Word: ecac
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...ECAC at least, play one freshman year and three varsity years, even though you sit out one transfer year. But you can't do this in the Ivy League...
...some, this constitutes a "five-year" rule. But most of the exemptions that are usually tacked on to the ECAC and NCAA five-year rules are subsumed by the Ivy League's: the only exception among the Ivies to the five-year limit is the draft. The rule is further tightened by a note that says, "Eligibility after eight terms of college will not normally be granted. . ," with a longer list of exceptions, and one that stipulates, "Transfer students are not to postpone their years of eligibility...
...rules, one an Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference regulation and one peculiar to the Ivy League, trapped Cuffe. A sophomore again in 1953-59, Cuffe sat out a year in observation of an ECAC rule requiring athletes to be in residence at a college for 12 months before participating in varsity competition...
Then he ran into the Ivy League stipulation that a year in college counts against eligibility, whether the student competes or not. The ECAC and, by a recent decision, the NCAA give an athlete five years from the date of matriculation to complete four years of eligibility, but the Ivy League allows only four...
Easily the best match of the evening will be the contest between captain Nick Estabrook and Rutgers star Mike Leta at 137 pounds. Leta, undefeated last year, also won the ECAC 130 lbs, Championship and at 137 lbs, placed third in the NCAA meet. Commenting on Estabrook's chances, coach Pickett said. It'll be his toughest match...