Ivy Colleges (1934)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

OED has 1939 for "ivy league"

" W. Lax Overcomes Early Deficit for Win" _Harvard Crimson_  March 23,
1920

"Harvard will now travel to Providence on Saturday to take on Brown for
the Crimson's first Ivy League contest.  "We are looking at each game
expecting them to be a good team," Corkery said.  "It's an Ivy League
game, and it's great to beat B.C. and go in to this game with the
momentum." "

[Note:  this turns up on the Harvard Crimson archives -- but it looks
hinky to me.]

OED has 1943 for "ivy leaguer"

Maine | Augusta | Daily Kennebec Journal | 1937-11-08 p. 2 col 5.
"Navy knocked off another Ivy-Leaguer, Columbia, 13-6, despite the
continued excellence of Sid Luckmann's passing."



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> The digitized Boston Globe doesn't cover the 1930s, so (I
> gave it  a check) it doesn't give us an "Ivy League."
> Newspaperarchive yields a ton  of bad hits, but this is
> before our popular 1935 cites.
> ...
> ...
> 7 November 1934, Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, pg. 12, col. 1:
> Now L.S.U. needs one of the ivy colleges on its schedule and
> a bid to the Rose Bowl.
> (By Pat Robinson of I.N.S. from New York--ed.)
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