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Last Wednesday President Kennedy asked the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Association to end their two year jurisdictional war. On the same day, the eligibility committee of the Eastern College Athletic Conference reversed its previous ruling and declared Harvard hockey player Gene Kinasewich eligible for intercollegiate competition...
...Kinasewich case presented the ECAC with a magnificent opportunity to make an intelligent contribution to the debate on the issue. By deciding Kinasewich was eligible because of the special circumstances surrounding his Junior A hockey career in Canada, and by failing (thus far) to reconsider the ECAC position on Junior A players in general, the committee has avoided the main problem...
Harvard is partially to blame for this. The University pleaded its case on the grounds that the money Kinasewich accepted from the Edmonton Oil Kings ($1122 over two seasons) was excusable because Kinasewich needed the money to continue playing hockey and still stay in school. Harvard implicitly accepted the fact that hockey was Kinasewich's part-time job during high school, and said that this was not necessarily professionalism. The University did not call for a general review of the Junior A problem, and so far it has not asked for a review of the eligibility rules...
Bill Lamarche's first goal at 6.15 of the second period blew the game wide open. Lamarche scored again a minute and a half later on a pass from Ike Ikauniks, and at 14.47 Bruce Thomas slammed a hard shot into the right corner of the cage. Kinasewich got the assist...
Harvard spent much more time in the penalty box than Northeastern, but this only gave the Crimson more opportunity to demonstrate their superior speed and agility. Kinasewich's displays of dribbling not only delighted the large crowd in Watson, but served to run out minute after minute on the penalty clock...