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...appointment was announced at the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The ex-crew coach steps into the spot vacated by William J. Bingham '16 when he resigned as Athletic Director last fall. Bingham chaired the committee only a few months. It was formed last spring to take over some of the duties of the disbanded Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
...Bill Bingham ran into this same problem back in 1946 when Harvard played in the N.C.A.A. tourney. Bingham played the only gamble possible and moved the 1947-48 contests into the Boston Arena. The move nearly killed off Harvard basketball. By 1949-50 about the only Crimson fans watching Arena games were the managers and local scribes. The caliber of the post-1946 teams had admittedly fallen off, but yet the occasional I.A.B. games would draw 1,000 rooters. The ride in town just didn't seem to interest undergraduates, so last season the Crimson five returned to the L.A.B...
Yesterday's announcement marks the end of a long career at the University for Bingham. He was responsible for the "athletics for all" policy which he instituted shortly after his appointment as Director of Athletics. After the Houses were built in 1930-31, this policy developed into the intramural sports program. For every year since then, the Straus Trophy has been given to the House with the outstanding athletic teams...
Last year, Bingham completed a long term as chairman of the powerful Foot ball Rules Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. His policy of maintaining strictly amateur athletic standards often brought him under attack from many persons but brought him praise from others...
...Open-Closed all-star House foot ball game a week ago, the CRIMSON presented Bingham with an engraved cup. The inscription read; "William John Bingham, Director of Athletics, 1926-51. The man who made athletics for all reality...