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Harry Cross, a University of Washington law professor who served as NCAA president for 1969-70, died October 10 in suburban Seattle after he suffered complications from knee surgery.
Cross was 88.
Cross served as faculty athletics representative at Washington from 1963 to 1984. He served on the NCAA Committee on Infractions for eight years. Cross also served on the NCAA Council from 1971 to 1973.
Other NCAA committee service included the Constitution and Bylaws Committee and the Special Committee on Student Financial Aid. He was NCAA Convention parliamentarian in 1968, 1969, 1972, 1974 and 1975.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Washington State University in 1936 and received his law degree from Washington in 1940. From 1940 to 1941, he was a Sterling Fellow in Law at Yale University.
Early in his career, Cross worked for the U.S. Treasury Department and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He returned to Seattle to teach at Washington in 1943. He served as associate dean of the law school in 1975-78, acting dean in 1978-79 and retired in 1984.
Starting in 1958, he provided a home for a succession of dogs that served as mascots of the Washington Huskies.
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