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...This season the NCAA has dropped post-season play-offs as a means of selecting teams. The procedure was criticized by many New England athletic administrators and was given last March by an H.A.A. official as the reason for Harvard's withdrawal...
...outside world won't leave it alone. That insidious publication, Sports Illustrated, last week scored "the opposition of President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, who tolerates football with only slightly concealed hostility," to its pet proposals: spring practice for the Ivy League and the right of participation in post-season bowls for its players...
...editorial concluded, "Now that Yale has proved it can field one of the country's best collegiate football teams without overemphasizing (another S.I. unproved theory), it is time for President Griswold and his fellow executives in the Ivy colleges to reconsider the bans on spring practice and post-season individual play. This would be a graceful moment to drop these archaic circumscriptions against Ivy football players." One might add that this would be a graceful moment for the Ivy League to slide out of existence, with all of its goals lost...
...himself a starting position on coach Henry Lamar's Freshman football squad. The program statistics read: end--19--6:1--Choate. "The most adept pass catcher was John Kennedy, but his lack of weight was a drawback," wrote the coach in his post-season review...
...board, have feuded with faculties determined to tone down the heavy emphasis on sports. Last week faculty representatives voted to cancel the 14-year pact with the Rose Bowl (where Big Ten teams won twelve times). In an apparent fit of petulance, the athletic directors then recommended abolishing all post-season competition in all sports, including the prestigious N.C.A.A. championships in basketball, swimming and track. The faculty representatives promptly supported the proposal. If finally ratified by the individual universities, the ban would confine Big Ten teams to winning the championship of none but their own conference, strike a mighty blow...