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Then, at Yale in February, 1952, spring football was added to the list of troubles. Because of excessive pressures and demands imposed on them by head coach Herman Hickman, the Yale football players protested against the spring football program and complained to A. Whitney Griswold, who had been appointed as President of Yale only a short time before...
Aware that Hickman's stringent practice demands were depriving the players of freedom to pursue off-season academic and extra-curricular interests, Griswold decided to abolish spring practice at Yale. He announced the unilateral move to the seven other Ivy presidents at a meeting of the Ivy League Policy Committee...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In "A Real Case of Murder," the documentary examines the quality of justice in the U.S. Among the participants: Harvard Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold and U.S. District Judge Irving R. Kaufman...
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...
...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...