The Michigan Daily-Thursday, December 7, 1978-Page 13
SPORTS OF THE DAILY
Army's Smith discharged
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Homer Smith was
fired as Army's head football coach
yesterday, after recording one winning
season in five years and losing four of
five games to arch-rival Navy.
In a terse announcement, the Public
Affairs Office of the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, N.Y., disclosed
that the 47-year-old Smith's contract
would not be renewed. Smith compiled
a 21-33-1 record as Army's 27th head
coach.
Raymond P. Murphy, Army's
athletic director, said the search for a
new coach would begin immediately.
Smith, whose original four-year con-
tract expired last season, was given a
one-year extension after Army posted a
7-4 record in 1977 and defeated Navy 17-
14, capping the Cadets' first winning
campaign in five years and their best
record since 1968. Following the season,
Smith was named Eastern Coach of the
Year by the Football Writers
Association of New York.
ASU ridders barred
TEMP ~,Ariz. - Frank Kush,
Arizonan State University football
coach, has suspended four players, in-
cluding two starters, because they
missed the team bus after the Nov. 25
University of Arizona contest in Tuc-
son.
Kush has decided that they'll also
miss the Dec. 16 Garden State Bowl
game against Rutgers.
Starters Gary Padjen, a middle
linebacker, and Joe Peters, a defensive
tackle, have been sidelined, along with
John Fouch, a reserve quarterback,
and running back Arthur Lane.
Cincy slapped
CINCINNATI - The University of
Cincinnati basketball program will be
placed on probation, The Cincinnati
Enquirer reported yesterday.
The university received a letter in
June from the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA) which
raised 40 specific points regarding
alleged irregularities in the school's
basketball and football program.
The inquiries were the result of an in-
vestigation that began in1976.
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NHL action at Detroit's Olympia last night. The Wings were coming from behind all night, as Dale McCourt and Nick
ibett scored the last two goals of the game to bring Detroit into a 2-2 tie with the vaunted Habs.
Meyer on
target for
Olympics
BY JOHN LIBBE
Greg Meyer has come full circle.
After undergoing knee surgery in
une of 1977, the former three-time All-
merican in cross country at Michigan,
ade the commitment to give running
is best shot. On November 25th he did
st that.
On that day, Meyer came home the
ictor in the national AAU cross-
ountry meet in Seattle. His time over
0,000 meters of brutal hills at the West
eattle Golf Course was 29:35.9.
+Meyer edged out Alberto Salazar, a
unior at the University of Oregon, for
he win. "We were running side by
ide," said Meyer. "At 200 yards from
he finish the idea of a tie came up. At
50 yards, we decided it was a bad
dea." He subsequently outsprinted
alazar to the finish line to win by a
ard.
.Meyer now runs for the Greater
oston Track Club. What prompted the
ove to Boston? "The running en-
ironment," he said. "Ann Arbor is a
ood place to train, but I needed more
xperience against better people. Billy
onakowski will probably find that
jut "
"I have connections to more races
oi. The midwest runners often get
added over. Also, I'm getting a better
rspective on running. It's a yearly
hing, not season to season."
Meyer is definitely not planning to
est on his laurels as AAU champ. He'll
e traveling to different races in the
ext few months.
"I go to Portugal January 21st for an
nternational cross country race. My
irst really major race is the World
ross Country Championships in
imerick, Ireland in March."
The Olympic trials are really not too
ar off, and Meyer is already pointing
oward that event. "The 10,000 meters
ill probably be my best bet. Most
ikely the 10,000 or the steeplechase, or
aybe the 5000."
Has he given any thought to winning?
'On any given day it could happen.
aybe not in '80 but in '84. I'll be get-
ing in extra strength training." '
His former coach, Ron Warhurst,
onfidently predicts, "Meyer will be the
est American 10,000 meter runner next
ear." And he's doing his very best to
ake the prediction come true.
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