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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texab PAGE 4 Thursday, May 16, 1957 LOEFFLER FIRING (Continued from Page 1) line ticket at Christmas from an uncle in Philadelphia. “Coach Loef- fler never gave me any ticket,” said McNichol. This is the same reply given the committee. The committee, supposedly from. the NCAA, had Howard Grubbs, executive seci’etary of the SWC, as one member. The other two were private investigators, one reputed to be an Aggie-ex, representing either the SWC or NCAA. The fourth and final charge was the lavish entertainment Of a pros pective student, stating that a rep resentative of the A&M coaching staff arranged an overnight trip from College Station to Houston for two prospective students, Jack ie Moreland and Joel Smith, both of Minden, La. Loeffler was i ; eprimanded by the SWC in December, 1956, for this violation and now has been placed in double jeopardy. 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Many news papers across the state have car ried the story “an Aggie alumnus lavishly entertained Moreland and Smith on the trip to Houston”. The individual making the trip, however, was Ted Harrod, not an alumnus, but a graduating senior and a three-year letterman bas ketball player. Harrod was a jun ior at the time. Harrod, of North Little Rock, Ark., in an interview last night, said, “I was with Coach Loeffler, Moreland and Smith while the two were visiting the A&M campus late last spring. We toured the cam pus and visited the Petroleum En gineering department.” “In the afternoon Coach told me to finish showing him around, that he was going on home. We finished and I thought the two might like dates, so I called a girl that I knew in Houston and had her fix us up.” “We went to Houston, had dates and spent the night there. There was nothing lavish about the eve ning. We came back early the next morning since I had to return in time for final review.” TENNIS RACKETS BALLS RESTRINGING STUDENT CO-OP PORT L A N T By BARRY HART , Battalion Sports Staff People are asking what’s behind this latest group of charges levelled at the A&M Athletic Department by the Southwest Conference and, presumably, the NCAA. It boils down to one thing—fear; fear that Paul (Bear) Bryant will continue to produce winning football teams. A&M was once the doormat of the league, until Bryant came to take the Aggies from mediocrity to a nationally- ranked undefeated team. It is imperative that A&M stays on probation—imperative, that is, to the other seven SWC schools. Continued probation for A&M means two things: that the Aggies cannot continue getting the cream of the high school grid crop and that someone else will be able to repre sent the SWC at the major bowl games. In an attempt to keep the Aggies on probation, someone, and you need not go further than our own conference to find any number of eligible prospects, is digging as deeply as possible to find violations, vague and minor as they may be. It is absolutely necessary for A&M to do all they can to offset these charges. It is obvious that Ken Loeffler has been picked to take the rap. This was decided months ago—back when A&M and Loeffler was prominently mentioned in connection with the infamous Jackie Moreland, the Louisiana eager that got North Carolina State slapped on a four-year probation. The handwriting was already on the wall. The major portion of the charges involves Alex Roberts, the Pawtucket, R.I., eager, who was here as a freshman in the 1955-56 season. Roberts has said that Loeffler paid for a plane ticket in order that the boy make a Christmas trip home, and that the mentor conducted a tryout for the athlete. 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Roberts tried to recruit Lawrence for Providence, telling him that “. . . you won’t like it down there.” The SWC instructed President D. W. Williams to take some ac tion in the Loeffler case. Williams has said definitely that it will be fore the NCAA meets May 31. This action can be only one thing—• Loeffler will be fired. Will this be Williams’ decision? Or, will the instructions come from a combined source—Athletic Di rector Bryant, W. T. Doherty, president of the Board of Direc tors, and Dr. Chris H. Groneman, head of the athletic council? It is their last resort, for if no def inite action is reached by colleg-e officials, it is probable that the NtAA will stick us with another probation, possibly even stiffer than the first. The college must show both the SWC and the NCAA that they in tend to clean up their own house, so they will do just that by firing the famous cage coach. With this action, Bryant can sit back on his spotless throne, assume the air of a martyr and say: “We can’t help it if we had such a black sheep within our organiza tion, but we’re rid of him now, so everything’s fine. We’re clean, so get off our back.” But what of Loeffler? Why should he take the rap for foot ball ? If he goes, so goes basket ball at A&M. In two years he built the Aggies into a team that is on the threshold of winning. Without him we will Re back where we started—deep in the conference cellar with no hope of escape. And then there is always this possibility—that the NCAA will see fit to place us on an extended probation regardless of our action. The firing of Ken Loeffler can ac complish nothing more than a widening of the gap between “King Football” and the other Aggie sports. 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