Ivy League Fencing Championships Ivy League Fencing Championships The Ivy League Fencing Championships (officially, the Ivy League Fencing Round-Robins) is an annual tournament to determine the Ivy League standings in men's and women's fencing. Unlike at the NCAA Fencing Championships, the two events are contested separately. Then men's Ivy League Round-Robin has existed since 1956; the women's since 1982. Currently, six teams compete in the men's tournament, as neither Cornell nor Dartmouth sponsor NCAA men's fencing teams. Brown is the most recent addition to the tournament, first participating in 2006 (Brown had previously had a fencing team, but had not competed in the Ivy
Ivy League was formally designated as "Ivy Day" in 1874. Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale, Simmons, Bryn Mawr and many others. Princeton's "Ivy Club" was founded in 1879. The first usage of "Ivy" in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward (1895–1965). The first known instance of the term "Ivy League" being used appeared in "The Christian Science Monitor" on February 7, 1935. Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges, those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States, chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from