Why is the Ivy League, the collection of top academic institutions in the United States of America, called the Ivy League? I suspect that like most people I was happy in the false knowledge that this was due to the buildings being old enough to have actually become overgrown with ivy.
Not so according to a well informed source! The real reason is simply that those particular colleges all belong to a particular football league. The forth league in fact. An when traditionally written in Roman Numerals it is seen as IV. Ta da!
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