SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1963 CHIPS ... by Mike Block No Game Yesterday Compared to the assassination of the President of the United States, the decision pertaining to the continuance or cancellation of a football game is most insignificant. But the sequence of events surrounding the status of the Michigan-Ohio State game here in Ann Arbor and the Michigan State-Illinois game in East Lansing, both of which were scheduled for yesterday afternoon, serves to illustrate how close the athletic departments of major academic institutions can come to reaching an unfortunate decision of a major nature. In spite of the earlier "definite" announcement issued jointly by these four schools, those games were not played yesterday. The reasons for this change are still hazy at this time, but it appears that in their decision to go ahead with the games, the athletic departments had gone over the heads of their superiors within the universities. This decision was official at the time The Daily went to press Friday night, but yesterday morning it was reversed. It seems that originally Presidents Harlan Hatcher of Michigan and John Hannah of Michigan State endorsed the athletic depart- ments' decision to hold the games. But yesterday it turned out that the Michigan Board of Regents had not been consulted on the matter, and that it considered the playing of the Michigan game in bad taste and called it off. Presumably similar occurrences took place at the three other schools. Romney's Plea .. . Actually, all of this would have been avoided if the schools in- volved had complied with Michigan Gov. George Romney, who im- mediately after the assassination urged that the MSU game (and consequently Michigan's also) not be played. But despite this plea, and the fact that many other games around the country were quickly cancelled or postponed, the two games were not called off. Elsewhere in the Big Ten, the Minnesota-Wisconsin and In- diana-Purdue games were called off right after the tragedy oc- curred. Just as quickly, the Iowa-Notre Dame game was declared to be played as scheduled, but was cancelled yesterday morning. The MSU and Wisconsin games have been tentatively resched- uled for Thanksgiving Day, while it looks like the game here will be played next Saturday. In order to reschedule the games, it would be necessary to waive the Big Ten rule which states that no football game can be played after the Saturday before the last Thursday-in November, i.e., yes- terday. However, this should not prove to be a real hindrance in an unprecedented situation such as this, especially as concerns the MSU-Illinois battle, which was to decide the conference championship and its representative in the Rose Bowl. Correct Decision . . The final decision not to stage the Michigan game or any other should be applauded. On the day after this death in everyone'sf family, it is inconceivable to me that one could even think about1 playing.football, financial commitments and "What President Ken- I nedy would have wanted" notwithstanding. As a tribute to the mem-I ory of the most important man in the United States, human decencyt requires that all forms of entertainment be suspended for at leastr a short period following his death. F Look at it another way: If you had gone to a football game yes- terday, would you have cheered or felt like cheering? Or if you were a football player, could you have given 100 per cent ofL yourself toward winning the game? I don't think so. Instead, theL game would have been a spiritless, apathetic affair.a 0 All in all, the decision to hold the game despite the tragedy was g an unwise one, but fortunately the opposite viewpoint prevailed. ' Possibly it did not occur to the athletic departments concerned that the reaction to the President's death would be so great; in any case, s I'm sure that they made their move in all good conscience and wereu not guided by financial considerations alone. L Nevertheless, I can only express some grim sort of relief thatp there was no game yesterday. w THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN ',fit 'M' Faces OSU Saturday I (Continued from Page 1) Hatcher of Michigan and Novice G. Fawcett of Ohio State pulled an abrupt switch from the original procedure announced Friday night. At 9:30 a.m. yesterday the Uni- versity announced that "in solemn, recognition of the great national tragedy today's game between the University of Michigan and Ohio State University will not be play- ed." This came in direct contradic- tion to Friday night's directive which verified that the game would be on as scheduled. The announcement from the athletic department at that time read : "After careful deliberation and conference with our sister insti- tutions, Michigan State, Ohio State and Illinois, we have decided to proceed with our respective football games Saturday. "We feel that it is in the best national interest and tradition to carry on, feeling that in so doing we are carrying out the wishes of our late President, whose deep in- terest and concern for the physi- cal training and welfare of our youth is so widely known. These: games will be played both at East Lansing and Ann Arbor with ap- propriate halftime ceremonies paying tribute to the memory of! President Kennedy." The confusion that resulted from the policy change spread all over lower Michigan. Both De- troit dailies yesterday morning joined The Daily in announcing Friday night's decision, which was reversed by the time they reached most readers. Ohio State fans who had called long-distance Friday night to check on the game were turned back yesterday morning when they learned of the switch. Ohio State bandsmen and players all had to leave Ann Arbor yesterday after-- noon without getting to perform. In rescheduling the game, Cris- ler and Larkin virtually ignored a Big Ten ruling about the length of the season, as did the admine- } istrators inf all other Big Ten post- ponements. :{ The rule stipulates expressly that the season must end on the Saturday before the last Thursday of November, which was yesterday. Crisler said Friday he antici- pated no difficulties in getting the Big Ten to approve the games re-IH. 0. 