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Its Officers And Members For a Job Well Done!
At the NATIONAL CONFERENCE held
March 23-29, 1987
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the following awards:
REGIONAL AWARDS:
Region V Chapter of the Year
Region V President of the Year - Rhonda Franklin
Regional Scholarship - Kenneth Johnson
Region V Chairperson 87-88 - Kenneth Johnson
NATIONAL AWARDS:
ALCOA Incentive Awards - Pamela Felix
Tonya Walton
Union Carbide - Chapter Excellence Award
(highest chapter award attainable)
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Page 12/The Battalion^Thursday, April 2, 1987
Landry: Dallas successful if over .500
IRVING (AP) — Dallas Coach
Tom Landry says the deflated Cow
boys will have a big 1987 NFL season
if they can climb over the .500 mark.
“If we’re better than a .500 team
this year, then we’ve been success
ful,” Landry says in the club’s pre
season prospectus which will be re
leased later this week. “And once
you get over the .500 mark, anything
can happen.”
The Cowboys were 7-9 last year
and missed the playoffs for only the
third time in 20 years after a 6-2
start in the first half of the season.
“Our goal this year is to get back
into the race,” Landry says. “We
can’t even think about the playoffs,
or the Eastern Division
championship because we were com
pletely out of the running. The way
we played the last eight games, we’re
no different than any other losing
team.”
White says no
to additional
wrist surgery
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Cowboys
quarterback Danny White, who suf
fered a broken right wrist playing
against the New York Giants, ruled
out further surgery on the injury
unless he can’t throw at the season’s
start.
White was smiling Monday when
the Cowboys’ three-day minicamp
opened because doctors said he
would not need surgery to play two
more seasons.
“I’m very confident now in my de
cision not to have surgery,” White
said. “I don’t think there’s any ques
tion I’ll be ready when the season be
gins. Doctors say it might not ever be
the same and that I might eventually
need surgery. But it will get better
before the season begins.”
White’s slow-healing wrist was
broken on Nov. 2 by the Giants’ Carl
Banks.
One athletic physician. Dr. Frank
McCue of the University of Virginia,
said two weeks ago that White would
be able to regain full range of mo
tion in his wrist without surgery.
The hand specialist’s comment
was the second outside medical opin
ion that White could play without an
operation. Team doctor Marvin
Knight concurred with the opinions,
along with trainer Don Cochren.
3-point shot
to remain at
same range
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 3-
point shot will stay at its present dis
tance of 19 feet, 9 inches for at least
another season of college basketball,
and intentional fouls will be more
expensive, the secretary of the
NCAA Rules Committee announced
on Wednesday.
“The 3-point rule did exactly what
it was intended to do,” said Ed Steitz,
the committee secretary. It increased
scoring, opened up the game and re
duced rough play under the boards,
he said.
Despite howls of outrage prior to
the rule’s implementation for this
past season, a late-season poll
showed overwhelming support for
retaining the 3-point shot in some
form, Steitz said.
Overall, he said, 1,448 coaches re
turned their questionnaires, and 80
percent favored keeping the 3-point
shot. Of those in favor, 35 percent
wanted it kept at its present distance,
and 36 percent favored moving it
back nine inches to the Olympic dis
tance, he said.
Three changes were voted in for
next season, Steitz said.
“All intentional fouls will carry a
two-shot penalty plus possession of
the ball,” he said. Currently, an in
tentional foul carries a two-shot pen
alty, but the offending team gains
possession of the ball.
The new rule would not have
changed the outcome of Monday
night’s Indiana-Syracuse
championship game, he said. Der
rick Coleman of Syracuse was fouled
by Indiana’s Keith Smart with 28
seconds left in the game. Coleman
missed the front end of a one-and-
one, and Smart wound up scoring
the winning basket in a 74-73 In
diana victory.
Landry says the Cowboys need to
take things more seriously.
“We’ve just got to develop a mad
temperament,” Landry says. “Do
you want to be a losing team or not?
I don’t know of any team that has
come off a long winning streak and
then not stayed down for awhile.
That’s the challenge we have.”
The Cowboys split with the World
Champion New York Giants last
year but a wrist injury suffered by
quarterback Danny White in the sec
ond game against the Giants started
Dallas’ slide.
“That was a terrible stretch we
had the second half of last year,”
Landry says. “We’ve never had a
stretch like that before in 27 years.
I’m talking about being mentally on
the downslide for that long a time.
“Even in the early years, we might
not win for three or four games, but
we were always on a positive note.
We’ve been knocked down before
and come back, but we’ve never been
on the skids like last year. And that is
bad.”
He adds, “The toughest thing we
are going to have to do is regain con
fidence.”
Landry continues, “The other
Steitz agreed that few of the
64,959 people in the stands would
believe the foul an accident, but
that’s not the way intentional fouls
are determined. “He played the ball
directly. When you go through a
player or wrap your arms around
him, that’s when the intentional foul
is called,” he said.
