News Scrapbook 1973-1974
Washington wonders about his future
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FOR FOOTBALL USD Appoint~ Logan As Coach (Continued from Page D-1) USO. Baseball scholarships are based on tmtion only
U JU, meanwhile, saw its record sUp to 20-3. But since this was not a league gam the loss will not affect th club's hopes for r aching the IA 01Str1ct 3 playoffs two weeks henc . This ha been a tryirig year for USO. Tru ·, thC' Torero have beaten the Ilk s or Washington State and UC-1<1vers1df'. Bul they've also dropped games to surh noted non- pow rs a Fullerton State, Whittier and Northern \nzona. IH' playing their IM'st bas- ason. When star forward Pinky :-mfth uffered a sea n-cndtng leg Injury two 1\eeks ago nc thought the team was through In ad the Tor ro haH won three In a row roarh Jun llro~elil, ·yuu haw to reach down and find that something extra. We did that wh n we lo Pmky Smith. II wa our I adlng rebounder and . ·,:ond-leadlng rorPr and we cuuld havr folded right then. But we d dn't I don't know why, exacUv, but W(''re playing as WPII as we have nil year " ", om tune~. " aid Thre<> or tho USll earlier hav With IIIJUrie Yet ketball of th sudd nly, th m who sta1ted for :ince gone down thC' Torcro find
One thing that's been consistent from the beginning has been the steady play or Washington, the heady, steady guard. Tl)e senior , from Washington, D.C., 1s averaging 19 pomts a game and probably Is the top college player In San Diego. Rut because he plays at the small- college level he has received little attentton from th arC'a media \\ashmgton could have been a big- timer As a prep he 11-as recruited by such schools as Marquette, Detroit and Loyola of Chicago. But he chose instead to join ex-Torero C'Oach B rnie Bickerstaff in San Dirgo. "! thought I could learn more at a smaller school," Washington said, "and the small-college teams aren't gl'ared quite so murh to the big, dominating cent Is. As a guard I thought I rould rontrtb11tt more at a school like t;SD." At times, he admits, he has ques- tinn d the wisdom of his choice. "It hasn't really been what I expected," \\ ashtngton said, "and at limes the 1tuat10n·s been very dPpressing. Like, wh n you go out there to play an Important game and th<'rc's 200 peoplr- there you start to wonder. :'\o one really cares about us. I played at the same high school Dave Bing played at and, hey, the kids there
were really into basketball. Win or lose they were with you. "Here, they don't even know we're alive except when we've got a wlnn• ing streak gorng And the city doesn't care much about us even when we're winning." Still, Washington said, he's learned a lot here. "I've grown up," he said. ''When you're 3,000 miles from home you can't run back everv time things go bad for you. • focus his life around basketball. That is why he says the jury still 1s out on his decision to come to Californla. "I won't know if it was worth 1t until the end of the year, until the pro basketball draft," h<' said. "If somebody drafts me, ,r somebody recognizes my ability by pick mg me, I'll know I did the right thing. If they don't I l(UP,SS I'll always wonclrr "I'm the only one m my family who's ever even been to rollt-ge, he said. "I won't disappoint them bv not graduating. I play basketbail mostly to see what I ran accc,mplish. It's a personal challenge. I'm going to school both for myself and my family." 4 Summary, D-6 He's learned' to USO Grid Post Goes To Logan T orero Football To Remain On Present Level BJ CHUCK SAWYER Aman who will •·use all of my ability and enthusiasm no matter what level we are competing on" yesterdav \las named the new head football coach at the Univer- sity of San Diego. Dick Logan, 35-year-old assistant coach at San Fran- cisco State University, was handed the reins tossrd aside late m December bi Andy Vinci after a two-year record or 15-5-2. At the same lime yester- day, USO President Dr Author Hughes made a statement in which he em- phasized that football at liSD would remam on the l'\CAA Division m level on which it operated last sea- son. It was announced the school's other interrolleg1ate sports programs namelv baseball, basketball, tennis and goll, would continue to perform in Division II, the chief difference being that financial aid under Division 11I rules has to be grar.ted on a basis of need as laid down by the \CAA guidelines rt was the desire to contm- ue upgrading the football program into a higher divi- swn and the university ·s feeling that 1t could not af- ford such a move that led to Vinci's departure to the head coaching job at Cal Poly of Pomona fib 1 1 1'11y
