— The Daily Collegian Tuesday, February 15,1977 NFL players, owners debate NEW YORK (AP) Once again, management sat down with the National Football League Players Association yesterday in a resumption of contract r negotiations Wellington Mara, president of the New York Giants and chairman of NFL Management Courfcil’s executive committee, headed management’s negotiating team along with Sargent Karch, executive director and Terry Bledsoe, assistant executive director. For the players, Ed Garvey, executive director of the NFLPA, was accompanied by his assistant, Dick Berthelsen, Kermit Alexander, past president of the union, and Doug Van Horn, player representative of the Giants. The line-ups, of course, are familiar. They should be after three years. What is new are reports that the two sides can see some faint light at the end of the tunnel. There v<ere optimistic rumblings out of Washingtonwhere the negotiations were held last week. But if this long-term debate goes on much longer, it could mean trouble. In six weeks, we’ll be in April and the NFL still could hold its college draft then but can’t afford to wait much longer than that. You remember the draft, that annual exercise dividing up the most attractive players in college football’s graduating class. Where, for example, will Tony Dorsett and Ricky Bell be playing next year? They’d like to know and so would the NFL teams themselves. The players association has offered alternatives including a plan that would call for separate conference drafts and a return to the competitive bidding situation players enjoyed from 1960-1966 when the old, American Football League was at war with the NFL. Another possibility is the time-limit option which allows a team drafting a player to retain negotiating rights for a limited time before surrendering them if no contract is reached between the two parties. The NFL, however, does not want to act unilaterally. It would prefer a bargaining agreement that includes draft guidelines. The players association is less concerned with the draft than other aspects of the contract such as pension, scheduling, benefits and the like. Lady cagers home from rocky road trip^ The Lady Lion hoopsters hope to prove the old saying that “there’s no place like home” true when they do battle with the Edinboro Fighting Scots in a 5:45 p.m. Rec Hall bout tomorrow. Their travels, in the form of three recent road games, haven’t been too kind. The Penn State women dropped two of those contests by a mere one point Tomorrow’s game with Edinboro was originally scheduled to be played today but switched to act as the front game of a women-men doubleheader. This won’t be the first seasonal pairing between the two teams; last time the Fighting Scots didn’t fight hard enough. Penn State defeated'Edinboro, 78-75, when the season was in its youthful stages. The Fighting Scots, however, haven’t faired too badly in this season’s wars. They have a 14-5 won loss record and have beaten a few teams that the By DARLENE HROBAK Collegian Sports Writer Cornell match caps J crucial weekend ' for spikers Penn State’s undefeated varsity volleyball team opens its home season this Sunday (2 p.m. at Rec Hall) with a crucial league contest against Cornell. Actually, the Cornell tilt caps what Lion coach Tom Tait bills' as “a crucial weekend” for his Nittany spikers. Not only will the Lions risk their perfect 9-0 record in collegiate match play, but they’ll face all three of their Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League divisional foes. The results of this action will go a long way towards determining what ECVL teams will advance to the championships late in April. action and has handled them with This Saturday, the Nittany spikers relative ease. Just three days ago, the hope to improve upon their 1-0 league ~ Lions swamped ESSC (15-6,15-7), and moyer jewelers ONE HUNDRED EAST COLLEGE AVENUE POLYDOR 232 E» College • 238-7539 • Open 10-9 (10-5 Sat.) Lady Lions have fallen to. ' per game average with 13.3. Sheilah Collins isJad-l Edinboro managed to humble Slippery Rock ding 13 ppg; and Kate Kosewicz is leading ’Ujpl twice. The first victory came in an early season rebounders with seven per contest. y " contest by a score of 92-75, and a more recent game One of the Edinboro starters, Tina Krah, is out produced a count of 81-77. with an injury and coach Meiser thinks “that may Slippery Rock is the team that gave the Lady be a factor.”' Lions that initial push on their downward slide. Just She doesn’t plan to try anything new to help herj four games ago, the Rockets cut the Penn State team to turn around. “We won’t try any thing tri<syj winning skein at six only days after the Lady Lions That’s not the way you do it,” Meiser said. “We iustj had handily defeated a 13th-ranked Maryland need to play good basketball.” w squad. Including the Slippery Rock game, the Penn - The Lady Lions will play their last four regular State gals have dropped three of their last four. ' season contests at University Park. Saturday af- Edinboro, who has also beaten Pitt narrowly and ternoon at 2, they will meet Millersville at White lost in overtime to Maryland, doesn’t promise to be Building’s North Gym. Lock Haven will be in town an easy opponent. next Wednesday, February 23, at 5:45 p.m. in the “I think that they’re a very good team,” Lady first game of another Rec Hall women-men Lion coach Pat Meiser said. “Perhaps one of-the doubleheader. .7, finest in the region.” , In the last regular season game, the Lady Liprjjjs The Fighting Scot’s lihe : up features sophomore will meet Delaware on March lin a 6:30 p.m. bout guard Barb Moran who is leading her team in points’ at White Building. '■ '] 4, £ Record record as they’ll travel to East Stroudsburg to face ESSC and Nyack, both divisional foes. West Chester will also compete at the quadrangular meet in non-league play. - Penn State has seen ESSC twice before this season in non-league OFFICIAL PENN STATE SS RING by Josten’s Compare quality, detail, workmanship, price and guarantee. You’ll choose ours. STATE MERCURY $3" 6” List TWO < —RECORD SETS —) $599 j earlier they took two-of-three tightly] fought games. 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