Ivy League Schools Face Challenge to Sports Scholarship Ban (3)

Harvard, Yale, and the six other universities that make up the storied Ivy League are facing antitrust litigation over the elite conference’s ban on athletic scholarships.

Two collegiate athletes—one current and one former—filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the longtime policy, which is also enforced by Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. The rule amounts to a price-fixing agreement—setting athlete compensation at $0—that’s per se illegal, according to the proposed class action.

Of more than 350 schools participating in Division I sports, the eight Ivy members are allegedly the only ones that categorically refuse to offer ...