal ac- ida State (23-4). much we deplore the interruption of academic as Porter’s are revealed, plus attempting to force tion against Howard Porter Midwest at New Mexico State progress and the havoc wrecked upon a carefully- disclosure of future signings,” Ramer detailed. and the American Basketball built team by loss of a star player-but it will take University-Southwestern Louis- Association. any recourse available to force disclosure of such Will Take Action iana (22-3) vs. Marshall (22-2); “We unanimously support “This suit is evidence the NCAA will take any and Southwest Conference vs. signings to protect the integrity of college basket- the NCAA’s move,” said Bill action available to it to enforce its eligibility rules, Houston (19-6). ball’s conference races and national tournament,” Wall, President of the Coaches Ramer stated. and that it will not supinely tolerate deceit with West at Idaho State University Association and athletic di- respect to those he concluded. “One place of the four 1971 Anallsts has been va- rules,” rector and basketball coach at -Weber State (17-10) vs. Hawaii It recently was revealed that a second player (24-2); and Cal State Long Beach cated, seemingly another soon may be, due to con- MacMurray College. cealment of signings by the ABA. such actions by who participated in the 1971 Finals. Western Ken- “In fact, at the Board’s sum- (23-3) vs. Brigham Young Uni- tucky’s Jhn McDaniels. allegedly signed with an the league can seriously damage even such a presti- mer meeting we strongly rec- versity (20-3). ABA team on November 30, 1970. If substantiated, gious event as the NCAA Basketball Championship. ommended to the NCAA that The Championship competition the signing would make McDauiels and Western “A professional team has accomplished its goal this action be taken due to starts with the First Round games Kentucky ineligible for the Tournament. when a player is signed. For it to further conspire the circumstances involved in March 11. The winners advance to The NCAA has an affidavit from McDaniels sim- to keep such a signing secret can be interpreted the case and its damaging ef- the Regionals March 16 and 18, only as a deliberate attempt to damage college ilar to that received from Porter. Prior to the 1971 fect upon college basketball. at West Virginia (East), Dayton National Championship, Dolph assured inquiring basketball.” “This effect has been far (Mideast), Iowa State (Midwest), collegiate representatives that McDaniels had not The suit alleges ‘I_ _ . that defendant ABA, reaching and recent events and Brigham Young (West). with intent to deceive and defraud the NC& signed a professional basketball contract, and, in have contirmed disruption of The four Regional winners aided and abetted and conspired with such student- fact, in February, 1971, told NCAA investigators the intercollegiate basketball.” athletes to deceive and defraud the NCAA, by in- ABA had done nothing which would cause any then go on to Los Angeles for the tentionally, willfully, knowingly, maliciously and college player to be ineligible under NCAA rules. Cnntinwri on pngc 4 The Editor’s View

Rcprintcd below is an excerpt from the writing of a news columnist Enough Is Enough! cumrncntinp pertinently about college athletics. It is selected because tile NCAA NEWS fc*cls it discusst.s a topic. which will interest NEWS l+;nouph is enough and college basketball the rights and ddigations of others. These readers. has had enough of professional basketball’s clearly appear to be ruthless pctoplc who c~orruption and greed. are interested only in dollar gains. ‘Leanest Crop’ The general public, we believe, also is fed Why have the pros taken such conniving up with the pros. tactics ? It wasn’t enough that the pros surrcp- Produces 442 Most believe it’s a tlespcrate effort to t.itiOUSly lUIYd WIhge &tyCrS intO lying By Joe Much force Congressional approval of a merger :dJout signing contracts during the collegiate l&City Herald, Pasta, Wash of the two pro leagues. Regardless of the .s(ason Several dozen of professional football’s deepest thinkers sat around . . reason, it’s an ugly road they’re traveling. No, t,hey sign t player on the country’s grousing over the flimsy caliber of collcgiatr football talent availal~lc No. 2 ranked tarn as it, heads into the final Some, in fact, are fearful it coulcl wreck tcl thrm in the annual NFL draft. days of the college season and the Cham- the college game. “Leanest yrar in a long time,” ttley said, reprating roughly wh:ct pionship playoffs. Ky their own rules, the We disagree ! they had said in 1971, 1970, 1969, etc. The11 they corisurr~~1 two days in the selection of approximately till,- Idayer is ineligible to play pro basketball While the NCAA and its mcm1)cl.s arc 400 pounds of football flesh discoverrd, fed, housed, clothrd and until next season, so why sign him now? taking steps to stop the pros’ hack stabbing, t.rained for tliem over thr past follr years by the nation’s colleges alld ‘I’hc ~ITJH ol~vinusly are unconcerned with we belicvc intercollegiate athhhtics is strong univrrsities. hotlcadlr tlcaling and show no respect for c.nough to endure these interruldions. At the end of the draft, 442 players were tapped for their “potential” as professional foothall players. Presuming all were signed, sealed, delivered and retainrd in the profession of their choice and training. about 49 per cent of the muscle currently employed in the NFL would contribute to the nation’s jobless statistics come autumn. Study of Dropouts Shows Most Actually, only something like one-fourth of the draftees will st.ick in professional foothall, enough to fill ranks drpleted by retirctrlrrlt.. player damage and squad-weeding. Students Continue to Persist Meanwhile, another 2,500 or so senior draftablrs will he fltllsllitlg collcglate apprenticeships next fall to supply merchandise for the 1972 A rlationwidc study of students “National dropout rates srem as compared with only seven pcr- market, undoubtedly “the lrancxt in years.” who drop out of college shows to be somewhat lower than had cent of the women, were still Lif’r, that is, goes on. that at the end of four years 53.3 been suggested in other recent rnrolled four years after matricu- percent at four-year collcgcs and reports,” Astin said. “Even by lation. Astin said the high con- Nourishing the Ego universities and 61.6 percent at the most severe measure ol per- centration of men in five-year It. is perhaps necessary nutrition to the egos of those who perpc’tratc’ two-year colleges had not re- sistence (completing a bacca- programs such as engineering and prtrf~~ssional footl~all that they pr-onouncc tile collegiate crop lrss thall ceived degrees at their first insti- laureate degree within four years architecture probably accounts spcrtaculnr. tutioll. at the college of matriculation), for this discrepancy. Nobody in the business c,f procuring and polishing athlctcs would However, if those who were nearly half of all students enter- About one-third of all students have it known that thrirs is the softc%st of touches, that much 01’ t.llt. still enrolled or had requested ing four-year colleges and uni- entering two-year colleges did material with which they work is already rcrnarkably polished. that transcripts bc sent to other versities can be classified as non- not return for a second year. Of institutions are counted as “per- dropouts. those who did return, more than Least of all the professionals. Theirs is a serious business, peopled sisters,” the percentages of “drop- “If students still enrolled for half ultimately obtained the asso- by serious people wlm would have you brlieve that the development truts” are only 18.9 percent at work toward a degree at their ciate’s degree. Of the approxi- of a Super Bowl championship football team equates in technology four-year institutions and 34.1 First institution arc also regarded mately 60 percent of all students with the production of the ultimate weapon. percent at two-year colleges. as nondropouts, the persistence at two-year colleges who did not The study was made by Alex- Thrrc is also the competitive angle. In the wakr of a season in which rate is nearly 60 per cent for stu- receive degrees and were not still ander W. Astin, director of the colltgiatc football easily outstripped the NFT, in sheer rxcitement dents at four-year colleges and rnrolled at their first college after Council’s Office of Research and week in and week out, it behooves the