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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967 The Doily Nebraskan Pog 5 I Believe By Tom Henderson Big Ten faculty representatives gathered in Chicago Thursday for their "routine March business but their topic is the most a ' 1 .. in lion in nctu iy tu jrecu s. Three Illinois coaches block because of an illegal $21,000 athletic aid fund which has resulted in an ultimatum by league athletic direc tors ordering their dismissal or Illinois' expulsion from the conference. Illinois President Dr. David D. Henrv annealed the c tion as "too harsh" and and alumni has revealed an stand. During the next few days these Big Ten administra tors must decide whether to uphold the ultimatum of their athletic directors or to grant the leniency sought by Dr. Henry. On the surface it would by the Big Ten athletic directors is a giant step to ward cleaning its own house. But is it? Is the harsh punishment tempt to clean house or National Collegiate Athletic further into Big Ten affairs of three coaches' careers? Are Big Ten athletic directors actually following then- conference's "de-emphasis of athletics" policy by making the Illinois slush fund appear to be a mortal sin that no other Big Ten school would consider? Or is the judge ment leveled at Illinois' coaches merely an attempt to make the NCAA believe so? How many more flush other, are there among the many more in the Big Ten? The Our guess would be over half. How about the grant-in-aid scholarships which re quire athletes to work for the (tuition and books? The type of work involved usually con sists of nothing more than winding the coliseum's elec tric clocks once a day. i Such aid has NCAA approval, but isn't there a pretty thin line between this and handing the money to the ath letes outright? We are not suggesting that we condone the slush fund discovered at Illinois, but we do believe that the penalty levied is indeed "too harsh." Before Big Ten faculty representatives reach a deci sion, we urge them to ask themselves these questions and answer them honestly. For in their hands are the careers of three coaches. Are they merely sacrifices to keep the Big Ten from furth er scandal? There is precedent for a more tempered punishment than recommended unanimously by the directors. Iowa was suspended from the conference for a nine month period in 1929 for irregular athletic practices and Indiana barely escaped a similar punishment in 1957 by suspending the guilty coach for one year, an act which the Big Ten considered satisfactory. Illinois, however, has already taken such action, but this time it did not satisfy the conference athletic direc tors. ; Lantz Leads . . . Husker Cagers Keep Up Basket Average Nebraska's basket ball team's 79-point pro duction against K a n sas State kept the Huskers along their record-break-ice pace. The Cornhuskers are av eraging 81.1 points a game for the entire season and 80 points in their ten con ference games. Husker op ponents are averaging 75.9 points. Other team statistics for tbe Huskers (up until t n e Missouri game) include 45 per cent from the field and 75 per cent on free tare. On the fouls, the cagers have been successful on 350 of their 470 attempts. Wildcats, 7-1, Tumble Past i Oklahoma State Kansas State pulled its Big Eight record up to 7-4 'ith a Monday nipta win over Oklahoma, 94-71. Sooner star Don Sidle had 18 points for the Manhattan, Kan., game. Ron Berkholtz poured in 20 for the Wildcats and big Nick Pino had 15. Tbe K-Staters pulled to a 43-22 halftime lead and in creased it by two at tbe end of tbe game. Tbe WDdcats have yet to Play Oklahoma State. Iowa State and Kansas. The rest ; of tbe Oklahoma slate is lwa state, Missouri cod Oklahoma State. F FOR. ANY CA Mi w IMflN. SWITCH explosive penalty delibera- are on the Biff Ten ehimnlntr a petition signed by athletes overwhelming support for this appear that the action taken meted out to Illinois really an is it an attempt to keep the Association from peering at the relatively token cost funds, in one form or an nation's universities? Dow Big Eight? university in return for his Individually Stuart Lantz dominates the scoring sta tistics, but Nate Branch is making a challenge for the rebounding honors. In con ference play bath Huskers are tied with 83 caroms, but Lantz has a slight lead for the season, 157-151. Lantz has a 19 9 point average for tbe year with percentages of 51 from the field and 80 on free throws. Tbe Buskers have bal anced scoring all tbe way down tbe line. Tom Baack, Branch and Willie Camp bell have averages of 17.0, 15.3 and 10.2 respectively. Ron Simmons and Jim Damm, who share tbe oth er Husker guard position, have season averages of 8.2 and 4.3 per game. tiu o Mao fin T W7I Him f IM TO MTB rT I f , V- i A .J mm cm Conference Track Meet . . . Nation's