Evening star., 1953-08-26
Paper Reports Coach
Admitted n. {. State
Recruiting Violations
BY the Assoeiaied Press

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Aug. 26.
The Charlotte News said today
that Everett Case, North Caro-
lima State College basketball
coach, has admitted that charges
of illegal recruiting and tryouts
by the school are substantially
correct"
The News said the admission
was contained in letter to DR..
H. A. Fisher, chairman Of the
athletic council at State College,
dated June "a. It was written
after Walter Byers, executive di-
rector Of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, sent a list
of alleged violations to Gordon
Gray, president of the Consoli-
dated University of North Caro-
lima.
Both letters are included in a
series Of articles which the pa
per began yesterday.
North Carolina State has been
put on probation for one year
by the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence, formed by State and six
other schools which withdrew
from the Southern Conference.
Fourteen athletes, whose
names were not disclosed, were
barred from competing at N. c.
State. This action came at a
meeting in Greensboro August 7.
The ACC said N. C. State had
violated regulations about try
outs and transportation, and
that the NCAA had called the
alleged breach to the attention
of the school and Southern Con-
ference Commissioner Wallace
Wade.
ByerS Claims Evidence.
In his letter to Gray, Byers
said that the NCAA's subcom-
mittee on rule infractions had
collected considerable evidence"
that N. c. State has followed
and is following the practice of
trying out prospective athletes
and paying transportation costs"
to and from the campus.
The subcommittee, ByerS' let
ter said, had information that
Ron Shavlik, former Denver high
school basketball star who was a
freshman at N. C. State last year,
received SITS a month, golf privi-
leges at a country club. services
of tutor twice a week. and
three trips a year to Denver from
Raleigh. It also was alleged that
Shavlik received a set of new
golf clubs.
Case denied that Shavlik was
promised round-trip tranSporta-
ton or that the cage star re-
ceived SIS a month.
AS to Shavlik's alleged golfng
activities, Case said, "he has
never received any golf clubs nor
does he have golf privileges at
any country club" He added
that upon investigation, he
learned that Shavlik had not
played golf since enrolling at
State.
In Denver, Shavlik insisted the
charges are lust not true"
Names IL Given TryOuts.
Concerning the cases of IL
high school students who al
legedly tried out" at State, Case
admitted that the information
as presented in Byers' letter was
substantially correct He said
the IL visited the campus during
alumni week end, May 1-2, in
q party Of 20 athletes.
He listed them as Jerry Weber.
Cincinnati; Robert Price and
Paul Underwood, both of South
Charleston. w. Va; Rod Humid
ley, Charleston, w. Va; Leonard
Califano. John Kovarovic and
Robert Terwilliger, all of Sche-
nectady. N. Y; Jim Mitchell,
Lexington. KY, and Robert
Lakatta, Binghamton, N. w and
Alvin Serkin, Ronnie Mazelli and
John Seival, all of New York.
College officials said Shavlik
was in rood standing" and is
expected to return to school this
fall.
President Gray was on vaca-
ton from his Office at Chapel
Hill, but his secretary, William
Friday, issued a statement that
said mo official or any member
of the coaching staff of State
College had any knowledge of
any violation of the NCAA regu-
lations so far as Ronnie Shavlik
was concerned"