Ivy Heads Uphold Spring Grid Veto

Spring football practice will not be resumed in the Ivy group in 1953, Ivy League presidents announced yesterday.

The presidents met last December at Columbia, whose president, Grayson S. Kirk, made the announcement in New York. Provost Buck attended the meeting.

"On the matter of spring football practice, no action was taken," said the announcement. "The present position of the group was reaffirmed."

The Ivy League, which includes Brown, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Cornell, banned spring drills last spring. With this fall's abolition of the two platoon system, however, speculation had it that spring practice might return.

An expected directive from the presidents toward tighter Ivy League scheduling in all sports failed to materialize. It is rumored, however, that Ivy League athletic directors discussed the plan at a recent meeting.

Eligibility Rule

Matters of eligibility and post-season games took up the rest of the presidents' brief announcement.

They reaffirmed the present policy of the eight institutions, which rules against participation by athletes in post-season charity games.

For eligibility requirements, the group agreed to add the following paragraph to the existing agreement:

"In no case shall a student play in a ninth semester or thereafter."

This means that an athlete who does not qualify for his degree in the regulation eight semesters, or who does not compete for a semester or year while still remaining in college, will lose that much of his eligibility.