The Chicago Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the

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. They are named after the color

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. Team colors are maroon and gray, and Phil 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

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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 (CCIW).

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is the home stadium for the re-instated

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Conference affiliation

Big Ten Conference

University of Chicago 1895-96 Basketball Team

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. Baseball team of 1915 Hall of Fame coach

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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.

Varsity teams

Facilities

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Former

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Championships

National and NCAA championships

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

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) *Football (poll): 1905 (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

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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 University of Chicago