"It is this combination of fine competition and emphasis on scholarship that has made Ivy competition a matter of pride for all of us."

—President John G. Kemenyof Dartmouth, between the halvesof the Harvard-Dartmouth footballgame, Boston, October 28,1972. this is so. And the messages from the colleges showed, among many other things, why it is so.

These mentioned (among a hundred other topics) the genesis of the Ivy League in 1954; Ivy League recruiting (expertly and gracefully explained by Dr. Chase Peterson of Harvard) with its unique lack of the leverage of the athletic scholarship or the well-worn major in Phys Ed; the 13 varsity sports for girls at Cornell; the extraordinary loyalty of Brown alumni, win-or-lose; the first Ivy League game ever played (Yale-Columbia, 1872); Grantland Rice's all-time All-America backfield from a single college (Columbia: Morley, Koppisch, Weeks, Luckman); the Kiewit Computation Center at Dartmouth; Princeton's semester-in-the-city program and AB thesis requirements, both very tough; "Football Harvard-style"; the University of Pennsylvania and the winningest current athletic record in the Ivy League; the women's crew at Yale, which practices at 6:30 in the morning; what an Ivy League education meant to a famous modern novelist, and to one of the greatest pro football players of all time...