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Wednesday, December 10, 1975
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Surprising Cromwell
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Kansas Quarterback Nolan Cromwell eludes a Cromwell, a Ramson Jumpon, led the Jayhawks to a 7-4 season and a trip to the Sun Bowl in E3 Paso Dec. 24. The converted field goal by Nolan Cromwell was the game-winner.
Sports face money troubles
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
RACEHL CASE and
ALLEN QUKENBUSH
Just as sporting events have recently moved to unnatural playing surfaces, the whole scope of sport moves into an unreal realm in 1978—the world of high jump.
Financial concerns caused the World Football League to expire after two unprofitable years. The American Basketball Association also experienced serious money problems as three of its teams folded. Collegiate sports weren't exempt either. The CAA announced several programs cutback to try to cut the raising costs of athletics.
The ABA has been hanging by its
In the 12th week of the second year of the most unsuccessful sports league ever, five teams achieved respectability, possibly even parity with the NFL. Left behind were 380 football players suddenly without jobs. Last fall, some of the league's future effort got the league established.
fingernails throughout its entire eightyear existence. Three teams—Utah Stars, Baltimore Claws and San Diego Sails—have folded. Others are in trouble.
Collegiate sports have felt the money crunch as well. The NCAA, in a special convention on economy last August, passed restrictions and rules affecting almost every area of intercollegiate athletics—coaching, recruiting, scholarships, squad formation. Almost all of these changes were aimed at cutting costs of athletic programs.
In another realm of battle—the courtroom—Boston Brain hockey player Dave Levy was shot and killed by a college athlete in America to be tried for assault that occurred in the heat of a game. In a game against the Minnesota North Stars, Boston Navy Henry Bouche to the缸 and kissed him.
Forbes was indicted for assault by a Minnesota grand jury and his trial ultimately ended in a hung jury. The case raised powerful questions concerning the extent of violence in hockey and in many other sports.
The National Football League players wanted more money. And a week before the season on March 16, the "freedom demands" that strike was resolve in time to get the season started on schedule, but the whole situation left many fans bitter toward professional teams.
No one who witnessed the 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox was on its way out. The Series seasawed back and forth through seven games. The Reds won the final and deciding game in the ninth inning on a single by Joe Piscopo.
in track, Filbert Bayi of Tanzania ran a 3:51.0 mile to break Jim Ruyn's eight-year record of 3:51.1. Then, a month later, John Stokes (4:39.8) entered Bayi's mark with a 3:49.4 clock.
In baseball, it was Boston's rookie centerfielder Fred Lymn who stole the show. Lymn, who hit .313 with 21 home runs and 105 runs batted in, became the first baseball player in history to win both the Rookie of the Year and the Most Valuable Players
U.S. minorities struggle with unemployment
BY SARA HOLLAND and FLORESTINE PURNELL
The single largest concern of minority groups in America in 1975 has been the same one that has plagued white America—the economy and unemployment.
Minority groups including blacks, American Indians and Chicanos have suffered most from the nation's economic woes. Gains in hiring were offset because of these groups, who generally are the last to be hired, have been the first to be fired.
The National office of the NACP in Washington, D.C., challenged union policies establishing the practice, but a court ruling declared the law constitutional.
UCLA won its 10th championship in 12 years in college basketball. But the big news was head Coach John Wooden's retirement after the championship game. Football was the big story at the University of Kansas.
The unemployment rate for minority groups remained steady while statistics for minority groups were increasing in unemployment for minorities occurred in late spring when it neared 14 per cent. The
During 1975, many people also began to question the benefits of busing. Legislation
average income for blacks was 58.5 per cent of what whites usually earned.
awards.
Disclosures by the Senate Intelligence Committee showed the FBI tried to discredit Martin Luther King in an attempt to erase the own leader of the civil rights movement.
The bill ended a five-year struggle between Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers' union and the Teamsters' union. The laborers in vineyards and lettuce fields.
Another issue that affected blacks and whites was violence, which erupted over court-ordered desegregation. Parents and students in Boston and Louisville protested court-ordered busing to achieve a racial balance in public schools.
Amid national unemployment concerns, migrant farm workers in California made gains in bargaining power. The California legislature passed a bill that granted full employment to workers not covered by the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.
