Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 113, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 January 1983 — Page 9
Changes do not always improve Rv STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor High school athletic programs will be hurt if legislation is passed to limit the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s participation restrictions, according to South Putnam High School Athletic Director Jim Huter. Huter spoke to the largest crowd of the DePauw University basketball season during Tuesday’s edition of Tiger Talk at the Student Memorial Union building about the proposed legislation and about Indiana and Kentucky high school basketball. “TO ME, WHAT the IHSAA is trying to do is prevent the exploitation of high school athletes,” Huter said. “To maintain amateurism is the only thing that should be done for high school athletes because you grow up too fast.” Huter’s comments were made in relation to a recent news story in which Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut supported legislation to be introduced by State Senator Virginia Blankenbaker that would limit the power of the IHSAA. Hudnut is upset the Indianapolis high school basketball players are prohibited from participating in the annual Scarborough Peace Games - an annual event between Indianapolis and Scarborough, Canada. “I KNOW FOR sure these business men, the clubs, these organizations, when they get the youngsters they’re going to buy them uniforms that are more expensive than the high schools can afford. They are going to give them jackets, trophies and pay their transportation costs, feed them and when they come back to the high school there is going to be some comparison right away,” Huter said. After nearly 30 years of high school coaching, plus five years as an athletic director, not to mention being a college basketball official in the Ohio Valley Conference at ohe time, Huter spoke to the group out of experience. He coached the type of athletes Indianapolis has and Hudnut wants in the Peace games to draw more people into the bleachers and money into the coffers. During his 27-year coaching career, that ended in 1977, Huter coached at Flaget, DeScales and Male high schools in Louisville and at Henryville, Ind. before coming to Greencastle High 'School in 1974. ' “I think the biggest difference between the high school 'players is the averages are a little misleading,” Huter said comparing Indiana and Kentucky high school players. “I think the "officials protect the shooter so much more in Indiana.” BUT THE COACH of the 1970 and 1971 Kentucky state champjpnship teams at Louisville Male, feels like because of family traditions the players are better shooters. “I definitely feel the better offensive players, from my associations, are from Indiana and I think it’s because it’s instilled in them,” Huter said. Once while coaching in Louisville some players ask the coach for some advice before going into an all-star contest with Indiana players as teammates. “Don’t ever take the ball out. If you take the ball out you'll never get it back,” Huter said drawing a big laugh from the Tiger Talk crowd. “I think in Indiana when the kids report to the scorer their arm is cocked. ” Huter has coached against Indiana players as well. In 1970 he was the assistant coach in the Indiana-Kentucky High School basketball all-star game. The man who won 402 games and lost only 231 during his coaching days was the head coach in 1971. SOME OF HIS former players include NBA star Darrell Griffith, 1973 Kentucky Mr. Basketball Wesley Cox, Flaget High School product Paul Hornung, 1962 NIT most valuable player Henry Stein and Dallas Cowboy assistant coach Howard Snellenberger who went on from Flaget to the University of Kentucky to become an All-American football player. Kentucky’s strength, as a general statement, is team play, according to Huter. “I think the team concept is stronger in Kentucky and there are more hardnosed people,” the coach said. “YOU DON’T HAVE to have the basketball to play the game,” Huter pointed out. “A lot of kids in Kentucky get college scholarships because they take pride in blocking out, going after the loose ball, getting the ball off the boards and getting it into the hands of the shooter or the passer in crucial situations. They