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...NCAA instructed its members--which include almost every college in the United States--to stay out of meets sanctioned by the AAU unless they NCAA gave its sanction as well. The AAU imposed a similar ban on NCAA-sanctioned meets and both groups said they would make any athlete who violated the ban ineligible for future competition...
...that time Harvard decided not to enter meets sponsored by either group. The track team stayed out of Boston's Knights of Columbus meet (an AAU-sponsored event and normally a feature of the winter schedule). The feud had been settled by the time other meets rolled around...
...settled by Douglas MacArthur, acting as a government-appointed arbitrator between the two groups. The NCAA and the AAU agreed to keep the peace and to put a moratorium on banning athletes until after the Olympic Games. Now the Olympics are over and the NCAA has reinstated its ban on AAU meets...
...move rejects a plan which the NCAA may tell its member schools: after Jan. 1, they should not compete in any open competition not sanctioned by a federation associated with the NCAA--that is, if the NCAA-AAU squabble over sanctioning is not settled by that time. The NCAA proposes a dual sanctioning policy; the AAU says that it alone can sanction meets...
...loyal members of the NCAA and are not defying anyone," Giegengack said in a news conference during the annual AAU meeting. "We just don't want our boys on the Yale team to be used as weapons...