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McWilliams admitted Monday
he made mistakes as an assistant
and “was wrong in doing it.”
The NCAA has been investi
gating the Longhorns’ Football
program since September 1985,
according to UT President Wil
liam Cunningham and Knox
Nunnally, a Houston lawyer
hired by UT to conduct an inter
nal investigation.
Each category listed in the
NCAA’s Letter o'f Official In
quiry, which covers a period from
1980 to 1986, contains one or
more allegations of rules viola
tions, Nunnally said.
The allegations include loans
and gifts of small amounts of cash
to athletes, the loan of auto-
| mobiles, the employment of a
I prospective recruit by a UT alum-
| nus while the athlete still was in
I high school, li ee auto transporta-
I tion between an athlete’s home
[and his future employer’s busi-
[ ness, and entertainment cash in
[excess of that allowed by NCAA
| rules for athletes who host re-
| emits during visits to the campus,
| Nunnally said.
The NCAA also contends that
[extra benefits were provided to
[athletes in the form of free meals,
| free dental and legal services, and
[the sale of complimentary foot-
| hall tickets in violation of NCAA
| rules.
Athletic Director DeLoss
| Dodds on Monday characterized
| the listed violations as minor.
The T exas program “has with-
|stood the scrutiny of this investi-
Igation and has emerged with no
| major blemish,” he said.
McWilliams, 44, is mentioned
[with otiiers as providing cash for
[athletes or arranging for athletes
[to receive money, some of which
[was repaid.
The NCAA also said McWil
liams and others arranged for
athletes to receive the free use of
automobiles and that McWilliams
loaned his car to athletes on two
occasions — once to drive an
other athlete to class and another
time to conduct personal busi
ness.
“On one instance, I did loan an
athlete a small amount of money
to go home,” McWilliams said at a
news conference. “On another in
stance, an athlete who had
flunked out of school was not able
to get his transcript to try to
transfer to another school — I
did help him . . . and I did loan
my car for a period of 20-25 min
utes to an athlete for some per
sonal business.”
Asked if he considered the acts
serious, McWilliams said, “They
were certainly serious because
they’re wrong . . . Certainly I
made a mistake on those things,
and I was wrong in doing it ... I
apologize to the University of
Texas, its alumni and anyone else
I caused this embarrassment to.”
Before the press conference,
Cunningham told the University
Council he wanted to apologize to
students, faculty and staff at UT
and the public “for any violations
of the NCAA rules that may have
occurred in the football program.
“At the University of Texas at
Austin, the violation of rules is
simply unacceptable,” he said.
Cunningham said he met Mon
day with Dodds, McWilliams and
assistant athletic directors and
football coaches.
“My message was and is a sim
ple and direct one: Anyone who
knowingly violates NCAA rules,
or who is involved in a coverup of
NCAA violations, will be termi
nated from the university,” Cun
ningham said.
Dodds said, “I don’t think
there will be anybody terminated
who’s on the staff at this time.”
The university received the let
ter from the NCAA on Friday
and released it Monday. Nun
nally said UT’s response should
be filed by April 13.
Aggies gain split with Cornhuskers
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M softball team sal
vaged a split of a double-header with
Nebraska Monday at the Penberthy
Intramural Complex, but it took an
extra inning of play in the second
game to do it.
The win and loss to the No. 4-
ranked Cornhuskers made the Lady
Aggies 27-3 on the season. Nebraska
went to 15-4.
With no score at the end of the
scheduled seven innings of the sec
ond game, the Lady Cornhuskers fi
nally touched Lady Aggie pitcher
Shawn Andaya for a run in the top
of the eighth. A&M had been equally
powerless against Nebraska pitcher
Donna Deardorff but found its bats
just in time.
A&M third baseman Judy Trus-
sell opened the inning with a double.
Shortstop Liz Mizera followed with a
double of her own that hung in the
air too long to score Trussell.
After designated hitter Tory
Parks popped out and pitcher
Shawn Andaya was intentionally
walked, center fielder Erin Newkirk
singled to score Trussell and tie the
score. Catcher Carrie Heightley
grounded to the shortstop, but the
throw to the plate was in the dirt, al
lowing Mizera to score the game-
winner.
Carpenter allowed three runs in
the first inning of the opener before
settling down. She shut out the Ne
braska batters afterwards, allowing
only three hits. However, the three-
run lead held up as Nebraska’s All-
America pitcher Lori Sippel scat
tered nine hits and two runs to pick
up the win.
A&M Coach Bob Brock said, “Ju
lie Carpenter is pitching as well as
anybody in the nation — after the
first inning.”
Brock said his team was having
trouble leaving runners on base, and
he attributed that to waiting to start
rallies with two outs. In the loss, the
Lady Aggies left five runners on
base in the last three innings, four of
whom were in scoring position.
The loss broke a string of 20 con
secutive wins for the Lady Aggies.
Nebraska catcher Ruth Chatwin tags out A&M’s
Julie Smith during the Aggies’ 3-2 loss to the
Photo by Bill Hughes
Cornhuskers in the first game of a double-header
Monday. A&M won the second game 2-1.
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