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...same time, the group adopted the strictest and simplest athletic code since colleges began to build grandstands. Main points, some of which were carried over from earlier Ivy agreements: ¶ No athletic scholarships of any kind, direct or indirect. ¶ Strict eligibility requirements. Items: no student will be considered eligible until he has "completed satisfactorily" a full year's academic work at the school he is to represent; thereafter, he must continue to make good progress, "quantitatively and qualitatively," toward "a recognized degree." ¶ No spring football practice. ¶ No post-season games (except N.C.A.A. competitions...
...recent agreement among the eight Ivy League colleges is based on the premise that over-emphasized athletics have no place in an educational institution. Forming a closed group with strict rules regulating all sporting contests, the schools have banned spring football practice, athletic scholarships, and team participation in any sectional championships. But they extend the idea of purity too far in absolutely prohibiting players in all sports, from lacrosse to football, from playing in post or pre-season all-star games...
Where the previous limit had been two away games a year, the Faculty yesterday took a proposal to extend the number to three, and voted to end all strict limits on the away games...
Vyacheslav Molotov dodged. First he dipped into humor: Mr. Eden, he said wryly, had spoken "like a scholarly constitutionalist of a strict German type." Eden embarrassedly sucked a cigarette and studied the Last Judgment painted on the ceiling; the others had a good laugh...
Sobo is noted as a strict tactician, and a keen student of gridiron techniques--both in offense and defuse. He did not reveal what offense he would use at Penn, but it is expected that he will continue the pattern set by Munger, a single wing, with a few mixtures...