Bradley Calls Ivy League Best in Education, Sports

"High school All-Americans should go to Ivy League schools if they want to get the best of all possible worlds'," Bill Bradley, the New York Knickerbockers' erudite forward, told a group of students at Cabot Hall Friday.

"You get a better education in the Ivy League and the athletics are just as good as anywhere else: there's just no need to go to athletic factories." Bradley continued.

Banker's son. Princetonian, Rhodes Scholar, and pro basketball player. Bradley sat leaning back in a soft bluecushioned chair, casually conversing with a group of students who had gathered to meet Princeton's prize scholar-jock.

Bradley spoke a lot about the deterioration in American sports over the past years. "The contaminating factor in sports is the spectator, who has become the dominant force in most games. Then there's the business side of sports, the T.V. cameras, and the unhealthy pressures put upon young people to be a pro and obtain a type of manhood they think they can't get outside a sports arena."

"We can't really do anything to help the situation until someone abolishes the athletic department at Ohio State, or at Harvard too for that matter," Bradley said.

Changing his target to the Rhodes Scholarship program, Bradley said, "The program is over-rated. There are various labels attached to it, and many people want the labels, not Oxford. They go to England thinking that they're Rhodes Scholars' instead of students."

When asked what he thought of the Atlanta Hawks' Pete Marevich, Bradley said. "I don't think he's that good. Technically, he can't drive very well and he can't penetrate to the basket, but he's an adequate shooter."

Bradley added, "I think Geoff Petrie of the Portland Trail Blazers should be rookie of the year-and that's not Princeton speaking."