Word: post-season
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Unlike other teams in the Ivy League, the league's football clubs are not permitted to participate in post-season play. In 1970, the Dartmouth football team was ranked 14th in the nation in both the Associated Press and United Press International polls. But because of the Presidents Agreement of 1954, the Big Green was restricted from competing in a bowl game, even though it clearly deserved...
...League officially became part of Division I-AA, which features a post-season tournament. (Teams are assigned to divisions based on the number of spectators they draw.) In 1986, the Penn football team was ranked number seven in the Division I-AA poll and would have earned a bid to the playoff had it been eligible. This fall, Harvard was ranked in the top 20 within Division I-AA, but could not test its talents against other highly-ranked schools...
...League football coaches would like to see the restriction on post-season play lifted to give good league teams a chance to compete nationally...
...think it's unfortunate that the football champion is the only team in our league that isn't allowed to participate in post-season play," Zubrow says. "I would have liked to have seen our team [of two years ago] and Harvard's team [this year] have that opportunity...
...administrators believe that lifting the regulations on post-season competition would send the wrong message...