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1969- CENTENN’S IAL

THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

VOLUME 6 ’ NUMBER 1 College Football . . . “An American Tradition” . . . 1869- 1969 JANUARY, 1969 FootballCentennial Plans To Be Unveiledat NCAAConvention

The initial major presentation of to the team or to the captains at the NCAA’s plans and projects for halftime, or to the team after the 1969’s College Football Centennial game. awaits those attending the Associa- Included in the ceremonies, in tion’s 63rd Convention in Los An- addition to the presentation, would geles Jan. 6-8. bc Centennial music and formations Displays there will illustrate sev- by the band, special card stunts eral items the NCAA plans to pre- where done, special scripts for cov- sent to its member institutions, and ering radio and television announc- other programs in which the col- leges and universities will be asked ers, a special cover on the game to play the major role. program and a Centennial story in The presentations, which will it, introduction of the institution’s move on to the Centennial Queeu candidate, intro- Coaches’ Association Convention at duction of reprrscntativcs of past the Biltmore Hotel Jan. 7-9, result teams and other related activities. from over a year of work by NCAA and allied groups. Additional Certificates Available

(Thr structure and rrlatioriships Insti!c2:lons \;vit;l ~IIOI’C lilarl 44 of tllese groups are detailed in the squad members may purchase addi- accompanying story on page 13.) tional certificates as required. Key Project Secondly, an offici;tl symbol Instrumental among all projects (shown at left) has been created for planned is the purchase by the use on college publications of all NCAA of 44 Centennial certificates types, and on letterhead, envelopes, -with a medallion mounted on postage meters and other printed each-for presentation to varsity matter. players at NCAA member colleges It has been distributed to all during the centennial year. member institutions and other in- Each institution will be asked to terested parties. Additional copies build a Centennial Day around pre- arc available from the NCSS. sentation of the certificates to the members of its football team dur- Third Coutribution ing appropriate ceremonies at a Shown above is the official College Football Centennial symbol. All those interested in college footboll ore asked to use it in every possible manner throughout 1969 to A third NCAA contribution will home game in October. Suggestions gain exposure for the Centennial celebration. Elements of the official symbol will be the purchase of Centennial de- include presentation of the certifi- be used for decorative purposes on other items, such OS helmet decals, rtodium cates by the president or chancellor flogs and bumper stickers. Continued on puge 13 63rd NCAA CONVENTION SET IN FreshmanEligibility TopsItems of Entertainment Stars,- --“whizzer ” White, To Be Feted at Jan. 7flonors Luncheon legislation FacingVoting Delegates Supreme Court Justice Byron R. distinguished record as athlete, White will receive the NCAA’s scholar, leader and jurist. The 1938 With 41 items of legislation and ferences and most of its associated highest honor, 17 luminaries of the graduate of the University of Colo- administration to consider, a long groups will have met. field of the performing arts will be rado joins Dwight D. Eisenhower list of committee meetings to at- Highlighting the social calendar recognized and selected 1968 Post- and Lcverett Saltonstall as Teddy tend and several attractive social are the Monday night reception for graduate Scholarship winners will winners. events awaiting them, the delegates delegates and the Tuesday noon be present at the Association’s The 17 entertainers will receive the to the NCAA’s 63rd Convention will Honors Luncheon (see accompany- fourth annual Honors Lunchcon NCAA’s Commemorative Plaques, find Los Angeles a busy city Jan. ing story), both in the Pacific Ball- Jan. 7. attesting their success in their se- 6-8. room of the Statler Hilton Hotel, the A highlight of the 63rd NCAA lected professions since winning in- Actually, while those are the “of- Convention Headquarters. Convention, the Honors Luncheon, tercollegiate letters as undergratl- ficial” Convention dates, many will While the NCAA meets in the will be in the Pacific Ballroom of uates. Included are star performers travel to Los Angeles earlier than Statler Hilton, the American Foot- the Statler Hilton Hotel, Conven- of motion pictures and television, Jan. 5, for a long list of meetings ball Coaches Association members tion headquarters. noted singers and several of the in- will be held prior to the opening will gather in the nearby Biltmore. Curt Gowdy, NBC sportscaster dustry’s top producers. session on Monday. The College Athletic Business Man- who will do the TV play-by-play The performers are Johnny Mack The NCAA Rules Com- agers Association convention will be for the NCAA finals in Brown, David Canary, Art Linklet- mittee kicks off the schedule on in the Statler Hilton, as will the March, will be master of ceremo- ter, Lee Majors, Ozzie Nelson, Tom Jan. 2. and by Jan. 9 a high per- U. S. Track Coaches Association nies. Smothers, Robert Slack, Woody centage of the Association’s com- and CoSIDA. Justice White will receive the Strode and Dennis Weaver. The mittees, many of its allled oon- Ccmtinued on page 13 Theodore Roosevelt Award for his Continued on page 12 . FOOTBHLLFEUDHLISM

