Ineligible Yale Freshman Will Play Intercollegiate Sports During '56-'57

The Ivy League Eligibility Committee has announced that the Yale freshman who had been declared ineligible because his secondary school education was partially subsidized would be permitted to play varsity athletics in his junior and senior years.

The Committee's ruling, which stated that the freshman, Terry McGovern from Chicago, will again be ineligible for intercollegiate sports next year, said the violation was mostly a technical one.

"Both the parties involved were unaware of the regulation," the anouncement said. McGovern was first declared ineligible last fall because of charges that a group of Yale alumni in Chicago had helped pay for a postgraduate year at Cheshire (Conn.) School.

At that time it was reported that the student would remain ineligible until the Committee decided to rule otherwise. Since then, McGovern has only participated in intramural athletics.

The committee praised McGovern's behavior toward the affair and added that "his conduct at all times has been motivated by the highest ideals."

The case, which first came to the attention of officials a year ago, was the first test of the new Ivy League regulation which became effective in September, 1953.