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« BATTALION Number 191: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1956 Price Five Cents NCAA Ends Aggie Bowl Dreams As Probation Remains in Force Funeral Held For Former Ag B. W. McGough Funeral services for Bonny W. (Mac) McGough Jr. were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Thomas Chapel, Rev. Robert L. Darwall officiating-. Bur ial was in College Station Ceme tery. McGough, 23, a former A&M student, died Sunday morning while he was being taken to a Bay City hospital following an acci dent while he worked as a rotary derrick helper for Blanton Drill ing Co. in Bay City. He attended A&M from 1949 until Feb. 26, 1953. He then ser ved two years in England with the Army Engineers after leaving here. McGough returned to A & M in February, 1956 and was here until this semester. He was a bus iness administration major. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. McGough of Danado; a sister, Mrs. Barbara Fernandez of Lima, Peru; and two aunts, Mrs. Wanda Myers Lewis and Miss Opal Myers, both of 901 Foster Street in College Hills. Pallbearers were A&M students Jesse Price, A. D. Erzen, Thomas It. Pledger, Norman Bonnett, Mor ris Rogers, and Gordon Zuber. Critic Addresses Architect Groups Amedee M. Sourdry, famed critic and lecturer on landscape archi tecture from Oakland, Calif., will speak here Thursday night from 8-10 in the Agricultural Engineer ing lecture room. He is being- sponsored by the Division of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Archi tecture. Robert F. White of the Land scape Department said the pro gram would be of special interest to all architecture students, prac ticing architects, local educators and local park and city officials. Sourdry was landscape architect with the Oakland, Calif. Park De partment for eight years. Some of his work such as Chil dren’s Fairyland, Peralta Play- land, Abstract Play Sculpture and New Forms of Park Design has had international publicity. 1,500 TU Tickets Go On Sale Friday Approximately 1,500 date and student tickets for the Texas Uni versity game are left for sale. These tickets, for seats on the east side of Memorial Stadium, will be on sale from Friday until Nov. 23. Date tickets are $3.50 and student tickets are $1. Date tickets for the Rice game go off sale at 5 p. m. Thursday. Reserve To Meet A class on “Determination of Range, Time and Deflection Cor rections by Artillery Registration Fire” will be given to the head quarter battery of the 343rd Field Artillery Reserve Battalion at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. Class will be taught by M/Sgt. Clarence Jones. All cadets and interested persons are invited. X UfJTBS WAR 4MD MV DO&RCV UflT£$ VsjWR (• “I MftY N< BE / N TH £ COTTON BOWL* Q/0 N&M Yl*m'2 But flfthAY /$ G?Q/NGt TQ ” k)TTl& TH&NS 2 <>?s»m£S / Ags Not Guilty Says Bryant As Moreland Case Revealed By BARRY HART Battalion Sports Editor Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant was emphatic in his disgust of the NCAA’s refusal to lift the pro bation placed on A&M by the NCAA last May. “Regardless of the decision of the NCAA, we have not violated any rules. We have adhered religiously to the letter of intent and the spirit of the rules,” said Bryant in an early- morning press conference today. The NCAA’s refusal to lift the ban will keep the Aggies, heavy favorites to capture the Southwest Conference crown, from being the host team in the 1957 Cotton Bowl game in Dallas, Jan. 1. “Dr. (E. D.) Mouzon said he be lieved in us and would support us 100 per cent and I’ll bet my life he did,” countered Coach Bryant to the question that there was a possibility that certain SWC re presentatives would fight to keep A&M on the probation. Mouzon is President of the SWC and faculty representative from SMU. As to the TCU faculty repre sentative, Dr. Henry B. Hardt, Bryant said, “I had no contact with Dr. Hardt you’ll have to ask him.” There has been much controversy over the now-famous Jack More land case. Certain schools have ac cused A&M of offering Moreland, a 6-10 basketball played from Minden, La., large sums of money to come to Aggieland. “THE FIRST I KNEW of this (said Bryant referring to More land) was some weeks ago when Chris Groneman (A&M’s faculty representative to the SWC) came to me and said the NCAA was investigating a possible rule vio lation of some basketball player and wanted to know what I knew. “Fortunately, our policy this year was for me personally to con tact all highly sought- after boys and personally tell them and their parents our recruiting policies. Our policy is that if anyone connected or not connected with A&M ever offered anything the boys would not be allowed to par ticipate at A&M. “THE BASKETBALL PLAYER was one of those. I further told Groneman that I visited the boy in an effort to influence him to come to A&M. I knew one of our ex students had been requested to bring him to the campus, so I got the ex-student and in the presence of the boy, his parents, his high school athletic director, his coach and some others, told him that if he was interested in more than just a scholarship, we didn’t want him and if anyone offered him any thing to come here, I’d find out and he wouldn’t be allowed to play. I further said that I wasn’t saying this with my tongue in my cheek, Contest Jackpot Grows to Ed Garner’s Student Co-Op Weekly Football Contest which ap pears weekly in Wednesday’s Bat talion has grown to a jackpot of $60 and six cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes. There have been no winners for the last six weeks. Two ment won the first two but since that time the guesses have been like the football games, upset. and if anything went on when I left that I’d find out and something would be done. “After that our Athletic Council investigated the case and the SWC investigated it at the request of the Athletic Council, and in many instances found conflicting stories.” ACCORDING TO AB KIRWAN, chairman of the NCAA infractions committee, the NCAA thought that the A&M alumnus had offered the boy (Moreland) something and that he was an agent