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...more than two years the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Association have been engaged in a vicious jurisdictional battle over who is the proper judge of amateur status. The conflict has achieved nothing and has produced several ridiculous situations. This summer the AAU told a touring Peruvian basketball team that it might be ineligible for the Olympics if it played NCAA college teams in the U.S. whose players were not registered by the AAU...
...both parties to the NCAA-AAU squabble have ignored the real issue in amateur athletics. This fact was brought home last month when the International Olympics Committee issued a mandate banning all subsidized athletes from Olympic competition, which, if strictly enforced, could disqualify more than half the U.S. Olympic team...
Just for the ball of it, five members of the varsity track teams traveled Saturday to the Whittinsville AAU championships near Weresster. Unbelievable enough, they won the team title with 38 points and 10 trophies...
...Crimson is now looking forward to the AAU championships, which begin next Thursday in New Haven. Among the 200 swimmers, and 12 Olympic gold medal winners entered in the competition will be Bruce Hunter, Bob Kaufmann, Jeff Lewy and Jay Shelton...
...most difficult and most challenging task was making the United States Olympic team. Things looked dim when he finished third in the indoor AAU's, and failed even to qualify in the outdoor finals. As a collegiate swimmer during the season, he faced the problem of converting to long-course swimming in 50-meter long pools, with two less turns per 100 meters...