Dartmouth College athletic teams
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The Dartmouth College Big Green are the varsity and club athletic teams of Dartmouth College
, an American university located in Hanover, New Hampshire
. Dartmouth's teams compete in the Ivy League
conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Division I, as well as in the ECAC Hockey conference. The College offers 34 varsity teams, 17 club sports, and 24 intramural teams. Sports teams are heavily ingrained in the culture of the College and serve as a social outlet, with 75% of the student body participating in some form of athletics.
The students adopted a shade of forest green ("Dartmouth Green") as the school's official color in 1866. Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname "the Indians," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists. This unofficial mascot and team name was used until the early 1970s, when its use came under criticism. In the 1974, the Trustees declared the "use of the [Indian] symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education." Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review
, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades. The new nickname was inspired by The Dartmouth Green
in the center of campus.
games but came up short both times. In 1942
, Dartmouth was runner-up to Stanford University
and lost
to the University of Utah
in 1944.
. They have frequent success at regional and national levels.
Dartmouth won the Ivy League title in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1992 & 1996
In 2006, Dartmouth Women's Lacrosse lost to Northwestern University
, the defending national champion, at the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
.
Darmouth Men's Lacrosse has a mature team with all except for one starter returning from last year's 7-7 season. Last year's team included attack players Ari Sussman and Brian Koch who each scored 27 goals. Sussman was Ivy League rookie of the year in 2007. The defense will be led by Casey Hingten and Andy Gagel, both 3 year starters (Hingten received honorable mention in the Ivy League last year) and Tim McVeigh, a senior. Mike Novosel, a 3 year starter, will start in the goal. Last year Dartmouth won the last two games of the season against highly ranked Princeton and Harvard. Four of their 7 losses were to top 10 ranked teams (Virginia, Duke, Notre Dame, and Cornell). Dartmouth is ranked 28th in the preseason by Inside Lacrosse magazine.
in Enfield, New Hampshire
.
, the Big Green captured their first NCAA national championship in team sports of any kind since 1976 (The figure skating team has won four consecutive national team championships, the cycling team won national collegiate titles in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and in 1992, the men's heavyweight crew team won the varsity 8 at the IRA national championships, but these sports aren't NCAA affiliated). The ski team also captured NCAA titles in 1976 and 1958.
at Dartmouth in 1833 and it has since grown to be the most popular sport at Dartmouth, with over 200 participating. Today, Dartmouth Rowing Club consists of three varsity programs: Men's Heavyweight, Men's Lightweight, and Women's Open-weight. The men's teams compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
(EARC) while the women's team competes in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
(EAWRC).
All teams train out of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse, located on the Connecticut River
and less than a 10 minute walk from campus. The river provides more than 15 miles (24.1 km) of flat rowable water, but teams must deal with the river's late winter thaw. Other facilities include two smaller boathouses, rowing tanks, the varsity weight room, and two erg-rooms.
Teams train for and race in long distance 'head races' in the fall. Because of the frozen river, winter training consists of intense indoor training. The main season is the spring, which consists of shorter 2000m sprint races. The season for both men's heavyweight and lightweight programs culminate in the Eastern Sprints
and IRA
regattas. The women's team competes in the Women's Eastern Sprints
with hopes to qualify for the women's national championship
.
. The swim team competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League, which includes all eight Ivy League
schools and the US Naval Academy. The team’s season begins in mid September and continues until late March, during which the EISL Championships take place. During the season the team has weekly competitions, against EISL member teams as well as several other New England college teams. The team practices and hosts meets in the Dartmouth College Aquatic Facilities' Karl Michael Competition Pool & the Spaulding Pool, both located in Alumni Gymnasium.
The team has a long tradition of success within the league as well as nationally. During the 1930s, the team rose to prominence within the league, garnering multiple championship titles and sending several swimmers and relays to the NCAA Championships. More recently, its 200 freestyle
relay team was ranked in the top 50 in the nation.
In 2002, Dartmouth College was forced to cut both the men’s and women’s swim teams as a result of the schools financial troubles and forced budgetary cuts. The cutting of the swim teams received national attention after a member placed the team on EBay
in an effort to raise money for the team. After significant lobbying and fundraising by students, alumni, and supporters, both the men’s and women’s teams were reinstated under the John C. Glover Fund for the Support of Swimming and Diving. The fund was named after John C. Glover, an all America swimmer for Dartmouth in the class of 1955, who died while training for the Olympics at Yale University
in 1956.
