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THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION VOLUME 1 ’ NUMBER 2 MAY, 1964 SCHOLARSHPROGRAMIP ESTABL ISHED BYNC AAFOR POST -GRADUATESTUDY $1,000 Grants to 32 Seniors Colleges Are Ladies Locked Out Set by Executive Committee Own Vigilantes As NCAA Remains Strictly for Men TV Grid Revenue to Finance Academic Achievement Members Responsible Could a woman compete in an Awards for University and College Division Most for NCAA NCAA championship event? It was a question to make some Football and Basketball Players Enforcement men quake and thoughtful A significant scholarship program for post-graduate and pro- males scurry for the answer in The colleges’ own vigilance fessional study has been established by the National Collegiate the Association’s Constitution, and cooperation are mainly re- Athletic Association. By-Laws, and Executive Regu- sponsible for the consistent Outstanding senior scholar-athletes of 1964-65 from NCAA progress which has marked the lations. The NCAA Executive Com- member colleges and universities who have participated in foot- NCAA enforcement program, ball and basketball will be eligible for 32 one-year, one thousand 12 years old at the end of this mittee faced the issue squarely. dollar grants. month. At the request of women sports The new award plan - first been provided for participants Thus did the NCAA Council leaders themselves and the NCAA Long Range Planning ever undertaken by the NCAA in sports other than football assess the first dozen years of Committee, the following addi- -was approved by the Associ- and basketball, $84,088 has the Association’s self-policing tion to the Executive Regula- ation’s Executive Committee at been set aside from television procedures, and in so doing pay tions was made to settle the its San Francisco meeting, revenue to support clinics and generous tribute to the impor- matter: April 18. A scholarship com- encourage increased participa- tant work of its three-man In- “The games committee shall mittee will be appointed to draw tion in other sports. fractions Committee. limit participation to eligible up official procedure and cri- Statistics released at its male student athletes.” teria for the grants. April meeting in San Francis- The brief addition to the first The plan will be financed - co show that the NCAA has paragraph of Executive Regu- $32,000 for the scholarships had fewer allegations and few- lations II, Section 4, thus re- plus $3,000 administrative ex- er cases of rules infractions solved the question-for NCAA pense-from the NCAA’s four- over the past five years than meets and tournaments at least per cent share of football tele- ever before. -which has been much under vjsion rights fees paid by NBC “It is clear, from our own discussion, by both men and for the 1964 season. observations,” said NCAA women athletic administrators. In addition to approving the President, Robert F. Ray, Specific request for consider- expenditure and specifying the “from a wide range of com- ation by the NCAA came from scholar-athlete awards for post ment across the country and Dr. Marguerite A. Clifton, graduate or professional study “A program of scholarship from statistical study that the UCLA, representing the Divi- by graduates of the class of ‘65, awards for distinguished aca- membership’s objective of tak- sion of Girl’s and Women’s the Executive Committee des- demic achievement has been ing care of its own is being Sports of AAHPER, and Mrs. ignated the following: discussed from time to time for met.” Sara Staff Jernigan, Stetson Twenty-two of the scholar- some years in the NCAA,” ex- “This doesn’t mean NCAA University, representing the ships shall be awarded to var- ecutive director Walter Byers enforcement procedures are en- U. S. Olympic Committee’s sity football participants - 11 said. “Increased revenue de- tirely effective, that there are Women’s Development Com- from the major college list and rived from the television assess- not continuing violations or mittee. 11 from the College Division. ment makes possible these that there won’t be future vio- In the interests of fostering The remaining ten grants awards to worthy student- lations,” President Ray con- the development of women’s shall go to varsity basketball athletes.” tinued, but confidence in the program has been established athletics, and making available players, five from colleges or “Thirty-two scholarships is and individual responsibility the resources and experience of universities in the major cage a good start,” observed NCAA recognized. The splendid and the NCAA to leaders in this ac- category and five from College President Robert F. Ray, “but tireless work of the Infractions tivity, the Council has appoint- Division institutions. it won’t begin to take care of Committee has had much to do ed a special