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Tom Burke, dean of stu• dents at USO and adminis- trator of the football finan- cial a,d program, suggested that there are other monies available for the football program from community support, other types of scho- larships and other sources in addiliOfl to the $.30,000. "We have not changed our direction of a balanced pro• gram in athletirs, physil'al l'Clucation and recreation," Dr. Hughes insisted. "I staled last spring that we were including rootball as part of our mtercollrgiate program, but that 1t has to be consistent with the size and scope o( the university. "The last i wmonths have produced a I of differrnce of opinion s to just what this means. I sincerely hope Wf' have been ablr to clear up th<' s1tuat1on today" Askrd if thPre had ever b<'e11 anv discus ion or con- sidPration of dropping foot• ball at USD, Dr. Hughf's replied t0rsely, "Nol by me'" The CSD pr!'Sident also said hr. l'onsiders the 3,500· seat USD Stadium an amp!<' raC"ility for the prrsc·nt pro- i,'fam. "We did not hav,:, any tum-away rrowds last s<'a- so11," he pomtrd out, "and our football program did not los<' any money " Dr Hughes indicated he is not agamst any future up- grading of the gnd program, but that the first priority must be that it is Cinanrially leasable. He also stressed that rommunity support must continue to be a most important item in determin- mg the scope of future pro- grams. Logan indicated he 1s more than happy to operate withm the level of football dictated by the Division IlI status. "I fully realize that a football program's cost is much greater than that of other sports," he said. "It makes absolutely no iffer encr to me that the ther athletic programs here at CSD arr condul'ted on the Division II level." Logan has bern the offen- sive t·oordinator and junior
DICK LOGAN ... hired by USO
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rollege recruiter at San Franris<'o State for the past four years. Prior to that turn• he was assistant foot- ball and hc•ad traC'k roach at Campbrll High m California from 1962-64, held the same positions at Sequoia High in Hf'dwood City from 1964-65 and was head football, wres- tling and golf roach at Santa Cruz lligh untJI moving lo SFS A highly rPrrUJted prep fullbark rn Bakersfield, Logan was converted to cen- trr Whl'n hr enrolled at San Fran<'isro State in 1957 and was team captain and All· Far WPstern Confen•nrr first tPam selection in both 1959 and 1960. "WP certamly hate to lose Dick, but h<' was destined to bl•rome a head coach and San Diego has obtained as finr a man as we have ever had," said SFS athletic di- rPctor Paul Rundell. ..My first order of business will br to call a team mef't· ing and to prepare for the coming season," Logan ex- plamed. "I've already met with some or the players and l think we'll have a good nucl<'us returning in the fall." ,,. f ..... °W,\j.,
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pointment of Dick Logan as football coach at University , of San Diego yesterday, president Author E. Hughes spelled out the Toreros' total sports situation ... s- t-a+u-s q-u-o. Thus the basketball, base- ball, tennis and goll pro- grams will continue to be conducted at the level of Division II, second highest category established last year by the NCAA, and football remains in Division III. "We have not changed our direction," said Dr. Hughes. It was this reluctance by the school to plot an onward and upward course in foot- ball that prompted coach Andy Vinci to resign Jan. 1 and accept the head roach- ing job at Cal Poly or Pomo-
USD play road tilts U.S. International Uni- versity, with 15 straight vic- tories behind it, and Univer- sity of San Diego, coming back after a big victory over Washington State of the Pacific 8 Conference, will be on the road for games tonight. The Westerners will go to Costa Mesa to take on Southern California College again. They beat the same team, 69-47, at UCSD last weekend and figure to make it 16 straight tonight. The Toreros will be out of town to play UC-Riverside. USO expects a tough battle because the Highlanders have team height and jump extremely wi;ll. Riverside has wins over Whittier, Northern Arizona University and Fullerton Stale, teams which downed USO earli~r in the season. San Diego State's basket- ball team returns to Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. action tonight when UC-Santa Bar- ara comes calling for a ontest at Peterson Gym at Both teams have 1-3 re- cords in PCAA action. Overall, the visiting Gauchos ar 9-8 while the Aztecs are 4-13 and have lost eight or their last nine games. "There's not much I can say," aid Aztec coach Dick Davis. "I can't ask my players to play any harder. I honestly think everyone is giving 100% on the floor." UCSD squared its season record at 10-10 last night when it coasted to a 64-43 win over Biola on its home court. Paul Trainer paced the Tritons with 19 points as they registered their second win in the NAIA District 3 Northern Division race against three losses. Jim Coit was close behind Trainer with 16 points. Summary: UCSD (64} Biota (43) Trolner 09) Rutenbler {2) Higgins (7) Newkirk (7) Colt (10) Cole (12) Calhoun (8) Chnstlonsen Ul Kircher (8) Milner (8) Others Scoring- UCSO - Knight (2), Read (2), Slvllll (2), Biolo - Va~ Schooten (4), Baxter (4), Parker (2) Halftime score - UCSO 27, Blolo 20. Fouled out - Reo lif guard Barry Wagner ·holds obiect he found wh,ch may or may not be a cannonball from Spanish times. 