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Yale's Hall Misquoted: NCAA Wants Pigskin Televising Controlled

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Robert Hall, Yale's director of athletics, denied yesterday a news release quoting him as saying there would be a complete blackout of college television in 1952. "I definitely feel," Mr. Hall stated, "that there is a place for television in college football."

Mr. Hall, a member of the N.C.A.A. television steering committee, suggested that all proceeds from football TV be split up between N.C.A.A. members so that "the less publicized team would not suffer from the drawing power of big time football telecasts."

The N.C.A.A. TV steering committee was unanimously of the opinion that controlled football telecasts were in the best interests of intercollegiate athletics, quoting the Justice Department's upholding of major league baseball's restrictive TV policy as legal basis for controlling football telecasts.

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