Football Club (or DRFC) was established in 1951 at Dartmouth College. In 1965, the first XV was undefeated and was declared the unofficial national collegiate champion. More recently, the club has enjoyed continued success on a national stage. Dartmouth has reached the Final Four of the national collegiate championship three times since 1980 and narrowly lost in two championship games. Dartmouth first won the New England Championship in 1980 and has repeated numerous times. Dartmouth has also won the Ivy League cup 12 times since it was established in 1969. The Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club (or DWRC) was established in the spring of 1978 and has had nine Ivy League titles.
The clubs dedicated the Corey Ford
Rugby Clubhouse in September, 2005 with matches against Army (DRFC) and Radcliffe (DWRC). The Clubhouse was built into the hillside at the halfway line of Battle Field and Brophy Field, which are separated by a twenty-foot bank. Spectators view games from the deck of the Clubhouse and from the hillside that runs the length of the fields.
The team comprises more than 100 students and often fields more than four sides on a given weekend during the fall term. Most of the members of the club have never been in a rugby game prior to going to Dartmouth, and many have never seen a game.
One of the strengths and strongest traditions of the two clubs are the Annual Tours, the first of which occurred during the 1958-1959 school year when the DRFC toured both England and Southern California. The former team was the first U.S. college rugby team to invade England (one English newspaper describing the event as "the nastiest upset since Bunker Hill"), and Sports Illustrated covered the 7-game tour in its January 19, 1959 issue. In 1962 DRFC toured in Ireland. In 1964 the team toured both Germany and Scotland. Recently the teams have traveled to Ireland, South Africa, Argentina, England, California, and Spain. The DRFC played in the USA Rugby Collegiate Championship game in 1986 and 1988. See the DRFC site here or the Dartmouth Women's Rugby site here.
Dartmouth defeated Army
32-10 for the men's championship in the 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship
. In November 2011 the team captured the Ivy League Sevens Championship.
Ultimate
Frisbee team was first established in 1977 at Dartmouth College
, originally named "The Blossom Brothers." The team's origins and development in many ways parallel the development of the sport of Ultimate
itself. The initially relaxed, informal sport gave way to a more competitive sport, with rules and procedures outlined by the Ultimate Players Association
. In the same way, the Dartmouth team now trains with a combination of track workouts, weight-lifting, plyometrics
, and Ultimate strategies. Although the team is not a varsity or NCAA-recognized team, the intensity of their practices and workouts is similar to that of many varsity sports teams.
The Dartmouth men's ultimate team first gained recognition when it competed in the college National series in 2003. Dartmouth placed low in the series, but since has been a leading presence in the Northeast region. The team's current rivals in the Northeast region are Brownian Motion, Zoo Disc, and Redline, from Brown University
, University of Massachusetts
, and Harvard University
, respectively. In 2008, the team qualified for UPA College Nationals a second time and tied for 13th place.
The Dartmouth women's ultimate team, named Princess Layout, competed in the national series for the first time in 2004 where they tied for 9th place. Since then, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the Northeast region, placing first at Regionals and tying for 11th at Nationals in 2005, and placing first at Regionals and tying for 5th at Nationals in 2006. In 2009, Princess placed second at Regionals and placed 13th at Nationals.
The men's team has experimented with several names over the past two decades: before attending Nationals in 2003, Dartmouth's team name was the Dartmouth Pirates. When attending Nationals in 2003, the team renamed itself "Pain Train," taken from the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
Reebok ads. Current cheers, however, are exceedingly hostile and violent, such as "WOO WOO!", and are sometimes followed by spastic movements that resemble ancient Mayan
battle dances. Currently, three or so members of the men's team are disillusioned with this needless anger, and hope to rename it the "Dartmouth Love Train" for the 2010 season.
Current funding is provided in small part by Dartmouth's club sports fund, while the majority of funds are raised by members and fundraising activities.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, an American university located in Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....
. Dartmouth's teams compete in the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
(NCAA) Division I, as well as in the ECAC Hockey conference. The College offers 34 varsity teams, 17 club sports, and 24 intramural teams. Sports teams are heavily ingrained in the culture of the College and serve as a social outlet, with 75% of the student body participating in some form of athletics.