mcrcrnarics to remind the pulp+ universities. Of those students four years, only about one in four published in Higher Education lit that the excitement was created by callow youths not so much who arc neither degree recipients requested that transcripts be sent National Affairs. Astin’s arid nor still enrolled at their first to another institution. dcirlonstrating thrir talents as demonstrating tlw mediocrity ol’ tlr (‘II- analysis was based on followup institution, nearly half requested tirr college football program. data collrctcd in the winter of Women entering two-year col- that transcripts be sent to another Suggest to the NFL-oriented that you enjoyed Oklahoma~Ncl~rask;i 1970-71 from 51,721 students who leges were more likrly to com- institution-an indication that or Stanford-Michigan or IJSC-Notre Darnc rnorc than you did tht. entered college in the fall of plete the associate’s degree than they may be enrolled and work- 1966. Of these, 45,432 were en- were men, though a slightly Suprr Bowl and they will suggest that your naivete is harlgillg out. ing toward a degree somewhere.” railed in 194 colleges and univer- higher prrccntage of men rc- Even hint that the spectacle of a Bcrnartl .Jackson at large in thr Ore- sltirs, and 6,289 in 23 two-year Women were slightly more turned for a second year. gon secondary stirs the pulse more than seven straight John Brodic colleges. Data from these students likely than men to obtain the “When one considers that near- incompletions and you are dismissed as wanting in sophisticated taste,. were statlstically weighted so as degree within four years after ly 90 per cent of all two-year The fact remains, however, that the nrw collegiate game, trrming LO approximate the entire POPU- entering college (49 per cent collcgc students expected to ob- with unpocketed quarterbacks, J,OO0-yard halfbacks, wishbones and 1ation of 1.5 million freshmen versus 45 per cent). An additional tain at least the associate’s de- veers and blitzes and delightful people named Marinara and Mildret! who went to college in 1966. 15 per cent of the me?. however, C:ontinwd on pnp 3 and Musso made deep inroads into the consciousness of tile TV-bound football fan. Elsewhere in Education Orange Bowl’s Summit Meeting Nary ;I pro pairing the season long crcatcd the electricity of Okla- Court Ruler Interns Not Employees employees for the purpose of determining thr homa-Nebraska nor the anticipation surrounding tile Orange Bowl A state appeals court in Michigan reversed a amount of annual appropriation made to the uni- summit meeting of Nebraska and Alabama. versity.” decision of the Michigan Employment Relations Maybe, just mayhe, an unlikely Miami victory over Dallas in the Commission and held that interns, residents and In the dissenting opinion, Judge McGregor main- Super Bowl would have rescued the NFL from a comparativrly postgraduate fellows at the University of Michigan tained that “the fact that the members of the dreary season. Still, Stanford’s unlikely victory over Michigan in the Medical Center are not public employees and thus interns-residents association are ‘students’ does not are not eligible to form a collective bargaining thereby preclude them from also maintaining their Rose Bowl would have been longer rememhcred. unit. status of employees in the university.” He con- Competition for the entertainment dollar, and more important, tele- The unusual case, which the court said was ap- tinued. “In short, this is not a situation where the vision ratings what thry are, pro football had better hope the crop is parently the first of its kind in the nation, was interns-residents are either students or employees; better than it has been pronounced. There will bc nothing wrong wit11 brought to the appeals court by university regents the terms ‘student’ and ‘employee’ are not mutually the 1972 crop of college football players, who arc going to be stealing rxclusive.” alter the state employment commission ruled in even more thunder with their wldc open and infinitely appcallng a 2-J vote, that the Michigan Interns-Residents NLRB Includes Coaches game. Association was entitled to collective bargaining The National Labor Relations hoard included They had better hope that from among the cast of college football, status. athletics coaches but excluded ROTC ol’ficers in a 1971, they have been able to lind the next Nagurski and the llcnt Rut- The appeals court had earlier permitcd a collec- collective bargaining unit sought by the American 3lr‘cady building the nrxt tive bargaining election to be held but said the Association of University Professors at Manhat- kus and the next Unitas. The rolleges XT utlivrrsity could decline to bargain until the court tan College in New York. Patulski and the next Sullivan :incJ the next Moorr for autumn de- issued its final decision. In the election, 296 votes The three-member board panel held that, while livery every Saturday altcrnoon. were cast in favor of representation, 115 against the Air Force ROTC officers have faculty status and four ballots were challenged. and the opportunity for obtaining tenure, “this The court, also voting 2-l. said in its majority group consists of military personnel who are paid ECAC Support upinion that the university is a public employer, hy the Air Force and subject to its military control but the interns, residents and fellows had more and discipline even while on this duty assignment Frosh on Varsity the status of students than employees. “We would with the employer. Thus, we do not believe that NCAA Thr Eastern College Athletic also note,” the court said, “that in New York they share sufficient interests in common with the interns and residents may orgmize for purposes other faculty members to be included in the unit. Conference has voted to allow NEWS of collective bargaining; however, such bargaining Accordingly, we shall exclude this group.” freshmen to play varsity baskrt- units are specifically provided for by statute. The ball and football. In deciding about the roaches, the board said legislature of that state has spoken to the question: The ECAC, the nation’s larccst Editor Jerry Miles the legislature of Michigan has not.” that they are not part of the academic faculty and their contacts with students are not part of the conference, voted 33-20 (one ab- StatI .Louis J. Spry The majority opinion also states: “Courts cannot stcntion vote) to allow frcshmcn be oblivious to the consequences of their decisions. regular academic curriculum of the collcgc, but Grayle IIowlctt “they are engaged in substantial part in teaching to play varsity basketball, but the Ii the interns, residents and postgraduate fellows Tom Combs physical and mental skills, utilizing educationally football vote was 22-21 (11 ab- associated with the University Mcdiral Center were stcntions) to hr classified as herein requested, the assistants acquired knowledge of their speciality. The drriding vote on the foot- in all other departments, working part-time at “111 short, their jobs might well bc characterized tllcir trade or profession for a small stipmd, would, as the practive of a specialized form of physical ball issue was cast by Morgan in order to avoid discrimination, conclude that education. The fact that their activities relate to State College, one of four institu- they were rntitled to the same treatment. an extracurricular matter, while perhaps of some tions admitted to the ECAC at the “Such a result could well reck havoc [sic] upon importance to the students, is less significant in start of the conference’s annual tl)e very ability of the regents to control and man- classifying the nature of the work. . . Moreover, meeting. The other new confer- age the educational affairs of the university. Jt tile coaching function is closely related to teaching ence mrlnhers are Monmouth, furthc.1. noted that the legislature, itself, considers ;111d the coaches share many of the same benefits Nrwark Statc~, and Willialll Pat- interns and other assistants as students rather than as other unit employees.” (‘I‘SOll. 2 NCAA Profile -.