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     from the Guardian 
     
     by Don Morrison 
     
    
   
   
    
     from hisgifullrrtirewjob, 
     
    

    
     Doug Crossman has decided _ A 
     
     not to return aslhead . ‘ 
     
     football  of University 
     
     of Prince Edward Island 
     
    

    
     next season. \ _ 
     
    

    
      a former Panther 
     
     player,  for only 
     
     one season- cmpiling a 1-16 . 
     
     regular sealsqlarsesord in- 
     
     the Atlantic Intercollegiate 
     
     Football Conference. He 
     
     replaced Ed Hilton earlier 
     
     this year. ’ 
     
    

    
     "'Ihe major reason that I 
     
     resigned was that, as a, 
     
     part  with the 
     
     UPEI football program, I 
     
     cannot imagine time to 
     
     rebuildrthe program and at 
     
    
   
   
    
     could not say if Crossman 
     
     would have been rehired. 
     
     Although Crossman would 
     
     not say that one of his 
     
     primary reasons for stepping 
     
     down was a lack of. support 
     
    
   
   
    
     "from the UPEI adndnistratim', 
     
    
   
   
    
     he did say that‘many of the 
     
     services provided by other 
     
     miversities had to cane 
     
     out of the football budget 
     
     at UPEI. - 
     
    

    
     "I was on my own to 
     
     rebuild the team and  
     
     seens to be '  
     
     coming in'the (football) 
     
     budget," he  "All 
     
     the other teams have full— 
     
     tine coaches and they spend ‘ 
     
     agoodportionoftheyear' 
     
      I would imagine 
     
     that teans like St. Mary's 
     
     UNB and Acadia are on the 
     
    
   
   
    
     road recruiting for next 
     
     season already." 
     
     on HURI'S 
     
    

    
     Crossman, a former All— 
     
     Canadian, said the 1979 
     
     budget for the program 
     
    
   
   
    
     "wasn't enough" and a cut 
     
    
   
   
    
     7 would further hinder a 
     
    
   
   
    
     successful football program 
     
    
   
   
    
     - at the miversity . 
     
    
   
   
    
     "There are no provisions 
     
     made for a full time person 
     
     here and I explained to Ed 
     
     Hiltcn that it's an imposs— 
     
     ible task, I just can't do 
     
     it." 
     
    

    
     The first year Panther 
     
     skipper noted the future 
     
     of UPEI football is "not 
     
     optimistic at all." 
     
    

    
     "There has to be a major 
     
     decisicn from the 
     
    
   
   
    
     administrative level . I've 
     
    
   
   
    
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     down here. There's nothing 
     
     in the way of facilities 
     
     for them. " 
     
    
   
   
    
     Crossman credited Hilton 
     
     for doing his best but "his 
     
     hands are tied." 
     
    
   
   
    
     "He's given me a lot of 
     
     support but his hands have 
     
     been tied for years. I've 
     
     appreciated his help very 
     
     much," noted Crossman, 
     
     who played under Hilton at 
     
     UPEI. ‘~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The former coach remarked 
     
     that under the present 
     
     football setup at UPEI, 
     
     the Panthers "could not 
     
     possibly conpete" with the 
     
     other collegiate teams in 
     
     the AUAA. “How canwe?" 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hilton said a decision on 
     
     a successor for Crossman 
     
    
   
   
    
     the sane time give justice 
     
     to nyduties at the 
     
     Addicticn Foundation," said 
     
    
   
   
    
     heard, for the past 10 
     
     years, that facilities would 
     
    
   
   
    
     would not be nade immediate- 
     
     rbe developed: but it's still ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     1y . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Crossgan Tuesday. "I cannot 
     
     personally afford the time 
     
     to recruit in the off—season. 
     
     Hanever, University of 5 
     
     Prince Edward Island athletic 
     
     director Ed Hilton said it 
     
     wasn't a case of Crossman 
     
     resigning but rather his 
     
     contract has expired for the 
     
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     are  candegt: 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the same old thing. I'm 
     
     embarrassed to bring an 
     
     opposing team into the 
     
     visiting dressing rooms 
     
     here. I'm enbarrassed to 
     
     take a group of men at UPEI 
     
     into a hole in the gromd 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' that's called a dressing 
     
    
   
   
    
     room and I'm embarrassed 
     
     bringing high school 
     
     students from well equipped 
     
     highschools in mtario 
     
    
   
   
    
     A study on all facets of 
     
     "the athletic programs at 
     
     UPEI is in the final stages 
     
     of conpletim and Hilton, 
     
     who coached UPEI and St. 
     
     Dunstan's University foot-.- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ball teans for almost two 
     
     decades, said a decision on 
     
     what level of participation 
     
     Panther teams will have, 
     
    

    
     is expected shortly. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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