KU to Release Paper on Coan Case
By Frank Morgan
The University will release a "White Paper" declaration of facts regarding the Bert Coan case this week.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said last night that the report will contain the particulars relating to the NCAA probation and Big Eight decision which declared that KU violated rules of both governing bodies.
"The report will present all the facts of the case and bring everybody up to date on what has happened," the Chancellor said. "We are working on it right now to make sure all the material and dates are accurate. I hope it will be ready in a few days."
THE CHANCELLOR SAID there will be no information in the paper concerning the Big Eight conference meeting in Kansas City last Thursday and Friday.
"There will be no violation of confidences of any of the meetings but merely an outline of facts in the case as we have them," he said.
He was asked if the University would take any legal action as he had implied last Saturday.
"This will all be in the white paper," he said.
A GROUP of Kansas City Lawyers, mostly KU alums, are investigating the possibility of seeking a federal court injunction against Thursday's Big Eight Conference ruling which made Bert Coan ineligible.
If the case is filed, it would make Coan the plaintiff and would charge that he is illegally being deprived of competition.
W. Clarke Wescoe
KU WAS PLACED on one-year football and two-year basketball probation by the NCAA in October for "recruiting irregularities" and illegal inducements to players. The school can not participate in post-season basketball and football games because of the ruling.
Laurence C. Woodruff, faculty representative to the conference meeting, said the paper probably will be released on Thursday. The University Athletic Board meets Wednesday afternoon.
The Big Eight faculty representatives Thursday declared Coan, Pasadena. Tex., sophomore and star halfback on the KU championship team, ineligible for football competition until Oct. 25, 1961. The retroactive ruling caused KU to forfeit the Colorado and Missouri games in which Coan participated.
Dean Woodruff, commenting on the meeting Thursday, said the statement by Reaves Peters, executive secretary of the conference, was "misleading."
Informed sources have reported that the University of Missouri instigated the investigation of Coan's eligibility by the Big Eight committee, but the statement by Mr. Peters made it appear KU had called the matter to the committee's attention.
"PETERS IMPLIED that KU made the report of Coan's eligibility voluntarily," Dean Woodruff said. "This is ridiculous. We were
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E. C. Quigley, Former Athletic Director, Dies
Funeral services for Ernest C. Quigley, former KU athletic director and long-time National League umpire, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. John's Catholic Church. He was 81.
The rosary will be said at 7 o'clock tonight at Cooper-Warren Mortuary.
Mr. Quigley had been hospitalized since Dec. 6, 1958. He died Saturday evening at a Lawrence rest home.
THE NEW BASEBALL field south of Allen Field House was named after the colorful sports official. He will be remembered by thousands of fans as the man who would correct erring players by roaring, "You can't do-o-o that!"
Mr. Quigley came to KU in 1944 after serving with the National League as an umpire for 32 years. He began his career in 1910 and in 1936 became the supervisor of umpires in the National League.
Mr. Quigley's officiating was not restricted to the baseball field. He officiated at 1,500 basketball games and about 400 football games as well as some 5,400 major league baseball games.
MR. QUIGLEY worked three Rose Bowl games, five Yale-Harvard games, six World Series and one Cotton Bowl game. His whistle was heard in 19 consecutive A.A.U tournaments in Kansas City and Denver. He officiated in the NCAA play-offs and in the Olympic basketball finals of 1936.
When Mr. Quigley came to KU in 1944 he was faced with the chore of building up the athletic program and paying off the stadium debt of $113,.-000. He did both.
A. C. Lonborg, director of athletics, said Mr. Quigley was an official who always had command of the game whether on the football field, basketball court or baseball diamond.
Fred Ellsworth, executive secretary of the alumni association, said that he best remembered Mr. Quigley as director of athletics.
"I knew him from my playing days here at KU. He was one of the top officials in the country."
"He was responsible for getting us several good coaches, including our present track coach, Bill Easton," Mr. Ellsworth said.
GEORGE SAUER was brought to KU by Mr. Quigley as football coach.
Donna F. Barton Leaves Watkins
Donna Barton. Prairie Village sophomore, was released Friday from Watkins Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient since Thursday afternoon when she fainted in class.
and in 1947 KU went to the Orange Bowl. Shortly after, Ray Evans, the first All America player from KU, was named.
The KU basketball team was labeled one of the best in the nation in 1950.
But all of Mr. Quigley's attention was not focused on building up on
E. C. Quigley
OTHER WELL - KNOWN coaches that Mr. Quigley hired were J. V. Sikes, a former football coach; Bill Easton, track coach, and Dick Harp, basketball coach, who replaced Phog Allen in 1956.
better athletic teams — he still had a debt to pay. He used a plan to pay off the stadium debt by which alumni and friends of the University could buy war bonds, turn them over to the Alumni Association, and in turn pay off the debt and interest.
