— 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
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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. '■ ']
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both divisional foes. West Chester will
also compete at the quadrangular
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The Nittany spikers, after faltering
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