Evening star., 1952-01-06
~ Question 10 Get
Airing After Report
On 1851 Experiment
BY the Assoeioied Pres,

ton, which almost split apart al
year ago over the controversial
sanity CODE" will make a new
effort to establish itself as pow
erful legislative body next week.
Meeting at Cincinnati JanuaryI
1912 for its 46th annual conven-
ton, the association will considerI
legislation which, if passed. will
transform it from a loose super
visory group into an organization
with power to impose and enforce
strict controls over athletic prac-
tices, ranging from the recruiting
and subsidizing of athletes to the
televiSing of football games.
1t was this issue which came
close to breaking up the NCAA a !
year ago before the sanity code
was discarded. The provisions of
the code itself. Incorporating fea-
lures which proved Objectionable
to many of the 300-odd NCAAl
members, was one factor. So was
the fact that the Sinful Seven,
first cited for noncompliance
with the code, were institutions
which felt they were being vic
timized for their honesty on
answering questions about their
practices.
Powers Main Question.
But mainly it was a question
Of whether the NCAA should as
sumo broad legislative powers or
should continue as body whose
principal functions were estab-
fishing rules of play and conduct
ing championships.
This year, when college athletics
In general have been under fire
and when committee of college
presidents representing the Ma
tional Council on Education has
criticized the NCAA for failing to
establish controls. a new effort will
be made to strengthen the or
ganization.
This will be made through a
series of constitutional amend
ments and resolutions based on a
12-point plan drawn up last sum-
mer by the NCAA Council. Ger 1
tain restrictions on financial aid
and academic practices will be in
cluded. The touchy problem of
controls on the live" television of
football games also will come in
for considerable discussion after
committee reports on the results
Of year-long study of controlled
television.
Week of Discussion Planned.
All these things will be consid- 1
cred in the business session Satur- i
day, January II, after week of /
preliminary discussions and meet
ings of allied bodies.
Prior to the NCAA convention,
the American Association of Col (
ege Baseball Coaches, the Ameri- +
can College Football Coaches AS
sociation and the sports division |
of the American College Public
Relations Association will meet
separately.
The contents of the television
report probably won't be known .
until the last minute, but one
group, led by the University of
Pennsylvania will attempt to have
all restrictions on football tele-
vision removed. There are indi-
cations, too, that the small col
lege group will favor even closer
supervision of television.
The Eastern College Athletic
Conference and the Big Ten al
ready have gone on record as
favoring supervision and further
experiments. These two repre-
sent the regions which were first /
to feel the impact of TV on foot
ball attendance.
Bowl Ban Unlikely.
The proposal to abolish football
"bowl' games. strongly recon- +
mended by the Presidents Com
mittee, probably won't come up
for consideration except for a
resolution calling for further study
Of all postseason contests and re-
Questing that members make no
commitments for such games
beyond January 2, 1858.
Two influential groups, the
ECAC and Big Seven, already have
ruled out bowls and the Big
Seven included all poStseason
competition. The Southern Con- /.
ference presidents forbade ac-
ceptance of bowl invitations and
severely disciplined Maryland and
Clemson for violating the ban.
But other equally important con-
ferences strongly favor bowl
games.
Out-o season practice, notably
spring football which has been
denounced as a cause of undue
pressure, will be considered
through alternate proposals, one
eliminating such practice entirely
and the other limiting it to 20
sessions. The latter seems most
likely to pass.
rev huleS Changes Sought.
The Rules Committee of the
Football Coaches Association,
whose deliberations usually are an
important part of the week-long
gathering. apparently will make
few recommendations this year
An incomplete survey of replies to
the usual QUESTIONABLE indicate
that the majority of coaches favor
the present liberal substitution
rule and return to the old rule
on clipping.
There may be some discussion of
unnecessary roughnesS and slug
ging, resulting from the Johnny
Bright incident" in the Drake
Oklahoma A6SM game and the
Princeton-Dartmouth game. but
there has been no clear-cut indi-
cation of a demand for a rules
change.
The coachnS' recommendation