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Re: Joining Ivy

Author:
El Guapo

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Date Posted: 02:47:57 06/23/02 Sun
In reply to: Dan 's message, "Re: Joining Ivy" on 08:14:35 06/21/02 Fri

Lehigh is an engineering school. If they were to change leagues an alliance with RPI and Clarkson and WPI and maybe Carnegie Mellon would make most sense.

Whereas Bucknell would be most likely to hook up with Syracuse and any other school willing to wear such a repulsive orange-and-blue combination :D

Seriously, though, Colgate HAS been associated with the Ivy League schools since long before there was such a thing as an Ivy League. When I tell people in the North I went to Colgate they either haven't heard of it or think it IS in the Ivy League.

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Author: Go...'gate [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:54:13 06/23/02 Sun In the 30's and 40's, before the Ivy League, New York sportswriter Caswell Adams identified a dozen teams whom he considered to be the "Ivy Group" which ultimatly evolved into the Ivy League. Among the teams were Army, Navy, the present Ivies, Colgate and Rutgers.

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Ram-Ray
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Date Posted: 10:44:27 11/12/02 Tue

Hey 'Gate, Here is more complete info on that story about where the Ivy League got it's name from Coswell Adams. Adams was asked on a RADIO PROGRAM if he felt Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton could compete with powers such as Fordham, Nortre Dame and Pittsburg ( then, national powers). His response was "Oh, those schools are IV league, not on the same level of play". He said the Letters I V which sounded like "Ivy". As there were three divisions, Adams was saying they were a notch below.

That is what happened. Funny how things change!