Editing Ivy League (section)

== Competition and athletics ==
[[File:Yale Bowl from south end.jpg|thumb|The [[Yale Bowl]] during a football game against Cornell]]
Ivy champions are recognized in sixteen men's and sixteen women's sports. In some sports, Ivy teams actually compete as members of another league, the Ivy championship being decided by isolating the members' records in play against each other; for example, the six league members who participate in [[ice hockey]] do so as members of [[ECAC Hockey]], but an Ivy champion is extrapolated each year. In one sport, [[College rowing (United States)|rowing]], the Ivies recognize team champions for each sex in both heavyweight and lightweight divisions. While the [[Intercollegiate Rowing Association]] governs all four sex- and bodyweight-based divisions of rowing, the only one that is sanctioned by the NCAA is women's heavyweight. The Ivy League was the last Division I [[basketball]] conference to institute a conference postseason tournament; the first tournaments for men and women were held at the end of the 2016–17 season. The tournaments only award the Ivy League automatic bids for the NCAA Division&nbsp;I [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|Men's]] and [[NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament|Women's]] Basketball Tournaments; the official conference championships continue to be awarded based solely on regular-season results.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://ivyleaguesports.com/information/general_releases/2015-16/releases/The_Ivy_League_Adds_Mens-Womens_Basketball_Tournaments_Beginning_in_2017 |title=The Ivy League Adds Men's, Women's Basketball Tournaments Beginning in 2017 |publisher=Ivy League |date=March 10, 2016 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311041901/http://ivyleaguesports.com/information/general_releases/2015-16/releases/The_Ivy_League_Adds_Mens-Womens_Basketball_Tournaments_Beginning_in_2017 |archive-date=March 11, 2016 }}</ref> Before the 2016–17 season, the automatic bids were based solely on regular-season record, with a [[one-game playoff]] (or series of one-game playoffs if more than two teams were tied) held to determine the automatic bid.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2002/03/06/yale-basketball-shares-ivy-league-title/ |title=Yale basketball shares Ivy League title |publisher=Yale Daily News |date=March 6, 2002 |access-date=August 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209211908/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2002/03/06/yale-basketball-shares-ivy-league-title/ |archive-date=February 9, 2013 }}</ref> The Ivy League is one of only two Division I conferences which award their official basketball championships solely on regular-season results; the other is the [[Southeastern Conference]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2015/1023/2016%20SEC%20MBKB%20Media%20Guide.pdf |title=Through the Years: SEC Champions |work=2015–2016 SEC Men's Basketball Media Guide |page=61 |publisher=Southeastern Conference |access-date=March 10, 2016 |quote=From 1933–50 the SEC Champion was determined by a tournament, except for 1935. Since 1951, when the round-robin schedule was introduced, the title has been decided by a winning percentage on the conference schedule. |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311075432/http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2015/1023/2016%20SEC%20MBKB%20Media%20Guide.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2015/1111/2015-16%20SEC%20WBB%20Guide.pdf |title=Through the Years: SEC Champions |work=2015–2016 SEC Women's Basketball Media Guide |page=54 |publisher=Southeastern Conference |access-date=March 10, 2016 |quote=Since 1986, the SEC champion has been determined by the regular season schedule. |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311070655/http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2015/1111/2015-16%20SEC%20WBB%20Guide.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Since its inception, an Ivy League school has yet to win either the men's or women's Division I NCAA basketball tournament.
[[File:Brown v Columbia basketball game.jpg|right|thumb|Brown plays Columbia in basketball, 2020.]]
On average, each Ivy school has more than 35 varsity teams. All eight are in the top 20 for number of sports offered for both men and women among Division I schools. Unlike most Division I athletic conferences, the Ivy League prohibits the granting of athletic scholarships; all scholarships awarded are need-based ([[Student financial aid (United States)|financial aid]]).<ref name="whatisivy">{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/timeline/index|title=Timeline|publisher=The Ivy League|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420101456/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/timeline/index|archive-date=April 20, 2016}}</ref> In addition, the Ivies have a rigid policy against [[Redshirt (college sports)|redshirting]], even for medical reasons; an athlete loses a year of eligibility for every year enrolled at an Ivy institution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/116147/which-players-injured-last-season-will-make-the-strongest-comebacks |title=Which players injured last season will make the strongest comebacks? |first=C.L. |last=Brown |website=ESPN |date=October 5, 2016 |access-date=October 8, 2016 |quote=It's easy to forget what Siyani Chambers has meant to Harvard as a three-time all-Ivy League player because he wasn't enrolled in school last season. The Ivy League doesn't allow redshirts, so Chambers was forced to withdraw after a preseason ACL injury if he wanted to return for his senior season. |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007205757/http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/116147/which-players-injured-last-season-will-make-the-strongest-comebacks |url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, the Ivies prohibit graduate students from participating in intercollegiate athletics, even if they have remaining athletic eligibility.<ref name="Borsello 2020-02-12">{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28673063/is-ivy-league-transfer-policy-helping-players-hurting-them |title=Is the Ivy League transfer policy helping players or hurting them? |first=Jeff |last=Borzello |website=ESPN |date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=March 16, 2020}}</ref> The only exception to the ban on graduate students was that seniors graduating in 2021 were allowed to play at their current institutions as graduate students in 2021–22. This was a one-time-only response to the Ivies shutting down most intercollegiate athletics in 2020–21 due to COVID-19.<ref name="Borzello 2021-02-11">{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/30881880/ivy-league-allowing-one-waiver-grad-students-play-2021-22-due-pandemic |title=Ivy League allowing one-time waiver for grad students to play in 2021-22 due to COVID-19 pandemic |first=Jeff |last=Borzello |website=ESPN |date=February 11, 2021 |access-date=March 1, 2021 |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228120235/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/30881880/ivy-league-allowing-one-waiver-grad-students-play-2021-22-due-pandemic |url-status=live }}</ref> Ivy League teams' non-league games are often against the members of the [[Patriot League]], which have similar academic standards and athletic scholarship policies (although unlike the Ivies, the Patriot League allows both redshirting and play by eligible graduate students). To promote diversity and inclusion, student-athletes are required to have their [[Personal pronoun|gender pronouns]] listed on their roster pages on the athletic websites for most Ivy League schools.

