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Harvard's varsity soccer team was put at a very serious disadvantage in the NCAA university division soccer playoffs when T. Fred Holloway, Cortland State soccer coach and chairman of the NCAA tournament selection committee for the New York district, ruled that Columbia must postpone its scheduled match with Brown today and instead play Hartwick this afternoon in the New York NCAA finals...
...Holloway's decision will affect the Crimson in two ways. First, Harvard, having played three games in the last ten days, will face a Brown team next Tuesday that has had a seven day respite...
...Holloway ruled with Hartwick for two reasons. "If we waited until Tuesday," Holloway said, "Hartwick's athletic administration indicated that it would be without the student assistance it needed to run the game. Also, the NCAA depends on the returns of the gate and therefore it is in the tournament's best interests to attract a crowd today...
Harvard assistant director of Athletics, Eric Cutler, contacted the NCAA national headquarters in Illinois yesterday and received assurances that Holloway had overstepped his powers in canceling a previously scheduled game when an open date was available. A written protest would have been accepted, but the Columbia team was already on a bus to Hartwick...
...Holloway defended his decision by stating that participants in the NCAA playoffs had been previously warned not to schedule other events during the playoff period...