Word: aau
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...athletic department presumably will agree with a four-point program adopted by the NCAA-member colleges to withdraw from the AAU, to stay out of AAU-sponsored meets, to remove college personnel from AAU committees, and to deny the use of their facilities and equipment to the AAU...
Until the controversy is settled, however, Harvard must be careful to avoid offending either the NCAA or the AAU. The AAU can declare athlete's ineligible for amateur competition, and the NCAA has the power to suspend colleges from national championship competitions in several sports...
...dispute first arose last spring when the NCAA created its Federation to challenge the AAU's control of amateur track. At stake is the power to control the selection of candidates for the Olympic and Pan-American games. The AAU has always set the qualifications for participation in the tryouts for both events...
This Saturday's Knights of Columbus Games will be the first test of the NCAA's power to keep its members out of AAU-sponsored events. Although three colleges withdrew yesterday from the games, 14 schools, including Yale and Columbia, are still entered...
...NCAA-AAU controversy should not affect Harvard teams in sports other than track. The NCAA has also set up an independent Federation in basketball, but until a Crimson basketball player becomes a prospect for the Olympic team, the fighting will not affect Harvard...