Halls, Yale Athletic Director, Resigns for Job in Industry

Robert Hall, Yale athletic director, resigned unexpectedly yesterday "to accept an unusually lucrative position" in private industry.

Indications were, however, that Hall's departure was expedited by policy differences with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold. Hall had opposed Griswold on these important issues:

1. Hall, a former Eli football star, wanted to keep Yale in "big time" football. Griswold had favored a light schedule, built around Ivy League rivalries.

2. Despite an unwritten Harvard-Yale agreement to de-emphasize football, Hall had scheduled games with Navy and Army.

3. Hall repeatedly acted contrary to Griswold's expressed with that Yale should not recruit athletes "solely for their athletic ability."

4. Griswold held Hall directly responsible for the hiring of Herman Hickman, and indirectly responsible for Hickman's subsequent attempt to build a team by any expedient methods.

Yale's athletic policies, as shaped by Hall, drew strong secret protests from high Harvard officials, who doubted whether Griswold could control him.

Yale's leadership in the abolition of spring practice, however, eased this irritation somewhat.

Hall assumed his present post in 1950, succeeding Robert Kiphuth. Griswold became president the same year; friction between the two started immediately and has never let up. Hall's original appointment was for five years. His resignation, effective July 1, thus leaves two years of the contract still to run. Yale officials

made no indication as to what would be done about this.

Although the announcement contained no mention of a possible successor, an editorial appearing in today's "Yale News" advocated the appointment of Benjamin C. Nangle, associate professor of English.

Nangle, long connected with Yale athletics, had been suggested as a possible replacement for Kiphuth in 1950