Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn's revolt, particularly if such heavyweights as Notre Dame and Army should jump on the bandwagon, seemed calculated to wreck the whole N.C.A.A. effort to work out a TV compromise. But the N.C.A.A. cracked down fast. It declared that Penn is "a member not in good standing," hence subject to expulsion (by a two-thirds vote) at the next N.C.A.A. convention in January...
...most of Penn's rivals indicated that they would be reluctant to honor the 1951 schedule unless Penn got back in step. Athletic Director Bob Kane of Cornell, Penn's biggest rival, announced "it could very well mean that" Cornell will not play Penn. Columbia, California, Dartmouth, Princeton and Navy figured they would stick by the N.C.A.A. By this week it began to look as if Penn was rapidly losing friends and influencing practically...
...accordance with these beliefs, he has set up a $1,000,000 fellowship program to give young scholars in the humanities a chance they rarely get today. For the university, he has picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance...
Schools such as Cornell, California, and Dartmouth which have games scheduled with Penn for next fall have not signed their contracts and seem reluctant to go along with the planned games as the situation now stands. On the other hand, Army and Wisconsin will probably play the Quakers whatever happens...
...Penn, Francis Murray, Director of Athletics, yesterday requested a hearing by the N.C.A.A. on its "hasty action" in placing Penn in bad standing because of its decision