--~ ----_- Five First Team ReDeaters Dr. Exum Calls NCAA Football Academic All-America Work ‘Enlightening’ Halfback Johnny Musso, University of balloting nationwide by the membership of Alabama; receiver Tom Gatewood, Notre the College Sports Information Directors of Dr. William Exum, newly Dame University; omensive guard Edward America (CoSIDA), with the voting con- elected NCAA Council member- Salo, Muhlenbcrg; and linebackers James ducted by chairman Ted Emery of the Gator at&large, believes the intrinsic re- Ceascr, DePauw, and Tom Anacker, Union Row1 Association. wards derived from his NCAA- College (N.Y.) have repeated as first team Rcceivcr Carlos Alvarez, University of connected duties more than corn- selections on the 1971 Academic All-America Florida, and quarterback Jack Mildren, Uni- pcnsatc lor the time and energy Football squads. versity of Oklahoma, who were second team the added responsibilities entail. To qualify for nomination on the Univer- selections last season, were named to the “My work with the Association sity and College Division teams, players first unit this year. has been very enliglitening. I feel must be starters on their team, and must Twenty-one ( 14 University Division and as though I’ve gotten more out of maintain a “B” average or better for one seven Collcgc Division) of the players had the Association than I’ve put in,” full year or for college career. been announced as recipients of the NCAA’s said Dr. Exum, who is Director of Selection of the team was made through Post graduate Scholarships. Athletics at Kentucky State Col- 1rge. “It’s a lol of work but I enjoy it UNIVERSITY DIVISION so much lhat it is well worth the FIRST TEAM-OFFENSE cH’orf,” hc said. “Perhaps the most rewarding asprct has been PUS. Player and School Hgt. Wt.Class Hometown Ave. Major the work with Jim Wilkinson and ’ .lE Tom Gatewood, Notre Dame G-2 210 Sr. Baltimore, Md. 3.6C Sociology the NSYSP. It is very saddening “,t= Carlos Alvarez, Florida 5-11 1X7 Sr. Miami, Fla. 3.xnc Pre-Law to beg Congress every year lor -/-T Tom Nash, Georgia 6-S 242 Sr. Washington, Ga. 3.9OC Economics tile funds for such a worthwhile -!T Dave Joyner, Penn State 6-O 240 Sr. State College, Pa. 3.3X Prc-Mcd prngram.” G Craig John, N. C. Statr 6-O 210 Jr. Rockville, Md. Dr. William Exum 4.0nY History Dr. Exum received his B.S. and G Rick Simon, Ohio State G-2 228 Sr. Parma, Ohio 3.46C Math NCAA Council Member MS. degrees from the University -i~C Mike McCoy, Kansas 6-3 220 Sr. Hiawatha, Kan. 3.69C Elec. Engr. of Wisconsin. Eleven years later, Krntucky State. “+QB Jack Mildren, Oklahoma 6-O 199 .Sr. Abilene, Tex. 3.21C Petro Div. in 1957, he earned his doctorate His NCAA clutirs include chair- ‘:THR John Musso, Alabama 5-11 196 Sr. Birmingham,Ala. 2.13C Pre-Law degree from N.Y.U. man of the National Summer IIR Jeff Kinney. Nebraska 6-2 210 Sr. McCook, Nch. 3.oc Phys. Ed. In 1949 he joined the athlctir Youth Sports Program ; member -HR .Jolrn Rousch, Ohio Univ. G-O 195 Sr. Kettering, 0. 3.64C Etlglish staff at Kentucky State as as- of the IJnited States Olympic -iHR John Sefrik, Colrlmbia G-0 190 Sr. Youngstown, 0. B+Y Phys. Therapy sistant football and track coach. Cotnrnittce for track and field and KS .Jay Michaelson. LSU f;&1 220 Sr. Foley, Ala. 3.4nc Pre-Mcd .Fp’,’ He resigned his football post in is in his sixth year as chairman Darryl Haas, Air Force 5-11 198 Sr. CorpusChristi,T. 322C Bus. Adm. 1955 to take over full duties as of the NCAA College Division hrad track and cross country Cross Country Meet Committee. FIRST TEAM-DEFENSE coach. In 1964, both his track and Recently hc assisted Al Eueh- +DE Mixon Robinson, Georgia 6-2 204 Sr. Macon, Ga. 3 66 Pre-Med cross country teams earned tro- ler, head track coach at Duke .;DE Bob Bucklin, Illinois 6-1 225 Sr. Wheaton, Ill 4.68C Finance phies as fhe National Collcgc Di- University, as a manager in the .;-DT Larry Jacobson, Nrhraslca 6-6 247 Sr. Sioux Falls. S.D 3.BOC Accounting vision champions. 1971 Pan-American games in DT Greg Marx, Notre Dame 6-S 255 Jr Redford, Mich. 3.7C Physiology In addition to these posts, Dr. Cali, Colomt,ia. His performance .;T,B Darryl Haas, Air Force 5-11 198 Sr. C0rpusChristi.T. 3.2X Bus. Adm. Exum has also scrvcd for more in the Pan-Am games earned him LB Tim Quinn, Dayton 6-2 220 Jr. Dayton, Ohio 3.809C Pre-Med than 20 years as Director of Ath- a spot as assistant-manager for :~LB Strve Luebbehusen, Tex. A&M 6-n 195 Sr. Ft. Worth. Tex. 3.37Y Finance lctics and head of the Health and the 1972 Olympic Games in Mu- LB Howarcl Goodman, Syrarusc 6-2 215 Sr. Canton, Ohio 3 SC Pre-Med Physical Education department at nicll this summer. DHB David Hebert, Tulane S-11 I80 Sr. Thihodeaux, l,a. 3.7IY Chrm Engr. DHB Brucr Elliott, Michigan 6-O 175 Sr. Indianapolis.Ind. 3.00 History DM Scott Rohbins, Utah 5-11 187 Sr. SaltLakrCity,U. 1.27C Chem Engr.

Survey of Dropouts Shows SECOND TEAM OFFENSE DEFENSE Students Continue Studies E Don Fair, Toledo DE Bob Homburg, Air Force DE Contit1ued from puge 2 ly to persist in college than wcrc E Don Kelley, Clemson Bruce Bannon, Penn State T Tom Drougas, Oregon DT John Griffith, Air Forcr grrr when they cntcrcd collcgc, siudents with the lowest grades T Reid Look&ill, N. Carolina DT Tom Rutaud, LSU but that 60 per cent left their first and lowest test scores. Virtually G Scott Walker, TCU LB Rick Muench. Kentucky college without having received none of the students with the G Dick Rupert, Nebraska LB Tom Carpenita, Va. Tech. a degree, and that fewer than highest grades and the highest (1 Jeff Zapalac, Texas LB Ralph Cindrich, Pittsburgh half of these even requested that trst scores dropped out without OB Pat Sullivan, Auburn LR Gary Gray, Penn State their transcripts be forwarded to requesting that transcripts be Leon Crosswhite, Oklahoma DHB Rrn Anderson, Clcmsan a second institution, it may cer- forwardrd, hc said. “Conversely,” HR ---HR DHR Doug Sorenson, Florida tainly be said that unfilled cxpec- he added, “if one considers the Dave Tripplctt, Iowa -FIB Charles Davis, Colorado DHR Bill Kosch. Nebraska tations are the rule rather than most stringrnt definition of pcr- HB Ruf~ls Ferguson, Wisconsin the cxccption among two-year sistcnce (obtaining the bachelor’s Joe Hartshornr, N. Mrxico collrgc students,” Astin ohserved. rlcgrer within four yrars), more KS PT Richard Galuska, Washington The same is true to a lesser than 80 per cent of the students extent of students at four-year with the lowest test scores and grades dropped out.” colleges and universities. Al- COLLEGE DIVISION Sevrral unusual relationships though nearly 95 per cent aspired FIRST TEAM-OFFENSE to at least the baccalaureate when to persistcnre-religion, smoking they entered in 1966. more than cigar&s and the turning in of a PoS. Player and School Fkt. Wt.Class Hometown Ave. Major paper or theme late-were UII- 40 per cent had left their first -FE Edward Hirsch, Grinnell. Ia. 6-2 185 Sr. Skokic, Tll 3.49c English covered in the research. institution without the degree E Gary Brnwn, Jndiana State. Tnd. 5-10 197 Sr. Plainfield. Ind. 3.47C Hist/Phys Ed. four years later. Of those who Among students at four-year TLM Charles Putnik, No. Colo. U. 6-2 215 Sr. Denver, Colo. 39Y Chem. dropped out of their first institu- colleges and universities, those +IT,M Ron Sani. Santa Clara 6-O 205 Sr. Sanger. Cal. 3 3sr Pre-Med tion, only about half ever had who had no religious preference “ILM Edward Salo, Muhlenbcrg 5-9 180 Jr. Flourtown. Pa. 3.9% Psycholoe transcripts sent to a second in- were clearly more apt to drop $ILM Brent McIvcr, Boise State 6-l 220 Sr. Boise, Idaho 3.41 Accounting stitution. out than were students who II,M Maurirr Taylor, Juniata G-3 210 Sr. Baltimore. Md. 3.22C Socioloe;v Women students and black stu- named a definite prefrrcnce. OR Dennis Monteomery, Mt. Union G-0 175 Sr. Wintrrsvillr. 0. 3.3OC Pre-Med rlrnls had higher dropout rates Among students attending two- HB Gerry O’Dawd, Grorectown s-n 160 Sr. Ramsey. N. J. 3.SY Biologv than white male students, Astin sear colleges, those who gave -I-HB T,arry Ras, MirhiCan Tech. 6-2 195 St-. Grandville,Mich. 3.04Y Mcch. Engr. found. He noted that nonblack their religious preference as -1HB Tyrone Hooks, UCal-Rivrrside S-11 175 Sr. Watts, Cal. 3.28C: Black Studies students make slightly hetter Protestant were mnre likely to grades in high school and score persist in college that were those FIRST TEAM-DEFENSE substantially higher on tests of expressing other preferences. As- DE Keith Ihlanfeldt, Ill. Wesleyan 5-11 182 Sr. Belleville, 111. 