Ivy Directors Consider Further Round-Robins

Round-robin competition within the Ivy League will probably be extended to soccer and lacrosse by the fall of 1956 or the spring of 1957, it was learned last night.

The principles of inter-league competition now apply only to football. They were incorporated in the Ivy Agreement passed last winter by eight presidents of the newly-formed Ivy Group and announced by Columbia's President Grayson Kirk.

Details of scheduling and finance for the new soccer and lacrosse schedules will probably be worked out at the meeting of the league's eight Athletic Directors in December.

Only Columbia will not participate in the new round-robin since it does not support these two sports.

The eight member colleges are also considering inter-league programs in wrestling, fencing, and squash. However, it is unlikely that the directors will reach an agreement due to scheduling commitments with already well-established circuits.

This fall the athletic directors of each college have estimated the additional expense involved in forming the soccer and lacrosse leagues. Since they are on the geographical edge of the league, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell will have higher traveling costs than the other four colleges.

Harvard Gives-Tentative Approval

The Harvard Faculty Committee on Athletics last month gave its tentative approval to the new leagues, provided the additional cost did not exceed a fixed limit and that it did not interfere with student study time.

Princeton Athletic Director R. Kenneth Fairman has made recommendations to his faculty-controlled Committee on Athletics that the soccer and lacrosse leagues be formed. He feels sure of their backing.

Cornell Athletic Director Robert J. Kane indicates he will go along with the majority of the directors if they approve the new round-robin. This is also the position of Dartmouth's newly-appointed Director of Athletics Robert "Red" Rolfe.

Pennsylvania Athletic Director Jeremiah Ford gave his unreserved support to the league schedule.

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.