Evening star., 1955-01-09
Max Harrington One
0fFiyeNeW Members
Picked by Council
sy ihs Assosiotsd Pres.

FNssD~seNfNS
NEW YORK, Jan. 8. - The
NCAA today named i've new
members and seven holdovers
to a committee that viii have to
deal with one of the toughest
tasks in sports during the merit
few months.
The 1865 NCAA television
committee, elected today by the
new NCAA council at the end Of
its annual convention, Is charged
with devising q suitable plan for
football television for the COM
ing season. It viii have to come
up with something that will
avert a threatened split and at
the same time be satisfactory to
potential sponsors and the broad
casting networks.
In short, it will have to de-
eide t1) how much danger exists
In the Big Ten threat of a bolt"
If its demands aren't satisfied
and ca what sort Of program
can be sold In 1855.
The 1854 game-a-week plan.
pleasing to many colleges be-
cause Of its protective features,
was completely unsatisfactory"
to the Big Ten institutions. many
of them under legislative pres
sure to televise all their games.
And it was a financial flop in
that the network which outbid
its rivals for the games couldn't
find sponsors to foot all the bills.
Max harrington Named.
The men who will have to de-
eide are Warren p. McGuirk.
University of Massachusetts,;
Max harrington, George WASH
ington: Douglas r. Mills. Illinois:
Earl S. Fullbrook. Nebraska, and
Ted Harder, Santa Barbara
(Calif.) College. the new MEM
bers. and holdovers Robert j.
Kane. Cornell; Howard Grubbs,
Southwest Conference; e. L.
Romney. Mountain States Con-
ference; Harvey Cassill, Wash
ington; j. Shober Barr, Frank
lin & Marshall; Asa s. Bushnell.
Eastern College Athletic Confer
ence, and Walter Byers, NCAA
Avao,,fix,o dirorfnT
They'll only have two or three
months to study all the possibili-
ties and reach a decision. Byers.
protein chairman until the first
meeting, said he hoped to get the
group together by the last week
In January. The new plan should
be ready to submit to NCAA
members by April.
An informal ballot, taken at
yesterdays session after tense
maneuvering, indicated a strong
sentiment in favor of continuing
the strict national controls of
the past few years. But the Big
Tens regional proposals appar-
entity gained more support than
before.
The possibilities are:
/. The Big Ten threats will
turn out to be mostly bluff and
the whole situation will be
smoothed over. Eastern college
leaders, who have come up with
q modified proposal for national
controls. apparently hold to this
belief. And Big Ten spokesmen,
after some rather threatening
remarks, have indicated they'll
be satisfied with any reasonable
change.
2. That the Big Ten and Pa
cific Coast Conferences, which
have been allied in a move for
regional programs, will decide
the 1855 plan isn't satisfactory
and abstain from participation"
as they have threatened.
8. That the Big Ten schools
would be forced by legislative
and other pressures to set up
their own televiSion controls and
program.
The last was indicated by
Michigan's H. o. (Fritz) Crisler
in a round-table discussion
Thursday.
Would Wreck Plans.
Mere abstention on the part
Of Big Ten colleges would just
about wreck any national plan
set up by the other colleges. 1t
just couldn't be sold to the spon-
sors. The mere threat, as long
as 1t exists. probably would be
enough to scare of most buyers,
II the Big Ten should make
the break and set up its own Tv
program. it would be almost i'm
possible to hold the NCAA to-
gether. For one thing, Notre
Dame likely would feel impelled
to televise all its games. some
thing 1t has wanted to do for q
long time.
And some observers believe the
South's big conferences would
promptly split away for another
reason their dissatisfaction
with the NCAA ban on tryouts
for athletes. They feel television
isn't a big concern to them but
recruiting is.
When and If the TV issue Is
settled. the NCAA officers plan
to make recruiting their next
big protect A special commit
tee is making q study OF the sub
ject and is due to report at next
years convention in Los Angeles
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