| Yale Bulldogs | |
|---|---|
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| University | Yale University |
| Conference | Ivy League (primary) ECAC Hockey Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges NEISA CSA (squash) |
| NCAA | Division I (FCS) |
| Athletic director | Victoria Chun |
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Varsity teams | 35 teams |
| Football stadium | Yale Bowl |
| Basketball arena | Payne Whitney Gym |
| Ice hockey arena | Ingalls Rink |
| Baseball stadium | Yale Field |
| Soccer stadium | Reese Stadium |
| Lacrosse stadium | Reese Stadium |
| Sailing venue | Yale Corinthian Yacht Club |
| Mascot | Handsome Dan |
| Nickname | Bulldogs |
| Fight song | "Bulldog" |
| Colors | Yale blue and white[1] |
| Website | yalebulldogs |
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TheYale Bulldogs are thecollege sports teams that representYale University, located inNew Haven, Connecticut. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won twoNCAA national championships inwomen's fencing, four inmen's swimming and diving, 21 inmen's golf, one in men's hockey, one in men's lacrosse, and 16 in sailing.
Originally inspired byvarsity matches betweenOxford University andCambridge University in England, Yale and Harvard influenced the development ofcollege sports in the United States.[2]
In 1970 theNCAA banned Yale from participating in all NCAA sports for two years, in reaction to Yale—against the wishes of the NCAA—playingJack Langer in college games after Langer had played for Team United States at the1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel with the approval of Yale PresidentKingman Brewster.[3][4][5][6] The decision impacted 300 Yale students, every Yale student on its sports teams, over the next two years.[7]
| Men's sports | Women's sports |
|---|---|
| Baseball | Basketball |
| Basketball | Crew |
| Crew | Cross country |
| Cross country | Fencing |
| Fencing | Field hockey |
| Football | Golf |
| Golf | Gymnastics |
| Ice hockey | Ice hockey |
| Lacrosse | Lacrosse |
| Rugby(club) | Soccer |
| Sailing | Softball |
| Soccer | Squash |
| Squash | Swimming & diving |
| Swimming & diving | Tennis |
| Tennis | Track & field1 |
| Track & field1 | Volleyball |
| Co-ed sports | |
| Sailing | |
| 1 – includes both indoor and outdoor | |
Major leaguers pitcherCraig Breslow (Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox) and catcherRyan Lavarnway (Boston Red Sox/Los Angeles Dodgers), among others, played baseball for the Bulldogs. Perhaps Yale's most notable baseball player, however, was future U.S. presidentGeorge H. W. Bush, who played for the Bulldogs in the late 1940s.
Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002.[8] Lavarnway led the NCAA inbatting average (.467) andslugging percentage (.873) in 2007, set the Ivy League hitting-streak record (25), and through 2010 held the Ivy League record in careerhome runs (33).[9] In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949.[10]
The men's basketball team has been named national champion on six occasions – in 1896, 1897, 1899, and 1900 by thePremo-Porretta Power Poll, which began retroactive selections with the 1895–96 season; and in 1901 and 1903 by theHelms Athletic Foundation, which began retroactive selections with the 1900–01 season.[11]Penn and Yale played in the First College Basketball game with 5 men on a team in 1897.
Yale has won seven Ivy League championships – 1957, 1962, 1963, 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2020. It also won theEastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, the forerunner to the Ivy League, eight times – 1902, 1903, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1923, 1933 and 1949.
Thefootball team has competed since1876. They have won nineteennational championships when the school competed in what is now known as theFBS.[12] They are perhaps best known for theirrivalry withHarvard, known as "The Game". Twenty one former players have been inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame.
