Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday's Penn-Notre Dame game was sold out long ago. Ordinarily, Murray would have been counting his TV profit, but the NCAA schedule called for a showing of the Columbia-Princeton game and a black-out of all others...
...Murray suddenly decided to open up the whole issue again and demanded that the Penn game be piped to the Philadelphia area. He was surprised beyond words when Hall and the NCAA immediately gave him a green light...
...Murray had evidently neglected to read the fine lines in the NCAA TV contract. The NCAA specifically stated that where there was a sell-out and no appreciable harm would come to other schools in the vicinity, a contest could be televised locally. Hence, the NCAA and Hall, despite personal feelings, didn't hesitate to grant Murray permission...
...Then Murray began to weasel, according to Hall. "Murray was shocked when he got his permission--he really only wanted to fight." And the facts appear to substantiate Hall in this statement...
...Murray wasn't satisfied in getting the Penn game televised in the Philadelphia area. He suddenly demanded that the regularly scheduled TV contest between Columbia and Princeton be piped to the Philadelphia area as well as the Penn game. "He wanted to have his cake and eat it too" is the curt way Hall summed up Murray's request. A series of violent telegrams crossed back and forth...