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William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, said last night that the University Administration had instructed him to vote against freshman eligibility when deans or other representatives of Ivy colleges met last month to take a stand on he issue. He stuck to the policy in a mail vote the E.C.A.C. took of its 91 member colleges...
...Bingham said the Crimson's experience with freshmen eligibility in 1942 had been "disastrous." "Many students," he explained, "flunked out because of the pressure of varsity practices...
...Group's separate policy might be a disadvantage to its members, Bingham said, because non-Ivy opposition would have the advantage of good athletes as soon as they entered college. "But," he added, "You don't have to schedule teams that you think will put you at a severe disadvantage because of their policy about freshman participation." The problem, he said, would mostly come up in connection with football...
Representatives of the Ivy Group will reconsider their eligibility policies before the end of the month, Bingham said, "but it's doubtful that there will be a change...
...continued: "Bill Bingham is a great man, a fine fellow for the office, but in his later years he wasn't doing the selling job that was necessary. It wasn't his fault, of course, nobody thought it necessary to sell Harvard. Perhaps he was bothered by the deficit or some other administrative problems. Anyhow, we though a new man would bring a fresh outlook to the job. Tom Bolles should be able to sell Harvard, and it has to be sold...