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The Cornell Big Red is the name of the sports teams, and other competitive teams, at Cornell University. The men's and women's Big Red teams are NCAA Division I teams that compete in the Ivy League. The university sponsors 36 varsity sports, as well as numerous intramural and club teams.

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Other conferences afilliations

The men's and women's hockey teams compete in the ECAC Hockey League. Additionally, the Big Red are members of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association, the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association, the Collegiate Sprint Football League, and the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges.

Facilities

The football, lacrosse, & sprint football teams play in Schoellkopf Field, which has a capacity of 25,597. The ice hockey teams play in Lynah Rink, which has a capacity of 4,267. Other campus facilities include a Robert Trent Jones (a Cornell alumnus) designed golf course, baseball's Hoy Field, the Niemand•Robison Softball Field, the Oxley Equestrian Center, and numerous fields and gymnasiums. The athletic playing fields are known as the "Alumni Fields" because the Cornell Alumni Association funded the grading and development of these fields in exchange for a promise that they would remain in perpetuity. A subsequent land swap resulted in giving the Agriculture College building sites at the east end of the fields in exchange for the site of what became Schoellkopf Field and Hoy Field. ^[1] The Alumni Fields became the site of an underground Synchrotron Laboratory. ^[2]

History

right Cornell's teams did not have an official name until after 1905, when a recent graduate, Romeyn Berry '04 wrote lyrics for a new football song. The lyrics included the words "the big, red team," and the nickname stuck. ^[3]

Cornell does not have an official mascot, however the bear has long been a symbol of Cornell Athletics. In 1915, a live bear named Touchdown first appeared at football games to represent Cornell. The current version, which appears at many of Cornell's sporting events, is a brown bear costume (the live bear was replaced in 1939) that is worn by an undergraduate student; it is referred to as the "Big Red Bear" or by its nickname, "Touchdown."

Cornell's colors, carnelian red and white, date back to the university's Inauguration Day on October 7, 1868. ^[4]

Many of Cornell's athletic directors have made substantial contributions to collegiate athletics in general, including Romeyn Berry, James Lynah, and Robert Kane.

Rivalries

The men's ice hockey team has a historic rivalry with Boston University, but, since BU left what became the ECAC Hockey conference to join Hockey East, this rivalry has been overshadowed by the more contemporary one with Harvard University, which was highlighted in the 1970 novel Love Story and its film adaptation. The men's ice hockey team also has rivalries with Clarkson and Colgate.

In football, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania have a rivalry that has witnessed over 110 games played between the schools since their first meeting in 1893, rating as the 5th most-played rivalry in college football. The two teams play for the Trustee Cup.

For men's lacrosse, Cornell and Princeton University have historically been the perennial favorites in the Ivy League and the Princeton game is usually the most anticipated Ivy-game. Fellow upstate schools Syracuse University and Hobart are also considered Cornell's lacrosse rivals.

In polo, the men's and women's team both enjoy a rivalry with the University of Virginia and the University of Connecticut. Additionally, in Women's Equestrian Skidmore College is a constant rival.

Off note, Cornell's football series against both the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College are tied for the second-longest uninterrupted college football matchup, both dating back to 1919. They are only surpassed by the Lehigh-Lafayette series, which is uninterrupted since 1897.

Varsity sports

Championship Teams

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Baseball
*Ivy 1939, 1940, 1943, 1952, 1972, 1977
Men's Basketball
*Ivy 1988 ^[5], 2008, 2009 ^[6]
Women's Basketball
*Ivy 2008 ^[7]
Football
*National 1915, 1921, 1922, 1939 ^[8] ^[9]
*Ivy 1971, 1988, 1990
Sprint Football
*CSFL 1975(Co-Champs), 1978, 1982, 1984(Tri-Champs), 1986(Tri-Champs), 2006
Field Hockey
*Ivy 1991
Men's Ice Hockey
*NCAA 1967, 1970
*ECAC 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005
*Ivy 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
*Ned Harkness Cup 2003, 2005, 2008
Women's Ice Hockey
*Ivy 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1996
Men's Lacrosse
*NCAA 1971, 1976, 1977
*Ivy 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Women's Lacrosse
*Ivy 2006
Men's Polo
*National 1937, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1992, 2005
Women's Polo
*National 1979, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's Heavyweight Crew Cornell's Crews have won more RAAC (12 of 21)(1871-1894) and IRA National Championships (26) than any other University, most recently:
*IRA National 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1977, 1981, 1982 ^[10]
*Eastern Sprints 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963
Men's Lightweight Crew
*IRA National 1992, 2006, 2007 ^[11] 2008 ^[12]
*Eastern Sprints 1949, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1992, 2006, 2008
Women's Crew
*IRA National 1989
Men's Soccer
*Ivy 1975, 1977, 1995
Women's Soccer
*Ivy 1987, 1991
Softball
*Ivy 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009
Volleyball
*Ivy 1991, 1992, 1993, 2004, 2005, 2006
Men's Swimming
*EISL Dual-Meet 1984 [Co-Champions], 2007