[Sca-cooks] Ivy league

[Jeff Gedney]

IVY League:
A group of Eight northeastern schools which are fiercely competitive amongst
themselves in both scholastics and athletics.

They were at first only carrying this as a nickname, coined from an offhand
comment of Sports writer Caswell Adams of the New York Tribune in 1937.
Stanley Woodward, another sportswriter, formally coined the phrase in a column
soon Adams' remark, informally dubbing the eight competitive universities the
Ivy League, in advance of any formal sports league involving the schools.

In 1945 the athletic directors of the 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
agreement was extended to all sports formally recognized as a league within NCAA
Division I Athletics.

"Ivy League" has since come to be generally regarded as a byword for a tradition
of both high academic standards and stuffy elitism.

The IVY League schools are:
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

OBFood content:
Yale University is located in New Haven, near Louis' Lunch wagon where the
Hamburger was invented in 1895. Louis' Lunch stands there today, and still makes
them the way that they were made in 1895 (on white toast, no squishy buns).


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