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Baylor's Dawson Submits Resignation DAWSON (RIGHT) AND SUCCESSOR JIM HALLER Mfce-Journal Rmkes WAfO Just hours before taking on Texas Tech in a key Soutthwest Conference game, Baylor's head basketball coach Carroll Dawson submitted his resignation, and the school turned over the controls to his assistant. In announcing Uawson's sudden resignation after 3Vi years as head coach and a 20-year association with Baylor, the school's athletic c'irector, Jack Patterson, announced that Jim Haller had been elevated to head coach on a permanent basis. Dawson, 37, said quitting that he was leaving "to Rive the team new direction." He was not present at the press conference Thursday afternoon when the- announcement of his resignation was made. At that time, he was informing the team of his decision. Immediately afterwards, he left Waco, saying only that he was going back to his parents' home at Alba, a small community 40 miles northwest of Tyler in East Texas, to "think about it." The decision came after the Bears lost a 75-71 overtime verdict to SMU at Dallas, That left the Bears with a S-J conference record.

They it this point in the season. They will host Texas Tech Saturday night. Ironically, the M-year-old Hatter will playing In his first game as head coach a man who also stepped Into a head position during the middte of the season. Gerald Myers assumed Die reins at Tech one game into the 1971 SWC season, when Bob Bass resigned to accept a position with the Miami Floridians of the now-defunct American Basketball Association. Dawson had a 12'13 record his fiist season after moving up from assistant under Bill Mtmefee.

Dawson's leam wont in 1974-64 and was 12-15 last year. An all-SWC performer for Baylor, Dawson joined the Baylor staff as an assistant in and then took over in' 7,1 when Mencfcc resigned to takeanolher position at Baylor. Mailer joined the Baylor staff when Dawson was elevated. He had been coach at McLennan Community College here. In his only year there, he took the team to the national Junior college tournament.

Haller had played basektball at Dallas Jefferson Sligh School, Lon Morris JC and at Sam Houston Slate. He received his master's degree tt Texas A4M and served as graduate assistant coach while there. Baylor been picked third in the SWC this setatm, behind Arkansas and Houston, The two losses in conference were to here and then to SMU, The tosses may have figured in the decision to quit. However, the decision surprised Baylor officiate In- cuvling Patterson. Dawson conferred with Patterson at length Wednesday morning and later returned to tell the athletic director his mitid was made up on leaving.

"He is an outstanding young man and the entire university and Ihe athletic department wish him the very best in the future," Patterson snid. The Baylor athletic council late Wednesday night accepted Dawson's resignation and passed a resolution recommending to the school administration that Haller be given the head coaching job. After making his decision, Dawson told Baylor athletic department officials he did not know what he would do, beyond returning to Alba to think about the matter. Winning Secondary To Wooden By DON HENRY Executive Sports Editor It's not who won or lost, but how you played the game. Really.

And, John Wooden should know: he has won many, many more than he ever lost while coaching UCLA to ten national basketball championships. This is Wooden's theory, and he expounded on it Thursday afternoon at a press conference. Wooden was in Lubbock to speak at Texas Tech as one of a scries of lecturers at the University Center. He is the first sports figure to speak as part of the cultural series. Wooden closed out his collegiate coaching career with a win over Kentucky in the national finals in and that win was his 885th.

But, winning must be taken in stride, he said Thursday. As he put it, "you don't have to outscore someone to win. "I tried not to put so much emphasis on winning. You must learn to do well. When you lose the incentive to do well, in whatever you're doing, then there should be some concern," he said.

"But, if you put it (the emphasis) on winning strictly, then halt of the people have to be losers. There can only be 50 per cent of the teams winning "To my players (at UCLA). I never mentioned winning. I wanted them to do the best they could. The last thing I'd tell them before we left the dressing room before a game was, 'the main thing when the game is over is to hold your head "If you know you did your best, then yon should not be disappointed." Then, Wooden attacked the theory from a different angle.

"I've tried On coaching) to avoide the peaks and valleys. You would not see any of our teams jumping around, even after our national championship games. Not that they didn't feel the elation of winning. But, we had tried to prepare them for it. "If you don't try to do your best, you lose." Wooden now makes about 30-35 lectures a year on college campuses, in addition to his work in a dozen coaching clinics.

He misses the games, but he also misses the practices more. Yes, practice sessions. "That is my work, in preparation (for a game). If we have prepared well, the game is just an extension of that, and if you have not prepared well, you will not play as well." Now out of coaching, he gets to court- See WINNING Page 3 Don Henry Decisions And Dashes WHEN TIME AND space run Haider cage boss Gerald Myers knows exactly how Jim Haller feels, taking over a team in the middle of the season. "But Haller (who was elevated Thursday when Carrol) Dawson resigned) will have them (the Baylor Bears) pumped up (when Tech plays them Saturday).

