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By Steve Clark
"All's quiet on the western front," as there has been nothing more said about KU's Bert Coan signing a professional football contract with the San Diego Chargers for next season.
Coan has definitely been offered a contract. He has admitted this to reporters. He also says he turned down the offer but is still considering it.
A MAJOR FACTOR that will probably influence Coan is the NCAA. Coan has been mixed up with this collegiate athletic organization once before, and it is likely that he wouldn't want to lock horns again.
The last time Coan was involved with the NCAA, his name was smeared in bold headlines in newspapers across the country.
The NCAA is very slow in accomplishing matters brought before them. For example, they were late in making the decision that Coan was ineligible in 1960. Another example is that Colorado was supposed to get slapped with a probation at each of the past two sessions, but all that last week's gathering produced was more rumors.
COAN HAS to consider what action the NCAA will take. The organization will not meet again until July and certainly the KU halfback would rather have plans made by then.
If the NCAA does not examine and pass on the Coan case, then Jack Mitchell is in a tight corner. As the NCAA meets during football season, Kansas could be put on probation again if they played Coan.
There is one question mark concerning Coan as a professional football player, and as a KU player. Has his broken leg sufficiently recovered? This question the sports world will not know until after his first game whether it be TCU or a pro team.
WILL BERT be as fast as he was? These are all vital questions that both Mitchell and Sid Gillman, Charger coach, are considering.
There is one person, if anybody, who knows the answer as to how the leg feels and that is Coan himself, and he's not talking, probably because he is not sure himself.
Next to the NCAA's decision on Coan's eligibility, the condition of his leg is a second important factor.
IF COAN'S LEG is fully recovered, then the Texas speedster should remain at Kansas. If he should have a successful season, which would be most likely, then the professional teams would have to make their bids high to get Coan to sign.
Right now, Coan is a question mark. A professional team should get him cheap because they don't know the condition of his leg. If Coan feels that his leg won't be sufficiently recovered, then the best thing possible for him to do would be to sign a professional contract.
Although all logic would indicate that the pros would be trying to get Coan cheap, it has been rumored that San Diego offered him the same amount John Hadl received.
The NCAA could clear up a lot of question marks by declaring Coan either eligible or ineligible, but they won't. Since their next meeting is over five months away, the Jayhawker football fan will just have to sit tight...and wait.
Sports in Brief
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(UPI)—Warren Spahn, 40 years old and one of the greatest left-handed pitchers in baseball history, got a raise when he signed his 1962 contract with the Milwaukee, Braves, but very few of his teammates can look for the same treatment.
President John McHale of the Braves, whose club finished fourth in the National League last season for its worst showing since moving here from Boston in 1953, confirmed today his Milwaukee players will be paid "only what they have earned."
Spahn, who created his own place in Baseball's Hall of Fame when he won his 300th game last season, was in good humor after coming to terms Thursday. He jokingly conceded the Braves "saw fit to hire me again."
DES MOINES, Iowa—(UPI) —Chet Walker is demonstrating again this year that as he goes so go the Bradley Braves.
A 1960-61 All America in his junior season, the 6-foot, 6-inch Walker combines cat-like grace with perhaps the deadliest shooting eye in the country to make the Braves the current leaders in the strong Missouri Valley conference and the nation's seventh-ranked college basketball team.
Walker, who has made good on 60 per cent of his field goal tries this season, showed again last night how he can break open a game almost single-handedly with a spectacular display of shooting in Bradley's 77-65 victory over Drake here. The victory was the Braves' fourth straight in league play, keeping them ahead
of both 10th-ranked Wichita and second-ranked Cincinnati in the league standings.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.—John Morley
Wildcats Shade Missouri 69-66 In League Play
Basketball fixes, says Kentucky's Coach Rupp, the fault of a few badegems. But, according to a former NCAA president, athletes "have learned to be dishonest... from the very men who recruited them." In this week's Post, you'll read a hot debate between these two experts.
COLUMBIA, Mo—(UPI)—Fourth ranked Kansas State used a freeze the last $3^{\frac{1}{2}}$ minutes last night to skim past Missouri 69-66 in a Big Eight Conference basketball game.
Why some college basketball players cheat!
Kansas State, led by Mike Wroblewski and Gary Marriott, had its hands full with the cellar-dwelling Tigers, who played an inspired game that saw the lead change eight times.
