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Encyclopedia > Chicago Maroons

The University of Chicago's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Maroons (after the color), and they compete in the NCAA's Division III. They are primarily members of the University Athletic Association and were co-founders of the Big Ten Conference in 1895. The team colors are maroon and white, and the Phoenix is their mascot. Stagg Field is the home stadium for the football team. The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Maroon is a color mixture composed of brown and purple. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division III consists of institutions who recognize that collegiate athletics can be an integral part of the educational process. ... The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ... Big Ten redirects here. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary. ... Stagg Field was a stadium in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Contents

Mens Athletics

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Swimming & Diving
  • Tennis
  • Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
  • Wrestling

Womens Athletics

  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming & Diving
  • Tennis
  • Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
  • Volleyball

Championships

NCAA Championships

  • Football (poll): 1905 (National Championship Foundation), 1913 (Parke Davis)
  • Mens Gymnastics: 1938 (team title), 9 individual champions
  • Mens Track & Field (Outdoor): 7 individual champions
  • Kris Alden: 1989 Mens Swimming Individual Champion
  • Rhaina Echols: 1999 Womens Cross Country Individual Champion, 2000 Womens Indoor and 2000 Womens Outdoor Individual Track Champion
  • Tom Haxton: 2004 Mens Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion
  • Adeoye Mabogunje: 2004 Mens Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion
  • Peter Wang: 1991 & 1992 Wrestling Individual Champion

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...

University Athletic Association Championships

  • Mens Basketball: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
  • Womens Basketball: 1989
  • Mens Cross Country: 2002, 2004
  • Womens Cross Country: 1993, 1994
  • Football: 1998, 2000, 2005
  • Mens Soccer: 2001
  • Womens Soccer: 1994, 1996, 1999
  • Softball: 1996
  • Mens Track & Field (Indoor): 2002
  • Wrestling: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ...

Big Ten Conference Championships

  • Baseball: 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1913
  • Mens Basketball: 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1924
  • Mens Fencing: 1927-28, 1933-34, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41
  • Football: 1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1922, 1924
  • Mens Golf: 1922, 1924, 1926
  • Mens Gymnastics: 1909, 1914, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932 ,1933, 1934
  • Mens Swimming: 1916, 1919, 1921
  • Mens Tennis: 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939
  • Mens Track & Field (Indoor): 1911, 1915, 1917
  • Mens Track & Field (Outdoor): 1905, 1908, 1917
University of Chicago

Academics Big Ten redirects here. ... The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, with some dormitories on the south end of campus located in Cleveland Heights. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... Emory University is a private university in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... The University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution located in Rochester, New York. ... “Washington University” redirects here. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

Divisions
Biological Sciences • Social Sciences • Physical Sciences • Humanities


Professional Schools
Divinity SchoolGraduate School of BusinessHarris School of Public Policy StudiesLaw SchoolPritzker School of MedicineSchool of Social Services Administration The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. ... The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, also known as Chicago GSB, or simply The GSB, is one of the world’s leading business schools and the second oldest in the United States. ... The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies is one of the nations leading graduate schools devoted to public policy research, analysis, and training. ... The University of Chicago Law School is a part of the University of Chicago. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) is one of the worlds leading school’s for the training of social worker’s, ranking 3rd (US News) and 1st according to the (Gourman Report). ...


Other Academic/Research Institutions
The CollegeArgonne National Laboratory • Graham School of General Studies • FermilabLaboratory SchoolsUniversity of Chicago HospitalsYerkes Observatory The College is the sole undergraduate institution and one of the oldest components of the University of Chicago, emerging contemporaneously with the university at large in 1892. ... Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States governments oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the largest in the Midwest. ... Fermilabs Tevatron Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, (Google Sat Map) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ... The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is a private, co-educational day school. ... The University of Chicago Hospitals are a set of hospitals located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Yerkes Observatory is an astronomy observatory of the University of Chicago, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. ...

Campus The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

Burton-Judson Courts • Chicago Theological SeminaryGerald Ratner Athletics CenterHutchinson HallJohn Crerar LibraryMidway PlaisanceOriental InstituteQuadrangle ClubRegenstein Library • Reynolds Club • Robie HouseRockefeller Chapel • Seminary Co-op • Shoreland Hotel • Snell-Hitchcock There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Chicago Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary of the United Church of Christ. ... The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center is a $51 million state-of-the-art athletics facility within the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood. ... Hutchinson Hall at the University of Chicago is modelled on the hall of Christ Church, Oxford. ... The John Crerar Library at the University of Chicago is recognized as one of the best libraries in the country for research and teaching in the sciences, medicine, and technology. ... Midway Plaisance is a linear park located near Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois approximately 5 miles from the downtown Loop area. ... The Oriental Institute (OI) is the University of Chicagos archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern studies. ... Quadrangle Club is the name of the faculty club at the University of Chicago. ... Regenstein Library is the main library of the University of Chicago. ... The Robie House The Robie House, as featured on a USPS stamp The Robie House is a residential masterpiece designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1910. ... Rockefeller Chapel is the tallest building on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. ... Seminary Cooperative Bookstores, Inc. ... The Shoreland The Shoreland Hotel is an officially registered historical site (on the National Register of Historic Places) in the U.S. state of Illinois, and has been registered thus since 1986. ... Snell-Hitchcock comprises two residence halls at the University of Chicago. ...

History The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

Chicago Pile 1George Herbert Jones LaboratoryMetallurgical LaboratoryNotable Faculty and AlumniOld University of ChicagoStagg Field On December 2, 1942, the worlds first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction took place in the worlds first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile Number One, shortened as CP-1, built on a racquets court under the abandoned west stands of the Alonzo Stagg Field stadium on the University... The George Herbert Jones Laboratory, at 5747 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is a facility building of the University of Chicago. ... The Metallurgical Laboratory or Met Lab at the University of Chicago was part of the World War II–era Manhattan Project, created by the United States to develop an atomic bomb. ... // Notable Alumni Nobel Laureates Luis Alvarez (S.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph. ... The University of Chicago, now known as the Old University of Chicago, was a Baptist college founded in 1857 by Stephen Douglas. ... Stagg Field was a stadium in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Sports and Traditions The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

MaroonsBig Ten Conference • O-Week • Scavenger HuntSummer BreezeUniversity Athletic Association Big Ten redirects here. ... Qwazy Quad Rally: Wacky Races against Judges Dick Dastardly and Muttley! Scav Hunt 2005, item #38. ... Summer Breeze is an annual event at the University of Chicago. ... The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ...

Student Organizations The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...

The Chicago MaroonChicago WeeklyThe Midway ReviewDoc Films • FOTA • Hype • The Second City • University Theater • WHPK-FM The Chicago Maroon, known as the independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892, is a semi-weekly publication with a circulation of 7,500. ... Doc Films, or the Documentary Film Group, is on record with the Museum of Modern Art in New York as the longest running student-film group in the United States, founded in 1929 at the University of Chicago. ... The Second City Logo The Second City is a long-running improvisational comedy troupe based in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago, with offshoot troupes in other cities, most notably Toronto. ... WHPK 88. ...

References


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