Word: clogston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only reason that the A.A.U. has given for the non-recognition is that Walsh went above "its head" in arranging the trip. The fault with this explanation is that Roy Clogston, the athletic director of North Carolina State, offered to invite the Russians through his school, and thus make it "legal" in the A.A.U.'s eyes. The A.A.U. had indicated that it might have sanctioned the trip if Walsh as an individual had not arranged...
...angry Roy Clogston, athletic director of North Carolina State College, yesterday attacked the State Department's refusal to issue visas to a touring Russian basketball team. He said he would ask North Carolina's senators today to exert Congressional pressure on the Department to get the visas...
...addition, Clogston said N.C. State would volunteer to act as the official host to the visiting Soviet team. By doing this, he hopes the Amateur Athletic Union would finally extend an official invitation to the Russians. Up to now, because San Francisco promoter Frank Walsh directed the tour, the A.A.U. has withheld its approval, causing the State Department to hold back the visas...
...seeing Senators W. Kerr Scott and Sam E. Ervin of North Carolina, Clogston hopes he can persuade them to apply pressure in the State Department, even if the A.A.U. Still refuses to sanction the tour...
...addition to Clogston's actions, Edward S. Steitz, the acting athletic director of Springfield College, also criticized the delay yesterday...
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