Word: uac
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...question of a longer season, the UAC said...
...championships should the team be Invited to compete. Last week the FCAS announced its decision to allow the team to play in the ECAC, the Eastern championships, but not in the NCAA, where Harvard would be playing teams from Western Hockey League. Following are excerpts from the 15-page UAC report and the answers provided by the FCAS in a letter to UAC head Mark Woodbury...
...quite true that the athlete-students at Western colleges receive athletic scholarships, scholarships that are only extended as long as the recipient tries out for the college team. The UAC Committee does not condone the athletic scholarship, and agrees that Harvard's policy of unconditionally granting aid is superior. However, a few considerations must be made before the chastisement begins. First, Harvard teams, hockey and others, play teams, not only in the whole New England area, but in the immediate vicinity of Boston, that grant athletic scholarships. Second, there is a control over athletic scholarships at each Western college, exercised...
...UAC implored Harvard not to indulge "in intellectual snobbery, by refusing to play an athletic contest with a team representing a school with a lower scholastic standard...
After reading the FCAS decision, Mark Woodbury III '62, president of the UAC, said the group was "naturally disappointed." He observed that "we tried for a home run and only got a double...