Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1968 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1968

Black athletes fight racial bias at UTEP

NEW YORK,-Black athletes at the University of Texas at El Paso are unhappy about many things, but all share a simple whish: that the members of the University athletic department would stop referring to them as “niggers.” Part III of Jack Olsen's copyrighted series in Sports Illustrated “The Black Athlete-a Shameful Story” is an in-depth story of the Negro athlete at UTEP. Revealed for the first time is an account of the Negro football team members’ “sit-in” protest, early in the ‘67 season, which was withheld from the press in a deal with Coach Bobby Dobbs and which brought no results. Olsen also includes a full account of the recent boycott of the Brigham Young trackmeet by UTEP’s Negro track squad members which’ resulted in the whilesale cancellation of their athletic scholarships. U. S. Olympic gold medal hope Bob Beamon is among them. He told Olsen that the day after he lost his scholarship his bank called him on an outstanding loan and his wife was fired from her job. UTEP, Olsen explains in SI this week, has less than 200 Negro students in 10,000, but it has been the great Negro athletes there who have brought the

school from obscurity to renwon and helped its expansion program. But, he emphasizes that his purpose in this installment is to tell the story of those athletes who were used and how they were used-not why. UTEP often fields an entirely Negro basketball team, a roughly half - and- half -integrated football team and a pre-

dominantly Negro track team, Olsen points out, and he explains that UTEP president Dr. Joseph Ray, Athletic Director George Me Carty, Assistant Athletic Director Jim Bowden and all the coaches are enthusiastic about the school's Negro athletes. Olsen stresses that the school administrators are not

ly feel they have done well by their Negro athletes and believe that these athletes think the world of them. In reality, Olsen reports, the Negro athletes at UTEP suffer acutely from the pressures and loneliness of racism on the campus and in the athletic department. In the words of Willie CaTURN TO PAGE 11

Brown marks signs contract with Caps

Linebreaker Brown Marks became the third member oflndiana University’s 1967 Big Ten co-champions to join the Indianapolis Capitols when he signed a 1968 contract Saturday. Marks, a6-foot-2, 225 pounder, had been the 16th draft choice of the Cincinnati Bengals in the American Football League but was released last

Wednesday.

General Manager Dean Griffing of the Caps, preparing for their inaugural season in the Continental Professional Football League, signed him im-

mediately.

Marks, who just turned 20 years old in April, received a degree in marketing from I.U. in June. He's a native of Magnolia, Miss., where he was an all-state football guard and ranked No. 1 scholastically in a high school graduating class

of 60.

At Indiana, he played defensive halfback as a sophomore, defensive end as a junior and linebacker as a senior. His I.U. coaches describe him as fast and aggressive with the ability to recover from a mis-

take.

He was, one of the standout performers of last year’s squad which compiled a 9-1 record, shared the Big Ten title with Purdue and Minnesota and then

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lost to Southern California ih the Rose Bowl. As a junior, he ranked fifth on the team in tackles with 61 and caught eight enemy runners for a minus 48 yards. Last year he missed the first two games because of injuries but eventually ranked fourth in tackles with 71, nine against Purdue in the Old Oaken Bucket game. *** The Caps began practice Monday at Marion College. The practice schedule calls fordai~ly workouts Monday through Friday at 6:30 p.m., and they’re all open to the public. Scrimages are scheduled for the next three Saturdays - July 20-27, Aug. 3-at 10 a.m., the last one under game conditions except for kickoffs. The first exhibition game is scheduled Saturday, Aug. 10, at San Antonio, a member of TURN TO PAGE 11

DOUGLASS ALL-STARS: Above ore the Douglass Little League All-Stars, currently vying for the state title. They defeated Danville Tuesday night 4-3 and were to meet Zionsville Wednesday night for the Area 3 title. Pictured kneelinq are (left to right) J.

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Jesse Owens gets AL post BOSTON-Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, was named last week to the public relations staff of the American League. President Joe Cronin, who announced the appointment of the 55-year-old grandfather, said Owens would work out of a special league office in Chicago, where he lives and operates a public relations firm. “I am delighted to have such a wonderful addition to our league,” Cronin said. “Jesse TURN TO PAGE 11

Pro cagers play for King fund

NEW YORK—Plans to stage a professional basketball AllStar game in memory of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., have been completed. The sports tribute to Dr. King was announced by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, New York Mayor John V. Lindsey and Oscar Robertson, star of the Cincinnati Royals

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and president of the National Basketball Association Players Association. At a news conference at City Hall, Lindsay and Robertson said the All-Star game involving 30 NBA stars will take place Aug. 15 at Singer Bowl in Flushing, N.Y. Proceeds from the game will go to the conference and the Mayor commission on Youth and Physical Fitness. Robertson said the game is an outgrowth of the players’ deep feeling that “something must be done to honor the memory of Dr. King.” The game will feature the first all-pro squad against the second all - pro unit, the members of which were selected in balloting at the end of last season. All athletes will pay their own expenses. Robertson and Jerry Lucas of the Cincinnati Royals, Wilt Chamberlain of the 76ers, Dave Bing of the Detroit Pistons and Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers will be on the first squad. Jerry West of the Lakers, Hal Greer of the 76ers, Bill Russell and JohnHavilcekofthe Boston Celtics, and Willis Reed of New York are among the players on the second unit.

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