Word: ncaas
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...proposal currently before the NCAA Executive Council would limit the number of foreign players on a 17-man varsity squad to 14 next season, exclusive of goaltenders, and would reduce it to 10 and ultimately to eight by 1973. If the measure passes in the Council, it goes before the NCAA Convention in early January, and if approved there, becomes NCAA...
Theoretically, the proposal is intended to reopen American college hockey as a means of developing. American talent for the professional leagues. Canadian performers have the Junior leagues to provide the necessary preparatory channel. Americans have ... American college hockey. And, argues the NCAA, Canadian imports are choking off that channel in the United States...
...NCAA point is well taken, but one must wonder whether the quota on Canadians would produce the desired effect. Wholesale importation did not begin to affect Eastern hockey, at least, until the mid-60's, when Boston University. Cornell. R.P.I., and New Hampshire followed Clarkson into Canada for their players...
...record was 19-7. In 1966. it was 22-5. In 1967. with only one American. Framingham's Andy Crowley on the roster, it was 27-1-1 and included the ECAC and NCAA titles...
...Crowley quit, making the roster fully Canadian, and Cornell went on to a 27-2 season. Last winter, again with no Americans, the Big Red won 27-of-29, took its fourth Ivy title. the ECAC championship, and second in the NCAA tournament...