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TUI'~.• Sept. 2 3 , 1958

Wed., Sept. 2!, 1958 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

THE SAN DIEGO UNION

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA AZTECS FRUSTRATING, PIONEERS DISAPPOINTING Cavers' Maley Opposes Prep 'C' Average Rule By now 'RD HAGEi"" The Board o! Education' Morris and

other boy, a football player, I will be in the stands be- cause he cannot maintain an average of C. "All boys are not brilliant students. I believe factors which should be considered for participation in athletics are citizenship and con- duct." Maley was one o! six coaches making up the panel at the first weekly noon meeting of the QB Club at San Diego Club. The Aztec Club sponsored the lunch- eon and Jack Murphy, sports editor of The S a n Diego Union, was toastmas- ter.

"Right now a player at Hoover High, for instance, ust maintain a higher point average than he would at San Diego State. The high school boy not only must have a C average but is barred i! he has an F (failure) In any subject. "In some schools an A will balance an F and he still would be eligible, but not in the City Prep League. The F bars him from athlet- ic .'' harging discrimination in the C-average rule, M a l e y said "a boy with a D aver- age can play his horn in the band on the field but an-

Other panel comments: Paul Governali, h e a d coach, San Diego State-It was a frustrating weekend losing to Santa Barbara (25- 0). Santa Barbara dominat- ed the game but we easily could have scored t h r e e times-Twice when our ends dropped long passes a n d again when Larry Schimpf, with a little more s p e e d, would have scored on a kick- off return. We had no of- fense, and made a couple of bad mistakes on pass de- fense. Potentially our best backfield is composed of quarterback Joe Duke, half- backs Jim King and Dick

fullback Ken Cochrane. Our reports show our Saturday opponent here, Pepperdine, is a- b O u t as strong as last year. (Pepperdine lost to Neva- da, 12-7, last weekend). So are we, so it should be a good game. Bob McCutcheon, head coach, University of S a n Die~0-We were disa:;ipoint. ed m our showing Saturday (20-6 over University ot Mexico). We believe we lost a lot of fans because we were overconfident, and the coaching staff must share (Continued on a-18, Col. 1)

new rule requiring a C a • erage for participation In. a th 1 e t I cs discrim nate against players in the Cit Prep League, Duane Maley, San Diego High fo ball coach, told the Quarterback Club yesterday. "As a coach I oppose the C average rule for er• al reasons," said MaJcy "A student should mak~ ll'?}"mal progress toward g n but it is not reall Uc u»t a boy must maintain a gher point average to p~tt clpate in athletics than 11; does to graduate.

Maley Hits A High 1 C' And Coaches Answer In Chorus Duane Maley has sounded the battle cry and the coaches are in open revolt against the "C" average requirement for high school athletes. One survey of coaches in the City Prep League, the only league affected by the "C" average standard,

discloses that 53 out of a total of 55 character-builders oppose higher qualifications for athletes than for other students. The reaction was not unex- pected. Coaches give lip-service to the noble ideal of education but the loss of a falented athlete -even the threatened loss - quickly smokes 'em into the open. Maley, for example, frank- ly concedes that he stands to part with several of his more promising footballers at San Di- ego High School. The mere thought is enough to make a coach break into a cold sweat. Though it means reversing a stand previously taken in

Duane Maley this space, I find myself in sympathy with Maley and the other rebelling coaches. I The Board of Education lost my support in this matter when it backed away from the issue of mak- ing the "C" average mandatory for all extra-cur- ricular activities. The idea was discussed by the Board at a recent meeting, then conveniently tabled. It's the notion here that football should be regarded as a privilege for high school athletes, a privilege earned by honest application in the classroom. But the same standards should apply to debating, cheer- Ieading, horn-playing and other activities. The Board of Education, possibly fearing parental wrath has declined to come to grips with this thorny issue.' That being the case, I'll have to agree with the coaches that athletes in the City Prep League are victims of a double standard. Fair Way: Uniform Treatment What's good enough for the footballers is also good enough for the glockenspielers and the drama society. In an appearance before the Monday Quarterback Club, Maley made the interesting point that a foot- ba,n player must maintain a higher average than is required of a student for graduation. Some stu- dents, he said, are being graduated with "D" aver- ages. It's little wonder that a lot of youngsters find them- selves poorly prepared for college when the good times finally end in high school. In the case of foot- ball players, it's possible the coaches themselves are partly respon~ible. At least, this is a theory held by Dr. Malcolm Love, president of San Diego State, and I suspect it has some merit. Dr. Love charges that high school coaches are so occupied with building winning teams, enhancing their own reputations, that the welfare of the young- sters is frequently disregarded. The Aztec president make the solid point that a coach gets closer to a high school student than any other te~cher, and there- fore is in position to do the greatest good. A conscientious coach will inspire his athlet~ to educate themselves as completely as possible. But too many of the character-builders apparently think only in terms of the scoreboar

-San Diego Union Staff ,Photo dent of sponsoring Aztec Club; coaches Paul Governali of San Diego State and Bob Mccutcheon of the University o! San Diego.