Best In (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a four-part series on this weekend's Big Eight indoor track and field championships March 3 and 4 in Kansas City.) Areturnlng national champion heads both the 440 and 600 lineups and paces a relay team at this year's Big Eight Conference indoor championships Fri day and Saturday in Kan sas City. Oklahoma's Bill Calhoun, who shared the Indoor 440 championship at last year's NCAA meet, and Iowa State's Steve Carson, winner of this season's Track and Field Federation 600 cham pionships, give the events the golden look. Chances are there will not be a stride-for-stride matching situation between the two since Calhoun likes to specialize in the quarter, and Carson in the 600. In addition, conference legisla tion prohibits an individual from entering both events. Thus the two will be tak ing on whatever the con ference has to offer, which could be plenty for both. Calhoun, for the most part, has been working at over-distance events so far as he preps for the quar ter, where he wants to make an all-out effort to get Don Payne's 48-flat con ference record. It was Payne who beat Calhoun here last year on the way to that mark. Calhoun came bark later to tie tbe form er K-Stater at the NCAA. The times when Calhoun has gone to the quarter this winter, be has sparkled. Re ripped off a :48.1 early, the second-best indoor quar ter on the Big Eight books, and found the range for a :48.4. Pre-Meet Edge This gives him the pre meet edge over Missouri's Bob Kneile (:49.1), Frank Lewis :49.5), and Steve Haniburton (:49.7), Iowa State's Rex Harvey (:49.6), Kansas' Ben Olison (:49.7), ton, Jim Shields, and Jim Hardwick. Indoor and out door placers back from las year include Kansas' Dwight Peck and Steve As hurst, Nebraska's Dennis Walker, and Kansas State's Kerry Fairchild. Outstanding competition for Carson in the 600 isn't hard to find. Even though be is the national Federa - . c tot crnsnuut hovt the done of a lifeftwe to ovate am immediate estate thai w3 pmvOst ca or eotcrtmi far otpcrtoM or new pewcit feejujAhj for safwSi of a9tat aaoawoamw growing fvndt for retire H fnrevgh 0 pkm that swmr hSm by womide company b t feoortd century of ferric There h a taior-muxi eoty wcy to pay for ton valwabie aetata. Afk far M irrformofion of count without abCaaKoa. JACK CAMPBELL, CLU AND ASSOCIATES sum less stow mmm MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL jTJ Uire INSURANCE COMPANY tion champion for the dis tance, he doesn't show the best time in the Conference heading into the meet That top belongs to Ted NyUel of Missouri, who had a 1:10.3 on Illinois' big track the same night Car son won Us title in Madi son Square Garden. Stick ing his nose into the battle is Jim Shields of Oklahoma, who has a 1:11.2 best. Then come Nebraska's highly touted sophomore Hugh Mc Govera and Kansas' Peck. Hardwick is a contender, too. It will, according to Car son, take a great time to beat him, though, pointing out that he twice has been the national 600 champion, but never the Big Eight winner for the event. He wants this one. "I'm aim ing for 1:08.8," says Car son, as he looks at the world-record listing of 1:09.0 for the event The closing event of the meet the mile-relay might create one of the wildest scrambles in Conference history, the result of which could be a new league rec ord as well as a new all time indoor best. 3:16.3 Relay Oklahoma, with Calhoun, Melton, Shields, and Hid 6 wick, has sped to a 3:16.3 indoors. This is the same team which last year passed the baton for a 3:68.5 clock ing outdoors, the best ever by a Big Eight unit Missouri shows a 3:16.4 low from its crew of Lewis, Nykiel, Halliburton, and Kneile. Closing in en these two is Kansas with Dick Born kessel, Ashnrst Peck, and Oh" son combining for a best f 3:19 J. Nebraska could put together a top unit of McGovern, Clifton Forbes, sophomore sprinting ace from Jamaica, Walker, and either Larry Liss or John Simmons and also slip to record leveL Striking out to tbe front of the sprint-hurdling crops is Kansan Lee Adams, a junior college transfer from Bakersfield Calif., and the latest to become a Big Eight world record bolder. Golds Record Although Adams holds the record :06.6 for the 60-yard low hurdles, this event has turned out to be one of tbe most balanced, and loaded, on this year's card. Before Adams made his sweep, another Kansan, George Byers, and Nebras ka's Ray Harvey held a share of the former world record for the event. Once this year and one more time as a freshman, Byers hit :06.7 in the event and appeared to have the best chance at this stage Intramural Swimming Changed The intramural swimming meet schedule has been changed because of con flicts on the use of the pool, according to the office of Joel Meier, intramural di rector. Preliminaries will be held April 