PAGE SEVEN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAri V WEDESAYJAUARJ2,.168t ll111 1JC h(2A1V ui t.V 1 i-ts~ h.o,p.x** 6 Black Athletes Order Firings BERKELEY, Calif. (P)-Negro athletes at the University of Cal- ifornia at. Berkeley demanded yesterday the replacement of three major sports coaches and improved conditions for them- selves under threat of boycotting sports. About 25 of the 40 Negro ath- letes called a news conference and presented eight complaints and their boycott threat. Their protest was labeled "Res- olution of Black Athletes of the University of California." Coaches they demanded "be re- the kitchen cynic RICK STERN Cazzie Russell scored 42 points Sunday afternoon, 35 in the second half leading his New York Knicks to an easy win over the Detroit Pistons in Cobo Hall. It was less than a tactful thing for Cazzie to do to Detroit area fans, less than 24 hours after the local college team, Dave Strack's Michigan Wolverines suffered their worst loss in six years and reached a new low - 11 straight Big Ten losses. Since Cazzie de- parted, Michigan has won two Big Ten games and lost 15. During his three year career here, the Wolverines won 35 and lost seven. So really the Detroit fans have no bones to pick with Cazzie. In fact just over three years ago, in the same Cobo arena, Wolverine Cazzie provided what was probably the biggest moment in Detroit basketball history. First-ranked Michigan was dueling third-ranked Wichita St., led by superstar Dave Stallworth, and Russell hit the single most dramatic shot of his career - a 35-foot jumper at the buzzer - to win the game 87-85. And just two weeks later he did it again, though from only about 15 feet out, to beat Princeton and Bill Bradley for the championship of the Eastern Classic in New York City. The Wolverines had trailed by 14 with under four minutes left to go. I can remember listening to that game in Chicago with several friends, one of them a Princetonian. We made a bet on the game. When Princeton pulled ahead late in the game, he decided to leave, haughtily demanding his money. He and my other friends laughed at me when I gave them the line about waiting til the last man is out. 6 He offered to give me five to one odds if I would double the bet. I should have done it but I didn't. (Sort of like the guy who was going to invest five hundred dollars in Zenith radio after World War II, then thought better of it and bought savings bonds instead), Cazzie pulled the Princeton game out (with a not unimportant boost from unheralded John Thompson, an underrated player if there ever was one) and he pulled many others out during all of his seasons. Just from memory, I can point to two Illinois games, two Minnesota games, a historic overtime win over Indiana, and a win over Iowa, as examples of games where Michigan trailed with less than five minutes to go before eeking out a Cazzie-inspired victory. Cazzie was simply a basketball phenomeno. No other mod- ern-day athlete has captured the fickle fancy of the intellectual Michigan campus as Russell did, nor is anyone likely to in the future. Everyone knew who Cazzie was. Everyone said "Hello Caz" when they passed him on the diag. Every male quaddie discussed him for hours and people waited in lines to get tickets for his Yost performances. Surprisingly enough, though they gave him all the glory on Sat- urday afternoons, and even in his classrooms, the student body here was original "in that they refused to follow the "Jim Lonborg for Mayor" line of thinking that characterizes reactions tosports heroes. Quite literally, in fact. After Cazzie's sophomore year, when experts were predicting that he would be the greatest college star since Jerry Lucas, he ran for the student representative position on the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics - and lost. He was actually the first athlete ever to lose for the board position. The Daily supported his opponent Tom Weinberg, a future Daily Sports Editor, urging Cazzie to concentrate on what he was best at and leave others to what they were best at. His defeat was written up in Sports Illustrated. But it might be said that though Michigan students wouldn't give Cazzie their votes, they did give him their hearts. I know of a senior girl here at Michigan who was so aroused by Cazzie's inimitable dunk shot that she would arrive two hours early for every game to get a front row seat. Unbelievable as it may sound, this girl pasted pictures of Cazzie all over her room in Oxford Coop and brought her mother 50 miles semi-weekly to see the Caz in action. Her mother soon became a Cazzie fan also, not to mention her sister, her fiance, and all of her friends. Once she sent Dave Strack a piece of paper with lyrics and caricatures immortalizing Cazzie that she had cajoled a friend-of hers in art school into doing. She received a reply and a letter from Cazzie and was ecstatic for ,weeks. Whereas most people didn't get quite this involved in the Russell-era, a surprising large number did reach fairly aston- ishing levels in their degree of hero worship. A friend of mine in south squad dashed into my room one September afternoon with his heart