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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1950
Page
10
The piece argues LSU paid players for Sugar Bowl participation prompting N C A A scrutiny. It defends Virginia and other schools from expulsion threats, blasts codes as ineffective, and questions why LSU must justify bowl cash while other schools distribute funds.
At Arcadia California January 12 Citation the 1948 Triple Crown winner returned from a 13 month layoff in six muddy furlongs finishing a length and a half ahead of Bold Gallant with Roman in third. He earned 2600 dollars boosting career earnings to 867750 dollars as trainer Jimmy Jones praised the effort and no date set for next race. The piece notes the Navy basketball team scoring over 1000 points in a season.
New rule proposals from the American College Football Coaches' rules committee include allowing one substitution after each down without a clock penalty. Supporters say the change aids smaller schools and may benefit teams in crucial situations, while some oppose free substitution.
Duke University travels to New York to face N.Y.U. in the first game of a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden. The Blue Devils seek their first Garden win after multiple close games and notable past performances by Gordon Carver and Don Forman. The trip also includes a Philadelphia stop to face Temple.
Thomasville hosts the fourth annual Jaycee sponsored Midget Basketball tournament beginning March 7 in the Main Street school gymnasium. No player may weigh more than 130 pounds. Last year 32 teams entered. Thomasville High School seeks to defend its 1949 title.
Thomasville on January 12 reports a doubleheader at the Mills Home orphanage gym featuring campus workers teams against Mills Home girls and boys. The feminine game starts at 7 pm with Miss Betty Gibson and Mrs. Franklin Bailey leading the ladies, followed by ex-cagers coached by Charlie Hawkins and Dick Llewellyn for the Mills Home boys. The teams later host Cooleemee on January 17 after a prior December loss to Mount Gilead.
Virginia Tech and other Dixie schools challenged the NCAA to adopt a workable honest sanity code for athletic scholarships. Virginia athletic director Norton G. Pritchett said the present code is hypocritical and unworkable and urged a version that all can follow with self respect. The schools face possible expulsion after infractions, with a vote by about 300 members required for removal.
High Point college heads to Cullowhee for a two game North State Conference set with Western Carolina Teachers College. Missing due to ankle injuries are Gray Cartwright and Bill Waiz. Coach Ralph James sticks with Joyce, Draper, Sueta, Hunt, and Pryor as the starting five, and tones up reserves Draper Pryor Mobley and Deaton for the road tests.
Yale Columbia Penn Princeton Cornell Dartmouth and Harvard complete the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League season.
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