>Posted on 28 Feb 1996 at 10:42:19 by Jeffrey T. Anbinder
>
>Re: IVY group
>
>An even further digression, just random trivia:  the league was originally
>only four teams.  Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Cornell formed the "League
>of IV" (read it as a Roman numeral), thereafter referred to casually as the
>I-V, or Ivy, League.
>
>These four teams were later joined by Brown, Dartmouth, University of
>Pennsylvania, Columbia, Army, and Navy, to form a league of ten.  I believe
>the military academies left the league in the late 1940s, shortly before
>league play was formalized, but I'm not positive.
 
I believe this is incorrect. The Ivy League originated from the Pentagonal
Agreement between Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Columbia,
Cornell and Pennsylvania were added later.
 
Two of Brown's Ivy League championships in hockey are actually Pentagonal
championships (before the official formation of the Ivy League).
 
As far as I know the I-V story presented above is apocryphal.
 
Geoff, we need your expertise!
 
Luiz F. Valente
>Cornell University Development
>
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