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Penn to Drop Army, Irish From Grid Slate in 1956 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 12 UP. Army, a fixture on the University of Pennsylvania football schedule since 1940, will not be on the Penn schedule when the Ivy college presidents agreement becomes effective in 1956. Seven Ivy league contests, and garner with Navy and Penn State, will make up the 1956 schedule, according to informed sources. The current Notre Dame series, which started in 1952, will be ended with the 1955 meeting at South Bend. The 1956 schedule, while not announced officially by the. university, was understood to have Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia and traditional Cornell as the Ivy teams which Penn will face in the presidents round robin agreement. The schedule calls for an opening game with Penn State on September 29. Sources said Navy and Penn State would be continued on the schedule as long as Ivy teams are permitted to play eight or nine games, and Navy would be continued as long as an eight-game schedule is permitted.
