Yale Bulldogs

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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. Perhaps Yale's most notable baseball player, however, was future U.S. president George H. W. Bush, who played for the Bulldogs in the late 1940s.

Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1710|title=Six Leaguers Taken in MLB Draft |publisher=Ivyleaguesports.com|date=June 5, 2002|access-date=March 18, 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060614233531/http://ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1710|archive-date = June 14, 2006}} 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).{{cite web |url=http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/lavarnway_ryan00.html |title=Ryan Lavarnway |publisher=Yalebulldogs.com |date=April 6, 2007 |access-date=August 19, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007122139/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/lavarnway_ryan00.html |archive-date=October 7, 2011 |df=mdy-all }} In August 2012, Breslow and Lavarnway, playing for the Red Sox, became the first Yale grads to be Major League teammates since 1949.{{cite news |url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/09/05/bulldogs-in-beantown/ |title=Bulldogs in Beantown |publisher=Yale Daily News |date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=September 26, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002005525/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/09/05/bulldogs-in-beantown/ |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}

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The men's basketball team has been named national champion on six occasions – in 1896, 1897, 1899, and 1900 by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll, which began retroactive selections with the 1895–96 season; and in 1901 and 1903 by the Helms Athletic Foundation, which began retroactive selections with the 1900–01 season.{{cite book|title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game|editor-last=ESPN|publisher=ESPN Books|location=New York, NY|year=2009|pages=529|isbn=978-0-345-51392-2}}

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 the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, the forerunner to the Ivy League, eight times – 1902, 1903, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1923, 1933 and 1949.

{{see also|Harvard–Yale Regatta|Goldthwait Cup|Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/mel_smith/football_style.php|title=Early Football Style Championships|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211124508/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/mel_smith/football_style.php|archive-date=February 11, 2010|df=mdy-all}} 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.

The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships, including 26 in 38 years between 1872 and 1909.{{cite book | url=http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009FBS.pdf | title=Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book | pages=76–81 | publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association | date=August 2009 | location=Indianapolis, IN | access-date=2009-10-16}} Walter Camp, known as the "Father of Football," graduated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1876, and played college football at Yale College from 1876 to 1882. He later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892.{{College Football HoF|id=2080|name=Walter "The Father of Football" Camp}} 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.{{cite book|title=Football: The American Intercollegiate Game|publisher=c. Scribner's sons|author=Parke H. Davis|url=https://archive.org/details/footballamerica00davigoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/footballamerica00davigoog/page/n73 51]|year=1912}}

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The Yale Men's Golf Team has won 21 collegiate team championships (all except 1943 were bestowed by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association): 1897, 1898 (spring),{{cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1898/5/6/golf-team-defeated-the-yale-golf/|work=The Crimson|date=May 6, 1898|access-date=2015-05-30|title=Golf Team Defeated|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531011024/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1898/5/6/golf-team-defeated-the-yale-golf/|archive-date=May 31, 2015|df=mdy-all}} 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 10 Ivy League championships since the League championship was started in 1975: 1984–85, 1988, 1990–91, 1996–97, 2003, 2011, 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/recordsbooks/2012-13/Mens_Golf.pdf |title=The Ivy League Men's Golf Records Book 2012–13 |access-date=June 26, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205103627/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/history/recordsbooks/2012-13/Mens_Golf.pdf |archive-date=December 5, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} Both the Men's and Women's Golf Teams play out of the Yale Golf Course which has been ranked the best collegiate golf course in the country by Golfweek.com as well as other news outlets.{{cite web |last1=Lusk |first1=Jason |title=Golfweek's Best 2020: Top 30 Campus Courses |url=https://golfweek.usatoday.com/lists/golfweeks-best-2020-top-30-campus-courses/ |website=golfweek.com |date=October 19, 2020 |publisher=Golfweek |access-date=7 August 2021}}

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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 2–2 tie).[http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1696] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103050406/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1696|date=January 3, 2010}} 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 4–0 shutout of Quinnipiac University.

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Yale's first attempts with "kicking games" have roots in the 1860s, when the University, along with Princeton, Rutgers, and Brown, started to play a form of football that resembled the Association game.[http://www.profootballresearchers.com/articles/No_Christian_End.pdf No Christian End! The Beginnings of Football in America] By PFRA Research (Originally Published in The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 (PFRA Books) Nevertheless, after a rugby football played v Harvard in 1875, Yale dropped the association football in favor of rugby.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100929152206/http://profootballresearchers.org/Articles/Camp_And_Followers.pdf Camp and His Followers: American Football 1876–1889] By PFRA Research (archived)[https://www.academia.edu/34307566/THE_BOSTON_GAME THE BOSTON GAME] article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu

Before the NCAA began its tournament in 1959, the annual national champion was declared by the Intercollegiate Association Football League (IAFL) — from 1911 to 1926 — and then the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association (ISFA), from 1927 to 1958. From 1911 to 1958, Yale won four national championships.

