The Ivy League Policy Committee last week announced its decision to revise the football schedule for the seasons 1964-67 and set up a regular home and away schedule in football as in all other sports.

Dartmouth will finally play a fair share of its games at home (and consequently pull in less money), but look what's happening to the annual Turkey Day classic in Philadelphia: according to the present plans, Penn will play Cornell in the final game only every other year, meeting Dartmouth alternately. That of course destroys the long standing tradition of the Penn-Cornell clash in Franklin Field, and in addition disrupts the Dartmouth-Princeton final game tradition.

Also, there is a strong possibility that both Princeton and Harvard will visit Dartmouth every other year, rather than having the Indians play at Princeton and Cambridge.

The committee, composed of the eight college presidents, received numerous requests from the Ivy schools, and, after considerable juggling, came up with the following changes:

Harvard will be relieved of its back-to-back trips to Cornell and Columbia every other year.

Brown and Columbia, which have been meeting on the first football weekend of the season, will wind up the season against each other rather than against a non-league opponent, in a home and away series.

Yale requested a change in the date of the Penn game to eliminate successive visits to Penn and Princeton in the same year. The Penn-Yale game will be played on the same Saturday as before, but Yale will be assured that it will not have to visit Penn and Princeton in the same season.

Princeton will no longer be scheduled to meet Brown and Harvard in successive away games in the same year. Columbia will no longer play away games at Yale and Harvard in one year and at Dartmouth and Penn in the alternate year.

Although the committee has arranged the football schedule for the seasons 1964-67, it has admitted that the games planned after 1964 are subject to change (because of the Ivy ruling against scheduling more than three years in advance of the calendar date). Nevertheless, in 1964 Penn is scheduled to play Dartmouth in Franklin Field--that won't change.

Why Disturb Tradition?

Granted, the committee had to handle several requests from the Ivy teams--but why did it have to disturb the Penn-Cornell Thanksgiving Day tradition and consequently the Princeton-Dartmouth final day clash?

And who's to say that Dartmouth really wants more home games? (Dartmouth was the only team that did not make any requests for changes in its schedule.) Playing in Hanover, the Indians would receive less money than they have been receiving from away games in larger stadiums. Also, part of the fun of the Dartmouth football weekend is emigrating to the big city from the woods.

The committee could have granted Brown and Columbia their request for a home and away series at end of each season without disturbing the two other traditional series. A home and away schedule is not more important than long standing traditional games.