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A varsity team is the highest level sports team regularly representing a high school. [1] Varsity teams compete against each other during a given athletic season. [2] In the United States, a varsity team is one step above a school's junior varsity (JV) team and composed of more experienced players.
Map of FBS football programs as of 2024. This is a list of the 134 schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. [1] By definition, all schools in this grouping have varsity football teams.
High school football, also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both countries. It is the level of tackle football that is played before college football.
Football and men's basketball are usually a university's only profitable sports, [4] and are called "revenue sports". [5] From 2008 to 2012, 205 varsity teams were dropped in NCAA Division I – 72 for women and 133 for men, with men's tennis, gymnastics and wrestling hit particularly hard. [6]
College football was first broadcast on radio in 1921, and first broadcast on television in 1939. [44] Television became profitable for both schools and the NCAA, which tightly controlled the airing of games in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. [45] The NCAA limited each football team to six television appearances over a two-year period. [45]
Intercollegiate sports began in the United States in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale universities met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing. [13] As rowing remained the preeminent sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations like the Rowing Association of American Colleges ...
The original eight-team tournament expanded to 32 teams in 1938. On March 10, 1940, the National Association for Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) was formed in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1952 , the NAIB was transformed into the NAIA, and with that came the sponsorship of additional sports such as men's golf, tennis and outdoor track and field ...
Toronto Varsity Blues, varsity teams of the University of Toronto Varsity Arena, the Varsity Blues' hockey arena; Varsity Stadium, the Varsity Blues' football stadium; Varsity match, a sports fixture played between traditional rival universities List of British and Irish varsity matches; Varsity (rowing regatta), a student rowing regatta in the ...