Nickname, symbol, and mascot
The Dartmouth Review
The Dartmouth Review is a conservative, independent, bi-weekly newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire . It was founded in 1980 by disenchanted staffers—including Gregory Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Ben Hart, and Keeney Jones—from the college's daily newspaper, The Dartmouth. It...
, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades. The new nickname was inspired by The Dartmouth Green
The Green (Dartmouth College)
The Green is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It was among the first parcels of land obtained by the College upon its founding in 1769, and is the only creation of the 18th century...
in the center of campus.
Baseball
Dartmouth has a long and illustrious baseball history. Historically, the teams home games were held at Red Rolfe Field, named in honor of alumnus and former major leaguer, Red Rolfe. In 2009 the field underwent construction and improvements thanks to the generosity of the Biondi family, to found Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. The team marked the completion of the new field with a first Ivy League Championship in 2009, and repeated the feat in 2010.Basketball
Dartmouth College competed in two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball ChampionshipNCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...
games but came up short both times. In 1942
1942 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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, Dartmouth was runner-up to Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and lost
1944 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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to the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
in 1944.
Cycling
The Dartmouth Cycling Team was founded in 1961 and has become one of the most successful club sports at the College. The team races in Division II and has won three national titles, most recently in 2004. Additionally, Dartmouth Cycling has had several Individual National Champions most recently in 2010. Throughout its history, the Dartmouth Cycling team has won the Ivy League Title seven times, most recently in 2010. The Team is a group of students (undergrad and graduate) who enjoy cycling. The team rides and races together on a regular basis, and runs the gamut of skill experience from expert to Cat. 5. While the spring Eastern Conference Road season is the main focus, Dartmouth cycling also regularly sends riders to Fall Mountain Bike and Cyclocross races.Equestrian
The Dartmouth co-ed Equestrian team is based at Morton Farm in Etna, New HampshireEtna, New Hampshire
Etna, originally named "Mill Village," is a small village within the town of Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is located in southwestern Grafton County, approximately east of Hanover's downtown and south of the village of Hanover Center, on Mink Brook...
. They have frequent success at regional and national levels.
Football
In 1925, Dartmouth was recognized as a national champion by completing an 8-0 undefeated season.Dartmouth won the Ivy League title in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1992 & 1996
Lacrosse
In 2003, Dartmouth's Men's Lacrosse team posted one of the most famous upsets in lacrosse history when unranked Dartmouth played #2 Princeton at Princeton's Class of 1952 Field. Dartmouth, having finished last in the Ivy League in 2002, were ten goal underdogs against Princeton, the defending Ivy League champs going into the game. Nevertheless Dartmouth prevailed and stunned the Tigers 13-6. Dartmouth went on to win the Ivy League title and qualify for the NCAA tournament.In 2006, Dartmouth Women's Lacrosse lost to Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, the defending national champion, at the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The annual NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship tournament determines the top women's lacrosse team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III....
.
Darmouth Men's Lacrosse has a mature team with all except for one starter returning from last year's 7-7 season. Last year's team included attack players Ari Sussman and Brian Koch who each scored 27 goals. Sussman was Ivy League rookie of the year in 2007. The defense will be led by Casey Hingten and Andy Gagel, both 3 year starters (Hingten received honorable mention in the Ivy League last year) and Tim McVeigh, a senior. Mike Novosel, a 3 year starter, will start in the goal. Last year Dartmouth won the last two games of the season against highly ranked Princeton and Harvard. Four of their 7 losses were to top 10 ranked teams (Virginia, Duke, Notre Dame, and Cornell). Dartmouth is ranked 28th in the preseason by Inside Lacrosse magazine.
Ice hockey
Sailing
Boat racing since 1932, the Dartmouth College Sailing Team continues to hold its spot as one of the best in the country. They sailing team has won 3 National Championships and has over 52 All-American sailors. They compete in the fall and spring. The sailing team practices on Mascoma LakeMascoma Lake
Mascoma Lake is a lake in western New Hampshire, United States. Most of the lake is located within the town of Enfield, while a small portion is within the city of Lebanon, where it drains into the Mascoma River, a tributary of the Connecticut River....
in Enfield, New Hampshire
Enfield, New Hampshire
Enfield is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,582 at the 2010 census. The town includes the villages of Enfield, Enfield Center, Upper Shaker Village, Lower Shaker Village, Lockehaven, and Montcalm....