Another change permits calling a
technical foul on the coach if any of
his players leave the bench to take
part in a fight on the court.
The third change reduces the
penalty for erroneously questioning
a scoring or timing decision. Cur
rently, a coach can be called for a
technical foul, if he questions a deci
sion that is deemed correct. The
change calls for charging his team
with a timeout.
Dallas
Cowboys
Tom Landry
Bass, Astros hoping
to repeat ’86 results
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The
question about Kevin Bass and his
Houston Astros teammates seems
to be the same — can they do an
encore?
Bass had a career best perfor
mance last season, finishing
fourth in the National League in
hitting at .311, fifth with 184 hits,
.486 slugging percentage and 287
total bases.
The Astros came from also-ran
status to win the National League
Western Division title, but their
consistency still is being ques
tioned.
“Until the fact is done, nobody
can talk about it, there’s no wiz
ard who can pick the winner,”
Bass said. “I just don’t believe
what I read.”
“They picked us fifth last year
and see what happened?
“If we all do our jobs, there’s
no reason we can’t contend
Bass reported to camp a year
ago, thinking he’d fit into new
Manager Hal Lanier’s plans. He
just didn’t know where. I^mier
put Bass in right field and Bass
took over from there.
“This year is a lot easier,” he
said. “I know I’m going to be in
there so I’m just gearing myself
for the start of the regular sea
son.”
Bass was one of three Astros to
place in the top 10 voting for the
league’s Most Valuable Player
trophy. First baseman Glenn Da
vis was second, Bass was seventh
and Mike Scott was 10th.
Bass hit .378 in June and put
together a 20-game hitting streak
from July 22 to Aug. 13. The
streak matched the fourth longest
in club history.
again.
Bass also reports himself ready
for the start of the season, despite
off-season arthroscopic shoulder
surgery.
“The shoulder is going to be
fine and I’m going to try to hit
.300 just like I did last year,” Bass
said. “If every man takes it upon
himself to give his best then we’ll
win again.”
“I've got confidence in my abil
ity. I don’t worry about whether I
can have another year like last
year. I just know that I’m going to
try as hard as I can to do it," Bass
said.
Bass didn’t play in the early
spring games, giving his shoulder
more time to recover. But he’s
warmed up quickly, hitting .375
in 15 games going into the final
week of spring training.
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with us. It’s hard to get those real im
pact players unless you drafiq
the first round.”
Landry says his offensive
under re-evaluation but cm
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come on defense. Defense ih
we need athletes.”
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Angels’ DeCinces dislikes
dealings of new contract
Utah edges
San Antonie
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) —
Doug DeCinces has learned to play
in pain. Now the California Angels’
third baseman is learning to deal
with disillusionment.
“I don’t feel good about the way I
was handled,” DeCinces said of his
contract dealings with the club ear
lier this year.
“I wanted to feel like I was impor
tant to them, that they would think it
was important to talk with me.
“They didn’t call me until four
days before the deadline in January.
They had all winter long, but they
didn’t even have the courtesy to call
me.
“I’d like to have seen what they
would have done without me last
year ... I can’t pretend now that it’s
all peaches-and-cream.”
The 36-year-old DeCinces-signed
his new contract with the Angels on
Jan. 8, the free-agent deadline.
“I signed with less than an hour to
go,” he said. “Why did it have to
come to that? I did everything I
could, played my heart out for this
club last season.”
Some of his veteran teammates
who felt the same way are no longer
with the club — Reggie Jackson,
Bobby Grich, Rick Burleson, Terry
Forster and Bob Boone are all ex-
Angels.
DeCinces, who has been troubled
by a hack problem for the past few
years, still had 26 homers, 96 runs
batted in and was the key hitting cog
late in the season as the Angels cap
tured the American League West ti
tle.
He reportedly will earn $1.1 mil
lion this year if all incentives are met.
The contract is assured only for
1987, with the second year of the
agreement not guaranteed.
Although he wanted 1988 to also
be guaranteed, he said the club’s
dealings with him — not the terms of
the contract — were the source of his
ill feelings.
He said he talked with a number
of other teams over the winter, but
none expressed any substantial in
terest in signing him. That, he said,
illustrates the new, arid climate for
free agents in major league baseball.
Only two of the eight premier free
agents have signed with other teams.
The Angels’ offer was the best
available in these “changing times,”
he said.
“I signed because it was a business
decision and I didn’t want to have to
take my kids out of school and
move,” he said.
SAN ANTONIO ,
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points in the fourth quat®
lead the Utah Jazz to a®
from-behind 107-104 NlM i
tory over the San Antonio'!
Wednesday night.
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erased a 10-point deficit in
nal seven minutes of tM
and improved their record
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seven seconds remaining.
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throws with three second*
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overtime, but the ball tin#'
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