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Chicago Maroons

{{Short description|College sports team}}

{{for|the 1888 minor league baseball team|Chicago Maroons (minor league)}}

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{{Infobox college athletics

| name = Chicago Maroons

| logo = Chicago Maroons logo.svg

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| university = University of Chicago

| association = NCAA

| conference = University Athletic Association
Midwest Conference (baseball and football)
CCIW (women's lacrosse)

| division = Division III

| director =

| location = Chicago, Illinois

| teams =

| stadium = Stagg Field

| basketballarena = Ratner Athletics Center

| arena2 = Henry Crown Fieldhouse

| mascot = Phil the Phoenix

| nickname = Maroons

| fightsong = Wave the Flag

| pageurl = https://athletics.uchicago.edu/

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The Chicago Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Chicago. They are named after the color maroon. Team colors are maroon and gray,{{Cite web |url=http://communications.uchicago.edu/identity/color-palette |title=Color Palette | University Communications |access-date=2016-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026185721/http://communications.uchicago.edu/identity/color-palette |archive-date=2014-10-26 |url-status=dead }} and Phil the Phoenix is their mascot. They now compete in the NCAA Division III, mostly as members of the University Athletic Association.

The University of Chicago helped found the Big Ten Conference in 1895; although it dropped football in 1939 (as inconsistent with its academic vision), its other teams remained members until 1946. Football returned as a club sport in 1963, as a varsity sport in 1969, and began competing independently in Division III in 1973. The school was part of the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference from 1976 to 1987, and its football team joined the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference's successor, the Midwest Conference (MWC), in 2017. In the 2018–19 school year, Chicago added baseball to its MWC membership, and elevated its club team in women's lacrosse to full varsity status, with that sport competing in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW).

Stagg Field is the home stadium for the re-instated football team.

Conference affiliation

=Big Ten Conference=

File:University of Chicago 1895-96 Basketball Team.jpeg

The Maroons helped establish the Big Ten Conference (then known as the "Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives", and commonly called the "Western Conference") at a follow-up meeting on February 8, 1896.{{cite book|title=From The Inside: A Half Century of Michigan Athletics|first=Don|last=Canham|publisher=Olympia Sports Press|year=1996|isbn=0-9654263-0-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/frominside00donc/page/281 281]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/frominside00donc/page/281}} The league initially consisted of Chicago, Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern.

Jay Berwanger was awarded the first Heisman trophy in 1935.{{cite web|url=http://heisman.com/roster.aspx?path=football|title=Heisman trophy winners|access-date=2 December 2015}}

file:Chicago University and Waseda University Baseball Club players in 1915.jpg

Hall of Fame coach Amos Alonzo Stagg coached the football team from 1892–1932, the basketball team from 1920–1921, and the baseball team from 1893–1905 and 1907–1913.{{cite web |url=http://athletics.uchicago.edu/about/history/amos_alonzo_stagg|title=Alonzo Stagg Profile|access-date=2 December 2015}} He encouraged players to adopt vegetarianism, believing it supported both athleticism and a "gentle and gentlemanly" sportsmanship.{{Cite book|title = The Vegetarian Crusade|last = Shprintzen|year = 2013|isbn = 978-1-4696-0891-4 |pages = 200–201}}

The football team was dropped following the 1939 season.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Q8mAAAAIBAJ&dq=chicago%20big%20ten%20conference%20football&pg=3870%2C351905|title=Chicago gives up football as major sport|date=December 22, 1939 |publisher=Gettysburg Times|access-date=25 November 2013}} In explaining the reason to drop football, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university’s president, had written acidly in The Saturday Evening Post “In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one.” {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/sports/ncaafootball/at-the-university-of-chicago-football-and-higher-education-mix.html|title=At the University of Chicago, Football and Higher Education Mix|work=New York Times|date=17 September 2011 | access-date=2 December 2015|last1=Bearak |first1=Barry }}

On March 7, 1946 the University of Chicago withdrew from the Big Ten Conference.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/03/09/archives/chicago-withdraws-from-big-ten-because-of-weak-athletic-teams-new.html|title=Chicago Withdraws From Big Ten Because of Weak Athletic Teams|date=March 8, 1946|work=New York Times|access-date=22 April 2012}} On May 31, 1946 the resignation was formally accepted by the Big Ten Conference.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/02/archives/no-changes-voted-by-big-ten-group-faculty-body-decides-against.html|title=No changes voted by Big Ten group|date=June 1, 1946|work=New York Times|access-date=22 April 2012|location=Champaign, Illinois}}

Varsity teams

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| caption1 = Chicago v Brandeis volleyball in 2011

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! width= 150px style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Chicago Maroons|border=1|color= white }}"| Women's sports

BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryLacrosse
FootballSoccer
GolfSoftball
SoccerSwimming
SwimmingTennis
TennisTrack and field
Track and fieldVolleyball
Wrestling

Facilities

= Current =

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| caption2 = Henry Crown Field House

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| caption3 = Former Stagg Field (1904)