.
Skiing
At the 2007 NCAA Skiing ChampionshipsNCAA Skiing team championship
The NCAA Skiing Championships are held annually to crown the National Collegiate Athletic Association combined men's and women's team skiing champion...
, the Big Green captured their first NCAA national championship in team sports of any kind since 1976 (The figure skating team has won four consecutive national team championships, the cycling team won national collegiate titles in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and in 1992, the men's heavyweight crew team won the varsity 8 at the IRA national championships, but these sports aren't NCAA affiliated). The ski team also captured NCAA titles in 1976 and 1958.
Squash
The squash courts are home to the Dartmouth Men's and Women's Squash teams, both of which are perennial competitors in the ivy-league and consistently ranked in the top ten nationally. Thirteen Big Green men and eight women have earned All-Ivy honors since the 1970s. Additionally, with the teams' training and hosting matches on ten international courts in the John Berry Sports Center, Dartmouth has hosted the men's and women's Intercollegiate Squash Association Championships four times - in 1988, 1991, 1997, and 2005 - as well as the national junior championships three times, most recently in 1996.Crew
Students first began rowingSport rowing
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
at Dartmouth in 1833 and it has since grown to be the most popular sport at Dartmouth, with over 200 participating. Today, Dartmouth Rowing Club consists of three varsity programs: Men's Heavyweight, Men's Lightweight, and Women's Open-weight. The men's teams compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges is a college athletic conference of eighteen men's college rowing crews. It is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference .-Members:...
(EARC) while the women's team competes in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
The Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges is an American athletic conference of eighteen women's college rowing crew teams. The conference is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference .-Members:*Boston College...
(EAWRC).
All teams train out of the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse, located on the Connecticut River
Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the largest and longest river in New England, and also an American Heritage River. It flows roughly south, starting from the Fourth Connecticut Lake in New Hampshire. After flowing through the remaining Connecticut Lakes and Lake Francis, it defines the border between the...
and less than a 10 minute walk from campus. The river provides more than 15 miles (24.1 km) of flat rowable water, but teams must deal with the river's late winter thaw. Other facilities include two smaller boathouses, rowing tanks, the varsity weight room, and two erg-rooms.
Teams train for and race in long distance 'head races' in the fall. Because of the frozen river, winter training consists of intense indoor training. The main season is the spring, which consists of shorter 2000m sprint races. The season for both men's heavyweight and lightweight programs culminate in the Eastern Sprints
Eastern Sprints
Eastern Sprints refers to the annual rowing championship for the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges . Since 1974, the "Women's Eastern Sprints" has been held as the annual championship for the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges league.*For the women's regatta, see Women's Eastern...
and IRA
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association runs the IRA Championship Regatta, which is considered to be the United States collegiate national championship of rowing. Since 1995, it has been held on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and includes both men's and women's events for sweep boats...
regattas. The women's team competes in the Women's Eastern Sprints
Women's Eastern Sprints
Women's Eastern Sprints refers to the annual rowing championship for the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges league. The teams include all of the Ivy League schools as well as others such as MIT, BU, and Wisconsin....
with hopes to qualify for the women's national championship
NCAA Rowing Championship
The NCAA Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division I, II and III women's heavyweight collegiate crews. It was first held in 1997. In 2002, the NCAA added championships for Division II and Division III. All races are 2,000 meters long...
.
Men's Varsity Swim Team
The men’s varsity swim team at Dartmouth College began in 1920, making it one of the oldest continuous collegiate swim programs in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The swim team competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League, which includes all eight Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
schools and the US Naval Academy. The team’s season begins in mid September and continues until late March, during which the EISL Championships take place. During the season the team has weekly competitions, against EISL member teams as well as several other New England college teams. The team practices and hosts meets in the Dartmouth College Aquatic Facilities' Karl Michael Competition Pool & the Spaulding Pool, both located in Alumni Gymnasium.