They'll be playing at home, for one thing," said Myers. "Haller helped recruit so many of the players, and he has been there three years, so the change isn't real drastic." Myers had been at Tech only one semester when Bob Bass left during the 1970-71 season and Myers was Those who said the Aggies were a young bnll club last fall used the 25 playing freshmen and sophs as an argument. But, A still graduates 17 lettermen, who must be Wyoming, out of (he bowl picture for so long, went whole-hog on the trip to Arizona for the Kicstft Bowl. So much so that the deficit estimates run as high as $70,000. This comes as no great surprise to Fred Akers, however.

"We told them (school officials) before we went this could happen. It was a case of going first class or just going," he hns since remarked from his new position at With LCC and TT scheduling a baseball game Ihis season (Feb. 22), it's a wish from this corner that the two schools make it an annual affair. LCC has reached parity with Tech in baseball, and Ihis could be a good series for both schools, especially in local interest. Wonder if some local civic group would be interested in grabbing the game and sponsoring and promoting it as a charity project? Looks like a ALREADY THERE IS an upsurge in basketball interest at the U.

of Texas. The Jan. 8 game against Baylor in Gregory Gym, lh.it old, old home of (tic Longhorns, produced Hie biggest cash gate in tlie school's history. Corky Ogleshy wishes he could be so lucky. The Univers- ily of Houston luis picked up (his walkon Irackstrr who IMS run the 100 in 9.3, Gregory Edmond, of Galvcston Ball High, first signed with LSU, then quit that school and enrolled at Houston.

When Houston hired a new track coach (Tom Tellez from UCLA), Edmond came over and asked for a pair of Somewhere down the line, in case you missed it. the Virginia Slims women's pro tennis tour lost a sponsor for a tournament. Maybe the title didn't exactly project the image desired by this cancer research group in its quest for YOU GOTTA WORK in a little pleasure with business even if it docs put a strain on the old schedule. Last Saturday. Kent Hance, basketball fan, sat behind the Tech bench and cheered for the Raiders againsi Texas in Gregory Gym.

At the half, Sen. Kent Hance zipped out and to a banquet across Austin where he was principal speaker. That dale filled, he hurried back to Gregory in time to see the final minutes of (he basketball Did you note that the football coaches group is looking at four cities for a possible resumption, in of the Coaches All-American game? Smallest of the four (which includes Tokyo, Seattle and Denver) is Birmingham, population of about 400,000. which should be a compliment to Lubbock for hosting the all-star contest for seven years, in a city not quite half that size. And Lubbock picked it up without a year's layoff, too.

Larry Wood, the former Tech baskeballer who spanned the Gene Gibson-Bass-Myers era? He's now an attorney in El Paso and working on the Sun Bowl Basketball Tournament THE PLAY OF the Mustangs has surprised Myers, but not in the way one'd think, "I was surprised the way SMU played in nonconlcrcnce (winning but one game), not the way they've played since (losing bul once). I felt they would be good." mused Myers, Myers, at a press conference Thursday, commented on (he last-minute heroics of senior guard DON IIKNHY 'The Main Thing When The Game Is Over Is To Hold Your Head Up' John Wooden. J.ui Jft Pholo By Gary Daulo SPORTS Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Friday Morning, Jan. 21, 1977 Revamp Of Sports Programs Sought By SOUTH Avalanche-Journal Stuff Monte llasie has some changes in mind for junior high school athletics because he feels too many children are being turned away from competitive sports at an early age. And while he's not about to do' away with competitive athletics in favor of in- tramurals, the first-year school trustee has specific ideas on how to open the existing program to more students, more teams nnd more sports at a cost of less than IS, 000.

Hasic presented his proposals for Lubbock's 10 public junior high campuses in a report Thursday to the school board, lie sniri lo increase participation students, the school district should: Initiate soccer and wrestling programs. Allow each junior grade to nr- gnnizc two or even three teams in sports for which a large number ol students try out. Require coaches lo piny cvrry member of a team for at least one quarter of each prime or mnlch, Prohibit football team members from playing bolh offense and defense in DIP sumo game when other players arc available from the bench. Provide junior high coaches with an incentive to stay at (he junior high level. Under the current policy, llasie said, the only way for a junior high coach lo advance in pay is to push for a high school post.

As a result, ho said, few junior high coaches have much coaching experience, lie suggested that junior high coaches be given an additional £200 stipend after live years' experience. Provide spring basketball clinics for eighth-graders and open the junior lilgh school gymnasiums in the summer for liaskcthall play. (eel we as board members and administrators have responsibility lo at least 'try something different' in the field of junior high athletics in order to help participation." llasie said. "Our current program lixlay is often limns discouraging many youngsters at a very early and difficult lime in their lives, fiflprt limes not Rivlup, them Ihc opportunity to reveal tlieir anilities," IIP said. llasie said he is a strong believer In Sec HASH': Page 3 I-'IUST TIME THIS YEAR Jack Nicklaus, last year's PGA Playor ol Year, for par three on the seventh hole nt Cypress Point' during Thursday's opening round uf (he artmml Ulng Crosby Pro-Am Tournament Pebble Beach, Calif, l( wns first tournament of 1977 for Nlcklims, whii shot for the liay.

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