Saturday, February 27, 1971

I had a number of important conferences during the day. One was with Heber Wolsey and Jarrett Jarvis with respect to our relations with Arizona State University. The latter University has been critical of us because we do not have more Negroes on our teams. . . .

In the evening Sister Wilkinson and I attended the two basketball games. The first was between the BYU Frosh and the College of Southern Idaho, which apparently is a junior college at Twin Falls. They are reputed to have the leading team in the nation for a junior college. When they came here they had only been defeated once. We handed them their second defeat, winning by 103 to 88.

I was surprised and shocked to see that this junior college team coming from a rural area of Twin Falls had four out of five starters on the team who were Negroes. I am told they recruited them from New York and other places. This means they have lost the sense of education and place winning above everything else. I am not against Negroes being on the teams but this is not a representative team at all from a junior college at Twin Falls. There were some white boys on the team, but very few of them got to play at all. This is a prostitution of our educational standards.

We won the second game from Arizona State University by a score of 83 to 74. It was a hard fought game throughout.

There was one thing that disturbed me with respect to both games. At the end of both games there was an altercation between a Negro on the other teams and one of our members. Not having seen what happened either time, I am not in a/position to render final judgment, but according to information I have in each case, the aggressor was the Negro boy in each case. I am very sorry about this expecially because it happened to be a black against white in each situation. I hope my reports are correct that in neither case did our boys start the fighting. Incidentally in both cases the officials and our Security people stopped the fight at once.

ELW.