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...official censure of Yale by the ECAC executive council two days ago, and the council's recommendation of a possible further penalty if Yale fails to disqualify an ineligible player from its basketball squad, is still another disgraceful episode in the petty, childish bickering that he's characterized NCAA-AAU relations during...
...displeasure of the ECAC, and consequently of the NCAA, with Yale is actually no more than its reflected bitterness with the AAU with whom it has struggled for several years over control of American amateur athletics...
...NCAA has gone too far when it begins to exploit its member colleges for its own sometimes selfish purposes. Clearly, Yale is little more than the battleground for another in a series of dreary NCAA-AAU squabbles, and the penalizing of Yale, in sanctimonious frustration, makes the Bulldogs little more than whipping boys...
...Langer was designated ineligible because of his participation in the summer Maccabiah Games in Israel, which the NCAA chose not to sanction this year. When Langer said that he wished to play in Israel anyway. Yale supported him because it felt that he was being victimized by another AAU-NCAA power disagreement...
...game was played under a strange mix of NCAA and AAU rules, and there were times when no one seemed to know what was going on. Harvard took a commanding 8-2 lead in the first quarter and stretched it to 11-4 at the half. Crimson reserves played most of the second half, and Dartmouth managed to reduce the Harvard margin to five goals...