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With those soft words, the Crimson field hockey team’s season came to a very sudden end. For Harvard’s six seniors, their collegiate athletic careers came to a conclusion.
In 1952, the Ivy League presidents decided to abolish athletic scholarships and spring practices. They also prohibited teams from competing in postseason football games. Harvard would never again have the chance to repeat its 1920 campaign, in which it went 9-0-1 and defeated Oregon 7-6 in the...
And why should they? They get everything they want out of our football players during the Ivy season. The presidents have no motivation to send 70 kids to Montana for a playoff game. That doesn’t draw alums to Harvard Stadium, where—overcome by nostalgia?...
By “those folks” he means the coaches, the athletic directors—who are paid to make athletic decisions—the fans, the media that follow I-AA football, and the NCAA in general. By “we,” he means...
Maybe the presidents don’t agree with the way mainstream college sports in this country are run. Maybe they dream of the day when Ivy football teams are even further removed from mainstream Division I football, playing only a seven game schedule against their fellow Ivy schools. Maybe...