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{Link without Title} In the 2007 U.S. News And World Report rankings, all members of the Ivy League ranked among the top twenty major national universities as did Duke University , Emory University , Rice University and Vanderbilt University . Duke at number 8, was below four and above four Ivy League universities. Several Southern schools are also included in Greene's Guide of EFFORTS TO CREATE A SOUTHERN IVY LEAGUE The effort to create a Southern Ivy League conference originated during the 1950s. {Link without Title} Harvie Branscomb, then-chancellor at Vanderbilt University , originally attempted to establish a rivalry between Vanderbilt and traditional Ivy League schools to foster relationships with academically-orientated schools and ameliorate the heavy costs of the football program. The school followed through on this effort and played a game against Yale in October 1948. However, after Vanderbilt shut out the Bulldogs, 35-0, Yale said they no longer wanted to play Vanderbilt. This caused Branscomb to call a meeting with the presidents of other Southern private universities in the late 1950s — Southern Methodist University ( SMU ), Rice , Duke , and Tulane — where Branscomb suggested they try to establish a new sports conference where small, academically inclined private schools could compete. 1 p. 220-223:The Southern Ivy League In the early 1960s, the idea for the "Magnolia Conference" gained popularity. In 1963, ( SMU ) and Rice were not willing to give up their share of the Cotton Bowl income. 3 p. 220-223:The Southern Ivy League Over the years, many D-1 southern private schools continued to struggle to field competitive football teams. In the early 1990s, the student government associations from Duke, Emory, Tulane, and Vanderbilt, among others, pitched a plan for a football-only conference In 2006, an opinion article titled "Fixing Football" appeared in the Duke Chronicle authored by John Feinstein that called for Duke to exit ACC football for what he called “Conference SAT”. [http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/09/27/Features/Fixing.Football-2312113-page2.shtml SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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