Evening star., 1951-01-12
Foes See Victory
Today in Fight
On SanityCode
Bon on TV Also Up
For Discussion at
NCAA Convention
BY the Associated Press

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its sanity code covering financial
aid to athletes.
A bloc of schools. headed by
the Southern, Southeastern and
Southwest Conferences. will at
tempt to take enforcement OF
tie code out of the hands of the
NCAA and leave the handling of
financial aid to the individual
schools and conferences. The
bloc emerged from a meeting
yesterday.
The NCAA is holding the first
business session of its annual con-
vention.
Leaders of the bloc were con-
fldent they had sufficient votes
of the approximately 215 due to
be represented to get an amend
ment to the NCAA constitution
that would accomplish their OBJ
jective. A two-thirds vote is nee
essary.
TV Discussion Likely.
"There is plenty of business on
the agenda for today's session. in
cluding what could be a long dis
cussion on banning television of
games.
The Executive Committee has
scheduled many items for discus
sion ahead of the controversial
amendments to the sanity code.
But advocates of stripping the
NCAA of policing power say they
will get their item UP "as soon as
possible"
This indicates they may put up
a floor fight for early discussion of
their proposed changes in the code.
The convention will hold an all
day business session tomorrow.
At the meeting yesterday of the
three ringleading conferences
plus representatives of the Rocky
Mountain. Mountain States, Bor-
der. Missouri Valley and Big Seven
Conferences. the strength believed
sufficient to jam through the
amendment was obtained.
Under the code as it now stands
tuition and fees are granted to
athletes through a scholarship but
they have to work for everything
else. Many schools claim athletes
do not have time to work and
if they did there would not be
sufficient jobs on the campuses for
them to earn board, room and
laundry.
Southern Amendment Backed.
The Southwest Conference and
the Southern Conferences had
submitted similar amendments,
but at the meeting yesterday 1t
was decided to throw all support
to the Southern Conferences
amendment which had also speci-
fled that both the sanity code and
the article restricting recruiting
were to be deleted. However, the
recruiting clause was kept in order
to get the support of Eastern
schools.
The small college group Of the
NCAA. at meeting yesterday in
dicated it would back the amend
ment.
Observers said that apparently
only the Big Ten and Pacific
Coast Conferences remain to
carry on a fight to retain the code
as an NCAA function. These two
conferences not only want to keep
the code but to strengthen it.
The committee on television
headed by Tom Hamilton, ath-
letlc director of the University of
pittsburgh, yesterday recon-
mended that live telecasting of
football games be banned this
year. If this is approved 1t will
place moral obligation on the
colleges not to telecast games. It
will not, however. be constitu-
tlonal rule of the association and
no penalty will be involved.
Experimentation Proposed.
The committee recommended
that the NCAA in cooperation
With the industry set up a pro-
gram of experimentation during
the l95l-52 academic year but
that a moratorium on live tele-
casting be declared. Hamilton
said it had been found that tele-
vision had an adverse effect upon
gate receipts.
The National Collegiate Track
Coaches Association recommend
ed that freshmen be allowed to
participate in varsity athletics 70,
the duration of the emergency .
1t was the second group of the
NCAA to recommend return Of
wartime eligibility rules. The
baseball coaches the day before
mad asked that freshmen be made
eligible starting in the spring.
The American Football Coaches
Association heard a report iron
us committee on Injuries ant
Fatalities that there were IS di
rect and four indirect deaths from
football in 1850. which was les
than 1949 when there were i,
and seven. High school and col
lege fatalities increased. whil,
sandlot and semipro decreased
The committee observed that tn,
second and fourth periods O
games were the most hazardous
while first and third periods
which usually are preceded by
"warmup" before play. showed the
lowest percentage OF fatal injuries
The committee, headed by DR.
Floyd r. Eastwood of Los Angeles
State College, said it was evident
that vigorous warmup periods are
imperative before any player en-
tiers a game.
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