AGENCIES BACK GAME Various agencies, including? is boards, newspapers, ra dio and TVjare making their out , v lets available and the Na; tional Football contributed ' $7500 ” to t h e; { Mercy BOW}. Fund. ‘. re; . _ _ , Ohio. ‘ greo in the takeoff. crashed in flames. ' ere seriously injured. -. u :i it was the worst disaster ' the history of American ‘ _1‘,.‘ I f . V: Moms TRAGEDY his tragedy can never die the broken hearts of the g; layers families. were still reminded of the . rolling disaster, for many ind for this reason, an ‘tand of mercy” was des I‘ll in the form of a foot= "{cuand major medical care. lie game is being played anksgiving Day in the rmmd Committee. 1_lifornia Collegiate nth-5’ , '3; Bowling Green, again a ‘ v ~:. , ' m in the Mid~American the game is for [mail-«a worthy cause, every- j’ ‘__'e‘,is pitching into help 1 “le. it a huge success. 1 er has so much atten- hletic event by civic leads s, businessmen, organize Ic.’ ‘ Billboard advertising com- panies have donated sign» L l/ M ’r .l ‘ 1 ‘ ' ‘ I / ’ I“ ' “it > V I . \‘ ' ‘ ' -: . V K I By RALPH ALEXANDER“ :j The victims of the tragic Cal Poly football, team air- ‘ plane crash Oct. p 29 last yearat Toledo, Ohio,arei being let down by -» gridders a11.,over,,the United,;States. \- This was revealed Wednes . V _ day by Roy Easley, student have purchased I tickets in “ may presment Of L“ Angeline first 10 days Of the cam“ r: 5. . . 1 la 'ers. killed Colle e, _ , , . , . ’ 195 State C‘Ouege “and captafm paign. These are Los Ange- Elli”: tilde; psegiousiy in- Oreggn Tech, Iowa State U. Bowl, nos Angeles State. : L. ' ' ' ’ ' and Sacred. H e a rt High loge, Box 300, Lbs; nhgeies, , of the Diablogrid team- v _ i I Calif. We’ll welcome'fther?rtc . Only i‘ 10 teams have re- : sponded to Easley’s request. (which bought . 100 wling Green vs. Fresno Sf. It Was a little more than a bore of the Cal Poly football team boarded a plane in s ‘ on the plane would, best, g them» home. They felt bad as the weather which blanketed the airport fog and rain. The team; lost. its game that after- , v to Bowling Green, 5&6. . " *‘ifoments later th e planef _ ‘ But? " 'ething went wrong. In a the plane, twisted crazilyf ‘ Seventeen of the Cal Poly ' "Elders were killed and 20 Each day ; fitill paying for funeral ' Mame-“called the Mercy ' ‘ m. , , ,with the proceeds “ - gaggle the saddened families? turn the Cal Poly Memo»; ?t meeting in the Mercy v a; go will be Fresno State,“ ' Conference champion, . . 'ons and the general pub= ‘ League has; the Automobile Club of Southl, j ern’California, have taken on? ‘._.;§,the assignment-,1 of s e l lin gl , . ticket today. to haveevery college, spro- fe’ssional and. high schOOI' team but tickets to the .\ :Mercy Bowl game between Bowling Green and Fresno . State Thanksgiving morn; ing at the Coliseum. ~- ‘ leg-e. T h r‘e e, ' - Galifornia teams les state, Notre Dame High jured. ‘ . school of Sherman ~ Oaks lee , Bakersfield. Junior Col-l The basketball team from Easley sent letters to the captains of every team for whiChlie could find an ad: ' dress, requesting ; that each. buy, at least, :11 tickets.- ‘ Proceeds from the Mercy 2 ¢ , Bowl will be used to pay chased tickets include U. of medical, .hospitaland funeral Miami (Florida), Idaho State - Outer-state schools are ex» School. of Waterbury, "Conn. tickets) seeding:,Q?lzlfornia, 7-3., Big California profesrisional, our rank-sf , ‘ . I. ’ »e ‘ gs, gagelesélxcmhwd ‘ ie 5 ' ~ St. Joseph’s Collegein Phil-l ,adelphia, which « d o e s n ’ t have a, football ' squad, _ joined the, campaign with , , college, junior; cpllcge and . ‘ high school “teams are con- Tspicio-us- by, their nonsense from .Easley’s list. " _ , Easley said,- “‘perhaps, I . child. have, missed Sending; e z ' A ' ' ' thepu'rchase of ,fiVe tickets.‘ letter [to a few ; -- ~ ‘ ‘ ,, - teams. If I on, theycaafsego “ ' / Other teams); that :haVe‘ PUT“ checks for tickets, Which; * priced, at $3 each, by writing. j College, of Idaho, to me. in care of the r ,V...” .. w“. ‘W v. my .\ ‘_"”", g . . _ VWW_--_H, _ / year ago tha dejected , ’ EASLEY ON 7 i MERCY BOWL ‘ (See Page 8) , .1- S—College Ti mes (EDITOR’S worn: , the ‘c-lock to insure the. success, of the event, Dia'blo support for the great classic.) By nor EASLEY a I have. just returned from a committee meet- ing of the Mercy Bowl Football Classic. This is, in my opinion, the most important athletic contest that will be held in the United States ' this year. Yet, I regret to say that reports show the people of Los Angeles (which some people claim to “:be the sports center of the world) are not ' supporting this event with the enthusiasm of our neighboring cities and communities. The people of Los Ang’eles have bought only about one—half of all the tickets sold thus far. Here: at Los Angela‘s State College, I am sorry to say, response has been so negligible that it». . would seem we do not exist. The actual records Show that we are 16,302 strong, the largest State college in our! state. It seems to me that out of 16,000 students