Word: athleticism
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Columbia, which suffered a 54-41 whipping from Colgate last Saturday, stands well below the Crimson in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Harvard is currently in fifth place -- behind Army, Princeton, Yale and Navy.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, in its latest move against colleges which will not comply with the 1.6 academic minimum rule, said yesterday that Penn and Yale will not compete in NCAA championship tournaments.
Penn, Yale, and four non-Ivy schools -- Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Thell, and Williams -- have informed the NCAA headquarters in Kansas City that they will not comply with the new legislation which sets a 1.6 academic minimum rating for athletic eligibility.
Penn's athletic department expressed surprise that Penn and Yale had been singled out among the Ivy colleges. "I know the Ivies have agreed to act in concert," a Penn official said. "I can only assume that the schools other than Yale and ourselves did not send telegrams to the...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association yesterday retracted its demands that colleges file notice of compliance to the new 1.6 eligibility rule.