From this week's trivia file comes this question: Butler might be the best Princeton player in recent history, but he'll never win the Heisman Trophy. Only one Ivy player has ever done that--and he played for Princeton. Name him. Answer below.

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Figure this one out: of the 29 Ivy football titles since formal league play began in 1956, Harvard has won or shared seven of them.

In 17 of the other 22 seasons, the team or teams that have won or shared the title have beaten Harvard.

What that means is that you've got to beat Harvard to win the league crown.

But if you follow that logic, don't you also have to beat Columbia?

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Speaking of Columbia, the Lions--winners of just five of their last 68 games--haven't improved much since first-year Coach Jim Garrett went on a rampage after Harvard shellacked his squad, 49-14, in the season opener.

In four games since, the Lions have scored a total of 26 points and just three touchdowns.

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Elsewhere around the league, Penn travels to Yale this weekend for one of the biggest Ivy games in years.

Yale (2-0 Ivy) hasn't lost at home in eight games and Penn (3-0 Ivy) hasn't lost an Ivy contest since late 1983. Since then, it's won 10 straight league contests.

In other games, Dartmouth will meet Cornell in a battle of winless teams, Brown will travel to Holy Cross and Bucknell will look to extend Columbia's losing streak to 16.

By the way, the five Ivy teams aside from Harvard, Penn and Yale have a combined overall record this year of 5-20 for a winning mark of .200.

And one year after Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth all started 0-5, they're all 0-5 again.