The Kansas Board of Regents twice overlooked the retirement rules for Mr. Quigley. He was finally retired in 1350 and was succeeded by A. C. Lonborg
Mr. Quigley is also known as the man who helped legalize open interviewing of prospective athletes.
Three years ago the National Baseball Congress initiated a special umpires' award in Mr. Quigley's honor to be given annually to the nation's top sandlot umpire.
Mr.-Quigley, who was once called,
"The most famous Kansas man in
the field of sports," was a member of
the NCAA rules committee in
1950 and, also, had a sports radio
program over WIBW in Topeka.
He leaves two sons, E. C Quigley. Jr., of Lawrence and Russell, Kan., and Henry H. Quigley of Kansas City, Mo., and 17 grandchildren Mrs. Quigley, the former Margaret Darlington, died in 1958.
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58th Year, No. 58
Thursday Is Deadline For ID Exchange
Students desiring to exchange ID cards for free reserved seat tickets at Saturday night's basketball doubleheader which pits Kansas against North Carolina and Kansas State against Michigan State must do so by 5 p.m. Thursday at Allen Field House. Each student must pick up his own reserved seat ticket.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Dec. 12, 1960
Rusk Is Named Secretary State
PALM BEACH—(UPI)President-elect John F. Kennedy today announced the appointment of Dean Rusk as secretary of state. Kennedy also announced that Adlai E. Stevenson had accepted his offer of appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The president-elect also announced the selection of Rep. Chester Bowles, D-Conn., as undersecretary of state.
EARLIER ABBAS flatly turned down President Charles de Gaulle's plans for Algeria and demanded a referendum under United Nations control.
Weather
Partly cloudy west and generally fair east portion this afternoon. tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Low tonight 10 to 15. High Tuesday 35 to 40.
Flag of Holy War Flies in Algiers
Rusk, 51, is now president of the Rockefeller Foundation and served during the Truman administration as assistant secretary of
ALGIERS, Algeria — (UPI) — Mobs of Arabs shouting for a holy war against the French attacked French troops and Europeans throughout Algiers today and were driven back with bullets, tear gas and grenades. The French were reported calling in paratroop reinforcements to combat the worst rioting in the history of Algeria.
THE GREEN FLAG of "Jihad" or holy war — fluttered over the Casbah as Moslems who have lived here for 130 years under the French for the first time openly supported the FLN, the rebel movement headed by "Fremier" Ferhat Abbas in neighboring Tunisia.
Abbas said he had cabled United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold about the extreme gravity of events in Algeria and said the Algerian people have been submitted to "intolerable provocations and repressed in a bloody and savage manner."
He asked Hammarskjold to take "urgent measures to put an end to these new acts of extermination of Algerians."
He said de Gaulle's blueprint for giving Algerians more self-government would only make matters worse in the giant North African territory
De Gaule told French officers in the operations room of headquarters at Ain Arnhat: "I have confidence in you." Later he went by helicopter to Telegrama and planned to fly later today to Biskra on the edge of the Sahara, a U. S. bomber base in World War II and home of the famed "Garden of Allah."
THE DEATH TOLL in four days of fighting approached the 100 mark. Unofficial reports put the dead at 81. The official figure for yesterday's fighting was 61死. Seven Mos-
The death toll in Algiers and Oran during the past two days has increased to 84, including six Europeans, it was announced tonight. The last official announcement yesterday said 61 had been killed.
lems were reported killed in the Casabah fighting today. Other bodies were found nearby. Casualties were reported in today's clashes but censorship blacked out the exact number.
The situation was so grave that De Gaulle cut short by one day the Algerian visit which touched off the new rioting.
Today's outbreaks appeared stirred by Abbaas' declaration in Tunis that "the French colonialist regime has finally lost the contest" after six years of bitter warfare. He rejected De Gaulle's plans for a semi-independent Algeria.
state for Far Eastern affairs.
Stevenson, former governor of Illinois, was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. Bowles is a former ambassador to India.
Rusk said he planned to be in touch soon with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. Kennedy pointed out that he and Rusk would confer shortly about the selection of an undersecretary of state for economic affairs.
Kennedy had no plans for sending Rusk on international assignments prior to inauguration. Rusk, in response to questions, said he did not intend to go to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization council meeting in Paris this week.
Kennedy met Rusk for the first time only last week, but he was deeply familiar with the background of his cabinet selection.
Rusk was particularly recommended to Kennedy by some of the current key officers of the state department.
In disclosing his selection of Rusk, Kennedy said that the new secretary brought to the post "practical working experience in the conduct of our foreign relations" stemming from his state department experience during the Truman administration. He pointed out that Rusk, as head of the Rockefeller Foundation, had been in touch with conditions in at least 60 countries of the world.
"He has shown a deep interest and a bipartisan approach to foreign affairs," Kennedy said.
Choir to Sing Carols Tomorrow at Strong
The KU Concert Choir will sing Christmas carols from 3 to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Rotunda of Strong Hall.