don’t have to have the basketball.” That thinking could be why he and Indiana University coach Bob Knight have had a strong professional relationship. Huter first met Knight while at DeScales High School. Knight was an assistant coach to Tates Locke at Army and was in Louisville recruiting two players, both 6-7, 210 or so “and still growing,” Huter related. Huter’s player did not go to Army, but Knight must have liked something because “coach Knight was instrumental in me coming back to this area.” PRIOR TO COMING to Greencastle, Huter’s only losing season as a high school coach was his first year, or half-year. When the Flaget coach resigned early in the 1949-50 season, second-year assistant Huter took over with 16 games remaining. Huter was 5-16 that first year. At Greencastle the coach went with a youth movement that helped later coach Roger Tuggle. “I learned humility in Greencastle. I never had a losing season until I came to Greencastle. Not that the youngsters didn’t play. I had as good a youngsters to want to play as I’ve ever had, but we were just a little bit down talent wise. But I couldn’t sell the moms and dads on this,” Huter said. This is a man who has coached in four different decades of high school sports. He coached in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and has seen a transition in the athletes, more mental than physical. “I think I coached more attitudes here (Greencastle) than I coached fundamentals and skills elsewhere and I think this is the biggest difference between the athletes today and when I firitstarted coaching,” Huter said. “YOU’LL NEVER GET Jim to admit to this, but he turned down a big job in the spring of 1977 before he was relieved of his position at Greencastle. When you coach at Male, DeScales and Flaget and have outstanding athletes a lot of college coaches see you and see the kind of athlete you turn out. The college coach sees more than the muscles and fundamentals the high school coach has taught, he also sees the attitudes and discipline. Huter was offered the assistantship to Hank Raymonds at Marquette University when A 1 McGuire left the bench. He didn’t take it. Why? , I don’t know, but something tells me that for the first time in fiis coaching career he met a challenge - Greencastle High School. He wanted to make them a winner, instead he only got to watch them win.
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DANVILLE-Tim Rose has a 10-3 record, David Winings is 93, Dale Lawler 13-1, Tim Blocher is 11-3 and yet the North Putnam High School wrestling team is 4-8. NORTH PUTNAM lost 39-21 Monday night at Danville because the Cougars managed to win only four matches. However, the meet also set up another key rematch in Saturday’s West Central Conference meet at South Putnam High School.
Thorpe family receives medals, ending marathon
LOS ANGELES iAP) - “My dad’s life was like a Greek tragedy,” says Grace Thorpe, daughter of the great American Indian athlete. Jim Thorpe. “He went from the bottom to the heights and back down to the bottom again.” On Tuesday, Thorpe’s name again rose to the top, nearly 30 years after his death. Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain, president of the International Olympic Committee, officially returned to Thorpe’s family two gold medals he had won in the 1912 Olympic Games but lost a year later when he was stripped of his amateur status Caravan to Cascade There will be a caravan Friday night from Greencastle High School to Cascade High School for what could be the biggest West Central Conference game of the season. Greencastle High School Athletic Director and basketball coach Doug Miller said the caravan will leave at 6 p m. for Cascade and adults as well as students are welcome to participate. Miller said as many fan buses as necessary would go to Cascade and that adults, as well as the students are welcome to ride them. Please call for fan bus reservations. Cascade currently leads the WCC with a 5-0 record. Greencastle is in second place at 3-0 and the Cubs’ next homecourt opponent, South Putnam, is right behind at 3-1. Friday’s game actually sets up, one way or another, the Jan. 25 home game.
