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Show uc LA Win Bruins Beat Seminoles By Five Slim Points, 8 1 76 if VJ 1 straight ot 6-- 81-7- Watts Cookin' Sunday, March 28, 1972 nt Stan Bates Talks About Values of Athletics Stan Bates, the commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference, takes every chance he gets to tell people about the benefit of athletics. He's sold on the value of sports, and feels that it is even going to be more important in the future than it has been in the past. Speaking at the Provo Kiwanis Club recently he outlined what he considers some of the main values of athletics. "I'm from the old school, I guess, because I still certainly believe in the value of discipline, and sports is one of the best places for our youngsters to learn that trait. Sports are also especially good at developing Bates said. "Loyalty is another benefit. It might be the most important word in the dictionary. If we had more loyalty from top to bottom in all walks of life our problems would be lessened," he pointed out "Tolerance is another trait taught in athletics. Sometimes problems have crept into athletics in this regard, but it his usually been from outside pressures. Athletes aren't concerned about the social class of their teammates, but are mainly concerned about whether he can block or tackle," Bates said. "Leadership is also developed in athletics. This is a trait that has deteriorated in many walks of life, home, education, church, and government. It isn't true in all cases, but generally speaking our leadership in many of those areas. Politicians are more concerned about their own positions than in offering the leadership that we need. Parents, educators, and church officials sometimes get off target and fail to lead us," he noted. He mentioned other traits, such as courage, sportsmanship, obedience, and others. "We must play to win, but sometimes there is too much emphasis on that. Sometimes it's even overdone to the point of winning at all costs. You don't always win. Sometimes its bitter to lose, but it makes you better," he said. Praises BYU Team He singled out BYU's loss to Long Beach State as an example of how to lose. "I died a thousand deaths during that game. I don't know when I wanted a team to win more than BYU in that game. After the game I went looking for Stan Watts to see if I could give him a lift, but Stan lifted me," Bates said. "I went into the dressing room and talked to each of the individual players. They held no alibing, . their heads high, accepted defeat, just disappointment. This is what athletics is all about," Bates said. Bates has done a fine job in his first year as the commissioner of the conference. He replaced a very capable administrator in Wiles Hallock, and he has now the commissioner cf the PAC-off and Wiles left where successfully picked up has continued to strengthen the conference. 8, ' x .: . LOS the NCAA tournament consolation game. UCLA met Florida State in the second and championship game. victory over Louisville in McAdoo, a six foot nine leaper from Greensboro, N.C., had It of his points in the second half and also picked off 19 rebounds as North Carolina salvaged third place in the final round of four. The Tar Heels 5 were upset by Florida State in Thursday night's semifinals. ANGELES (UPI) -Rscored 30 points and Denis Suycik added 27 Saturday as North Carolina's Tar Heels scored a wire to wire 105-9- 1 Jim Ryun Hits Pace 79-7- Last year's Nit champions In Florida CV'" GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)-J- im Ryun, who said he was "doing something right for a change," ran a relaxed 2:56.3 three-quartmile Saturday to lead the Club West team to an easy win in the distance medley relay at the 29th annual Florida fi ' ' er 11 at points halftime and padded that margin to 16 points at 1 in lf the first eight and minutes of the second half. But the Seminoles from Tallahassee, Fla., reeled off nine unanswered points in the next 2:04 to make it When Walton picked up his fourth foul with 8:36 remaining and Wooden the score was inserted reserve center Swen Nater. When Walton went back in the game with 5:24 remaining the score was The final score was the closest Florida State got in the second 67-5- one-ha- , Relays. Ryun, world record holder in the mile and runs, said he was pleased with bis performance here after having finished last in a mile run in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. "It doesn't mean I will go out and run a 3:50 tomorrow, but it means I am doing