Asa S. Bushnell III

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Asa Smith Bushnell III (born February 2, 1900 in Springfield , Ohio , † March 22, 1975 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American sports official and banker. As the first commissioner ( authorized signatory ) of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (1938-1970) and Secretary General of the United States Olympic Committee, he was one of the personalities who held the unity of top-class sport and university education affordable.

Life

After graduating from high school in his native Springfield (his grandfather Asa S. Bushnell was governor of Ohio , his father a banker) he enrolled at Princeton University , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1921 . He donated an award for Ivy League - American Football Player of the Year, which has been awarded annually since 1970. Bushnell was not an athlete, published the humorous student magazine Princeton Tiger Magazine , later also the magazine of the alumni (1925–1930). After graduating, he started working for his parents' bank ( First National Bank in Springfield, Ohio ) as a clerk before taking over the management of the bank in 1924. In 1927 he became the honorary manager of competitive sports at Princeton, where he was known for financially rehabilitating a persistently ill-funded operation. When the Eastern College Athletic Conference was founded with more than 200 universities without a league of their own, he became the poorly paid commissioner who upheld amateur rules, gave universities ways of maintaining their own identity, and in 1945 changed the Football Code to include them soldiers returning to war could play along. With his financial creativity, he expanded ice hockey and basketball to strengthen the conference. From 1944 to 1964 he was also the Secretary General of the United States Olympic Committee . Here, too, his financial creativity was required, as the American Olympic sport did not receive any state subsidies and should nevertheless keep up internationally with the state amateurs of the Eastern Bloc . For his services, he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Bendrich (2015): Student professional sports between resignation and departure myth: a study on dual career in Germany and the USA. Göttingen: Optimus, ISBN 3-86376-164-2
  2. ↑ A multitasking Tiger: Asa S. Bushnell '21 left his mark on Princeton and amateur athletics , Jane Martin, Princeton Alumni Weekly , Dec. 14, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2017
  3. ↑ 2000 All-Ivy Football Teams ( January 15, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ), ivyleaguesports.com, November 21, 2000. Retrieved January 24, 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/23/archives/asa-bushnell-dies-in-princeton-led-college-athletic-association.html?_r=0 on . 20th January 2017
  5. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47-50 , inc. 17th January 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bushnell, Asa S. III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bushnell, Asa Smith III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports official and banker
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1975
Place of death Princeton , New Jersey