Evening star., 1953-06-14
Organization Session
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The seven seeding members of
the Southern Conference meet
at the Sir Walter Hotel here to-
morrow for the formal organi-
cation of their new conference.
Attending the meeting de-
signed to give birth to what
probably will be named the At
lantic Coast Conference will be
Maryland. North Carolina, North
Carolina State. Duke, Wake For
est, Clemson and South Carolina.
Selection of a name is only
one of the minor matters that
must be decided by the schools
which withdrew from their par
ent organization five weeks ago
at Greensboro, N. C.
Many Items on Agenda.
The subject of finances, the
possibility of an eighth member,
schedules. eligibility rules post
season competition, election of
officers and similar items are on
the lengthy agenda.
J. T. Penney, faculty chairman
of athletics at South Carolina,
has been chairman of the COM
mittee making plans for tomor-
rows meeting, and will preside
until permanent officers are
elected.
There is a strong possibility
that F. w. Clonts, faculty chair
man of athletics at Wake Forest,
will be elected president, if he will
take the job. He was vice presi-
dent of the Southern Conference.
and in the ordinary course of
events was expected to move up
to the presidency next year.
Virginia'S Status in Doubt.
In the five weeks since the
secession at Greensboro, there
have been number of informal
meetings between some of the
men attending tomorrow'S ses-
sion. While nothing has been
signed. sealed and delivered,
there is a general agreement on
many of the matters to be dis
cuSSed.
Right after the Greensboro
meeting there was much talk
about an eighth member of the
new conference. The most logical
choice seemed to be Virginia, but
if anything definite has been
done to contact the Cavaliers, it
has been kept very quiet.
Gus Tebell, athletic director at
Virginia, has met with both the
schools Athletic Council and
Board of Regents, but what de-
cision was made about joining
the conference, or whether the
matter even was discussed. was
not announced. Tebell even
asked sportswriters not to
speculate on the matter.
Talks of Bowl Tieup Fades.
Another subject on which
there was much talk right after
the secession was the possibility
of football bowl tiein with the
Sugar Bowl. That largely has
died down by now for several
reasons.
One reason is that members
of the conference don't want it
to be known as football con-
ference" which is one of the
ways it was described. Also the
president of one of the most
powerful schools in the new
group. Gordon Gray of North
Carolina, is opposed to his
schools playing in post-season
bowls, although he now has no
objection to other schools in the
conference doing so.
Still another reason is that
the Sugar Bowl people them
selves apparently don't want
such a definite tie,
That football conference" tag
is one of the things that has
worried number of the men
connected with the conference. !
They plan an extensive program
of all sports, with as little |
emphasis on football as possible.
Seek Complete Schedules.
This group is going to work
to make heavy conference sched-
ules in all sports mandatory. The
program they have discussed in
cludes' making it a must" for
every member to have teams in
such minor sports as cross
country, wrestling, golf and ten
mis-, and sending them to
the conference championship
tournaments.
They want every school with
a boxing team to meet every
other school with such team,
and the same for lacrosse. They
want more emphasis on track.
with a rule that every school
must have men in at least 10
events in the conference cham
pionship meets both indoors
and outdoors. They also
want mandatory home-and-home
schedules on basketball and
baseball.
Football schedules. they claim,
are least of their worries. The
tentative program is for every
member to play six conference
games every year, whether it
turns out to be a seven or an
eight-school conference. That
still would leave four dates for
outside competition.