New arrivals – Ivy League Scrimmage S09 Full Zip Hooded Sweatshirts. Available for all 8 Ivies.

Ivysport has partnered with Banner Supply Co. to bring you the Scrimmage S09 Hoodies. Banner makes world class apparel for many universities, resorts and others. Awesome quality, great design and very comfortable.

Garment is 100% ring spun combed cotton with a “soft Banner wash” for a great vintage look. Features hand finished applique on front and left arm. Classic fit.

New school homepages for all 8 schools + Ivy League Store. Enjoy!

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New arrivals – Ivy League Vintage Scrum tees. Available for Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell coming soon.

Ivysport has partnered with Banner Supply Co. to bring you the Vintage Scrum tees. Banner makes world class apparel for many universities, resorts and others. Awesome quality, great design and very comfortable.

Garment is 100% ring spun combed cotton with a “soft Banner wash”. Faded vintage print. This is the first shirt you’ll reach for in your drawer!

We’re trying to be a little more creative at Ivysport by engaging our customers and visitors with fun promotions.  This month we’re launching on Ivysport a “Free T-Shirt A Day through Labor Day” where each day we’ll randomly select one entrant to receive their Ivy League school t-shirt of choice with complimentary shipping.  Winners will be posted daily here and it’s completely free to register.   Visitors can often once per day for every day of the promotion.  I’m curious to see if there’s a bias toward which school is most represented…will it be Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale?  Already today we’ve received nearly 300 entrants!  Good luck to all.

It only makes sense to start Ivysport’s blog with the t-shirt that launched the company.  Back in 1988, I was a sophomore at Princeton University and a “work-study” student – meaning I needed a campus job to help pay my tuition.  I was issued the job of working at “DFS” (the Division of Food Services) in Forbes College, which meant after attending classes and football practice all week I had to wake up at 6AM to make eggs and omelets to hung-over fellow students as they meandered into the dining all.  It took about four weeks on the job to realize (and to quote Donny Deutsch) “there had to be a better way”.

I had always been interested in the camaraderie and competition shared by the eight Ivy League schools, particularly as I made my way to the other campuses while playing football for Princeton.  You could by a Princeton t-shirt, or Harvard t-shirt, or even a Yale sweatshirt, but you could not buy anything that featured all eight Ivy League schools on one item.  I began sketching what would become my concept for “It’s Lonely at the Top”, which featured one Ivy school crest on top of the crests of the other Ivy League schools.  Thus began my career as an entrepreneur.

I printed up a batch of shirts and began selling them to students at Princeton’s residential colleges.  I would knock on a door, show them the shirt, and walk away with $15 bucks in my pocket.  This was way better than flipping eggs!  It was only a matter of time before my now competitor, the Princeton U-Store, came calling and requested to sell “It’s Lonely at the Top” in their bookstore.  Later, all eight Ivy League schools would request their own version to sell at their bookstore.  To this day – 22 years later – we still receive orders, compliments, and raves about this original shirt.

Personally, after Princeton I went on to explore investment banking, consulting, working in entertainment (HBO and EMI Music), and technology, yet at the end of the day I came back to Ivy League apparel and started what today is Ivysport – the largest provider of Ivy League apparel on the planet!