we should have absolutely no trouble in selling 5,000 tickets here on our cam— pus,’ especially since this great benefit is being played in our own city. I am; personally going to be embarrassed of 1 our student body if we do not sell at least 1,500 " tickets on our campus between now' and Thanks- giving Day. I am not appealing to you as an athlete, but as a fellow student, and a person who "still be— lieves in assisting his fellow man in the hour of need. We must remember that this could have happened right here at LASC or any other cam— p-us in the world, and also, it could have been a band, a forensics team, or any student activity. At press time I know of only two students on this entire campus, in addition to our Varsity football team, .who have bought tickets for this bowl tickets. Andtnerein lies the rub. ‘ Thus far, tickets have not; been selling well enough . order that proceeds may equal the $200,000 in expenses; encountered by the families of the players involved in the crash. i If youMVCare-‘to make this . Thanksgiving Day mean, . ‘ something" special, support the . Mercy Bowl.- » Buy a , . g I l Friday, November ‘10, 1961 In the second of the College Times’ special series of articles on the worthy Mercy ' Bowl game, LA State Student Body President Roy Easley, who is one of many men working around hits the lack of ticket sales on campus and urges benefit. One of these persons, is Jean Willis who purchased six tickets to the Mercy Bowl and donated ' them to underprivileged persons. The second individual did not leave his name with me, but he also. bought a ticket to be donated to‘ some deserving individual. I hope there are others ion this campus who have supported the Mercy Bowl, but I am afraid this is not so. At our last football game played in "our stad- ium approximately 4,500 people attended the af— fair. Now, I ask, why aren’tsome of these; peo- ple joining with us in supporting the Mercy Bowl game. LASC has an entire section reserved es- pecially for curlstu’dent body and friends at the Coliseum, so let us not Shirk our duty by not filling our section. 'We have only two weeks in which we can gather our friends together and do something worthwhile, and at the same time enjoy an exciting football game between two Very strong college team‘swlFresno and Bowling Green. V . I realize that many of our students are mar- ried and have families, and that even single students find $3 hard to come by. “But if you- would just stop; for a second and put yourself in the place of (the persons involved in this trag- edy, I think that you would agree with me that $3 to you is really nothing compared to what a few of them $3 can mean to the persons involved. I am sorry for forcing this subject on you. in this way because I the people who have given me the responsibility; of representing you, feel as I do. I also tool that you will respond to my plea and support this Sense with all the enthusiasm that you are capa— 7e of. _ I 3 Catching On , l l r 5 SleY Tackles v jg ‘ 5001169516113 Athletic Confer- ff I feel in my heart that you, r I Los Angeles sportsman, , 1 > i Mercy Bowl Support “Each pure and gentle deed of mercy brings . . . A joy-ff. V beyond all dignities of earth.” r. f -—HERMAN MILLER. By TOM CARGO , ; The mass appeal of the Mercy Bowl game is catching? ‘ on. I sportswriters throughout -. , the. country. are. pounding i ', a , their typewriters, while civic 77'» . leaders, businessmen, radio, 5 [TV and entertainment per- i sonalities are pledgingtheir 5: ~ support. , ' ‘ ' p _ With such solid backing, it’s 3“ TV: ’ highly possible that the grid classic on Thanksgiving Day‘ I; V may draw a capacity crowd in i the Coliseum. .. 5 ~ And a huge crowdis eorely 5; needed. For never has a game ‘ -_ ‘- _ 3 been held for such a worthy : \ cause. , ‘ . Proceedswill go. to help». the families of members of the Cal Poly football team t ‘ involved in the Toledo, 0., E _ air crash last year. Seven- 1 I teen gridders were killed 18 * - andmore than 20 were seri- 1“ l ' I!» c I . /‘ / ously injured. It was the worst disaster in American sports history. ' ' - 5 ._ Chosen to meet in the Tur— " l . key Day match are Bowling Green of Ohio, the last team Cal Poly met before the ill- ;fated‘ crash, and Fresno State. Bowling Green is a top Mid~ American Conference team while Fresno won the 196i championship of California H a W, M‘- A-a. r59. JHV, enoe. The Cal Poly Plane Crash Fund is increasing daily With the, donations for game tickets. The National Football League contributed $‘7500—a purchase of 2500 tickets to be turned over to “ boys and girls. clubs, or- phanages and other youth, units. A lady in Chatsworth, who prefers to remain anonymous, H p.31, v .y adonated $1000.. and the UCLA ’ I ‘ Bruins turned over $600., A l Ed - ' CTPWlfiy, gave his entire $750 p prize 1n a golf tournament to i . _ ~ the Mercy Bowl committee. ‘ ' * : Southern California, . j gLos AngelesState College, the ’g‘Coliseum, Helms Hall, Fresno I ,_ lState, Bow1ing = -‘_j_Fernando State. Green, . Sans, ‘_ I“, ,’ _