The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 27college football national championships, including 26 in 38 years between 1872 and 1909.[13]Walter Camp, known as the "Father of Football," graduated fromHopkins Grammar School in 1876, and playedcollege football atYale College from 1876 to 1882. He later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892.[14] It was Camp who pioneered the fundamental transition of American football from rugby when in 1880, he succeeded in convincing the Intercollegiate Football Association to discontinue the rugby "scrum", and instead have players line up along a "line of scrimmage" for individual plays, which begin with the snap of the ball and conclude with the tackling of the ballcarrier.[15]
TheYale Men's Golf Team has won 21collegiate team championships (all except 1943 were bestowed by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association): 1897, 1898 (spring),[16] 1902 (spring), 1905–13, 1915, 1924–26, 1931–33, 1936, 1943. They have crowned 13 individual champions: John Reid, Jr. (1898, spring), Charles Hitchcock, Jr. (1902, fall), Robert Abbott (1905), W. E. Clow, Jr. (1906), Ellis Knowles (1907),Robert Hunter (1910), George Stanley (1911), Nathaniel Wheeler (1913), Francis Blossom (1915),Jess Sweetser (1920), Dexter Cummings (1923, 1924), Tom Aycock (1929). Both are records. They have won 10Ivy League championships since the League championship was started in 1975: 1984–85, 1988, 1990–91, 1996–97, 2003, 2011, 2018.[17] Both the Men's and Women's Golf Teams play out of theYale Golf Course which has been ranked the best collegiate golf course in the country by Golfweek.com as well as other news outlets.[18]
The Yale Men's Ice Hockey team is the oldest existingintercollegiate hockey program, having played its first game in 1896 against Johns Hopkins (a 2–2 tie).[19] The team competes in theECAC Hockey League (ECACHL); in addition theIvy League also crowns a champion for its members that field varsity ice hockey. The Bulldogs (coached byKeith Allain) won the 2013 NCAA National Championship in Pittsburgh with a 4–0 shutout of Quinnipiac University.
Yale's first attempts with "kicking games" have roots in the 1860s, when the University, along withPrinceton,Rutgers, andBrown, started to play a form offootball that resembled the Association game.[20] Nevertheless, after arugby football played vHarvard in 1875, Yale dropped the association football in favor of rugby.[21][22]
Before the NCAA began its tournament in 1959, the annual national champion was declared by theIntercollegiate Association Football League (IAFL) — from 1911 to 1926 — and then theIntercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA), from 1927 to 1958. From 1911 to 1958, Yale won four national championships.
Irvin Dorfman played tennis for Yale (1947), and was later ranked No. 15 in singles in the United States in 1947, and No. 3 in doubles in the U.S. in 1948.[23][24] In 1946 he won the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Title.[25]
Richard Raskind, later known asRenée Richards, was captain of the 1954 men's team and later became a professional female tennis player.[26]
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In 1976, the nineteen members of the Yale women's crew wrote "TITLE IX" on their bodies and went into athletic director Joni Barnett's office and took off their clothes, and then rowerChris Ernst read a statement about the way they were being treated.[27][28] This protest was noted by newspapers around the world, includingThe New York Times.[28][27] By 1977, a women's locker room was added to Yale's boathouse.[29] (Previously, there was no bathroom available for the women's crew team, so they had to wait on the bus after practice while the men showered before they could return to campus.[30]) This protest was chronicled in the 1999 documentaryA Hero For Daisy.[29][31]
The Bulldogs women's soccer team won the NCAA College Cup in 2002, 2004 and 2005.[32] In 2005, the team won a school record 15 games.[32] That year it also won the first outright team Ivy League title in Yale history.[32]
Former coach Rudy Meredith wasindicted as part of the2019 college admissions bribery scandal, for allegedly accepting bribes totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate the admission of students to Yale as soccer players recruited to the Yale women's soccer team, despite their never having played competitive soccer.[33] He pled guilty.[33] Because he is cooperating with prosecutors, he may avoid the maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fines each of the charges carry, but he will have to forfeit the $850,000 in bribes he took in the scheme.[33]
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Yale Rugby was founded in 1875, making it one of the oldest rugby teams in North America.[34][35] The date refers to the firstHarvard vs Yale contest held in 1875, two years after the inauguralPrinceton–Yale football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challengedYale's captain, William Arnold to a rugby-style game.[36][37] Thenext season Curtis was captain.[38] He took one look atWalter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captainGene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."[39][40]
Yale rugby playscollege rugby in Division 1 in theIvy Rugby Conference. Yale Rugby was founded in 1875, making it one of the oldest rugby teams in North America.[41][42] PresidentGeorge W. Bush played rugby for Yale during his student days.[43]
Yale has 29 NCAA team national championships.[44]
† The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939, but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records.
Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these prestigious eastern institutions, this fascinating study traces the origins and development of intercollegiate athletics in America from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.
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