Evening star., 1954-01-08
NCAA 10 Conclude
Convention Today;
Coaches Lend Hand
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BY the AssoeIoasd Press

by the AsSoeiosed Press
CINCINNATI. Jan. 8.-After
five days Of not too thrilling
skirmishing, the National Col
legiate Athletic Association winds
up its 48th annual convention
today by voting on matters rang
ing from ethics to football tele-
vision.
While the delegates are doing
their only balloting of the week.
long meeting, athletic directors
at seven or eight schools con-
tinued their search for head
coaches.
There wasn't o chance the
country would get anything ex-
cept game-a-week televiSion on
a national scale. as practically
all the arguments for lifting
some of the controls disappeared
yesterday in round-table discus
SionS.
The American Football
Coaches Association launched a.
cooperative relationship with
the NCAA yesterday designed to
bring about Stricter enforcement
of NCAA rules and the coaches
own code of ethics. adopted last
year. ~
No More Phony Weights.
Don Faurot of Missouri, retir-
ing president of the coaches, said
the association could bar from
membership any coach found
guilty of anything violating the
spirit of the rules. The resolu-
ton passed by the coaches did
not define in any way what
would constitute a violation. but
Faurot offered as his personal
opinion:
This means that such things
as recruiting. entertainment of
prospective athletes. inaccurate
program weights for players,
coaching from the SidelineS and
possibly the use of the sucker
shift and the taking of injuries
might be. in the future, con-
strued as violating the spirit of
the rules.
I'm the past, I've been guilty
Of using inaccurate weights of
players in programs. If hadn't,
I'd have had the biggest team in
our conference. and I know I
didn't have the biggest team. In
the future, if you see the play
er'S weights in a program all
ending in '5'' or ''0,'' you'll know
damned well they're dishonest.
"I don't believe we'd consider
a coachS occasional kicking me-
ton, or passing motion, in the
heat of tight game, as sideline
coaching. But the use of the
trainer or substitutes to give reg
ular offensive or defensive sig
nails from the bench would GER
tainly be a violation"
IS Charges Investigated.
Meanwhile. the Membership
Committee. the NCAA enforce
ment agency, disclosed it had
Investigated 35 charges. of ath-
letic violations by colleges in the
last IS months. The committees
report, submitted to the closing
session of the convention, did
not name any college or define
any of the alleged violations.
OF the 35 cases, the report
said. six had been processesd
and acted on by the governing
council, 20 are being processed
at present, six were dismissed
because of lack of evidence, two
were dismissed because the Incl
dents did not violate NCAA legis-
lation and one case was dis
missed because the accused in
stitution Withdrew from the
association.
since the enforcement agency
was set up two years ago. inveSti-
cations have been carried on by
subcommittee, then referred to
the Membership Committee and
then to the NCAA Council.
Hear Talk on Ethics.
The coaches also wind up their
S1st annual convention today by
watching a series of game films
and listening to talks on ethics
by Bill Murray of Duke, football
rules by Lou Little of Columbia,
and officiating problems by Stu
Holcomb of Purdue.
The coaches last night hon.
ored Jim Tatum of Maryland as
coach-of-the-year. Tatum led
his team through an unbeaten-
united regular season, and into
the top spot in the Associated
Press poll. The coach-of- the
year award was presented by the
Scripps- Howard newspapers on
the basis Of votes by the Nations
coaches.