3, 4 and 6 and finals will be Monday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. Prelims in the 200-yard medley relay and the 200 yard and 50-yard freestyle will be April 3 at 6:30 p.m. April 4 at 4:30 p.m., 100 yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 100-yard freestyle and diving pre liminaries will be held. The 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard free style relay prelims win be April 6 at 4:30 p.m. The finals will include the six best performers in each division of each event and will be run in two heats. of LTV A As one of the nation's socia', cultural and educa tional capitals, Dallas offers its residents a clean, modem city, temperate climate, abundant housing and living costs substantially lower than most cities of comparable size. Dallas is also the home of LTV Aerospace Corporation, one of the city's largest industrial citizens and major participant in the United States' defense efforts. Current programs include the Navy and Air Force A-7 Corsair II, the new low-level, close support 3ht attack aircraft; SCOUT launch vehicle for r Tigers Go Like Coleman; Huskers Dump Missouri As goes Ron Coleman, goes Missouri. He went great guns the first half against Nebraska .Big 8 of the season to knock off the old record shared by some 20 individuals. It was last year that Har vey tied the mark in the Big Eight indoor. It was also last year that Harvey swept to both the hurdle titles at the indoor. It is the same length as the barrier event for the sprinters, but his race is just beyond, involving a little more finesse when it comes to clearing the slats. Like its shorter brother, though, it is loaded this year, too. Byers and Harvey are the class in 60-yard high hurdles, according to times. Just a week ago, Byers, who holds the Auditorium record for the high school hign hurdles, fled to a :07.2, the second fastest time in the Big Eight record book. Already there, as a re sult of his record run over the highs at last year's Big Eight indoor, was Harvey. This year, the Husker ace shows a :07.4 as his best, but that is still better than his top effort going into last year's meet Right between these two with a :07.3 is Adams, who at 5-9 has been called too short to run the highs. Checking in with a :07.4 might be the darkhorse of the group, Colorado's Mark Keller. OPEN DAAY 1 PJVL PmI TaUff ... SMfkfr TobUf ... OpM Bfwliafl . . SNOOKER BOWL N. 4Cta A Mkf homG iK-ih ywl J? V-T - J '. Xk 1 eiew ca Campus Interviews TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Tuesday night, and so did Missouri. But the second half was a different story as both Coleman and the Tigers fizzled and the Huskers took an 80-73 decision at Col umbia. Coleman racked up 25 points in a first half that found the Tigers upset bound with a 41-34 lead. But a defensively different Husker team came back from the intermission and held Coleman to five points in the second period. While the Cornhuskers contained Coleman, a ten acious press cramped the whole Tiger offensive 0 u t put and Nebraska moved to as much as a 16-point lead before coach Joe Cipriano sent in reserves. Stuart Lantz was high scorer for the Huskers with 23, while Tom Baack got 19 and Nate Branch put in 16. Branch and Baack spaced their scoring to keep the Huskers moving throughout the game. Branch got 12 of his in the first half while Kosmet Klnb Irma La Bonce Ticket Drawing for blocks Thursday, March 2, 1:00 p.m. Nebraska Room Number NASA. DOD and AEC: XC-14'2A. me world's most successful VSTOL; ADAM II. a future genera tion VSTOL and many others. LTV Aerospace programs . . . programs of today and better tomorrows . . . challenge (he imagina tion of engineers and create diversified career positions. Ask your Placement Office, then test our representative when he visits your campus. Or?fne College Relations Office. P.O. Sox 5907, Di.. s, Texas 75222. An equal opportunity employer "V V- z 'Sir y Baack made all but two of his in the second stanza. Nebraska had built up 10-2 lead when resigning Missouri coach Bob Van atta called a time out. Whatever the coach said must have taken affect on Coleman and Tom Johnson, who had 21 points for t h night. Johnson came back in to score two quick baskets, and, after Baack put in a free throw, Coleman made a field goal and two f r e throws to bring the Tigers within one, 11-10. Nebraska stayed a jump ahead of Mizzou until Cole man knotted it up at 21 all with three field goals. After that the Tigers took charge and built up their half time lead. Husker Willie Campbell had 10 points and Jim Damm made six. Ron Sim mons and Frank Empkey each made three points. The win put Nebraska 9-3 in the conference and 15-6 for the season, while the Tigers dropped to 1-11 in the league and 3-20 for the year. Spriag Skew ! will be posted J Speedway Mofcrs 4774421 1332 -r St. b