3.84OC Economics academic ability than do black tin said these findings may “re- Robert DcPew, Delaware 6-3 225 Jr. Staunton, Va. 3.46Y History students, and that women make fleet the independence and lack gz Ray Grabiak, Juniata 5-11 195 Sr. Mt.Pleacant.Pa. 3.53Y Chemistry substantially higher grades but of conventional valurs associated with dropping out of college.” DT Tomm Smail, ND State 5-11 200 Jr. Worth’ton.Minn. 3.62Y Arch. Engr. slightly lower test scores than do DT Kendrick Shelburne, Wabash 6-3 230 Sir Gary, Ind. 7.08OC Pre-Mcd men. Students who said thry smokrd fLR Tom Anacker, Union-NY S-10 180 Jr. Jonesvillc. Wis. 3.2C Math. However, whrn students are or turned in papers late in high *LB Jamrs Ceascr, Dr Pauw s-n 190 Sr. Highland, Tnd. 3.49c Pre-Med matched in terms of ability, the school dropped out more often. +LB James Barber, W. Kentucky 5-11 195 Sr. Portland. Tcnn. 3.37C Agriculture dropout rate for nonblack women “The latter may reflect poor LB Tom Wilson, Emory & Henry 5-9 160 Jr. Wythrvillr. Va. 3.94C Biology is much higher than for nonblnck study habits or lack of involvr- LB Bruce Rupcrt, Springfield, Mass. 5-l 1 195 Sr. Brooklyn, N.Y. 3.49c Pre-1,aw men, but the rate for blacks- mcnt and interest in academic DHB Rrucr Melnick, Coast Guard S-8 165 Sr. Clrarwater. Fla. 3.68C Orran Scirnrr particularly the women-is lower pursuits,” Astin said. “And al- DHR Ken Ostcr, East Tennessee 5-9 160 Jr. Trenton, Term. 3.911C Pol. Science than that for nonblacks. though many earlier studies have DHB Gary Schultz, Wayne, Mich. 5-11 185 St-. Detroit, Mich. 3.11Y Hist/Phys Ed Astin said there was clrarly a indicated that smoking has a negative relationship to academic consistent relationship between SECOND TEAM academic performance in high achievemrnt, the reason why is OFFENSE DEFENSE school and persistcncr in college. not clear. Perhaps the smokers Taylor Thompson, UCal-Davis For example, he said, students were more likely to drop out he- E DE Ken Russell, Wayne, Mich. with A or A+ averages in high cause of poor accdcmic perfor- E Joe Stieglitz, Illinois State DE Gerald Nebel, Westminstrr, Pa. srhoal wcrr nearly three times as mance ” JJ,M Floyd Goodwin, Texas A&J DT Mikr Henning, UCal-Davis likrly to receive bachelor’s de- Institulions dinered widely in ILM John Yczerski, Baldwin~Wallacr DT Mikr Martin, Union, N.Y. grcrs within four years as were their dropout rates. Thr percen- QR Robert Brewster, Monclair St TAB Tom Hahnenbcrg, Crntral Michigan strldents who madr grades lower tages of studrnts who had rr- HB Van Lambert. NE Louisiana IAl3 Dana Hallenhrck. Ithaca than C in high school. crived a bachelor’s dcgrcc in four IIR Randy Reis, Fordham TJ3 Robert Baum, Wittcnherg years, for rxample, varied from HB Peter Tonks, Lafayette 1,R Don Satterlce, Hawaii Persist in College as low as 23 at one four-year col- DHR T,arry Ruzicka, Chadron, NP~. Also, he said, studrnts with thr Ictge to a high of 87 at another. tnrnotrs 1971 NCAA Pod-Grad Sc.holarshirl Winner DHR Dennis Meyrr, Arkansas St. ‘~cr~c~lr,s Rrpcatrrv frown I!)70 Ar:~drmir all&Anwrira best grades and highest test scores Among two-year colleges, the DIIR Jnmrs Bllrling, Grinncll, Ia. were two to four times more like- Conti7Llretl on page 5 NCAA NEWS / March 1, 1972 3 For Basketball Tournament CD Teams Selected More than 30 teams begin First- tion (Mass.). March 9-10: Alabama State vs. Round and Regional play the week GREAT LAKES at Evansville, LSU New Orleans (March 6 at of March 6 to determine the eight March 9-10: Eastern Michigan vs. Montgomery, Ala.). Tennessee entries in the finals of the 16th Kentucky Wesleyan. Evansville State vs. Alabama State-LSU annual National College Division vs. Ohio Athletic Conference winner. Transylvania (KY.) vs. Basketball Championship March champion. Delta State (Miss.). PRESIDENT NIXON impressed the but hc gave it all to Walton.” 15-1’7 at Evansville, Ind. MIDWEST at St. Louis, March EAST at Southampton, N.Y., members of the University of NED WULK, Arizona State bas- The selection process and as- 10-l 1: Pairings not completed. March 10-11: Hunter (N.Y.), Nebraska football team during ketball coach, on the possibility signment to regional tournament Missouri St. Louis, Saint Olaf vs. Hartford (Corm.). Southamp- their visit to the White House. of a 30-second clock: “The col- sites was nearing completion as (Minn.), North Central Confer- ton vs. State Universities of New “He even knew our numbers,” legc game would tend to become this issue of the NCAA News ence champion, Missouri Inter- York Conference champion. went to press. a numher of palr- collegiate Athletic Association said JOHNNY RODGERS, “but hc sterotyped as is the pro’s if we MIDEAST at Akron, Ohio, didn’t know mine. He said that go to the clock.” ings were yet to he announced. champion. March 10-11: Gannon (Pa.) vs. Team assignments for the Re- SOUTH ATLANTIC at Roan- when I ran a punt back against FRED HODBY, Grambling coach, Youngstown (Ohio) (March 7 at Alabama for 77 yards I was going discussing the pros’ drafting of gional Tournaments as of March oke, Va., March 9-10: Pairings Akron) Middle Atlantic States 1 looked like this: not completed. Biscayne (Fla.), too fast for him to catch my underclassmen : “An education is Conference Northern champion number.” worth $lSO,OOO to $200,000. Many NEW ENGLAND at Worces- Florida Southern, Mercer (Ga.), vs. Southern champion (March 7 Mason-Dixon Conference cham- JAMES E. SHEA, coach of the will never play pro ball and they ter, Mass., March 10-11; Bentley at Reading, Pa.). Cheyney State (Mass.) vs. Sacred Heart (Corm.). pion. U.S. biathlon team,speaking about don’t realize they can have short (Pa.) vs. Gannon-Youngstown The owners who Bridgeport (Corm.) vs. Assump- SOIJTII at Cleveland, Miss., the nation’s Olympic Games ad- careers . . winner. Akron vs. Middle Atlan- ministrators: “The program is would sign these kids are more tic States winner. run by a bunch of old fogeys, guilty than people who go around WEST at Pueblo, Colo., March who have a lot of money and a the streets robbing people.” 10-11: California Riverside vs. lot of time to give to the movc- GRANT TEAFF. Baylor Univer- Champions Top Entries Far Western Conference cham- ment, but, unfortunately, not the sity’s new football coach: “Bay- pion. California Irvine vs. South- talent to administer.” lor is committed to have a first ern Colorado. AJ, McGume, Marquette bas- class athletic program. We can For Wrestling Finals Quarterfinal pairings at Evans- k&ball coach on the loss of cen- stand toe to toe with any school ter JIM CHINES: “I just say to in the country.” Thr 1972 National Collegiatr ahead oP second place Iowa State ville will pit New England vs. Great Lakes, Midwest vs. South myself he broke his leg. The SCOTTYRORERTSON,coach of the Wrestling Championships, fra- (66). while Michigan State (44), tram will have to go on with- Louisiana Tech team which reeled turing seven rrturning cham- Penn State and Oregon State (43) Atlantic, South vs. East and Mid- eset vs. West. out him. All we’ve done is lose ofT 10 straight 100-plus games: pions, will be held March 9-11 at rounded out the top five in the ‘71 eight inches.” “Our players run like gazelles. the Ulliversity of Maryland. Championships at the University GUS GANAKAS. Michigan State We shuttle in nine players every Beading the list of champions of Michigan. basketball coach, describing his game and don’t allow our OPPO- is Michigan State’s Greg John- The top contenders for the Championship team’s free throw shooting prac- nents to relax. When our lO@ son who will he after his third 1972 team crown figure to bc tices: “WC have a contest to end point streak ended, our fans felt 1 Is-pound title. Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Pairings practice every day. Before a we had lost.” The other returning champions University of Washington, Penn Continued from page 1 player can go in and take his PAYTON JORDAN, Stanford track State, and Michigan State. include Oklahoma State’s Yoshi- Championship Finals, March 23 shower, he’s got to make three coach, won a recent indoor Se- In addition to the seven return- ro Fujita, 126 pounds; Slippery and 25, at the Sports Arena. The straight free throws or shoot for nior’s 60-yard dash, but the meet Rock’s Stan Dziedzic, 150 pounds: ing champions, who were unde- East and Mideast champions an hour-whichever comes first.” program listed Jordan as 72 years Iowa State’s Carl Adams, 158 feated moving into the final com- meet in one Semifinal game at SHELBY METCALF, Texas A&M old. “Golly,” said Stanford’s box- pounds, and Ben Peterson, 190 petition of the regular season, 6:lO p.m. with the Midwest and basketball coach, on UCLA’s BILL ing-coach RAY LUNNY, “I would pounds; Penn State’s Andy Mat- there will be a host of returning West champions tangling in the WAJ-TON: “I always thought the have sworn Payt was 10 years ter, 167 pounds; and Toledo’s place winners competing in this other Semifinal at 8:lO p.m. on Lord divided things up equally, younger!” Greg Wojciechowski, heavy- season’s Championships. Thursday night, March 23. weight. Eyes Fifth Straight With the exception of Dziedzic Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, will National TV and Adams, the champions are he seeking its fifth straight title The two winners clash for tile expected to defend the titles at in the 10th annual College Divis- Championship on national tclc- the same weights this year. ion Championships at Oswego. vision at 2 p.m. Saturday, March Track Pubhcation Raps Dzicdzic, who will be compet- Gary McBride, the defending 25. The Third Place game bc- ing in the College Division champion in the 118-pound class, tween Thursday night’s losers AAU Barring of Jennings Championships at New York heads another strong team from State University in Oswego, will bc played at 12:lO p.m. Sat- Cal Poly. The following editorial appeared in the February issue of March 3-4, probably will move urday. The 22-year-old Dziedzic has a up to the 158 pound class. Adams UCLA, unbeaten and ranked Truck & Field News: 97-l-O record for Slippery Rock is expected to advance to the 167 where fans say he is the greatest No. 1 nationally, will be seeking pound division. athlete in The Rock’s long and its sixth straight national crown. Incredible! Club leader Barred for Defending Champion colorful athletic history. Last sea- The Bruins, who have a 28-game Oklahoma State scored 94 son the terror of the typographers win streak in the NCAA tourna- Derogatory Statements About AAU ment, breezed through the Pa- points in 1971 to nail down its won the college and university Hold onto your stop watches, track fans, or you will drop cific-8 Conference and will open 27th team championship since division 150-pound titles, capping them for sure. You arc going to lind it hard to believe what you the wrestling competition was a season which saw him winning play in the ‘72 Championship are about to read. held in 1928. 41 bouts and only being taken March 16 in the West Regional The Cowboys finished 28 points down once. at Brigham Young. Would you believe that the Southern Pacific Association of the AAU, a regional division of the AAU, has formally barred from “future participation in AAU activities” one Tom Jennings, man- ager of the Pacific Coast Club? Indoor Track Ciampionsirips That the reason given was “Jennings’ continued derogatory statements about the AAU which have appeared in the public press”? That the association did not deny the truth of the statements. Expect Another Huge Reid indicating perhaps a greater concern over self-created image The National Collegiate Indoor The pole vault and 60-yard winter will meet in the 60-yard than freedom of speech? Track Championships rank third dash are two other featured dash. That, although more than 270 were eligible to vote, the action in size among the 26 champion- events this year. Cliff Branch of Colorado tied was taken on the favorable vote of only 22 members present at ship events conducted by the An Olympic champion’s NCAA the world best of 5.9 seconds in a $5.00 a plate dinner meeting’! NCAA. indoor pole vault record COUld the 60 on January 29 at Okla- The 1971 NCAA meet attracted be shattered in this Olympic homa City. Branch, who’s also a That the suspension is meaningless, since it will in no way 395 competitors from 106 institu- year. star slotback kick return man in inhibit Jennings’ activities? tions. Outdoor track had 475 com- Bob Scagren, 1968 Olympic football, previously had a 5.9 in That the association suggested to AAU track administrator Ol- petitors from 109 schools and 1970. gold medalist from Southern lan Cassell that all meet directors be advised of Jennings’ sus- swimming 458 competitors from His teammate, George Daniels, California, set the NCAA indoor pension, apparently believing this somehow could make a dif- 87 schools. meet record of 17 feet % inch in then dashed 5.9 in a dual meet. ference to the meets or anyone connected with them? The 1972 NCAA indoor meet the 1967 championships in De- is scheduled March lo-11 at Cobo troit. Ties Record Jennings, who has put together and manages well one of the Arena in Detroit, with The De- That mark already has been Herb Washington of Michigan two strongest track clubs in the U.S., admits t0 being an out- troit News as sponsor and the State tied the record of five bettered this winter by at least spoken critic of certain AA&J shortcomings and practiceeas ‘Ilniversity of Michigan as the seconds flat for 50 yards at To- host institution. two of the probable entrants in does AAU president Jack Kelly and Track & Field News, among the eighth annual NCAA cham- ronto. Washington also has run 5.9 in 1970 and ‘71 and hc was many others. In fact, the AAU long has been the target of many Defending Champion pionships, and several others arc NCAA 60-yard champion in 1970 a manager. coach, athlete, newsman. and AAU member. But this threatening. Villanova is the defending and runner-up last year. ls the first time in our memory that any such action as this has champion. Marty Liquori’s wins 17-6 for Johnson been taken. in the mile and two-mile directed Daniels, who’ll run for Ghana Jan Johnson of Alabama has Villanova’s triumph. in the 1972 Olympics, placed Jennings regards the affair both as an “hilarious example of Villanova scored 22 points, with cleared 17 feet 6 inches. Tom fourth in the NCAA 60 in 1971 fuzzy ‘thinking’ and as proof positive of the charges I have made. Blair of Penn has been over 17 and fifth ln the 440. Branch was Texas, El Paso (la%), second, Obviously the freedom of speech is not in the constitution of the feet nearly every week with a third in the 440. and Wisconsin (15) third. SPAAAU.” Liquori isn’t expected to be brst of 17-2%. Other outstanding sprinters cx- able to compete in the Champion- Scott Wallick of Miami (Ohio), pectcd in the Championships in- Proudly wearing an emblem of the USTFF, the NCAA-backed ships because of an injury. the defending champion (16-8), clude Gene Brown of Michigan rival to the AAU, Jennings continues to carry out his prime job Wisconsin’s Pat Matzdorf, who has made 17 feet this year. Also fifth in 1971; Harrington Jack- on managing PCC athletes in AAU sanctioned meets. And he set at high jump record at 7-2 over 17 feet arc Mike Wedman son, of Texas-El Paso, the NCAA offers this last word: last year; and Duke’s NCAA of Colorado and Steve Smith of loo-yard champion outdoors; and 1 ,OOO-yard rrcord holder Bob Long Beach State. Jim Harris, Ohio State football “r won’t appeal. I feel it an honor to he exrludrd.” Whc~~lcr will be returning this Three sprinters who already end, who placed third in 1971 in year. have tied a world record this the 60 and the outdoor 100. 4 U. 5. Olympic Committee Must Be Reorganized Because of the significance of the membership. BFUSA is the dominant or- people who hold the present memberships. receive its due identity and respect; l.c., article, the NCAA News is reprinting ganization in the United States when it Objections to their polices and procedures having a voice and vote commensurate the following report of Edward S. comes to facilities, coaches, players and arc passed upon by the same people who with the contribution it makes in the var- Steitz, chairman of the NCAA Olym- leadership. The first vote before the USOC make the policies and administer the pro- ious sports. pic Committee. Board of Directors rejected BFUSA for cedures. The former chairman, Bill Reed, The report was made for the Class E membership, however, upon re- At a time when due process is empha- summed it up well in a letter to the NCAA NCAA’s “1970-71 Annual Reports.” consideration, it was voted into Class E sized in the schools, on the campuses and Council. He stated that, “My thinking is L * * mrmbership. in the courts of our land, this is a move- basically negative simply because I am not All concerned with the U. S. Olympic The U. S. Track and Field Federation’s ment diametrically opposed to such a con- inspired to alternatives. I do believe that movement, especially NCAA rcpresenta- application for membership had been cept. If Ralph Nader believes General Mo- U. S. Olympic interests cannot survive, at tives to that Committee, were indeed tabled with the understanding that more tors is too much “establishment,” he