In the time before [[College recruiting|recruiting]] for college sports became dominated by those offering athletic scholarships and lowered academic standards for athletes, the Ivy League was successful in many sports relative to other universities in the country. In particular, Princeton won 26 recognized national championships in [[college football]] (last in 1935), and Yale won 18 (last in 1927).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/nchamps_year.php|title=Recognized National Championships by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|access-date=October 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015173918/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/nchamps_year.php|archive-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref> Both of these totals are considerably higher than those of other historically strong programs such as [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]], which has won 15, [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]], which claims 11 but is credited by many sources with 13, and [[USC Trojans football|USC]], which has won 11. Yale, whose coach [[Walter Camp]] was the "Father of American Football," held on to its place as the all-time wins leader in college football throughout the entire 20th century, but was finally passed by [[Michigan Wolverines football|Michigan]] on November 10, 2001. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn each have over a dozen former scholar-athletes enshrined in the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]. Currently Dartmouth holds the record for most Ivy League football titles, with 18, followed closely by Harvard and Penn, each with 17 titles. In addition, the Ivy League has produced [[Super Bowl]] winners [[Kevin Boothe]] ([[Cornell Big Red football|Cornell]]), two-time [[Pro Bowl]]er [[Zak DeOssie]] ([[Brown Bears football|Brown]]), [[Sean Morey (American football)|Sean Morey]] (Brown), [[All-Pro]] selection [[Matt Birk]] ([[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard]]), [[Calvin Hill]] ([[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale]]), [[Derrick Harmon (running back)|Derrick Harmon]] (Cornell) and [[Justin Watson (wide receiver)]], (three-time [[Super Bowl]] champion, winning [[Super Bowl LV]] with the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] and [[Super Bowl LVII]] and [[Super Bowl LVIII|LVIII]] with the [[Kansas City Chiefs]]), ([[Penn Quakers football|Penn]]).
[[File:Cornell vs UPenn football game 2019.jpg|thumb|Penn (left) plays Cornell (right), 2019.]]
Beginning with the [[1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season|1982 football season]], the Ivy League has competed in [[1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season|Division I-AA]] (renamed [[NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision|FCS]] {{nowrap|in 2006).<ref name=wergbt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iqpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=2966%2C4685676 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |title=NCAA Convention: Ivy League has 'serious doubts' about I-AA status |date=January 12, 1982 |page=4C |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015105721/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iqpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=2966,4685676 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/17ivy.html New York Times] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413021843/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/17ivy.html |date=April 13, 2016 }} – November 17, 2006</ref>}} The Ivy League teams are eligible for the FCS tournament held to determine the national champion, and the league champion is eligible for an automatic bid (and any other team may qualify for an at-large selection) from the NCAA. However, from its inception in 1956 until 2024, the Ivy League had not played any postseason games due to concerns about the extended December schedule's effects on academics. (The last postseason game for a member was {{Years or months ago|1934}}, the [[1934 Rose Bowl]], won by {{nowrap|[[1933 Columbia Lions football team|Columbia]].)<ref name=vnqmud>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=U7IWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6420%2C101607 |work=Milwaukee Journal |title=Gallant Columbia 'Sea' Lions vanquish Stanford in mud, 7 to 0 |date=January 2, 1934 |page=6, part 2 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=colamz>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7d9XAAAAIBAJ&pg=6453%2C5030424 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |last=Bell |first=Brian |title=Columbia amazes sport world with Stanford win, 7–0 |date=January 2, 1934 |page=6}}</ref>}} For this reason, any Ivy League team invited to the FCS playoffs turned down the bid. The Ivy League plays a strict 10-game schedule, compared to other FCS members' schedules of 11 (or, in some seasons, 12) regular season games, plus post-season, which expanded in [[2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season|2013]] to five rounds with 24 teams, with a bye week for the top eight teams. Football had been the only sport in which the Ivy League declined to compete for a national title.  However, beginning in 2025, the Ivy League will participate in the FCS playoffs, with its conference champion automatically qualifying for the tournament.<ref name="2025playoffs">{{Cite web |date=2024-12-18 |title=Ivy League To Begin Participating in the NCAA Division I FCS Playoffs Starting With 2025 Season |url=https://ivyleague.com/news/2024/12/18/football-fb-fcs-announcement.aspx |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=IvyLeague.com}}</ref>

