Hi phoebeinbrazil,
The Ivy League schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth,
Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.
Ivy League Universities
http://www.go4ivy.com/ivy.asp
"Although the Ivy League colleges share certain policies, high
academic standards, historic pedigrees, and compete in the same
athletic conference, they differ from each other in many significant
respects. They differ in their academic focus, the size of their
undergraduate enrollment, the size of the overall campus, the feel and
the location of the campus and campus safety."
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About the Ivy League
"The term Ivy League commonly refers to a group of eight, east-coast
colleges and universities renowned for their high academic standards
and significant history. These schools were some of the earliest
American institutions founded: Harvard in 1636, Yale in 1701, Penn in
1740, Princeton in 1746, Columbia in 1754, Brown in 1764, Dartmouth in
1769 and Cornell in 1865.
Taken more literally, the Ivy League refers to the athletic conference
in which the eight colleges' sports teams compete. The term 'Ivy
League' was conceived in the 1930s by Stanley Woodward, a New York
Herald Tribune sports writer. It was not until years later that an
official coalition was actually formed by the universities.
In 1945, the presidents of each university created committees whose
tasks were to establish athletic policies on issues like eligibility,
budgets, and length of season play. These policies were (and still
are) meant to balance scholarship and athletics. Although Ivy League
sports teams compete in Division I athletics, the schools do not offer
athletic scholarships and maintain the same academic standards for
both athletes and non-athletes."
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History of the Ivy League - The Real History of America's Most
Infamous Conference....
http://www.ivysport.com/file_include.php?file=history
"While football is where it started, the Ivy League today is
nationally recognized for its level of success absent of athletic
scholarships while rigorously maintaining its self-imposed high
academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness
and ability, given the current national pressures on intercollegiate
success, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in
Division I athletics.
The Ivy League crowns champions in 33 sports and continues to sponsor
intercollegiate programs of national prominence for women and men.
Lacrosse, ice hockey, fencing, soccer, rowing and squash are some of
the sports in which the Ivies have been synonymous with national
excellence during the league's recent history. On the average, Ivy
members boast of 25 varsity teams per campus, well above the national
norm.
In 1998-99, a total of four Ivy teams and crews were crowned as
national champions. Brown's women's crew won the League's only NCAA
championship of 1998-99; it was the school's first-ever NCAA crown.
The women's ice hockey team at Harvard won the first-ever sanctioned
national championship, sponsored by the AWCHA. The women's squash team
from Princeton won the national title as did Harvard's lightweight
crew. One hundred five Ivy athletes earned All-America status, two
were national players of the year in their sports, 17 were national
Academic All-Americans, and another four were honored with NCAA
Postgraduate Scholarships.
The designation Ivy League [is credited to] Caswell Adams of the New
York Tribune in 1937. The tag, premature of any formal agreement, was
immediately adopted by the press as a foreshadowing of..."
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"As a result of these dealings, and through extensive presidential
meetings and discussions, the first Ivy Group Agreement addressing
only football was signed in 1945. While the 1945 statement did not
address any scheduling issues, it did affirm the observance at the
eight institutions of common practices in academic standards,
eligibility requirements, and the administration of financial aid for
athletes. These tenets are what still bind the Ivies together today
and all continue to be based on the desire to secure competition with
others having like philosophies. The athletic directors, at the
direction of the presidents, were then more formally organized as a
committee for cooperative endeavor in the details of athletic
administration and a dean from each school was appointed to a
committee to exchange information on eligibility and to act for the
presidents in cooperation with the athletic directors.
In February 1954, what is more commonly accepted as the founding date
for the Ivy League, the Ivy Group Agreement was reissued to extend its
philosophical jurisdiction to all sports and to foster, insofar as
possible, intra-group competition. In layman's terms, that meant a
complete round-robin schedule in football, beginning with the 1956
season."
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A Brief History of the Ivy League
http://www.not-rocket-science.com/harvardsoccer/historyi.htm
(Portions of this text appeared in the first Ivy League Football Guide
in 1954 and were written by William H. McCarter, Director of Athletics
at Dartmouth College from 1937-54.)
"The designation "Ivy League" first appeared at the typewriter of
Caswell Adams of the New York Tribune in 1937. The tag, premature of
any formal agreement, was immediately adopted by the press as a
foreshadowing of an eastern football league which, at the time, was
big news to everyone except the athletic directors involved.
For years, the Ivy members had already been allied in leagues in
basketball,ice hockey, baseball and swimming. Further common
competition was found in the Heptagonal Games Association, which
included Army and Navy, in the sports of baseball, track and field,
and swimming. Through these other scheduling arrangements, the Ivy
athletic directors were used to dealing with each other in matters of
administration or the exchange of calculated confidences."
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IvyLeagueSports.com
http://ivyleaguesports.com/whatisivy/index.asp
What Is The Ivy League?
"Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men's and women's sports,
and averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy
League provides intercollegiate athletic opportunities for more men
and women than any other conference in the country. All eight Ivy
schools are among the "top 20" of NCAA Division I schools in number of
sports offered for both men and women.
The most diverse intercollegiate competition in the country for both
men and women is also among the best. In recent years, the Ivy League
has been synonymous with national excellence in men's and women's
soccer, lacrosse, rowing, fencing and squash, and individual Ivy
athletes have regularly excelled as well in football, track and field,
wrestling and swimming. Ivy teams have enjoyed significant success in
the opening rounds of the NCAA Division I basketball championships."
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Ivy League Historical Time Line
http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/WhatIsIvy/history.asp
"October, 1933 Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune first
uses the phrase "Ivy colleges" in print to describe the eight current
Ivy schools (plus Army). On February 8, 1935, AP Sports editor Alan
Gould first uses the exact term "Ivy League". [From Mark Bernstein,
Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession, University
of Pennsylvania, 2001]
1945 The first "Ivy Group Agreement" is signed, applying only to
football. It affirms the observance of common practices in academic
standards and eligibility requirements and the administration of
need-based financial aid, with no athletic scholarships. The agreement
creates the Presidents Policy Committee, including the eight
Presidents; the Coordination and Eligibility Committee, made up of one
senior non-athletic administrator from each school; and the committee
on Administration, comprised of the eight directors of athletics."
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"July, 2000 The Council approves a fourth professional position to
provide for the first time a focus on championships, officiating,
scheduling, and other aspects of sport administration. Brett A. Hoover
becomes the new Assistant Director for Public Information, focusing on
web-based communication with the media and all Ivy constituencies.
September, 2002 The Ivy League redesigned website draws more than one
million visitors in its first full year."
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Ivy League Fight Songs (click on the image for each school)
http://ivyleaguesports.com/WhatIsIvy/fight-songs.asp
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