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FlOilDA-FSU Annual Event At Tairn pa Stadium? Tampa Stadium: Bigtime Facility, Bigtime Ideas Ifel StprtfrBburQ eimra esu by Tom Kelt Timet Sports Editor jr 1 i Leonard Levy Isn't content merely to have the Baltimore Colts playing three football games in Tampa Stadium. Now the chairman of the Tampa Sports Authority is trying to land the biggest college game in Florida. At Monday's meeting of the authority, Levy appointed a committee to prepare a proposal to the University of Florida and Florida State University, asking them to move their annual game to Tampa Stadium in 1973 as the first in a 10-year series of Gator-Seminole confrontations on the Florida Suncoast. It isn't a shot in the dark or a publicity stunt by Levy. The 36-year-old printing company executive has done his groundwork carefully, as he always does, and he has reason to believe he can pull off another resounding coup for Tampa Stadium.

There are many good reasons why Florida and Florida State might consider moving the game to a neutral site. There also will be strong pressures for them to maintain the status quo and alternate games between Tallahassee and Gainesville each year. Levy already has tossed the idea to Athletic Directors Ray Graves of Florida and Clay Stapleton of FSU and neither man ran him out of the room. Both expressed cautious interest and basis would rival Florida-Georgia In Jacksonville as the sports-social event of the year In Florida," Levy said. Levy acknowledges the two schools need better reasons for uprooting the game than the Suncoast social calendar.

He has several. First is money. Few college athletic departments In the United States are afflicted with surplus of ready cash and the problem stands to get worse before it gets better in the 1970s. Presently, Florida and FSU net some $130,000 apiece each year the game is played in Gainesville's Florida Field, which has a seating capacity of 61,200. The net drops to some $90,000 apiece when the game is played in Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee.

If the schools agree to play in Tampa, the capacity of Tampa Stadium could be increased easily to 60,000 by the addition of temporary stands seating 6,500 fans in each end zone. This would cost around $150,000. With all tickets going for $7 apiece, as thpy do now, Levy anticipates net revenue of at least $160,000 for each school each year. Over a 10-year period, this could mean approximately $1- (See TIME FOR SPORTS, 4-C) Tuesday, February 15, 1972 SECTION said they'd be receptive to a proposal from the Tampa Bay area. In its 14 years of existence, the Florida-FSU football game has become the premier sports event in the state.

No other contest inspires as much argument, splits as many families or sells as many tickets as quickly as the Gator-Seminole game. Even the fact that Florida has won 11 of the games to only two victories for FSU and one tie has not dampened the hysteria that surrounds the game each fall. "I think the Florida-FSU game in Tampa on an annual I CLASSIFIED LEONARD LEVY 10-year plan. PCC Standings Gibfes All Conf. Games Playoff Changes For NBA Glbbs Clearwater St.

Petersburg Northeast Boca Ciega Dunedin Lakewood Seminole Largo Dixie HoIIins IS 1 15 3 3 0 8 8 9 8 9 7 10 13 3 13 1 16 19 3 18 4 19 5 13 11 11 13 11 10 9 11 10 13 4 IS 1 33 Fr PCC Tit NEW YORK (J) The Board of Governors of the Na tional Basketball Association voted Monday to realign the league's Phoenix and Houston franchises In the Western By ALAX SUTTON Of Th Timet Stiff Jack Wilson didn't feel much like talking Monday. That was understandable he and his decimated Clearwater are home against the No. ranked team in the state, Gibbs High, today at 3:30. TONIGHT'S GAMES Lakewood at Boca Ciega Gibbs at Clearwater (3:30 p.m., students only) Dixie Hollins at Northeast Seminole at Dunedin Largo at St Petersburg Conference for the 1972-73 season and also changed the format for qualifying for postseason playoffs. 71 1 i(K I ''ii St.

Petersburg High handily beat the Tornadoes 89-65 last By a majority vote, the board decided at its annual winter meeting to move the Phoenix franchise from the Midwest Division to the Pacif ic Division, with Houston switching from the Pacific to the Midwest. This move had been strongly advocated by Friday and Wilson couldn't understand the bad performance of his team. Now, along with Dale Carmichael being sidelined and Ray Meader's nose being broken, Tom Callahan, Wilson's high-scoring guard, has come up with a knee injury and a fever. It looks kind of rough for the Tornadoes today. "It looks worse than that," said Wilson whose team lost to Gibbs in their earlier afternoon game 58-54.

