THE BATTALION
Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 1, 1961
Slight Limit Put
On Scholarships
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Southwest Conference has
placed a slightly flexible limit of
100 football and 20 basketball
scholarships on its athletes.
This figure will be arrived at
through a two-year average and it
isn’t likely anybody will howl if
a school goes one or two over the
mark.
The conference, like most ath
letic organizations, always puts in
some exceptions when it passes a
rule. This is because all angles
of the situation are studied and
there is no desire to penalize in
cases of, hardship.
The limit has two reasons: eco
nomic and equalization of compe
tition. It cost from $800 to $1,400
a year to house, feed and educate
the athlete with denominational
schools higher than state schools
because of more tuition. If a
school gives out 120 scholarships
it is spending about $150,000. Add
ing in the scholarships in other
sports—which are not being lim
ited—and the total would run
around $200,000. That’s about all
a collfege can afford to spend on
the athletes since there are other
expenses, like paying the coaches,
Piaintai^iing stadiums, operating
the non-paying sports, etc.
The limit will prevent one school
hogging all the athletes if it was
so inclined—that is signing up
more than it needed just to keep
the others from getting their share.
And it prevents the richer schools
getting more athletes than the ones
that don’t take in as much money
at the gate.
The limit also , will cut out the
practice of “red shirting”—that is,
having athletes lay out a season
because they are not needed The
schools can’t afford to red shirt
because they won’t have a surplus
of athletes.
The practice of signing an ath
lete for say track when he’s really
going to play football so it won’t
tount on the number in football
will be eliminated. The rule says
‘500’ Drivers
Meet To Collect
$400,000 Purse
By The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS—The 33 driv
ers in Tuesday’s golden anniver
sary 500-mile auto race, some in
bandages but all present, met Wed
nesday night to divide $400,000.
More than a quarter of the loot,
depending on how many special
accessory prizes he could claim,
was earmarked for race winner A.
J. Foyt of Houston and his car
co-owners, Bob Bowes, Indianap
olis manufacturer, and George
Bignotti, Burlingame, Calif., mas
ter mechanic and designer.
Foyt’s average for the distance
was 139.130 miles an hour; Sacks’
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that any athlete who plans to par
ticipate in football must be count
ed as a football scholarship even
though he’s going to play basket
ball too. Any athlete who is going
to play baseball and basketball
must be signed as a basketball
scholarship.
A conference member can exceed
the average under certain circum
stances. If it loses athletes thru
injury or illness or one flunks out
of college, they can be replaced
by signing other athletes even
though it may put the school over
the limit.
While the conference announced
that no penalties for violation of
the rule were prescribed, this act
ually is not the case. If a school
exceeds the limit without justifi
cation or valid excuse its case will
be studied by the conference and
penalties meted out. What the con
ference meant to say was that
there were not specific penalties,
such as probation for a certain
time, expulsion or fine but any
penalty thought, just can be as
sessed.
It isn’t likely that the rule will
have any effect on the way the
conference members have been lim
iting scholarships to 100 for foot
ball and 20 for basketball on the
average anyway. That’s why those
figures were selected. But any
way, it won’t bring a repetition of
the story that went the rounds dur
ing the two-platoon days:
The coach asked the college pres
ident for more football players.
“How many do you have?” inquir
ed the president. “We have 88,”
said the coach. “Well, that’s eight
teams isn’t it,” shot back the pres
ident. “But,” wailed the coach,
“we need a few substitutes.”
SPORTS
Rocky Ducks
Flat Answer
For Comeback
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Former heavy
weight champion Rocky Marciano
ducked a flat answer Wednesday
as to whether he might try a
comeback.
“I really don’t know,” Marciano
told the Senate Antitrust and Mo
nopoly subcommittee. “It’s an ex
citing thought.”
A newsman told Marciano he in
terpreted this as meaning the door
was not definitely closed to a
comeback.
“It’s pretty hard to close the
last inch,” Marciano replied.
The retired undefeated heavy
weight champ was among wit
nesses who testified in favor of
the federal g-overnment helping to
clean up boxing.
The subcommittee, headed by
Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., has
before it a bill sponsored by Kef
auver and Sen. Clair Engle, D-
Calif., to establish an office of
boxing commissioner within the De
partment of Justice.
The hearings began Wednesday
and will continue through Friday.
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‘SERVING TEXAS AGGIES”
National Foes invade SWC
Southwest Conference football
teams will take on opponents this
fall literally from all corners of
the United States. The 24-game
non-conference includes meetings
with Washington State University
(Texas), Southern California
(SMU), UCLA (TCU), Florida
(Rice) and Boston College (Texas
Tech).
Only two institutions—Louisiana
State and the Air Force Academy
—appear on the SWC non-confer
ence slate more than once. Rice
opens with LSU in Houston (Sept.
23) and A&M travels to Baton
Rouge a week later to meet the
Tigers.
The Air Force Falcons invade
Texas twice. They play SMU in
Dallas (Oct. 7) and Baylor in Waco
(Nov. 18).
The Southeast Conference fur
nishes five non-conference foes
(Ole Miss, Georgia Tech and Mis
sissippi State in addition to LSU
and Florida) while the Far West
offers four (California, USC,
UCLA and Washington State).
Conference teams will play 21
night games this fall, eight of
them counting in the battle for the
league championship.
Every school opens its season on
Sept. 23, and five of the teams will
be playing home games. Inaugural
games within the state of Texas
include A&M vs. Houston at Col
lege Station, Baylor vs. Wake For
est at Waco, Rice vs. Louisiana
State at Houston, SMU vs. Mary
land at Dallas and TCU v;
sas at Fort Worth.
Texas and A&M, meeting!
earlier this year than usic
finish their schedules nits
earlier than five of their
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tution concluding its regl
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Tech at Little Rock on Novi
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