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Habitual readers of Around the Ivies will notice some of the same team names, not familiar as rival Ivy institutions, recurring in this space week after week and year after year. Most of them are members of the Patriot League, probably the conference most similar to the Ivy League, in terms of philosophy and geography, in collegiate athletics. Although just over two decades old as an organized conference, the Patriot is full of history: Lehigh-Lafayette is the oldest (yes, even more ancient than Harvard-Yale) and most-played series in college pigskin. Army and Navy, which belong...
...Patriot League constituents also pride themselves on their commitment to academics. Athletic scholarships, not offered by the Ivy League, are a recent innovation in Patriot sports—in fact, journalist John Feinstein wrote a book several years ago about its basketball conference titled *The Last Amateurs*. However, unlike the Ancient Eight, the Patriot League does participate in the Division I-AA football playoffs, sending its regular-season champ into the bracket as an automatic qualifier, and, in up years, a second squad with an at-large bid. In this way, the annual set of Ivy-Patriot clashes...
...Knights, meanwhile, have a history of playing I-AA teams, including an overtime victory over Rhode Island earlier this season, one of several close matchups between the two divisions. The Crimson’s schedule is set through 2010, with one opening in 2011 when the current series with Patriot League opponent Lehigh is completed...
...Facing the eventual tournament champion and heavy favorite, Harvard stole the first game and played the Eagles close throughout before falling, 3-1 (25-30, 30-20, 30-23, 30-24).American boasted a pair of 6’8 twins, Claire and Ann Recht, as well as 2006 Patriot League Player of the Year and tournament Most Valuable Player Rubena Sukaj, who went on to record 30 kills in the tournament final.“They are a very good team,” Mahon said. “We had a great match against them...
...this space, we’ll content ourselves with trying to figure out how they stack up against each other, or, this week, against opponents from equivalent conferences like the Patriot League. On to the picks for Week...