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NCAA Awards Seniors Final 32 Grants The last 32 of 80 $1,000 Postgraduate Scholarships have been awarded by UNIVERSITY DIVISION the NCAA for the 196849 academic year. Awards in the last group go to ROGER ALLAN DETTER Arizona State University outstanding student~athletes participating in sports other than football 3 3 g.p.e. in mnthematxs Home town: Nickerson. Kansas Baseball Basketball captain. 1969. Baseball ca tain. 1969. Shortslop. Most valuable and basketball. basketball player, 196&. Member of 196li and 1969 NCAA Championship basc- ball teams. 1969 cautain of WAC Southern Division Chamoionship team. Twelve awards were given in the University Division and twelve in the Presented Charles Christopher Award as outstanding fresh athlete. Iti upper 10 per cent of class, 1966-69. WAC heskcthall All~Acadrmic team. 1967-68; All- College Division, while eight were hestowed in the At-Large category. WAC Basketball Academic team, 1968-69; Honorable mention, basketball Academic All-America. 19fiX. Third team. baSkethal Academic All-America, There were seven alternates. According to Postgraduate Scholarship Com- 1969. Ranks in top 20 WAC career scorers. Holds ASU basketball record for mike policy, if any one of the original awardecs does not utilize his consecutive free throws-36. scholarship, it automatically reverts to an alternate in the order in which MICHAEL EUGENE PORTER Princeton University 4.0 g.p.a. in aerospace and Home town: Arlmgton. Vlrpinia GOlC the alternates are ranked. mechanical sciences Medalist and individual champion of EIGA. Named third team All-America. Each winner has earned better than a 3.0 or “B” accumulative grade av- Lfndcfeated in dual matches in junior year. Lost only sin dual matches out of 48 in three year8 of varsity golf. Secretary. Princeton chapter of Tau Beta erage for three years of college work and has performed with distinction PI, engineering honorary. Member of Sigma Xi, sclentilic research honorary in his particular sport(s). In addition, each must have signified his inten- society. Member of Artillery Club, Army ROTC Drill Team. Supervisor, Umversity dining hall. Superior Cadet Award recipient. Awarded Alexander tion of beginning graduate studies as soon as possible and must have been Hamilton Medal. Member of Cap and Gown Club, upper cla8s eating club. judged capable of doing postgraduate work by his major professor. WARD ANDREW MEYTHALER Iowa State University 3 8 g.p.a. in political science. Home town: Barrington, Illinois Gymnastics The majors of the 32 cover most of a university curricula-including Captain, 1969 ISU gymnastics team. Big-8 Conference Rings Champion, 196X English, aerospace and mechanical engineering, political science, psychol- and 1969. Member of Big-X championship teams. 1967. lllG9 Member of NCAA third place team. 1969. NCAA ring8 champion, 1969. AllLAmrrica honors, 1969. ogy, forestry, biology, chemistry, history, economics, etc. Upper two per cent of student body. 1967, lY6W. 19fi9. Member of Phi Eta Sig- ma. freshman honorary society. nlembttr of Phi Kappa Phi honorary society The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee which made the se- Winner of Big-S Conference Athletics-Scholarship Award. lections is composed of: Larry Woodruff, Kansas, chairman; A. D. Kirwan, KENNETH WAYNE DRYDEN Cornell University Kentucky; Sherman Stanford, Penn State; Samuel E. Barnes, Howard; 3.3 g.p.a. in history Home town: Islington. Ontario. Canada Ice Hockey ECAC Player of the Year, 196X-69. Goalie. ECAC Merit Medal winner. Ithaca Maj. Peter M. Dawkins, U.S. Military Academy; Max Schultz, Minnesota; Journal Athlete of the Year. Cornell Sun Athlete of the Year. 1969 All-Ivy, All-East. All-America. three years. Team captain. Most valuable player. 19fi9. J. Neils Thompson, Texas; and W. H. H. Dye, Northwestern. Dormitorv counselor. Dean’s Hal. Member of Beta Aloha Psi. national ac- counting”honor society, and Beta Gamma Sigma. naiional business honor Following is a list of the recipients: society. Member of Phi Kappa Phi, natmnal honor uociety. THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION VOLUME 6 l NUMBER 7 College Footboll. ‘An American Tradition” . 1869-1969 AUGUST, 1969 5,OOOthChamp Crowned at Golf Tourney Bob Clark of California State, Los Angeles, hecame the 5,OOclth indi- vidual National Collegiate Cham- pion June 28 hy winning the indi- vidual title of the National Collcgi- ate Golf Championships at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Cola. NCAA President Harry M. Cross was on hand to present him a spe- cial NCAA plaque commemorating the significant occasion. The national collegiate champion- ships date back to 1883 when tennis was established as a national tour- nament for college athletes. That was 23 years before the founding of the NCAA, but the Association has included the tennis and golf win- ners of the early years in its ligures. The first golf championship was conducted in 1897 with Louis P. Bayard