"We've had so many bad breaks this year Phoenix since the expansion 'I'm just as good as the guys; I don't see why I cant Katliy Foster franchise joined the NBA four i 'r-ltrai 'r' years ago. For the 1972-73 playoffs, the four division winners will au tomatically qualify, as they and now Gibbs has been nothing but hot lately, streaking to a clinching of at least a share of the Pinellas County Confer ence title. If the Gladiators win today, it's a 17-1 record and sole possession. Clearwater is in second with a 15-2 record. A loss could drop it AP Maryland, N.C.

State In Unfriendly Meeting into a second place tie with St. Petersburg. Prep Sports Kafhy's A Card But Can She Be A Cardinal? Mil Other PCC games which Brawls On Court lead off the start of the last week of regular-season action have Lakewood at Boca Ciega, Dixie Hollins at Northeast, Seminole at Dunedin and Largo at St. Petersburg. Times Sign Bishop Barry has an impor do now.

But the remaining four places will go to the two teams in each conference with the best winning percentages, other than the division winners. Presently, the four division runnerstip automatically qualify. Thus, it would be possible to have three teams from one division making the playoffs, and only one from another. In other actions, NBA Commissioner J. Walter Kennedy announced the NBA would accept applications from any undergraduate who wishes to be considered for the league's hardship draft at any time up to one week after the end of the last post-season college tournament.

That would put the deadline for 1972 at March 25, whereas it had previously been set at Dec. 1. "We felt it would be a hardship on the hardship cases If we kept the date at Dec. 1," Kennedy explained. "That is too early for someone who considers himself a possible hardship case to commit himself to the draft." Kennedy also announced the NBA will hold telephonic draft of college players April 10, that the 1972-73 season would run from Oct.

10 through March 25, and that a tant Sunshine Conference eame at fourth-place Tampa Jesuit. The Barons are tied for second with Hernando at 9-3 and need a win to virtually basketball, or any other sport. The positive aspects of competition far outweigh the neg clinch the spot. Barry has only weak East Bay to play after tonight. Tampa Catholic visits Gulf and East Bay is at Hernando By ALAN SUTTON or Th Times Stiff Gloria Steinem would love Kathy Foster.

You can tack on Ms. in front of her name, call her a "women's libber" and Kathy will grab you by your shirt collar, stare you in the face and probably say, "You better believe it, fella." Make no mistake about it. Kathy Foster is a girl. In fact, she attends Notre Dame Academy, an all-girl high school. She's even got a boyfriend Gary.

But there is a triangle in Kathy's life. Something is moving in on Gary's territory and he's not that sure he likes it. It seems that Kathy likes sports. Oh, not those nice little-girl sports like croquet, tennis or golf. Try football and baseball.

And you can throw in some judo if you care to. And Kathy doesn't want to play with the girls. "They're afraid to catch the ball because I throw too hard," says Kathy. She wants to play with the boys. And not just any boys the St.

Louis Cardinals. Now it seems highly Improbable that 5-foot-3, 135-pound do you have to mention Kathy will go down into the annals with Pepper Martin, Ducky Medwick, Enos Slaughter or Stanley Frank (The Man) Musial, but if she has her way, who knows? "I'm just as good as the guys; I don't see why I can't play," said Cathy who has been trying to obtain permission to play for Bishop Barry's football and baseball team the past two years. But it seems that male pride keeps getting in her way. "I talked with some of the guys on the team. One said it was okay, but the others didn't want to be shown up by a girl," said Kathy.

"When I play sports I don't worry about getting hurt. "The main reason these older people don't want to see a girl on a guy's team is that they (See KATHY, 4-C) ative, but trouble like that can only serve to jeopardize the whole program." The Ohio State-Minnesota brawl was the wildest during a basketball game this season. But there have been other fights. Southern Cal has been involved in two dramatic outbursts, one with Seattle and another with Providence. UCLA and Santa Clara went at it, and Marquette and South Carolina did it on national television.

