Ivy League Signs Football Agreement

WITH Dartmouth as one of the participating institutions, eight of the East's leading colleges and universities the so-called Ivy League plus Brown have entered into a football agreement governing the conditions under which they will face each other on the gridiron starting next fall. The signatories are Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Brown.

While the participating colleges are completely free to arrange their own schedules and are not obliged to play one another, the signing of the agreement makes the so-called Ivy League more of a reality than ever before and may in time prove to be the first major step toward the formal establishment of such a league.

The eight institutions will cooperate through a Committee on Administration, to which President Dickey has named Director of Athletics William H. McCarter '19 as Dartmouth's representative, and a Committee on Eligibility, to which he has named Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23 as the College's agent. Under the agreement, Dean Neidlinger automatically becomes vice-chairman of the eligibility committee for the first year.

The Committee on Administration will deal with matters affecting the organization, support and conduct of inter collegiate football, while the Committee on Eligibility will receive for all candidates for varsity and freshman elevens information about academic standing, prior academic connections, and financial aid. Rulings on the eligibility of an individual player will be settled by majority vote of the committee.

The eight participating institutions have agreed: (1) not to make football schedules for more than two years in advance, (2) not to engage in post-season games or in any contests designed to settle sectional or other championships, (3) to avoid games involving extended absences, (4) to consider as ineligible any player who is not in good academic standing as determined by the standards set by the faculty of his institution, (5) to require satisfactory completion of one year's work at the given institution before declaring a player eligible for the varsity team, with exception now made for men who have been or still are in military service, (6) to disapprove of athletic scholarships and to declare ineligible any player who has received financial support from any source except (a) personal or family resources, (b) in return for services rendered through employment at normal wages, (c) scholarships awarded through the regular academic channels of the institution, or (d) government grants to war veterans.