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...that Harvard men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary '56 has been appointed to the post of athletic director, will he trade in the flea-bitten red sweater he wears each game for an administrator's three-piece suit? That may be the biggest question surrounding the transition from Jack Reardon '60 to Cleary at the athletic department...
...University is counting on Cleary to follow the path of Reardon, who has rebuilt Harvard's facilities and provided a forceful voice against commercialization of collegiate athletics as a member of the NCAA Council...
Cleary does have everything that the University is looking for in an heir to Reardon. But Reardon will be the first to tell you that there are new controversies for Cleary to mediate, new issues that will have to be faced...
First and foremost is the formidable task of managing Reardon's pride and joy--Harvard's massive athletic department. With the most varsity teams in the country (40), an extensive intramural program, including undergraduate and graduate students and negligible space for expansion, there is potential for conflict over limited resources...
Cleary should make these decisions based on the philosophy he has inherited from Reardon, a philosophy of broad participation and an emphasis on academics and amateurism rather than athletics and professionalism...