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Sports
Tennis champ
Bryan Joelson, junior Aggie
tennis player from Port
land, Ore., is in California
this week to participate in
the United States Tennis
Association’s sectional tour
nament. Joelson won the
Northwest Regional tourna
ment last summer and is
representing that section in
the San Diego tournament.
The Northwest Region in
cludes Washington, Oregon
and parts of California.
Staff photo by Colin Valentine
NCAA shatters Miamfs
hopes of post-season play
United Press International
MIAMI — The NCAA has shattered the Universi
ty of Miami’s hopes of gaining a bowl bid and ending
the season ranked nationally by placing the Hurri
canes on two years probation.
Miami was ranked 11th Tuesday before the penal
ties were announced. It is the last time the Hurri
canes will appear in the weekly ratings until Nov. 2,
1983, the day the probation expires.
By agreement with the American Football
Coaches Assn., teams on NCAA probation are ineli
gible for the top 20 and national championship con
sideration by the UPI Board of Coaches.
Coach Howard Schnellenberger told his players
of the NCAA ruling Monday night, two days after the
Hurricanes had posted what has been called the
biggest football victory in the school’s 55-year his
tory, a 17-14 upset of top-ranked Penn State.
The immediate reaction of Schnellenberger, who
took over Miami’s football fortunes in 1979 with a
pledge to win the national championship, was: “I’m
so damned glad it’s over. We’ve been on probation
(under investigation) two and a half years and its
finally over.’
Although they still face 14th-ranked Florida State,
Virginia Tech, North Carolina State and Notre
Dame, the Hurricanes, now 5-2 for the season, felt
they had a good chance for an invitation to one of the
lucrative, second-ranked major bowls.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions ruled
Miami’s football program had committed 66 infrac
tions of recruiting regulations in a five-year period
between 1976 and 1980. In addition to probation, the
NCAA banned the Hurricanes from appearing in any
post-season game this year and reduced the number
of players the school will be allowed to sign to football
scholarships next year from 30 to 20.
Miami’s new president. Dr. Edward T. Foote,
said he would not appeal the findings. That decision
automatically affected the eligibility of 16 players,
one of whom has graduated.
Two players have been declared ineligible pend
ing appeals and 13 others have been prohibited from
postseason play for the remainder of their college
careers. Identities of the ineligible players were not
disclosed but university officials said none of the
current freshmen players are involved.
Both Foote and NCAA infractions committee
chairman Charles Alan Wright said most of the rule
violations appeared to be unintentional.
The violations included using rental cars or loan
ing coaches’ cars for transportation, making more
recruiting contacts than the limit of three, handing
out Miami T-shirts and visors to potential recruits,
exceeding the $20 limit on entertaining recruits, and
trying out athletes.
Foote said initially, there were 107 accusations
brought. He said the university decided not to con
test “about 50 of them.’’
“It would be a mistake to conclude that the univer
sity or any of its people have been unethical,” Foote
said. “Additional measures have been taken to make
sure they (the violations) won’t happen again.
“A number of the violations were the result of an
enthusiastic alumni,” he added. “We have made
sure that the alumni enthusiasm does not go further
than it should. ”
The NCAA also demanded a reprimand of an assis
tant footall coach involved in many of the violations,
which the University of Miami said had already been
issued and accepted.
The reprimanded coach’s identity was not re
vealed, but Billy Proulx was the chief recruiter dur
ing most of the period in which the violations were
found. Proulx last year was switched from his post as
chief recruiter to an administrative assistant for the
head coach.
Schnellenberger said that the lowered limits on
recruits wouldn’t have a severely crippling affect. He
said during his first two years he signed only 21 and
17 recruits and it wasn’t until this year he signed the
full complement of 30.
The Texas A&M Water polo club captured second
place in the US Water Polo Championships in Provi
dence, R.I.
The A&M team started out on a bad note, losing its
first game to eventual winners New York Athletic
Club 9-7. The game was tied several times but the
New York club put the game away with two late
goals.
The Aggies took their second game 21-12 over
Queens with Mike Newsom scoring a national tour
nament record of 12 goals.
In the second round of competition the team beat
host and sixth place finisher Brown University 11-9
and came back for a 18-10 win over Indiana.
In the third and final round the Aggies were pitted
against Westwood, a California club and last year’s
third place finisher in the tournament.
Though two Aggies fouled out the Aggies were
able to bold off a late rally and take an 11-10 win.
Following three hours of rest the Aggies again took
to the pool, this time against the Olympic Club from
San Francisco.
Players
selected
for awards
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ST. LOUIS — The Sporting
News has named Tony Armas of
the Oakland A’s its American
League player of the year and
Andre Dawson of the Montreal
Expos its National League player
of the year.
Armas and Dawson, both out
fielders, were selected in a poll of
major league players, which was
published Tuesday.
Armas, who batted .261 with 22
homers and 76 runs batted in in
109 games, defeated teammate
Rickey Henderson 67-to-55 for
the American League honor.
Dawson, who hit .302 with 24
homers and 64 RBI in 103 games,
edged Philadelphia third baseman
Mike Schmidt by nine votes in the
balloting by National League
players.
Selected as pitchers of the year
were Detroit’s Jack Morris in the
American League and Fernando
Valenzuela of champion Los
Angeles in the National League.
Pastorini could start for Ranis en( 3
United Press International
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ray
Malavasi planned to announce to
day whether Pat Haden or Dan
Pastorini will be the Los Angeles
Rams’ starting quarterback against
New Orleans Sunday, and the
Rams coach said he intended “to
stick with the guy we go with.
Malavasi benched Haden in the
second quarter last Sunday be
cause he wasn’t happy with the
manner in which his incumbent
quarterback was directing the
team’s offense against the Detroit
Lions.
Jeff Rutledge replaced Haden
and rallied the Rams before dis
locating his right thumb. Pastor
ini, making his first appearm
a Ram, finished upasthe!s|
beat the Lions, 20-13.
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