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Kansas State led 33-32 at the half. The biggest lead was seven points, reached midway through the first half and again half way through the second half. Missouri was ahead seven times, but never more than two points.
Wroblewski and Mariott had 17 points apiece, as did Missouri's Walt Grebing. Wroblewski, the 6-8 center, was held to three rebounds in the first half by sophomore center Gary Dye, and in the last two minutes the ball was stolen from him twice.
Kansas State hit 27 of 62 field goal attempts for 43.5 per cent, while Missouri made 26 of 63 from the field for 41.3 per cent.
Marriott held the K-State Wildcats together in the last seven minutes, when Kansas State Coach Tex Winter pulled Wroblewski out of the game because of four fouls.
Hawks Swim At Iowa State
Kansas will be meeting one of the Big Eight's top swim teams tomorrow when the Jayhawkers travel to Lincoln, Neb., to battle the Cornhuskers and Iowa State in a triangular.
Iowa State is being accorded a good chance at unseating Oklahoma as the conference champion in the Big Eight meet March 1, 2, and 3 at Ames. The Cyclones normally have been the "best of the rest" in the efforts to overtake the Sooners, but are much improved this season.
Kansas holds a triangular victory over Utah State and Colorado and a fourth place finish in the Air Force Relays for the season thus far. The Jayhawkers entered only nine men in the 10-team meet at Colorado Springs.
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BALTIMORE — (UPI) Since Pimlico changed its finish line a couple of seasons back, the length of the stretch is 1,170 feet, one of the longer home lanes in the country.
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Once there were three roommates and their names were Walter Pellucid, Casimir Fing, and LeRoy Holocaust and they were all taking English lit. and they were all happy, friendly, outgoing types and they all smoked Marlboro Cigarettes as you would expect from such a gregarious trio, for Marlboro is the very essence of sociability, the very spirit of amity, and very soul of concord, with its tobacco so mild and flavorful, its pack so king-size and flip-top, its filter so pure and white, and you will find when you smoke Marlboros that the world is filled with the song of birds and no man's hand is raised against you.
Each night after dinner Walter and Casimir and LeRoy went to their room and studied English lit. For three hours they sat in sombre silence and pored over their books and then, squinty and spent, they toppled onto their pallets and sobbed themselves to sleep.
This joyless situation obtained all through the first semester. Then one night they were all simultaneously struck by a marvelous idea. "We are all studying the same thing," they cried. "Why, then, should each of us study for three hours? Why not each study for one hour? It is true we will only learn one-third as much that way, but it does not matter because there are three of us and next June before the exams, we can get together and pool our knowledge!"
Oh, what rapture then fell on Walter and Casimir and LeRoy1
They flung their beanies into the air and danced a gavotte and lit thirty or forty Marlboros and ran out to pursue the pleasure which had so long, so bitterly, been missing from their lives.
Alas, they found instead a series of grisly misfortunes. Walter, alas, went searching for love and was soon going steady with a coed named Invicta Breadstuff, a handsome lass, but, alas, hopelessly addicted to bowling. Each night she bowled five hundred lines, some nights a thousand. Poor Walter's thumb was a shambles and his purse was empty, but Invicta just kept on bowling and in the end, alas, she left Walter for a pin-setter, which was a terrible thing to do to Walter, especially in this case, because the pin-setter was automatic.
Walter, of course, was far too distraught to study his English lit, but he took some comfort from the fact that his roommates were studying and they would help him before the exams. But Walter, alas, was wrong. His roommates, Casimir and LeRoy, were nature lovers and they used their free time to go for long tramps in the woods and one night, alas, they were treed by two bears, Casimir by a brown bear and LeRoy by a kodiak, and they were kept in the trees until spring set in and the bears went to Yellowstone for the tourist season.
So when the three roommates met before exams to pool their knowledge, they found they had none to pool! Well sir, they had a good long laugh about that and then rushed to the kitchen and stuck their heads in the oven. It was, however, an electric oven and the effects were, on the whole, beneficial. The wax in their ears got melted and they acquired a healthy tan and today they are married to a lovely young heirs named Ganglia Bran and live in the Canal Zone, where there are many nice boats to wave at.
© 1962 Max Shulman
In case you worry about such things, their wife is a Marlboro smoker, too, which adds to the general merriment. Marlboro is ubiquitous, as well as flavorful, and you can buy them in all 50 states as well as the Canal Zone.