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THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATlON VOLUME 5 . NUMBER 6 JUNE, 1968 NEWSPORTS SURVEY REPORT NEW TEDDY AWARD JURORS NAMED SHOWSPROGRAMS PART, ICIPATION $2 BILLION FACILITIES USED FOUR MILLION TIMES; BUDGETS DOUBLE The third report in a lo-year study of the sports, physical education and recreational activities of NCAA member institutions discloses a 2% billion dollar commitment by the membership to these programs. The new survey, currently in the mail, covers the 1966-67 academic year, while the first two reports covered 1956-57 and 1961-62. Thus lo- year comparative statistics are now available in several areas, although Three new members of the Theodore Roosevelt Award iury hove been selected by the NCAA the latest report is considerably more comprehensive than the first. Council. They will help pick the winners of the next four Teddy Awards, the highest honor Himstreet, University of Southern NCAA President Marcus I,. Plant released copies of the report to the granted by the Association. At left is Professor William C. Ccllifarnia faculty representative. In the center is Dr. Milton 5. Eisenhower, president emeri- media at a June 10 press conference in Chicago, at which he emphasized tus of Johns Hopkins University and brother of the first winner of the Teddy Award, farmer the NCAA’s position of national leadership in sports and fitness programs. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. At right is Dr. Maurice B. Mitchell, president of the Univer- A copy was delivered to Vice-President Humphrey, who has been named sity of Denver. chairman of the reorganized President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, to illustrate to him the dimension of the NCAA membership’s role. CHAMPIONSHIP MEETS TO BE Included in the report are figures on the sports facilities, activities, per- sonnel, budgets and participation on NCAA campuses. ADDED TO NCAA SCHEDULE Massive Programs Three new National Collegiate possible danger of serious injury to “From its contents, a good picture of the massive NCAA programs in Championships-in water polo, vol- competitors in the event. sports and physical fitness activities can be drawn,” Plant said. leyball and trampoline-have beeil Doctors Favor Retention Among the meaningful totals shown, he stated, are these: recommended by the NCAA Ex- The reply of 62 per cent was that ecutive Committee. Implementing the event should be retained. -More than four million participants utilized NCAA facilities, sports amendments will be introduced to opportunities and the assistance of qualified personnel during 1966-67; Other points stressed by those fa- the 1969 Convention in January. voring retention of the event were -The physical plants and facilities of NCAA members are currently vai- Trampoline would be inaugurated its usefulness as a training device ued at two billion, fifty million dollars ($2,050,019,519); during the 1968-69 academic year, for other events, its spectator ap- Continued on page 6 with the first water polo and volley- peal, it is gaining in international ball meets slated for the following support and that statistics do not year. show the event is more dangerous Eight Titles June Goals of/VCAA While water polo and volleyball than other events. are totally new ventures for the Addition of these three events NCAA on a national level. the will boost to 26 the number of na- Spring Sports Teams and Stars trampoline event is to be separated tional meets the NCAA sponsors an- from the National Collegiate Gym- nually. Eight national championships will College and the University tourna- nastics Championships, of which it Of the total, 17 will be National be the goal of NCAA University and ment June 17-22 at New Mexico is now a part, and contested as a Collegiate Championships and nine College Division teams during June State University. College Division Championships. meets and tournaments from Mis- separate National Collegiate Cham- souri to California. Convention Groups, pionship. In baseball, track and field, tennis Initial planning proposes that it Council, Executive and golf, both a National Collegiate Committee Posts be held concurrently at the same Championship and a National Coi- site as the gym meet. Committee Slate iege Division Championship is at Lacrosse Title Delayed stake. Filled by Council The Executive Committee also The College baseball tournament, The 1969 Nominating Committee Summer Meetings considered addition of a lacrosse to be played June 5-8 at Southwest and Committee on Committees were championship, but received reports Summer meetings of the NCAA Missouri State College, Springfield, named by the NCAA Council at its Council and Executive Committee that coaches and administrators ac- MO., is the inaugural session of that Denver meeting. have been scheduled for late Au- tive in the sport feel it is too early event. The policy-making body also filled gust