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Last week all eight Ivy League presidents signed a letter which supported Yale's decision to keep Jack Langer on its basketball: restore in spite of continued NCAA wariness. The NCAA had declared Langer ineligible because of his participation in the Maccabiah games...
Yesterday afternoon, at its annual convention in Washington, the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted to place Yale University on athletic probation for two years for using a basketball player, Jack Langer, that the NCAA had declared ineligible...
Yale openly defied the NCAA authorities when it used Langer in an ECAC game in December, and it will continue to do so. inviting further punishment which the Convention implied would be forthcoming. It is only fair, in view of the letter of sympathy that all eight Ivy presidents signed last week, that the Ivy League vote to accept Yale's punishment as well, and if the circumstances warrant it, withdraw unconditionally from the NCAA...
Yale has done nothing illegal, unless refusing to act as a pawn is illegal. The Langer affair arose solely from another in a series of childish, petty disputes between the NCAA and AAU over control of American amateur athletics. Langer, with Yale's full consent, participated in last summer's Maccabiah games as a member of the U. S. basketball team. But basketball, ironical, was the only sport forbidden to NCAA athletes at the Games, since the NCAA wished to deprive the AAU (which organized the basketball team for the Games) of the major portion of its squad and thus...
What is even more absurd is that Paul Katz, a Yale swimmer, competed in the Games with the NCAA's full approval. So Langer's and Yale's, persecution smacks strongly of pawn-pushing on the NCAA's part. And when the NCAA begins to exploit its members for its own selfish interests, it is time to seriously debate whether it has outlived its usefulness. By insisting that it will continue to keep Langer on its varsity squad, Yale hopes to provoke that debate, but unless the Ivics support Yale to the utmost- and that means withdrawal from the NCAA...