something right for a change," said the d former Kanlanky, sas staf. "These are the best two races I've run this year," said Ryun, who turned in a 1:48.6 effort as the Club We3t team won the relay Friday h sNw 880-ya- 67-6- 67-5- 4 77-6- 8. two-mi- 48-3- 6 6-- 21-a- ll fjf inserted reserves and Larry Curtis Hollyfield with 9:12 to go in the opening half and they responded with a basket apiece in the next 29 seconds to put UCLA 5 into a lead. From that point, the Bruins never trailed. The biggest UCLA lead in the first half was 12 points at 6 with 1:42 to go. The Bruins left the court with a 9 intermission lead. Bill Wall of MacMurray Col'-igof Illinois, president of the coaches' association, Friday blasted Florida State Coach Hugh Durham for his recruiting tactics and said the Seminoles should not have been allowed to be here. Florida State, coming off three years of NCAA probation for recruiting violations, ended at 27-its season The Seminoles upset No. 2 ranked 4 North Carolina Thursday night to get into the championship game. Box: G F T Florida State (71) 11 3 Garrett 29-2- 48-3- 50-3- e 79-7- King 56 25 Royals McCray Samuel Harris 0- -0 - Petty 27 IS 8 6 16 1 1 31 Totals G (ID UCLA Wilkes 11 Farmer Curtis Hollyfield Nater Totals 9 76 T F 12 23 2 0 0 9 0 0 0 8 2 3 4 1 0 0 Walton Lee Bibby 1 Halftime: UCLA 39. 36 50 4 LOS ANGELES (UPI) -UCLA stars Bill Walton and Henry Bibby, who helped propel the Bruins to their sixth NCAA basketball crown Saturday, said they played one of their "poorer title game games" in the 6 State. over Florida victory "We played an excellent team in Florida State," the Walton said. "But we really didn't play our game. We don't like to back into things. We like to win convincingly." Walton appeared almost disin a post game consolate interview and some sports writers chided him for acting straight 81-7- 6-- - New Mexico took the title 316 points, followed by host Arizona State with 309.40, Brig-haYoung with 2S8, Colorado State 275.90, Utah 265.25, and Arizona 242.95. with m ANGELES (UPI) -UBill Walton was voted the outstanding player of the NCAA basketball finals after the Bruins won their sixth straight championship by beating Florida State Saturday. sophomore, Walton, a also !ed the voting for the team, which included Keith Wilkes of UCLA, also a sophomore, Warren King, Florida State; Robert McAdoo, North Carolina, and Jim Price, of Louisville. 6--U srfi er UCLA Seminoles. ar Individual titlists will be cided Saturday night. de- Dates Set for Ivicek continued to lead for all-arou- honors wi'h had the lead 105.65 in the with 18.35 points. He long horse event points and on the parallel bars much early. UCLA keeps the pressure on you and they we played well. I thought played the game with a lot of heart and character." BYU Hoop Clinic dates for the Second Cougar Basketball with 18.40. School have been set according He also was second on still to coach Glenn Potter, director rings and fourth on the high of the school. Two bar and in the floor exercise. sessions have been Set with the and the Ivicek's closest opponent for the first starting June title was Roijer Hal- - second beginning June The Annual er 0, 18-2- 4. Lilley. Ryun said his next competition will be in the run at the Texas Relays April 8. He will run the 1,500 meters the at the Kansas Olympic mile Relays April 22. 880-ya- Coast Conference champions started again. The closest Louisvilli could get in the second half was 10- -?' The with 2:21 remaining. b3gest North Carolina bulge was 18 at 3 with 4:04 left. George Karl had 16 points and reserve Bobby Jones added 11 for the Tar Heels while Ron Thomas collected 14 for Louisville. Despite committing 17 turnovers, the Tar Heels left the court halftime advan4 with a tage. North Carolina ran up a 0 lead in the opening minutes and stretched its advantage to 14--3 on a tip in by Bill chamberlain with 2:56 gone. With nine minutes left in the first half, the Tar Heels from Chapel Kill held a 15 point bulge at North Carolina, which ended its season with a 26--5 record, outshot Louisville from the floor, 61 per cent to 41 per cent. The Cardinals, who also wound were up the season at 26-Box: outrebounded 51-3- 5-- 28-1- 3. 5, 46-3- 8. No. Carolina (105) Chamberlain 8 12 2 Wuyick NcAdoo Previs . T 9 27 30. 