would least competitively, unless something is saddened by the sudden death in 1971 of information should be brought to the be flabbergasted by the USOC’s role in done in the immediate future with respect William R. Reed, commissioner of the Board’s attention as to its role and con- controlling international competition. to the organization of the USOC itself. tribution to the Olympic movement. In the Big Ten Conference and chairman of the Oddly enough, the legislation prohibit- “I think that one way of approaching minds of the NCAA representatives, this NCAA Olympic Committee. ing a Federation from being recognized the subject is to ask that Congress review was an obvious attempt to deny recogni- A major issue before the USOC during without approval of the USOC Board of its charter of the USOC. Another possibil- tion of the USTFF. the past year was recognition of the sports Directors is a complete turnabout of the ity for reorganization would be to elim- federations which have come into being A severe rebuff of the Federations and, cry that we heard in former years. The inate all organizations in the USOC except in the past decade with tremendous in turn, the nation’s high schools, junior previous argument was that the Board the various federations. Inclusion of a support from the school-college system. colleges and senior colIeges, came at the could not recognize a new sports governing new federation representing school and One of these groups, the U. S. Gymnastics 1971 spring quadrennial meeting. A mo- body until the international federation college interests would bc mandatory. Federation, has been recognized by FIG tion was passed whereby a sports body. had done so. “Some weighing device would have to (international gymnastics federation) as such as a federation, in order to be recog- In my view, the future membership of be developed so that the federation repre- the governing body for gymnastics in the nized by the USOC Board of Directors, the NCAA within the USOC should be senting track and field acknowledged as United States. The USOC Board of Di- must obtain a favorable vote of two- contingent upon repeal of three constitu- the most popular of Olympic sports, would rectors at its 1971 spring meeting in thirds rather than a majority as had been tional provisions: (1) the notorius “Sul- have more influence within the USOC Grcenbrier, West Virginia, voted the the case previously to he accepted into ger Amendment” which provides that than some of the lesser federations, such USGF into Class A membership in the USOC membership. international franchise holders must have as field hockey. USOC without any serious opposition. This dcvisive legislation is interpreted majority representation on U. S. Olym- “Another approach, which may have The international wrestling federation by NCAA representatives as a means of pic sports committees; (2) the provision political potential if handled correctly, (FILA) had disenfranchised the Amateur doing all that is possible to prevent one that the USOC may recognize only one would be for the schools and colleges to Athletic Union as a member and had in- of the Federations from being designated national governing body in a sport, which virtually withdraw from the USOC ap- dicated that on an interim basis it wished the governing body for that particular body must be a member of an intcrna- paratus. This would be done on the basis to have the international wrestling af- sport. In addition, the Board of Directors tional sports federation and that recog- that the USOC would support the World fairs of the United States administered by voted that before a sports body may apply nition may come about only by a two- University Games as an aspect of its de- a joint commission comprised of equal to the international governing body for thirds majority, and (3) prior to accep- velopment program. In fact, the logic of representation of the IT. S. Wrestling Fed- membership, it must have the approval tance of a federation as the international doing this under any circumstances is so eration and the AAU. After heated debate, and recognition of the USOC. franchise holder, the USOC must give its obvious that it is difficult to understand the USWF was admitted to Class B mem- This, in effect, places control of interna- prior approval as recognition of that or- why it has not received further or better hership in the USOC. tional competition in the hands of the ganization being the governing body. attention within the USOC to date. Con- Surprisingly, the Basketball Federation USOC Board of Directors which, in turn, NCAA members of the Olympic Com- cern that the WUG could come to over- of the United States, which contributes is governed by the organizations which mittee are gravely concerned, in fact, shadow the Olympics might preclude any overwhelmingly to the enhancement of hold international franchises at the pres- quite pessimistic to the point that they arrangement between the USOC and the the sport in comparison to any other ama- ent time. Before any change can be made feel a radical change must take place U. S. Collegiate Sports Council.” teur basketball body in the country, had in membership, the change must be ap- within the structure of the USOC itself EDWARD S. STEITZ, Chnirman a difficult time being approved to Class E proved by a two-thirds vote of the very before the school-college system will ever Springfield College NCAA Briefs Cornell’s Long Victory Streak Ends in Hockey For the first time in 63 games a Zl-year-old coed is hopeful of and the first time since 1966, the playing for Upsala College’s team Cornell University hockey team this season. Linda June Korzun has been defeated on its home ice. will be sweating it out with more The Clarkson College turned the than 40 male candidates for Up- trick with a recent 4-2 triumph sala’s baseball team in the school’s over Cornell . Queens College gym when veteran coach Donald in New York is hoping to bring Walker puts his men and woman together scholars, students, mem- through conditioning exercises. bers of the media, sportsmen, and “I’ll give her every opportunity other interested parties into a to make the team that I give the symposium exchanging diversi- men,” said Walker, now entering tied ideas about sport. The sym- his 26th year as head coach. posium, “Sport, Man, and Con- The newly certified post-season temporary Society,” will be held Pizza Hut Basketball Classic in March IO and 11 on the Queens Las Vegas, April 15, has a unique campus. way of selecting the East-West Heads IField teams. Ballots will be distributed at Pizza Hut’s 832 outlets across Defending champion Stanford the country for a six-week voting heads the 1972 Riverside Nation- period ending March 25. Eight al Intercollegiate Baseball Tour- players are to be selected to each nament field. Other teams com- team. Proceeds from the contest peting in the week-long tourney, will go to Wichita State Univcr- March 20-25, are Arizona State, SPECIAL AWARD-Congressman George Mahon of Texas, right, is presented a special NCAA award for sity and Marshall University, Santa Clara, South Carolina, Cor- his work with the National Summer Youth Sports Program. Making the presentation is Jim Wilkinson, whose athletic programs were vic- nell, Tennessee, UCLA and host tims of air crashes in 1970; Sacred NSYSP program director, second from right. Gerald Ford, representative from Michigan and House minor- University of California, River- Heart College of Wichita and the ity leader, and Carl Albert, representative from Oklahoma and Speaker of the House, also took part in side . . Speaking of baseball, U.S. Olympic Committee. Ted the presentation at Washington, D.C. Owens of Kansas will coach one ‘Dropouts’ Survey team, the other coach has yet to be announced. Continued from page 3 Academic Consultant Proves Trainer Honored Drug Problem percentages of entering students Theodore C. (Ted) Quedcnfeld, who had obtained the associate’s Big Aid for Arizona A thletes head athletic trainer at Temple degree varied from 23 to 68. Academic failure is on the de- of 1971-72. Serious Concern Although these institutional University, has been named the cline at the University of Ari- Meyers further reports that by 1972 recipient of the Benjamin differences are largely attribut- zona for members of the inter- the end of the first semester, just Rush Award presented annually able to differences in the abilities collegiate athletic teams, thanks concluded, 58% of the football