Evening star., 1949-12-04
IN Co||eqes Face NCAA Ban for Violating Sanity Code
Secretary Refuses
To Name Schools; B
Others Under Scrutiny
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Expulsion
Of seven "active members" for
violation of the so-called sanity"
code today was recommended to
the National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
Identity of the seven schools
whose fate will be decided at the
N. C. A. AS 44th annual conven-
ton in New York. January 1914,
was not disclosed by Secretary
Treasurer K. L. (Tug) Wilson in
an outline of the convention pro-
gram.
At the same time. Wilson re-
vealed that three code amend
ments have been proposed, the
foremost being a suggestion for
a year-around training table by
the Southeastern, Southwest and
Southern Conferences. Dartmouth
called for a Tightening on re-
cruitment and ban on athletic
trial camps.
Limitations on Pay.
Wilson's memorandum to the
NC. A. A. membership pointed out
that the seven schools had failed
to maintain standards in accord
ance with the code which places
strict limitations on financial aids
to athletes.
Twenty-three- other schools still
are under scrutiny by the N. c.
A. AS Constitutional Compliance
Committee. but only the seven
were established as caught with
the goods within the four month
warning deadline before the con-
vention.
However, the recommended ex-
pulsion, along with the code
amendment proposals, is subject
to review by the executive COM
mittee and can be achieved only
by a two thirds vote OF the dele
gates present. Full N.C.A.A. vot-
ing potential is 305. requiring ap-
proximately 200 for binding action.
Barred members would face
schedule boycott by the members
in good standing.
An N.C.AA. spokesman declined
to divulge whether the seven
schools were major institutions,
or to what conferences or geo.
graphical sections they belonged.
go Three Levels.
The code limits aid to athletes
to three levels:
A. On the basis of need. not to
exceed tuition and incidental fees.
administered by regular campus
agency for granting aid to all
students.
B. On the basis of high scholar
ship. !
C. On the basis of qualifications
of which athletic ability is not one.
The Southwest Conference was
a party to two of the three rec
commended code amendments.
both of which concerned the
training table for athletes.
Besides joining with the South
eastern and Southern Conferences
in a recommendation for an all
year training table. the South
west loop also proposed a train
ing table during the season OF
a given sport The code now
permits a school to provide
athletes an evening meal within
the season. 49, ...
Could Muster Ga.
The South, which has been
open in it's criticism of the codes
strictness, has combined men,
bership vote Of 38 within the
three conferences involved in the
all-year training table proposal.
1t could muster a total OF "a, II
the third (South) and sixth
(Southwest) districts all went
along.
The Executive Committee which
must channel the agenda to the
convention floor is composed OF
seven members, including: James
H. Stewart. executive secretary
of the Southwest Conference: Asa
S. Bushnell, commissioner of the
Eastern College Athletic Confer
ence; Reaves A. Peters, secretary
of the Big Seven: Hugh c. Will
lett OF Southern California; E.
LIE Roy Mercer, University OF
Pennsylvania: Robert A. Fetzer,
North Carolina. and N. w.
Dougherty. Tennessee.
The all-year training table is
an attempt to regain the feeding
feature of room -and-board al
lowances knocked out by the san
ity code. The Southwest proposal
for a training table within the
season of the sport involved was
interpreted as a compromise in
face of expected opposition to the
all-year table.
Dartmouth Hits Camps.
Dartmouth's proposed amend
ment son recruiting suggested a
ban on travelling expenses for
hot-sfiot high school athletes,
along. with excessive" entertain
ment of such college prospects.
Concerning trial camps, the
Dartmouth proposal would out
law "ar1y athletic practice session
or test atwhich one or more pros
pective students reveal, demon
strate, or display their abilities in
any branch of sport"
The sanity code, as it now reads,
does not ban try-outs.
The N. c. A. A. bowl games
committee will submit to the con-
vention a previously announced
program calling for association
conrpls OF post-season football
contests.