Discussing weekend football games at the weekly meeting o! the Quarterback Club yesterday are, left to right, Tom Ables, presi-

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GENE GREGSTON Evening Tribune Executive Sports Editor

• Some 'Likes' Are Listed • First Kicker's a Sissy! • There's No Age for Paige PREFERENCES STATED: Some of the things I like. The way Washington State coach Jim Sutherland expresses his offensive football philosophy, "the first guy who kicks is a sissy." .. -=·--·-,

THE SAN DIEGO UNION

MEXICO WESTERN Pioneers' .foe Has 2-0 Record By JOHNNY McDONALD

University of Southern California and eight points against Michigan this Sat- urday. The dean, blue sky after a rain. Ex-Padre Bob Usher's anecdote a b o u t ageless Satchel Paige, a Miami teammate this past base- ball season: when they turned out the lights at the game in Buffalo, N.Y., and the hundreds .of fans struck cigarette lighters and matches in response to the announcer's plea, a Miami player in the dug- out turned and said "Hap- py birthday, Satch!" mpany's idea of charging a dol-

'"ff we play to our potential we should win but if we play as we did against Mexn::o, we'll be beate~," summed up head coach Bob .Mccutcheon yesterday as he con- 1dered the University of San Diego's, chances against in- vading New Mexico Western Saturday a!ternoon. I "They'll have a li_ne our1----------- equ~I in. weight with six/pound transfer from the Uni- ckles o,er 220 but smaller versity of Mexico, was the uards llnd centers," Mc- big show by s c O rin g two CutclH'On said •·_They also ,,have to~chdowns and gaining 96 lo!'!' good runnmg backs. yards rushing. I he .M~stangs from Silver Other New Mexico starters City "'-_On t be a breath~r for probably will be Ma~k Pace, the .Pioneers, ':"'ho will be a 175-pound junior at quarter- e_ekmg their stxth straight back, and haltbacks Ronald tnumph over a two-year Darnell 1'75-pound senior and sp n The New Mexicans de- Robert 'Sekula, a 165-p~und 1 te . St. . ary's, Kansas, sophomore. m. the opener and The New Mexico club is ex- ::it~te, Colo., 34-7, last pected to operate from a split T offense. e rcxico, coached by The Pioneer coaching staff John on.. a former stand- has spent several hours re- o at Hardrn S1m!11on~ in his viewing films of last week's pla n days, will field a game with Mexico and Frank team wth1 _23 lettermen. Nine Murphy's scouting report of ?I these wilt be m the !tart- the Mustangs. mg ln~eup. l\IcCutcheon indicated that .Agamst Adams State last/there would be some changes week Juan Vasquez, a 200- in the lineup.

lar a heiii cf~~~f}imission to the $50,000 golf tourna- ment in G and Blanc, Mich. (won by Billy Casper), thereby making the spectacle available to many more fans. · The Aztec Club's weekly Quarterback Club's luncheon program of bringing together fans and coaches. Shooting-or should that be shooting at?- do,·es (but not picking and cleaning them!). The sponsorship plan for the 1959 San Diego Open, whereby general chairman Tom Lanphier Jr. is trying to make this Junior Golf Association benefit more of a ci ,ic project-and the publicity and busi- ness helps the city, no doubt about it. BRAVES CHOSEN: The Braves at 5-6 in the World Series, but you have to hand it to the Yankees (might as well, he said, they usually taYe it :myway 1. The prospects for the College of Pacific-Arizona State football game at Stockton to be one of the best in the West this week. That remark by a sports fan the other dity when someone menttoned Ted Williams' good fortune at hitting a friend of the family, so to speak, with his bat: "It just shows how clever he is with a bat! " A football coach who won't fall back on "It was a team victory" for a postgame statement and in- stead offers his honest opinion of the major factors contributing to the t1·iumph. A SHORT SWING: Good sports car races, which are those Saturday and Sunday at Hourglass Field figure to be. That description of latest golf circuit winner John McMullin's backswing: "It's so short he could tee off in a telephone booth." USC line coach Ray George's reply to a ques- tion that his being out of the profession for a few years might put him behind the times in technical advances: "All of the new techniques in football still depend on blocking and tackling." / The University of San Diego's realistic attitude on athletic scholarships: room, board, tuition and laundry money. The one about the golfer who had 17 strokes in a sand trap-16 regular and one apoplectic.

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