PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League football schedule has been modified to enhance the excitement of the final weekend of the season, with historic regional rivalries closing the seasons for all eight schools.
Beginning with the Fall 2018 season, the schedule will feature exciting regional matchups – Brown-Dartmouth, Columbia-Cornell, Penn-Princeton – on the final weekend of play along with Harvard-Yale.
“The storied-tradition of Ivy League regional rivalries has always been of great importance to our alumni, fans and teams,” said Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris. “We look forward to a fantastic final weekend of the Ivy football season, with these rivalry games adding to the excitement of the Ivy League title race.”
In order to move the regional rivalries to the final weekend of the season, the athletics directors in October of 2012 approved a few adjustments to the traditional schedule. The season finales are all currently scheduled to take place on the final Saturday of Ivy football, although schools have the flexibility to move individual games to Friday.
In addition, next year’s 135th playing of The Game will take place at Fenway Park in Boston, marking the second of three-straight seasons an Ivy football contest will be played at an historic ballpark. Brown and Dartmouth met at Fenway in 2017, and Princeton and Dartmouth will play at Yankee Stadium in 2019.
Click here for the complete 2018 Ivy League football schedule.