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

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(CCIW).

Stagg Field Amos Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two successive football fields for the University of Chicago. Beyond sports, the first Stagg Field (1893–1957) is remembered for its role in a landmark scientific achievement of Enrico Fermi and the Metall ...

is the home stadium for the re-instated

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Men's athletics

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

*Basketball – ''see: Chicago Maroons men's basketball'' * Cross Country *Football – ''see: Chicago Maroons football'' *

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 ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

& Diving *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...

*Indoor and Outdoor

Track & Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

– 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 s ...

Women's athletics

*Basketball – ''see: Chicago Maroons women's basketball'' * Cross Country *

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

& Diving *

*Indoor and Outdoor

– considered two separate sports by the NCAA *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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. Jay Berwanger 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 Springfiel ...

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):

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, 1907–08, and 1908–09 (

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) *Football (poll):

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia ( Shostakovich's 11th Symphony ...

(Helms Athletic Foundation),

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(

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) *Men's Gymnastics: 1938 (team title), 9 individual champions *Men's Soccer: 2022 *Men's Tennis: 2022 *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

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's "Marching Song" written in 1908 by Raymond H. Burke, 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

* {{College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin navbox