The team has a long tradition of success within the league as well as nationally. During the 1930s, the team rose to prominence within the league, garnering multiple championship titles and sending several swimmers and relays to the NCAA Championships. More recently, its 200 freestyle
Freestyle swimming
Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...
relay team was ranked in the top 50 in the nation.
In 2002, Dartmouth College was forced to cut both the men’s and women’s swim teams as a result of the schools financial troubles and forced budgetary cuts. The cutting of the swim teams received national attention after a member placed the team on EBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
in an effort to raise money for the team. After significant lobbying and fundraising by students, alumni, and supporters, both the men’s and women’s teams were reinstated under the John C. Glover Fund for the Support of Swimming and Diving. The fund was named after John C. Glover, an all America swimmer for Dartmouth in the class of 1955, who died while training for the Olympics at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in 1956.
Dartmouth Rugby Football Club
The Dartmouth RugbyRugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
Football Club (or DRFC) was established in 1951 at Dartmouth College. In 1965, the first XV was undefeated and was declared the unofficial national collegiate champion. More recently, the club has enjoyed continued success on a national stage. Dartmouth has reached the Final Four of the national collegiate championship three times since 1980 and narrowly lost in two championship games. Dartmouth first won the New England Championship in 1980 and has repeated numerous times. Dartmouth has also won the Ivy League cup 12 times since it was established in 1969. The Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club (or DWRC) was established in the spring of 1978 and has had nine Ivy League titles.
The clubs dedicated the Corey Ford
Corey Ford
Corey Ford was an American humorist, author, outdoorsman, and screenwriter. He was also friendly with several members of the Algonquin Round Table and occasionally ate lunch there....
Rugby Clubhouse in September, 2005 with matches against Army (DRFC) and Radcliffe (DWRC). The Clubhouse was built into the hillside at the halfway line of Battle Field and Brophy Field, which are separated by a twenty-foot bank. Spectators view games from the deck of the Clubhouse and from the hillside that runs the length of the fields.
The team comprises more than 100 students and often fields more than four sides on a given weekend during the fall term. Most of the members of the club have never been in a rugby game prior to going to Dartmouth, and many have never seen a game.
One of the strengths and strongest traditions of the two clubs are the Annual Tours, the first of which occurred during the 1958-1959 school year when the DRFC toured both England and Southern California. The former team was the first U.S. college rugby team to invade England (one English newspaper describing the event as "the nastiest upset since Bunker Hill"), and Sports Illustrated covered the 7-game tour in its January 19, 1959 issue. In 1962 DRFC toured in Ireland. In 1964 the team toured both Germany and Scotland. Recently the teams have traveled to Ireland, South Africa, Argentina, England, California, and Spain. The DRFC played in the USA Rugby Collegiate Championship game in 1986 and 1988. See the DRFC site here or the Dartmouth Women's Rugby site here.
Dartmouth defeated Army
Army Rugby Football Club
The Army Rugby Football Club was founded in 1961 and for over 40 years has been a leader in USA Collegiate Rugby. The Army Ruggers are West Point’s most winning team....
32-10 for the men's championship in the 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship
2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship
The 2011 USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship was a rugby union sevens tournament. The competition was held from 4-5 June at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The men's tournament featured sixteen teams, whereas the women's tournament featured eight teams....
. In November 2011 the team captured the Ivy League Sevens Championship.
Ultimate Frisbee Team
The DartmouthDartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
Ultimate
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
Frisbee team was first established in 1977 at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, originally named "The Blossom Brothers." The team's origins and development in many ways parallel the development of the sport of Ultimate
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
itself. The initially relaxed, informal sport gave way to a more competitive sport, with rules and procedures outlined by the Ultimate Players Association
Ultimate Players Association
USA Ultimate is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of Ultimate in the United States....
. In the same way, the Dartmouth team now trains with a combination of track workouts, weight-lifting, plyometrics
Plyometrics
Plyometrics is a type of exercise training designed to produce fast, powerful movements, and improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in sports. Plyometric exercises may also be referred to as explosive exercises...
, and Ultimate strategies. Although the team is not a varsity or NCAA-recognized team, the intensity of their practices and workouts is similar to that of many varsity sports teams.
The Dartmouth men's ultimate team first gained recognition when it competed in the college National series in 2003. Dartmouth placed low in the series, but since has been a leading presence in the Northeast region. The team's current rivals in the Northeast region are Brownian Motion, Zoo Disc, and Redline, from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts
This article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...