of the A&M Athletic Department because he had been asked by one of the coaches to help influence the boy into coming here. It was suggest ed that the individual be asked to take a lie detector test, which he did, and the test was completely negative— proving that he was telling the truth. This evidence was presented with the A&M defense in Detroit, but they obviously didn’t accept it. “I have always considered him a close personal friend,” said Bry ant to a question that it had been rumored that there was a feud between him and Kirwan. Neither Dr. Dave Morgan, presi dent of A&M, Dr. Tom Harrington, chancellor of the A&M System, nor Dr. Groneman, who were at the meeting in Detroit, were avail able for comment this morning. Weather Today Forecast • Calls for cloudy skies with possible light rain showers today. This morning temperature at 10:30 was 76 decrees. The high reading yesterday was 81 degrees, and this morning’s low 67. Ban Lift To Come In May Next Year By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association handed down their decision yesterday afternoon leaving A&M on probation for rules infractions until the termination of their probation next May. This decision was given to four representatives of A&M who attended the Detroit meeting, Dr. David H. Morgan, pres ident ; Dr. Chris Groneman, chairman of the athletic council; Dr. Phillip Goode, council member and Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor of the A&M System. The NCAA rules infractions committee denied the re quest of A&M to lift their probation because the NCAA want ed to give the Southwest Conference “an opportunity to in vestigate this latest alleged infraction before making a rul ing,” according to Walter Byers, executive secretary of the NCAA and non-voting member of the infractions committee. Besides removing any possibility of A&M appearing in a bowl game this year the council placed four major schools on probation and another was denied a reprieve. North Carolina State, Southern California, California and Ohio State drew probations ranging from nine months to four years. All but California are prohibited from entering athletes or teams in any of the 14 NCAA-sponsored events or 25 co-operating events during the length of the probation. A&M and the University of Miami, ranked fifth and eighth re spectively in national football ratings, had asked the 18-man council to suspend probations which expire next year. Council refusal ruled out any chance that either school can accept bids to a New Year’s Day bowl game, all of which are NCAA-affiliated events. A&M had all but wrapped up the Cotton Bowl bid and Miami was considered a top candidate for the Sugar Bowl or Gator Bowl. Coach Paul Bryant declined comment last night on the NCAA’s denial of a plea for removal of probation against the college. He said he would have nothing to say “until I am officially noti fied of the action and have talked with my people.” Asked if he thought action of the NCAA would affect his football team, now driving toward the Southwest Conference championship, Bryant replied “I don’t know.” Told that the NCAA had referred to a new rules violation by A&M in making its announcement that the probation would not be removed, Bryant said sharply, “We have done nothing.” Reportedly, the case of Jack Moreland, Minden, La., schoolboy who signed a letter of intent to go to A&M but later showed up at North Carolina State is the reason the probation is not being removed. An A&M alumnus reportedly made a cash offer to Moreland to attend the Texas school. This was denied by college officials. Slap N.C. State In probably its most severe action to date the council ordered North Carolina State to four years probation. They also denied the school representation on any NCAA committee and revoked rights on any question before the association. The council’s infractions committee, headed by A. D. Kirwan, a representative from the University of Kentucky, said it had found that North Carolina State had offered annual “cash gifts” to induce a “prospective student-athlete” to enroll. A seven-year college medical education for a friend of the prospective student was also offered, Kir wan said. The offer included a five-year “unrestricted” scholarship for the prospective student in violation of Atlantic Coast Conference rules, Kirwan added. Ohio State’s probation runs until next Aug. 21, Southern Califor nia’s to July 1, 1958, and California’s to next Nov. 13. The council also voiced support of the Pacific Coast and Big Ten conferences in their previous probationary action against those three schools. The NCAA backed the Big Ten in barring Ohio State from partic ipating in the Rose Bowl game next Jan. 1 after it was revealed that certain athletes had received unauthorized financial aid from “the head football coach” Woody Hayes. Two PCC schools—UCLA and Washington—were placed under NCAA and conference probation earlier. Both were banned from NCAA and NCAA co-operating events. Washington’s probation carries to Aug. 21, 1958, and UCLA’s to Aug. 21 the following year. Action against the four Coast schools grew out of the PCC’s whole sale investigation of reported irregularities in aid to athletes. Only California may participate in NCAA events. The Council commended California for its “co-operation and as sistance” in the NCAA investigation. Walter Byers, NCAA executive secretary, said a “self-examination report” made by the school prob ably kept the penalty from being “as severe as it would have been if the violations had been exposed by an outside source.” Emergency Aid Fund California was guilty, the council said, of allowing two members of the football coaching staff to make 16 loans from “an emergency aid fund.” The council said the loans averaged $63 over a two-year period. Southern California’s probation was leveled because the council said, the Southem California Educational Foundation “provided student- athletes of the university with monthly cash allowances” ranging from $10 to $75 a month. In all cases, the council refused to name any persons involved in their indictments. It was, members said, “a matter of policy.”