Word: maccabiah
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...Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference voted 104 to 50 yesterday to place Yale on probation until June 1971 for its decision to allow Jack Langer to play in the Maccabiah games against NCAA regulations...
Langer, a 6'8" reserve center on the Eli basketball team, began practicing with the team again this Fall after playing in the Maccabiah games in Israel during the summer...
Yale had allowed Jack Langer to participate in Israel's Maccabiah Games, despite an NCAA ruling prohibiting collegiate basketball players from taking part in the games...
Yale may take the NCAA to court to decide whether or not Jack Langer's religious freedom was violated by the NCAA's ruling that he is ineligible this season as a result of his participation in last summer's Maccabiah Games, a Jewish-sponsored event...
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...