Word: aau
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Until the dispute is settled, members of the Crimson track team will not compete in meets sponsored by either the AAU or the NCAA's United States Track and Field Foundation, Baaron B. Pittenger, director of sports information, said yesterday...
This means that no members of the track team will appear in the AAU-sponsored Knights of Columbus Games in Boston Saturday night. Unless a settlement is reached within two weeks, Crimson athletes will also miss scheduled appearances in the Boston Athletic Association Games. But track team members will compete in the independently sponsored IC4A and Heptagonal meets...
...Kinasewich case and the special position of the Ivy League still give the ECAC a chance to clarify the muddle President Kennedy's statement should pave the way to an agreement between the NCAA and the AAU. Hopefully both steps will be taken soon, before the U.S. suffers international embarrassment
...argument can be carried further. Players on AAU basketball teams like the D-C Truckers or the Phillips 66 squad are nominally holding down jobs with the companies who sponsor the teams. During the season, this job becomes simply playing basketball. Tennis players who travel the amateur tournament circuit receive expense money that does not force them out of the better class hotels. The same holds true in other supposedly amateur sports. In all these cases, the excesses are usually far more extreme than in the Kinasewich case...
...view of the Olympic Committee's ruling, the NCAA and the AAU must face the fact that all their talk misses the point. Excuses about practices in other countries are irrelevant. They must either admit that many of their athletes are not amateurs, or redefine just what an amateur athlete...