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The Old Trinity Club is rumored to have started when an editor-in-chief of the Duke Chronicle was passed up for membership and decided to create his rival society. The Old Trinity Club is the most visible society on campus today, as its members are seen walking around campus wearing black graduation gowns and sunglasses on certain days of the year.
The Trident Society, also known as TS, is an American collegiate secret society at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. [1] [2] The Trident Society is often considered the most secretive and prestigious of the societies at Duke University, [3] and inherited the mission of The Order of the Red Friars and The Order of the White Duchy.
Duke was originally known as Trinity College and the athletic teams were known as the Methodists, while Wake Forest's athletic teams were known at the time as the Baptists. The series is 60–40–2 in favor of Duke through the 2024 season. Duke won the most recent matchup in 2024 by a score of 23–17.
Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research. [15] As of 2024, 16 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Duke alumni also include 50 Rhodes Scholars. Duke is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Richard Nixon) and fourteen living billionaires, as of early 2020. [16]
Duke is consistently ranked at or near the top of the list of FBS schools which graduate nearly all of their football players. Duke has topped the list 12 years, earning it the most Academic Achievement Awards of any university. Notre Dame has been honored six times, while Boston College and Northwestern have won the award four times each. [39]
Pages in category "Clubs and societies in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 201 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team is the men's soccer program that represents Duke University. The Blue Devils compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). They won their first and only NCAA tournament in 1986, co-captained by their current head coach, John Kerr Jr. and Mike Linenberger.
Duke has been ranked as the #1 team in the nation 235 weeks in their history. Duke had not lost a non-conference game at Cameron from 2000 until 2019, when SFASU beat Duke in overtime (85–83). Duke maintains a tradition of hosting the previous season's Division II national champion in an exhibition game each November.