Rose improved his 98-pound record with a first period pin and Billy Henderson's 8-7 decision over Jim Morgan at 105 gave the Cougars a 10-0 headstart. But Danville won the next nine consecutive matches and the meet. Lawler broke Danville’s string with his 13th win of the year in 14 matches. The 185pound senior pinned Danville's Tom Barnett in the first period. BLOCHER WON HIS 11th
“The 70-year-old marathon is over,” said another daughter, Charlotte, 63, one of six Thorpe children who attended the ceremony. Thorpe won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Afterward, he was or« dered to hand them back because he had admitted playing baseball for $2 a game for a resort team in 1910. That was an infringement of the strict rules of amateurism on which the Olympic Games were run. One athlete who competed against Thorpe at Stockholm was Avery Brundage, a 24-year-
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match of the year by first period pin over Bruce Dorsey in the heavyweight class. Winings will enter the WCC meet as the No. 3 seed at 138 pounds. All three of his losses have come to seeded wrestlers, including Danville's Brent Kincaid. Kincaid scored a 7-5 win over Winings. Danville 39. North Putnam 21 98-Tini Rose. NP. first period pin, Gary Smith, D. 105-Billv Henderson. NP, 8-7 decision, Jim Morgan. I) 112-John Molloy, D. 10-4 decision, Sam
old American who went on to become a powerful president of the lOC and refused to budge one inch from the Olympic code of amateurism. Through the 20 years of Brundage’s presidency, every plea for the return of Thorpe’s medals to his family was futile. Brundage’s successor, Lord Killanin, was no more sympathetic. But under Killanin, and again under Samaranch, the eligibility rules were broadened by stages. The Olympic Charter does not mention amateurism any more. Julian K. Roosevelt, elected to the lOC executive board last
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor When a college basketball game is as lopsided as Tuesday night’s DePauw University 98-56 victory over Manchester College, there is a natural question about the competition and the performance of the victorious team. “We played that well,” coach Mike Steele said after the third consecutive victory improved DePauw’s record to 6-5. DePAUW PLAYED AND shot that well. The Tigers set a school record by hitting 43 of 63 shots from the floor for 68 per cent and that is with the substitutes playing the final six minutes. Every DePauw player dressed played and the worst shooting by any player was Phil Wendel’s four-for-eight night. “Take away the score and we played pretty well. Our defense was good and so was our ball movement,” Steele said. “I thought we played really well.” Manchester came into Lilly Center with a 212 record, a deceiving mark at that. The Spartans won their second game of the year Saturday at Earlham, a team that beat defending NCAA Division 111 national champ Wabash. They lost by one point at Franklin and 10 of their 12 previous setbacks came by seven points or less. DePAUW JUST played better basketball, maybe its best game of the season. The Tigers scored a lot of transition baskets by dominating the board 38-22 and forced the Spartans into 20 turnovers, while committing only 13 themselves. Manchester’s deliberate offense and hard working defense dictated the tempo of the first half. DePauw led 36-22 at halftime mainly by shooting over 58 per cent (17-29). Manchester hit 50 per cent (10-20). The difference was Manchester’s 11 first half turnovers to DePauw’s five. The game’s last tie was at 12-12 with 10 minutes left. Brent Ehrman came off the bench at that point to ignite a 10-0 Tiger scoring streak RUT AN SNAPPED THE tie with an 18-footer from the baseline corner and Ehrman followed by putting his own missed shot back in for two. Rutan hit a technical foul free throw and Ehr-
Rose, NP. I 19-Gary Schneider, I), 6-0 decision, Rian l.athrop. NP. 126-Randy Sleinmelz, I). 8-3 decision. Terry Judy, NP. 132-Mark Harper. I). 5-0 decision. Dae id Smith, NP. 138-Brent Kincaid. 1), 7-5 decision. David Winings, NP. 145-Mark Bittelon. I), second period pin. Brian Hallman. NP. 155-Gary Vandergriff, D. third period pin. John Stranger. NP. 167-Jim Vandergriff, D, first period pin. Mitch Zeffel, NP. 177-Ted Zielinski. D. first period pin. Bill Zeffel. NP. 185-Dale l.awler, NP. first period pin. Tom Barnett. D. Hwt.-Tim Blocher. NP. first period pin, Bruce Dorsey, I).
