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...ECAC had good reasons for being highly suspicious of Kinasewich's Junior A background. The Junior A Leagues in Oanada are used as farm clubs by professional hockey teams. A small number of players are actually paid salaries by the pro teams...
...Kinasewich was disqualified by the ECAC because he had accepted subsidies for playing Junior A hockey in Canada four years ago. The ECAC claimed that these subsidies, which amounted to $450 one year and $702 the next made Kinasewich a professional under the rules of the Conference...
Others are paid subsidies by the Junior A. The subsidies are determined, as is a Harvard scholarship, on the basis of need. Kinasewich, who is an orphan, had to work to help pay for his room and board. As Junior A hockey demands intensive practice, he could not play hockey and work at the same time. Therefore the team paid him the equivalent of what he could have earned, and gave him the chance to continue in school. It also paid him money for lodging and meals for out-of-town games...
...effect, then, hockey was Kinasewich's part-time job. Under the strict U.S. definition, he was a professional...
...Kinasewich's "professionalism" is of a special breed. It is certainly not the same as a boy playing minor league baseball in the United States. His status is very similar to that of a boy attending college on an athletic scholarship...