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Wide receiver Lynn Swann of the Pittsburgh Steelers is about to spike the ball in the end
zone after catching his second touchdown pass of the day against the Baltimore Colts in
their AFC Playoffs yesterday. The Steelers defeated the Colts «M1 and will play Oakland
next Sunday for the AFC title. Falling down in rear is Lloyd Mumphord of the Colts. (UPI)
Kentucky will not appeal probation
MISSION, Kan. (UPI) -
University of Kentucky Athletic
Director Cliff Hagan said
Sunday the school will not
appeal the NCAA’s decision to
place UK on two years
probation for 50 violations in its
conduct of intercollegiate foot
ball and basketball programs.
Under the probation, the
. school’s football team, which
plays North Carolina in the
Dec. 31 Peach Bowl, will be
prohibited from partcipating in
postseason competition follow
ing the 1977 football season.
The Wildcat football team
will also be prohibited from
appearing on any NCAA televi
sion series during the first year
of the probation.
• Hagan said, “I really don’t
have any reaction for public
consumption right now.” He
said he would comment on the
probation at a meeting of the
school’s athletic board this
morning.
The NCAA said the school
would be permitted only 25 new
scholarships in football for the
1977-78 academic year, five less
than permitted under NCAA
legislation. And Kentucky will
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be allowed to award only three
new basketball scholarships in
each of the next two academic
years.
Arthur R. Reynolds, chair
man of the NCAA Committee
on Infractions, said more
severe penalties could have
been imposed if Kentucky had
not cooperated with the investi
gation.
Reynolds said the school
disclosed many violations of
NCAA legislation which were
not being investigated and the
school took corrective and
disciplinary action against se
veral athletic department staff
members involved in the
violations.
The school also severed
relations with representatives
of its athletic interests involved
in the significant violations.
“The Committee concluded
that the penalties imposed in
this case should be tempered
by the University’s self-disclo
sure and cooperative efforts as
well as the corrective and
disciplinary actions it took,”
said Reynolds.
Among the recruiting viola
tions at Kentucky were the
offering of cash and a race
horse to prospective student
athletes; offering to transport
the parents of student-athletes
to the school’s football games;
providing an automotible at no
cost for three weeks use by a
prospective student-athlete;
providing improper entertain
ment for a prospective student
athlete; arranging special gifts
for the parents of prospective
student-athletes; providing
clothing for prospective stu
dent-athletes and giving gam-
Liberty Bowl ‘even’ match
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -
Alabama coach Bear Bryant
and UCLA coach Terry Dona
hue call tonight’s 18th Annual
Liberty Bowl game an “even”
and “wide open” match.
But underdog Bryant, who
hopes to rocket up in the
national standings by an upset
victory, was in a joking mood
Sunday.
“The reason I’m so nervous
up here is that I thought UCLA
stood for the University of
Central Louisiana,” he said at
a joint news conference with
Donahue.
The 32-year-old Donahue, only
the second UCLA freshman
coach to lead his team to a
Hayes holding secret drills
MIAMI (UPI) - True to
form, Woody Hayes is holding
secret practices for Ohio State’s
Orange Bowl clash with Colora
do New Year’s night and he
won’t permit sportswriters to
talk to his Buckeye players.
Ohio State arrived Saturday.
The Colorado Buffaloes are
scheduled to arrive in the
Miami area Wednesday.
“All our practices will be
closed,” Hayes told sports
writers. “They have to be,
because we work on certain
special things. I’d love to know
what Colorado will be doing,
but we won’t find out because
we won’t be scouting their
workouts.”
Coach Bill Murray of Colora
do has said his practice
sessions will be open to the
press.
Hayes said he “just can’t let”
reporters talk to his players.
“It doesn’t work. There are
always two or three people
Catcher Johnny Bench of the
world champion Cincinnati
Reds has allowed only two sto
len bases in 23 World Series
games in four years. They were
made by Yankee Mickey Riv
ers who got a big jump against
pitcher Gary Nolan in ‘he final
1976 game, and by Matty Alou
of Oakland in 1972.
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Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks ran into a one-man gang in
Milwaukee last night Seven-foot center Swen Nater
scored 30-points and pulled down 33 rebounds in leading
the Bucks to a 126-109 victory over Atlanta.
Tennis “=0
Top-seeded George Amaya of Clinton, South Carolina
held on to edge Bobby Webb yesterday in the finals of the
$2,000 Gigi’s Tennis Tournament at Peachtree Hills
Tennis Club in Atlanta. Webb fell in sets of 6-1,3-6,5-7.
