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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1979
unz
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Former^ Olympian
Women’s basketball
coach hired
Martha Cheryl “Cherri” Rapp,
formerly a coach at North Texas
State University, was named the
women’s basketball coach at Texas
A&M University, interim Athletic
Director Marvin Tate announced
today. Rapp, who has been head
coach at NTSU the past three sea
sons, will succeed Wanda Bender as
England Dan & John Ford Coley
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women’s basketball coach.
“We are very pleased to have a
coach with the credentials that
Cherri possesses join our staff, ’’ Tate
said. “Not only were we impressed
with her background in women’s
basketball, but she had a strong de
sire to come to Texas A&M.”
Rapp’s basketball background in
cludes her selection as an alternate
on the United States Olympic wo
men’s basketball team in 1976. Rapp
was chosen as captain of the U.S.
basketball team that won a gold
metal in the Pan American Games
in Mexico City in 1975.
Rapp played high school basket
ball at Estelline High School, earn
ing all-district distiction all four
years. After graduation she went on
to play at Wayland Baptist College.
While Rapp was at Wayland, the
Flying Queens won two national
championships, never losing more
than five games in a season. Rapp
earned All-America honors three
years while at Wayland and was val
edictorian of her 1972 graduating
class, majoring in mathematics.
“Cherri has shown the values of
leadership and dedication that we
are looking for in our coaches,” said
Charles Sampson, Texas A&M ath
letic council chairman. “Her experi
ence as a coach and a player will be
an asset to the overall program at
Texas A&M.”
In her three years of coaching
Rapp’s NTSU teams compiled a
43-42 record. This season NTSU
finished 16-15 and fifth in the
TAIAW state tournament.
“I have visited with Cherri sev
eral times and each time she im
presses me as a dedicated profes
sional,” Assistant Athletic Director
Kay Don said. “She is highly re-'
spected by her peers, shown by her
Cherri
Rapp
election to the TAIAW (k
committee.”
The 29-year-old Rapp
over her coaching duties April
Brown brings wit to Westwood
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — With his jok
ing, flamboyant style, Larry Brown
made it very clear he had come to
have fun — and win.
The former coach of the NBA’s
Denver Nuggets assumed the head
basketball coaching position at
UCLA Wednesday and wasted no
time in displaying his wit.
“I’m kind of intimidated by the
crowd,” he told the 100 or so re
porters. “After coaching in the ABA,
this is a bigger crowd than we
played before in most of our
games.”
Brown, known as a fierce compet
itor and restless benchroamer dur
ing his 6A4 years in professional
coaching, said he tried once to be a
calm “iceman” coach, but it just
didn’t work.
“I have trouble sitting on the
bench, crossing my legs and looking
cool,” he laughed. “I went to the
University of North Carolina. Coach
Frank McGuire recruited my mom
so I went there. He sat there very
calmly but some amazing things
came out of his mouth. ”
Brown resigned Feb. 1 as head
coach of the Nuggets in what was
described as philosophical differ
ences with the team’s management.
He replaces Gary Cunningham,
who resigned from UCLA last week
after a two-year stint as head coach.
Cunningham will remain at UCLA
in a yet-to-be-announced adminis
trative post.
UCLA, which won 10 NCAA
championships in 12 years under
Coach John Wooden, hasn’t reached
the NCAA’s Final Four in the past
three seasons.
“This is a great moment for me,”
Brown said. “I hope in the future
UCLA can say the same thing. I
never thought I’d have an opportu
nity like this. This is a great school
with an unbelievable basketball
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UCLA athletic director J.D.
Morgan would say only that Brown
was given a “multi-year contract.”
Brown’s new salary is $40,000 a
year, less than half of what he
earned as coach of the Nuggets.
“I didn’t want to return to pro
basketball,” Brown said. “I was just
not suited for that kind of a game.
I’m not in this game for the money.
If I was in this for the money I
would still be coaching the Nuggets,
living in a beautiful house in Boul
der (Colo.).”
