Evening star., 1953-07-20

One of the most important games of the un-.
doubedy will be the October "a clash between Nore Dame
and Georgia Tech at South Bend But that Saturday the
televiewer will watch portions of Missis-
spiAkansas, nnois-Syracuse Iowa-1ndiana, else
Nor will Notre Danes highly promising September 26 battle
with Oklahoma be elecast Instead you get Holy Cross and
Dartmouth, whether you like not The only time the
Irish will be December when they play
slipping power in Southern Methodist
YOU WON'T SEE MARYLAND on the Tv SCREEN either
and that could loss because the errapns figure to have
another of the better teams But Jim Tatum isn't
planning Indeed, Athletic Drector-Head Coach Tatum
adopts surprisingly understanding attitude.
WED like to have been selected" Tatum was saying
only revenue which approximately
$4,000 each of two competing but for the publicity
well On the other hand, the NCAs side OF It,
They can't put everybody TV
"I talked to Asa Bushnell (director of the NCAAs re-
scted program) and I'm convinced he's got thankless job
Here's the setup First must be picked from each
of the eight geographical districts of the NCAA Secondly
team may appear than Thirdly as far as
possible teams which weren't included In 1852 should be used
Those restrictions They want to be fair
to the coeges-dvde the wealth. want to put it that
way-and that explains why the public gets Brigham Young
Arkansas Holy Cross and teams like that instead of Georgia
Tech"
THE NCAA WINKs at one restriction which that
corning repeaters The ArmyNavy game, for example,
That is must For its So million SO outlay, General
Motors wouldn't be expected to stand still for substitute
And Notre Dame is a must.
otre Dame is the only civilian school that's certain of
appearance year" Tatum says, "and under
stand that NOtre Dame WILL WIN more ways
this year since all of their home plus Penn at
Philadelphia and Southern Cal at Los Angeles will be piped
into theater televon If you Notre Dame follower
in distant city, wouldn't rather dollar or SO and
watch big theaer than sit at home and watch
couple teams don't about? OF would
1t is Tatums notion that the tail is waggipg the dog the
tail being TV and the dog being college football Its I'M
poran money they're paying schools these days for tee-
vision Jim "A few 1t $4,000 to each
team don't know the figures, exactly but I'd guess It's at
least OO this and that's about $1,000 more than last
What you suppose to the athletic department at
Brigham Young Holy to have $OOO0 dropped right
in its lap?"
IT'S SUCH A COMPLICATED problem that Tatum is
convinced it's impossible to please everybody nearly
everybody Like last year. when Navy and Maryland came
to their game at College Park with unbeaten records
cites Cornell the nationally televsed game
that week. Our selout and many washington
Baltimore people camored for eevision that the NCAA
gave permission to beam it to both cities
"A hell broke loose Morgan State Teachers and Western
Maryland complained that elevng in Balti-
would wreck their turnouts. the NCAA dropped
Baltimore and allowed only Washington to our game
Then what happened? Yale and Cornell alumni grped be-
they said eevon parties had been planned to watch
their alma matters play and at the last minute the rug was
pulled out from under them And they had point, too
"The whole business is just too complex Some con-
ferences-the Southeastern, for nstancespl TV money
restrictions and complain that Weschester
State Teachers drop name will wind getting much
televson say Navy Notre Dame The NCAAs
got thankleSS job"
Does Mr.. Tatum have solution of any sort?
"Cut off all TV," he replies. THAT will protect college
football Motors and the networks won't
go broke. They did before"