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HOUSTON (AP) — The NCAA formally noti-
Ified officials at the University of Houston Tues-
Iday of its investigation into allegations of recruit-
ling violations and that coaches frequently gave
I football players cash.
School officials on Tuesday released copies of
I the three-page letter from the NCAA, which was
I dated July 9.
The school has until Oct. 17 to respond to the
I letter. After that, the NCAA will consider what
I penalties, if any, to assess.
The allegations center on the Cougar football
Iprogram from 1978 to 1984 when Bill Yeoman
I was head coach. Yeoman resigned as head coach
I after the 1986 seasogw
Yeoman admittecFlast year that he gave money
I for humanitarian purposes to players who were
I broke or whose families needed money to cover
I rent or utility bills.
Yeoman told a Houston in-house investigation
I that players were never given more than $:i5 at a
I time and the cash was used to buy gas and take
I care of specific needs.
In March 1986, several former Cougar ath-
I letes told of receiving large amounts of money
I during their playing careers at Houston.
Former players Lonell Phea and David Rober-
| son said they received $ 18,000 and $ 10,000.
Former walk-on running back Kelvin Oil! «aid
he received about $ 150 over two years.
Gill also said he knew of an estimated 20 to 30
players who got personal loans of up to $200.
In the copies of the NCAA letter released to
the news media, names of players or coaches
were blanked out and in their place the phrase “a
player” or “a coach” were substituted.
One allegation involves a coach giving three
players $500 during the 1984 season. During the
fall of 1981, a coach allegedly gave a player $900
while riding in an automobile.
During the 1982-82 academic year, a coach
was alleged to have given $100 to an athlete so his
mother could pay her electric bill, and then ar
ranged for the player to obtain a free round-trip
airplane ticket so he could travel between Hous
ton and Dallas to give the money to her.
In another alleged incident, a student athlete
received $500 in an envelope from another
player while he was in a bathroom stall in the
football dressing room.
In incidents that allegedly occurred in each
summer from 1978 to 1984, coaches sent athletes
to two Houston hotels, w r here they were allowed
to stay free. They were supposed to have had
jobs as security guards, but their work was unsu
pervised and they were not required to perform
any duties, the letter alleged.
The NCAA specified 13 instances in which
coaches either loaned money or credit cards so
players could buy gasoline.
The NCAA said a coach allegedly gave a high
school athlete $200 at his high school after he
signed a letter of intent to play for the Cougars.
Another allegation said UH athletes spent
more than NCAA regulations permit on poten
tial recruits during visits to the campus. Players
also bought souvenirs for the recruits, the NCAA
said, another violation.
4 Bluebonnet Bowl faces SWC debt deadline, extinction
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HOUSTON (AP) — The
H Bluebonnet Bowl is running short of
ro siu ■ money and time but officials for the
etween B postseason college football game say
B they haven’t yet given up.
ICER i; The bowl, which would mark its
Qixyde !" 29th annual game this year in Hous-
cerai H ton, is suffering from the lack of
driving B sponsorship and shrinking television
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revenues. Its future will be decided
at a board meeting next Monday,
game officials said.
Meanwhile, a prospective sponsor
has fallen through and the bowl
faces a Friday deadline on a
$160,000 payment to the Southwest
Conference.
“Last week we thought we had a
(sponsorship) deal and this week we
don’t, so it doesn’t look good right
now,” Executive Director Ted Nance
said Tuesday. “But we still have
prospects and I don’t believe it’s over
until the final gun.
“ We feel we have to have
sponsorship to continue the game.”
Nance estimated the bowl lost
$275,000 from last December’s
Texas-Pittsburgh game. The
$160,000 debt, originally due April
1, is part of the total $500,000 the
bowl owed the conference, he said.
Nance said if sponsorship is not
found, the 50-member board of di
rectors could discontinue the bowl.
Weakest All-Star hitter
propels AL to 2-1 win
CINCINNATI (AP) — Terry
Steinbach, the weakest hitter in the
All-Star Game, hit a home run and
sacrifice fly Tuesday night as the
American League beat the National
League 2-1 in another pitcher-domi
nated matchup.
Steinbach’s homer off Dwight
Gooden, in a year when home runs
are down almost 25 percent, and six-
hit pitching enabled the AL to win
for only the fourth time in 26 games
but two of the last three.
The NL still leads the series 37-21,
with three of those losses coming un
der St. Louis Cardinals manager
Whitey Herzog. He became the only
NL manager to lose three times.
Steinbach, batting only .217 for
Oakland, homered in the third in
ning and hit a bases-loaded sacrifice
fly to the warning track in the fourth
against Bob Knepper. That was all
for the AL, which had scored five
runs in the last four All-Star games.
That was enough, however, as
eight pitchers shut down the NL.
Frank Viola set down the six hitters
he faced for the victory and Dennis
Eckersley, leading the majors with
26 saves, got the final three batters.
A crowd of 55,837 saw 30 first
time All-Stars give the game a new
look.
The best of them was Steinbach,
who became the eighth player to
homer in his first All-Star at-bat and
was named the game’s most valuable
player. He sent Gooden’s 0-1 pitch
over right fielder Darryl Strawber
ry’s outstretched glove.
Gooden, the starter and loser in
the 1986 game, was nicked for three
hits in three innings. Knepper, his
relief, did no better as Dave Winfield
hit a one-out double in the fourth.
Winfield’s seven All-Star doubles are
a record and he tied Mickey Mantle
and Joe Morgan by hitting safely in
his seventh straight game.
A walk to Cal Ripken and Mark
McGwire’s single loaded the bases
and Steinbach flied out to left field,
scoring Winfield.
A great play in the seventh inning
by three-tim6 Gold Glove first baSe-
man Don Mattingly helped preserve
the AL’s third victory in the last 17
games.
The NL, retired in order by Viola
and Clemens, got three of its hits in
the fourth against Kansas City’s
Mark Gubicza. Vince Coleman led
off with a soft single to left field,
promptly stole second and contin
ued to third when Steinbach’s throw
bounced into center.
After Ryne Sandberg struck out
for the second time, making him 1-
for-12 in All-Star competition, Cole
man trotted home on Gubicza’s wild
pitch. Gubicza’s eight wild pitches
this season are the most on either
team.
Andre Dawson and Darryl Straw
berry followed with infield singles,
but Gubicza avoided further trouble
by getting Bobby Bonilla on a fly ball
and Will Clark on a grounder.
After that, the pitchers domi
nated.
Gubicza settled down for a perfect
fifth and Dave Stieb gave up Sand
berg’s single in the sixth but got
Strawberry on a fly ball to end the
inning and leave Sandberg at sec
ond.
Gary Carter hit a two-out single in
the seventh against Texas’ Jeff Rus
sell and Cincinnati pinch-runner
Chris Sabo, the only rookie in the
game, stole second.
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