Editing Brown University (section)

==Athletics==
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[[File:The 1879 Brown University Baseball Team.jpg|left|thumb|The 1879 Brown baseball varsity, with [[William Edward White|W.E. White]] seated second from right. White's appearance in an 1879 major league game may be the first person of color to play professional baseball, 68 years before [[Jackie Robinson]].<ref>Robert Siegel, "Black Baseball Pioneer William White's 1879 Game," National Public Radio, broadcast January 30, 2004 (audio at npr.org)</ref><ref>Stefan Fatsis, "Mystery of Baseball: Was William White Game's First Black?" ''Wall Street Journal'', January 30, 2004 (online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB107541676333815810)</ref><ref>Peter Morris and Stefan Fatsis, "Baseball's Secret Pioneer: William Edward White, the first black player in major-league history," ''Slate'', February 4, 2014</ref><ref>Rick Harris, ''Brown University Baseball: A Legacy of the game'' (Charleston: The History Press, 2012), pp. 41–3</ref>]]
Brown is a member of the [[Ivy League]] athletic conference, which is categorized as a [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] (top-level) conference of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA).

The Brown Bears has one of the largest university sports programs in the United States, sponsoring 32 [[varsity team|varsity]] intercollegiate teams.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://brownbears.com/ |title=Brown University Athletics – Official Athletics Website |website=Brown University Athletics |access-date=March 12, 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311113350/https://brownbears.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Brown's athletic program is one of the ''U.S. News & World Report'' top 20—the "College Sports Honor Roll"—based on breadth of the program and athletes' graduation rates. {{Multiple image
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Brown's newest varsity team is women's rugby, promoted from club-sport status in 2014. Brown women's rowing has won 7 national titles between 1999 and 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.brownbears.com/exceptional_bears/nat_champions_teams |title=National Champions (Teams) |work=Brown |access-date=2018-05-16 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517152633/http://www.brownbears.com/exceptional_bears/nat_champions_teams |archive-date=May 17, 2018 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Brown University Rowing|Brown men's rowing]] perennially finishes in the top 5 in the nation, most recently winning silver, bronze, and silver in the national championship races of 2012, 2013, and 2014. The men's and women's crews have also won championship trophies at the [[Henley Royal Regatta]] and the [[Henley Women's Regatta]]. Brown's men's soccer is consistently ranked in the top 20<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brown Men's College Soccer {{!}} News {{!}} Scores {{!}} Standings {{!}} Rankings |url=http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-soccer-details/men/brown/clgid-425 |access-date=2021-07-02 |website=TopDrawerSoccer.com |language=en |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725151039/https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-soccer-details/men/brown/clgid-425 |url-status=live}}</ref> and has won 18 Ivy League titles overall; recent{{when|date=October 2014}} soccer graduates play professionally in [[Major League Soccer]] and overseas.

Brown football, under its most successful coach historically, [[Phil Estes]], won Ivy League championships in 1999, 2005, and 2008. high-profile alumni of the football program include former [[Houston Texans]] head coach [[Bill O'Brien (American football)|Bill O'Brien]]; former [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] football coach [[Joe Paterno]], [[Heisman Trophy]] namesake [[John W. Heisman]], and Pollard Award namesake [[Fritz Pollard]].

Brown women's gymnastics won the Ivy League tournament in 2013 and 2014. The Brown women's sailing team has won 5 national championships, most recently in 2019<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collegesailing.org/hall-of-fame/regattas/miller-trophy |title=ICSA {{!}} Inter-collegiate Sailing Association |website=collegesailing.org |access-date=2019-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412191815/https://collegesailing.org/hall-of-fame/regattas/miller-trophy |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> while the coed sailing team won 2 national championships in 1942 and 1948.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collegesailing.org/hall-of-fame/regattas/henry-a.-morss-memorial-trophy |title=ICSA {{!}} Inter-collegiate Sailing Association |website=collegesailing.org |access-date=2019-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412191807/https://collegesailing.org/hall-of-fame/regattas/henry-a.-morss-memorial-trophy |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Both teams are consistency ranked in the top 10 in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collegesailing.org/racing/sw-rankings |title=ICSA {{!}} Inter-collegiate Sailing Association |website=collegesailing.org |access-date=2019-05-27 |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512055908/https://collegesailing.org/racing/sw-rankings |url-status=live}}</ref>

The first intercollegiate ice hockey game in America was played between Brown and Harvard on January 19, 1898.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Harvard University]] |url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mice/1897-98/schedule |title=Harvard 1897–98 Men's Ice Hockey Schedule |access-date=August 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325091430/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mice/1897-98/schedule |archive-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> The first university rowing regatta larger than a dual-meet was held between Brown, Harvard, and Yale at [[Lake Quinsigamond]] in Massachusetts on July 26, 1859.<ref>Robert B. Johnson, ''A History of Rowing in America'' (1871), pp. 60–1</ref><ref name=":7" />

Brown also supports competitive intercollegiate club sports, including [[ultimate (sport)|ultimate frisbee]]. The men's ultimate team, Brownian Motion, has won four national championships, in 2000, 2005, 2019 and 2024.<ref>{{cite web |title=2000 College |url=http://www.usaultimate.org/archives/2000_college.aspx |website=USAultimate.org |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324204351/http://www.usaultimate.org/archives/2000_college.aspx |archive-date=March 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>