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Olajuwon named
SWC’s ‘superman’
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United Press International
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DALLAS — The Southwest Con
ference has named University of
Houston basketball center Akeem
Abdul Olajuwon male athlete of the
year and Houston track record
holder Carol Lewis the top female
athlete.
Each school nominated one male
and one female athlete and a panel
of Texas and Arkansas sportswriters
and broadcasters who regularly
cover the conference selected the
winners.
The athletes were selected on the
basis of their contributions to the
school’s athletic program in the 1983-
84 school year, the SWC said.
Of 25 votes cast, Lewis received 20
first places, two seconds and two
thirds to easily overwhelm the wom
en’s field.
Olajuwon, the junior from Lagos,
Nigeria, who is turning pro next sea
son, gained 16 first places, four sec
onds and three thirds to win almost
as comfortably.
Texas Tech basketball star Caro
lyn Thompson received four first
place votes among the women and
was the runner-up, while Arkansas’
Amanda Holley received one first-
place vote.
SMU’s Michael Carter, winner of
seven NCAA indoor and outdoor
shot put championships and an All-
SWC football player, was second in
the men’s balloting and received
three first-place votes.
Other female finalists were Texas
tennis player Kathleen Cummings,
TCU golfer Rae Rothfelder Deal,
SMU tennis player Stephanie Fess,
Rice track star Disa Lewis, Arkansas
basketballer AmandaHolley, Baylor
basketball player Jackie Reiter and
Texas A&M eager Lisa Langston.
The men’s field included swim
mer Rick Carey of Texas, football
and track standout Bruce Davis of
Baylor, NCAA long-jump and
triple-jump champion Mike Conley
of Arkansas, defensive end Ray Chil
dress of Texas A&M, batting star
John Grimes of Texas Tech, footbal
ler Brian Patterson of Rice and foot
baller James Benson of TCU.
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Vol.7
Coach speaks out
against drug use
United Press International
DALLAS — It was 17 months ago
that Vince Dooley decided it was
time he became personally involved
in doing something about the drug
problem in athletics and, as is usually
the case with the outspoken Georgia
football coach, he once again finds
himself taking the lead in his profes
sion.
Only 3 percent of the nation’s col
leges have instituted some sort of
drug testing program and the one at
Georgia was spotlighted at this year’s
meeting of the College Football As
sociation.
“I got an education in all of this,”
said Dooley, one of the few coaches
around the country who has publicly
said major college football schools
should get out of the NCAA. “My
staff got an education, too.
“When you have been hooked on
drugs, you are hooked forever. It’s
like alcohol. You have to fight for
ever to stay away.”
Dooley decided he had had
enough when one of his players was
“bombed” on drugs the night before
Georgia played in the Sugar Bowl
season before last.
“If you have a player who takes
drugs the night before such a big
ball game,” Dooley told his fellow
coaches at a panel discussion, “what
else do you have? We decided we
had to find out.”
So Dooley plunged into an educa
tional program, visited drug rehabil
itation clinics and found out every
thing he could about drug abuse in
America.
“After three or four months of
this,” said Dooley, “I knew we had a
problem in college athletics. I knew
we had a problem in all athletics. I
knew we had a social problem, na
tionally.”
A year ago during spring practice,
Dooley told his players that when
they returned to school in the au
tumn they would be subject to drug
testing. Such testing is conducted,
without advance notice, a number of
times during the year.
Each player signed a statement al
lowing such testing to take place.
“We didn’t make them sign it,”
said Dooley. “But if they didn’t sign,
it they didn’t play. They kept their
scholarship, but they were not a part
of the football team.
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“I guess some of the players
thought we didn’t mean it because
we had several who tested positive.
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“When that
tested the individual. We set up
policy that the person was required
to call his parents to tell them what
happened. We started those players
on counseling and they were sus
pended for one week.
Softball team finishes second in nation
Photo by MARK BERRIER
The Aggie women finished behind No. 1 UCLA at the Col
lege Softball World Series in Omaha, Neb. last week. The
Bruins defeated the Ags 1-0 with a 13th inning homerun.
Texas A&M ended the year with a record of 51-18. Pictured
above, first baseman Mary Schwind makes a play earlier this
season.
Thov
lems
large
“When we were recruiting this
year we told the students and the
parents what we were doing. As you
might imagine, the parents were all
in favor it it.
Half-Indian accepts prejudice
“Maybe there were some players
who didn’t come to Georgia because
of the testing, and if that is the case
we are glad they didn’t come.”
