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Speculation among local sports scribes as to Harvard's participation in a proposed sectional post-season basketball tournament is increasing rapidly as a result of the Crimson's spectacular rise to a position among the three top teams of New England...
Section 3, part 7 of the Athletic Rules Book would seem definitely to preclude such participation, for it decrees that "no post-season contests, or contests for the purpose of settling sectional or other championships, shall be permitted...
Possible loopholes in this rule were pointed out yesterday, however, by Bill Bingham, H.A.A. Director, who explained that it was intended to apply primarily to post-season football games in one or more of the Bowls...
...League. But the figment took a half-step toward fact last week. The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale signed an expanded version of an old Harvard-Princeton-Yale agreement-no "athletic scholarships," no first-year men or scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games-in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to "maintain the value of the game while keeping...
Last week Minnie Guggenheimer found a silver-lined way through the clouds. She arranged two post-season "benefit" concerts, and persuaded her 80 musicians to play for nothing. Then she signed Grace Moore to sing, and New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, ever willing to put on a show, to conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever.* To her fans, she confided: "The Mayor's going to decorate Miss Moore. I really don't know with what. ..." When uproarious applause interrupted her, she scolded: "I think you're all just dreadful people...