Ivy Intraleague Competition May Include Minor Sports

Round robin competition within the Ivy Group will probably be extended to include six sports--cross country, fencing, lacrosse, soccer, squash, and wrestling--following this week's meetings of the eight Ivy Group Athletic Directors, it was learned last night.

The sports heads will meet today and tomorrow at the Biltmore Hotel in New York before submitting any specific recommendations to the President's Committee for final approval. The principles of intra-league competition, which now apply only to football, are part of the Ivy Agreement passed by the Ivy Group a year ago.

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.

Expense Main Concern

With minor reservations the other seven directors support him. Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director at Harvard, supported Fairman's program provided the H.A.A. can meet the added costs, which he estimates around $2,500.

"I'm all in favor of these leagues," Jeremiah Ford of Pennsylvania said. Though also concerned with the expense, Yale's Athletic Director Dolaney Kiphuth said he would follow Fairman's lead. That was the stand of Cornell's Robert J. Kane and Dartmouth's Robert Rolfe, who currently heads the Directors' Committee.

The Committee on Athletics has already approved forming soccer and lacrosse leagues with the provise they do not interfere with student studying time.

League competition in these sports may begin by the fall of 1956 or the spring of 1957.

Quadrangular Competition

Along with Dartmouth and Cornell, which are on the geographical edge of the league, Harvard's travelling time and expense are higher than the other four colleges. Fairman proposes to cut these costs by holding triangular and quadrangular competition between several teams from two colleges.

The final recommendation to the President's Committee will probably incorporate this and other suggestions of the directors. "If we use our ingenuity we can have this Ivy business on a vastly more economical basis than most people think," Fairman said.

The directors expect the discussion sessions to run through tomorrow at least, particularly since the E.C.A.C. is also holding meetings on the floor.