Why are some universities considered to be “Ivy League”? Are there only eight Ivy League universities?
Yes, the Ivy League is a specific group of eight academic institutions. These schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. The league was formed in the 1940s by the presidents of the eight schools to foster intercollegiate football competition “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.” At first, each school’s football team was supposed to play every other school’s team at least once every five years. In the 1950s, this arrangement was replaced by a yearly round-robin schedule, and expanded to include other sports. Today, the Ivy League is part of the NCAA, competing nationwide in football, baseball, basketball, and other athletics. We found our information on a page called Ivy League, which came up as a result of
