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Ivy Group football captains have voted unanimously to recommend the return of spring football, it was disclosed yesterday by a Boston newspaper. The eight captains met at Cornell over the weekend. Brian F. Reynolds '54 substituted for Harvard Captain Richard J. Clasby '54 who was playing hockey.
The meeting resulted in a three-point program and an invitation to the Ivy presidents to make one of the three choices relating to spring football:
1. Touch-football under the direction of the varsity coaches.
2. Permission for coaches' supervision of non-contact drills.
3. Six-man team scrimmages.
Football Coach Lloyd Jordan had seen neither the newspaper's story nor Reynolds' when contacted yesterday, but expressed approval of the meeting, if not of its result.
"I think it's splendid that Ivy captains can discuss mutual problems without prompting," he said.
The Athletic Association provided Reynolds passage to Ithaca, N.Y., with the varsity track team, which was entered in the Heptagonal Track Meet there.
Reynolds, however, was not responsible directly to the coaches, Jordan said. "He represented Harvard in the sense that, as the captain's deputy, he represented the Harvard football squad. That's as it should be."
"But the coaches didn't have anything to do with it."
Jordan likened the situation to that of any University officer or student attending a meeting in some outside capacity.
Each of the captains will now prepare an individual report on spring football and the two-platoon system. William George, Cornell coach, will then collate the separate recommendations.
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