6 6 35 7 4 5 16 6 0 0 4 ' 3 4 11 0 0 0 00 0 1 0 4 0 0 00 0 3 105 36 Karl Huband Jones Johnston Corson Hite Chambers Elston Totals Louisville Lawhon Thomas Vilcheck F G 4 G 4 (91) 5 3 Price 9 Bacon Bunton 3 2 F T 56 13 14 4 2 5 6 6 3 7 8 Carter l 12 00 Cooper Bradley Meiman Stalling 2 4 5 Pry Totals Halftime: 1 0 1 1 32 00 00 00 00 9 North Carolina 8 23 : 12 5 2 8 2 0 2 2 91 51 Louisville 34. BYU Golf Team Wins Fifth Straight The BYU golf team won its again refused to fifth straight tournament of this compare this team with UCLA school year Saturday afternoon champions of the past. "Cerby winning the Fresno Classic, tainly this is one of the finest but it was the first time in those teams I've ever had," he said. five tournaments that the He also said he has i plans to Cougars haven't also won retire. medalist honors. The Cougars defeated Arizona "I'll be back. Fcr how long I don't want to say. I guess it State by a six stroke margin to will be until my wife says I've win the team title Saturday afternoon, but Lon Hinkle of San got to get out." Walton said, "I give lots of Diego State won medalist honors credit to this Florida State with a two under par 216. HinHo shot rounds of 76, 69, team. They are a good basketball team, but personally and 69 to v.in individual honors I feel I did not play a good by one stroke over Stanford's Conrad Nilmeir. game." Joey Dills of BYU and Howard Durham, asked if he thought of Arizona State shot Twitty UCLA played badly, said, 216s to finish in a tie for "UCLA is a great team. I can't even par Dills won the playoff and third, if they had a poor game say because I haven't seen them by sinking a three foot putt for that much, but anytime a team an eagle on the first playoff hole. plays poorly it's usually the Lanze Suzuki finished in a tie other team that makes it that for fifth with a score of 220 for way." Durham praised Walton for the second best BYU scce. his "great timing, great hands BYU shot 1336 for the 54 hole and fine offpn!ive rpbt.:"Hini," tournament whil AjruBM SUtft Wooden deman of Utah, who had 96.60 points. Gary Alexander of ASU led the floor exercise event with 18.20 points, and Dan Smith, also of ASU, had the lead on still rings with 18.50 Two other New Mexico team members lsd the two remaining events. Fred Cardenas had an 18.20 effort on the side horse and Jon Aitken had a performance on the high bar. Olympics. He finished second in the 1,500-metrun in the 1968 Olympics to Kipchoge Keino of Kenya, Africa. "It wasn't what the press wrote or anything. !t was just what I expected of myself, Ryun said. He said the key to learning how to relax in a race was experience. "I fell very lethargic before today's race but I put no pressure on myself and ran well," he said. Van Dyke, who ran a 4:06.4 mile on the final le for the Santa Barbara, Calif., Club West team, said he took over the mile leg "to give Jim a bit of a rest mentally." This weekend's races were the first competition for the team, which also includes Mark Winzenreid and John this year'? had lost to the game and I've noticed there are always a lot of turnovers Bibby, the only graduating and mistakes. "The pleasing thing to me is Bruin starter, said he was when we got behind early, that with the extremely happy victory but agreed that UCLA we showed patience. We got ball Saturday. behind because of their excelplayed sub-p"We did make mistakes and lent outside shooting. You can just didn't play well," he said. be hurt by outside shooting but "But then you can't expect to not beaten by it. That is, when play a perfect game every time it is a game between two good teams, and obviously the teams out." Coach John Wooden clearly today were good," Wooden said. Florida State Coach Hugh was not as critical of the team's play as were Bibby and Durham praised UCLA and Walton. "I den't think we blamed his team's loss on "too played s poorly as the players many mental mistakes." "We could have played better think. There's always a lot of emotion in a championship if we could have kept our people in there," he said. "That's no criticism of the officials. We just fouled too as if Gymnastics Title New TEMPE, Ariz. (UPI) 18 Mexico's Jim Ivicek continued 8 his domination of the individu2 al events and paced the Lobos 2 11 to the team title Friday night Florida in the Western Athletic Conference Gymnastic Champion- Best in Tourney - wia. fortunately, this classic battle between Walton and McCray was temporarily ended a few minutes later then McCray picked up his third personal fool and he was replaced until the start of the second half. lobes Win Conference 0 Walton Named LOS '. J Super Sophomore Walton Praises Florida State Team ships. CLA's V fjf 0 0 Cole T THIS SHOT BY UCLA's Bill Walton was blocked by Florida State's Lawrence McCray in the