In addition to varsity football, Penn and Cornell also field teams in the 9-team [[Sprint football|Collegiate Sprint Football League]], in which all players must weigh 178 pounds or less. With Princeton canceling its program in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Princeton to discontinue sprint football program|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/04/11/princeton-discontinue-sprint-football-program|access-date=2021-02-19|website=Princeton University|language=en|archive-date=March 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318111004/https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/04/11/princeton-discontinue-sprint-football-program|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn is the last remaining founding members of the league from its 1934 debut, and Cornell is the next-oldest, joining in 1937. Yale and Columbia previously fielded teams in the league but no longer do so.

===Teams===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|+ '''Teams in Ivy League competition'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/|title=Ivy League|publisher=Council of Ivy League Presidents and The Ivy League|access-date=October 8, 2014|archive-date=January 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122140947/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=7503|url-status=live}}</ref>
!Sport || width=60 | Men's || Women's
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College baseball|Baseball]]||8||–
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College basketball|Basketball]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cross country running|Cross-country]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Fencing]]||6||7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Field hockey]]||–||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College football|Football]]||8||–
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Golf]]||8||7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College ice hockey|Ice hockey]]||6||6
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College lacrosse|Lacrosse]]||7||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College rowing (United States)|Rowing]]||8||7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|Soccer||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[College softball|Softball]]||–||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Squash (sport)|Squash]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|Swimming and [[Diving (sport)|diving]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Tennis]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Track and field#Indoor|Track and field (indoor)]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Track and field#Outdoor|Track and field (outdoor)]]||8||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Volleyball]]||–||8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Collegiate wrestling|Wrestling]]||6||–
|}

