Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Significantly, Harvard's dramatic withdrawal of its hockey team accomplishes very little unless other schools create additional pressure and publicity by following the Crimson's lead. As long as the varsity in the only team kept off the ice, Western coaches like Denver's Murray Armstrong can continue to say "We couldn't care less about Harvard's position and whether or not it competes in the NCAA tourney...
...FCAS followed a more active policy seeking converts among the Eastern colleges, there are a number of specific reform measures that might be introduced collectively. Much of the Western hockey problem stems from the fact that current practices of dubious value to college athletics are permitted under NCAA rulings...
...unfortunate that even reform of a much less spectacular nature would require a degree of publicity and active pressure that the Faculty Committee is just not willing to provide at the present time. Reform in college hockey is a necessity and the FCAS's use of the tournament boycott was a valid tool toward this...
...restricting itself to this one single measure, Harvard's Committee on Athletics accomplishes very little except to register its own official dissatisfaction and to deprive a very fine hockey team of its right to participate in a national sporting event
North Dakota outplayed Boston College, the number two team in the East after Harvard, to win an easy 8-2 victory in the semifinal round of the NCAA hockey tournament last night...