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{{Short description|American sports executive (1900–1975)}}
{{For|subject's grandfather, the former governor of Ohio|Asa S. Bushnell (governor)}}
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'''Asa Smith Bushnell III''' (February 2, 1900 – March 22, 1975) was the first commissioner (initially titled executive director) of the [[Eastern College Athletic Conference]], serving from 1938 to 1970,<ref>[http://www.ecac.org/about/bushnell/index "History of the Asa S. Bushnell Center"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026172503/http://www.ecac.org/about/bushnell/index |date=October 26, 2009 }} ECAC Web site. Retrieved June 5, 2009.</ref> and was board member (1945 to 1970) and secretary of the [[United States Olympic Committee]], editing, co-editing and/or writing "Olympic Books" at least from 1948 to 65.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Asa%20S.%20Bushnell&page=1 Amazon listings for author.] Retrieved June 5, 2009.</ref> He graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1921, and a prize in his name is awarded to the Ivy League football player of the year.<ref name="PAW1">[http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/columns/under_the_ivy/uti121405.html "A multitasking Tiger: Asa S. Bushnell '21 left his mark on Princeton and amateur athletics"] by Jane Martin, ''Princeton Alumni Weekly'', December 14, 2005. Retrieved June 5, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=989 "2000 All-Ivy Football Teams"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115102528/http://ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=989 |date=January 15, 2010 }} ivyleaguesports.com, November 21, 2000. Retrieved June 5, 2009.</ref>

Bushnell was not an athlete himself, and in college another of his interests was expressed in his editorship of the college humor magazine, [[Princeton Tiger Magazine|The Tiger]]. In this role, he chose to reject submissions from recent alumnus [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] 1917, "one of his few missteps" according to a later alumni magazine profile, which also said he nonetheless became a friend of Fitzgerald's. Bushnell also edited the alumni magazine for five years (1925–1930) before moving full-time to athletic administration.<ref name="PAW1" />

==Biography==
Bushnell was born on February 12, 1900. He won the [[James Lynah]] Distinguished Achievement Award from the [[Eastern College Athletic Conference|ECAC]] in 1959 as an outstanding athletic administrator. He died on March 22, 1975.<ref>{{cite news |title=Asa Bushnell Dies in Princeton. Led College Athletic Association; E.C.A.C. Chief, 75, Revised Football Code. Served on U.S. Olympic Committee |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E15F635581A738DDDAA0A94DB405B858BF1D3 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 23, 1975 |access-date=November 15, 2010}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive film clip|id=gov.archives.arc.95742|description="Longines Chronoscope with Asa S. Bushnell (March 19, 1952)"}}
* {{Find a Grave|34451994}}
* {{USOPC Hall of Fame|new_id=asa-smith-bushnell|name=Asa Smith Bushnell|old_id=Asa-Smith-Bushnell|archive=20230720073221}}

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