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Nearly all of yesterday's college football games, the entire Sunday American Football League sched- ule, the weekend American Soccer League games, National Basket- ball games, thoroughbred and har- ness racing, golf, baseball, track m~eets and other sports were either postponed or canceled altogether. Some Play Only the National Football League, the National Hockey' League, several NBA teams, about a dozen college football teams and one major race track decided to go through with weekend sports as scheduled. All scheduled televised weekend ports were canceled by the net- works. All Big Ten, Big Six and Ivy League football games were post- poned or cancelled. Also put off! was the Notre Dame-Iowa game. The National Collegiate Ath- etic Association left it to the col- eges involved to do as they saw lt. Only the Southeastern Con- ference offered. a complete sched- ale. Most other schools canceled r postponed their games. Among the major games post-i oned were Rice at Texas Chris- ian, Penn State at Pitt, North! .arolina at Duke, Air Force at Colorado, Washington State at Washington, California at Stan- ord, UCL Aat Southern Califor- aia, Missouri at Kansas, Kansas tate at Oklahoma State, Oregon tate at Oregon, Clemson at South Carolina and Iowa State at Drake. E EAST LANSING-Even as thousands of would-be spectators poured into town here yesterday morning Michigan StatehUniver- sity officials postponed the MSU- Illinois Big Ten championship football game to Thanksgiving Day. The announcement came a mere 2172 hours before gametime and revised an early Friday deci- sion that the game would go on. The first statement that the title Nebraska Wains Orange: Bowl Trip By The Associated Press Although most football stadiums were quiet yesterday, one of the few games played decided an Orange Bowl berth. Tenth-ranked Nebraska won the spot and its first Big Eight Con- ference championship in 23 years1 by trimming sixth-ranked Okla-1 homa 29-20 yesterday. The Corn- huskers ended the season with a1 9-1 record, blemished only by a loss to the Air Force.t Tennessee's strong running at- tack set up all three touchdown passes in providing the margin fort a 19-0 victory over Kentucky in a Southeastern Conference game yesterday. The Volunteers domi- nated the entire game, notgivingt the Wildcats a chance to even gett an attack started.t Scores COLLEGE GRID Louisiana State 20, Tulane 0 Auburn 21, Florida State 15 Utah 25, Utah State 23 Tennessee 19, Kentucky 0 Arkansas 27, Texas Tech 20 Nebraska 29, Oklahoma 20 Brigham Young 24, Colorado State 20 Vanderbilt 31, Geo. Washington 0 Washington & Lee 27, Davidson 14 battle would be played was the re- sult of a four-way conference be- tween officials of MSU, Illinois, Ohio State, and Michigan follow- ing the death of President John Kennedythat afternoon. Clarence (Biggie) Munn, Spar- tan athletic director, commented that "I personally feel sorry for the many, many fans who made long trips to East Lansing for the game, but with the development of the various situations, nothing else could be done." When Michi- gan State President John A. Han- nah made the announcement that the game had been postponed he made no further comment as to the circumstances that led to the sudden reversal. Play Thursday The game originally scheduled for today was switched to 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Spartan Sta- dium. Winner in the final game for both teams will determine the 1963 conference champ and prob- able Big Ten representative torthe Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. A tie will give Michigan State the title. MSU Coach Duffy Daugherty scheduled an afternoon practice yesterday, remarking "There was a certain feeling of frustration on the squad and naturally this post- ponement takes the edge off a peak to which both teams have been building. We'll have to start all over again the next few days to rebuild that edge." Proper Thing "I think almost everybody on the squad felt the postponement was the right thing to do," added Illinois mentor Pete Elliott. "These boys all understood it and felt that in the face of this terrible, unbelievable thing that football at the moment had no proper place in the national condition." Fast Service-on khakis- AND DONE THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM! Khakis are a major item in every student's wardrobe. Some like them washed and others prefer to have them dry- cleaned. Whatever your preference may be, we'd like to make one point--Greene's can do them exactly the way you like them . . . either way. FAST SERVICE ON SHIRTS, TOO! * MIDDIES FAVORED: Army-Navy Rescheduling Awaiting Final Decision If fl f 01 p ti C f S S C on the campus 9 1213 So. University 0 516 E. Liberty X41 By The Associated Press The status of the Nov. 30 Army- Navy football game remained in doubt yesterday, awaiting a final decision from Washington by the Defense Department and the Army and Navy following the as- sassination of President Kennedy. "It is a matter of coordination between ,the institutions and the Army, Navy and Defense Depart- ments in Washington," a spokes- man said at WesthPoint. "We're all in a state of shock. No deci- sion may be reached until next week. As the late President was the Commander-in-Chief of the service academies, it is likely that there will be no action taken on any superficial matters, such as a football game, until after the funeral. If the game is played on sched- ule, Roger Staubach and his pass- minded Navy mates will be favored. 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