The preamble to the official playing rules of college football is known as Admittedly, inflation can be blamed and coaches can argue that college “The Football Code.” It is printed by the Football Rules Committee immedi- management should limit grants-in-aid and recruiting costs. Yet, us long as ately in advance of the official playing rules and states quite simply that the rules of the game place a premium on more players, more coaches and “Traditionally, football is the game of the larger traveling squads, it seems reasonable to take first things first. schools and colleges.” And the big spenders who shun economy should keep in mind the sober- The game of intercollegiate football does belong to the colleges. Ulti- ing fact that soccer, America’s fastest-growing , fits neatly and inex- mately, it is their viewpoint which governs what the game should be and pensively within the perimeter of the football stadium. what it should strive to accomplish. The viewpoint of each NCAA college, as Setting aside the economic factors, prime attention must be given to the it decides its position on critical intercollegiate issues, reflects the attitudes student who plays the game, the college which conducts the program and the of the administration, the faculty, the students playing the game, the student coaches who hove a responsibility to their successors. body in general, the coaches, former lettermen and other alumni . . . and the Conclusions Against Free Substitution exchequer! There are numerous valid arguments on both sides in considering these This becomes critically significant as we consider the welfare of o great three areas, but our conclusions against free substitution and its resultant two game-o game which has become a unique and inspiring American tradition platoon planning are these: as it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversory. Although many of its most 1 The student playing the game-is better for having learned to avid disciples may not sense current circumstances, it appears clear that col- play both offense and defense; he is forced to learn and to do the lege football is on a collision course with college management, A nose-to- things he does not necessarily do well naturally which is part of the nose (noseguard to noseguard?) confrontation is in the offing. important character building, maturing process of the game. From Alonzo Stagg to Fritz Crisler and A. R. Hutchens to Davey Nelson, Whereas most students may play at their specialty under free sub- there have been moving speeches as to the sanctity of the Football Rules Com- stitution, they are somewhat like the golfer who hits the tee shots and mittee and the inviolate nature of its proceedings. Fair enough, if the members’ has someone else do the putting, or the seven-foot basketball player deliberations are truly representative. Yet, who has spoken of the inordinate who stands under the offensive basket to dunk but lets the other four pressures exerted by the American Football Coaches Association (through its go back on defense. big number surveys and special rules committee meetings) to keep the 2. The student’s degree of participation-will not necessarily di- gome “the way we want it.” These efforts throw the rules-making process out minish under a different substitution rule. A football player normally of kilter and disenfranchise many of college football’s “stockholders” will go where he can play which would mean that as some of the ex- whose opinions are not tabulated. Think of how many Americans would feel cess is pared from the swollen squads, athletes will be playing at insti- more secure if Gallup, Roper, Nielsen or Jack Curtice would ask them at least tutions which barely muster sufficient numbers now. one question. 3. lhe college conducting the program-will be benefited by a cost Game Not Exclusively Coaches’ savings which can be utilized in the development and promotion of In short, college football does not belong exclusively to the coaches and other . (How does one justify a lo-man football coaching staff, a successful seasons should not develop a ruling aristocracy of winning coaches part-time gymnastics coach and on abandoned track program?) who believe championships and national acclaim give them a godly om- Also, if a college has a program in physical education, designed to niscience as to what should be done with the game. (It’s tempting at this point develop qualified coaches, why conduct a laboratory which gives the to drop in a few salty comments about some coaches’ mounting drive for ex- students only a 50% education? panded contracts with built-in bonuses based on bowl game receipts-but 4. The coaches’ responsibilities-to their successors can only be met more about the wonderful world of bowl games the next time around.) by teaching the full game to their students and their coaching staffs. Football’s noseguard-to-noseguard meeting with management will be on The old Red Blaik system is back with us-the offensive squads and de- the issue of costs. Virtually every prediction of the opponents of free substi- fensive squads divorced and separate in practice, each with their tution concerning costs has come true as a result of the Rules Committee’s specialized coaching staffs. Is this best for the profession whose grad- return to this rule-more specialists, bigger squads, more coaches (one insti- uates will be teaching other people how to play? tution lists 16, plus a recruiting coordinator), more equipment and added 5. Miscellaneous arguments-that free substitution will cut practice transportation. time (more coaches teaching more players in less time) and reduce The proponents, presumably conceding that costs do rise under the rule injuries (fresh players don’t get hurt) simply are not substantiated. (can anyone seriously deny it?), contend that: “It makes for a better game- College management has no burning desire to dictate playing rules in ony and, after all, we’re in competition with professional football for the en- sport. But if the Football Coaches Association is going to act as a lobby, and tertainment dollar.” the Rules Committee continues to tell the annual NCAA Convention not to Let us consider for a moment the incoming dollar (as opposed to manage- tamper with its plaything (remember the Committee’s position on the amend- ment’s concern with the outgoing one). Do these pro-orientated thinkers really ment limiting travel squads?)--then as all of these factors come to bear, the believe that the great college stadia and traditions have been built by anony- voting delegates to the NCAA Convention at some time and place (armed mous tight ends and flanker backs dutifully obeying play-by-play coaching with their latest auditor’s figures) are going to act. After all, they are orders in a pro set? Are the spiraling costs of the game going to be met by dis- the ultimate spokesmen for the composite institutional viewpoint. carding the uniqueness and originality of college football and then aping the stereotyped offensive and defensive patterns of the professionals, who con- duct a different game for a different purpose? Lovers of the college game (and this one is more ardent than most) merely have to toke a look ot George Washington University, the cost study recently authorized by Holy Cross, the orders of the Pacific-B’s chief executives re- P.S. Those who copy the professionals, should be willi-g to arrept the gording gridiron expense, the concerns expressed by Big Eight Conference NFL and AFL rigid limits on playing numbers-forty, with a few management and the ledger sheets of several Big Ten members to realize replacements (but no additions) available from the taxi squads. No? that the moment of decision is upon US. Then a straight four-year rule? . . . or, maybe . . . limited substitution!

