blue blood

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Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Long before Cignetti was laying waste to college football’s blue blood programs, his head coaching journey began in 2011 when he was hired by a once-proud Division II program called Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Historical references go back many decades, a 1951 story in the Cincinnati Enquirer describing Xavier’s early season losses as having come against teams listed in “college basketball’s blue blood directory.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Quite right! and M. de Juzencourt added that there was only blue blood in his family.

From Bijou by Gyp