'f '.4 9ers Five-Run 8th Whips USO A fivt:>-run eighth inning by Long Beach State ruined the 'ason debut for University of San Diego yesterday as the Toreros suffered a 6-4 loss on the USO diamond Four hits, three of th.em doubles, plus two errors helped the 49ers break a 1-1 tie With the five-run eighth US.D came back with three of lls own in the same inning on a double by Rick Garner, Adrian San Miguel's single a _walk, a sacrifice fly and a~ ei ror but the rally fell short · bi~. React, Sf,•...•.... 100000 OS~ s· 2 wue.; ·;.;·-;-·'. ········ooa 100 030-4 6 2 ~;0 (~f"o!~fbJ~t~J. z~~~~d~~)~ 0 8;1;: USD sporls ride aired CONTINUED FROM PAGE C 1 011 1t if we can. If we cant stay w1th what l\e have if we had to retn•n('h, okay, maybe that dec1s10n 'There wa a n·al lack of commu- \, niration of whPre we \\Pre gomg He (('ramPr) was talking about l\AlA \' status, and wr. del111itely are !\CAA \ lh· \\Ould a k our opinions, and we'd go111g. Come to frnd out. we were going In a rompletely d1fferrnt d1- n·etion Tlus ts where wr talked about lack of support. I think that 's w ht•re he lost us, because nobody km'\\ Wh\'r he was gomg." Wher he went was out. \'mci, too. ,\ndy l't'Signed Dee. 27 to accept the hPad grid job at Cal Poly of Pomona, and Dr. Cramer qmt Jan. 18. Dwk Logan, an assistant coach at San F'ranc1sco State, was hired to ucceed Vine, Dean of students Toni Burk" assumPd most or the athletic dm•ctur's dutie . Dr. Hughes decreed that the school's athletic program would be continued at the level of last fall. wh1ch are "within the 1z (1,250 students) and scope of the university." ,\nd peace returned to Alrala Park. "I'm sure we're on the right track," Said Cunningham "Dr Cramer gave us a very sm- c•re effort at trying to balance our program bf•tween athlf't1cs, recre- ation and physiral education." said Hughes. "but he thought it was bPyond his immediate abihty, so he rhose not to stay with it. It L~ a complicated thing, when the re- urce. are so limited, to get every thing going at one time." Cramer got recreat10nal artiv1t1rs gom and laid the groundwork for ph ieal education studies, which will be implemented . as finances m available for staff additions. ~s ror thr football problem, said nughes, "the best thing for u;; was CAA D1vis10n m because that eems to be about the level of sup- lhmk, gn>, this 1s the way we're port "e could get for th program. To go beyond that point would re- quire so much help, it wouldn't be llkely that we would be able to achieve it. "Andy said, well, I want to play beyond that pomt. He was saying, you are movmg at a pace more slowly than I want to move. That kind of SpPlled out for him what he had to do." What the school has to do is pass the hat to finance its estimated $250,000 budget for athletics and rec- reatmn. The cost previously was borne by the university but addition of football increased it beyond the mstJtution 's financial means. "The university is able to support about $170,000," said Hughes. "In addition there is income from rent- mg our facilities, ticket sales (ap- proximately $10,000), concessions and parking. Clearly, if we don't get help from a support group, a booster group, we don't exist. We can't af. ford to finance the program we have going now by ourselves." The course plotted by Hughes will take USD's teams through the next few years but it is not a straight line to infinity. As time goes by, it could go up - or down "The whole spectrum could change," said Hughes. "There could be a day when we would drop foot- ball. There could be a day when we would be Di vision I "What we 're doing, we're saying we want to proceed sensibly, along an avenue that is best for the univer- sity. Certainly I have nothrng against changing upwards or downwards as the reasons and argu- ments present themselves." "You should be successful at one level before you jump to the next," said Brovelli. "If we are successful m Division II year in and year out, then I think we would consider the next step. Everyone would love to be on top if it's financially feasible." 