Pusey, Bundy Again Oppose Telecast Plan

The new Pusey-Bundy administration has decided to continue University opposition to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's television policy.

At the same time, however, President Pusey and Dean Bundy denied that they had received any specific contract from the NCAA to telecast the 1954 Harvard-Yale football game on a national basis.

A representative of the NCAA who asked to remain unidentified, said last night, however, that there had been "a good deal of discussion" at the NCAA offices on a proposed Harvard-Yale game telecast.

He added that "at least a tentative offer" had been made to the University by the Association. This supports an earlier report that such an offer had been proposed. Asa Bushnell, eastern head of the NCAA denied earlier that the Association had even considered handling the Harvard-Yale game.

To Continue Recent Policy

The new administration's affirmation of the year-old anti-television policy probably means that all past and future offers will be rejected. It is believed that the most recent NCAA unofficial "bid" was a feeler move, designed to test Harvard's administration in the hope of ending the University's resistance to the national program. Continuation of the anti-television policy could be interpreted as an indication of Harvard's dissatisfaction with the NCAA, its desire to determine policy independently of a large body, and its belief that the Association television rulings may be against anti-trust laws.

Sponsorship Unsettled

Bushnell charged that the NCAA couldn't have approached Harvard since it still has not found a sponsor for the 12-game schedule. But the NCAA official said yesterday that the Association not only has a tentative sponsor, but that the Harvard-Yale telecast was one of the key moves in the attempt to sign a sponsor by giving the program a traditional Ivy appearance.