11, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAM VT%*, 11, 196t T H E I C H I G A.DA I L. .....m .T.. rtivr. trirrr. VVI Ivy League Fights NCAA Grade-Point Standards By BOB McFARLAND An Ivy League team finishing near the top in an NCAA tourna- ment was always regarded about as likely as one of Bear Bryant's brutes to wini a Rhodes Scholar- ship. Until last year, that is. Then 6 along came a gentleman named Bill Bradley to lead the Prince- ton five to a highly respectable third-place finish in the NCAA roundball tourney. Quite a switch for a conference which had ex- celled only in fencing, a sport that has a rather aristocratic air about it anyway. Yes, those boys from the East might have to be reckoned with. from now on. Dartmouth's grid coach, Bob Blackman, even thinks Ivy League football is on a par with other leading con- ferences around the country. Fencing is now taking a back- seat role. Pennsylvania had the task of proving that the Princeton suc- cess last year wasn't just a fluke. They were scheduled to open competition against Syracuse in the first round of NCAA regional play on Monday night. The site was the Quakers' home field house,' the Palestra in Philadelphia. The Palestra was dark and empty Monday night, though. The NCAA had packed their bags and moved the first round site to Blacksburg, Virginia, and Penn wasn't invited to go along. The Quakers, along with Yale, had been declared ineligible to com- pete in all NCAA championships. Semantic Grade Point It was another blow in the run- ning feud between the NCAA and Ivy League over the national body's ruling that an athlete must have at least a 1.6 grade point in a 4.0 scale to receive athletic scholarships. The way the con- troversy is shaping up, it's going to involve enough strife and bit- terness to make the Hatfield-Mc- Coy struggle look like a tempest, in a teapot. And the strangest thing is,, most observers see it as simply a battle over semantics. Athletic Director Jerry Ford of Pennsylvania said Monday that the Ivy League was refusing to comply with the NCAA ruling on three main counts. "First of all, the Ivy League doesn't give ath- letic scholarships, so the 1.6 pro- vision doesn't apply in any case," Ford stated. They Who Decide 'Secondly, our standards for scholarships, which, I reiterate, are based solely on need, are much higher than the minimal re- quirements set down in the rul- ing anyway. "Thirdly, and most important, we do not agree with the principle than an institution like the NCAA, whose business is to govern inter- trude into, the admissions and collegiate athletics, should in- eligibility requirements of mem- ber schools," Ford continued. Ford, elaborating on his final point, emphasized, "We feel that the dean of admissions has the right and the background to de- cide whether a boy is fit to en- ter an institution, and whether he is eligible for aid. We just don't think it's fair and we're not going to subject athletes to admissions and eligibility re- quirements which non-athletes. are not subjected to." Compromise Rejected A compromise which would per- mit Pennsylvania to enter the NCAA basketball competition ap- peared to be in the offing last week. Dr. Robert F. Goheen, Presi- dent of Princeton and spokesman for the Ivies on the matter, said each institution would be willing to send a telegram, outline its academic standards which would be well within the NCAA frame- work. However, Goheen said the league would refuse to sign NCAA forms, saying that the school would com- ply with the 1.6 decision. That was perfectly all right with NCAA President Everett Barnes. It ap- peared that the national body had begun a calculated withdrawal, if the Ivy League would only give it a token bow. Cornell was only too happy to get the squabble out of the way. After all, the Big Red had a hock- ey team headed for an NCAA playoff berth. The Cornell mes- sage politely affirmed the Ivy stand on institutional autonomy, but was diplomatically silent on the 1.6 legislation' An NCAA re- ply indicated that Cornell was back in good graces. Gratuitous Comments Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Dartmouth followed suit. Har- vard decided not to reply at all. Pennsylvania and Yale, who had the greatest stake in maintain- ing their eligibility (Yale was ex- pected to put on a strong showing at the NCAA swimming champion- ships next month) decided to add a few remarks to their telegrams. The two schools reminded the executive director of the NCAA, Walter Byers, that the mere out- line of an institution's academic policy was not tantamount to compliance with the 1.6 provi- sion. This departure