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January 19
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Ivy Olympics
, 1896
More than 800 Ivy Leaguers have won more than 400 medals at the Olympic Games -- summer and winter -- since 1896. The League's deep-rooted history with the Games is now the subject of a comprehensive book. |
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February 07
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Ivy Women In Sports
, 1973
Today is National Girls and Women in Sports Day and we are taking a look at a timeline of the historical moments from the Ivy League. Later today we will post a link to a special website celebrating the day. |
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April 04
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Rhodes Scholars
, 1956
Every year, 32 Americans are selected as recipients of Rhodes Scholarships and move on to Great Britain to further their studies. In the last 50 years, about seven percent of those Rhodes Scholars have been Ivy League athletes. |
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April 10
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Academic All-America
, 2007
Balanced excellence. There is no better demonstration of living up to both ends of the phrase 'student-athlete' than earning Academic All-America status. And nearly 300 Ivy Leaguers have done just that. |
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April 18
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Ivy NCAA Awards
, 2007
The NCAA has had its national award program for 40 years now and the Ivy League has certainly been at its center throughout, including former Cornell All-American Brud Holland, who received the Teddy Roosevelt Award in 1972. |
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May 24
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Ivy, 2006-07
, 2007
As the athlete profile portion of the Ivy@50 celebration has come to an end, Ivy League Executive Director Jeff Orleans takes a look back at the 2006-07 season. |
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May 25
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In Closing
, 2007
The student-athletes of the first 50 years of Ivy League Athletics — including those profiled in the Ivy@50 celebration — have laid a foundation for the present and future. In closing, Jeff Orleans addresses that continuity. |
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September 28
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Doug Glanville
, 1993
After collecting more than 1,000 hits as a major league ballplayer, Penn graduate Doug Glanville is now staring down a new venture -- building homes with an eye on the environment. |
Baseball
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October 20
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Baseball Champs
, 1976
Thirty years ago, Columbia surprised the Ivy League by claiming the baseball title for the first time in three decades. That team has also conquered the real world with an impressive mix of professionals. |
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November 20
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Bill Almon
, 1975
After 50 years and about 75,000 athletes, Bill Almon has a truly unique place in Ivy League athletics -- as the only player to be taken as the top pick in a draft in one of the four major professional leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL). |
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December 14
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Pete Varney
, 1971
He made it all the way to the major leagues as a catcher and even though he once connected on a College World Series home run, Pete Varney's most memorable connection to Harvard athletics didn't occur on a diamond. |
Baseball
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December 18
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Will Venable
, 2005
He picked Princeton because of a single sport and wound up excelling in two. But in the end, Will Venable is now working his way to the big leagues in the sport of his father -- baseball. |
Baseball
Basketball
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December 19
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Gary Wood
, 1964
When Ed Marinaro broke the Ivy League career rushing record in 1970, the record he smashed did not belong to a running back. That's because former Cornell quarterback Gary Wood was hardly the usual. |
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January 05
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Grover Powell
, 1966
He led the nation in strikeouts and threw a no-hitter in college; then tossed a shutout in the majors. But the careers -- both college and pro -- and the life of Grover Powell were shorter than they should have been. |
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February 12
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Bob Brooke
, 1983
The future NHLer was on an amazing team at Yale. But the team that produced Bob Brooke and three other professional athletes wasn't the hockey squad, but the Eli baseball squad. |
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February 14
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Ivy Blackball
, 1947
The relationship between African-Americans and Ivy League baseball is not as extensive as it is with some other sports, but the League has had a number of remarkable men who were connected to the Negro Leagues. |
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February 27
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Jim Beattie
, 1976
In 1978 he became the first Ivy Leaguer to pitch in the World Series in nearly four decades. Dartmouth graduate Jim Beattie has been blazing trails since as a baseball executive. |
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Basketball
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March 07
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Chris Young
, 2002
An NBA general manager thought that he would have been a first-round pick, but Princeton's Chris Young took a different path. That path has made him one of the toughest pitchers in the game of baseball. |
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May 23
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Bill Bradley
, 1965
More than 40 years since taking the college basketball world by storm, he remains the face of the Ivy League. And that has nothing to do with his service as a United States Senator or his run for President. |
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October 06
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Chris Dudley
, 1987
He didn't have a 'plan' to play in the NBA, instead calling it more of a 'dream.' But Yale's Chris Dudley had a 16-year dream before recently turning to the career that basketball had interrupted. |
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October 23
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Sherryta Freeman
, 2001
Just five years ago, she was trying to lead Dartmouth to another Ivy title. Now Sherryta Freeman has quickly risen to a position to make a difference for student-athletes at Temple University. |
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November 21
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Mikaelyn Austin
, 2004
Two years after celebrating an Ivy Championship at her beloved home court -- The Palestra -- Mikaelyn Austin continues to pursue hoops history. Only now she is doing so with a camera in hand instead of a basketball. |
Basketball
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November 24
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Jody Buckley
, 1994
Today we look back at a memorable moment from a dozen years ago, when an injured Jody Buckley scored her final collegiate point. This story was part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of Ivy women in athletics. |
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November 29
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Chet Forte
, 1957
A 5-foot-9 Ivy Leaguer kept Wilt Chamberlain from the 1957 National Player of the Year title. But that was wasn't the biggest feat Columbia's Chet Forte ever pulled off. Changing sports television was. |
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December 06
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Bernard Muir
, 1990
The path that led to his current position -- as the athletic director at Georgetown University -- began before Bernard Muir played his first game for the Brown Bears' basketball team. |
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December 12
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Rudy LaRusso
, 1959
One of the first Lakers in Los Angeles, he twice walked away from the NBA while still capable of All-Star performance. It can certainly be said that Dartmouth graduate Rudy LaRusso didn't take the usual path. |
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December 18
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Will Venable
, 2005
He picked Princeton because of a single sport and wound up excelling in two. But in the end, Will Venable is now working his way to the big leagues in the sport of his father -- baseball. |
Baseball
Basketball
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December 29
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John Doar
, 1944
Pushing 40 years old, John Doar interrupted a normal family life in northwestern Wisconsin to become one of the most important figures in the Civil Rights Movement during the turbulent 1960s. |
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January 08
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Gail Koziara Boudreaux
, 1982
She earned more awards at Dartmouth than even a large trophy case could hold, but the lasting legacy in the wake of the amazing basketball career of Gail Koziara Boudreaux are the impressive string of championships. |
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