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FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1976
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AS — Texas A&M, which
of its basketball starters sus-
Iby the Southwest Confer-
|so was punished by the
for alleged recruiting
Is, but the school will appeal
ek to conference officials,
hence and school officials
Texas A&M faculty representative
Dr. Charles H. Samson Jr. said
Thursday the Aggie appeal would in
clude all phases of the charges
against the players and the school.
Explaining why no announcement
had been made of any punishment
against A&M, Dr. Samson said it
was conference policy not to an
nounce punishments until the school
involved had lost on its appeal.
He said the suspension of the
players was announced before the
appeal because “there would have to
be some explanation as to why the
players were not in competition. The
circumstances were a bit unusual.”
At the hearing Thursday U.S. Dis
trict Court Judge Patrick Higgin
botham asked why the players would
be punished and the school ignored.
SWC attorney Charles Wilson then
admitted that the investigation was
continuing and that some sanctions
had been placed on the school.
Hugh Smith, attorney for the two
players, said: “It is my understand
ing all they (Texas A&M) have to do
is not allow three men to recruit in
the future.”
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■ports that A&M had been
'MMmi Reprimand and told to disas-
"rom three specific alumni
in the Houston area,
of the possible action against
wasdisclosed in testimony
|sday during a hearing in
federal judge ordered the
not to declare the two
ineligible until they were
Jclubisj 'other hearing,
remove! wo players, freshmen Jarvis
all bonej sand Karl Godine, had been
led by the conference for the
he season and next season,
i was no official an non nee-
adeof the reason for the sus-
although it was reported
tomenii; bey had received bonuses for
with the school,
ng the hearing it was dis-
that it was Texas basket-
ich Leon Black who lodged
^ omplaint concerning the two
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WASHINGTON — The National
Football League’s 26 club owners
have purposely delayed the college
and expansion drafts to give them
more time to reconsider adding two
more teams, Birmingham and
Memphis, a lawyer for the NFL
Players Association said Thursday.
Ed Glennon, the attorney, said
the owners have filed suit against the
association in federal court in Miami
in an attempt to delay the drafts until
after their March meeting when they
will reconsider the applications of
Memphis and Birmingham for
membership.
“It shows a consistency that is
sometimes lacking in the NFL,”
Glennon said. “It is my judgment
that Memphis and Birmingham are
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ftw more rumors to stymie
vvouei! senses. Any resemblance to
stgamei sor situations living or dead is
•itecLiiS coincidental pending further
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even fa
/entries TALE NO. 321174
totalofll A&M coaches hired a private
f inclui gator and part-time P.A. an-
rlowers, :r from Houston to drum up
yhappel barges so that two freshman
arbee. ball players would be declared
would accomplish three
ll)It would give the Aggies an
lifthey lost anymore games; 2)
|ild fire up the remaining
so they might possibly win
Jtof their games and the title
ithey couldn’t do otherwise.
Is the freshmen contributed
; to the program anyway. 3)
Bould then sue the conference
an obvious blunder and get
hi damages to buy new cars and
heir mothers new washers and
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hibdi« IUr graduates of the University
,,, ars landed their supercharged
Hette on the drill field on Valen-
|Day and left two shiny 1976
|ses, an undisclosed amount of
everal household items and
rms from a job which paid
an hour for sharpening pen-
he cars were wrapped in a
ilver package with a tag that
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fter the Tech Game. ”
four greenies watched the
on TV, then called the com
iner and finked.
lY TALE NO. 321176
lologist Mervin Upyers con-
ced the conference office that he
I actually knock the obnoxious
jck A&M team out of the con-
ce race by pinning vicious
s on their two star freshman
basketball players. All the confer
ence had to do was force them to take
lie detector tests. The conference,
hungry for publicity anyway, did just
that. Mervin switched the wires on
the polygrapher so that lies read as
truth and vice versa. Both players
failed with flying colors.
FAIRY TALE NO. 321177
The conference office received in
formation from a reputable inves
tigator about violations by two •
freshman basketball stars. The two
were called in, presented with the
charges and allowed due process to
attempt to prove their innocence.
The defense exhausted all possible
defenses for the pair. A committee of
representatives discussed the matter
with advice of counsel and unanim
ously decided that the two were
guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The two were then removed from
the roster until an appeal could be
made.
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going to be admitted to the NFL no
later than next year, and that the
NFL people already have decided
that.
“They even announced when they
filed suit that they hoped to have it
resolved in six to eight weeks, which
would take it to the end of March,
after their meeting.
“By deferring the college and ex
pansion draft, it has given them the
needed time to think things out, ” he
said. “They’re going to have to deal
with the Memphis and Birmingham
problems because they’ve got the
threat of both antitrust litigation and
congressional action if they don’t. ”
Glennon made his comments to
The Washington Star and confirmed
them by telephone to The Associated
Press from his Minneapolis law office
before leaving for Miami where he
will represent the players union Fri
day in the suit filed by the expansion
Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Eaton
will hear oral arguments in the law
suit which seeks to establish the leg
ality of the NFL’s draft. Arguments
will be confirmed to a players’ mo
tion for dismissal of the suit and
another motion to add the 26 estab
lished teams as plaintiff's.
Leon Black’s allegations
may cause loss of job
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex. — Sports editor
Lou Maysel speculated Thursday
that Texas basketball coach Leon
Black’s apparent request for an in
vestigation into the recruiting of two
A&M players may cost him his job.
Maysel, of the Austin American-
Statesman, noted that U.S. District
Court Judge Patrick Higginbotham
of Dallas had ordered commissioner
Cliff Speegle of the Southwest Con
ference to tell who had triggered the
SWC probe offreshmenKarl Godine
and Jarvis Williams.
Speegle testified Wednesday that
Black had lodged the complaint in a
letter to the SWC office Sept. 29,
1975.
Godine and Williams, recruited
from Houston Kashmere’s two-time
state championship team, were sus
pended and missed one game, but
Higginbotham said they could play
until the SWC conducted another
hearing.
“The judge in his infinite wisdom
has made Black a marked man,”
Maysel said in his column. “And he’ll
be the target of abuse from the re
tarded segment of Aggie backers —
a segment that every school has -—
wherever he goes.”
In fact, calls poured into the Uni
versity of Texas athletic offices
Thursday, with the operator trying
to shield Black from some of the
more irrational callers, a spokesman
said.
“The way the situation has turned
around, Godine and Williams are
becoming martyrs,” said Maysel.
“In our perverted society and the
even more perverted world of col
lege athletics, he (Black) has been
branded as a stoolie in many folks’
minds instead of standing on the side
of decency,” Maysel said.
“Frankly,” he added, “I wouldn’t
be surprised to see him hounded out
of coaching as a result of the disclo
sure. Of course, he had been
fingered earlier as the probable in
formant by Williams, which has a
strange side to it since Black backed
off from recruiting him during the
late push last year and couldn’t have
cared less where he went if he went
clean and square. ”
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Entries for the IM wrestling
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on Tuesday, February 24 at the IM
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