Evening star., 1953-10-19
ACC-Big Seven Pact
With Orange Bowl
Ends Old Scramble
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MIAMI, Fla. Oct. 19.-Novem-
ber's wild scramble for bowl foot
ball teams was rapidly becoming
a thing Of the past today as the
Orange Bowl entered into pact
with the Big Seven and Atlantic
Coast conferences to supply its
teams for the next two years.
Oklahoma and Maryland are
strong favorites to dominate the
two leagues and meet here next
New Years Day in the first game
under the agreement.
The Orange Bowl action, long
expected, leaves only three ma
jor bowl berths open for competi-
tive bidding-two in the Sugar
Bowl at New Orleans and one in
the Cotton Bowl at Dallas.
Only the Sugar Bowl still Sc
lects both teams at random. The
Cotton Bowl picks one at large
to meet the Southwest Confer
ence champion. The Rose Bowl
is a closed corporation, match
ing teams from the Big Ten and
Pacific Coast Conferences.
The field from which the
Sugar and Cotton Bowls can
choose was severely restricted by
the Orange Bowls action.
Southeastern Still Open.
Among the major conferences,
only the Southeastern still is
wide open for bowl bids. The
Southwest Conference runnerup
is available and after that the
choice is limited to the independ-
ents. The No. / independent,
Notre Dame. last week squelched
reports that it might reverse a
long standing policy against
post-season games and take a
Sugar Bowl bid.
Eight months of negotiations
for the Orange Bowl agreement
were completed in Kansas City
yesterday when faculty repre-
sentatives of the Big Seven voted
in favor of it. The Atlantic
Coast group already had voiced
it's approval.
w. Bruce Macintosh, Orange
Bowl president, said there still
are some details to be worked
out. including whether the con-
ferences will allow the same
teams to play in the bowl two
years in row. However, Reaves
E. Peters. executive secretary of
the Big Seven, said that confer
ence definitely would not let the
same team play in the bowl on
successive years.
If a team wins the title two
years and if the runnerup de-
cides against playing in bowl.
then the faculty would select its
representative.
Teams Guaranteed $4,000.
Macintosh said the Orange
Bowl would accept the selection
of each conference" for the
game. He said the initial agree
ment with the two conferences
is for two years, "but we hope
and I believe it will become a
permanent fixture"
Under terms of the agreement.
each team has been guaranteed
$4,000 for the 1854 game and
$4,000 for the 1855 contest.
Peters said 20 per cent of the
Big Seven's net will to the
team playing in the bowl and the
other six members will share
equally in the other 80 per cent.
Three thousand seats are be-
ing added to the Orange Bowl to
bring seating capacity to 10000.
The games will be televised and
broadcast nationally by the Co
lumbla BroadcaSting System.
The Atlantic Conference was
formed this year by. teams which
bolted the Southern Conference,
partly because of its ban on bowl
games. It's members are Mary
land. Clemson. Duke, North
Carolina, Wake Forest, North
Carolina State, South Carolina
and Virginia.
The Big Seven is made up of
Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska,
Kansas. Colorado, Kansas State
and Iowa State. The SoonerS
are favored to win their sixth
straight conference title.
Maryland and Clemson were
suspended from Southern Con-
ference competition for a year
(See BOWL PACT. Page A-16D