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THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION VOLUME 1 - NUMBER 4 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1964 USTFF-Jaycee Youth Plans PREP=COllEGEATHLETES Unprecedented National Track Merger to Aid DOMINATEOLYMP ICTEAM Million Youngsters The most comprehensive youth development program U.S. Is Strongest ever undertaken in the sport of track and field has been In College Sports launched by the United States Track and Field Federation and United States Olympic team the United States Junior Cham- rosters are dominated by ath- ber of Commerce. letes who have been nurtured, Announcement of the part- developed and given their com- nership to become effective petitive opportunity and incen- next summer was made jointly tive by the schools and colleges of America. by USTFF Executive Dlrector Charles D. (Chic) Werner and The most casual inspection of U. S. Jaycee Vice President for the lineup of talent represent- Youth-Sports Development ing the U.S. in the current sum- mer Olympiad reveals this fact Doyle Balko. It could affect fa- HARVARD’S FOUR-WITH-COXSWAIN CREW that will represent the United Stoter at the vorably in the first year alone Olympic Gamer in Tokyo. The crew, from bow to stern, includes Captain-Elect Paul Gunder- without question, particularly more than a million young- son, Captain Harry Pollock, Jim Tew, stroke Tom Pollock and coxswain Ted Washburn. in the sports in which the Unit- sters-girls as well as boys- ed States traditionally makes its between the ages of seven and strongest showing. 18. Executive Committee What’s more, the men re- The Wheaties Sports Federa- sponsible for teaching the skills tion and Pepsi Cola Company Sets Record Budget which our athletes have taken will underwrite and assure their to Tokyo are, for the most part, full promotional resources in A record budget of $334,000 some $41,000 over last year. school and college coaches behalf of the joint USTFF- for 1964-65 was approved by In other action, the Execu- whose careers are dedicated to Jaycee effort which will be the Executive Committee at its tive Committee: imparting those skills and in- known as the “Junior Champ fiscal meeting in New York City . Approved the recommenda- centives. August 16-17. Expanded na- Track and Field Development tion of the Swimming Rules A further conclusion is ines- tional championship competi- Committee to change the Program.” capable ; that where the United tion, the newly instituted col- scoring of the National Col- Enthusiastic endorsement of States traditionally gathers its lege division football playoffs, legiate Swimming Champion- the developmental partnership lion’s share of Olympic medals increased insurance benefits, ships to include the first 12 was given by Stan Musial of -in men’s track and field, the President’s Council on and added executive staff ac- places instead of the first six. counted for the increase of . men’s swimming, and basket- Continued on page 5 Approved transfer of the As- ball-collegiate competition has sociation’s executive offices reached its ultimate emphasis SPECIAL CD FOOTBALL SUBCOMMITTEE SELECTED from the Fairfax Building to through carefully developed na- the Midland Building in Kan- The four cheerful gentlemen tional championship meets and sas City, to be accomplished tournaments conducted by col- at right have been named to a in November. special football subcommittee of legiate interests. 0 Approved a new trial format the NCAA’s College Committee. The latest step forward-x- for the National Collegiate They will be responsible for hibition baseball in Tokyo this Gymnastics Championships supervising the first regional year which may sometime be for one year. College Division Football Cham- added to the official Olympic pionships December 12. l Endorsed criteria for NCAA program-is an all-collegiate Shown are (top row, left to scholarships in principle and lineup set by the stimulus of the right) Harry Arlanson, Tufts established a Scholarship US. Baseball Federation. University, and Robert Strim- Committee. Increasing participation in er, Ohio Wesleyan University, 0 Approved dates and sites for gymnastics through NCAA and and (bottom row, left to right) 1964-65 National Collegiate U.S. Gymnastics Federation Garvin Beauchamp, Abilene Championships. (See page 6.) programs (which are stimu- Christian College, and Don 0 Accepted the Golf Tourna- lating growing high school in- Adee, Chico State College. ment Committee’s request to terest) point the way to an e- In addition to serving on the determine the team cham- ventual Olympic breakthrough subcommittee, each member pion through two rounds of in this key sport. will serve as chairman of the medal play, with the low 60 And in wrestling the improv- Games Committee for one of scorers (including ties) to ed competitive level of school the championships and has the of the game in his region. compete .over 36 holes of and college matmen resulted in responsibility for supervising Complete details may be medal play to determine the a breakthrough in 1960 which the