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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.Īs a result of these dealings, and through extensive presidential meetings and discussions, the first 'Ivy Group Agreement'-addressing only football-was signed in 1945. 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. 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.įor years, the Ivy members had already been allied in leagues in basketball, ice hockey, baseball and swimming. The designation 'Ivy League' first appeared at the typewriter of Caswell Adams of the New York Tribune in 1937. 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 committee to exchange information on eligibility and to act for the presidents in cooperation with the athletic directors. 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. 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. 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.Īs a result of these dealings, and through extensive presidential meetings and discussions, the first 'Ivy Group Agreement' - addressing only football - was signed in 1945.
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Policy called for the 'formation of a League, to reassert amateur principle, to adjure the current athletic sordidness and cynicism, to save, in short, athletic idealism.' (Morris Bishop, History of Cornell)įor years, the Ivy members already had been allied in leagues in basketball, ice hockey, baseball and swimming. The idea of an Ivy League was derived from James Lynah's policy to form closer bonds with the larger, older universities in the east. Response last updated by Terry on Sep 14 2016.
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However, it is clear that Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Columbia met on Novemat the so-called Massasoit Convention to decide on uniform rules for the emerging game of American football, which rapidly spread. In the "IV myth", the supposed "IV League" was formed over a century ago and consisted of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and a fourth school that varies depending on who is telling the story. Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges, those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States, chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from the colonial era, together with the United States Military Academy (West Point), the United States Naval Academy, and a few others. Shortly after, the first known instance of the term Ivy League being used appeared in The Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 1935). "A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil." The term "Ivy" was first used in reference to a group of colleges by sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895–1965) in 1933: "Planting the ivy" was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s. Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges. It appears that inspiration for the term "Ivy League" originated with the ivy walls of the oldest colleges.