After a century-long ban, the Ivy League will allow its football teams to compete in the FCS playoffs starting next season. The decision comes after a year-long study by the conference's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and aims to give student-athletes the opportunity to compete for a national championship.
beginning next season, the conference announced on Wednesday, ending a century-long postseason ban originally aimed at allowing the athletes to focus on their schoolwork.
The schools that would later form the Ivy League were a force in college football in the leather helmet days that predated the forward pass, with Yale and Princeton winning 23 of the sport’s first 25 unofficial national championships in the late 1800s. Harvard claimed the other two and went on to add five more, including a 1919 title that was sealed by a victory over Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
Still, the Ivy League, which became a formal athletic conference in 1954, resisted the temptation of big-money college sports, forsaking bowl games and what is now the FCS playoffs to avoid the disruption on academics. But what really made its football postseason ban an anomaly was the growing number of other sports at the schools.
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