Editing Connecticut (section)

===College sports===

[[File:Yale-Harvard-Game.jpg|upright=1.15|thumb|Yale Bowl during "[[Harvard-Yale football games (The Game)|The Game]]" between Yale and Harvard. The Bowl was also the home of the [[NFL]]'s [[New York Giants]] in 1973–74.]]

The [[Connecticut Huskies]] are the team of the University of Connecticut (UConn); they play [[NCAA Division I]] sports. Both the [[Connecticut Huskies men's basketball|men's basketball]] and [[Connecticut Huskies women's basketball|women's basketball]] teams have won multiple national championships. In 2004, UConn became the first school in NCAA Division{{nbsp}}I history to have its men's and women's basketball programs win the national title in the same year; they repeated the feat in 2014 and are still the only Division{{nbsp}}I school to win both titles in the same year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Veilleux |first=Richard |title=Twin National Championships Are A First in Division I Basketball |url=http://advance.uconn.edu/2004/040412/04041201.htm |access-date=September 10, 2015 |work=UConn Advance |date=April 12, 2004 |archive-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914001135/http://advance.uconn.edu/2004/040412/04041201.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Nate |title=Connecticut women and men make basketball history (again) |url=http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/connecticut-men-women-basketball-national-championship |access-date=September 10, 2015 |work=USA Today |date=April 8, 2014 |archive-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914063231/http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/04/connecticut-men-women-basketball-national-championship |url-status=live }}</ref> The UConn women's basketball team holds the record for the longest consecutive winning streak in NCAA college basketball at 111 games, a streak that ended in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/sports/ncaabasketball/uconn-huskies-mississippi-state-bulldogs-final-four.html|title=Connecticut's 111-Game Winning Streak Ends With Loss to Mississippi State|last=Longman|first=Jeré|date=April 1, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 6, 2017|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201140555/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/sports/ncaabasketball/uconn-huskies-mississippi-state-bulldogs-final-four.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Both teams play in the historic [[Harry A. Gampel Pavilion]] and [[XL Center]] in Hartford. The [[UConn Huskies football team]] has played in the [[Football Bowl Subdivision]] since 2002, and has played in four bowl games.

New Haven biennially hosts "[[Harvard–Yale football rivalry|The Game]]" between the [[Yale Bulldogs]] and the [[Harvard Crimson]], the country's second-oldest college football rivalry. Yale alumnus [[Walter Camp]] is deemed the "Father of American Football", and he helped develop modern football while living in New Haven.<ref>{{College Football HoF|id=2080|name=Walter Camp}}</ref> Other Connecticut universities which feature Division{{nbsp}}I sports teams are [[Quinnipiac Bobcats|Quinnipiac University]], [[Fairfield Stags|Fairfield University]], [[Central Connecticut Blue Devils|Central Connecticut State University]] and [[Sacred Heart Pioneers|Sacred Heart University]].