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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. They will play a twi-nighi
double-header Tuesday beginning
at 5:30 p.m. and will conclude these-
ries witn a single game Wednesday
afternoon at 3 p.m.
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Allen Academy Gymnasium
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