pounding, and tbld me that he had had a shot blocked by Cazzie in an I-M pick-up game that day. Another spent a semester giving minute-by-minute descriptions of Cazzie's actions and reactions in a speech class that they happened to share. I myself was not immune to this Cazzie-mania either. I was a basketball manager in Cazzie's day, spending quite a bit of time down in Yost Field House, during Russell's junior and senior years, chasing basketballs for Mr. Strack and company. I got to know Cazzie a little bit, not much, but enough to have some interesting experiences with him that do shed some light on his shrouded, little understood, but oft guessed about personality. Tritely but accurately, "The Real Cazzie Russell," tomorrow. -71 placed for reasons of their inabil- ity or unwillingness to relate to black athletes and their general incompetence" are Rene Her- rerias, head basketball coach; William Dutton, defensive foot- ball line coach, and Joe Marvin, offensive backfield coach. They did not propose any new candidates. Their action was a quick fol- low-up to a resolution of 12 white California basketball players, who declared Monday night they would not play again until ad-3 ministrative pressures were re- moved from Herrerias. The Negro athletes' resolution said they were "sick and tired of giving of our talents without ap- preciation and due recognition from the athletic department and mass media." It listed these eight grievances: ! Replace Herrerias, Dutton and Marvin. 0 Remove Pat Farran, busi- ness manager, because "black athletes receive worse scholarship and summer jobs in terms of working conditions and pay." 4 "On numerous occasions our personal and physical appearance! have been the object of deroga- tory comments and ridicule by members of the athletic depart- ment." * "Frequently, black athletesa have been forced to play when injured. Trainers have written off our injuries as hypochondria or gold bricking." * "Eliminate black quotas" among athletic scholarships. 0 "Hire coaches of minority background. 0 "Black athletes have beenI left to fend for themselves in finding housing without appro- priate support from the athletic department." " "The assumption is made that black athletes are lacking in intelligence, the result being that; we receive inferior academic ad- vice and counseling." The resolution concluded with a resolve to discourage Negro ath- letes from attending California and to boycott future athleticI events. * East Stars Trip West; NEW YORK () - Hal Greer straight, seven in one minute, scored a record 19 points for one while the West was being held period, 14 in a row, sparking the scoreless and the East opened up East to a 144-124 drubbing of the an 87-79 lead. The winners led West in the 18th annual Nation- 101-91 at the end of the quarter al Basketball Association's All- and turned the game into a rout Star game last night. in the finale. The West never led until Bob Boston's John Havlicek, with 26 Boozer of Chicago put them points and Greer with 21 were ahead 71-69 with 8:53 left in the the big scorers for the East which third period. The East then tied won for the fifth time in six years it twice before Elgin Baylor of and built its series margin to Los Angeles put the West out 12-6. front for the last time, 75-73 with The East shot 58.6 from the 7:36 remaining in the quarter, floor compared to the West's 42.7. Greer then exploded for his 14 Detroit's Dave Bing scored 9 T points while Dave DeBusschere Iowa Drops MSU went scoreless Greer was named the game's EAST LANSING, Mich. () -- Most Valuable Player. Michigan State used three differ- ,................ . . . ent players to defend against .. :::::j ::::: Iowa's Sam Williams but the for- ORGAN A ON mer Letroit high school player warded off each to score 33 points NO I ES and lead the Hawkeyes to a 76-71 Big Ten basketball victory last .. .. night. USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- Williams, averaging 25 points NOUNCEMENTS is available to officially per game, brought the Hawkeyes recognized and registered student orga- from a 38-32 halftime deficit with sA. Forms are avaIlable In 19 points in the second half. He * * fouled out of the game with 1:16 Baha'i Student Group, Informal dis- left and Iowa leading 70-65cussion "Religion and Science -- in leftand owa eadig 7065.Harmony or not?" Fri., Jan. 26, 8:00 Iowa led 74-67 but the Spartans p.m. 520 N. Ashley. All welcome. Call closed the gap to within three, 74- 662-3548 if you need transportation. 71, on a field goal by Harrison UM Scottish Country Dance Society Stepter and two free throws by meeting every Wednesday, 8 00-10:30 Haywood Edwards with 29 seconds p.m., women's Athletic Bldg. Begin- remaining. 12:00 m.; Afternoon Session, Michigan But Iowa iced the game with Union, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. two free throws by Chal Calabria * * * with four seconds remaining to university Lutheran chapel. 1511 IWashtenaw, Wed.. Jan. 24. 10:00 p.m., give the Hawkeyes their third con- Mid-week devotion with Pastor ference victory against one loss Spomer. and a 9-5 over-all record. 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