from the telegram's prearranged form included what one official term- ed "gratuitous comments" on the NCAA by-law. Byers did not take too kindly to these "gratuitous comments" and he did not appreciate being reminded that the telegrams were not in actual compliance with the NCAA ruling. Byers quickly sent messages to both Gaylord P. Harnwell, Pennsylvania's presi- dent, and Klingman Brewster, Yale's president asking them to repudiate the telegrams of their athletic directors. Even Fencing Suffers Harnwell and Brewster both re- fused to do so, and the NCAA stuck to its guns, declaring both Penn and Yale ineligible. As if the situation was not already com- plicated enough, Goheen and the Ivy League policy committee re- entered the situation. The policy committee decided Friday that if two Ivy League members had been declared in- eligible, then the entire confer- ence would refuse to participate in any NCAA competition. Har- vard was out of the NCAA track championships, Cornell , was eliminated from the hockey competition, and even the old stand-by; fencing, was destined to be won by a non-Ivy team. Goheen issued " a statement which said, "the NCAA's 1.6 leg- islation is perhaps laudatory in general objective" but it is "very badly constructed legislation. It would appear to be the product of people who are more knowledgable about athletics than the life of the mind." The Princeton president went on to call the NCAA's standards for predicting an acceptable aver- age "prior to a student's admis- sion to college so low as to be ridiculous to a great many colleges and universities." Eleventh Hour When asked if a possibility for compromise still existed after the strife of last week, Penn's Ford, who has been thrust into one of the conflict's central positions, re- marked, "No, I don't think they'll back down and I know we won't." "Both sides were flexing their muscles right down until the eleventh hour," Ford added. The Ivy League has not made a com- plete withdrawal from the NCAA, and the conference reportedly hopes to drum up enough support to repeal the 1.6 provision at the next meeting of the NCAA this summer. Ford lamented the fact that the Quaker cagers were affected by the controversy. "It's a shame the athletes are the ones that will be hurt," he said. "Coach Jack McClowskey and the team worked hard to win the Ivy League crown. We are very proud of the way the team has taken it though." Honor vs. Position A recent survey taken by the Boston Herald reported that 108 of the 571 member schools of the NCAA are refusing to accept the 1.6 ruling and are looking to the Ivy League for leadership. Ford said that many of the uncommitted schools around the nation consider he Ivies, especially Harvard and Yale, to be spokes- man for the group. "I would es- timate that there are 50-60 in- stitutions in the East right now who are sympathetic to our stand, but who haven't taken a position as yet because they have no stake in the NCAA championships," Ford asserted. Fraternity Major independents in the East who have taken the same position as the Ivy League include MIT, Holy Cross, Bowdoin, Brandeis, Middlebury, and Tuffs. By no means do the Ivies stand alone. Editorial opinion among the student newspapers in the con- ference has been mixed. The Daily Princetonian treated the issue as a complicated farce. The Daily; Pennsylvanian and the Harvard Crimson both applauded the stand, while some grumblings could be detected in the Cornell Daily Sun, which wanted to know why the schools hadn't all- sent the same telegram if unity was so important. Commissioner Bill Reed of the Big Ten stated that the "Big Ten academic regulations are well within the NCAA guide- lines." He said that he was not really acquainted with the rea- sons behind the Ivy League po- sitions, because "they kept silent on the matter at the last meet- ing." Michigan requires a 1.7 pre- dicted grade-point before a po- tential athlete can receive aid. Wouldn't the Hatfield-McCoys have loved this one? They may not have understood it, but they could not have jumped in with any more fervor than the Ivy League and NCAA have shown. Hedrick C* ops New M Club Losh Award In honor of the most outstand- ing athlete and student of the year, the 'M' Club presented Carl Hendrick with the new Hazel M. Losh award last night. Because of Professor Losh's avid support and loyal enthusiasm for Michigan athletics, the award was named in her honor. Carl Hendrick is the captain of the tennis team. He has also earn- ed a 3A average in engineering. Terry Barr and Ron Kramer made the presentation. 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