Wright State University CORE Scholar Athletics Publications Athletics 12-1-1973 Wright State University Basketball 1973-74 Wright State University Athletics Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/athletics_publications Part of the Public Relations and Advertising Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Athletics (1973). Wright State University Basketball 1973-74. : Wright State University. This Media Guide is brought to you for free and open access by the Athletics at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Athletics Publications by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Press, Radio, and TV This brochure provides information about Information Office. Motion picture camera­ the 1973-74 Wright State University basket­ men needing platforms must make arrange­ ball team. For information not found in this ments at least three weeks prior to the brochure, direct your requests to: Sports game. Information Office, Room 110, Physical Education Building, Wright State University, Parking Arrangements: A parking area is Dayton, Ohio 45431, or call area code 513, reserved . for press, radio-TV and scouts im­ 426-6650, extension 606. mediately adjacent to the PE Building. Requests for parking passes should accom­ If you plan to cover a Wright State home pany requests for working press passes. game in the new Physical Education Bu ild­ When issued, the parking pass will be ing, please take the following matters into marked with appropriate lot in which space consideration. is reserved. Single game passes will be col­ lected at the entrance to the reserved park­ Press Box: Working space for writers and ing area. scouts is located on the floor opposite the team benches and scoring table. Working Services: Programs, lineups, and game back­ space for radio and television stations is ground information w ill be available in the located on the same side of the floor, but press row prior to the game. At halftime prior notice is necessary to set up adequate you will receive a p lay-by-play of the first space. Your press credentials will be marked half along with "quickie" stats. After the with the proper seat numbers when you game you will receive second half play-by­ receive them. play and complete final statistics. Refresh­ ments will be available in the press room Working Press Tickets: All requests for located in the Athletic Department confer­ working press tickets should be placed with ence room. the Sports Information Office. This includes requests from scouts. Requests received at Your Host in the press box this year will be least four days in advance of the game will David Stahl, Sports Information Director be mailed. Requests for tickets thereafter and Public Events Coordinator at Wright will be held at the "Will Call" gate in the PE State. Stahl joined the Wright State staff in Building. Priority will be given to those writ­ May 1973, after four years as Assistant ers requesting available space first. Newsmen Sports Information Director at The Univer­ will always be given preference over scouts sity of Toledo. if a shortage in space occurs. Stahl is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and holds Working Radio and TV Tickets: All re­ a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Univer­ quests for working radio or TV tickets sity of Toledo. Besides his work in public should be placed with the Sports Informa­ relations, he was a sports writer for the tion Office. Space will be assigned and tick­ Toledo Blade. He also spent six months as ets mailed after receipt of rights fees and the managing editor of Sports Digest of completed contracts. Three tickets will be Toledo. allotted for each station, but additional tick­ ets may be obtained with prior permission His duties at UT included two trips to the from the Sports Information Office. Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. He also Important: Nonworking women, children, traveled with the basketball and baseball and guests are not allowed in the working teams on most of their road trips. press area. Photographers: Still cameramen may work In addition to his work in public relations, beneath either basket. Requests for floor Stahl is a commercial pilot and a certified passes should be placed with the Sports instrument flight instructor. Don Mohr John Ross Director of Athletics Head Coach When Wright State University began search­ cinnati Reds in the summer. His top baseball John Ross, whose Belmont High School ketball from his teams. They were Don May ing for its first athletic director, the qualifi­ player in high school, Claude Osteen, signed basketball team won t he Ohio state basket­ (all-America at Dayton). who also played in cations included: an educational as well as with the Reds, but now pitches with the bal! championship in 1963-64, has brought the NBA, Bill Haskett (all-America at Ohio athletic background, with necessary connec­ Dodgers. In 1957, Don was named the Ohio Wright State University to a point of respec­ State), who also played in the NBA, Ray tions; administrative experience and, pre­ baseball coach of the year. tability among College Division circles in the Ridenour (GeorgiaTech),and Ralph Jukkola sumably, the ability to cope with major NCAA. (Louisiana State). As a personal honor, John problems without panicking; and boundless An administrative position was the next was awarded the "Ohio High School Coach energy and dedication. move; he was appointed principal at Read­ A native of Nevada City, California, he of the Year." Eighty percent of his high ing in 1956. He remained as head baseball moved to Ohio at a young age and gradu­ school players went on to college. Don Mohr fits the bill in all respects. coach until 1963 and his last year at Read­ ated from Mason High School where he ing was 1965. He received a Master of played both basketball and baseball. Ross quit coaching after 1963-64 to work He has been associated with the world of Education degree from Xavier University in on his master's degree at Xavier. He received sports since his days at Cincinnati North 1961. Immediately after graduation, John . was a Master of Education in physical education College High School where he played foot­ drafted into the Navy and wound up i111the in 1966. Prior to joining Wright State in ball, baseball, and basketball for four years, Then came the big move to Wright State in Pacific as a radio operator. After three years 1969, John scouted for several colleges and ran track for two years. His outstanding 1966 as head of financial aid, placement, in the service, John took advantage of the while teaching at Belmont. success in football and baseball brought and the veterans office. He was asked to GI bill and attended Wilmington College. many offers of athletic grants, but World initiate an athletic program, which he did in The call came in 1968 and John Ross War 11 ended all of that. 1968-69 by starting a soccer team. In April It took him only three years, including accepted the challenge of starting a basket­ 1971, he was made Director of Athletics. summers, to complete his Bachelor of Arts ball program at Wright State. His first team, It was off with the Marine Corps and 40 in Education degree in 1949. He still found in 1968-69, played a junior varsity schedula months of service, including 22 months in Since soccer started on campus, 11 other time to letter in both basketball and base­ while Ross remained at Belmont. the Pacific. While in the Marines, Mohr still varsity sports, including four for women, ball two years. found some time to play baseball and have been started. His own coaching duties 1969-70 brought Wright State its f irst full­ football. are with the baseball team. Ross' first coach ing job was a massive one. time coach. John now had varsity basket ball He started at Bellbrook, where he now and baseball for the Raiders. His first team, Immediately after the war, Don entered Soon the man with the burly laugh was resides, as head basketball coach, baseball made up of all walk-ons, compiled a 7-17 Miami University on a football grant, but proving his boundless energy especially coach, and coached track and cross country record. The next year saw the f irst athletic transferred to the University of Cincinnati with his involvement in the construction of in his spare time. He moved to Cedarville grants and a 9-14 record. where he received a Bachelor of Science in the new Physical Education Building hous­ High School in 1953 to coach basketball Education degree in 1950. ing the University's first basketball court. and baseball for one year. In only his third year after starting t he Also in the building is a beautiful swimming program, John guided the Raiders to a His first coaching position was at Cincinnati pool with a seating capacity of 500. John's first job in the Dayton school system fantastic 17-5 season last year, including Reading High School where he assumed the was in three elementary schools. It was not their first win over a University Division duties of assistant coach in football and Mohr's most important action was gaining until 1956 that he moved to Belmont as an team, Cleveland State, by a score of 5248. basketball. He took over the head baseball admission for the school into the NCAA. assistant basketball coach. He was appointed job in 1951 and did scouting for the Los What "mohr" could you ask of anyone in a head coach in 196Hl2.