at Incline Village, Nev. 22nd College Series nine vacancies on other Association to move to national title play. The sessions will be one of three The University tournament-the bodies. The trampoline action came after annual confabs for the Executive 22nd College World Serie+will Among those appointed were careful study by the Executive Committee, but will be a special again be played at Omaha’s Rosen- Claude R. Gilstrap, director of ath- Committee of the results of a survey meeting for the Council. blatt Stadium, June 10-15. letics, University of Texas, Arling- of athletic directors and coaches to In track, the two meets will be ton, to the NCAA Olympic Commit- The Executive Committee will determine attitudes about the safe- meet first, August 15-17, while the held in the San Francisco Bay area, tee; James C. Loveless, director of ty of the event. Council will meet August 17-19. with the College meet June 7-8 at athletics, DePauw University, to the Cal State Hayward and the Univer- Long-range Planning Committee, The survey indicated 71 per cent The Council felt an extra meet- of the membership wished to retain sity meet June 13-15 at California. and Darrell K. Royal, director of ing was necessary after failing to Texas will be the site of both athletics, University of Texas, Na- the event. At the same time, there complete an extensive agenda at its tennis championships. The College tional Football Championship Fea- was strong feeling that this unique recent Denver meeting. tournament will be June 11-15 at sibility Committee. event should be separated from the “The members of the Council felt U. Texas Arlington. The University Three members were added to the other events, all of which are on the they had so much ‘housekeeping’ to tournament will be June 17-22 at jury for the Theodore Roosevelt Olympic program. do in Denver that they lacked suffi- Trinity University. Award, the highest granted by the Included in the report was a sur- cient time for discussion of current Golf likewise will be in the Association. They are Dr. Maurice vey of team physicians asking programs and planning future ac- Southwest, with the College tourna- Mitchell, president, University of whether they felt the trampoline tivities of the Association,” Presi- mcnt June 11-14 at Lamar State Continued on page 5 should be eliminated because of the dent Marcus L. Plant stated. WE EDITOR’S VIEW NCAA Council, Executive Committee Sports and related activities frequently inspire statements which have broader application than just to sport itself. Reject Sports Board’s Decision Speakers seemingly find it difficult to be false to competitors by speak- At their recent meetings in Denver, tbc NCAA Council and Executive ing in generalities. This seems to be especially true when addressing Committee adopted and forwarded to the Senate Committee on Com- athletes who have competed well. merce, a statement concurring with President Marcus L. Plant’s earlier Not to digress, however, the purpose here is to present a statement of appraisal of the decision of the Sports Arbitration Board. merit which was prompted by an occasion connected with sports. President Plant on April 3 told the Commerce Committee that he would It was made by the Very Rev. Paul L. O’Connor, S.J., president of Xavier not recommend acceptance of the decision to the Executive Committee University, while addressing the University’s 1968 basketball banquet. and Council, and, in turn, to the membership. The complete text of his The season had been a frustrating struggle during which the players letter to the Committee appears on page two of the April NEWS. had adapted to a new coach and a new system. Through determined self- The Denver action supports his view and sets the stage for the mat- discipline and respect for their coach’s authority, the team came on to play ter to be presented to the 1969 Convention in Los Angeles. very well during the latter part of the season. The Denver statement: Drawing on the players’ achievement, Father O’Connor applied their We undersigned members of the Executive Committee and Council of performance to the current mood on many campuses across the country. the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in their meetings at Denver, He said, in part: Colorado, on April 27-29, 1968, have thoroughly reviewed the report of the “Our Coach insisted that the team stick with his style of basketball Board of Arbitration on Track and Field. Further, we have given full con- and he showed everyone quite clearly that the harsh virtue of obedi- sideration to the responses of the Board to certain questions posed for ence could be blended with the sweet smell of success. And you mem- clarification by the officers of the NCAA and the United States Track and bers of the team are to be complimented because you showed you Field Federation. were men enough and also sensible enough to accept this fact.

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