, and Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, respectively. In 2008, the team qualified for UPA College Nationals a second time and tied for 13th place.
The Dartmouth women's ultimate team, named Princess Layout, competed in the national series for the first time in 2004 where they tied for 9th place. Since then, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the Northeast region, placing first at Regionals and tying for 11th at Nationals in 2005, and placing first at Regionals and tying for 5th at Nationals in 2006. In 2009, Princess placed second at Regionals and placed 13th at Nationals.
The men's team has experimented with several names over the past two decades: before attending Nationals in 2003, Dartmouth's team name was the Dartmouth Pirates. When attending Nationals in 2003, the team renamed itself "Pain Train," taken from the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
Terry Tate: Office Linebacker was a series of short comedy television commercials created by Rawson Marshall Thurber, for Reebok, based on a short film pilot he created in 2000; Tate was first shown at Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003...
Reebok ads. Current cheers, however, are exceedingly hostile and violent, such as "WOO WOO!", and are sometimes followed by spastic movements that resemble ancient Mayan
Maya peoples
The Maya people constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term...
battle dances. Currently, three or so members of the men's team are disillusioned with this needless anger, and hope to rename it the "Dartmouth Love Train" for the 2010 season.
Current funding is provided in small part by Dartmouth's club sports fund, while the majority of funds are raised by members and fundraising activities.
Facilities
| Building | Image | Constructed | Notes | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berry Sports Center |  |
1987 | Berry Sports Center holds racquetball and basketball facilities (Leede Arena Leede Arena Edward Leede Arena is a 2,100-seat, multi-purpose arena in Hanover, New Hampshire. Built in 1986, it is home to the Dartmouth College Big Green basketball team. It is located within the John W... ). |
|
| Boss Tennis Center |  |
2000 | The Alexis Boss Tennis Center, located behind Thompson Arena, contains six regulation tennis courts. The attached Alan Gordon Pavilion provides locker rooms and a lounge. | |
| Burnham Field Burnham Field Burnham Field is a soccer specific stadium located on Dartmouth College and used exclusively for Dartmouth's men's and women's soccer teams. The field was finished in time for the 2007 college soccer season and includes full lighting, 1,600-seat stands, a press box and a level 10 natural grass... |
2007 | Burnham Field, located next to Thompson Arena, hosts men's and women's soccer teams in the 1,600-seat stadium. | ||
| Davis Field House |  |
1926 | Davis Field House, which overlooks the Memorial Field track, is a facility for varsity athletic teams. | |
| Floren Varsity House |  |
2006–2007 | Floren, expected for occupancy in the fall of 2007, will contain a strength training center, a sports classroom, meeting rooms, locker rooms, equipment storage, and team offices. | |
| Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse |  |
1985–1986 | The Boathouse sits on the banks of the Connecticut River, just north of the Ledyard Bridge Ledyard Bridge The Ledyard Bridge crosses the Connecticut River to connect Hanover, New Hampshire to Norwich, Vermont. It is the third bridge at this crossing to bear the name of the adventurer John Ledyard.-History:... . |
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| Leverone Field House |  |
1962–1963 | Designed by Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61... , Leverone contains an indoor track and tennis courts. |
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| Memorial Field |  |
1921–1923 | Memorial Field, Dartmouth's football and track & field stadium, was built on the site of previous athletic grandstands. It is named in memory of the Dartmouth alumni who died in World War I World War I World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918... . |
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| Thompson Arena Thompson Arena Rupert C. Thompson Arena is a 3,500-seat hockey arena in Hanover, New Hampshire. It is home to the Dartmouth College Big Green men's and women's ice hockey teams. The barrel-vaulted, reinforced concrete arena was designed by renowned architect Pier Luigi Nervi. It was named for Rupert C... |
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1975 | Thompson Arena, Dartmouth's hockey facility, was also designed by Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61... . |
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| The Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse | 2005 | The CFRC is the home of the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club and the Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club. | ||
| Jonathan Belden Daniels Climbing Gym | [image needed] | 1995 | The Jonathan Belden Daniels Climbing Gym houses annual intra- and inter-collegiate bouldering competitions as well as a collection of elite-level sport and trad climbers. |