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Friday, May 1
The Indiana Daily Student

IU Hall of Fame overlooks tennis

Again those "chosen" for the IU Hall of Fame have been announced. Wonder who does the choosing and what are the criteria. If anyone knows how the selections are made, I sure would like to know. \nWhat puzzles me is that there has never been a male tennis player selected. We can select administrators, equipment managers and many participants who were given scholarships to "come" to IU. Years ago many student-athletes came to play a "minor" sport for the love of the game with little or no financial aid because they wanted to attend IU and are now ignored by the "selection committee."\nIn 1952, '53 and '54, the tennis team won the Big Ten championship. 1969 was another title year. Not one player deserves to be selected to the IU Hall of Fame?\nHow many other sports at IU have won three Big Ten titles in a row? Not even our former Hall of Fame coach could win three basketball titles in a row.\nOur tennis coach, who died a year ago and left IU in 1959 for the University of Miami, a premiere school for tennis, was selected to the Hurricane Hall of Fame! It takes good athletes to win championships. Surely, if there is no one deserving from that period, go to other years to select. There has to be a deserving Hall of Fame player who excelled at IU and became a success after leaving IU. Why not bring the selection process out in the open and give recognition to one of the players during the last 50 or more years.\nRobert M. Barker\nAlumnus

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