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“Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, announced last night that Provost Paul H. Buck with the approval of the Harvard Corporation voted against the National Collegiate Association’s football television policy for the 1953 season,” the College’s press release...
But internally at least, discussion of the NCAA’s inability to adequately resolve the simplest problems and talk of secession reached the highest administrative levels at each of the colleges, spurring a series of mutual reforms that bound their athletic programs together.
In early April, 1954, in an attempt to appease the disenchanted union, the NCAA privately offered Harvard and Yale broadcast rights for their fall contest, hoping that President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 would be more amenable to strike a deal than his predecessor’s administration...
But as the months passed, the tension slowly dropped off as the Ivy Group failed to extricate itself from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), strongly in favor of the NCAA’s blackout plan, by continuing to use the league’s officials and remaining within the...
When asked about the 1953 football season, then-captain Richard J. Clasby ’54 recalls that he often had difficulty obtaining enough tickets for all of his family and friends. A native of Natick and the leader of a team that managed a 6-2 record and, more...