===Men's sponsored sports by school===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:80%"
|-
! School !! Baseball !! Basketball !! Cross Country !! Fencing !! Football !! Golf !! Lacrosse !! Rowing !! Soccer !! Squash !! Swimming & Diving !! Tennis !! Track & Field <br />(Indoor) !! Track & Field <br />(Outdoor) !! Wrestling !! Total Ivy League Sports
|-
| Brown || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 12
|-
| Columbia || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 14
|-
| Cornell || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 14
|-
| Dartmouth || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || 13
|-
| Harvard || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Penn || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Princeton || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Yale || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || 14
|-
|Totals || 8 || 8 || 8 || 5 || 8 || 7 || 7 || 8 || 8  || 7  || 8  || 8  || 8  || 8 || 6 || 110
|}

====Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Ivy League====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! School !! Crew !! Ice Hockey<sup>1</sup> !! Polo !! Sailing !! Skiing !! Volleyball !! Water Polo 
|-
| Brown || Independent || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent || No || No || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]] 
|-
| Columbia || No || No || No || No || No || No || No 
|-
| Cornell || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || Independent || No  || No || No || No 
|-
| Dartmouth || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent  || Independent || No || No
|-
| Harvard || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent  || Independent || [[Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association|EIVA]] || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]] 
|-
| Penn || No || No || No || No || No || No || No 
|-
| Princeton || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || No  || No || [[Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association|EIVA]] || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]] 
|-
| Yale || Independent || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent || No || No || No 
|}
Notes:

1: Though the Ivy League lists ice hockey as a sponsored sport, all six ice hockey playing Ivy League schools participate as members of [[ECAC Hockey]].

===Women's sponsored sports by school===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:80%"
|-
! School !! Basketball !! Cross Country !! Fencing !! Field Hockey !!  Golf !! Lacrosse !! Rowing !! Soccer !! Softball !! Squash !! Swimming & Diving !! Tennis !! Track & Field<br />(Indoor) !! Track & Field<br />(Outdoor) !! Volleyball !! Total Ivy League Sports
|-
| Brown || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 13
|-
| Columbia || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Cornell || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 14
|-
| Dartmouth || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 14
|-
| Harvard || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Penn || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Princeton || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
| Yale || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || 15
|-
|Totals || 8 || 8 || 7 || 8 || 6 || 8 || 7  || 8  || 8  || 7  || 8  || 8 || 8 || 8 || 8 ||115
|}

====Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Ivy League====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! School !! Archery !! Crew !! Equestrian !! Gymnastics !! Ice Hockey<sup>1</sup> !! Polo !! Rugby<sup>2</sup> !! Sailing !! Skiing !! Water Polo
|-
| Brown || No || Independent || Independent || Independent || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent || Independent || No || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]]
|-
| Columbia || Independent || No || No || No || No || No || No || No || No || No
|-
| Cornell || No || No || Independent || Independent || [[ECAC Hockey]] || Independent || No || Independent || No || No
|-
| Dartmouth || No || No || Independent || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent || Independent || Independent || No
|-
| Harvard || No || No || No || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent || Independent || Independent || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]]
|-
| Penn || No || No || No || Independent || No || No || No || No || No || No
|-
| Princeton || No || No || No || No || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || Independent<ref>{{cite web | url=https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/womens-rugby | title=Women's Rugby | access-date=August 30, 2023 | archive-date=August 30, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830232155/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/womens-rugby | url-status=live }}</ref>|| No || No || [[Collegiate Water Polo Association|CWPA]]
|-
| Yale || No || No || No || Independent || [[ECAC Hockey]] || No || No || Independent || No || No
|}
Notes:

1: Though the Ivy League lists ice hockey as a sponsored sport, all six ice hockey playing Ivy League schools participate as members of [[ECAC Hockey]].