by the Philadelphia County Mcdi- and aspirations of the students to the efforts of Paul Meyers, team had cumulative grade point With Conference cal Society. Quedcnfcld and his who enter, certain institutions academic consultant for intercol- averages of 3.00 or better as family will be honored at a din- A recommendation that each have dropout rates that deviate legiate athletics. against 48% at the end of the ner sponsored by the Medical member institution devise a pro- as much as 25 per cent from what Meyers, now in his second Summer session in 1971. Society on Wednesday, March 15. gram to deal with the increasing would be expected from the types year, keeps a constant watch over In addition to the guidance and Jerry Tagge, quarterback of the problems of drugs in athletics of students who enter. Further the class schedules, class attend- counseling during the academic University of Nebraska, and John highlighted the Mid-Eastern Ath- research now underway at the ance and academic progress of year, Meyers has also established Hill, Lehigh University’s out- letic Conference’s mid-year mcet- American Council on Education the athletes. He also arranges for an Orientation Program for en- standing center, have been named ing. is attempting to identify particu- study hall and tutoring services, tering freshman football players. winners of Football Roundup’s The conference denounced the lar types of institutions in which when necessary. Football coach Bob Wcber said, 1971 Exemplary Player Awards. At the close of the first scmcs- “this is one of the most important use of any type of drugs in ath- the dropout rates deviate signifi- letics. cantly from expectation. Approve Freshmen ter last January the average grade phases of our program. All of our Single copies of the report, The West Coast Athletic Con- point average of the freshman athletes meet the requirements Dr. Artis Graves, vice president College Dropouts: A National ference has voted unanimously to athletes was 2.6 as against a 3.5 for admission when we recruit of North Carolina A&T, said: “Everybody seems to bc con- Profile, are available without use freshmen on varsity basket- the year before. The grade point them and we feel that WC have cost from Of&e of Research, ball teams in the 1972-73 season, average for varsity athletes has a moral obligation to make sure cerned about polluting the air but American Council on Education, arrording to Rev. Wilfred II. been raisrd from 3.2 in thr first that the athlete mai!ltains his aca- no cmc seems concerned enough athletrs polluting their One DuPont Circle, Washington, Crowley, S.J., Conference Com- semester of the 1970-71 year to ciemir eligibility and acbicvcs his ahout D. C. 20036. missioner. a 2.9 average in the first semester degree.” bodies.” 5 Deane Ogler Overcomes Han&cap (Note : Publication of an intrrprctation ill this column constitutes ollicial notice to the membership. New 0.1 s printed herein may be rcvicwcd hy the annual Convention at the request of any member. To Star for Rochester Institute QUC’S~~O~ISconcerning these or other 0.1.~ should be directed to Warren S Brown , :Issistant executive director, in the Association’s cxccutivc By Greg Enos Offk~. Sports fnformotion Director It is suggested each set of interpretations be clipped from the NEWS Rocheder Inrtifufe of Technalogy alld placed in the back of the reader’s NCAA Manual. It also is recom- Deane Sigler gets good vibra- mended that a rcfercncc to the 0.1. bc made in the Manual at the tions every time he laces on his ;Ippropriatr point.) skates and plays for the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology Permissible Expenses-Exhibitions varsity hockey team. Situation: A student-athlete is invited to put on an exhibition in his The vibrations from the crowds at RIT’s Frank Ritter Memorial particular sport. (108) Jce Arena push him on, because he can’t hear the cheers. The 20-year-old native of Ann Arbor, Michigan is deaf. And one Answer: An institution for the most part is limited to payment of of his goals is to be the first deaf actual and necessary expenses for intercollegiate athletic trips and professional hockry player in the therefore cannot pay for such expenses. The sponsoring agency could United States. urovide the student-athlete with acutai and necessary expenses pro- Drafting Major vided it was a charitable or educational organization and not related Sigler is a drafting major, en- ir, any way to a commercial product. [C3-l-(g)-(l)1 rolled in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT. NTID Canadian Football League-Tryout Camps is the only national postsecondary Situation: A prospective studcn-athlete attends a football camp technical school for the deaf. Con- gressionally established and fund- conducted by a memhrr team of the Canadian Football League and ed, NTID is administered through receives expenses such as, but not limited to, room, meal(s), trans- the U.S. Department of Health, portation, and unitemized local cxpcnses. (104) Education and Welfare and lo- Qlrrstion : Is this pmspCctine student-athlete eliclible for inter- cated on the campus of RIT. r-olle{gircte rcthletirs nt nn NCAA member in.stitution? “Deane is a very welcome mem- SIGLER IN ACTION-Deane Sigher, right, moves in on loose puck during Answer: No. Any student who receives or has ever received, direct- ber of the team,” says coach Daryi recent hockey game for the Rochester Institute of Technology. (Photo by ly or indirectly, reimbursement of expenses or any other form of Sullivan, “especially when we did A. J. Zelda) financial assistance from a professional sports organization for any not expect hbn until next year.” Sigler was on the waitinK list purpose whatsoever no longer shall he eiigihie for intercollegiate State honors in 1970. cially dangerous sport for deaf for NTID, which is currently op- Sigler moved on to the Senior players, because he can’t hear the athletics. IC3-l- (b) 1 crating with 350 students. League, where he played right puck sizzling toward him,” says Situation: A memtxr tram of the Canadian Football League con- In his first college hockey game wing for Guenther Builders, Siglcr. He has solvccl that proh- ducts a football evaluation camp in which prospective student-athletes against Syracuse University, Sig- which finished third in the state lrm with a special helmet that participatr. (111) ler scored one goal and three as- with a 23-l-2 record last year. has a strong patch over his hear- sists, as RIT won 9-O. Sinre then The sole loss came in the play- illg aid. he has scored in all but one game. ofTs. Siglcr had 20 goals and 45 A career related to drafting is The 6-O. 190-pound right wing assists, finishing second in the in Sigier’s plans. IIe feels that the started skating at the age of sev- ICagUC scoring race. Guenther atmosphere and supporting ser- Answer: No. Inasmuch as such a camp is conducted in part for the en, as a defenseman. He played in won all six games this year bcforc vices of NTID will adequately purpose of Canadian prospective student-athletes displaying their the Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey Siglcr enrolled at RIT. prepare him for a career after athletic abilities to coaches from collegiate institutions in the ‘IJnited League, then for Ann Arbor’s When he wasn’t playing, Sigler gtaduatinn. States, attendance by athletic department personnel would he a viola- Huron High School, and finally found time to coach and officiate Siglrr, the son of Dr. and Mrs. tion of the Association’s “tryout rule.” FBI-31 for the Ann Arbor Senior Hockey in the Pee Wee League that hc T,orris E. Siglrr, Jr., 1443 Coving- League. started playing in at the age of ton Dr., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1.600 Rule As a defcnscman for the Hu- scvrn. has been deaf since birth. He is Situation: A student-athlete attends a four-year collegiate institu- ron High team, he gained Ali- “As usual, hockey is an cspe- the only deaf person in his family. tion less than one full academic year and then transfers to a junior collrgc. (117) QtL&ion: What rpquirc?menfis must the stU&?nt-Uthlek? meet when he suhscqwntly tmnsfws to nn NCAA member institzction from the jtLnior colI?gc to hc eligible for intercnllegtite practice, patticipation nnd financial aid under the Association’s I.600 1Pgislntion? THE NCAA Answer: 1f he was a non or sub-predictor on the NCAA national prediction tables at the time of enrollment at the first four-year insti- tution, he