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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 16, 1968
Football expenses soaring
NEW YORK (UPI)-College football is heading for its 16th straight record year at the box-office.
Administrators should be cheering all the way to the bank. But they're not.
Football costs are soaring and they're looking for ways to cut the overhead.
Trim the player recruiting budget? Too dangerous. Maybe the other guys won't trim.
Eliminate the two-platoon system requiring more coaches, more players and more equipment? Now there's an easy way out.
So once again the budget minders are starting a drive to tinker with the on-again, off-again rule permitting unlimited substitution in college football, as it is at all levels including most of the high schools and all of the pros.
They have knocked out the platoons before for economic
reasons and will be urged to do it again by numerous athletic directors, including Frank Carver of Pittsburgh.
"A lot of people are concerned about two-platoon football and would like to see the game back on a sensible basis," he says.
Most coaches, including Dick Colman of Princeton, are steadfast in favor of platooning.
"I'd hate to see a return to limited substitution," says Colman. "The more boys who can play the game the better. But there is another area of expense involved. Travel costs are skyrocketing.
Missouri's Dan Devine, athletic director as well as head coach, says he led a platooning crusade three years ago but now is swinging the other way.
"We don't have to live in luxury hotels on the road. Ivy League coaches have suggested to our athletic directors that visiting teams be accommodated on the home team campus. The boys would accept it. I'd hate to see some of them out of a chance to play football just for
financial reasons."
"Our athletic department lost money last year," he says. "Football profits went into the budgets of minor sports with expanded programs. We might have lost less overall if we had limited substitution, but I don't think expenses should be the motivating factor on the subject.
"Maybe we're cheating some of the boys by not letting them play both ways. And I feel we would have a much better game if the fan can identify with one group-not units of specialists."
Most coaches prefer platoons because football has grown so complicated it's easier to get first-class football out of units that must learn only half the game than it is from groups that must be taught the whole works.
But football traditionally has been the bonanza to support other sports. It keeps the swimmers, the tracksters, the fencers, the soccer and tennis players, the golfers, the wrestlers and gymnasts in big-league style.
Simpson may break record in 2 seasons
When football profits diminish, the whole athletic program may suffer. So with the budget-trimmers it's a question:
NEW YORK (UPI)—O. J.
Simpson of Southern California,
who has averaged 202 yards-per-
game running this season, will
break the major college career
rushing record with only two
years of varsity action if he
continues his current pace.
Simpson, however, is only rated second in official statistics released yesterday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
To platoon or not to platoon, and the "nots" are likely to win.
Eugene "Mercury" Morris of West Texas State is first with 936 yards on 125 carries in five games, while Simpson has ground out 808 yards on 158 attempts in four games.
VANOY SLOWS 'HUSKER ACE
Simpson gained 220 yards rushing on 45 carries in Southern Cal's 27-24 victory over Stanford last week. Morris was held to only 52 yards on 20 carries as West Texas lost to Memphis State, 42-21.
Both players appear on the way to breaking the single season rushing record of 1,570 yards set in 1948 by Fred Wendt of Texas-El Paso. Both could also surpass the career record of 3,381 yards set by Arizona's Art Luppino from 1953-56.
However, it took Luppino four seasons to set the record, while Simpson will have only two years of major college experience and Morris three years. Simpson gained 1,414 yards last year to be the nation's top rusher, and Morris was second with 1,274 yards.
Nebraska running back Joe Orduna is dragged down by KU's 6-8, 250-pound defensive end Vernon Vanoy in last Saturday's game. The Jayhawks won 23-13. Orduna gained 98 yards on 21 carries and scored both Nebraska touchdowns, including a 28-yard sprint. Kansas is now ranked fourth in both the AP and UPI polls.
Parachutists meet today
The KU Sport Parachute club will begin the year's activities with an introductory meeting tonight.
If they continue at their present clips, Morris will wind up the 3,689 yards for three seasons, and Simpson 3,435 for two.
The 3-year old club will show films and take new members. The skydivers will meet at 7:30 in the Oread room of the Kansas Union. The present membership of the club is 15 persons.
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