Committee on The $1,000 grants will go di- the great number of senior foot- with this progress,” he con- Women’s Competition. This rectly to the universities or pro- ball and basketball players in cluded. committee will serve as a liaison fessional schools of the recipi- our member institutions who Current Chairman of this agency with all other interested ents’ choice. are honor students in all fields Continued on page 3, col. 2 groups. Though no scholarships have of study.” This Fall’s TV REVENUE BEING Grid TV Fare PUT TO GOOD USE Sept. 12- UCLA at Pittsburgh Sept. 19- Navy at Penn State K-State at Wisconsin Much has been written in There are all degrees of sen- Stanford at Washington St. recent days about sports tele- timent in between. SMU at Florida vision. The enormous sums be- This is as it should be. There Sept. 26- ing paid for rights fees to are some merits to all these Nebraska at Minnesota televise both amateur and pro- viewpoints. act. 3- fessional athletic events of all Complete surrender to ex- Syracuse at Holy Cross kinds ; the intense competition tremes, however, could lead to Washington at Iowa on the part of the networks loss of public interest (ergo Arkansas at TCU to obtain these telecast rights, revenue) on the one hand or Colorado State U. at Air and speculation about where loss of the demonstrable pro- JEROME H. HOLLAND Force all this is going to lead has been tective features to college foot- Hampton Institute act. lop much in the news. ball as a whole on the other. Oklahoma-Texas at Dallas NEW NCAA COUNCIL members this act. 17- Will the beneficiaries of these What is pertinent to all year are the gentlemen shown on USC at Ohio State astronomical payments be cor- points of view is whether or not these two pages, elected for three- Oct. 24- rupted? Will television’s inter- TV revenue is being put to good year terms this past January by the Association’s national convention. Dartmouth at Harvard est, purchasing power, produc- use for worthwhile purposes. Minnesota at Michigan tion problems, and scheduling Of the $6,522,000 which will Iowa State at Missouri complications dominate the be paid by NBC this fall ($13,- Tennessee at LSU presentation of sports events ? 044,000 is the two-year contract act. 31- Will “overexposure” on tele- figure), the 48 participating Pittsburgh at Syracuse vision kill spectator interest? teams-more than ever before South Carolina at NC State Already TV is being credited -plus their allied conferences Texas Tech at Rice with or blamed for motivation will receive 96 per cent, or $6,- Arizona at Air Force of issues which in fact, predate 261,120. Nov. 7- Of the remaining four per Illinois at Michigan the industry itself. cent which accrues to the Nov. 14- Tom Moore, president of NCAA, $35,000 has been set Michigan State at Notre ABC TV, was quoted recently aside for the NCAA Post Dame as saying; Nov. Zl- Graduate Scholarship pro- “The real basis for the dis- Cornell at Princeton gram (see page one story), pute between the NCAA and Michigan State at Illinois $60,000 to establish a College Duke at North Carolina the AAU is that a number of Division regional football cham- USC at UCLA sports, other than football sud- pionship reserve fund, $81,000 Nov. 26- denly have great monetary for administrative expense of value in their television rights.” the entire football television DEAN S. TREVOR Auburn-Alabama at Bir- Knox College mingham Nothtng could be further program, and $84,088 to support Nov. 28- from the truth. That’s akin to instructional clinics and encour- Army-Navy at Philadelphia saying the American Revolu- age increased participation in sports other than football and Dec. 6-- tion occurred because there was Touch6 basketball. Mississippi St. at Mississippi gold in California. “It seems to me to be un- Basically, administrative ex- Coaches of the Year Mr. Moore’s alleged comment pense is all that has been avail- fortunate that the NIT and NCAA Championships con- Basketball (University)-John does, however, illustrate the able to the NCAA in the past. tinue to be cast as rival bas- Wooden, UCLA sort of thing which has marked The remainder within a three Basketball (College) -Arad Mc- speculation about sports-TV per cent assessment in 1962-63 ketball tournaments. This Cutchan, Evansville College relationships and America’s (four per cent previously) was they are not. Wrestling-Tom Evans, Okla- seemingly insatiable appetite returned to the individual par- “The NCAA tourney is homa to watch competitive athletics ticipating members. national title competition, Hockey-Tom Eccleston, Provi- of all kinds. And it is typical We submit that post gradu- enlisting participation by all dence College of some of the irresponsible ate scholarships, college divi- teams which can qualify un- Fencing-Edward F.

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