The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, 21 in men's golf and one in men's hockey.
§Men's sports
§Baseball
Major leaguers pitcher Craig Breslow (Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox) and catcher Ryan Lavarnway (Boston Red Sox/Los Angeles Dodgers), among others, played baseball for the Bulldogs. Lavarnway led the NCAA in batting average (.467) and slugging percentage (.873) in 2007, set the Ivy League hitting-streak record (25), and through 2010 held the Ivy League record in career home runs (33). In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949, and the first All-Yale battery in the major leagues since 1883.
§Men's basketball
§Men's crew
§Football
The football team has competed since 1876. They have won nineteen national championships when the school competed in what is now known as the FBS. They are perhaps best known for their rivalry with Harvard, known as "The Game". Twenty one former players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
§Men's golf
The men's golf team has won 21 NCAA Championships: 1897, 1898 (fall), 1902 (spring), 1905â€"13, 1915, 1924â€"26, 1931â€"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 nine Ivy League championships since the League championship was started in 1975: 1984â€"85, 1988, 1990â€"91, 1996â€"97, 2003, 2011.
§Men's ice hockey
The Yale Men's Ice Hockey team is the oldest existing intercollegiate hockey program, having played its first game in 1896 against Johns Hopkins (a 2â€"2 tie). The team competes in the ECAC Hockey League (ECACHL); in addition the Ivy League also crowns a champion for its members that field varsity ice hockey. The Bulldogs (coached by Keith Allain) won the 2013 NCAA National Championship in Pittsburgh with a 4â€"0 shutout of Quinnipiac University.
§Men's lacrosse
§Men's soccer
Before the NCAA began its tournament in 1959, the annual national champion was declared by the Intercollegiate Association Football League (IAFL) â€" from 1911 to 1926 â€" and then the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA), from 1927 to 1958. From 1911 to 1958, Yale won four national championships.
§Men's swimming and diving
§National team championships
As of July 2, 2014, Yale has 28 NCAA team national championships.
- Men's (26)
- Golf (21):
- Ice Hockey (1):
- Swimming (4):
- Women's (2)
- Fencing (2):
- see also:
- Ivy League national team championships
- List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships
§Women's sports
§Women's crew
§Women's ice hockey
§Women's swimming and diving
§Notable non varsity sports
§Rugby
Yale rugby plays college rugby in Division 1 in the Ivy Rugby Conference. Yale Rugby was founded in 1875, making it one of the oldest rugby teams in North America. President George W. Bush played rugby for Yale during his student days.
§See also
- List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships
§References
§External links
- Official website
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