Initial Broadcast Date: February 27, 1972
30 minutes -- Color
The Howard University Soccer team is the victim of the double-edged sword of racism and foreign bias. So charges, Lincoln Phillips, Howard’s soccer coach on Black Journal.
Philips and Howard University’s soccer team will be profiled in the program titled, “Why Play Fair?”
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) stripped Howard of its 1971 national soccer championship when the organization charged the team had violated the NCAA codes by using soccer players who were ineligible to be on the team because the athletes had not taken the scholastic aptitude tests. Schools throughout the nation are gradually phasing out the SAT test scores for entrance requirements.
Howard – which has a large foreign student body emanating from numerous former British colonies – has utilized the British-based achievement test which is used to evaluate intelligence, aptitude and college ability.
Howard has been using the British Intelligence Test for the past 100 years, long before the predominately black school was allowed to participate in NCAA competitions, Black Journal reports. The program also reports that the NCAA exercises a double standard of rules for predominately black schools.
The Howard University soccer team controversy remains unresolved and the schools says it will not surrender its NCAA soccer trophy until the court decide the final outcome.
“Black Journal” is a production of WNET New York.
Executive producer: Tony Brown
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