Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Sports ==
[[File:Briarcliff International Road Race.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|alt=Spectators around an intersection|Spectators in the village center, gathered for the [[First American International Road Race|1908 race]]]]
{{See also|Briarcliff High School}}

Briarcliff High School offers [[intramural sports]] and fields [[junior varsity]] and [[Varsity team|varsity]] teams in sixteen sports as the Briarcliff Bears. During the 38 years that Pace University operated its [[Briarcliff College|Briarcliff campus]], it maintained fourteen intercollegiate varsity sports teams which played at the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]'s (NCAA) [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] level.<ref name="PaceSports"/>

Briarcliff Manor has a history of auto racing. The [[First American International Road Race]] was hosted by the village on April 24, 1908.<ref name="YorktownRace"/> The course went throughout Westchester, starting and finishing in Briarcliff Manor. The prize trophy donated by Walter Law was valued at $10,000 (${{inflation|US|10000|1908|r=-2|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}{{Inflation-fn|US}}).<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|pages=82–3}} The winner, [[Lewis Strang]] in an [[Isotta Fraschini]], covered the {{convert|259|mi}} in five hours and fourteen minutes.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=12}}<ref name="YorktownRace"/><ref name="NYTAuto"/> More than 300,000 people watched the race throughout Westchester County, and the village had more than 100,000 visitors that day.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=83}}

On November 12, 1934, the [[Sports Car Club of America|Automobile Racing Club of America]] held another road race in Briarcliff Manor. It was the first amateur race in the United States, hosted by the wealthy Collier family of nearby Pocantico Hills. Brothers [[Sam Collier|Sam]], Miles, and Barron Jr. had begun hosting informal races in the area in the early 1930s, and formed the racing club in 1933. The 1934 race was won by Langdon Quimby, driving a [[Willys 77]], in a time of two hours and seven minutes on the {{convert|100|mi|adj=on}} course. The race was held again on June 23, 1935; Quimby won again, four minutes faster than the previous year.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=84}} In 1977, during the village's 75th anniversary, fifteen old racing cars participated in a motorcade around the 1934 race's route.<ref name="Motorcade"/> In 2008, the village commemorated the first race's centennial in a parade featuring about 60 antique cars.<ref name="NYTAuto"/>