Word: maccabiah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis came to a head at the beginning of the Elk basketball season, when Yale insisted that it would let Langer ruled ineligible by the NCAA because of his participation in last summer's unsanctioned Maccabiah games-play for the Blue varsity. The NCAA took no overt action after Langer's participation in contests with both Fordham and Connecticut, but after he played in an Ivy game, the ECAC issued its ultimatum at its meeting Wednesday in New York...
Previously, the dispute had primarily been confined to track, where one organization would frequently prohibit its members from participating in a meet sanctioned by the other. But last summer the struggle broke out anew over sanctioning of American amateur participation in Israel's Maccabiah games, somewhat of a Jewish Olympics...
...Langer was designated ineligible because of his participation in the summer Maccabiah Games in Israel, which the NCAA chose not to sanction this year. When Langer said that he wished to play in Israel anyway. Yale supported him because it felt that he was being victimized by another AAU-NCAA power disagreement...