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Specific proposals for the new leagues will come from the Princeton Athletic Director, R. Kenneth Fairman, who will recommend an across-the-board program of round-robin competition in these sports. "If we don't pass it now, we're never going to do it," Fairman said last night...
Other colleges entering the round-robin are: Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Northeastern, McGill St. Lawrence, and Tufts. The Arena will publish the pairings within the next week, along with the number of games scheduled for each night. Originally, the tourney was to consist of three double-headers, but a number of the participants reportedly wished to play twice, regardless of the outcome of the first game...
...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...
...than 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...
Only Yale's Director of Athletics Delaney Kiphuth was skeptical about the new round-robin scheduling. He did indicate, however, that as long as cost could be equated with improved competition, it would get his support...