Word: griswold
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Spring practice in the Ivy League was abolished in 1952 upon the recommendation of A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, who was faced with a formal protest from the football players that year. According to the players, coach Herman Hickman was demanding too much from them with his stringent spring football practices, and was depriving them of freedom to pursue off-season academic and extra-curricular interests...
Shaky though the Ivy League is, the outside world won't leave it alone. That insidious publication, Sports Illustrated, last week scored "the opposition of President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, who tolerates football with only slightly concealed hostility," to its pet proposals: spring practice for the Ivy League and the right of participation in post-season bowls for its players...
...editorial concluded, "Now that Yale has proved it can field one of the country's best collegiate football teams without overemphasizing (another S.I. unproved theory), it is time for President Griswold and his fellow executives in the Ivy colleges to reconsider the bans on spring practice and post-season individual play. This would be a graceful moment to drop these archaic circumscriptions against Ivy football players." One might add that this would be a graceful moment for the Ivy League to slide out of existence, with all of its goals lost...
...members of both Corporations are expected to attend the dinner, which will take place at the Pusey home. Among the guests will be A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, and Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State...
...behalf of the Faculty, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, presented Dean Pound with a supplement to the bibliography of his works given him by the Faculty on his 70th birthday...