@much2learn wait… folks in your neck of the woods don’t know Brown is an Ivy but know the Patriot league (and put American U on par with… Penn?) Now you’re just trolling me! Lol.
Seriously though, NESCAC is only real competition top to bottom. UAA a close second. But I’ll bet you dollars to donuts, that even if they can’t name more than 4 of the ancient 8, folks world wide would recognize the “Ivy League” by a factor of “a really, really huge amount” versus NESCAC or UAA…
It’s been a fun distraction reading those old NYT articles. Alabama complaining about not getting invited to Rose Bowl to play UWash. All the “Ivy” league college presidents going hunting together in 1936 to decide if they should form an official “Ivy League” (decided against it… apparently didn’t shoot anyone either…)