early stages of the NCAA Championship basketball game. Timing it perfectly, McCray swatted the shot away. Un footers and Walton added a bank shot and a free throw. Tommy ( I 6-- 91-7- le in 7:22.2. The Club West team had a lead when Ryun got the baton for the third leg of the distance medley. He stretched the lead to 200 yards before Jere Van Dyke took over for the anchor mile leg. The team's winning time was 9:41.9. Ryun, who said he was bothered with hay fever last year, said he was "very tight" at the first of the year as he began serious preparations for 21-1- were in front all the way and led by 17 points at halftime. They never let the Cardinals get closer than 10 points in the second half. Jim Price, a 2 senior guard, paced Louisville, a 19 point semifinal loser to UCLA, with 23 points despite fouling out with 4:20 to go. McAdoo, the first junior college player to perform at North Carolina in coach Dean tenure there, Smith's was 12 out of 20 from the field. The Cardinals looked as if they might make a gam out of it when they came out and scored the first six points of the second half but a basket by McAdoo with 1:49 gone got the Atlantic dark-haire- half. For the game, Florida State outshot UCLA 46.3 per cent to 46.2 while the Bruins enjoyed a rebounding edge. Stung by a blast by the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Florida State jumped out to a 4 lead in the. first 6:44 as King, a talented 4 junior from Louisville, bit on four of his first five shots. At that point it was the farthest UCLA had been behind in this season and the crowd of 15,063 was stunned. But UCLA caught up at as Bibby hit on a pair of 12 7 obert McAdoo 15. Dr. Milton Hartvigsen, Dean of Bates pointed out that financing continues to be the number one problem in the conference. "Interest in athletics is growing, attendance figures are up, but costs are up also," he said. "We depend on student fees for much of the Income, but that source of revenue is precarious in some places," he noted. "Our income isn't staying parallel with the rising costs, but we are hoping to be able to keep our programs strong," he stated. ' it It also was the 45th straight triumph for the Bruins over two years and gave them 32 consecutive wins in post season tournament play, a record. Florida State was led by Ron King with 27 points, Ron Harris with 16 and Reggie Royals with UCLA led by Page Tops Louisville For Third Place 1964. Stote the College of Physical Education, introduced Stan at the meeting, and said, "Stan Bates has earned the respect of every president and athletic director in this conference. He is a man of integrity." I second half because cf four teamfouls. His mate, Henry Bibby, the only senior on John Wooden's starting five, came through with 18 points, 16 of them in the first half. - The victory gave Wooden his eighth NCAA championship in nine years and third perfect 30-- 0 season at UCLA. The Bruins also went unbeaten in 1967 and Wooden "Perseverance is another trait taught in athletics. Athletics is a lot like life. It's hard to work your way to the top. The great athlete learns that perseverance pays dividends," Bates said. THE HERALD North Carolina 105-9- WQLJ (T i For the Bruins, favorites, it was their closest call of the season. They had an average victory margin of 31.2 points during tht season and their closest previous win was by six points. North Carolina, with Robert McAdoo scoring 30 points and Dennis Wuycik adding 27, von the consolation game with a 1 victory over Louisville. Walton, winner of the Nais-mit- h award as college basketball's player of the year, also 20 down rebounds pulled although he sat out 6:02 of the Ey JOE WATTS a A 1 V -- LOS ANGELES (UPI) -NCAA basketball Mighty UCLA with cool sopho- championship Saturday. The Bruins six-fomores Bill Walton and Keith eleven Wilkes combining for 47 points, led the way with held off unstart Florida State 24 points and the 6 Wilkes for a 6 victory and its sixth came through with 23. r h 7 finished six strokes back at 1342. Others in order of finish were Stanford at 1348, San Diego State at 1357, New Mexico at 1358, and Oregon at 1360. The BYU individual scores were as follows: Lanze Joey Dills, Ray Leach, Suzuki, Dave Shipley, Randy Tiesiera, Robert Harris, Wooden's f , UynQStV' LOS ANGELES (UPl)-Jo- hn Wooden's dynasty is still intact but the rest of the college one has world basketball consolation-- it's getting closer. W o o d e n's mighty UCLA Bruins received their closest call in eight NCAA championships since 1964 five |