Ivy League - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) 8. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.
  
• A2) New York. Only New York state has two; Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island each have one.
  
• A3) Harvard University. The Cambridge college is the oldest in the country, dating back to 1636.
  
• A4) West Point. AP sports editor Alan Gould coined the phrase in 1935, two years after sportswriter Stanley Woodward first referred to "ivy colleges" in the New York Herald Tribune. The official grouping began with the current eight colleges under the "Ivy Group Agreement" in 1945.
  
• A5) Cornell University. In 1865, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White founded the liberal arts college to be, as Cornell himself says on the university's motto, "an institution where any person can find instruction in any study".
  
• A6) Yale University. Princeton was originally the College of New Jersey and Brown was the College of Rhode Island. The University of Pennysylvania remains the only Ivy League school named for a state.
  
• A7) Columbia University. King George II granted the college its charter in 1754.
  
• A8) Brown University. Ruth J. Simmons became its president on November 9, 2000.
  
• A9) Cornell University. With about 13,500 undergrads, the upstate New York university easily outnumbers UPENN (10,000) and more than triples the enrollment at Dartmouth, the smallest Ivy League school (4,000).
  
• A10) Yale University. The New Haven campus is also home to the Yale Bowl, the U.S.'s first natural "bowl" stadium.
  
• A11) University of Pennsylvania. The Hall of Fame coach and Pennsylvania native would go on to lead the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA titles in 1988-89 and 1989-90.
  
• A12) Ed Marinaro. Harvard's Clifton Dawson finally broke his 35-year-old record of 4,715 yards with 4,841 yards from 2002 to 2006, but it took an extra year as freshmen weren't allowed to play in Marinaro's time.