Pitcher recalls troubled times
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Dooley called the drug situation in
the United States a “national prob
lem.”
BOSTON — John Henry John
son was in ninth grade when he got
used to the animosity, to the word
Gretzky retains NHL’s honor
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TORONTO — Wayne Gretzky
was awarded the Hart Trophy Mon
day night, emblematic of the NHL’s
outstanding player, for an unprece
dented fifth straight season and Buf
falo Sabres rookie Tom Barrasso be
came the first player in 12 seasons to
capture two awards.
Gretzky, who helped the Edmon
ton Oilers to their first Stanley Cup
title last month and dominated all
NHL scorers for the fourth consec
utive year, outpolled Washington
Capitals’ defenseman Rod Langway
306 to 102 points in voting by the
Professional Hockey Writers Asso
ciation.
Gretzky polled 60 first-place votes
as opposed to only one for Langway.
During the past campaign,
Gretzky, 23, registered the second
200-point season in NHL history —
he is the only person to reach that
plateau — scoring 87 goals and 118
assists. He ends his fifth NHL season
with a career total of 356 goals, 558
assists for 914 points.
Gretzky, also the first player to
win four straight Hart awards, needs
only one more MVP award to equal
the legendary Gordie Howe. But
Howe needed 11 seasons (1952-
1963) to win the trophy six times.
Bobby Orr is the only other player to
win three straight.
Barrasso, a 19-year-old goal-
tender signed out of Acton-Boxboro
High School in Massachusetts last
summer, won the Calder Trophy as
rookie of the year and the Vezina
Trophy as the league’s top net-
minder.
The confident American rookie
became the league’s first double
award winner since 1972 when Orr
claimed the Hart and the Norris.
Only three players in NHL history
have taken both the Vezina and the
Calder Trophies in the same season.
Langway took the Norris Trophy
as the top defenseman, leading three
Washington Capitals to the awards
podium.
“nigger” being spit at him for the
dark skin that comes with being half
Indian.
Growing up in Sonoma, Calif.,
Johnson recalls that he was “the only
dark kid in school. Everyone else was
white. I had to go through'with the
status of ‘nigger,’ because they didn’t
care if I was American Indian or
not.”
A relief pitcher for the Boston
Red Sox, Johnson says he’s the only
Indian in the major leagues. His
mother is full-blooded Potawatomi
and his father is white; Johnson has
the dusky skin of a man from two
races.
In Sonoma, a wine-growing re
gion, “the only other Indians were
the Mexicans that migrate up to cut
the grapes. But it wasn’t a prejudice
that people had against Indians, it
was the dark skin. They think you’re
Mexican and everything, and you’ve
just got to live with it.”
Johnson, a left hander, came to
the major leagues with Oakland in
1978 as a fireballing starting pitcher
who was being hailed as the “next
Chief Bender,” in memory of the In
dian pitcher now in the Hall of
Fame.
Johnson, as a visible Indian ath
lete, has had to deal with the public
image of Indians.
“A lot of people think all Indians
do is drink, get drunk and rowdy
and get in a lot of fights,” said John
son. “Which is true in some cases, be
cause they’ve got nothing better to
do.
“In places around the reservations
there’s no work or anything and
when they do get work they go out
and drink on weekends, like any
body else does, but I guess maybe al
cohol effects Indians different,” said
Johnson.
After an 11-10 rookie year, John
son was traded to Texas and became
a reliever in 1980. A year he devel
oped a problem with the rotator cuff
in his pitching shoulder.
Within professional baseball,
Johnson says he has never encoun
tered any prejudice.
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“Being an Indian has made#
difference, none whatsoever,on
team I’ve been with. Nobody in basf
ball that F ve heard of is prejudice;
because they’re dealing with i
kinds of races.”
Johnson’s mother grew up on
reservation, “and I’ve beenbackioi
eight or nine times, to see where®'
grandmother and relatives are
ied. And to see what the governmeis
gave us after they took everythin
away. What they gave us bad
much.”
Johnson has two children.
“They have dark complexions,s|
they will have to go through what
did, unless times change. But hi
going to instill in them thattheyai
American Indians and ought tok
proud of it,” he said.
“Along with my skin, having dad
curly hair and the name John He
Johnson usually draw people
thinking I am black,” he said. T«
taken a lot of abuse, but everybot
takes abuse; white people get abuse:
too.”
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