University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 12, 1986
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U.S. coach rebuked for Bible smuggling
United Press International
RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Olympic basketball coach Kay Yow has drawn criticism for smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union last summer while coaching the United State's National Women's basketball team.
"A basketball team representing the United States and visiting another country simply is not the place for this, no place at all," said William Wall, executive director of the Amateur Basketball Association of the United States, the association that oversees U.S. Olympic basketball.
Wall would not say whether the incident at the World Championship Games would jeopardize Yow's position as Olympic coach. Wall only said that Yow, who also is the women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, had put the U.S. Olympic Committee and the ABA in a "very embarrassing" position.
"This was the coach of our national women's team and we chose her to coach the next Olympic team," Wall said. "I am very concerned. Kay Yow is a wonderful woman and a wonderful coach, but this should never have occurred. I disapprove 100 percent."
Yow told a congregation Sunday at a church in Walkertown, N.C. that she and team manager Barbara Gill had smuggled bibles and religious study material, which had been translated into Ukrainian into the Soviet Union by packing them in unmarked boxes.
"I have to believe the Lord placed me in the Soviet Union this summer," said Yow, who coached the U.S. to gold medals in the Goodwill Games in July and the World Championships in August.
"I have learned since I returned that people have been arrested for taking religious material in there. The maximum sentence is 20 years for that."
Sylvia Hatchell, Yow's assistant coach on the national team and women's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., said the women were able to skip the material into the Soviet Union because "we were a basketball team and they did not check us out as closely."
She said Yow and her assistants never thought the smuggling would jeopardize the team or embarrass the United States.
"We thought, 'Why not? There's nothing to lose,' " Hatchell said.
NORMAN, Okla. — Saturday's Oklahoma-Colorado game sounds like a mismatch, with the Sooners' 8-1 record and No. 5 ranking against the unranked 5-Buffs, but this one's for the Big Eight Championship, and an Orange Ball berth.
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Teams play for bowl and championship
Both teams come into the Rocky Mountain contest with perfect 5-0 conference marks, tied for the top of the conference race. Colorado has defeated Nebraska 20-10 and has only a road game with Kansas State remaining on its schedule.
The Sooners end their regular season at Nebraska.
"Colorado could easily be 8-1 right now," OU head coach Barry Switzer said at his weekly press luncheon yesterday.
"Colorado State is the only team that really beat them. Colorado was never really in the game. Oregon scored nine points in something like 45 seconds to beat them 32-30. Ohio State kicked a late field goal to win 13-10. And Arizona beat them on a last-minute goal," he said.
Switzer said viewing films of Colorado in action shows the squad is in the position of being first or second in the conference
"They have an excellent kicking game, by far the best in the country. If we are exchanging
possessions with them, their field position is going to get better because of their kicking," he said.
Switzer said Colorado's wishbone offense won't make things easier for the OU defense.
Switzer said the Sooner team understands what is at stake Saturday.
"Those (ball control teams) are the ones that give us the most trouble. One thing good comes out of Colorado running the wishbone. Both scout teams get a rest this week," he said.
"In the past we looked forward to the Nebraska game, but now we are faced with two big games in two weeks," he said.
Michigan may
The Associated Press
Michigan, a 31-7 winner over Purdue, moved from third place to No.2 in The Associated Press college football poll yesterday, dimming at least temporarily the chances of No.1 meeting No.2 in a bowl showdown.
Miami remained No. 1 for the seventh consecutive week, and Penn State dropped from second place to third. The top three teams all have 9-0 records and are the only major schools with perfect records.
ruin bowl game showdown
The Hurricanes held onto the top spot with a 37-10 triumph over Pittsburgh Saturday. But Penn State barely hung on for a 17-15 win over Maryland as the unranked Terrapins missed a two-point conversion with 14 seconds left.
Top 20 poll
The Fiesta, Citrus and Gator Bowls are still attempting to arrange a national championship game between Miami and Penn State, both in
dependents and not committed to other bowls.
Chuck Rhee, executive director of the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., said that the new ranking "still doesn't mean that the Penn State-Miami winner won't be the national champion."
"It doesn't really affect the Penn State-Miami dream game, and if Penn State beats Notre Dame on Saturday) I think they could very well jump back to No. 2. It doesn't change the possibility of an unbeaten-untied Miami team meeting an unbeaten-untied Penn State team."
Don Meyers, chairman of the Fiesta Bowl's selection committee and the temp. Ariz. bowl, selected by the NCAA from a group of 14 teams. (N.C.A.A.)
John Bell, president and interim executive director of the Gator Bowl, said the change in rankings doesn't make any difference as long as they are handled appropriately, possibility of playing the No. 1 team is still alive.
Miami attracted 57 of 60 first-place votes and 1,195 of a possible 1,200 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sportscasters. The Hurricanes have been No. 1 since beating then-No. 1 Oklahoma on Sept. 27.
Michigan, ranked third the past two weeks, landed one No. 1 vote and 1,102 points, while Penn State had one first-place ballot and 1,075 points.
Oklahoma beat Missouri 77-0 and remained No. 4 with 1,941 points. Arizona State, which captured the Pacific-10 title and a Rose Bowl berth by beating California 49-0, got the other No. 1 ballot and 973 points and stayed No. 5.
Nebraska advanced from seventh place to No. 6 with 878 points by defeating Iowa State 35-14. Idle Texas A&M moved from No. 8 to seventh with 830 points and Auburn jumped from ninth to eighth with 782 points by downing Cincinnati 52-7.
Ohio State, which got off to an 0-2 start, used its eight straight win, 31-9 over Northwestern, to move from 11th to ninth place with 711 points.
Washington, No. 12 a week ago, defeated Oregon State 28-12 and advanced to No. 10 with 606 points.
Alabama, which suffered a 14-10 loss to Louisiana State, dropped from No. 6 to No. 11.
LSU, Southern California, Arizona, Clemson Stanford, Arkansas, Baylor, UCLA and Mississippi completed the Top 20.
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