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...HAVEN, Conn.-- As Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti tried to mollify athletes and coaches by saying his proposals for Ivy-wide restrictions on athletic recruiting had been misinterpreted, Yale's budget committee cut $290,000 from next year's athletic budget...
Meanwhile, Giamatti met with student athletes the next day to clarify his proposals for limiting Ivy League recruiting and post-season competition...
...Giamatti, insisting his comments had been misunderstood, told athletes and coaches he never would prohibit either recruiting or post-season competition...
...said the presidents (of the Ivy League) must discuss restricting recruiting and that the presidents must cease to think of post-season competition as a natural and necessary consequence of victory," Giamatti said in a statment released after the meeting with the coaches...
...realities involved. How can Joe Restic turn out a presentable squad without showing interest in sought-after high school football players? How can Harvard compete without demonstrating interest comparable to that expressed by other Ivy institutions which don't have the benefit of the Harvard mystique? Even the maverick Giamatti said Sunday he would not take unilateral action at Yale without the agreement of the Ivy group...