Flames
The Atlanta Flames meet the Toronto Maple Leafs in a
National Hockey League clash in Toronto tonight, but will
be without the services of Curt Bennett. Bennett was in
jured in a 4-2 loss to the New York Islanders Friday night.
Falcons g J
Atlanta Falcon owner Rankin Smith says there is no
rush in finding an Atlanta Falcon coach for next season.
The controversial owner says the league is in the midst of
playoffs and college bowls and there might be somebody
to check out.
bling tickets to a prospective
student-athlete who was being
entertained at a race track.
Among other violations were
the payment of players by two
assistant football coaches for
performing certain plays; tran
sportation and payment of
expenses of a student athlete
for a three-day trip to Las
Vegas, Nev.; transportation
home for a student-athlete and
his sister at no cost to them in
a privately-owned aircraft;
providing an apartment at no
cost to a student-athlete;
arrangement of free lodging at
bowl game, said he has warned
his players about “the hospital
ity of Bear Bryant and his
players.”
Both coaches agreed any
victory would not come easy.
“I think it will be a very even
match,” Donahue said.
“I think it will be a wide
open game,” Bryant added.
“I’ve been in this business a
long time and the one thing I’ve
learned is that you never can
tell when a team is ready to
play,” Bryant said.
“I’ve been in this business a
short period of time,” Donahue
said, “but I can’t tell, either.”
He said his sixth-ranked
Bruins (9-1-1) will take on the
trying to stir them up,” he
said, “just causing trouble.”
The Ohio State coach refused
to be drawn into any arguments
over whether the Big Ten or
Big Eight conference is superi
or in football.
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local motels for parents of
young men who were injured
prior to surgery being per
formed on the athletes; provid
ing a recruit with three
expense-paid visits to the
Kentucky campus and several
others were two visits; tran
sporting the father of a
prospective basketball player to
the school when his son paid an
official visit; holding organized,
out-of-season football practice
sessions and selling of compli
mentary tickets for away
games and distributing the
proceeds to student-athletes.
15th-ranked Crimson Tide (8-3)
on an even footing when the
nationally televised game
(ABC, 9 p.m. EST) begins
tonight.
Donahue said the wishbone
offense of Alabama might pose
some problems.
“Our biggest problem is that
we haven’t played a wishbone
team for four or five years at
UCLA,” Donahue said. “I think
this has been the hardest
problem we have had to
overcome in practice.”
But the Bruin’s veer offense
has averaged 35 points a game,
nine more than Alabama’s
wishbone.
He said the Orange Bowl
game, pitting the co-champions
of the two conferences, will be
“not much” help in deciding
the argument.
“They’re both rugged con
ferences,” he said.
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Hawks fall, 126-109
Water one-man
wrecking crew
MILWAUKEE (UPI) -
Thanks to Swen Nater, Elmore
Smith’s sore wrist is no longer
a major concern to the
Milwaukee Bucks.
Smith, the six-year veteran
who came to Milwaukee in the
four-player swap for Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar last year, has
missed the Bucks’ last two
games because of the injury.
But his absence has hardly
been noticed.
The reason is Nater, the 6-
foot-11 former American Bas
ketball Association star who,
according to Bucks’ Coach Don
Nelson, may be on the verge of
greatness. And if Nater’s
dominance of the Atlanta
Hawks Sunday night is any
gauge, Nelson may be a
prophet.
Nater scored 30 points and
grabbed 33 rebounds to single
handedly lead the Bucks to an
easy 126-109 victory. In the
process, he broke Jabbar’s club
record of 30 rebounds set
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“He was something tonight,”
said Nelson, who has taught
Nater to take smaller steps
under the basket.
“He played a terrific game.
He’s taking up more room
defensively instead of just
getting offensive rebounds.
“It’s partly because we’ve
opened the game up more and
this allows him to roam. But
his big improvement is defen
sively.”
Nelson said that, until recent
ly, he had been disappointed in
Nater’s play.
“He was adequate but I felt
he could be great,” said
Nelson, enjoying the Bucks’
rare two-game winning streak.
“When you look at his body and
the way he hustles, he should
be among the top four or five
centers in the league.”
Nater, who scored 17 points
one night earlier against the
New York Nets, said his
performance Sunday night was
the second best of his career.
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