THE

N.C. A. A. NEWS BULLETIN

VOL. VI, NO. 3 MIDDLETOWN, CONN. MAY, 1938

 

 

 

 

Edited by the Secretary, and published from time to time to keep the
members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association informed as to the
business of the Organization.

ADVICE TO THE COLLEGES ON ICE HOCKEY

President Owens appointed Professor A. I. Prettyman, Hamilton
College, Dean L,. K. Neidlinger, Dartmouth College, and Mr. Asa
S. Bushnell, Princeton University, a committee to confer with
representatives of the Amateur Athletic Union on the subject of
representation of the United States in the sport of ice hockey at
the 1940 Olympic Games. ‘The conference was held on April 2.
Mr. Bushnell, in the following extracts from a letter to President
Owens, gives the results of the conference. While the Executive
Committee of the N.C. A. A. has not had an opportunity to con-
sider the matter, it is the opinion of the President and the Secre-
tary that the colleges should be informed of the action of the joint
committee in this important matter. A list of all hockey teams in
the country registered with the A. A. U. may be obtained from the
secretary of that organization, Mr. Frederick W. Rubien.

“After lengthy and amicable discussion, it was decided to recommend to
the National Collegiate Athletic Association that it ask all of its member
colleges which engage in the sport of hockey to include on their hockey play-
ing schedules no extra-collegiate competition except with American amateur
teams registered in the Amateur Athletic Union of the U. S. or with Canad-
ian amateur teams registered in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association,
with the understanding that the Amateur Athletic Union will waive the
collection of its prescribed five per cent international tax on Canadian-
American competitions and will further waive the requirement of registra-
tion and use of travel permits by teams officially representing N.C. A.A.
member colleges.

It might well be pointed out to interested colleges that this procedure was
approved by the N.C. A.A. representatives because it is designed not only
to promote amateurism but also protect the Olympic hockey eligibility of
their undergraduate athletes. The International Ice Hockey League recog-
nizes the A. A. U. as the governing body for ice hockey in the United States,
and it is obvious therefore that eligibility for Olympic competition is
jeopardized when A. A. U. rules are not observed.

It was, incidentally, the unanimously recorded sense of our meeting that
whenever the United States participates in the Olympic Games, the nation
should be represented in the hockey competition.

Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Asa S. BUSHNELL.”
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