Appendix - Matrix - Michigan State University

OU. Jones said he would need time to consider the complaints
before issuing a reply. But he did say: "I consider
this a friendly meeting from my standpoint. We discussed
what the athletes considered mistreatment." The
athletes said they had no plan to quit their sports or
classes at OU. One request was for separate meetings
with all the head coaches which Jones said he would try
to arrange. Another was that the coaches did not treat
Negro athletes with respect. One of the written requests
presented to Jones said: "Why are there no Black
counselors, coaches, trainers, secretaries and managers
in the athletic department?" Other complaints were that
Negro athletes were coerced to cut their hair short and
shave off mustaches; Negro athletes were held responsible
by many of the coaches when games were lost; Negro
athletes were given less leisure time on trips than white
athletes, and common courtesies were not extended to
Negroes on campus.
Granville Liggins, Associated Press All-American
Football Player, was identified as one of the principal
spokesmen for the Negro athletes in the meeting with
Jones. Liggins denied there had been any outside influence
leading to the request for an airing of grievances.
"We have banded together," Liggins said, "to present
these grievances. There's no organization behind this."
Norman, Oklahoma (United Press International).
Gomer Jones, athletic director at Oklahoma University,
Monday that the Sooner athletic department believed
in and endorsed the movement for equal opportunity,
an? he said he thought sports at OU had provided the
qUIckest way for Negroes to secure social reform. Jones
and Oklahoma's head coaches met with a group of
Negro athletes Monday who boycotted an "0" Club
banquet last week. Jones said after the meeting Oklahoma
was "proud of its Negro athletes and of their
feats." Jones distributed a three-page statement following
the meeting, but refused a press conference. "Noth-
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ing can be accomplished by continuing this discussion
with the press," Jones said. "The statement explains
our full position on this matter."
In the statement, Jones said the university might be
at fault in two areas-advising against interracial dating
although it was not forbidden, and the need for employing
additional Negro personnel throughout the university.
However, he commented individually upon 20 of
the 27 grievances listed by the OU Negro athletes, and
explained the university's stand on them. He said in the
future he hopes any athlete at the university, Negro
or white, would feel free to approach either him or a
head coach with any problem. "Now is the time for both
our white and Negro groups to realize they have many
mutual problems, and that they should exercise common
sense in disposing of them," Jones said in the statement.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan (Associated Press). The University
of Michigan promoted Dave Martin to head
track and field coach today to take over July 1 when
Don Canham steps up to succeed retiring H. O. "Fritz"
Crisler as athletic director. The University also announced
appointment of its first Negro to a varsitylevel
coaching job, naming Ken Burnley, a former
Wolverine sprinter, as an assistant to Martin, who was
elevated from assistant to the head coaching job. Also
named as an assistant to Martin was Jack Harvey, twotime
Big Ten Shotput champion.
At nearby Kalamazoo, meanwhile, Western Michigan
University announced selection of two Negroes among
three new varsity assistant coaches to be recommended
to the Board of Trustees Friday. Negro students at both
universities had demanded appointment of Negro
coaches in demonstrations staged on the two campuses
in recent weeks.
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