Sunday, July 02, 2017

Numerology

The unofficial and unfortunately anonymous Voy Ivy League message board has a discussion going about the athletic prowess of member schools and it includes this LINK to the year-by-year totals of conference championships for each school.

Here's some of what Ivy League records page shows:

Ivy League championships in 2016-17
11 Harvard
11 Princeton
5 Cornell
5 Penn
4 Yale
3 Columbia
2 Dartmouth
0 Brown

Ivy League championships last five years
55 Princeton
53 Harvard
23 Cornell
18 Columbia
17 Penn
17 Yale
Dartmouth
Brown

Ivy League championships last 10 years
113 Princeton
84 Harvard
55 Cornell
34 Yale
33 Penn
28 Columbia
17 Dartmouth
12 Brown

Ivy League championships all-time
476 Princeton
415 Harvard
230 Cornell
210 Penn
202 Yale
140 Dartmouth
123 Brown
105 Columbia

The Ivy League page also has the listing to the 2016-17 Learfield Directors' Cup Division I Final Standings, which purport to show the overall strength of athletic programs using up to 10 men's and 10 women's sports.

Not surprisingly, Stanford was the overall winner.

Here's how the Ivy League schools ranked nationally
48. Princeton
58. Harvard
62. Cornell
76. Yale
77. Penn
86. Dartmouth
109. Columbia
165. Brown

Bucknell was the top Patriot League football school at 125.

The top 10 overall
1. Stanford
2. Ohio State
3. Florida
4. USC
5. North Carolina
6. Michigan
7. Texas
8. Penn State
9. Oregon
10. Kentucky

Schools of interest finishing below Dartmouth
92. Pitt
92. UConn
102. Georgia Tech
116. Rutgers
163. Army
209. Tulane