Editing Yale University (section)

===Athletics===
{{Main|Yale Bulldogs}}
[[File:Yale-Harvard-Game.jpg|thumb|The [[Yale Bowl]], the college football stadium]]

Yale supports 35 varsity athletic teams that compete in the [[Ivy League]] Conference, the [[Eastern College Athletic Conference]], and the [[New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association]]. Yale athletic teams compete intercollegiately at the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] Division&nbsp;I level. Like other members of the Ivy League, Yale does not offer athletic scholarships.

Yale has numerous athletic facilities, including the [[Yale Bowl]] (the nation's first natural "bowl" stadium, and prototype for such stadiums as the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] and the [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]]), located at The [[Walter Camp]] Field athletic complex, and the [[Payne Whitney Gymnasium]], the second-largest indoor athletic complex in the world.<ref>''[[Yale Herald]]'': [http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2000/field/p78payne.html "House of Payne gets ready for the new millennium." Retrieved April 9, 2007.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904041436/http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/frosh/2000/field/p78payne.html |date=September 4, 2009}}</ref>

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 its Jewish center [[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]].<ref name="auto11a">{{Cite web|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2009/01/15/cross-campus-01-15-09/|title=Cross Campus|date=January 15, 2009|website=Yale Daily News}}</ref><ref name="autoa">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/09/archives/yale-storm-center-quits-basketball.html|title=YALE STORM CENTER QUITS BASKETBALL|date=October 9, 1970|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="auto3a">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/16/archives/ruling-to-extend-to-all-eli-sports-penalty-stems-from-yales.html|title=RULING TO EXTEND TO ALL ELI SPORTS; Penalty Stems From Yale's Unwavering Stand to Use an Ineligible Player|date=January 16, 1970|author=Gordon S. White Jr.|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="auto12a">President's Commission on Olympic Sports (1977). [https://books.google.com/books?id=B6BBAbwO5AgC&dq=%22jack+langer%22+%22Yale%22+basketball+-plumbing&pg=PA49 ''The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports''], U.S. Government Printing Office.</ref> The decision impacted 300 Yale students, every Yale student on its sports teams, over the next two years.<ref name="auto15a">[http://www.bobtimmons.net/billofrights.pdf “Rationale for the Student-Athletes Bill of Rights”], June 25, 2002.</ref>

In 2016, the men's basketball team won the Ivy League Championship title for the first time in 54 years, earning a spot in the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament]]. In the first round of the tournament, the Bulldogs beat the [[Baylor Bears]] 79–75 in the school's first-ever tournament win.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amny.com/sports/photos/yale-men-s-basketball-stuns-baylor-in-march-madness-1.11588208|title=Yale stuns Baylor in NCAA Tournament|date=March 17, 2016|access-date=August 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911080755/http://www.amny.com/sports/photos/yale-men-s-basketball-stuns-baylor-in-march-madness-1.11588208|archive-date=September 11, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Walter Camp Gate 1.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Walter Camp]] Gate at the Yale Athletic Complex]]

In May 2018, the men's lacrosse team defeated the [[Duke Blue Devils]] to claim their first-ever [[NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/lacrosse-men/article/2018-05-28/2018-ncaa-college-lacrosse-championship-yale-takes-down-duke|title=Yale takes down Duke for program's first national title|date=May 28, 2018|website=NCAA.com|access-date=May 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530034843/https://www.ncaa.com/news/lacrosse-men/article/2018-05-28/2018-ncaa-college-lacrosse-championship-yale-takes-down-duke|archive-date=May 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and were the first Ivy League school to win the title since the [[Princeton Tigers]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23633366|title=Yale gets past Duke for first lacrosse title|date=May 28, 2018|website=ESPN|access-date=May 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604054229/http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23633366|archive-date=June 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Yale crew is the oldest collegiate athletic team in America, and won [[Olympics|Olympic Games]] [[Gold Medal]] for men's eights in 1924 and 1956. The [[Yale Corinthian Yacht Club]], founded in 1881, is the oldest collegiate [[sailing (sport)|sailing]] club in the world. October 21, 2000, marked the dedication of Yale's fourth new boathouse in 157&nbsp;years of collegiate rowing. The [[Gilder Boathouse]] is named to honor former Olympic rower Virginia Gilder&nbsp;'79 and her father [[Richard Gilder]]&nbsp;'54, who gave {{USD|4 million|long=no}} towards the {{USD|7.5 million|long=no}} project. Yale also maintains the [[Gales Ferry]] site where the heavyweight men's team trains for the [[Yale-Harvard Boat Race]].

