Col. Bingham Sees Strong Ivy Conference After War

Breaking out into the sports limelight briefly last Monday at the 76th Sports-writers' Luncheon was Bill Bingham, peacetime head of the H. A. A., and czar of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rules Committee, recently promoted to the rank of full Colonel in the army.

Attached to the Rules Committee since 1931, Bingham was elected as head last year after a long crusade to make college football a better and safer game.

Since 1931, when 33 deaths were caused by football, there has not been a single death until this fall, when a Wisconsin player was killed.

Lashing "hypocrisy in amateur sports' the former head of the Harvard Athletic Association said that he disliked the term "semi-professional" and could not understand how the players of "amateur" sports could accept salaries.

Commenting on the post-war sports situation at Harvard, Colonel Bingham stated that Harvard has every intention of resuming formal intercollegiate athletics. He added that the Crimson would get back into vigorous football and that he personally saw no reason why a strong Ivy League could not be formed.

Hit by Bingham was the Presidents' Agreement, 1923 football document governing the grid activities of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which he hoped would be "scrapped and thrown into the Charles River." Commenting on this document, he said that he wished colleges would be open-minded in facing post-war athletic problems.

Of the veteran problem, he stated that members of the armed forces returning to college should not have their expenses paid merely because they "can throw a forward pass or bat .350."