Murray States NCAA TV Ban Likely to End

The entire National Collegiate Athletic Association limited college football TV program will be thrown out in January when the group meets, Francis Murray, Pennsylvania Athletic Director, predicted last night.

Under the NCAA's present program, obeyed by 370 colleges including the entire Ivy League, one important game is televised each week; all other colleges are forbidden to make TV contracts.

"The present program has proved a complete failure and, in addition, clearly violates existing anti-trust laws." Murray told the CRIMSON in a telephone interview. "I am highly optimistic that it will be thrown out and a new plan substituted."

At the same time the Penn Athletic Director outlined his own three point program to solve the TV problem. He indicated that he would submit his plan to the NCAA as a resolution in January. The program is as follows:

1. Every institution should be given complete freedom to make its own arrangements for television of games.

2. All colleges should contribute one-third of all revenue from TV to a special committee made up of three outstanding NCAA members. The remaianing two-thirds would go to the colleges arranging the TV broadcast.

3. Each college, if it has been financially hurt by a broadcast, should submit its case to the three-man committee, using comparative figures from last year's and this year's controlled TV program. The committee would then award money from the trust fund to the injured colleges as it saw fit.

Murray, who has been attacked recently by other NCAA members for airing his grieviences in public, commented, "I feel the public should have a say in our program. The solution should not lie solely within the confines of the NCAA."