Editing Occidental College (section)

==Athletics==
{{Main|Occidental Tigers}}
Occidental is one of the five schools that founded the [[Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] (SCIAC) in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and [[NCAA Division III]]. Occidental features 21 varsity sports teams and a program of club sports and intramural competition. Approximately 25 percent of the student body participates in a varsity sports program.<ref name="Occidental College Athletics">{{cite news
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During the 2006–2007 athletic season, the Tigers [[Cross country running|cross country]], [[American football]] and [[basketball]] teams were [[Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] champions. In 2014, diver Jessica Robson set the [[Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] records for both 1m and 3m diving.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thesciac.org/sports/wswimdive/2013-14/releases/20140303lf748p|title=SCIAC Is Proud To Announce Women's Swimming and Diving All-Conference|date=March 3, 2014|website=SCIAC|access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> The school's Blackshirts [[Rugby union]] team was also league champion for the first time in five years. In 2011, Jeremy Castro ('99) and Patrick Guthrie ('86) steered the squad to a NSCRO final, falling to [[Longwood University]] 36–27 in [[Virginia Beach]], [[Virginia]]. In addition the college has a dance team that also performs at every home football and basketball game.<ref name="Occidental College Athletics"/>

Occidental athletics date back to 1894, when the college helped organize the first intercollegiate athletic competition in Southern California.<ref>Rolle, Andrew (1986) Occidental College: A Centennial History, p. 14</ref> Since then, Oxy has produced more than a dozen Olympians, world-record holders, and national champions, including 1935 national girls' tennis champion Pat Henry Yeomans '38, two-time diving gold medalist [[Sammy Lee (diver)|Sammy Lee]] '43, and pole vault silver medalist [[Bob Gutowski]] '57.

Occidental has long-standing football rivalries with [[Pomona College]] and [[Occidental–Whittier football rivalry|Whittier College]]; the Tigers have played both the Sagehens and the Poets over 100 times. In 1982, the Occidental College football team had the rare opportunity for national prominence when, due to the [[1982 National Football League season|1982 National Football League strike]], their game with [[San Diego Toreros football|San Diego]] was broadcast on national television. In 2017, Occidental cancelled the remainder of its football season due to lack of healthy players, as few as 30 in some cases. The team forfeited two games and was outscored in the other three 170–19. The Tigers played nine games in 2019, finishing with a 1–8 record. It was the final season for the Tigers football team. The school dropped football in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://footballscoop.com/news/d-iii-program-has-decided-to-drop-football/|title = D-III program has decided to drop football| date=October 14, 2020 }}</ref>

In 2011, Occidental College lost a basketball game to [[Caltech]] with a score of 46 to 45 giving the [[Caltech Beavers]] their first conference win in 26 years and putting an end to their 310-game losing streak.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/ncb/columns/story?id=6153222 |title=The Caltech Beavers men's basketball team finally solves equation |website=[[ESPN]] |date=February 24, 2011 |access-date=July 15, 2017}}</ref>

In 2019, the Occidental Men's Basketball Team reached the SCIAC championship game, ultimately losing to Pomona Pitzer in the Tournament Championship game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=WHARTON |first=DAVID |date=February 28, 2019 |title=As the likes of USC and UCLA have struggled, tiny Pomona-Pitzer has big basketball dreams |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-pomona-pitzer-ncaa-basketball-20190227-story.html |access-date=February 1, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

Famous Occidental College Tigers include NFL coach [[Jim E. Mora]], former American Football League Most Valuable Player and politician [[Jack Kemp]], former NFL player [[Vance Mueller]], 2011 U.S. Senior Open Champion [[Olin Browne]], CFL Quarterback [[Bryan James Scott]] ([[Toronto Argonauts]]) and CFL player [[Justin Goltz]] ([[Winnipeg Blue Bombers]]).