THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION VOLUME 1 . NUMBER 3 JULY-AUGUST, 1964 NCAAIS FIRMLYW ITHH IGHSCHOO LS FORFR IDAYNIGHT PRO TV PROTECT ION Minimum Academic First NCAA Indoor Joint Effort Seeks Legislative Standard in Wind Track Title Meet Aid for Game’s Best Interests Slated for Detroit For NCAA Competition The number of NCAA cham- “Facts Have Been Deliberately Distorted,” Says pionships now stands at 21 President Bob Ray in Explaining logic And Grants-in-Aid with the announcement early A national minimum academ- in July that the first annual Of Congressional Position ic admissions standard as a pre- National Collegiate Indoor “The colleges and universities of the National Collegiate Ath- Track and Field Championship requisite to NCAA competition letic Association stand firmly with the high schools and junior will be held March 12-13, 1965, is now a distinct possibility be- colleges in their determined opposition to any legislation which in Cobo Hall, Detroit. cause of a historic resolution would permit professional football to televise indiscriminately on What may very well become passed by the Conference of Friday nights to the detriment of high school and junior college the blue-ribbon event of all in- Conferences in Denver this past game attendance.” door track will be held in the month. Thus did NCAA President Robert F. Ray this week strongly Motor City for the next three reaffirm the school-college partnership in support of the proposals The resolution, which came years by an agreement reached of several members of Congress to protect high school and junior as the culmination of a joint re- between the NCAA and the De- college football from the damaging effects of professional football port of the Long Range Plan- troit NEWS following long television. ning-Academic Testing and Re- planning and negotiations. AFL blackout principles are no “There has been deliberate less a recognition on their part quirements committees, charges Detroit’s afternoon news- distortion of the facts in this the NCAA Council to prepare paper will promote the two-day of the need for restriction than matter,” said Ray, “even to the is the NCAA television plan legislation for the next conven- board championship and a spe- point on the part of one or two which seeks to preserve in-per- tion to embrace the following cial unit of the NCAA track and supposedly responsible journal- son attendance at hundreds of principle : field rules committee will estab- ists resorting to utter falsehood lish the events,criteria for quali- games each weekend. Each in- A member institution shall in misstating the school-college fication and meet rules. The dividual segment of the game not be eligible to enter a team or position. University of Michigan, under ought properly to be concerned individual competitors in any “It has been suggested that about the best interests of foot- the direction of H. 0. (Fritz) those responsible for high ball as a national sport.” NCAA-sponsored or sanctioned Crisler as games committee event unless the institution : school, junior college, and col- The NCAA president con- chairman, will officially host the lege football programs do not 1. Limits its grants-in-aid, or cluded by pointing out two inaugural meet. even have the right to take a scholarship awards (for which points which are often ignored Michigan Track Coach Don position on a question which by critics of the NCAA posi- the recipient’s athletic ability is Canham chairs the indoor track bears directly on the survival of tion : taken into account) to only committee which also in- those programs, not to mention “First, under Public Law those incoming student-athletes cludes Clifton Anderson, Mary- the ultimate indirect effect it 87-331, passed in 1961, which Continued on page 4, col. 4 Continued on page 4, col. 3 might have on the life source of grants certain exemptions from the professional game itself,” the anti-trust laws to profes- he continued. sional football for television “The NCAA has no intention purposes, the NFL and AFL as of interfering or infringing in leagues may not televise within any way in the affairs of profes- 75 miles of a college football sional football except when game from 6:00 p.m., Friday, those affairs influence its own through Saturday midnight, traditionally established and ac- from the second weekend in cepted position, or that of the September through the second high schools or junior colleges. weekend in December. The In this particular case it is pro- NCAA is seeking no new re- tection of high school and jun- striction solely for its own pur- ior college football which is at pose. stake,” the NCAA president NCAA Protection emphasized. “Secondly, the NCAA has Administrators Agree written into its own football “Furthermore, both school- television