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...round-robin football schedule announced last week by the Ivy Group for 1956 represents the culmination of a process that has been evolving for more than 50 years. The eight members of the group--Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale--have been playing each other regularly since the 1890's, and the newest rivalry within the group, Columbia vs. Brown, is 52 years...
...four Ivy games in a season, with many playing only two or three. Through the 1930's, most Group members increased their Ivy schedules, and since 1945, when the first presidents' agreement set up a formal Ivy Group (although not a formal league), the trend towards a complete round-robin has been a steady one, as evidenced in the Ivy members' schedules...
...University of Massachusetts, which will open the season at the Stadium for the second straight year. Pennsylvania, tied up with other commitments, will be the one Ivy League team not to face the Crimson. The two teams will meet in 1956, when the recently organized Ivy Group round robin will begin...
Under the round robin arrangement, the Crimson will occasionally be forced to play more than its customary two away games per season. Cornell and Penn, as well as Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, will probably be played on a home-and-home basis...
...Black Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things of its kind since Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood...