Go Green
PhD Student
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Reg: 04-22-10
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12-03-21 03:06 PM - Post#330507
In response to Naismith
Thank you for comments
Memory on all this is 40 years old. I recall the Ivy League "volunteered" to drop football into the lower echelons thanks to creative rules like mandated stadium sizes and attendance figures. That would have broken up Ivy League in any case --Yale, Harvard, Penn, and probably Princeton qualified, but the other 4 would have been thrown under the bus had the others not chosen Ivy first.
Technically, only Yale qualified for I-A membership at the time. They elected to join the rest of us in I-AA.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/03/sports/yal e-tru...
One could make a good case that Harvard and the Ps could have qualified for I-A membership if they tried a little harder. But that beings the interesting question... and then what?
Dartmouth, Brown and the C's probably would have ended up forming the eventual Patriot League with Holy Cross, Fordham, Colgate, and one of Bucknell, Lafayette and Lehigh (the latter three not being as logical geographic partners). Ok, great.
What do HYPP do? I suppose Army and Navy could have been persuaded to join them in a football conference. But who else? I can't think of any other natural fit, and you know that HYP were going to insist on some sort of academic minimums for athletics (i.e., the eventual AI).
So... how does it play out then?
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