summer, finally persuaded the board to return the medals. “I don’t think it’s possible to say why this has happened just now,” said William Simon, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. “All I know is that I am very lucky to be the president of our committee when it happened. I would like to pay tribute to President Samaranch, who had the courage, the compassion and the wisdom to see these issues as they really are.” One of those who did not try to get the medals returned was Thorpe himself. “Thousands of people have worked to get dad’s medals
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man received two more when the Spartans were whistled for an obvious goal tend. DePauw’s starting forwards Joe Dixon and Dave Hathaway outrebounded Manchester starters Garrett Davenport and Kent Workman 13- for the game and triggered several fastbreaks. Dixon ripped off a rebound and caught the breaking Wendel for a 21-12 Tiger lead during the streak. Ehrman’s three-point play at 5:24 put the Tigers ahead 24-12. Manchester never got inside 10 points again and was never inside of the 14- halftime margin during the second half. AFTER HITTING 17 of 29 in the first half DePauw shot over 77 per cent (26-34) from the floor during the second half. Ball movement, offensive rebounds and transition baskets all came together during the second half. Steele went to the bench early and it appeared 27 might be the final margin as the two teams traded baskets. But during the last six minutes of play, junior Steve Strup and freshman Neal Ogle hit three-for-three from the floor, and freshmen Joe Vanderkolk and Scott Arrington were two-for-three. Every player who got into the game for both teams, scored. ANOTHER contributing factor to DePauw’s second half blow out was Manchester’s shooting. After hitting 50 per cent the first half, the Spartans connected on only 15 of 33 (45 per cent) in the second. The now 6-5 Tigers take their three-game winning streak on the road to Purdue Calumet Thursday and to Olivet Nazarene the 21st. MANCHESTER (52) Davenport 5 2-2 1 12, Workman 10-0 12, German 7 2-10 2 16. Robinson 2 0-0 :t 4, Bell 3 0-0 4 6, Farmer 1 0-0 4 2, Bosak 10-12 2, Patrick I 0-0 1 2, Hunter 3 1-3 1 7, Jennings 1 1-2 0 3. TOTALSFG 25 FT 6-18 PF 19. DePAI’W (98) Dixon 60-00 12, Hathaway 6 2-2 2 14, Huser 2 1-135, Rutan 2 1-1 1 5, Wendel 4 0-1 3 8, Vieke 4 1-2 0 9, Aponte 3 0-0 5 6. Ehrman 4 3-3 211, Van Pelt I 0-0 12, Strup 3 0-0 06, Ogle 3 1-10 7, Vanderkolk 2 2-2 0 6, Myers 1 0-0 2 2, Arrington 2 0-1 1 4. Truax 0 1-2 0 1. TOTALS-FG 43 FT 12-16 PF 20. Rebounding MANCHESTER <22>-German 7, Robinson 1, Bell 3. Farmer 1, Bosak 2, Jennings 2, Team 4. DePACW (38>-Dixon 6, Hathaway 7, Huser 3, Rutan 3, Wendel I. Vieke 1. Aponte 2, Ehrman 5, Strup 1. Ogle 1, Vanderkolk 2. Myers 2. Arrington 2, Truax 1, Team 1. Halftime score: DPI' 36. MC 22: Turnovers: DPI! 13, MC 20; Assists: DPI' 28 (Rutan 6, Wendel 4). MC 12 (Farmer 5); Steals: DPI' 12 < Dixon 4), MC 4 (Robinson 2).
Knight still coach BLOOMINGTON. Ind. (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee anc the U.S. Amateur Basketball Association have reaffirmed their support for Bob Knight as coach of the 1984 U.S. Olymj ic team. Knight, t ie Indiana University coach, was criticized in a recent edit* rial in the Washington Post, which called for his removal as U.S. Olympic coach because of his behavior during the P an American Games in Puerto Rico in 1979. “Our director, Col. Don Miller, has given all his support to Bob Knight,” said USOC publiicist Mike Moran. “Basically, what Don Miller said when I talked to him was that this (complaint) happens all the time, that we’ve received letters once in a while obiecting to Bob but that we’ve made our choice and we’ve accepted what the ABA-USA has done.”
returned, but not dad himself,” said Grace Thorpe, 61, of Tahlequah. Okla. “He didn't even like speaking about them.” “I think he simply had the satisfaction of knowing he had won two Olympic events, and was content with that,” she said. The medals presented to the family were replicas of the ones Thorpe won. The replicas were cast in the same Swedish foundry where the medals were made for the 1912 Games. “It would be unfair to ask survivors of the second place finishers to return their medals,” Samaranch said.
When Thorpe’s medals were taken from him in 1912 they were given to the men who finished second to him Ferdinand Bie of Norway in the pentathlon and Hugo Wieslander of Sweden in the decathlon. Bie’s medal was among family possessions stolen three years ago and has never been traced. The other is believed to be in Stockholm, in a large chest containing hundreds of Olympic relics. “It would be a very difficult task to find it and identify it,” said Wolf Lyberg, secretary of the Swedish Sports Association. Thorpe, born in 1888 as part of the Sac and Fox Indian tribe.
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