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Bowdoin College, c. 1845 (Lithograph by Fitz Hugh Lane). Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts State Legislature and was later redirected under the jurisdiction of the Maine Legislature. [13] It was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor. [14]
The state's three oldest institutions of higher education are Bowdoin College (founded in 1794), Colby College (1813), and Bates College (1855). The three colleges collectively form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium and are ranked among the best colleges in the United States; often placing in the top 10 percent of all liberal arts colleges. [2 ...
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 ...
Bowdoin College fielded an official varsity football team for the first time in 1899, losing to Tufts 8–4 in its first game. Bowdoin football achieved its first win in the following game in a 42–0 win over the Boston Latin School. [10] The Polar Bears' most prominent current football rivals are in-state NESCAC foes Bates and Colby.
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.
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David Carr MacAndrew (May 30, 1874 – August 15, 1937) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowdoin College in 1898, Western Reserve University—now known as Case Western Reserve University—from 1898 to 1899, and Saint Mary's College of California from 1915 to 1916, compiling a career college football coaching record of 19–18–1.
Bowdoin College alumni. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A. Bowdoin Polar Bears athletes (8 C) M ... Statistics; Cookie ...