ABOUT COLLEGE ATHLETICS

The College of Wooster may be in a former president of the Academic teams here during the winter sea- one side and the AAU on the other. a losing streak, but basketball coach Senate at UCLA. son, and if at all possible, American “When you get right down to it,** Al Van Wie can always find a bright + * * teams would make trips abroad dur- says Rupp, “the AAU doe-3 have spot. “If you learn from defeat, Coaching changes: John Ray, from ing the summer. Rupp says the key anything to sanction. It’s the uni- we’ll soon have the smartest college Notre Dame assistant to head coach, to the future of international com- versities who have all the athletes, team in the country,” he says. Woos- Kentucky. Joseph McMullen from petition is a favorable outcome of all the teams, all the coaches, all the ter had lost five straight, the fifth assistant at Penn State to head the dispute between the Basketball stadiums, all the coliseums and all on a shot that was in the air at the coach, San Jose State. Federation of the United States on the finances.” final whistle. * * * * * * Kentucky basketball coachAdolph Published 11 times a year by the National Thomas L. Jacobs, professor of Rupp predicts greatly increased an- chemistry, has been appointed Fac- nual international basketball com- NCAA News Collegiate Athletic Association. executive and ulty Athletic Representative at petition shortly. Rupp says the na- editorial offices, Midland Building, Kansas City, MO. 64105. Phone: BAlti- UCLA. He succeeds Bradford A. tion’s 11 major conferences have more I-7127 (AC. 816). Executive Director, Walter Byers; Editor, Thomas Booth, who died recently. Jacobs is agreed to play foreign national C. Hansen; Assistants, Louis J. Spry, Jon A. Foley.

