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Harvard will appeal the recent decision of the Eastern College Athletic conference eligibility committee which declared hockey player Gene Kinasewich ineligible for league competition, it was learned yesterday...
Kinasawich, a junior from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), was the center and leading scorer on Harvard's varsity hockey team, which last year reached the semifinals of the ECAC tournament. He had been ruled ineligible during his freshman year by the Ivy League eligibility committee, because he had once accepted money for playing Junior League A hockey in Canada. But the Ivy League committee reversed its ruling at the start of last year, after studying Kinasewich's scholastic record and his Canadian hockey experience...
Dean Watson had presented Harvard's case to the ECAC last June, after Kinasewich had come to the attention of members of the eligibility committee through an article about him in Sports Illustrated. The article quoted (or misquoted, as he later claimed) hockey coach Cooney Weiland as saying that Kinasewich was one of the best Canadian hockey players he had come across; it also contained a review of Kinasewich's eligibility troubles with the Ivy League...
Foods said that the eligibility committee would not normally meet until Dec. 5 or 6, after the start of the hockey season. He said that he would consult committee members about arranging an earlier meeting to consider Harvard's appeal...
...other big question was Kessler, who after captaining the freshmen, two years ago deserted the gridiron last season for hockey and lacrosse. Kessler stopped in when Southmayd broke his hand, however, and now seems to have the right guard spot nailed down...