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The Ivy League

By Matt Shetler

 

 

            The Ivy League is an eight member Division I athletic conference that competes in 33 men’s and women’s Division I sports.  All institutions in the Ivy League are private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States.  The Ivy League headquarters are located in Princeton, New Jersey and the commissioner of the league is Jeffrey. H Orleans, a post he has held since 1984.

            The Ivy League was founded in 1954, but the use of the phrase is no longer limited to sports, as it now refers to a higher education philosophy, associated with some of the nation’s oldest schools.  All of the schools represent the top one percent of the world’s academic institutions.

            Current members of the Ivy League include:  Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.  Other names associated with the Ivy League include the Ivies and the Ancient 8.  Seven of the eight schools were founded before the American Revolution, with the exception being Cornell, which was founded in 1865.

            As long as intercollegiate sports have existed, the Ivy League has been competing.  Boat clubs from Harvard and Yale met in the first sporting event between two colleges in 1852.  Ivy League football dates back to the 1900 season, when Yale won the league title with a 5-0 record. 

 

 

 

            Unlike most Division I programs, the Ivy League does not offer athletic scholarships.  In the time before recruiting and athletic scholarships dominated college sports, the Ivy League was on par with the rest of the country, with success in many sports.  In football, Princeton won 24 recognized national championships, with Yale also winning 19.  In retrospect, these totals are more than national football powerhouses Notre Dame (12 championships) and USC (11).  Yale also was NCAA football’s all-time wins leader throughout the entire 20th century.  The Michigan Wolverines passed the Bulldogs in 2001 to claim the top spot.

            In basketball, the Ivy League champion receives a bid to the NCAA Tournament.  Although there is no post-season tournament, the regular season champion gets the bid each season.

            Although the Ivy League isn’t as successful nationally in the major sports, it is still very competitive in many others.  One of these sports is rowing.  All eight schools are recognized nationally as the best crews in the nation.  Ivy League schools also excel in men’s and women’s hockey, swimming and rugby.

            Being as old as the league is, it has some very longstanding rivalries.  Harvard and Yale are nationally celebrated football rivals, as well as in crew.  Penn and Princeton also have a strong men’s basketball rivalry.  On only five occasions, since the Ivy League was founded, have neither school not won or shared the league title.

            The Princeton Tigers have had a few good showings in the NCAA Tournament over the years.  The Tigers have won three games in tournament history and have come close many other times.  The most notable came in 1996, when the Tigers upset the heavy favorite UCLA Bruins.  In 1998, the Tigers also defeated the UNLV Running Rebels to advance to the second round.  Penn has won a total of thirteen tournament games, with the most recent coming in 1994, with a first round upset of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

 

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