# Feudish - name the state for these universities **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 31, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402 "2009-08-31T20:27:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheMadHun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/21 "2009-09-01T22:16:34Z")
I have the feeling that if I followed sports I’d know some of these, but I can only recall ever knowing one, Harvard. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/22 "2009-09-02T00:34:18Z")
Carnegie Mellon – Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve – Ohio Dartmouth – New Hampshire Duke – North Carolina Emory – Georgia George Washington – District of Columbia Harvard – Massachusetts Johns Hopkins – Maryland Northwestern – Illinois Purdue – Illinois Rice – Texas Tulane – Louisiana Vanderbilt – Tennessee Washington – Washington University: Missouri. University of Washington: Washington Yale – Connecticut ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/23 "2009-09-11T00:18:55Z")
Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh Case Western Reserve - Dayton? Dartmouth - Maine Duke - Alabama? Emory - Georgia? George Washington - Washington DC Harvard - Boston Johns Hopkins - Minnesota? Northwestern - Chicago Purdue - Indiana Rice - Louisiana? Tulane - ? Vanderbilt - one of the Carolinas Washington - Washington DC Yale - Boston ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/24 "2009-09-11T13:56:08Z")
Carnegie Mellon: Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve: Hell if I know. Pennsylvania? Dartmouth: New Hampshire Duke: North Carolina Emory: Georgia George Washington: Virginia Harvard: Massachusetts Johns Hopkins: Massachusetts Northwestern: Illinois Purdue: Indiana Rice: Texas Tulane: Louisiana Vanderbilt: Kentucky Washington: Is this supposed to be Washington and Lee? Virgina Yale: Massachussetts? _checks answers_ 9/15 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/25 "2009-09-11T13:58:17Z")
> [@TheMadHun](#): > > I have the feeling that if I followed sports I’d know some of these, but I can only recall ever knowing one, Harvard. It also can help if you’re in a fraternity or sorority, because when you’re a pledge you might be forced to memorize the location of every school where you have or ever have had a chapter. Like I was. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/26 "2009-09-11T14:01:54Z")
> [@TheMadHun](#): > > I have the feeling that if I followed sports I’d know some of these, but I can only recall ever knowing one, Harvard. None of these schools are any known for their sports programs, except Purdue (football) and Duke (basketball). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/27 "2009-09-11T16:44:18Z")
Carnegie Mellon - Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve - Massachusettes ? Only one i don’t know for sure Dartmouth - New Hampshire Duke - North Carolina Emory - Georgia George Washington - DC or Virginia Harvard - Mass Johns Hopkins - Maryland Northwestern - Ill Purdue - Indiana Rice - Texas Tulane - Louisianna Vanderbilt - Tennessee Washington - Missouri (if you are not talking about the state Univ) Yale - Connecticut ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/28 "2009-09-11T17:11:51Z")
Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburg, PA Case Western Reserve - Cleveland, OH Dartmouth - Dartmouth, NH Duke - Raleigh/Durham, NC Emory - Atlanta, GA George Washington - not sure, DC area somewhere, maybe Northern Virginia? Harvard - Cambridge, MA Johns Hopkins - Baltimore, MD Northwestern - Chicago, IL Purdue - Lafayette, IN Rice - somewhere in Texas Tulane - New Orleans, LA Vanderbilt - Nashville, TN Washington - St. Lous, MO Yale - New Haven, CT I added the cities since I knew most of them. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/29 "2009-09-11T18:22:42Z")
I’ll add a few: Middlebury Amherst Morehead St Morehouse Drake Harvey Mudd McGill Gonzaga Brown Grambling Clarkson ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/30 "2009-09-11T18:28:33Z")
Middlebury – Vermont Amherst – Massachusetts Morehead St – Kentucky Morehouse – Georgia Drake – Iowa Harvey Mudd – California McGill – Quebec Gonzaga – Washington Brown – Rhode Island Grambling – Louisiana Clarkson – New York ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402/31 "2009-09-11T18:58:22Z")
Without checking any other posts: Carnegie Mellon:PA Case Western Reserve: IL? Dartmouth: NH Duke: NC Emory: GA George Washington: VA Harvard: MA Johns Hopkins: MD Northwestern: IL Purdue: IN Rice: TX Tulane: LA Vanderbilt : TN Washington: MO Yale: CT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feudish-name-the-state-for-these-universities/508402.md?page=1)