Word: aau
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...Harvard may score will in the 500-free with Greg Huff, Powlison, and perhaps Krause. Yale Olympian John Nelson, the best distance free-styler in the East, is apparently passing up the Easterns to prepare for the AAU Championships...
...last count, Yale had won 65 dual meets in a row, which is 64 more than Harvard's current streak. The Elis have downed both, Dartmouth and Princeton-teams that have beaten the Crimson-without too much strain, and their thoughts now are on the AAU Championships...
...part of its continuing battle with the AAU for control of international basketball, the NCAA denied its sanction to the basketball division of the games. Yale supported Langer in his decision to accept a bid for the games and vowed last month to fight the possible NCAA punishments...
Yale has done nothing illegal, unless refusing to act as a pawn is illegal. The Langer affair arose solely from another in a series of childish, petty disputes between the NCAA and AAU over control of American amateur athletics. Langer, with Yale's full consent, participated in last summer's Maccabiah games as a member of the U. S. basketball team. But basketball, ironical, was the only sport forbidden to NCAA athletes at the Games, since the NCAA wished to deprive the AAU (which organized the basketball team for the Games) of the major portion of its squad and thus...
...NCAA decided to make Langer ineligible because he participated in last summer's Maccabiah Games, a Jewish version of the Olympics. Until this past year, the NCAA had sanctioned these events but in another power struggle with the AAU. had withdrawn its sanction. Yale and Langer were warned in advance to stay away, but ignored the advice...