Word: braun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football coach at the University of Illinois ended abruptly last week after the Big Ten's faculty representatives refused to relent on their decision to boot Illinois out of the conference unless Pete was fired-along with Illinois Basketball Coach Harry Combes and Combes's assistant Howard Braun (TIME, March 10). The three coaches had been found guilty of providing needy athletes with "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed slush fund...
Illinois itself had brought the existence of the slush fund to the attention of the Big Ten, but the faculty representatives were adamant: Elliott, Combes and Braun were through as coaches-although they could remain at the university in a purely teaching capacity. That sop hardly impressed the coaches, all three of whom formally resigned. And it did nothing to mollify the Illinois legislature, which set up a ten-man committee to investigate the goings-on at other Big Ten colleges. No telling what the committee may find. The father of one Illinois athlete claimed last week that...
...disclosure that needy Illinois athletes had received "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed slush fund, the Big Ten's athletic directors voted last month to expel Illinois from the conference-unless the university fired Elliott as well as Basketball Coach Harry Combes and his assistant Howard Braun. Last week Illinois appealed the decision to the Big Ten board of faculty representatives, and got turned down cold...
...similar scandal himself, in 1953. For punishment, Michigan State was placed on probation for one year. All told, fully half of the Big Ten have been caught breaking the rules at one time or another; yet no coaches have ever been fired before. Besides, neither Elliott nor Combes nor Braun had anything personally to do with the creation of the Illinois slush fund; it was started in 1961 by the school's athletic director, Douglas Mills, who has since retired...
...wife's medical expenses. Most got nothing at all, and the rest averaged less than $15 per month, which is a permissible amount under N.C.A.A. rules but not under the Big Ten's. Ironically, meticulous records were kept of all disbursements, so that Elliott, Combes and Braun helped convict themselves. And it was Illinois' own president, David Henry, who presented the Big Ten with the evidence, fully expecting that the university then would be permitted to discipline itself by putting the coaches on probation and suspending the athletes involved...