must either graduate from the junior college. or attend the junior college at least two full academic years and transfer a minimum RECORD of 48 semester hours or 72 quarter hours of transferable degree credit A roundup of current membership activities with a minimum 1.600 grade average. If he was a predictor on the NCAA national prediction tables at the time of enrollment at the and personnel changes first four-year institution, he would be eligible if either his academic DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ville. rrplares JOHN J HALLUM Kansas in 1922-23. to the Basm work from the previous two semesters or three quarters of college at Mclrrhend State University krlhnll Hall of Fame. Georgetown University ap- attendance or his accumulative average for ail academic work was a DAVE DOLBIN rrsirned at Ship- APPOINTED-LARRY ENS- pointed FRANK RIENZO to fc- pc”shurRh State College. Ship- minimum 1.600 grade average. [B4-6- (b) - (2) and (3) -0.1.4081 place DR. ROBERT SIGHOLTZ. MlNCER as acting comrnissioncr pcnsburgh is entertaining appli- of the Missouri Vallry Confcr- who rrsig”ed. Rienzo. assistant cants for the position. Applira- Situation: A student-athlete attends a four-year institution at least track coach. will serve as acting c’“cx-. DEWITT WEAVER rcsignrd tions should be sent to Dr John as commissilmer for personal ream onr full academic year and then transfers to a junior college. (118) director BOB GAITLARD rc- Hubley. chairman of the selection places the late PETE PELETTA sons. Ensrninger has her” assis- Question: What requirements must the student-athlete meet when. committee tant. commissioner and public re- at the University of San Fra”- BASKETBALL-Jl?RRYWAUGII Ire transfers to an NCAA member institution from the junior COIIPW cisco. lations director for the ronfrr- rrkignrd nt San Francisco State cnrr RICHARD J. LUCAS as to be eligible for pmrtice, pnrticipcction cmd finnnrinl aid 7cndeT the DON READ resigned at Port- TAY BAKER has rrsiynrd land State University to join the bus~nrss mana$er of nt.hlctics at Association’s 1.600 legislution? after six yenr.q al lhe Urliversitv Pen” state. football staff at the University of Cincinnati MITCHELI. Answer: II he was a non or sub-predictor on the NCAA national of Oregon. Read also was head CALDWELI,. ELECTED-JOHN W. BOEBIN- football coach at Portland State tiER as president of the New prediction tahies at the time of enrollment at the first four-year Aulaurn IJnivcrsity named Orlrnr~s Mid-Winter Sports Asno- institution, he must have at least a 1.600 grade average either accumu- LEE IIAYLEY to replace JEFF ciation, sponsor of the Sugar lative or for the previous academic year. If he was a predictor on the BEARD, who in rrtiring Brawl ROSS Hi SMITH III FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE Massnt~husrlts I”stit.ute of Tcch- NCAA national prediction tables at the time of his enrollment at will be rcpla& bv his asaisl.ani. nology as president. of the Eastern THOMAS C. TIJRNER r~=~laccs Collegiate Athletic CO”fCX”W. the first four-year institution, he must have at least a 1.600 grade DR ALLAN v PALMER at the GARY KRTTDETMEIER COLF~JIM VAN PEE has bren rrplarintz ERNEST CASALE of average either accumulative or for the previous academic year when University of North Cacol~nn at Tfmplr. Charlotte. aoDointrd at the 1Jnivrrsil.v of hc transfers to a member institution which utilizes prediction tables Wisconsi”-Grrrn Bnv DIED-J CURTIS SANFORD. less demanding than the NCAA national tables. If the institution COACHES SOCCER-ARNOLD RAMIREZ 69, who originated t.he Cotton FOOTBALL-PETE YODER rt~places GEORGE VARGAS nt Bowl fn,,t.h.all game SAhTIJFX. utilizes the national or more demanding tahies, he would have to takes over at Cal State Fullerton. New York IJniversity. Ramirrr FLETCHER. 82 sucrcr conch at meet the eligibility requirements of the institution. LB4-6- (b) - (2) and Yoder was an assistant coach at has been a” assistant for the last Brown U”lver&y for 21 years (3)-0.1. 4141 USC BILLY (SPOOK) MUR- two “ears at NYtJ. until his retirement in 1946. PHY resigned at Memphis State. HOCKEY-HERB BROOKS was If PAUL WAY, a member of hut Will continlle as director of nrapointed at the 1r”ivrrsit.y of the Alleyheny College athletic de- athletics. FRED PANCOST re- Minnesota Brooks taken over for partment for 39 years until his places Murphy. Pancost was of- KEN YACKEI.. who wnn named retirement in 1969 JOE WIT.- fenaive coach at Georgia. intrrirn roach when GLEN SOM- LIAMS. Al. former sport.s column- ROBERT LEDBETTER. fresh- NOR resigned ist. for the Scripps-Howard “ews- man coach at Southern Illinois, BASEBALL - BILLY WOLFF. papers. WSB appointed at Norfolk (Va.) formrr All-Amerk.a nutflelder at LAYN PHILLIPS. 33. former State Florida A & M named the University of Cincinnati. re- University of Missouri football JIM WILLIAMS. who has bee” pint-t’s JOE HAWK at Xavier. player JOHNNY CHAMPION. SOCCER CLUB a” assistant at Tampa for the Ohio. a Southern Methodist University last three years. foothall player in the late 1940s The following soccer team has been certified by the NCAA Extra G. DEAN LOUCKS. assistant at SPORTS INFORMATION MAURICE SUHER. 62.Amoriran Events Committee in accordance with the provisions of Constitution Tona Collrec and former Yale DIRECTOR International College soccer coach 3-!+(d). The Certification of each team shall be in effect until August quarterbarh: succeeds JAMES S. HAROLD VADER, 55, former LANSING et Fordham Universit.y DICK (MOON) MULLINS Kansas State University football 31. 1972, unless the membership is otherwise notified. Iansing resigned. bul will con- switchrs from IJniversitv of Texas player and a well-known haskct- at El Paso to Arimna Statr IJni- FluridaTarksonville Amateur Soccer Club, Jacksonville. t.inue as assistant athletic dirrl-- ball nffirlnl in the midwest. tor intramural director, and co- versi t v Mullins succ.reds NORDY GLEN WHITIS. 46, basketball rrrd’inator of thr National Sum- JENSEN. who resigned to hccomr coach at Hardln+Srmmons Univcr- TRACK MEETS rditrlr of Ihe NCAA NEWS. sity. Whit is had compilrd out- The following track meets have been certified hy the NCAA Extra sl:rnrl~ng records at Howard Payne CHARLIE BATES was named at NEWSMAKERS Events Committee in accordance with NCAA Bylaw 2-4. Soui.hern U”iversitv and liardin-Sirn~l,ons He had a NAMED~PAUI, ENDACOTT. X73-157 t‘r~~ord going into this ~*a- Oregon Indoor Invitational Track Meet, January 29, 1972, Portlatrd, AlI&Amcrica at thr University of s,,n OrcKon. <:hampions Invitational, March 4 ,1972, Los Angeles, California.

6 Basketball’s Greatest Show rhtrtnjit.;ll)ht~t~ M:llcc~l~rl I’n~~r~or~s’ pic~tu!‘l~~ ~‘ll~llll~,l~‘llSlll~). ‘1’11t. tcnm~irnwnt is 2 sellout ill’ the 1971 National Collegiate Uasketball fvr the sernilinals on March 23 and the linsls Champiorlship at the Astrodome show the ex- on M?rch< 25. . ritemenl of the tournament. T,ast yrnr’s Championship field included This year’s spectacular sllow retur~ls to the UCLA, Villanova, Western Kentucky, and Los Angeles Sports Ar-cna, scene of ttle 1968 Kansas. WIIO will it be this scaaon?

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National Collegiate Basket- Iowa State University March 16818 NCAA College Division New York State Univ. March 3-4 ball Midwest Regional Ames, Iowa Wrestling Championships Oswego, New York - .-~ ~~~~~~ ~~~

National Collegiate Basket- Brigham Young Univ. March 16&l 8 ball West Regional Provo, Utah NCAA University Division Univ. of Maryland March O-11 Wrestling Championships College Park, Md. -_ __-

_ National Collegiate Ice Boston Garden Arena March 16818 Hockey Championship Boston, Mass.

National Collegiate Indoor Cobo Hall March 1 D-l 1 ~_ Track Championships Detroit, Mich. NCAA College Division Washington 8 Lee Univ. March 16818 .._ Swimming Championships Lexington, Va.

NCAA College Division Univ. of Evansville March 1 S-l 7 Basketball Finals Evansville, Ind. National Collegiate Basket- Univ. of Southern Calif. March 23&25 ball Finals Los Angeles, Calif. ~_ ~~ _. National Collegiate Basket- West Virginia Univ. March 16818 National Collegiate Fencing Univ. of Ill. Chicago Circle March 23825 ball East Regional Morgantown, W. Va. Championshlps Chicago, Ill.

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National Collegiate Basket- University of Dayton March 16818 National Collegiate U. 5. Military Academy March 23P25 ball Mideast Regional Dayton, Ohio Swimming ChampionshIps West Point, N.Y. l-