Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...idyl has ended. Scandalized by the 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...
Dribs & Drabs. The sentence was surprising-both in its severity and in its source. Although conference rules forbid any financial assistance to athletes beyond board, room, tuition and fees, slush funds are nothing new in the Big Ten: at least one of the athletic directors who sat in judgment on Illinois-Michigan State's Clarence ("Biggie") Munn-was implicated in a 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...
...them. The magazine went out of its way to emphasize that the changes involved only 1,600 words out of 60,000, and Editor in Chief William Attwood of Cowles Communications, the magazine's publisher, told New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "We gave up some slush; a little gingerbread's off the top, but the structure's intact." The fact remained, however, that Look's editors had fought hard to preserve the gingerbread-and that, in the end, Jackie took it away from them. After the Look negotiations, a spokesman for Harper said that...