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Saturday afternoon marks the first anniversary of the Great Slowdown, but this time, even a mass abduction of local youngsters may not help Penn. The Quakers are presently residing in last place in both the Ivy League and ECAC, and a flock of injuries and defections has reduced the Red and Blue to a shadow of what it was in December, and it wasn't much then...
...League was disappointed to learn of the action taken by the NCAA in placing Yale on probation for its decision to play Langer. As I stated in my earlier letter to Asa Bushnell. executive director of the ECAC the Ivy League Presidents are very sympathetic with Yale's decision in this case." Corson's letter said in part...
Yale openly defied the NCAA authorities when it used Langer in an ECAC game in December, and it will continue to do so. inviting further punishment which the Convention implied would be forthcoming. It is only fair, in view of the letter of sympathy that all eight Ivy presidents signed last week, that the Ivy League vote to accept Yale's punishment as well, and if the circumstances warrant it, withdraw unconditionally from the NCAA...
...Kane's statements is that Cornell does not violate Ivy. ECAC, or NCAA rules. Yet a few years ago, a Cornell hockey player by the name of Bob McGuinn signed a form which linked him to a professional team. Harvard's Dean Robert Watson, who is about to become the new athletic director here, made the discovery while checking through records, and the Ivy League ruled McGuinn ineligible. Later, Cornell officials claimed ignorance of the form, and McGuinn was allowed to play again...
...there was little of the post-game exultation and Harvard-baiting that has characterized visiting Cornell crowds in the past. A close game with the Crimson in the ECAC finals last March planted the seed of a doubt-perhaps the Big Red could be had by an Eastern team, even with Ken Dryden in the goal-and when mediocre Brown pushed Cornell into overtime last month, the doubt became a real apprehension...