Yale Bulldogs
| Yale Bulldogs | |
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| University | Yale University |
| Conference |
Ivy League ECAC Hockey Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Tom Beckett |
| 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 |
| Mascot | Handsome Dan |
| Nickname | Bulldogs |
| Fight song | Down the Field |
| Colors | Yale Blue and White |
| Website | www |
The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of 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.
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. Breslow led the Ivy League with a 2.56 ERA in 2002. 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.
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.
The men's golf team has won 21 collegiate team championships (all except 1943 were bestowed by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association): 1897, 1898 (spring), 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 nine Ivy League championships since the League championship was started in 1975: 1984–85, 1988, 1990–91, 1996–97, 2003, 2011.
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