Brown, a native of Brooklyn,
N.Y., brings a 383-231 professional
record to Los Angeles. During his
six years of coaching in the Ameri
can Basketball Association and the
NBA, he guided his teams to five
divisional titles — one with the
Carolina Cougars of the ABA, two
with Denver in the ABA and two
with the Nuggets in the NBA.
Brown, playing guard, captained
North Carolina’s squad his senior
year. He played on the 1964 U.S.
Olympic team which captured the
gold medal in Tokyo.
He joined the ABA in 1967, play
ing for five years with five teams.
He was named Most Valuable
Player in the ABA’s 1968 All-Star
game and set the ABA record for as
sists in one game, 23.
The expedient naming of S
as Cunningham’s successors
sidered especially importu
UCLA, since the Bruins nil
two-time All-America fon
D avid Greenwood and stai)
guards Brad Holland ai
Hamilton to graduation,
feels its recruiting is essentiali
going to win a 14th straights
ence title next season.
“It’s easy to recruit at a
this,” Brown said. “They rw
me and I came.”
Brown also announced
tant coach Larry Farmer woiil
main in that post. One otlierj
tant coaching spot is still open)
the resignation two weeks ago
Harrick, who took the head
ing spot at Pepperdine Univi
He said his UCLA team
favor a passing game — fe
screens away from the
movement — over the hi[
game the Bruins used under!
ningham. Asked about usingil
court press, he reverted oncti
to his humorous style.
“ We re going to pick’em upl
Los Angeles airport. Bill Eu
said that and he’s not coadiinj
more, so maybe I shouldn’t*
he grinned, glancing toward
door.
Bill Russell, the former Ed
Celtic great and excoach of the)
tie SuperSonics, leaned agaiii
doorway and returned Biw
smile.
Former Cleveland Indiai
robbed, killed outside ba
Michael
United Press International
CLEVELAND — Former first
baseman Luke Easter of the Cleve
land Indians was shot and killed
Thursday by two men who robbed
him outside a suburban Euclid,
Ohio, bank where he had just
cashed payroll checks totaling more
than $5,000.
The two suspects were caught by
police after a high-speed chase
through Euclid and into Cleveland
and a wild gunbattle in which no
one was injured. They face aggra
vated robbery and aggravated mur
der charges.
Victor Pritchett, 32, and Roderick
Thomas, 31, both of Cleveland,
I were in fair condition at Euclid
| General Hospital. Each suffered su
perficial wounds and facial lacera
tions when their getaway car
crashed along a railroad underpass
on Cleveland’s East Side.
Easter, 63, a union steward at
TRW, Inc., where he worked for
about 15 years, was accosted by the
J suspects who opened fire with blasts
from a sawed-off shotgun and a .38
caliber revolver. Easter was dead on
arrival at Euclid General Hospital.
It was known that Easter went to
the bank every other Thursday to
cash the payroll checks totaling as
much as $40,000 and usually asked
Euclid police for an escort to the
plant, according to bank employees.
“He did not ask for an escort to
day,” said Euclid Police Capt.
William Donner.
The prodigious home run li
who played for the Indiansl
1949 to 1954, was killed outsidi
Cleveland Trust Co. bank brain
a shopping center at East!
Street and Euclid Avenue. Il
there that he had just cashed!
payroll checks for himself andfe
employees.
The two suspects fled the»
but were cornered by Cleve
police at East 140th Street anil
pin wall Avenue in Cleveland,
eral miles from the bank, accon
to Police Lt. Howard Rudolph
Johnson
Instead of surrendering, tk
suspects exchanged shots'
police and both were wouiK
Rudolph said.
The suspects were taken tol
lid General Hospital for treat®
During the attempted esfl
police said one shot fired b)
suspects smashed through
windshield of a police cruisn
passing between the two officeH
side. Neither was injured.
Easter, born Aug. 4, 1915, ii
Louis, is on record as havini
what it is believed to have befi
longest home run at Cleveln
Municipal Stadium, homeoftk
dians, June 27, 1950. The!
traveled 477 feet into theul
rightfield stands.
The right-handed, 6-4, >
pound slugger batted lefthandri
with
Meisburg & Walters
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