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Gerald Ratner Athletics CenterBasketball (2003–)
Volleyball
Wrestling
Swimming		2003[https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/2023/6/12/ratner.aspx Gerald Ratner Athletics Center]
Henry Crown Field HouseIndoor track and field
Racquetball
Handball
Basketball (1933–2003)		1932[https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/2023/6/12/henry-crown.aspx Henry Crown Field House]
Stagg FieldFootball
Soccer
Outdoor track and field		2013[https://chicagomaroon.com/43998/sports/how-stagg-field-has-changed-throughout-uchicagos-history/ How Stagg Field has changed throughout UChicago’s history] By Sarah Hopkins on Chicagomaroon.com. September 23, 2024

= Former =

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Men's GymnasiumBasketball18911904
Bartlett HallBasketball1904– {{refn|Repurposed as a dinning hall.|group=n|name=bart}}{{cite web|url=https://dining.uchicago.edu/ |title=UChicago Dining | The University of Chicago |website=Dining.uchicago.edu |access-date=2016-01-12}}

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Championships

= National and NCAA championships =

  • Basketball (poll): 1906–07, 1907–08, and 1908–09 (Helms Athletic Foundation)
  • Football (poll): 1905 (Helms Athletic Foundation), 1913 (Parke H. Davis)
  • Men's Gymnastics: 1938 (team title), 9 individual champions
  • Men's Soccer: 2022{{Cite web |last=Henderson |first=Cydney |title=University of Chicago's Julianne Sitch first female coach to lead NCAA men's soccer team to title |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2022/12/03/university-chicago-julianne-sitch-first-woman-coach-mens-soccer-team-title/10829647002/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}
  • Men's Tennis: 2022{{Cite web |last=NCAA.com |title=UChicago wins the 2022 NCAA DIII men's tennis championship {{!}} NCAA.com |url=https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/tennis-men/d3/uchicago-wins-2022-ncaa-diii-mens-tennis-championship |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=www.ncaa.com |language=en}}
  • Men's Track & Field (Outdoor): 7 individual champions
  • Kris Alden: 1989 Men's Swimming Individual Champion
  • Rhaina Echols: 1999 Women's Cross Country Individual Champion, 2000 Women's Indoor (3,000-meter run and 5,000-meter run) and 2000 Women's Outdoor Individual Track Champion (5,000-meter run)
  • Tom Haxton: 2004 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (10,000-meter run)
  • Adeoye Mabogunje: 2004 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (Triple Jump)
  • Peter Wang: 1991 & 1992 Wrestling Individual Champion
  • Liz Lawton: 2010 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (5,000-meter run and 10,000-meter run)
  • Michael Bennett: 2014 Men's Indoor Track & Field Individual Champion (Pole Vault)
  • Michelle Dobbs: 2016 Women's Indoor Track & Field Individual Champion (800-meter run)
  • Khia Kurtenbach: 2017 Women's Cross Country Individual Champion

= University Athletic Association championships =

  • Men's Basketball: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008
  • Women's Basketball: 1989, 2008, 2011, 2012
  • Men's Cross Country: 2002, 2004
  • Women's Cross Country: 1992, 1993, 2012, 2013, 2022
  • Football: 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014
  • Men's Soccer: 2001, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
  • Women's Soccer: 1994, 1996, 1999, 2010
  • Softball: 1996
  • Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 2002, 2008
  • Women's Track & Field (Indoor): 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2018
  • Women's Track & Field (Outdoor): 2015
  • Wrestling: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Women's Tennis: 2010, 2012, 2022
  • Men's Tennis: 2018, 2022

= Midwest Conference championships =

All championships listed here were won when the league was known as the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference, and only sponsored men's sports. The Midwest Conference was established in its current form in 1994 with the merger of the MCAC and Midwest Athletic Conference for Women.

  • Men's Soccer: 1978
  • Men's Tennis: 1984
  • Women's Tennis: 1983
  • Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 1980
  • Women's Track & Field (Outdoor): 1983, 1984

= Big Ten Conference championships =

  • Baseball: 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1913
  • Men's Basketball: 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1924
  • Men's Fencing: 1927-28, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41
  • Football: 1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1922, 1924
  • Men's Golf: 1922, 1924, 1926
  • Men's Gymnastics: 1909, 1914, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934
  • Men's Swimming: 1916, 1919, 1921
  • Men's Tennis: 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939
  • Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 1911, 1915, 1917
  • Men's Track & Field (Outdoor): 1905, 1908, 1917

Fight song

Wave the Flag (For Old Chicago) is the fight song for the Maroons.[http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahkissel/cheers.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201035608/http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahkissel/cheers.html|date=December 1, 2012}} Gordon Erickson wrote the lyrics in 1929. The tune was adapted from Miami University's "Marching Song" written in 1908 by Raymond H. Burke, a University of Chicago graduate who joined Miami's faculty in 1906.

The song is traditionally sung by the players at midfield after all home victories.[http://athletics.uchicago.edu/football/fb-program-2007-traditions.pdf "Chicago Traditions"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517071201/http://athletics.uchicago.edu/football/fb-program-2007-traditions.pdf |date=May 17, 2008 }} at University of Chicago official website (accessed 2012-12-29).

See also

References

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External links

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