is the name generally applied to
eight universities:
- Brown
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Dartmouth
- Harvard
- Pennsylvania
- Princeton
- Yale
that over the years
have had common interests in
scholarship as well as in athletics. 
Stanley Woodward,
New York Herald Tribune sports writer,
coined the phrase in the early thirties.
In 1936
the undergraduate newspapers of these universities
simultaneously ran an editorial
advocating the formation of
an “Ivy League”
but the first move toward this end
was not taken until 1945.
In that year,
the eight presidents entered
into an agreement
“for the purpose of reaffirming their intention of
continuing intercollegiate football
in such a way as to maintain
the values of the game,
while keeping it in fitting proportion
to the main purposes of academic life.”'
From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).
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