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Conference enacts legislation to cut costs
By MIKE BRUTON
Sports Editor
LUBBOCK, Tex. — The 60th
Southwest Conference spring meet
ing in Lubbock this past weekend
brought a new SWC president and
new legislation.
Athletic directors, faculty rep
resentatives, coaches and officials of
the SWC went through the routine
spring business and elected Ken
Herrick, former vice president of
the SWC to the head job, before
making proposals for legislation to
go before the National Collegiate
Athletic Association.
Herrick of TCU succeeded J.
Neils Thompson of Texas and the
conference dispelled routine mat
ters and approved and set dates for
the post-season basketball tourna
ment that will make its debut next
year. The tourney will be held at
Moody Coliseum in Dallas on
March 4-6. The team with the best
record draws an automatic bye to
the finals with the other eight teams
filling out the field.
Baylor will host next year’s SWC
spring meeting with the dates to be
announced at the winter meeting in
December. Waco will also be the
site for the SWC spring champion
ships. The fall golf tournament,
which doesn’t decide the confer
ence championship will be held at
Texarkana, Arkansas on Sept.
15-17. The swimming champion
ship will be decided at SMU and
will take place on the same dates as
the basketball tournament.
Then the SWC officials got to the
heart of this meeting’s most impor
tant subject, economics. The con
ference, in an attempt to reduce the
cost of SWC athletic programs, set
new restrictions and discussed
others as proposals to the NCAA.
The number of baseball scholar
ships were set at 22, whereas it had
previously had no limit. The confer
ence officials also approved a packet
that would allow 20 workouts in 30
consecutive days from Feb. 1 to Jan.
21 and any games played during
spring break would only count as
one against the maximum amount of
games allowed in SWC baseball.
In other dollar-saving moves, the
SWC revised the football scholar
ship rule slightly. The maximum
amount allowed still remained at
105 but a team could award 60 scho
larships in a two-year period and as
many as 35 in one year.
A reduction of 35 per cent was
applied to all university sanctioned
sports other than the major sports
by SWC officials.
In basketball, the maximum
number for scholarship players was
set at 18, with no more than ten
awards issued in a two-year period
and as many as seven in one year.
In other money-saving efforts,
the SWC approved new limitations
as to the size of coaching staffs for
athletics in the conference. In foot
ball there could be one head coach,
eight assistants and two part-time
assistants who are compensated by
scholarship. For basketball, there
could be one head coach, an assis
tant and a part-time assistant under
the same guidelines as the football
part-timers. All sports other than
football and basketball could have
one head coach and one part-time
assistant.
Herrick, Thompson and Execu
tive Secretary Cliff Speegle all said
the proposed legislation if adopted
by the NCAA would equalize the
competition between conferences.
Herrick also commented that none
of the proposals were made to give
the SWC an advantage.
The SWC council also announced
the possibility of having a limited
walk-on program in conference ath
letics. The resolution suggests a test
that will determine the ability of the
perspective athlete so coaches will
have a means of eliminating those
lacking talent. This rule has not
been adopted but is being consi
dered.
These proposals will be put be
fore the NCAA, in a special meeting
in August. SWC officials are hoping
the proposals are accepted nation
ally in the special summer
economics meeting.
UH sweeps
SWC net
tournament
By MIKE BRUTON
Sports Editor
LUBBOCK, Tex. — The Hous
ton Cougars totally dominated the
Southwest Conference tennis tour
nament, winning both the singles
and doubles competition.
The SWC tourney held at the
Lubbock Racquet Club almost
turned out to be an intrasquad affair
for the Cougars, as they were inter
rupted by Texas A&M’s Charles
Emley and Billy Hoover. After
Friday’s competition, topseeded
Ross Walker of UH and teammate
Dale Ogden were left to contend
with each other for the singles title.
For a while it looked like all Hous
ton in the finals but in the day’s final
match Hoover and Emley came
from behind to defeat UH s Matt
Rainey and Colon Nunez to advance
to the doubles finals.
Walker got to the finals by drop
ping TCU s Randy Crawford 6-4,
6-4, Friday morning and then re
turning that afternoon to beat his
teammate Rainey 6-4, 6-2. Ogden
swept by Rice’s Ogi Mitra 6-2, 6-1
and second-seeded Longhorn Gary
Flock (7-6, 6-3) to advance to the
finals.
Third seeded doubles team
Hoover and Emley were second
ranked idler Stewart Keller and
Gonzalo Nunez of Texas dropped
out of the competition. Against
Nunez and Rainey of Houston, the
Aggie duo dropped the first set 4-6,
but overcame the deficit to win 7-6,
6-4 in the final two sets.
Saturday in the finals Walker de
feated fellow Cougar Ogden to give
Houston their first singles title since
they entered the competition four
years ago. Walker won 6-1, 6-3.
Then the two teamed up to spoil the
Aggies’ bid for a doubles champion
ship by defeating Emley and
Hoover 6-4, 6-3.
In this match Ogden became the
10th three-time doubles champion
and could become the first four
time winner when he returns next
year.
.Southwestern Conference Tennis Tournament Re
sults
Singles
QUARTERFINALS — Ross Walker (Houston) clef.
Randy Crawford (TCU) 6-4, 6-4; Matt Rainey (Hous
ton) def. Gonzalo Nunez (UT) 4-6, 7-6, 6-2; Dale
Ogden (Houston) def. Ogi Mitra (Rice) 6-2, 6-1; Can
Flock (UT) del. Damn Dobbs (Baylor) 6-4, 7-5.
SEMI-FINALS — Ross Walker (Houston) def. Matt
Rainey (Houston) 6-4, 6-2; Dale Ogden (Houston) def.
Can Flock (UT) 7-6, 6-3.
Doubles
SEMI-FINALS— Ropss Walker-Dale Ogden (Hous
ton) def. Rantly Crawford-Jini Allin (TCU) 7-5, 6-4;
Bills Htxwer-Charles Einles (Texas A&M) def. Matt
Rainey-Colon Nunez (Houston) 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.
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FINALS — Boss Walker (Houston) def. Dale Ogden
(Houston) 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles
FINALS — Boss Walker-Dale Ogden iHouston) del.
Charles Eniley-Billy Hoover (Texas A&M) 6-4. 6-3.