2 “CostFactors ” NCAA PROFILE 19 TRACK3, GYMNASTICS To Be LA Round Table’s Subject MEETSCERT IFIEDBY NCAA

“Cosi Factors in Intercollegiate TWOTRACK MEETS ARE REJECTED Athletics” will he the topic of the Nineteen track meets and three gymnastics meets in January, February llou~ld Table discussion at the As- and March have been certified by the NCAA as meeting the provisions of sociation’s G3rd annual Convention. NCAA Bylaws 7B and 7C and other applicable Association policies. Eerausr of the concern rxpressed In addition, the Extra Events Committee defined one track meet and over the rapidly rising expenses of three gymnastics meets as non-income in nature and therefore exempt conducting a11 intercollegiate ath- from certification procedures. !etic program, the NCAA Enccutivc Two track meets were denied certification. the Jan. 18 Los Angeles In- Committee is departing from the vitational Track and Field Meet and the Feb. 22 Indoor Games. usual procedure of featuring three Participation in an uncertified meet by an institution’s student-athlete or four topics for discussion and re- would place the institution in violation of Bylaws 7B or 7C if it failed to ViCW. declare the student-athlete ineligible. The Round Table is scheduled for No Medical Coverage Monday afternoon, Jan. 6, and both Several meets were certified despite indicating medical insurance will athletic dirertors and faculty repre- not be provided for participants. Chairman Stan Bates of the Extra Events sentatives are urged to attend. Committee reported certification was granted in these cases to promote Ernest B. McCoy, athletic direc- competition, but warnrd mernbcr institutions to note carefully this lack of tor at Pennsylvania Slate Univer- ADOLPH W. SAMBORSKI covn-age. sity and NCAA secrrtary~trcasurrr, The meets without insurance are noted by an asterisk below. will bc chairman of the session. Also approved were two December track meets, one November gym meet Four Iliscussion Leaders Harvard’s Director and three December gym meets, all of which were conducted prior to Leading the discussion will he Ed- publication of this issur of the NEWS. win Cady, faculty representative at Serves College As the NEWS went to press, several other meets were under considera- I.Jniversity and chairman of tion for certification. If any additional events are approved, the member- the NCAA Special Committee on ship will be notified promptly. Recruiting; Robert C. James, com- Sports 50 Years Following are the certified meets in January, February and March: . m lssloner of the Mid-American Adolph W. Samborski has been Conference; *James G. Barratt, ath- associated with college sports for January Track and Field letic director at State Uni- almost SO yrars, and was a partici- 4-EXAMINER All-American Games, , Calif. versity; and Ralph Ginn, associate pant, coach, official and director of .‘.lO-National Invitational Indoor Track Meet, Washington, D. C. atllletic director at South Dakota intramural athletics before becom- 11-Knights of Columbus Games, Boston, Mass. Slate University. ing director of athletics at Harvard 24-Astrodome-USTFF National Relay Championships, Houston, Tex. This year’s Round Table should University, the position in which hc 24-Athens Invitational, Oakland, Calif. produce a number of thought-pro- currently serves. 24~Philadelphia Track Classic, Philadelphia, Pa. voking ideas. Samborski is a member of the NCAA Council and chairman of the Z-Seattle Invitational Indoor Track Meet, Seattle, Wash. For example, one of the sugges- 3l~Oklahoma City Jaycee Invitational, Oklahoma City, Okla. tions presently under consideration NCAA Nominating Committee. lay the Special Committee on Rc- A 1925 graduate of Harvard, he :