'l'ho t ·~ rlnll~rs and sense I would have to bP made DICK LOGAN played in the 3,500-seat sta- Dr. Hughes admitted "Andy \ mci not only wanted to move up to a Division II status, but even to Division I. It is definitely a matter of finances that prevents our competing above DlVlsion III in football since its cost is far grc:iter than that of our other sports programs • Dr. Hughes revealed the Toreros operate on a limit or $30 000 annually for financial aid in f >0tball based on the students need. Tuitmr room and board was pegged at approximate- ly $3,200 per student but It was pomted out that th aid granted m football is nat of the "full ride" vanNv of scholarships given m ·both basketball and nms at di urn on campus a d, na. After posting a ~1-1 Hughes observed, "the sta- record last fall and taking dium accommodated all of the Toreros into the Divi- our crowds. We never pad sion III playoffs, where an overflow situation. they bowed to Wittenberg, "We still recogniZe the Vinci wanted to challenge need of community support. the world . . or at least We'll need from $60,000- Divis1on II. 75,000 from the community "The financial commit- to support our level of activ- ment made it impossible to ity in all sports." move ,n," said Dr. Hughes. or that sum, approxi- "Movi11g to Division II or I mately $30,000 would go into is not reali tic at this time the football budget for A s program n'lt!st 1w grants in aid, which, ac- con tent with the size and cording to NCAA directive, scope of the university." must be determined by The 35-year-old Logan, an need in Division III. Need is honor graduate of San not a requirement for tend- Francisco State in 1961 who ering financial aid in Divi- served as offensive coordi- sion II. nator of the Gators for the A full scholarship - tui- last four seasons, accepted tion, room and board -at the limitations - we'll try US.D would be worth ap- to be the best in Division p ,nm My $3,200 but few III, quoth he - and indieat- atlil,e get a full ride. • l~ I~ \ \ I), other -- · ed he can live in peace with Ho the work pr~grams POINT LOMA USO TRIUMPH {,J., I ol-i Ale., ~~~a~~~ntcoaches in • h I d h I Closing win gives U D playoff shot Waiting IS the next order of bustn for a University f San go basketball team which has closed its regular season with a 11>-IO record. The final game and victo- ry over Chapman College 82-61, last night brought a' chance that USO will be involved in the four-tr.am • CAA D1viSion II, District playoffs. Tb!\ decL~ion on that may come tomorrow mght when C'h.iro State plays liC-Davis. SI d Chico State win IJIS!;l~ila-.pta"/, there Tues'. da night. Should Chico State Jose, USD may go into a playoff with Southern Col- orado. After the opening minutes of last night's game when Chapman held a 6-0 lead the issue was not in doubt. ' Stan Washington led the scormg with 26 points. Sum- mary· ~~1::::1~J'S61l USO 182) Oantzle,r l Fi.£ t- 7 , '1'f ' "It doesn't bother me at ab~~~:e!~~e~ 17t stra,g t ogge b USIU f • winners y $ lii capta·n of a Sa ~t;~~~~n th all," he maintained. "You r:.vti~ ~i~~~;;i;i; ! football. Basketball re- also served as s. quires 12-15 at the very president A "The whole thing is based years coachmg a on fina . Look around at California high : most. Bakersfield,_ he • the number of schools that have liad to drop football - because oJ costs. You can't move ahead too qwckly. We'll compete at that level; ··Jet it take it where 1t takes it. If we ean offer m!1re aid and recruit at a l_ugher level, I'm most in favor of moving ahead." While the football pro- gram has not lost money, according to Hughes, ts profits haven't exactly matched those of the oil industry. Home games are Coach Bob Kloppenburg or the US. International University bas- ketball team didn't have to worry. It only makes gray hair He figured the Westerners were going to have a tough time beating 'Whittier at UCSD last night ,... and might even lose However, when action had ended, USJU had its 17th straight victory in the bag by 65-44. ' It has to go with our victory over University of S Diego as our finest effort oJ the season," Kloppenburg said Our defense was just abso- lutely great and our offense did right well, tOQ. We waited for good shots and when we got them we made them count." USJU's defense built a wall in front of the Poets' big guns, Al Hardin and Jack Smoot, from the start, holding them to a combined total of 18 points. Sophomores Chet Hancock and Leo Harris led USJU with 11 points each. Cal Baptist visited the Point Loma Crusaders' Golden Gym last night and almost won but it couldn'~ stop Steve Endreserr and bowed, 7472. The Smith brothers, Bob and Ken, sparked USD to a 98-73 victory over Cal Poly of Pomona last night on thr Toreros' court. Bob tallied 28 points and Ken picked up 13. Summaries, D-5
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