Wednesday, December 11. 1974
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Women's athletics win fiscal victory in 1974
By KEN STONE Sports Reporter
The biggest victory of 1974 for women's sports at the University of Kansas was not won in Allen Field House, Memorial Stadium or Robinson gymnasium. It was won in the tapestry of Topeka and in the meeting rooms of the Student Senate in the Kansas Union.
The victory wasn't physical. It was fiscal. Responding to calls for Affirmative Action (under the possible threat of legal action), the Kansas Legislature last March voted to remove the rule that Regents and fund women's intercollegiate athletics at KU to the tune of $68,575.
Winning the money wasn't easy, however. Stiff competition came from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC), which represented the men's program.
Likewise, the Student Senate dealt the nine-sport program at KU the handsome sum of $63,860. That was nearly seven times the 1972 budget of $9,300.
Athletic director Cyclle Wake asked that the entire amount of money available for intercollegiate sports ($157,380) be given to KUAC.
After strenuous debate among members of the sports committee, the question went to the Senate. Instead of getting all the cash, KUAC received $93,520. On a vote of 47-24 (with two abstentions), women's sports were allocated $83,860.
With $120,000 in its coffer, the women's program required someone to administer the program and apportion its revenues among its separate teams: Golf, track and field, field hockey, swimming, tennis, basketball, volleyball, softball and gymnastics.
Walker filled that vacuum June 18 when he announced the appointment of Marian Washington, basketball and track coach, to play for the university for women's intercollegiate athletics.
Finding ways to spend $120,000 was easy—the program needed coaches, a trainer, uniforms, equipment and other supplies and money for its share of rents and utility costs. The rest went for traveling expenses an' contingency funds.
In mid-September, Washington clashed with Walker over the meaning and implications of Title IX, a document few had but everyone had an opinion on.
Before a group of students at the Kansas
University, a title IX will be the
run of college athletics.
The next day, Washington disagreed and later said, "If money is what he eats and sleeps, well, then, that's his problem. And I don't feel he should impromise it on us."
The main point of contention seemed to be whether the Department of Health, Education and Culture, a tentative education institution of The IX 12 specified of the Education Act of 1973 called "equal" or "equivalent."
"equitable" funding for women's intercollegiate sports.
Washington thought Title IX should have been read as "equitable funding." Walker said that the law was "not a good idea."
HEW hasn't produced its final guidelines on the matter.
And, yes, there were some athletic attications in 1974. In 1974, here are some of the highlights:
- the football team finished fourth in the College World Series in Omaha. Penny Paulsen threw three no-hitters and a one-hitter to pace the team.
—Four freshmen —Tracy Spellman, Mary Broadie, Julie Ritchie and Cynthia Latting—competed in a national tennis championship during the summer. After a season record of 5-8, the four freshmen—28th out of 53 in the national tournament.
Jane Markert, a first-year coach from Central Mississippi State, where she led her team to four state championships, coached the KU field hockey team to a 8-24 record this fall. Ann Hartstien represented the All-Star Association and KU on a national team.
—Mary Jacobsen placed second in the shot put in the national AAU championships. One organization named her one top 40 woman athletes in the United States.
—Although the volleyball team failed to
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Although not in the realm of athletic competition per se, an important development was the establishment of a scholarship fund for women athletes in the name of former physical education professor Hoover. The fund hopefully increases the university's program to offer tuition scholarships to talented women athletes in the future.
make its fifth consecutive appearance in the national tournament, it did show miraculous improvement in fighting to the coach's championship, according to coach Jack Iacki.
Washington has said her coaching staff was one of the finest in the country.
The search for a new head football coach is progressing, but no decision has been reached yet, athletic Director Clyde Walker said yesterday.
However, Walker said he had narrowed the field to four or five men, the majority of whom are assistant coaches at the best football schools in the country.
Walker said he hoped that he and a social subcommittee chosen from the AMBAC candidates this weekend. Their final selection, he said, would have to go through affirmative action guidelines and be applauded by the chancellor and the Board of Regents.
Football coach search narrows
Walker said he hoped the new head coach
would be named by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
One coach who has been contacted by KU, Oklahoma defensive coordinator Larry Lacewell, is also a candidate for head coach at Kansas State. Yesterday, however, Lacewell withdrew his name from consideration for the K-State job.
"I really don't think Kansas is that interested in me." Lacwell said.
Another coach frequently mentioned for the KU job, Nebraska defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, said yesterday in a telephone interview that he was not interested in the job. He said he was approached by KU, but said he was very happy at Nebraska.
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