In Western culture, sports elite class was originally patented, the Olympic Games also can be derived from only the noble men of ancient Greece to participate in the competition event. Until the early industrial revolution, sport is still rich (and thus leisure) class exclusive.A number of top athletes, the President of the United States areBritish upper class have a traditional saying: "the victory of Waterloo from Eton College (Aristocrats) playground."

Although "A Good Rong Shi" has been the evolution of American society as "good men and not a soldier" in World Wind to replace, but the "health and official career" is still the United States and popularity among the upper elite, and extend from the elite education to public education, even of modern education "morally, intellectually," slogan, but also by the impact of the Anglo-American the U.S., sports is not only the strength of the elite in general, is the focus of elite education, as the United States, "prep school" so-called "pre-school culture" of the important features.

In culture, including President Clinton, including a large number of U.S. elite Rhodes Scholarship (undergraduate to graduate to continue studies at Oxford University) in the rating, sport is the second appraisal standards.Even the leaders of the U.S. elite Ivy League education in the name of the headquarters of the earliest origins in the sport, referring to the northeastern United States among the eight universities in inter-school sports leagues, later to become the region consisting of eight universities in the Federation "rectification of names."

Andover with a pre-Ivy League schools plus a former president of Yale University, father and son are also sports players. Bush Pre-School in Andover, it will also serve as school baseball and football team China Insulated Single Crimp Terminals Factory captain, and later served as captain of the Yale University baseball team, the two reached the final of the National University. George W. Bush at Yale University is the rugby team, is also a baseball fan, who later became Texas owner of one of the professional baseball team. George W. Bush in 2004 and Yale alumnus John Kerry running for president is a former pre-school standard "blue blood" family of children, at Yale University, has or is also football, hockey, lacrosse and fencing teams of four members of the school.Not only is the Ivy League sports train future leaders of the community an important part of their admissions process is a major project.

To Harvard, for example, admission standards after World War II long-term by the personal qualities, academic, extra-curricular activities and sports, the four components of the sport was only then into the general category of extra-curricular activities. Ivy cultural, and even so had led to require the applicant to have "husband spirit (manliness)". 60 years until the 20th century, Yale University, students also carefully measured the height, and each new record over six feet tall (180 cm) quite a long time, the Ivy League school students and graduates in the world the Olympic Games has been the main player on the United States. A fact not well known, is in 1896 the first modern Olympic Games in Athens the first world champion appeared James Connolly, former participants are attending Harvard in the family as the theme of a famous novel "Love Story", the protagonist is a Harvard hockey team, the book mentioned in the Harvard hockey long prototype is a real person, is from Canada, David Johnston - who recently was nominated as the next Governor General of Canada, will take office in October.

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