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Official Publlcatlon of the National Collegiate Athletic Association December 16,1967, Volume 24 Number 44 RaymondL Bynn kw.J~=LJ=kstm John H- Baker Ill Hwh K Rkhter Silver Anniversary award winners are announced The 1962 Heisman Trophy State University, football; Terry W. are part of the College Athletics Top for number of receptions and re- firm. For 12 years, he was chairman winner, the mayor of Boston and a Baker, Oregon State University, foot- XII, which also honors six of today’s ceiving yardage in 1961. A member of the board of J & B Outdoor Inc., Democratic candidate for President ball and basketball; Raymond L. top student-athletes. The awards of the 1962 coaches all-America the fourth largest outdoor advertis- of the United States are among the Flynn, Providence College, basket- will be presented during the honors team, he was cocaptain of squads in ing company in the greater Houston six recipients of the NCAA’s 1988 ball; the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, luncheon January 11 in Nashville, the Blue-Gray game and the Senior area. Standard Laboratories Inc., Silver Anniversary awards. The North Carolina A&T State Univer- Tennessee. Bowl. He played professional foot- Coil & Pipe Company and Me- awards honor former student-ath- sity, football; Lee Roy Jordan, Uni- Following are biographical ball for the Houston Oilers from chanical Specialities International letes who have led distinguished versity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, sketches of this year’s honorees: 1963 to 1966 and for the San Diego are other companies that have be- lives after completing college athlet- football, and Hugh V. ‘Pat” Richter, John H. Baker Ill Chargers from 1967 to 1969. nefitted from his leadership. ics careers 25 years ago. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Baker was a three-year starter at He is the owner and founder of He was active in the Fellowship Recipients of this year’s awards football, basketball and baseball. offensive and defensive end at Mis- John H. Baker Interests, a real of Christian Athletes at Mississippi are John H. Baker III, Mississippi The Silver Anniversary awards sissippi State. He set school records estate development and investment See Silver, page 2 600 members Legislation to restrict recruiting on agenda participated in (Edtor’s Note: In this fifth article ence and telephone calls), on or off NCAA Division 1 vice-president also comins a waiver for states in in a series of seven detailing the campus. and a law professor who serves as which the high school playing season championships legislationfacing the &legates at the l Established limitations on scout- faculty athletics representative at in a sport is not the traditional More than 600 NCAA member NCAA’s 82nd annual Convention, ing prospective student-athletes the University of Arkansas, Fayet- season. institutions-606 of 794, or 76.3 the proparals contained in the re- (“evaluation periods”). teville. Proposed dates in each sport percent-were represented in 1986- cruiting grouping are presented.) l Reduced the total recruiting Major proposals were developed after consultation 87 championships competition. No- periods (both contacts and evalua- At the recommendation of that with the NCAA committee or com- where was the rate higher than in Persistent efforts to find effective tions) in football and basketball by special subcommittee, the Council mittees in that sport, and the Coun- Division I-A, where 104 of 105 ways of restricting athletics recruit- approximately 50 percent. is sponsoring three major recruiting cil has stated that it will welcome member institutions had partici- ing activity have been in evidence at And the beat goes on. Recogniz- proposals at the Nashville Conven- amendments at the Convention to pants in at least one championship. recent NCAA Conventions, and the ing that many violations of Associ- tion: adjust the dates as desired, so long Including Divisions I-AA and I- 1988 gathering certainly will be no ation regulations are directly related aOne will establish a maximum as they remain within a total four- AAA, 232 of 288 (80.6 percent) exception. to recruitment of prospects and that four-month contact-andevaluation month limitation. It is likely that Division I members had teams or There are 26 amendments in the recruiting in general has been termed period, with specific dates in each various sports interest groups will individuals advance to NCAA play- recruiting grouping for the January the Achilles’ heel of college athlet- case, for every sport other than take the Council up on that invita- offs. lo-14 sessionin Nashville, by far the ics-coupled with the fact that it is football and basketball, which were tion. Divisions II and III percentages largest of any of the topical group- one of the three greatest cost factors placed under similar limitations last l