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a __ . . Notre Dame Prexy Charges NCAA Video Plan Is Illegal SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jane 13 UP. — The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, president of the University of Notre Dame, charged today that the National Collegiate Athletic Associations 1952 television plan is "illegal." Cavanaugh said the plan, approved by the NCAA membership, will limit each university to one televised football game. "On the advice of legal counsel, our conviction is that the plan is illegal and unfairly restricts an institutions right to televise," Cavanaugh said in a letter to Walter Byers, NCAA director. "The plan seems to put a premium on mediocrity and east suspicion on success," Cavanaugh said. Cavanaugh also attacked the NCAA television committees proposal that all proceeds from television in future years should be shared by member colleges. "It might have been equally proposed that all gate receipts and university endowments be similarly , shared," he said. "Such a proposal is I j socialistic in nature and hardly is to be expected of an official committee I of the NCAA." |
