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lllt 4 i i i i i'l s'1': itv i I i also a sad thing that kids would do a thing like this You wonder why why? ly have to believe in discipline There more to this than a football team This is a School coach Rick Yacone We just lost our heads But I don't think we should be getting the penalty were getting A player Coach Paul Ryan A Bus Ride to Season End -T My conscience is clear as a coach I did everything I could as far as supervision We as football coaches have to believe in discipline Here's more to tins than a football team this is a school" Yacone said Asked if he thought there may have been inadequate supervision on the two buses Gaddy said still looking into that Here is nothing to say on that aspect right now" Several suspended players admitted yesterday they had drunk beer and two confirmed that a angle marijuana was passed out in the bus supervised by the two assistant coaches were really about 35 Involved in the whole thing" said one suspended player who refused to give his name was sipping here and there I think it was a stupid thing Wa just lost our heads But I think we should be getting the penalty getting Everybody will think the school is a bunch of bums I know why we did it" Another player who also wished to remain anonymous said: like football but the guy next to me had some beer So I took a sip I and think there was another thing so wrong with it I want to play basketball and baseball but now they let me I thought just be suspended a couple of days nothing like this" A third unidentified player just said was thirsty man why I drank it" Junior linebacker Francis Fields one of 15 remaining vanity members said he up in the entire trip but knew what was going on in the back I could have seen it drinking maybe if we had won the game but we A few players said they were promised lenii by Gaddy if they admitted taking part in the incident but Fields said make anybody any About 15 irate parents of the suspended players gathered at the school yesterday to protest decision but the former Roosevelt LL High School science instructor said his action is based on the current information a final decision is evidence of alcohol and marijuana on the bus It is a wrong act to commit on the part of high school boys I cannot deal with the emotions of parents I expected to get a lot of flak but I think the great majority supports my decision It an easy decision Our last game against rival Iona Prep is like an Army-Navy game His was our best team in years I like canning these Ryan said junior varsity members will be brought up for the last game Many parents felt their sons were treated unjustly by Gaddy saying the entire team should have been suspended Mike Mallen whom son Mike Jr was suspended said: guilt by association My boy never drank in his life Just on one bottle of Southern Comfort they make this whole deal My boy drink I want this going down on my permanent Gaddy and the superintendent of schools Dr Robert Spillane said yesterday that the suspensions would not be entered in the permanent fries the parents are Gaddy said are the only thing on the permanent records" Mrs Rom Mary Falimino whom son Anthony was among the 29 suspended said: "Roys will do them things Mr Gaddy told me 29 admitted it I know asking for reinstatement of the children If they reject going to demand a Both Gaddy and Spillane who left Roosevelt in 1970 for the post in New Rochelle said no further action would be considered ppnding additional evidence do other than was done would have been a complete whitewash of the whole Spillane said run a program for the entertainment of the community though part of it trying to develop character and men In this cam just have to take their luris The worse job to do would be brushing it under the rug The school administration bit the bullet and I commend them I think any question about the decision standing I think I would have reprimanded him Gaddy had he not taken the action he Some students at New Rochelle showed little concern yesterday for the suspended players think they should have been kicked off the Bruce Reingold said think wliat they did was Junior Paul Feldman said a place and a not on the school bus Rut you know the football team is our basketball team and our track and baseball By Steve Marcus New Rochelle Seated in his small office New Rochelle High School football coach Paul Ryan wondered why 24 members of his vanity team i would drink beer and five others admittedly smoke marijuana an the bus ride home from Sta- ten Island after last 16-6 lass to Mon- signor Farrell He 29 players were suspended from school Tuesday for five days by Principal Gaddy and prohibited from competing in any interadholastic sport for the rest of the school think a horrible tiling to happen" said I Ryan whose record of 5-3 is the I best in four yearn also a sad thing that a Vf gimp of kids