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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 12, 1960
Frazier seeking bout with Ellis
PHILADELPHIA (UPI)—For Joe Frazier, it was Oscar Bonavena one night, tomorrow the world.
Frazier retained his share of the heavyweight title with an unanimous 15-round decision over awkward Bonavena Tuesday night and later announced, through a swollen jaw, that he would settle only for Jimmy Ellis, who holds the World Boxing Association version of the title, as his next opponent.
The 24-year-old Frazier, discounted deposed champion Cassius Clay, said a victory over Ellis would make him undisputed titleholder throughout the world.
However, it may take the unbeaten Philadelphia, recognized as champion in only five states and parts of the Orient and Latin America, several months before he is ready to get back in the ring. Frazier suffered a possible broken jaw against Bonavena and the doctor said they
STILLWATER, Okla. (UPI) Oklahoma State University football Coach Phil Cutchin was fired last night after six straight unsuccessful tries for a winning season.
Axe falls on OSU coach Phil Cutchin
Regents for Oklahoma A & M colleges voted unanimously for an OSU athletic cabinet recommendation that Cutchin be dismissed "at the earliest possible date."
Dr. Robert Kamm, university president, announced the relegats' decision and said he thought Cutchin had done a "commendable job" and that his firing "will not, of course, solve our football problems."
however, Kamm said that despite "a great need for additional financial support" of the university's athletic program, the relegates rejected an alumni offer to raise more than $46,000 to "buy up" Cutchin's contract, which had two years to run.
Kamm instructed OSU Athletic Director Henry Iba and the athletic cabinet to "work out a mutually agreeable understanding" with Cutchin over his contract.
The 47-year-old Cutchin, a native of Murray, Ky., played at Kentucky before going to Ohio Wesleyan as a coach in 1946. He is a former No. 1 assistant to Bear Bryant at Kentucky and later at Texas A & M and Alabama.
would wait for the swelling to subside before taking X-rays.
Cutchin's teams at OSU had a 19-38-2 record, and had beaten arch-rival Oklahoma twice in six seasons. The Cowboys finished 3-7 this season, upsetting Houston early in the year and losing 41-7 to the Sooners in the final game.
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Cutchin said when he joined Oklahoma State in 1962 that he hoped to make the Big Eight university's football team "the same kind of team" that he left at Alabama.
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Frazier dominated the bout most of the way, nearly closing both of Bonavena's eyes with cuts and pounding him relentlessly to the body.
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To get to the 26-year-old challenger, Frazier had to wade through a barrage of low blows, which drew numerous warnings from referee Joe Sweeney and cost Bonavena the eighth round.
Several times the referee seemed to lose control of the fight and Yank Durham, Frazier's manager, had to leap into the ring in the 10th round to keep the fighters from pummelling each other after the bell.
Sweeney, the only man in the ring to draw boos from the disappointing crowd of about
8,000, gave the bout to Frazier by the lowest margin, 70-67.
"I think I didn't lose," said the 207-pound Bonavena, four pounds heavier than Frazier. "I thought it was very close, but I won't complain. I never was cut like this before in my career, and I am very disappointed for my country of Argentina and for myself."
Durham said, "If the price is right and Ellis is willing to face the fact that he must fight Joe to be true champ, we're ready to fight him now."
Clay, whose title was taken away last year when he refused to be inducted into the Army, watched at ringside and said, "I thought it was a good fight between a pair of sluggers, but it wasn't any championship fight."
Ship sinks for Navy's Elias
after the Midshipmen lost to Army and closed their campaign with a 2-8 record -worst in 20 years at the Academy.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (UPI) Navy gave up the ship yesterday on Bill Elias by firing the head football coach it hired four years ago to revive the sinking gridiron program at the U.S. Naval Academy.
The firing came only 11 days
Like the last five head coaches before him, Elias lost his job after losing the Army game.
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Coach Rodgers signs contract
Pepper Rodgers, the coach who resurrected KU football, has signed a new five-year contract it was announced last night.
Athletic Director Wade Stinson made the announcement at the annual football banquet held in the Kansas Union ballroom. Although Stinson did not name the new figure, he said that Rodgers received "a substantial increase in salary."
Under Rodgers direction, Kansas recorded a 5-5 record in 1967, then climbed to a 9-1 mark this fall with a trip to the Orange Bowl against undefeated Penn State. The Jayhawks shared the Big Eight Championship with Oklahoma, the only team to stop KU this year.
The football program is in the hands of the most capable and knowledgeable individual I know," Stinson said.
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