Word: i-a
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...League teams have traditionally shied away from matchups with I-A schools, which usually function as glorified scrimmages for the larger schools. But there are signs that attitudes toward those games are changing within the Ivy League...
Yale is scheduled to play Army in 2010 and 2012, restarting an ancient rivalry. Penn’s athletic director, Steve Bilsky, told the New York Times last November that he “will try to schedule more such games against academically strong I-A schools—teams like Northwestern, Duke, and the service academies...
Harvard, for its part, has not joined Yale in scheduling I-A teams...
...whether it’s sharing playbooks or battling on the field, there’s no question that the relationship between I-A and I-AA football has never been closer. The top teams in I-AA, Murphy says, have every bit the talent of a mid-major program...
After a postgraduate year at Exeter, the 6’3, 190-pound receiver turned down multiple offers to play football at Division I-A schools in order to join the Crimson. Used to being the featured pass-catcher, one can imagine the junior’s surprise when he entered his first collegiate training camp as the last wideout on the depth chart...