A second proposal will establish were almost as high-74.6 in II and ings; and one of those 26 is likely to in athletics budgets-the NCAA January. The membership already quiet periods 48 hours prior to the 73.5 in III. The lowest rate occurred result in numerous amendments to Council has placed increasing em- has approved the four-month-lim- National Letter of Intent signing in Division I-AAA, where 54 of 97 the amendment at the Convention phasis on means of restricting re- itation principle at the special Con- dates. An approach of this nature members (55.7) were represented in itself. cruiting activities. vention last June. The legislation in has been discussed in recent years, NCAA postseason competition. In recent years, the NCAA mem- In recent years, the NCAA Re- Nashville is to establish the specific and the Southwest Athletic Confer- “The last time we researched par- bership has: cruiting Committee has actively re- dates involved in each sport. ence has been a leader in generating ticipation, the numbers were very l Eliminated boosters from mak- viewed various approaches. In the That proposal contains a waiver interest in the concept. comparable,“said Louis J. Spry, the ing in-person contacts with pros- past 18 months, the impetus has provision for institutions that have This proposal would affect all Association’s controller. “However, pects off campus, and then, a year come from the Special Council Sub- admissions procedures using ac- sports and would permit no in- Division III numbers have risen ago, prohibited them from any type committee to Review the Recruiting ceptance dates after the defined person contacts, either on campus See 600 members, page 2 of contact (including correspond- Process,chaired by Albert M. Witte, contact period in a given sport. It See Legislation, page 18 1 f Administration plan approvea ror ~Room, board-part of grant NCAA conference grant program now subject to taxation Approval of a plan for adminis- and Enforcement Efforts, the Drug 1988, 1989 and 1990 Division I When Congress rewrote the Hill to restore the tax exemption, tration of the NCAA conference Education Committee (which since Men’s Basketball Championships. Federal tax code in 1986, one as prepared by NCAA legal coun- grant program highlighted actions has been disbanded), and represen- Conferences must use the moneys benefit it eliminated was the tax- sel in Washington, D.C. taken by the Association’s Executive tatives of the University Commis- to establish and/or enhance pro- exempt status of the room and The Tax Refom Act change: Committee during a December 7 sioners Association and the grams and services in the areas of board portion of scholarships. Prior to 1987, any amount re- meeting in Kansas City. After allo- Collegiate Commissioners Associa- men’s and women’s basketball offi- In the case of athletics grants, ceived by a degree candidate as a cating moneys for the program in tion. ciating improvement, drug educa- awards for the current (1987- scholarship to an educational August, the Executive Committee The program tion, and compliance and 1988) academic year are the first organization was excludable reviewed and adopted a detailed During its August 1987 meeting, enforcement. Conferences also will (other than summer-term from gross income and thus was administration plan that was deve- the Executive Committee approved be permitted to use grant allocations awards) to be subject to the new tax-free. loped after discussion with several allocation of $3.5 million grants to to enhance.opportunities for ethnic rules. Following is a summary of The Tax Reform Act of 1986 groups. Division I men’s and women’s bas- minorities and women. the tax-law change, a brief ex- amended the Internal Revenue Input for the plan was received ketball-playing conferencesfor each Grants will be available only to planation of how it affects stu- Code to limit this exclusion to from the Special NCAA Commit&e of the 1988-89,1989-90 and 1990-91 those Division I men’s and/ or wom- dent-athletes and the institutions amounts received as a “qualified on Basketball Officiating, the Spe- academic years. Grant funds will be en’s basketball-playing conferences they attend, and a report on scholarship.” A ‘qualified schol- cial Council Subcommittee to Stim- taken from participatiug institutions’ that employ a full-time administra- efforts being made on Capitol See &om. board, page 7 ulate the Membership’s Compliance shares of the net receipts from the See Administmtion, page 3 :* t 1 /’ I’ ,1, IV,: ! _’‘ :!’ !c.:,t rflr 2 THE NCAA NEWS/mmber 16,1987 Silver Continuedfrom page 1 been a member of the Multnomah College Athletic Hall of Fame and column for the Los Angeles Times football, basketball and baseball at State and has continued his affiha- County Circuit Court arbitration runs in the Boston Marathon. syndicafe that appears in about Wisconsin. He was a consensusall- tion with that organization.