Evening star., 1952-01-10
Moderate Tv
Plan Proposed
By yNCAAGroup
Recommendations Due
For Action Tomorrow
At Cincinnati Session
BY the Assoeiuted Press

CINCINNATI, Jan. 10.-The
National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
Iciation's Television Committee to-
day recommended a controlled
program Of football TV for 1852
based on a middle course of mod
Grafton"
The nine-man group, in a 30
page report, also asked that no
member Of the NCAA make any
arrangements or commitments for
televising games except in accord
ance with the approved plan.
The recommendation will be
acted on at the regular business
meeting tomorrow. It is expected
to carry overwhelmingly, despite
oposition from Pennsylvania and
Notre Dame.
Penn has framed a resolution
to be offered at the same meeting
urging unrestricted live television.
Three Objectives Listed.
The committees report urged a
course of future action with these
listed objectives:
l. To minimize the adverse ef-
fects of live television on attend
ance at college and high school
football games.
2. To spread television. within
the limits of such a control plan
as may ultimately be adopted
among as many colleges as pos
sible.
8. To provide television to the
public to the extent consistent
with the first two objectives.
The scope of the new program
was not made known Immediately
but it is believed it will be broader
and provide more games for tele-
vision fans than in 1851, when
an experimental survey was made
in the matter.
The Television Committee, head
ed by Tom Hamilton of Pitts
burgh and Ralph Furey of Colum-
bla, recommended that the 1852
program be worked out by a new
TV committee to be appointed by
the NCAA.
1t was suggested that this new
committee give full consideration
to the final report of the National
Opinion Research Center when
available in March, and that the
plan when worked out, be submit
ted to the membership of the
NCAA for adoption by mail ref
erendum vote.
Two-Thirds Vote Needed.
A two-thirds majority would be
necessary for adoption.
In explaining the recommended
tions. the committee stated:
I'VE reject the urgings of those
who seek a complete ban on live
telecasting; college football and
live television can and will live
side by side. Equally firmly, we
reject the urgings of those few
VINO would return college football
to unrestricted live television and
seek thereby to profit from the
loss of others and particularly
from the loss of the small colleges
and high schools.
I'VE urge a middle course of
moderation"
The National Opinion Research
Center made an exhaustive sur
vey of the effect of live television
on college games last fall. The
TV Committee called this "the
most detailed and scientific study
ever made Of the attitudes and
behavior of football fans in all
parts of the United States"
If the committees report is
adopted by the convention tomor-
row, Penn's resolution for lifting
the ban will not reach the floor
since the order of procedure has
given the NCAA report precedence.
Meanwhile. more news develop
ments are expected from today's
of DR.. John Hannah:
Michigan State president, with
members of the NCAA Executive
Council.
DR.. Hannah and DR.. Arthur
Adams, president of the American
Council of Education, may learn
whether the bombshell they threw
into the sports world early this
week in Washington will turn out
to be a dud. They were spear
heads of a special committee of
college presidents who proposed a
drastic de-emphasis program.
This called for abolishment of
bowl games, athletic scholarships
and out-of-season practice; end OF
freshmen use in varsity contests
and stabilization of coaches sal
aries to conform with those OF
other faculty members.
Have Potent Weapon.
At the same time, the college
presidents warned they might en-.
force these measures with threat
OF loss of accreditation-the mos