In 1896, Yale and [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] played the first known [[ice hockey]] game in the United States. Since 2006, the school's ice hockey clubs have played a commemorative game.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/clubhockey/teamhistory.html |title=Yale Club Ice Hockey |website=Yale.edu |date=October 19, 2007 |access-date=September 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417115828/http://www.yale.edu/clubhockey/teamhistory.html |archive-date=April 17, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Yale students claim to have invented [[Frisbee]], by tossing empty [[Frisbie Pie Company]] tins.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2007/nov/05/local-pie-tin-first-frisbee-legend-holds/|title=Local pie tin first Frisbee, legend holds|publisher=Yale Daily News|access-date=September 1, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082521/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2007/nov/05/local-pie-tin-first-frisbee-legend-holds/|archive-date=June 6, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=843&q=246434|title=About Connecticut: General Description and Facts|publisher=Connecticut State Government|access-date=September 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184717/http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/cwp/view.asp?a=843&q=246434|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Yale athletics are supported by the [[Yale Precision Marching Band]]. "Precision" is used here ironically; the band is a scatter-style band that runs wildly between formations rather than actually marching.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.yale.edu/yaleband/ypmb/faq.html|title= Yale Precision Marching Band Frequently Asked Questions|access-date= December 14, 2009|quote= "The YPMB is one of twelve scatter-style marching bands in the country....Between formations we run around wildly.|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091225104413/http://www.yale.edu/yaleband/ypmb/faq.html|archive-date= December 25, 2009}}</ref> The band attends every home football game and many away, as well as most hockey and basketball games throughout the winter.

Yale intramural sports are also a significant aspect of student life. Students compete for their respective residential colleges, fostering a friendly rivalry. The year is divided into fall, winter, and spring seasons, each of which includes about 10 different sports. About half the sports are coeducational. At the end of the year, the residential college with the most points (not all sports count equally) wins the Tyng Cup.

====Song====
Notable among the songs commonly played and sung at events such as [[graduation|commencement]], [[convocation]], alumni gatherings, and athletic games is the alma mater, "[[Bright College Years]]". Despite its popularity, "[[Boola Boola]]" is not the official [[fight song]], albeit being the origin of the university's unofficial motto. The official Yale fight song, "Bulldog" was written by [[Cole Porter]] during his undergraduate days and is sung after touchdowns during a football game.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yale Fight Songs|url=https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/yale-precision-marching-band/music/yale-fight-songs|access-date=December 8, 2020|website=bands.yalecollege.yale.edu}}</ref> Additionally, two other songs, "Down the Field" by C.W. O'Conner, and "Bingo Eli Yale", also by Cole Porter, are still sung at football games. According to ''College Fight Songs: An Annotated Anthology'' published in 1998, "Down the Field" ranks as the fourth-greatest fight song of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Victory March rated No. 1 college fight song|url=http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/6427-victory-march-rated-no-1-college-fight-song/|website=University of Notre Dame News|date=October 21, 1998 |access-date=September 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123021503/http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/6427-victory-march-rated-no-1-college-fight-song/|archive-date=November 23, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Mascot====
The school [[mascot]] is "[[Handsome Dan]]", the Yale [[bulldog]], and the Yale fight song contains the refrain, "Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow". The school color, since 1894, is [[Yale Blue]].<ref>(prior to 1894, Yale's color was green) (see: {{cite web|url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2002/10/true-blue/|title=True Blue|first=Ellen|last=Thompson|publisher=The New Journal|date=October 1, 2002|access-date=January 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113220312/http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2002/10/true-blue/|archive-date=January 13, 2013|url-status=dead}})</ref> Yale's Handsome Dan is believed to be the first college mascot in America, having been established in 1889.<ref name = "YaleBulldogs">{{cite web | url = http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/mascot.html | title = History of the Yale Bulldog "Handsome Dan" | work = Yale Bulldogs | access-date =June 8, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070605212605/http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/mascot.html |archive-date = June 5, 2007}}</ref>