Linfield
Probation to Stick with 4-2 Vote
Oregon
Statesman, Salem, Ore. Dec 28, 1967
PORTLAND (AP) – The one-year athletic probation against
Linfield College will stick.
Faculty representatives from the six other Northwest
Conference schools voted 4-2 Wednesday to uphold their Nov. 25 decision to
suspend Linfield.
They held a three-hour special meeting in Portland that was
closed to the press.
The original charge that that Linfield provided excess
financial aid to a Linfield football and basketball player.
The school says it was a bookkeeping mistake and resubmitted
information about the boy’s financial
Aid
Still High
But the other faculty representatives decided Wednesday that
the scholarship aid was still excessive.
J. B. Conway, the Linfield faculty athletic representative,
said he would share the decision with the school’s administration on
Thursday.
The athletic probation means that none of Linfield’s games –
this includes all sports – will count in the 1968-68 season records.
Covers
Grid Season
The probation covers the recently completed football season
during which Linfield wound up in a three-way tie with Willamette and Lewis and
Clark for the Northwest Conference championship.
Linfield is scheduled to begin the conference basketball
season Thursday night at home against Whitman. College of Idaho is scheduled to
play at Linfield on Friday and Saturday. These games apparently will be played.
Thirty years ago the Northwest Conference threatened
Linfield with athletic suspension and Linfield dropped out of the league for
two seasons.
Conference
Stands Firm Linfield Probation Upheld
Walla
Walla, Wash., Union Bulletin, Dec 27, 1967
PORTLAND (AP) — The Northwest Conference has voted to uphold
its athletic probation against Linfield College.
Faculty representatives from the other schools in the league
voted 4-2 Wednesday to reaffirm their Nov. 25 decision to suspend Linfield. The
reason: Excess financial aid to a freshman football-basketball player.
The suspension means that none of Linfield's games during
the 1967-68 this means all count. It means Linfield will have to give up its
one-third share in the NWC 1967 football championship, too.
J. B. Conway, the faculty representative from Linfield, said
at the meeting he would discuss the suspension with the school administration
Thursday.
This was the first time a NWC team had been prohibited from
participating in official league competition.
Several years ago, College of Idaho was reprimanded for
excessive grants-in-aid, but the affair was hushed up, and C of 1's wins and
losses continued to count in the conference standings.
In 1937 the league hit Linfield with suspension, and
Linfield dropped out of the conference for two years.
Linfield opens what would have been its conference
basketball season tonight with a game at home against Whitman.
Linfield
planning appeal; college gathering facts
Bend,
Oregon, Bulletin - Nov 28, 1967
McMINNVILLE (UPI) – Linfield plans to appeal a decision
which costs it a share of the Northwest Conference football title and
eliminated it from chances at basketball and baseball championships during the
current school year, school president Dr. Harry Dillin said Monday.
Northwest Conference faculty representatives at Caldwell,
Idaho, Saturday censured Linfield for financial aid to a freshman football and
basketball player “exceeding the College Scholarship Services (CSS) need.”
Linfield officials said the case included a student whose
CSS form was adjusted when the family’s financial picture changed after the
original need was determined. At contention is whether the adjustment was
excessive or not.
“We’re getting all the fact and information together,”
Dillin said, “We don’t want to antagonize anybody, just lay the case before
them for review.”
The decision will be appeared to the conference as a while
and its council of presidents.
