The current dispute between the NCAA
and the Amateur. Athletic Union over' con
trol of amateur sports in the United
States has been labeled "devilishly cl
ever and diabolic" by Colonel F. Hull,
.Executive Director of the AAU. Colonel
Hull, for many years Armed Forces Rep
resentative to the AAU, recently was
named to the AAU post on retirement
from the Army. He outlined the AAU-NCAA
dispute in an exclusive AFPRTS inter
view and went on to say that "There is m
nothing that the schemers of the NCAA ™
say they want that cannot be easily
and effectively accomplished by the
AAU through democratic procedure.
"The provocateurs of this present re
volt," continued the Colonel, "have
been devilishly clever and have audac
iously invented abuses tha*t simply do
not exist.
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FALL BEGINS
Sunday was the first day of Fall and
the weather here on Adak should have
become pretty rough by this time. We
are having one of the longest summers
now,, in a great many years* I think
there has been more nic^ sunny week
ends in the last month than there was
all summer long. We think that with
each period of two or three days of
sunny weather -that it will be the
last for this year and then comes an
other nice week-end.
The first sign of the rough weather
to come was the other evening when it
rained, hailed and the wind blew most
of the night. The tops of the high
hills and mountains were white the
next day,
I understand that last winter was a
very mild one and if that is any in
dication, we should have a pretty
rough winter this year.
With Fall here, it is the time of
year to have your c rs winterized and
a good time to get yourself ready also.
"They say they (NCM) cannot get rep
resentation, This is- absolutely a
falsehood, MU is and always has been
serving American youth, said the MU
official.
When asked what the-reasons for the ^
revolt, Colonel Hull said that a "lack™
of understanding of international rules
and responsibility of the AAU could be
some of the reasons,S' "But," he contin
ued, "some of the perpetrators of this
diabolic scheme knew the facts, but
they thought the full weight of the
NCM would crush the AAU and tried to
gain support for the revolution with
out disclosing their knowledge that the
International group was clearly behinf
the MU,
"Should the new Federation force an
athlete to compete in an unsanctioned
meet, which makes them ineligible for
the Olympics, it will be 3'crime against our youth." It was the Colonel*s view
that in light of the *!NCAA malpractices" of the past, the newly constituted fed
erations can never be recognized by the International body* Colonel Hull em
phatically stated that "wU cannot accept for accreditation or membership, ath
letes who take part in un-sactioned meets."