2. The Ivy League is home to some of the oldest [[college rugby]] teams in the United States. Although none of the men's teams and half of the women's teams are not "varsity" sports, they all compete against each other as part of the [[Ivy Rugby Conference]]<ref>see www.ivyrugby.com</ref> in addition to their own local conferences. Four of the women's teams (Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton) play as part of the NCAA emerging sport category.<ref>Harvard: see {{Cite web |url=https://gocrimson.com/sports/womens-rugby |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829151811/https://gocrimson.com/sports/womens-rugby |date=August 29, 2023 |title=Women's Rugby |archive-date=August 29, 2023 |url-status=live}}, Brown see {{Cite web |url=https://brownbears.com/sports/womens-rugby |title=Women's Rugby |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902091527/https://brownbears.com/sports/womens-rugby |date=September 2, 2023 |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |url-status=live}}, Dartmouth see {{Cite web |url=https://dartmouthsports.com/sports/womens-rugby/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902090023/https://dartmouthsports.com/sports/womens-rugby/schedule/2022-23 |date=September 2, 2023 |title=Women's Rugby |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |url-status=live}} and Princeton see {{Cite web |url=https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/womens-rugby |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830232155/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/womens-rugby |title=Women's Rugby |date=August 30, 2023 |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Historical results===
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-right:0"
|+ Total championships won (1956–2017)
|-
!Institution
!Ivy League <br /> championships
!NCAA team <br /> championships
|-
|Princeton Tigers
|476
|12
|-
|Harvard Crimson
|415
|4
|-
|Cornell Big Red
|231
|5
|-
|Pennsylvania Quakers
|210
|3
|-
|Yale Bulldogs
|202
|3
|-
|Dartmouth Big Green
|140
|3
|-
|Brown Bears
|123
|7
|-
|Columbia Lions
|105
|11
|}

The table above includes the number of team championships won from the beginning of official Ivy League competition (1956–57 academic year) through 2016–17. Princeton and Harvard have on occasion won ten or more Ivy League titles in a year, an achievement accomplished 10 times by Harvard and 24 times by Princeton, including a conference-record 15 championships in 2010–11. Only once has one of the other six schools earned more than eight titles in a single academic year (Cornell with nine in 2005–06). In the 38 academic years beginning 1979–80, Princeton has averaged 10 championships per year, one-third of the conference total of 33 sponsored sports.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ivyleague.com/sports/2017/7/28/information-IvyChampionships-BySchool.aspx|title=Ivy League Championships – By School|publisher=Council of Ivy League Presidents and The Ivy League|access-date=November 11, 2017|archive-date=November 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112185348/http://ivyleague.com/sports/2017/7/28/information-IvyChampionships-BySchool.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 12 academic years beginning 2005–06 Princeton has won championships in 31 different sports, all except wrestling and men's tennis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/championships/IvyLeague/WomensSports|title=Ivy League Championships – Women's Sports|publisher=Council of Ivy League Presidents and The Ivy League|access-date=October 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012121929/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/championships/IvyLeague/WomensSports|archive-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref>

===Rivalries===
[[File:Cornell University vs Princeton Lacrosse 1987.jpg|thumb|right|Cornell and Princeton are longtime [[Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry|lacrosse rivals]].]]
[[File:Harvard Stadium - 1903 Greek Play.jpg|thumb|right|Performance of a Greek play at [[Harvard Stadium]] in 1903]]
Rivalries run deep in the Ivy League. For instance, Princeton and [[Penn Quakers men's basketball|Penn]] are longstanding [[Penn – Princeton basketball rivalry|men's basketball rivals]];<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/02/12/sports/4317.shtml |title=The game: the tables are turned – Penn hoops travel to Jadwin tonight for premier rivalry of Ivy League basketball |newspaper=The Daily Princetonian |date=February 1, 2002|access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011141406/http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/02/12/sports/4317.shtml |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> "Puck Frinceton" T-shirts are worn by Quaker fans at games.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/02/12/sports/4318.shtml |title=The rivalry? Not with Penn's paltry performance this season |newspaper=The Daily Princetonian |date=February 1, 2002|access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011141412/http://dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/02/12/sports/4318.shtml |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> In only 11 instances in the history of Ivy League basketball, and in only seven seasons since Yale's 1962 title, has neither Penn nor Princeton won at least a share of the Ivy League title in basketball,<ref>[http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/ivy-champs.asp?intSID=6 Ivy League Basketball] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627003949/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/ivy-champs.asp?intSID=6 |date=June 27, 2009 }}</ref> with Princeton champion or co-champion 26 times and Penn 25 times. Penn has won 21 outright, Princeton 19 outright. Princeton has been a co-champion 7 times, sharing 4 of those titles with Penn (these 4 seasons represent the only times Penn has been co-champion).

