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I Name I 1 Address ! 1 ■ City State Zip ■ I Business Phone : Home Phone I | Merrill Lynch customers, please give name and office address of your • Financial Consultant: I i i *An eligible IRA must be established and your contribution made before April 15. 198<i. ©Copyright 1986 Merrill Lynch. Pierce,Fenner & Smith Inc. Member SIPC. Merrill Lynch Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, March 31,1986 — Texas football saga continues 2 former coaches admit lending money to 'Horn players AUSTIN (AP) — Two former coaches with the University of Texas football team said they lent small amounts of money to players, ac tions they knew violated NCAA rules. Former recruiting coordinator Ken Dabbs told the Austin Ameri- can-Statesman he gave a small loan to a player to pay off traffic tickets three years ago. He also said he re ferred players to loan officers at two Austin banks several times. David McWilliams, former Long horn defensive coordinator, said he lent money to players even though he knew it broke an NCAA rule. “I did in some instances loan some other guys money if it was an emer gency, but we’re not talking about a lot of times or a lot of money,” Mc Williams said. McWilliams, now head football coach at Texas Tech, said the only specific case he could remember was a gift of $80 to a football player who had flunked out and needed to pay off traffic tickets before he could get his transcript. He said that was the largest amount he recalled lending. He said he did not know if Long horn head coach Fred Akers knew about the loan. Meanwhile, the Dallas Morning News reported in a copyright story in its Sunday editions that Longhorn football coaches routinely doled out David McWilliams small amounts of money to players who said they needed it. Dabbs, Texas’ recruiting coordi nator until November 1984 and now a special assistance to athletic direc tor DeLoss Dodds, told the Ameri- can-Statesman he lent less than $100 to All-American linebacker Jeff Leiding to pay for two traffic tickets about three years ago. Both Dabbs and Leiding said the loan was repaid within a week. Dabbs said he paid the traffic tick ets for Leiding even though he knew it was against NCAA rules because Leiding was being held at the city jail after midnight. “I couldn’t leave him there over night,” Dabbs said. “Did I know it Ken Dabbs was against the rules? Yes.” The News reported that 16 for mer football players said they knew they could go to the coaches when they had money problems, and nine former players claimed they re ceived cash, bank loans, bail money or promises of a loan from Texas coaches. The allegations stemmed from the News’ two-month probe into Texas’ athletic program in which 28 former players were interviewed. Fifteen of those players specifically mentioned Dabbs, a 13-year veteran of the program, the newspaper re ported. “We used to go by the coaches’ of fice all the time because we were running short ...,” said Don Holta way, a Longhorn tailback from 1981 to 1983. “We’d go to Dabbs. Some' times he’d give you the money, or sometimes he’d say, ‘Come bad later,’ and he’d be gone.” Holloway and former Longhorn Robert Smothers said they each re ceived about $300 to $400 from Dabbs. Akers said he did not believe thai any Texas coaches, including Dabbs, would give players money. “I just don’t believe that,” said Ak ers. “When a kid comes in to talk to any one of us. Coach Dabbs, or any one else, about needing some money for whatever reason, I know that we refer them to our financial aid de partment (or) our student loan com mittee to see if they qualify there, or some lending institution around town. If they qualify with those lend ing institutions, that’s their busi ness.” National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation rules forbid student athletes from receiving any benefits beyond the tuition, room, board and books provided by their athletic schol arships. The newspaper reported earlier that 24 of the 28 players interviewed routinely sold their complimentary tickets to boosters at inflated prices, some saying they earned $4,000 per season through the sales. ‘National guards’ to settle NCAA final DALLAS (AP) — In college bas ketball’s year of the guard, the na tional championship will be deter mined by a battle of talented backcourts. Duke’s All-American Johnny Dawkins and Tommy Amaker go head-to-head with Louisville’s Milt Wagner and Jeff Hall Monday at 8:10 p.m. in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament. Louisville, 31-7 and ranked sev enth, has a size advantage, but the Blue Devils “hope to take advantage since they don’t have a true ball han dler.” Top-ranked Duke, with an NCAA-record 37 victories in 39 games, has won 2 1 in a row, but a lack of height along the front line keeps some from calling it an out standing team. Louisville Coach Denny Crum scoffs at that notion. “I hear people say that Duke is not that strong of a team,” said Crum, whose team has won 16 in a row. “They have won 21 in a row, are ranked No. 1 and they do everything you want a basketball team to do.” Dawkins, a 6-foot-2 senior, and Amaker, a 6-foot junior, make up what might be the best backcourt in the nation. “I’m the quarterback,” Amaker said. “Johnny is the type of player who roams around the court. I’m there to let him be free.” They will be facing the full-court pressure defense which led Louis ville past the strongest non-confer ence schedule in the nation and to the Metro Conference regular-sea- son and tournament titles. Duke’s defense, which has forced 19 turnovers a game, is keyed byits ball-hawking guards. Dawkins, the leading scorer in Duke history and owner of a 20- joint average this season, hashada tot hand in the tournament, averag ing 25.8 points while hitting 62 per cent from the field. Wagner, 6-5, a fifth-year senior,is one of five Cardinals averaging dou ble figures with a 14.9 average. Hal, a 6-4 senior, averages 10.4 points. On the front line, Duke has 6-8se- nior Mark Alarie, 17.1; 6-5 senior David Henderson, 14.2; and 6-8se- nior Jay Bilas, 6.9. The backup is Danny Ferry, a 6-10 freshman whose clutch performance helped Duke down No. 2 Kansas 71-67 in Saturday’s semifinal game. Aggtes (continued from page 7) nings. But the story of the game was Parker, who came within one batter of throwing a no-hitter last week against Texas. “Parker threw a heck of a ball- game,” A&M Coach Mark Johnson said. “He’s pitched two ballgames and only given up one hit, but I was really tickled to death that our hit ters came back after being no-hit and got themselves right back into the ballgame. “We didn’t let (the no-hitter) kill us. A lesser character ballclub might collapse when a no-hitter is thrown.” The Aggies outhit the Razorbacks 13-10 to capture the rubber game of the match, 5-2. “Key people are showing up all of the sudden — you’ve got a chance when you’ve got everybody in your starting lineup contributing some where along the line," Johnsonuid Next action for the Aggies is Fuesday against North Texas Slate University. 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