Word: athleticism
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The University has announced it is appealing the decision of the eligibility committee of the Eastern College Athletic Conference ruling hockey player Gene Kinasewich ineligible for accepting Junior A subsidies, Harvard was thoroughly justified in doing so, it stood by Kinasewich last year and should continue to do so.
The recent Eastern College Athletic Conference ruling on the eligibility of Gene Kinasewich has raised questions of far more importance than whether or not Kinasewich is to play for Harvard this season. The Kinasewich case has dramatized the confusion and hypocrisy in the way United States sports groups define an...
For 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...
But Kinasewich's "professionalism" is of a special breed. It is certainly not the same as a boy playing minor league baseball in the United States. His status is very similar to that of a boy attending college on an athletic scholarship.
The ECAC refuses to recognize this fact. Students in other ECAC colleges on athletic scholarships and those students who compete in the summer in amateur sports are every bit as professional as the ECAC claims Kinasewich is. If the ECAC really wants to restore purity to its house, it has...