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Football Probation to Be Lifted
Football P Little Attitude Change Expected
Today marks the end of the NCAA's probation on the University of Kansas football team.
On October 26, 1960, the NCAA's executive council ruled in San Francisco that KU be placed under one year's probation in football. A two year basketball ban was also meted out.
SINCE THE DECISION, KU has been disallowed post-season play in both sports. The remaining restriction now is that the basketball team may not participate in post-season competition.
A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, KU athletic director, said it is a "good feeling" that the football probation period has ended. Lonborg said, "It will be an even better feeling when we are completely off (probation)."
When the NCAA blow struck, KU's football team was a prime Orange Bowl possibility. Pre-season basketball hopes were high at the time, also. The Hawk quintet had been tabbed as the "hands down" Big Eight champion and was considered among the nation's top quintets.
CONTACTED LAST NIGHT, Jack Mitchell, Kansas football coach, said:
"I don't believe the probation has had any affect on the attitudes of players." Mitchell also said that he didn't feel the lifting of the ban would cause a change of player attitude.
The football probation stemmed from two infractions:
- KU was charged of talking to players of other schools without informing the NSA.
Thursday. October 26, 1961 University Daily Kansan
- The council charged that Bert Coan was lured to KU illegally when Bud Adams, a wealthy Houston oilman, flew Coan to Chicago to the all star game in 1959.
Coan, the Jays' leading rusher last season, is out for the entire season with a broken leg injured in spring practice. He has denied that the trip had anything to do with his coming to Kansas. Both Adams and Coan have insisted that Coan paid for his own transportation to Chicago for the game.
THE BASKETBALL BAN was enacted because of an alleged illegal method of recruiting in 1957. The NCAA charged that Wilt Chamberlain was induced to KU when he was given a year-old automobile valued at $1,500.
KU was under NCAA suspicion in April of 1960. At that time, the NCAA council meeting in Atlanta took no action against the University.
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Pratt JC Bids for 13 Straight
PRATT* — (UPI)—Pratt Junior College, with an eye on the Junior Rose Bowl, bids for its 13th straight win over a two-year span Saturday when it faces Arkansas City Junior College.
Pratt carries a season record of 6-0 into the contest, although the Kansas Junior College Conference shows the Beavers with a 0-6 mark—having forced a forfeit of all games played thus far because of the ineligibility of a third-string end.
NATIONALLY, HOWEVER. Pratt is regarded as unbeaten and a likely prospect for the New Year's Day classic at Pasadena, Calif.
Pratt has scored 304 points to the opposition's 21, an average of 50.6 points to 3.5.
Statistics are just as lopsided as the scores have been, with Pratt
holding a rushing edge of 1,843 yards to 340, passing advantage of 695 yards to 377, and a lead in first downs of 115 to 48.
Jim Beam, JRP Win in IM Play
There were two games played in the independent A division of intramural football yesterday afternoon with Jim Beam downing Templin, 6-0, and JRP defeating the Hawks, 19-13.
In independent B action the Navy whalloped the Baptists, 41-0, while Ace Pearson took a forfeit from JRP No.2.
In fraternity B play, Sigma Alpha Epsilon beat Tau Kappa Epsilon, 21-0.
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