Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Valpey brought the Michigan system to Harvard football last year, but it's a shame he didn't inspire the Athletic Association with a sensible mid-western approach to the business of awarding sports letters as well. The HAA could certainly use some new ideas in this department. It...
Last year James Smith, 73, porter at the New York Athletic Club at $31.55 a week, had dropped in on Christmas night on the same kind of errand. This year, from a rumpled paper bag, Smith dumped a cascade of dimes, pennies and other small change that added up to...
Radcliffe basketball players tried out something new in girl's sports this week, a limited dribble permitting two bounces instead of the previous single one. Pending final decision by the Girl's Basketball Rules Commission, the Annex athletic department instituted the new procedure.
The regulations, drawn up Saturday in New York by the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Council, are designed to tighten up already rigid national rulings on amateurism, scholastic standing, years of participation, and non-collegiate competition during and outside of college terms.
The ECAC, in passing the new ruling, intends to eliminate the loophole in the "sanity rule"--a loophole that actually allows an institution to aid a needy athlete solely because of athletic ability.