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Like most athletic directors, Scott is a former jock; he was a sprinter at Syracuse. But that is where the similarity ends. While covering the 1968 Olympics for Ramparts, he "tried to explain why blacks were angry and exploited as athletes." He briefly taught a course at the University of California called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Higher Education: A Socio-Psychologcal Evaluation" and founded the Institute for the Study of Sport and Society to "help interpret what's going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." Scott's two books, A thletics for Athletes...
Nonetheless, Scott rattled the traditionalists when he hired Tommie Smith (the sprinter who is best remembered for his clenched-fist salute on the victory stand after he won the 200-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics) as track and basketball coach. Last week, in keeping with his crusade to help blacks "become involved in the brains of sport, not just the brawn,", he appointed Cass Jackson as football coach. Of Smith, Scott says: "He's a pretty quiet, dignified guy. He is not a black-power person who's going to blow up the gymnasium with a hand...
Navy's top swimmer, sprinter Rex Hand, will meet Harvard's top 50 and 100-yd. threat Tim Neville in what will probably be the best matchup of the afternoon...
There was one bright spot for the Crimson, however, Freshman sprinter Tim Neville, who came into his own at the Easterns two weeks ago, set a new University record in the qualifying time trials for the 50-yd, freestyle. Pitted against Tennessee's Dave Edgar, rated the "fastest human afloat," Neville posted a very fast time of 21.250, missing the consolations by a mere .017 seconds...
...time eclipsed the former standard of 21.4 held jointly by Neville and last year's captain Mike Cahalan, and establishes Neville as the fastest sprinter in Harvard's history after only one year of varsity competition...