Charles said: >The Ivy League schools got together becasue of a common attitude towards >academic excellence and athletic prowess, in that order. Although the >schools have been playing eachother since...the Earth was still flat....the >resolution became offical in the 50's. > >the point being that the group of 8 banded together to maintain a certain >balance between what they felt was a good balance of academic/sports, but >also that sports be an integral part of the education. 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. Jeffrey Anbinder Cornell University Development HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.