, N.J. -- The Ivy League opened the season 6-2 (.750) against non-conference opposition, picking up right where it left off following back-to-back seasons with Football Championship Subdivision-leading .750 non-conference winning percentages.Reigning Ivy League champion No. 24 Princeton headlined the League’s season-opening victories with a convincing 49-7 win over Butler.Junior quarterback, a Boston College transfer, guided Brown to a 35-30 win over Bryant. The victory was the first for EJ’s uncle, James Perry, as the head coach at his alma mater and came against the Bulldog club he guided over the past two campaigns.Dartmouth rattled off a 35-6 win over Jacksonville, winning its 10th-straight season opener and its 14th-straight game against a non-conference opponent, while Yale proved victorious in its first game on its new turf field at the Yale Bowl, outlasting Holy Cross, 23-10.Empire State programs Columbia and Cornell also started 1-0, with the Lions defeating Saint Francis, 31-14, and the Big Red downing Marist, 21-7.Penn fell just short against No. 20/20 Delaware, electing to go for the lead on a two-point conversion following a 69-yard punt return touchdown by junior running backin the closing minutes. The two-point try fell just short and the Blue Hens held on for a 28-27 win.Senior kickerset the Crimson career record with his 31st field goal in a 31-23 loss to San Diego.

About the Ivy League

The Ivy League stands at the pinnacle of higher education and Division I athletics, rooted in the longstanding, defining principle that intercollegiate athletics competition should be "kept in harmony with the essential educational purposes of the institution." Unrivaled in its legacy, The Ivy League provides the true test of academic and co-curricular rigor - fostering an enduring culture that celebrates a storied-tradition, thrives on shared values and holds paramount the academic and personal growth of students.

Consistently ranked as the top academic conference and with more national championships than any other collegiate athletic conference (287 team, 546 individual), The Ivy League showcased 98 nationally-ranked programs in 2018-19 and prides itself on sponsoring 33 sports, the highest number of any NCAA conference, with more than 8,000 student-athletes competing annually. The League's world-renowned schools - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale - serve as the standard bearers for inspiring and transforming student-athletes to boldly take on the world's challenges and lead lives of great impact.

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