Forget this thread…i found the answer.
<p>The Ivy League is something very specific. Here: <a href="http://www.answers.com/ivy+league&r=67%5B/url%5D">http://www.answers.com/ivy+league&r=67</a></p>
<p>thanks. :) I thought any prestigious school could be an ivy-league cuz so many non-sport applicatants apply..and it was originally founded to focus on football.</p>
<p>As from <a href="http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19991110.html%5B/url%5D">http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19991110.html</a>
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The league was formed in the 1940s by the presidents of the eight schools to foster intercollegiate football competition "in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life."</p>
<p>At first, each school's football team was supposed to play every other school's team at least once every five years. In the 1950s, this arrangement was replaced by a yearly round-robin schedule, and expanded to include other sports. Today, the Ivy League is part of the NCAA, competing nationwide in football, baseball, basketball, and other athletics.
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