The Chicago Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. They are named after the color

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. Team colors are maroon and gray, and the

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is their mascot. They now compete in the

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, mostly as members of the

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. The University of Chicago helped found the

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in 1895, although it dropped football in 1939 (as inconsistent with its academic vision), its other teams remained members until 1946. Football returned as a club sport in 1963, as a varsity sport in 1969, and began competing independently in Division III in 1973. The school was part of the

Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference The Midwest Conference (MWC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The Midwest Conference was ...

from 1976 to 1987, and its football team joined the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference's successor, the

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(MWC), in 2017. In the 2018–19 school year, Chicago added baseball to its MWC membership, and elevated its club team in women's lacrosse to full varsity status, with that sport competing in the

College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) is a college athletic conference which competes in the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). CCIW schools have accounted for 50 national championships i ...

(CCIW).

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is the home stadium for the re-instated

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Men's athletics

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*Basketball – ''see:

Chicago Maroons men's basketball The Chicago Maroons men's basketball team is an NCAA Division III college basketball team competing in the University Athletic Association. Home games are played at the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, located on the University of Chicago's campus ...

'' * Cross Country *Football – ''see:

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'' *

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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*Indoor and Outdoor

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– considered two separate sports by the NCAA *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Women's athletics

*Basketball – ''see:

Chicago Maroons women's basketball The Chicago Maroons women's basketball team is an NCAA Division III college basketball team competing in the University Athletic Association. Home games are played at the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, located on the University of Chicago's camp ...

'' * Cross Country *

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*Indoor and Outdoor

– considered two separate sports by the NCAA *

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Big Ten Conference

The Maroons helped establish the Big Ten Conference (then known as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, and commonly called the Western Conference) at a follow-up meeting on February 8, 1896. The league initially consisted of Chicago, Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern.

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was awarded the first Heisman trophy in 1935. Hall of Fame coach

Amos Alonzo Stagg Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfie ...

coached the football team from 1892–1932, the basketball team from 1920–1921, and the baseball team from 1893–1905 and 1907–1913. He encouraged players to adopt

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, believing it supported both athleticism and a "gentle and gentlemanly" sportsmanship. The football team was dropped following the 1939 season. In explaining the reason to drop football, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university’s president, had written acidly in The Saturday Evening Post “In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one.” On March 7, 1946 the University of Chicago withdrew from the Big Ten Conference. On May 31, 1946 the resignation was formally accepted by the Big Ten Conference.

Championships

National and NCAA championships

*Basketball (poll): 1906–07, 1907–08, and 1908–09 (

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) *Football (poll):

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(Helms Athletic Foundation),

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( Parke H. Davis) *Men's Gymnastics: 1938 (team title), 9 individual champions *Men's Soccer:

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*Men's Tennis:

*Men's Track & Field (Outdoor): 7 individual champions *Kris Alden: 1989 Men's Swimming Individual Champion *Rhaina Echols: 1999 Women's Cross Country Individual Champion, 2000 Women's Indoor (3,000-meter run and 5,000-meter run) and 2000 Women's Outdoor Individual Track Champion (5,000-meter run) *Tom Haxton: 2004 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (10,000-meter run) *Adeoye Mabogunje: 2004 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (Triple Jump) *Peter Wang: 1991 & 1992 Wrestling Individual Champion *Liz Lawton: 2010 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Individual Champion (5,000-meter run and 10,000-meter run) *Michael Bennett: 2014 Men's Indoor Track & Field Individual Champion (Pole Vault) *Michelle Dobbs: 2016 Women's Indoor Track & Field Individual Champion (800-meter run) *Khia Kurtenbach: 2017 Women's Cross Country Individual Champion

University Athletic Association championships

*Men's Basketball: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008 *Women's Basketball: 1989, 2008, 2011, 2012 *Men's Cross Country: 2002, 2004 *Women's Cross Country: 1992, 1993, 2012, 2013, 2022 *Football: 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014 *Men's Soccer: 2001, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 *Women's Soccer: 1994, 1996, 1999, 2010 *Softball: 1996 *Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 2002, 2008 *Women's Track & Field (Indoor): 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2018 *Women's Track & Field (Outdoor): 2015 *Wrestling: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 *Women's Tennis: 2010, 2012, 2022 *Men's Tennis 2018, 2022

Midwest Conference championships

All championships listed here were won when the league was known as the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference, and only sponsored men's sports. The Midwest Conference was established in its current form in 1994 with the merger of the MCAC and Midwest Athletic Conference for Women. *Men's Soccer: 1978 *Men's Tennis: 1984 *Women's Tennis: 1983 *Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 1980 *Women's Track & Field (Outdoor): 1983, 1984

Big Ten Conference championships

*Baseball: 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1913 *Men's Basketball: 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1924 *Men's 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 *Men's Golf: 1922, 1924, 1926 *Men's Gymnastics: 1909, 1914, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 *Men's Swimming: 1916, 1919, 1921 *Men's Tennis: 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939 *Men's Track & Field (Indoor): 1911, 1915, 1917 *Men's Track & Field (Outdoor): 1905, 1908, 1917

Fight song

''Wave the Flag (For Old Chicago)'' is the

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for the Maroons. Gordon Erickson wrote the lyrics in 1929. The tune was adapted from

Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10 ...

's "Marching Song" written in 1908 by

Raymond H. Burke Raymond Hugh Burke (November 4, 1881 – August 18, 1954) was a teacher, businessman and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's third district. Raymond H. Burke was born in Nicholsville, Ohio, the son of Daniel Fletche ...

, a University of Chicago graduate who joined Miami's faculty in 1906. The song is traditionally sung by the players at midfield after all home victories."Chicago Traditions"
at

official website (accessed 2012-12-29).

References

External links

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