NCAA Asks Rigid Athletic Controls

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's policy-making council yesterday attacked lax academic standards, professionalism, and commercialization in college sports. The council, meeting in Chicago, proposed a program of rigid athletic controls for the nation's schools.

A resolution drafted by the council directed the N.C.A.A.'s extra events committee to begin a year's study of "the pressure implications inherent in the playing of intercollegiate post-season games in all sports." In requesting curtailment of post-season sports, the group implied a reference to bowl football games.

In Washington, college presidents agreed that athletes should get a complete education, and not be permitted to breeze through school on snap courses. The committee, set up by the American Council on Education, devoted a good deal of time to the problem of recruiting and subsidization of athletes.

Meanwhile, in New York, the judge who handed down jail sentences in the basketball bribery scandal yesterday named eight schools, including Pennsylvania, as examples of athletic over-emphasis. Judge Saul S. Streit, following his sentences, claimed that it is the task of the country's schools, and not of the District Attorney, to keep athletics clean. In addition to Pennsylvania, the colleges named as guilty of over-emphasis are: Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A & M, Southern Methodist, Tennessee, and Kentucky.