Harvard won its first title of either variety in 2011, losing a dramatic play-off game to Princeton for the NCAA tournament bid, then rebounded to win outright championships in [[2011–12 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team|2012]], [[2012–13 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team|2013]], and [[2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team|2014]]. Harvard also won the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout, defeating TCU to become the only Ivy League school to win the now-defunct tournament.

Rivalries exist between other Ivy league teams in other sports, including [[Cornell-Harvard hockey rivalry|Cornell and Harvard in hockey]], Harvard and Princeton in swimming, and Harvard and Penn in football (Penn and Harvard have won 28 Ivy League Football Championships since 1982, Penn-16; Harvard-12). During that time Penn has had 8 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships and Harvard has had 6 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships.<ref>[http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/ivy-champs.asp?intSID=3 Ivy League Football] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102231135/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/ivy-champs.asp?intSID=3 |date=January 2, 2010 }}</ref> In [[field lacrosse|men's lacrosse]], [[Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse|Cornell]] and [[Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse|Princeton]] are [[Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry|perennial rivals]], and they are two of three Ivy League teams to have won the NCAA tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/history/lacrosse-men/d1|title=Men's Lacrosse Championship History|website=www.ncaa.com|language=en|access-date=November 29, 2019|archive-date=May 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506002958/https://www.ncaa.com/history/lacrosse-men/d1|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, the Big Red and Tigers met for their 70th game in the [[2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship|NCAA tournament]].<ref>[http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090516/SPORTS03/905160373/1128/New+wrinkle+to+Cornell-Princeton+lacrosse+rivalry New wrinkle in the Cornell Princeton lacrosse rivalry]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[The Ithaca Journal]]'', May 16, 2009.</ref> No team other than Harvard or Princeton has won the men's swimming conference title outright since 1972, although Yale, Columbia, and Cornell have shared the title with Harvard and Princeton during this time. Similarly, no program other than Princeton and Harvard has won the women's swimming championship since Brown's 1999 title. Princeton or Cornell has won every indoor and outdoor track and field championship, both men's and women's, every year since 2002–03, with one exception (Columbia women won the indoor championship in 2012). Harvard and Yale are [[The Game (Harvard-Yale)|football]] and [[Harvard–Yale Regatta|crew]] rivals although the competition has become unbalanced; Harvard has won all but one of the last 15 football games and all but one of the last 13 crew races.
[[File:Ingalls Rink Highsmith.jpg|thumb|The [[Ingalls Rink]], Yale's primary hockey facility]]

====Intra-conference football rivalries====
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-right:0"
|-
!Teams
!Name
!Trophy
!First met
!Games played
!Series record
|-
|[[Columbia–Cornell football rivalry|Columbia–Cornell]]
|Empire State Bowl
|Empire Cup
|1889
|103 games
|36–64–3
|-
|[[Cornell–Dartmouth football rivalry|Cornell–Dartmouth]]
|None
|None
|1900
|103 games
|41–61–1
|-
|[[Cornell–Penn football rivalry|Cornell–Penn]]
|None
|Trustee's Cup
|1893
|122 games
|46–71–5
|-
|[[Dartmouth–Harvard football rivalry|Dartmouth–Harvard]]
|None
|None
|1882
|123 games
|47–71–5
|-
|Dartmouth–Princeton
|None
|Sawhorse Dollar
|1897
|100 games
|50–46–4
|-
|[[Harvard–Penn football rivalry|Harvard–Penn]]
|None
|None
|1881
|90 games
|49–39–2
|-
|[[Harvard–Princeton football rivalry|Harvard–Princeton]]
|None
|None
|1877
|112 games
|57–48–7
|-
|[[Harvard–Yale football rivalry|Harvard–Yale]]
|The Game
|None
|1875
|132 games
|59–65–8
|-
|[[Penn–Princeton football rivalry|Penn–Princeton]]
|None
|None
|1876
|111 games
|67–43–1
|-
|[[Princeton–Yale football rivalry|Princeton–Yale]]
|None
|None
|1873
|138 games
|52–76–10
|}