would do a thing like thin You won- 1 why why?" Ryan along with two assistant coaches and two i adult supervisory rode with about half of the 13 40-man squad in one of two buses during the hour trip from Staten Island to New Rochelle In thq second bus carrying the remainder of the team assistant coaches Ted Murphy and Ride Yacone were in charge was one can of beer on my bus" Ryan said told the kids to bring some sandwiches for the trip back so they be too hungry A couple of these clowns brought some- Colt 45 Malt Liquor and some six-packs We had a very quiet ride Here was dead silence I never thought to walk back and deck up on them But coach Murphy was mad as bell in the other bus" -Murphy said he personally checked the rear section of his 45-seat bus tinea times the first when he detected smelling like incense told them to put all that garbage out Hen lri- the trainer Joe McKenna walked to the back to lode at a kid that bad injured his shoulder and al-most tripped over an empty Southern Comfort bottle was livid after that" Murphy continued cleared the whole bus out at the end of the' trip and found a wine bottle and some beer cans We 'suspended three guys right away we could smell the alcohol on their breath" Yacone who said he was seated near Murphy in the front of the bus was at first annoyed by the and laughing" in the rear seats did -go back and yell at them for the Yacone a guidance counselor said told them to be quiet One kid was teasing another so we took the kid and mewed him to the front of the buai- We saw the empty bottle and cans at the end of the trip Many people are calling us the bad guys but you 'go searching each kid before he enters the bus 1T had faith in them not the usual behavior He two previous losses it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop Maybe it was the long trip But Cm not wring that to condone their behavior Gar 'Decision Stands New Rochelle High School principal Janies Gaddy said last night that reports out of New York that the 29 team members had been reinstated were have been calling the TV stations and newspapers and Impersonating Gaddy said by phone from his office st the school understand they have been accepting calls-from students My decision still said that he had had one meeting with team members an another with parents last night He said he explained his position to the parents and that they were generally in agreement were uptight about how I got the players to admit their guilt They thought I had used strong-arm tactics Hey also thought that I should have had physical evidence like the whisky bottle I told them I think that I needed that and that the boys readily admitted guilt" Gaddy said' Low Interest Rate in Jet-Giant Market i Yankee Stadium was televised in 1970 before there was any blackout law Cochran said or a bank or something could have bought the remaining tickets" NBC buy the tickets nor did it make a formal request for waiver of the blackout had no clamor for the said a spokesman at NBC had very few phone calls or letters All the clamor now is after the fact after people heard what a good game it And the Giants did not urge NBC to televise Giants have lost 18000 season Cochran said people have a nine-hour day for a game at New Haven How could the Giants tell them they could have stayed home and watched Tickets were available for -anybody who wanted to He blackout law actually is a non-blackout law If the game had been Bold out 72 hours in advance the National Football League would have been required to make it available to television He law does not say the game may not be televised if it is not a sellout Hat determination comes from NFL policy Although the game was a road game for the Jets NFL policy says the fact that it was a Giant home game takes' precedence try to adhere to the letter of the Bob Cochran NFL broadcast coordinator said were 8200 tickets left at 1 PM Hursday the legal After that Wellington Mara president of the Giants and Phil Iselin president of the Jets would have had to initiate the move to give the game away on home television according to -Cochranr what happened when the Giants-Jets sellout at By Steve Jacobson The Aualing spectacle of the Jets beating the (Bants on Joe touchdown pass in overtime in New Haven Sunday was not televised it develops because of lack of interest He Giants the Jets and NBC interested in televising it Hey could have if they all had wanted to The blackout law (Public Law 93107 to be precise) had nothing to do with it decision was up to NBC to ask for permission to telecast and for the Giants and Jets to say yes or Chip Shooshan administrative itarigtant to Rep Torbert MacDonald (D-Mass) sponsor of the blackout bill in the House of Representatives said yesterday NBC the Giants and' Jets sat down- and said not withstanding the fact that some seats are unsold we want' to bring the game to the majority of our fans they could.