Quote Originally Posted by Go Green View Post
Brown did essentially the same thing as Dartmouth--visiting Harvard and Yale every year and visiting Princeton and Penn most years (without a return game).

Cornell always visited Franklin Field until the mid to late 1960s. For whatever reason, they were able to get Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton to visit Ithaca semi-regularly during that time.

Not sure about Columbia. My guess is that the "big boys" didn't mind coming to NYC every other year.

Brown did not have a home game against Yale until 1958 and I believe the series didn't alternate home games until sometime in the sixties. Dartmouth's first home game against Yale was not until 1971, probably because the crowds at the Bowl for Dartmouth were still in the 50k range through the sixties. In fact, the original plan was for Yale to visit Dartmouth every four years, but with dwindling attendance at the Bowl that plan was scrapped.

It wasn't just the Ivy schools that came to the Bowl exclusively in those days. Colgate was already mentioned, but all of Yale's games against Army in the twenties, thirties, and even the two "final" games in 1954 and 1955 were in the bowl.