The Yale–Princeton series is the nation's second-longest by games played, surpassed only by [[The Rivalry (Lafayette–Lehigh)|"The Rivalry"]] between [[Lehigh Mountain Hawks football|Lehigh]] and [[Lafayette Leopards football|Lafayette]], which began later in 1884 but included two or three games in each of 17 early seasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lehighsports.com/info/history/lehigh-lafayette.aspx|title=The Rivalry: Lehigh vs. Lafayette|work=LehigSports.com|access-date=April 25, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421004247/http://www.lehighsports.com/info/history/lehigh-lafayette.aspx|archive-date=April 21, 2013}}</ref> For the first three decades of the Yale-Princeton rivalry, the two played their season-ending game at a neutral site, usually New York City, and with one exception (1890: Harvard), the winner of the game also won at least a share of the [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championship]] that year, covering the period 1869 through 1903.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/sports/college-football-a-woeful-yale-loses-to-princeton.html|title=A Woeful Yale Loses To Princeton|last=Wallace|first=William N.|date=November 16, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=May 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512050849/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/sports/college-football-a-woeful-yale-loses-to-princeton.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://collegefootball.about.com/od/nationalchampions/a/champions-list.htm|title=College Football National Champions: The Complete List|last=Hyland|first=Tim|work=About.com|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=April 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425110419/http://collegefootball.about.com/od/nationalchampions/a/champions-list.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> This phenomenon of a finale contest at a neutral site for the national title created a social occasion for the society elite of the metropolitan area akin to a [[Super Bowl]] in the era prior to the establishment of the [[National Football League|NFL]] in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/princeton_v_yale_1903_the_oldest_college_football_game_on_film.html|title=Princeton v. Yale, 1903: The Oldest College Football Game on Film|last=Colman|first=Dan|date=February 23, 2012|work=OpenCulture.com|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=June 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601033233/http://www.openculture.com/2012/02/princeton_v_yale_1903_the_oldest_college_football_game_on_film.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tiptop25.com/champ1903.html|title=1903 College Football National Championship|work=TipTop25.com|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=July 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708171421/http://tiptop25.com/champ1903.html|url-status=live}}</ref> These football games were also financially profitable for the two universities, so much that they began to play baseball games in New York City as well, drawing record crowds for that sport also, largely from the same social demographic.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/06/19/101167239.pdf|title=Princeton Beats Yale|date=June 19, 1904|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308054031/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/06/19/101167239.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In a period when the only professional team sports were fledgling baseball leagues, these high-profile early contests between Princeton and Yale played a role in popularizing spectator sports, demonstrating their financial potential and raising public awareness of Ivy universities at a time when few people attended college.

====Extra-conference football rivalries====
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-right:0"
|-
!Teams
!Name
!Trophy
!First met
!Games played
!Series record
|-
|Brown–[[Rhode Island Rams football|Rhode Island]]
|None
|[[Brown–Rhode Island football rivalry|Governor's Cup]]
|1909
|107 games
|73–32–2
|-
|Columbia–[[Fordham Rams football|Fordham]]
|None
|[[Liberty Cup]]
|1890
|24 games
|12–12–0
|-
|Cornell–[[Colgate Raiders football|Colgate]]
|[[Colgate–Cornell football rivalry|None]]
|None
|1896
|95 games
|48–44–3
|-
|Dartmouth–[[New Hampshire Wildcats football|New Hampshire]]
|[[Dartmouth–New Hampshire football rivalry|Granite Bowl]]
|Granite Bowl Trophy
|1901
|42 games
|21–19–2
|-
|Harvard–[[Holy Cross Crusaders football|Holy Cross]]
|None
|None
|1904
|67 games
|41–24–2
|-
|Penn–[[Lafayette Leopards football|Lafayette]]
|None
|None
|1882
|90 games
|63–23–4
|-
|Penn–[[Lehigh Mountain Hawks football|Lehigh]]
|None
|None
|1885
|56 games
|43–13
|-
|Princeton–[[Rutgers Scarlet Knights football|Rutgers]]
|[[Princeton–Rutgers rivalry|None]]
|None
|1869
|71 games
|53–17–1
|-
|Yale–[[Army Black Knights football|Army]]
|None
|None
|1893
|45 games
|22–16–8
|-
|Yale–[[UConn Huskies football|Connecticut]]
|None
|None
|1948
|49 games
|32–17
|}