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The Games Must Go On "How Safe Is Athens?" [May 17] reported that although the three bombs that went off behind an Athens police station did not injure or kill anybody, they hurt global confidence in the security measures for the upcoming Olympic Games. As an Athenian, I was terrorized...
But as commercial television and intercollegiate football intersected in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the distinction between the two rapidly blurred, resulting in a fissure in the membership of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which left the loosely-affiliated Ivy Group on the brink of withdrawing from...
But this accomplished little in the way of solving the problem. While the exodus from the stadiums to the couches was slowed by the restriction, attendance remained markedly down, even with just one game on television. The dissatisfaction of excluded programs—most vocally expressed by Pennsylvania Athletic Director...
When Yale Athletic Director Robert Hall, the architect of the NCAA plan and Murray’s primary adversary stepped down on May 13, 1953, the Ancient Eight’s relationship with the NCAA rapidly unraveled. Harvard rejected the NCAA television framework two days later and Yale withdrew on...
Steve Staples, associate athletic director of external relations and liaison for the ski teams within the athletic department, will be in charge of hiring a new coach. The captains, as well as Nordic coach Peter Graves, also hope to have input in the process.