plans, in turn, identi- college and professional football cal protection for the high EXPANDED SERVICE IS THEIR GOAL-lh c six-man NCAA executive office staff here maps administrators are in complete schools from college television changes in the NCAA News. Newest staff members care Events Director Michael Clcary and agreement on the need for tele- on Friday nights. Thus, the only Publications Editor David Price. Shown here, left to right, Art Bergstrom, Wiles Hallock, Charles Noinar, Cleary, Price, ond Executive Director Walter Byerr. vision control. The NFL and Continued on page 3, col. 1 COMMISSIONER REED DEFINES NCAA GOALS IN C OF C KEYNOTE The Council reprints here ewerpts fro’m the keynote urlt~r~ess to the recent NCAA Conference of Conferewces, delbewd !)?J William R. Reed, commissioner of the Big T’en Conference, Tues- da!/, July 21, 1964 in D,erwer (His svh:ject : “Our Common Goazs”) . As Americans, as educators, and as men dedicated to the welfare of athletics in this country as a profound source of the nation’s physical and moral strength, we share certain funda- mental objectives. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, William R. Reed, (left) commissioner of the Big Ten conference, discusses Briefly, because I think we suffer at this moment from a the agenda of the recent Conference of Conferences, July 20~21, in Denver. With him ore burden of rhetoric, invective, and declamation that has only two of the conference hosts, Athletic Director Hoyt Brawncr, University of Denver, and Paul obscured basic issues, I assign no order of priority for these Brechler, commissioner of the Western Athletic conference. At right is Big Eight Commissioner Wayne Duke. Photo by Dave Mathiar, Denver Post. goals. As I see them, if they are not equal, they are comple- mentary. And we seek to tailor our program always to those objectives, First, we seek strong international sports representation on for we seek a system for the control of athletics in which im- an amateur basis in the national interest. We are remiss if we do portant policy decisions are made in a democratic manner, with not recognize that in the world today sports is an instrument fair representation of the educational and athletic interests which of national policy . are involved. We must look to the fact that among all nations and all peo- In fact, without such representation in policy decisions in- ple, rich and poor, or underdeveloped and backward, sports is a volving national sports administration, it is impossible to assert universal language. We must learn to speak that language in the the educational interests which are our immediate responsibility. national interest and in terms of excellence-excellence of pur- How well are we realizing these fundamental objectives? If pose and excellence of performance. we are thwarted in the realization of these goals, then we must Second, we seek a broad basis of sports participation which look to the causes. I would look first to ourselves. What can we do builds from that firm foundation-not just to an apex of sports that we are not already doing to serve these ends? Are we, for proficiency capable of international representation, but to a na- example, fully dedicating our vast resources in the nature of tional awareness and appreciation of sports participation. faculties, facilities, and personnel to an all-out fitness program? This is a program of physical fitness, This is a sports dcvelop- I am encouraged to think we are doing much as we heard ment program. We in this room believe in the values of athletic yesterday from the representatives of the sports federations training, not alone as a physical conditioner, but as an educa- with which we are affiliated. But there really is no such thing tional experience. It is a conviction that motivates us in our at- as too much and the responsibility is not just that of the feder- tachment to sports as coaches, administrators, and advisors. ation people. It lies with school and college administrators . We therefore seek to broaden the rewards of that condition- Rut there is another and obvious place to which we can look ing process and that experience for all ages, all classes; for all for the causes. This is to that body constituted and enfranchised boys, all girls, for all men and all women. for national sports administration. There is, as we all know, such Third, we seek an amateur athletic program which is con- a body. It unequivocally represents itself with certain super- sistent with the primary objectives of a student-athlete. crogated powers as the sole governing body of certain sports in this country. If I were to assign priority to the goals as I see them, I think it would be this-for it is so immediate to our particular func- I submit that a body so constituted and so enfranchised tions.