Article: Postseason debate rages in Ivy League football

Shiva Nagaraj
University Wire
10-04-2001
(Cornell Daily Sun) (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- At its official inception in February 1954, the Ivy League was not founded on the principles of academia. Instead, football served as the catalyst for its birth -- in fact, one of the League's first orders of business was to organize a round-robin football schedule starting with the 1956 season.

While the Ivy League has since evolved into a collection of the most elite institutions of higher learning in the world, football in the conference has gradually become anachronistic. Today, Ivy football is a dinosaur still embracing its age-old, out-of-step traditions although it's surrounded by a multitude of ...

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