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Football officials will honor William J. Bingham '16, former Director of Athletics, for his contribution to college athletics at a dinner tomorrow. The New York Chapter of the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials sponsor the dinner, to which over 100 officials from New England have been invited...
...best thing about watching a bull fight is the stadium. It is round, so, as Bill Bingham used to advertise another stadium, every seat is on the 50-yard line...
Died. Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, 71, the Army's chief psychologist (1940-47), who helped devise the battery of psychological tests and interviewing procedures used to screen World War II draftees, of a heart attack; in Washington...
...midst of the turmoil, it was also discovered that athletic director William J. Bingham '16 had planned to drop Princeton from the football schedule anyway, and that this had been another cause for the break. But President Lowell and the majority of the University defended Bingham and his "athletics for all" program. Already, plans were being formulated for the Indoor Athletic Building and more playing fields near the Stadium. Yale agreed with the Harvard plans, and promised to send its intramural champions to meet Harvard teams. On January 15, President Lowell spoke: "Intercollegiate sports resemble the world of pro baseball...
After the football season, the battle raged over de-emphasis and Harvard turned towards the idea of "athletics for all." William J. Bingham '16 was appointed athletic director. The University had taken more than four months to screed through a list of nominees, and it chose its man wisely, Bingham made the Harvard intramural program the best in the country...