The FRI had sent an anonymous letter to King suggesting he commit suicide, had tried to prevent King's audience with Pope Paul VI, had wretched his home and had sent tapes to King's wife to try to prove that her husband was having extra marital affair.
The committee report also said that several other leaders had bad experience with wireline workers.
was introduced in Congress that would prohibit the use of federal funds for busing. The Supreme Court has agreed with the legislation, but has continued to maintain that busing is mandatory for equal education.
New coach Bud Moore installed the wish-bone offense, put Nolan Cromwell at quarterback and enjoyed a near-miraculous 7-4 season. He was named Big Eight coach of the year, Cromwell was named the league's top offensive player and KU was off to El Paso to play Pittsburgh in the Sun Bowl.
Another prominent black leader of the
King era returned to the United States after a seven-year, self-imposed exile. Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panthers leader, returned with optimistic views of America and its possibility for change toward the better.
Upon arrival, Cleaver was arrested and now faces charges of attempted murder and assault connected with Black Panther activities in Oakland in 1968.
Prison also may ultimately await 21-year-old Joan Little, who was acquitted of the murder of a 59-year-old North Carolina jailer.
But perhaps the memory that will winger longest for KU football fans came Nov. 8 in a night game between the Jayhawks accomplished the seemingly impossible, beating the Oklahoma Sooners, 234. The surprising victory, 27 games, including 27 victories in a row.
The case attracted national attention because the issues involved included prison conditions for women, legal discrimination in the South and the southern court system and the need to clear herelf of the breaking and entering charges that precipitated the ordal.
Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslems, died in Chicago. Muhammad's theory was that black people were divine and whites an inherently evil, devil race created to rule the earth for 6,000 years. His mission was the nation of Islam within the United States.
Women hold place in 1975 news
Rv KENNA GIFFIN
The prima donna were, in order of appearance, Indra Gandhi, Lyvette Fromme, and Vahid Hamza.
Women held their own places on the center stage as stars of "The World, 1975." Unfortunately, there were few heroes, more muscular, villains, and quite a secondary players.
Lynette Fromme, alias "Squeaky" and follower of Charles Manus appeared second. This star was the first woman to be assassinated in 1984 when she was the first person to be convicted of attempted assassination of a President under a recently enacted law. She boycotted her own trial, which was the first trial to include her as a United States as a witness, via videotape.
Gandhi had been cast as the leader of the world's most populous democracy. When she was accused of flouting some of the laws, she put on the mask of "dictator." She refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing, or to accept any judgment by the Supreme Court of India, but she did not honor it finally did). She jailed political enemies and suppressed the Indian press. The mask became more realistic than the face.
Patty Hearst popped up suddenly to steal the scene in "The World, 1975." Her roles were the pitiful victim of kidnapping and the maliciously negative bank robber. "Tania" of the SLA.
Sara Jane Moore—the last of the new wave of California starlets—made quite a hit herself as an understudy for Fromme. Moore hit it on the floor in the reaction of the President. The bullet missed Ford but hit a member of his entourage.
To some people he was known as the father of black consciousness. To others he was known as a hatemonger and a charlatan.
Before his death, Muhammad had begun to win respect. Some people were beginning to call him a prophetic voice in the flowering of black identity and pride.
As a reprieve from the sinners and such, the story of a real saint must be told. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton of Boston was officially canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the first American to receive the distinction.
Upon leaving the main drama stage, the first quas-prima donna was Betty Ford. (She, at least, had the credentials of a performing artist.) She was both heroine and victim, a mother for women who have or develop breast cancer; she faced the problem honestly and without reticence. She admitted to sleeping with her husband as often as possible, which seemed to alternate some women and inspire others. She went to ERA and to the appointment of a woman to the Supreme Court, for what her support was worth. Mrs. Ford was a most successful villain for part of her national audience. She was an admirer of many affairs her daughter may have.
Karen Ann Quinlan was the unwitting protagonist in a 1975 morality play. Karen is an expert in corporeal functions are performed by machines. Her parents went to court to obtain "permission" to pull the plugs and remove the wires. The court ruled against the Quinlans.
Success stories weren't entirely absent
Daughter Susan Ford stayed backstage as much as was possible for one who had her senior prom at the White House, spent the day with a friend at the Topeka Capital Journal (she was the first female allowed in the Capital-Journal darkroom, so the gossip goes), and attended a photo workshop in Yosemite National Park with renowned photographer Adel Adams.
from the scenario. Sarah Caldwell, the first lady of the American opera and owner of the Boston opera company, made the cover of Time, and will be the first woman to conclude her career at the She will conduct *La Traviata*.
