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Ivy League


Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.

About Ivy League

The Ivies have been competing in sports as long as intercollegiate sports have existed in the United States. Boat clubs from Harvard and Yale met in the first sporting event held between students of two U.S. colleges on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, in 1852. As an informal football league, the Ivy League dates from 1900 when Yale took the conference championship with a 5-0 record.

In 1945 the presidents of the eight schools signed the first Ivy Group Agreement, which set academic, financial, and athletic standards for the football teams. In 1954, the date generally accepted as the birth of the Ivy League, the presidents extended the Ivy Group Agreement to all intercollegiate sports. Competition began with the 1956 season.

The eight members of the Ivy League are: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

Members participate in the following sports, sometimes within another conference, with the Ivy League champion the participating school with the best record :

Men's: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Fencing, Football, Indoor Track and Field, Golf, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Outdoor Track & Field, Wrestling, Squash, Rowing, Ice Hockey

Women's: Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Lacrosse, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Outdoor Track & Field, Volleyball, Fencing, Ice Hockey, Field Hockey, Squash

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