Joe Paterno was a Brown grad and got his start there. It's probably less that he hated the Ivies but that was he was such a competitor that he hated any Eastern school that threatened his program-- he certainly scheduled that way.
This was not unique, of course. Knute Rockne famously avoided scheduling Catholic teams in the East (Fordham, Georgetown, Detroit, Holy Cross). When asked why, Rockne basically said he didn't want to share the spotlight with any other Catholic program.
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