Eight institutions include: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Brown University and Cornell University.

Ivy League refers to a sports league composed of eight universities in the northeastern United States. They are all first-class universities in the United States, and they are also the university alliance that produces the most Rhodes scholarship winners in the United States. In addition, the school grew up halfway up the mountain when it was founded, and seven of the eight schools were established during the British colonial period, which is the dream university for students studying in the United States.

Ivy League originally refers to an informal college football game, which originated from 1900, when Yale University won the first championship. For many years, the US Army and Air Force also participated in football matches of the Ivy League, but withdrew shortly before the formal establishment of the league.

1937, new york Herald Tribune first used the metaphor of ivy growing on the wall to describe these schools participating in football matches; From 65438 to 0945, the sports coaches of eight universities signed the first Ivy League agreement, which set academic, financial and sports standards for the eight participating football teams.

This agreement was extended to all other sports in 1954, which was also considered as the year when the Ivy League was formally established.