| 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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The Yale Bulldogs are the college sports teams that represent Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. 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, one in men's hockey, one in men's lacrosse, and 16 in sailing.
Originally inspired by varsity matches between Oxford University and Cambridge University in England, Yale and Harvard influenced the development of college sports in the United States.[2]
In 1970 the NCAA banned Yale from participating in all NCAA sports for two years, in reaction to Yale—against the wishes of the NCAA—playing Jack Langer in college games after Langer had played for Team United States at the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel with the approval of Yale President Kingman Brewster.[3][4][5][6] The decision impacted 300 Yale students, every Yale student on its sports teams, over the next two years.[7]
- ^ "Yale Athletics Brand Guidelines" (PDF). December 1, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
- ^ Smith, Ronald Austin (1988). Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-time College Athletics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506582-4.
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.
- ^ "Cross Campus". Yale Daily News. January 15, 2009.
- ^ "YALE STORM CENTER QUITS BASKETBALL". The New York Times. October 9, 1970.
- ^ Gordon S. White Jr. (January 16, 1970). "RULING TO EXTEND TO ALL ELI SPORTS; Penalty Stems From Yale's Unwavering Stand to Use an Ineligible Player". The New York Times.
- ^ President's Commission on Olympic Sports (1977). The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Rationale for the Student-Athletes Bill of Rights", June 25, 2002.