Show In Addition to His Passing Heath Beath Was as Quite a Skipper MADISON Wis Nov No 3 UP UP- UP Stan Heath Nevadas Nevada's star football football foot foot- ball passer passe was dropped from the thc University of ot Wisconsin in the summer of oC 1947 for flagrant n ne neglect neglect ne- ne of ot classes university spokesmen said aid Wednesday They emphasized that he did not quit Wisconsin voluntarily Heath was quoted that he quit Wisconsin because he didn't get a n chance to pass s the ball He told Sports Editor R R. G. G Lynch of the Milwaukee Journal I he want to be batting my head off ote a as a blocking back for four years Heath who set a national collegiate collegiate collegiate col col- passing passing- record with the undefeated undefeated undefeated un un- un- un defeated Nevada last Saturday played on the 1946 19 I Wisconsin team as a freshman under under un un- I der del wartime rules His I record was made public after he announced he wanted to turn pro I Chester associate dean of the college of or letters and sei once said Heath was dropped from school at the end of the first se semester semester semester se- se in the 47 1916 school year ear for failures in English geography geography phy Rhy and history said Heath remained out of school for the semester and reentered Wisconsin in May for forthe forthe forthe the 1947 summer Slimmer session session He was dropped in July for flagrant neglect of oC classes he said Heath told Lynch at Reno Nev that the main mam rea reason on he quit Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- was that I had to play 60 per cent of or the time a as blocking back c and 40 per cent of or the time in the T where I 1 wouldn't have havea a chance to pass pass Heath said the coaching staff at Wisconsin think I was much of oC a football player I did I could pass and the they didn't give gi me much of oC a chance to do it Wisconsin coach coch Harry dreher denied this We thought Heath was a fine football player with a great reat deal of oC ability and ad we utilized his talents talents tal tal- tal- tal the best we could the coach said ald He was a n good pa passer ser and had a fine football head Of course one must remember that we also had Jack Wink Vink a as our No 1 quarterback and he was a afine afine afine fine football player Art Lentz Wisconsin sports publicity director said Heath was used strictly as a passer and seldom seldom seldom sel sel- sel- sel dom as a blocker Heath played in seven games at al quarterback and threw 35 passes seven completed completed com com- for yards and two touchdowns Lentz said said he didn't Intend his statement of Heaths Heath's scholas scholas- tic lie record to be a blast against the player He said he merely ly wants to make the university's position clear He sn d lie he warned Heath and hi his father about his scholastic chola tlc record but then we began to get reports that he he was cuttin cutting classes and we had no recourse but to lo dismiss dismiss dis dis- miss him said he made the facts S I clear In letters to Heath his fa ta there ther and andt the c schools school's staff He added that Heath 4 statements that h he a quit volun olun tartly are wrong n i ST SOP LOUIS Nov No 1 vP Wash OB-Wash Wah ash 11 t ted ington un university um inform informed ed Grin Grin Grinnell nell nell uni university Tuesday that It Is h li willing to discuss its use of freshmen fresh resh I I men on its football team |