Margaret Thatcher the store in England when she was elected to lead the British Labour Party. Imelda Marcos was elected to be general manager of Manila. Pearl Bailey changed roles, going from singer to assistant U.S. representative to the United Nations. Women won political posts in the country, and government governors in Kentucky and Alabama.
According to its critics, the ERA movement, by failing to allow Congress to pass legislation denying or abridging rights on account of sex, will spawn marriages of homosexuals, unixe bathrooms and the demolition of the family as it is known in America. New York and New Jersey have also signed an ERA statute of the federal amendment is: 34 states have ratified it, four more needy for acceptance. Nebraska and Tennessee voted to rescind earlier pro votes, but Congress can disregard the rescinding votes.
IWY- International Women's Year—was
(a flop; b) (accomplished nothing, more
ERA, IWY, and Title IX. Those sounds are muscled to the ears of some women, and a woman's voice can be heard in these settings.
or less; (c) 'want not what publicity it received; or (d) all of the above. The answer is (d), according to feminist leader Germaine Greer. Ditto for the IWU International Conference on Women held in Mexico City, according to U.S. representatives.
The words "Title IX" caused cardiac arrest in hearts of male athletic coaches and directors. Visions of women's varsity football rushed through their dollar-sign conscious minds. Or, worse: unix squads and locker rooms. Neither nightmare came true. Women's athletics did receive financial and moral support such as was provided by the college sports scholarships for women began cropping up here and there. Equality of opportunity became the name of the game.
Since his death, Muhammad's son, Wallace, has been named his successor and sweeping changes have occurred in the Muslim philosophy. One change is that whites are now allowed to enter the nation of Islam.
The most recent roles to open up to women, roles which were previously reserved for military members at the Air Force, Army and Naval academies. Women may become midshipmen or cadets starting in 1976, but the Navy was made in late 1975. Andnies waged
The curtain now is descending on "the World, 1975." As it closes, Liz and Richard are on again, Jackie O. is making $200 a month for Caroline's lancing as a model for Caroline's artistic photography efforts, and—what we all knew all along—scientists say Nessie lives!
Individually, Ohio State running back Archie Griffin became the first player in the history of college football to win the coveted Heisman Trophy twice.
In the military, blacks made a significant gain when Daniel James was commissioned by the Army in 1853.
—the classic boxing rematch between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Ali held onto his world championship with a 15th round technical knockout of the challenger.
At such universities as Harvard and Berkeley, protests developed as a reaction to William Shockley's lectures on his theory of the genetic inferiority of blacks.
The end of 1975 also shows that the NAACP was in a financial crisis. NAACP officials said the primary reason for the crisis was the economy.
Other top sports stories included:
In early October, Caster Stengel, the O'L' Perfessor, died at 65. Tributes to this great manager, who won 10 American League pennants and seven World Championships in 12 seasons with the Yankees, poured in from all over the world.
Students at the University of Kansas said that although Shockley had won the 1956 Nobel prize for physics, he wasn't an authority in genetics. They also maintained that racial inferiority wasn't a debatable topic.
—The National Basketball Association playoffs, in which the surprising Golden State Warriors completely dominated the league. In 2015, they won the NBA championship in four games.
Two black athletes also made breakthroughs in 1975. Lee Elder broke the backspin with a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the moment last April. Frank Robinson became the first black manager in the major leagues last summer. Robinson didn't, however, experience much success with his first win.
- Tennis player Jimmy Connors, made headlines almost everywhere he went, whether on the tennis court or on out in the town with girlfriend Chris Eris, the top money-winning woman tennis player. Connors won $500,000 in a widely publicized winner-take-all challenge before after taking $100,000 in a similar match with Rod Layer.
There were sad moments as well. What was billed as the great challenge horse race between Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure and Ruffian, an unbetter flyer, was the winner of the foreleg in the race. Despite desperate attempts to save her, she had to be destroyed.
—The Super Bowl, characterized by the "Steel Curt" defense, held much interest early in the year. The Pittsburgh defense held the NFC champion Minnesota Vikings to 17 yards on the ground to give the Steeleers a 16-6 win and its first Super Bowl title.
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