of Princeton the winner. In recent years the annual num- bcr of individual champions has in- creased markedly, with the inclu- sion of many additional sports in the championship series, to this year’s total of 190. In the current year, 1968-69, the NCAA is sponsoring 15 National Collegiate Championships plus an- other nine national championships on the College Division level. Two more championship events, water Bob Clark of Colifornio State, Los Angeles, became the 5,OOOth National Collegiate Champion, when he won the in- polo and volleyball, will he added dividual title of the National Collegiote Golf Chompionships ot The Broadmoor last month. Bob is shown here with next year. the plaque which wos presented to him by Harry Cross, president of the NCAA. making certain that through a student’s athletic experiences he receives the educational experiences for which athletics was originaily intended. The Editor’s View Within this respect for professional athletics and its proper role in our modern-day society, those of us in collegiate athletics need to develop an- Peaceful Sports Coexistence other type of respect-some self-respect for our own purposes, our own objectives, and that’s why I maintain a firm line of demarcation need be Wayne Duke, a member oj the NCAA Esecutivr Committee and tfle retained between college and professional sports. And, I think you can co- Commissioner of the Big Eight, mucte the following remurks ut u punet exist though you do retain such demarcation. on “College-Professionul Athletics, Can They Co-exist?” ut the NA[:nA Frankly, as an individual, I become deeply chagrined at the aborting of meeting in Kunsus City, June 23. The editor o#ers them us a frank, artia- the true purposes and objectives of intercollegiate-and interscholastic lute, timely examination of an urea of major concern to intercolleyiate athletics-by the empliasis on the pros, but 1 think it’s our fault for not uthletics. preaching positively the gospel of our purposes and objectives. We’re liv- It appears obvious that collegiate and professional sports should co- ing in an era when it’s commorl-place~bccausc of this abortion of the exist. Saying it plainly, the pros are here to stay, and so are we. We’ve values of our sports-to believe that the objective of interscholastic ath- been around longer, and our popularity in a multiple of sports has never letics is to prepare players for the colleges, and the objective of the intcr- been higher. The pros aren’t going to go away, and they’re going to con- collegiate program is to prepare players for the pros. What a fallacy! Even tinue to be competition for the entertainment dollar. They will continue if one were not imbued with an idealistic philosophy that the real purpose to play a most prominent role in coverage by our news media and in the is of an educative nature, sheer numbers would disprove such a theory. thinking of the populace. Colleges Not Building Pros I am a journalist by educational training, though my good friends in the newspaper profession oftentimes attempt to disown me. Much of that, I The National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations on suspect, is because of their characterization of me as a “hawk” when it May 19 of this year released its 19G9 “Sports Participation Survey,” show- comes to college-professional relations. This is based much upon my sin- ing that a total of 902,430 boys participated in interscholastic football cere concern relative to the inroads of professional sports on the inter- last year. The National Collegiate Athletic Association conducted a similar scholastic and intercollegiate programs and my idea that you just shouldn’t survey recently showing that some 30,000 persons participated in football roll over and play dead simply because the pros arc here to stay. 1 often- programs in our nation’s colleges and universities in 1969. How many pro- fessional football players are there? Roughly, 1,000. times ofltcr an analogy to my newspaper friends, comparing professional lootball, for example-m our scheme of things-to the television rricdia in Translated, it means simply this. Only 3 of every 100 boys who ever the newspaperman’s eyes. Here’s television, with its recently found popu- plays high school football will ever play intercollegiate football. Only larity, its glamour as a news-gathering and entertainment media, and its one of every 30 boys who plays college football will go on to the pros- inlluence for changing starting times-yes, even playing dates--ot athletic just one person on the entire college squad, if that. (And, you can reduce contests, control of time-outs, and the hke. Here is the newspaper media- that figure greatly by a more complete analysts of participation figures.) on the other hand-vitally concerned with the competition and the chal- I sometimes wonder whatever happens to those other 97 boys out for high lenge offered by television as a news agency and a power of influence on its school football, or the other 39 college boys.