arrangements and conduct found on page 3. individual champion. Continued on page 4 - AN EDITORIAL - No one knows for certain what will happen to the AAU-Feder- box and the AAU can continue on its merry, monopolistic ation schism when the 18th summer Olympiad ends the Mac- way. But, at what a price. Arthur arbitration agreement in track and field this month. Speaking in response to the TRIBUNE’S offer to rebut Hull’s There can be little doubt, however, that the fires which were attack, Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA, expressed only banked by the late General’s freeze of the conflicting ele- his personal conviction thusly : ments will flame once more with greater heat and intensity that Surely, all thinking Americans must rebel at the idea of ever. Hopefully, too, with more light. an American organization trying to impose foreign concepts The reason is obvious. The MacArthur agreement, as useful as and interpretations upon a system of education and tinancial assistance which is uniquely American and not duplicated it has been as a “cease fire” until the Olympics are over, was never in any other nation in the world. intended as anything more. It does not suggest a permanent solu- The United States grant-in-aid and scholarship program tion, nor point a clear direction. provides for an education first and athletic opportunity second. It is a program which aims for and, in fact, achieves excel- The AAU, seemingly jittery because of the approaching end lence . It is a responsible, carefully policed program and of the compromise (or perhaps increasingly sensitive to the the record shows that it has been good for America, for the USTFF’s logical argument that adminstrative jurisdiction of students and for sports . The school-college system of education and athletics is track and field should bear a direct relationship to actual contri- America itself and I know-from traveling this country from bution to the sport) has recently revealed itself in all its sel- seaboard to seaboard-that America is proud of the system fishness. it built even though the AAU and its chief executive ap- parently are not . In a copyrighted story by Ed Schoenfeld in the September 11, The people who are going abroad this month to represent Oakland TRIBUNE, Colonel Donald S. Hull, the AAU’s executive the United States at the international track meetings-all of director, attacked the U.S. college scholarship system, expressing them AAU delegates and appointees-should take pride in this nation’s athletic prowess and defend our programs the belief that American collegiate student-athletes are profes- proudly rather than degrade and criticize them before the sional. nations of the world. He was quoted as saying, “the scholarship system creates an A final word: It seems obvious that when the AAU raises a employee-employer relationship between the athlete and the public hue and cry that collegiate athletes receiving grants-in-aid school,” and elaborated with a saber-rattling threat that the are professional and face the threat of being declared ineligible AAU’s report to the International Amateur Athletic Federation as professionals by the IAAF, it holds up to ridicule the intelli- might result in collegiate scholarship athletes being declared in- gence and integrity of the American people as well as admitting, eligible for international competition as amateurs. rather pathetically, its inadequacy to speak and act for the sports The reaction to Colonel Hull’s intended intimidation was im- over which it claims perpetual and unquestioned jurisdiction. mediate, hard-hitting, and strikingly uniform in its perception Wiles Hallock of the AAU position. Editor The gist of the reaction was this: The AAU is apparently prepared to sacrifice America’s sports United States Basketball Writers Association future internationally, willing to discredit its own country’s Resolution on Crowd Behavior recognized and proven school-college sports system and destroy WHEREAS, it has been brought forcibly to the attention of the United competitive opportunity for U.S. youth in order to maintain its States Basketball Writers Association through reports from its member- monopolistic clutch on U.S. amateur sports. ship and other sources that crowd behavior at a great many college and The attack was a ridiculous one. high school basketball games has reached the point of unruliness and It should not go unanswered. actual rowdiness, both verbal and physical, that is completely contrary to the concepts of fair play and even common decency; It is a position which should not be allowed to prevail. AND WHEREAS, members of the basketball coaching profession them- Answered it was. Here’s an excerpt from Los Angeles TIMES selves, freely admitting that in many cases it is the coach’s actions on the sports editor, Paul Zimmerman, who, on September 16, wrote: court during a game that can help incite the unruliness and unsportsman- Under the United States system, the bulk of our male like conduct of spectators, have asked your Board of Directors for help athletes are products of the collegiate training program.