COLLEGE FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : Frazier Wins Unitas Award

Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier is the winner of the 1995 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which goes to the nation’s top senior quarterback.

Frazier, who has led the Cornhuskers to an unbeaten season and a Fiesta Bowl berth, is also one of the favorites for the Heisman Trophy.

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The chairman of the NCAA infractions committee said Friday he had no quarrel with an NCAA panel that ruled his committee overstepped its bounds in penalizing Alabama’s football program.

The decision from the NCAA infractions appeals committee resulted in the Crimson Tide avoiding a third year of probation and winning back nine scholarships it had been ordered to give up.

“That’s appropriate for them to do,” David Swank, chairman of the infractions committee, said. “I think it merely shows that the appeals process is working.”

Officials at Mississippi were angered by the appeals decision. The panel rejected a plea last year from Ole Miss, which was hit with sanctions similar to those placed upon Alabama.

Five schools have appealed penalties since the infractions appeals committee was formed in 1993. Alabama is the first school to receive major relief.

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Georgia will be visited next week by NCAA investigators who plan to question school officials about alleged football recruiting violations, a newspaper reported.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Georgia will be asked about the recruitment of Martavious Houston of Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Houston is a freshman at Auburn.

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The Division I-AA football committee reprimanded James Madison quarterback Mike Cawley for his remarks about the officiating in the Dukes’ 34-21 playoff loss to Appalachian State.

After the Nov. 25 loss at Appalachian State in which James Madison was penalized 12 times for 93 yards, Cawley told reporters: “I still don’t totally blame the game on the refs . . . but I’ve never felt so homered, like we’re fighting an extra man on the field every time. . . . That was the worst officiating job I’ve seen in my life.”