Legal Opinion
Robert Spath v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 1984No. 84-1005PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Robert Spath, a senior and fourth year student at the University of Lowell on an “athletic scholarship,” was ready to play on the Lowell ice hockey team when, on or about November 18, 1983 Lowell told him he could not. The reason was that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), of which Lowell is a member, limits participation in intercollegiate competition to four years, and under its Bylaw 5-l-(d)-(3), applicable to Division I competitors, each year of organized competition anywhere in the particular sport after age 20 is to be counted.…
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