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Larry Wright
Selects Football
Larry Rayfield Wright had a
to make last week and he
his lot with the Dallas Cow
thereby giving up a possi
professional basketball ca
“I had been considering, and
to play professional foot
since I was in high school,"
Fairmont grad said.
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The choice wasn't too hard
Larry.
“I like basketball, but I
fer football,” he said.
The 6-7, 238 pound Ft. Valley
State College student could
have named his sport. Not every
athlete can do that.
Larry was contacted by no
less than 15 professional foot-
ball teams.
However, he was drafted by
the Cowboys and signed a bo
nus contract after making a qu
ick trip to the Texas city.
The Griffinite was a tight end
at Ft. Valley State. The Cow
boys will give him a shot at
defensive end and tight end.
Larry starred for Ft. Valley
State. He was a starter for
three years and captain of the
team his senior year.
He was an all-conference foot
ball and basketball player.
Larry received his early tr
aining under Coach Hiram Whi
taker at Fairmont. He played
guard, tackle and end on the
football field but he probably
remembered best as a basket
ball player.
Although he was a fine high
school gridder, his greatest fe
ats came on the basketball court
where he wrote several Fair
mont records.
From Fairmont, Larry went to
Ft. Valley State.
He was a varsity perfor-
mer for three years in basket
ball and football and was cap
tain of both teams last season.
He carried a 21.6 scoring av
erage in basketball and many
people though he was a better
basketball than football pros
pect.
The Cincinnati Royals were in
terested in Wright along with a
couple of traveling professional
squads.
“I like basketball but I’d ra
ther play football,” Wright said.
So when the Dallas Cowboys
made him their seventh draft
choice, Wright decided then and
there to try professional foot
ball.
He signed his pro contract last
Griffin Daily News
Thursday. Gil Brandt, person
nel manager of the Cowboys,
signed him.
“I’d been looking forward to
playing professional football sin
ce my high school days.
“I’m looking forward to play
ing with such stars as Bob
Hayes and Dan Reeves, who is
also a Georgian," Wright said.
"I believe I’ll be happy with
the Cowboys and I hope I’ll be
able to help them in certain pos
itions," he said.
The 21-year-old Griffinite will
receive his college diploma in
June. He won't have much lei
sure time.
H’U report for football practice
on July 10.
Three Illinois t
Coaches Quit *
By ED SAINSBURY
United Press International
CHAMPAIGN, HI. (UPI)—It
wa s bitter medicine. But three
University of Illinois coaches
caught up in a slush fund
scandal resigned Sunday—they
said they were “fired” rather
than jeopardize the school's
athletic future.
“It Is apparent to everyone
that the commissioner, athletic
directors, and faculty represen
tatives of the Big Ten have
“fired us,” said football Coach
Pete Elliott, basketball Coach
Harry Combes and assistant
basketball Coach Howard
Braun.
The Big Ten had said either
the University of Illinois fire
the three coaches involved in
the atheletic aid program by
Tuesday, or be thrown out of
the conference.
Feeling on the U of I campus
ran toward keeping the coaches
on and continuing without the
Big Ten affiliation.
Fear NCAA Action
But the coaches said they
believed the National Collegiate
Atheltic Association “would
necessarily support any confer
ence action which would mean
at some future date, if the
NCAA suspended or expelled
Illinois from membership, there
would be no athletic program at
Illinois.”
Dr. David D. Henry, president
of the University of Illinois, had
hoped, when he kicked the lid off
the scandal voluntarily that at
worst the coaches would be
placed on probationary suspen
sion.
Big Ten Commissioner Bill
Reed said the resignations
closed the case and that “no
further action by us is
necessary or planned.”
The slush fund scandal broke
into the open after Illinois
Athletic Director Doug Mills
retired last Dec. 1. When
Mills’ assistant, Mel Brew
er, was passed over in favor of
Elliott as athletic director,
Brewer dumped the meticulous
ly kept records of the illegal
payments to athletes on Henry’s
desk and submitted his resigna
tion.
Henry went to the Big Ten
Dec. 16 and asked it to
investigate. A week later, a doz
en Illinois athletes were sus
pended, including key members
of the budding 1966-67 basket
ball squad.
If, as was apparent, Henry
hoped the Big Ten would be
lenient to a school that turned
itself in, he was wrong. The
conference issued its ultima
tum. Henry went before the Big
Ten faculty representatives last
Saturday for a second “show
cause” hearing to plead for
relief from punishment he
called “too harsh.”
The faculty representatives,
as they had on March 2, again
turned him down.
In their Joint statetment, the
coaches said “we are therefore
reluctantly stepping down from
our respective coaching respon
sibilities at this time rather
than allow the conference to
unjustly force the University of
Illinois to act on an impossible
situation.”
The disastrous 1961 football
season during which the Illinois
lost all their games and gate
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