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Failing that, the Presidentsaid he would suggestto the U.S.O.C. thatit formally withdrawAmerican athletes fromthe games. Mr. Cartermade his suggestion in atelevision interview and ina letter to Robert J. Kane,president of the U.S.O.C.Mr. Carter also endorsedthe establishment of apermanent site for thequadrennial Games andmentioned Greece as anideal location for the summerevents.

Mr. Carter outlined hisviews on the Olympics ina letter to Mr. Kane thatwas released by the WhiteHouse. He contended inthe letter that the boycottwas necessary to "makeclear to the Soviet Unionthat it cannot trampleupon an independentnation and at the sametime do business as usualwith the rest of theworld." Moving the Olympicsfrom Moscow, Mr. Carter said, would"reverberate around the globe" and could"deter future aggression." He said that ifthe International Olympic Committeerejected the suggestion to move theGames, athletes from the United Statesshould boycott the Moscow competitionand stage an alternative set of games elsewhere.

Although Mr. Carter lacks the authorityto order a boycott, he told reportersafter the broadcast of NBCís "Meet thePress" that he believed the United StatesOlympic Committee would support hisproposal if the Soviet troops were notwithdrawn.

Lord Killanin, the president of theInternational Olympic Committee, termedMr. Carterís decision hasty and said itwould be "legally and technically impossible"to move the Games from Moscow. InMoscow, the newspaper Sovetsky Sportsaid that the Soviet Union would send itsathletes to Lake Placid for the WinterOlympics next month no matter what theUnited States did about the summerGames in Moscow. The reaction ofAmerican athletes to Mr. Carterís statementwas mixed, although supportseemed to be growing to stand behind anydecision made by the Administration.

On April 12, after American hostageshad been taken in Iran, an initiallyreluctant United States OlympicCommittee voted to withdraw the UnitedStates team from the Moscow Games.Those Olympics, which opened in July,were not televised in the United States.Although the Soviet Unionís team participatedin the February 1980 WinterGames at Lake Placid, N.Y., the U.S.S.R.got a measure of revenge by boycottingthe 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

1950: The N.F.L. Rules Committee voted to allow unlimited free substitution ofplayers, quickly opening the way for the era of two-platoon football andspecialization of positions such as field goal kickers. The new rule soonchanged the face of the game; for one thing, the game became much fasteras players performed for fewer minutes and had more time to rest.

1968: In one of college basketballís epic matchups, Elvin Hayes-to shouts of "E! E!E!"-scored 39 points to lead the second-ranked Cougars of Houston overLew Alcindor and No. 1 U.C.L.A., 71‚69, in a nationally televised game before52,693 in the Astrodome.

1892: The first official game of basketball, invented the year before by Dr. JamesNaismith, a physical education teacher at Springfield College inMassachusetts, was played on a Y.M.C.A. court with peach baskets at eitherend. There were nine players to a side; by 1896, when the first collegiategame was played at the University of Iowa, sides numbered five men each.