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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.{{cite web|url=http://jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=5|title=Dorfman, Irv: Jews In Sports|website=jewsinsports.org|access-date=May 3, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525234723/http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=5|archive-date=May 25, 2011|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=1qJTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wYcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5091,3888113&dq=yale+irvin-dorfman&hl=en|title=The Deseret News|website=news.google.com.au|access-date=May 3, 2018}} In 1946 he won the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Title.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&q=%22Irv+Dorfman%22+yale+tennis&pg=PA189|title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History|first=Bob|last=Wechsler|date=May 3, 2018|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|access-date=May 3, 2018|via=Google Books|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503174331/https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=%22Irv+Dorfman%22+yale+tennis&source=bl&ots=ZARS84lNG0&sig=gMdtKnFXHK7cMJ8uJ6qvTr9Khqs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMmIj02MDZAhVDhOAKHRqLBP4Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22Irv+Dorfman%22+yale+tennis&f=false|archive-date=May 3, 2018|df=mdy-all|isbn=9780881259698}}

Richard Raskind, later known as Renée Richards, was captain of the 1954 men's team and later became a professional female tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,641868,00.html |title=Renée Richards |publisher=Theguardian.com |date=2011-02-13 |access-date=2019-03-11}}

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{{see also|Harvard–Yale Regatta|Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges}}

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 rower Chris Ernst read a statement about the way they were being treated.{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-a-naked-protest-changed-womens-rowing-forever-215616599.html |title=How a naked protest changed women's rowing forever |publisher=Sports.yahoo.com |date=2016-08-13 |access-date=2019-03-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1992-05-24-0000201585-story.html|title=YALE HEARD NAKED TRUTH IN PROTEST|website=Hartford Courant|date=May 24, 1992 }} This protest was noted by newspapers around the world, including The New York Times. By 1977, a women's locker room was added to Yale's boathouse.{{cite web|last=Wulf |first=Steve |url=http://www.espn.com/espnw/title-ix/article/7985418/espn-magazine-1976-protest-helped-define-title-ix-movement |title=ESPN The Magazine - The 1976 protest that helped define Title IX movement |work=Espn.com |date=2012-06-14 |access-date=2019-03-11}} (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.{{Cite book |last=O'Connor |first=Karen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3J_3pDNZlkC&dq=chris+ernst&pg=PA855 |title=Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook |date=2010-08-18 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4129-6083-0 |pages=855 |language=en}}) This protest was chronicled in the 1999 documentary A Hero For Daisy.{{cite web|author=40 minutes |url=https://www.fullframefest.org/film/a-hero-for-daisy/ |title=A Hero for Daisy - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival |publisher=Fullframefest.org |access-date=2019-03-11}}

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The Bulldogs women's soccer team won the NCAA College Cup in 2002, 2004 and 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/schedule|title=General|website=Yale University}} In 2005, the team won a school record 15 games. That year it also won the first outright team Ivy League title in Yale history.

Former coach Rudy Meredith was indicted as part of the 2019 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/28/ex-yale-soccer-coach-pleads-guilty-in-admissions-scandal/|title=Ex-Yale soccer coach pleads guilty in admissions scandal|date=March 29, 2019}} He pled guilty. 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.

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Yale Rugby was founded in 1875, making it one of the oldest rugby teams in North America.E Digby Baltzell, "Goodbye To All That," Society 31, no. 2 (January 1994): 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02693217{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyrugby.com/yale-rugby/yale-men |title=Yale University Rugby Football Club |publisher=Ivyrugby.com |access-date=2015-07-16}} The date refers to the first Harvard vs Yale contest held in 1875, two years after the inaugural Princeton–Yale football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold to a rugby-style game.{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.171.html/2005/important-sports-memorabilia-and-cards-n08155|title=First Harvard versus Yale Football Game Program, 1875 - lot - Sotheby's|work=sothebys.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html|title=Year by Year 1875|work=theunbalancedline.com}} The next season Curtis was captain.{{cite web|url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center|title=Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - All-Time Football Captains|work=Harvard|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-date=2013-02-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216043845/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center|url-status=dead}} He took one look at Walter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."{{cite news|url=http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html|date=September 8, 1962|title=Camp Curbed the Carnage|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19751121&id=mLgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4gkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1131,4642309&hl=en|title=Star-News - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com}}

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.E Digby Baltzell, "Goodbye To All That," Society 31, no. 2 (January 1994): 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02693217{{cite web|url=http://www.ivyrugby.com/yale-rugby/yale-men|title=Yale University Rugby Football Club – Ivy Rugby Conference|website=ivyrugby.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716151925/http://www.ivyrugby.com/yale-rugby/yale-men|archive-date=July 16, 2015|df=mdy-all}} President George W. Bush played rugby for Yale during his student days.[https://archive.today/20130411064947/http://www.latimes.com/la-badboy_i27hnikf,0,2687743.photo George W. Bush, left, playing rugby]

Yale has 29 NCAA team national championships.{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-05-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320185655/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |archive-date=March 20, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}

• Men's (27)
• Golf ^† (21): 1897, 1898, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1943
• Ice Hockey (1): 2013
• Lacrosse (1): 2018
• Swimming (4): 1942, 1944, 1951, 1953
• Women's (2)
• Fencing (2): 1984, 1985

;Notable alumni

• Sada Jacobson (born 1983), Olympic fencing saber silver and bronze medalist, and 2-time NCAA champion.

† 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.

• see also:
• Ivy League NCAA team championships
• List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships

• List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships
• 2019 college admissions bribery scandal

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