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Bowdoin College currently fields teams in fourteen men's sports and sixteen women's sports. The polar bear team name was selected to honor Robert Peary of the class of 1877 who lead the first expedition that reached the North Pole. [3] All Bowdoin Polar Bears sports teams compete in NCAA Division III, and 25 of 30 teams compete in the NESCAC.
Bowdoin Polar Bears: Bowdoin College: Brunswick: NESCAC: Colby Mules: Colby College: Waterville: NESCAC: Husson Eagles: Husson University: Bangor: North Atlantic [a] Maine–Farmington Beavers: University of Maine at Farmington: Farmington: North Atlantic: Maine–Presque Isle Owls: University of Maine at Presque Isle: Presque Isle: North ...
Williams began its inaugural football season in 1881 and its rivalry with Amherst College is one of the longest at any level of college football. [1] Bates and Bowdoin have competed against each other athletically since the 1870s and subsequently share one of the ten oldest NCAA Division III football rivalries, in the United States, there is a long history of athletic competition between the ...
Sidney J. Watson Arena, or simply Watson Arena, is an ice hockey arena on the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Watson Arena seats 1,900 plus additional standing room. The arena opened on January 18, 2009, and is home to the Bowdoin Polar Bears men's and women's ice hockey teams. The arena is named for former Athletic Director Sid ...
The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (CBB) is an athletic conference and academic consortium between three private liberal arts colleges in the U.S. State of Maine. The group consists of Colby College in Waterville , Bates College in Lewiston , and Bowdoin College in Brunswick .
A bigger surprise came soon after construction of the rink commenced when the athletic council announced that ice hockey would immediately become a 'major' sport. Hockey had only been informally played at the school prior to the war but the athletic council decided to make the change in the light of other local schools, particularly Bates ...
Designed by and named for Bowdoin College alumnus and professor Frank N. Whittier, the field opened on October 3, 1896, [2] with a football game between Bowdoin and Maine State College (now the Black Bears of the University of Maine). Whittier's interest in athletics also led him to help with the design and construction of the new Sargent ...
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