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Sophomore MacKenzie seemed to have no overpowering reason for wanting to be a regent, but Coach Sheeketski did, A onetime Notre Dame star halfback (1931-32), he had gone on to coaching at Holy Cross, served with the FBI during World War II, arrived at Nevada in 1947. There he did well. He got enough money from the Reno Downtown Boosters Club to attract some first-rate players, was able to launch Nevada into big-time football...
...this year the regents began to complain. The Boosters had fallen $48,000 behind on the team's room & board bill, and the regents wanted to collect the money. Cried Coach Sheeketski: "You can't play big-league football with pennies." He also thought that the university coufd show "a little extra consideration" for its athletes in academic matters...
...announcing his candidacy last week Coach Sheeketski offered a simple platform: put Nevada's athletic program "on a sound business basis . . . Any legal voting resident of Nevada is eligible to run for regent. The law doesn't set up any exceptions...
Incumbent Regent Albert Hilliard, a Reno attorney up for reelection, thought otherwise. As a university employee, he argued, Sheeketski had no right to run. Otherwise, members of the faculty would also feel able to run for regent, and the result would be "complete confusion." He said he would move to have Sheeketski dismissed as coach...
...Coach Sheeketski stuck to his guns. Said he: "I'm in the regents' race for keeps, but I intend to play it fair. I learned that from Knute Rockne and the FBI, and I don't intend to forget...