Greg Williams, Seattle's leading scorer, was felled by a Bill Taylor haymaker in the in other SC games. Tampa Bay Tech plays a non- conference game at home against Zephyrhills while Tar pon Springs visits independent Clearwater Catholic, 13-9. Admiral Farragut, 7-5, vis NEW YORK UP) Blood on college bas. ketball courts this season is giving chills to coaches. Minnesota's Bill Musselman is "afraid to sneeze." Tennessee's Ray Mears is wary of heating the crowd's emotions.

And Jim Padgett of California teaches his kids to be doves, not hawks. "My life has been disjointed and severely interfered with by vicious mail I'm heartsick," says Musselman, referring to his team's brawl with Ohio State on Jan. 25. Musselman, afraid of a recurrence of the brutal fight which sent two Buckeye players to the hospital, has gone so far as to discard the gold blazer he wore that night. Mears also is walking on egg shells.

He's eliminated the tradition of wearing an orange blazer to keep tension down at games. His action was especially pointed toward the Tennessee-Vanderbilt affair Feb. 7, he said. It had been traditional for Mears to appear at the late stages of the preliminary game, wearing his blazer and walking from one end of the court to the other. His appearance usually coaxes boos from the Van-derbilt partisans and tends to boil their emotions.

"Vanderbilt fans have always been good, active fans," said Mears. "But in the last its Sarasota Cardinal Mooney. Wilson indicated that Car michael may make an ap pearance, although he hasn't practiced since reinsuring his knee against St. Petersburg in Walter Kennedy makes divisional changes. mid-January.

The 6-foot-7 star that Clearwater pinned most inn-' in m-m mjtti i i 4 A UPI of its hopes on this year has been able to play only nine games and has a 16.8 scoring A Tale Of Two Cities average. Dan Wright, second-leading scorer in Pinellas County, has paced the Gladiators to six couple of years there have been too many obscene signs and too many oranges Fischer Spassky straight wins since being upset by Boca Ciega 64-63. thrown. "All coaches, and I think most fans, are The season ends Saturday concerned with the things that have hap and the district tournaments pened in basketball across the country and will start Feb. 24.

we want to stop those who are hurting bas Ailing Witte In Aftermath game with Southern Cal on Jan. 29. Scat-tie's Steve Bravard and Taylor then squared off in another individual battle while a few spectators moved on to the floor. A few days before, the battling Trojans and Providence's fighting Friars staged a shorter, but just as deadly, outburst. A game-long shoving match between UCLA and Santa Clara on Jan.

21 exploded when Bruins backup center Swen Nater exchanged punches with the opposition's John Siege. Marquette's Bob Lackey and South Carolina's Tom Rikcr sent each other reeling in (See BRAWLS, 4-C) ketball." record $725,000 will be distributed In the 1972 playoffs. Phoenix general manager Jerry Colangelo was overjoyed with the results of the meetings. "We were hoping for a realignment of the divisions or a change in the playoffs," Colangelo said. "To get both of them was just fantastic." Last season, Phoenix had the fourth-best record in the NBA but did not qualify for the layoffs, since the Suns finished third In the Midwest Division behind Milwaukee and Chicago.

Padgett says his players are allowed to defend thcmsrlvrs from attack, but not re AMSTERDAM (UPI) Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, announced Monday the world title match between Russia's Boris Spassky and the United States' Bobby Fischer will be held both in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Reykjavik, Iceland. Euwe, in a sort of Solomon's decision, took the first choices of each of the players and awarded each city half the games in the 24-game title match. Belgrade will have the first 12 games. Euwe said the championships should not start later than June 25, but he added he would agree if they started a few days earlier, lie said the players might need extra rest because they have to play in two countries. Belgrade had topped the list submitted by the 28-year-old challenger, Fischer.

Reykjavik was the first choice of Spassky. taliate. "If somebody loses his temper and Tom -t Callahan -j joins 'V Wiry throws a punch, it's automatic he comes out and sits next to me on the bench," says Padgett. "There is no place for fights in college.