Tufts Jumbos

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Tufts Jumbos
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The Tufts Jumbos are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The Jumbos compete at NCAA Division III level as member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Like all Division III schools, Tufts does not offer athletic scholarships. Coed and women's sailing are the only Division I sports at the school.

Tufts won the NACDA Directors' Cup in 2021-22 as the most successful team in NCAA Division III that year.[2]

The University mascot is named for Jumbo the elephant. P.T.Barnum donated this famous circus animal's stuffed hide to Tufts University, where it was displayed at the P.T. Barnum Hall for many years. The hide was destroyed in a fire in April 1975. The salvaged ashes of Jumbo were placed in a peanut butter jar, which continues to serve as a good luck charm for Tufts athletics teams.[3]

Sports sponsored

Men's sports Women's sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross Country
Cross Country Fencing
Football Field Hockey
Golf Golf
Ice Hockey Lacrosse
Lacrosse Rowing
Rowing Sailing
Sailing Soccer
Soccer Softball
Squash Squash
Swimming & Diving Swimming & Diving
Tennis Tennis
Track and field Track and field
Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor

Football

The Tufts football program is one of the oldest in the country. The 1,000th game in team history was played during the 2006 season. Historians point to a Tufts versus Harvard game in 1875 as the first game of college football using American football rules.[4][5] The team plays at the Ellis Oval, located on the southwest corner of the campus.

Sailing

The Jumbos particularly stand out in

National Championship, and won more championships in the 1990s than any other team. Several world and Olympic champions have been a part of the Tufts Sailing Team; among them is Tomas Hornos (class of 2010), who was world champion in 2007, and Kaitlin Storck, who was awarded the ICSA Women's College Sailor of the Year trophy in 2008. Others include Roger Altreuter in 1975, R. Stuart Johnstone in 1980, Paul Dickey in 1981, and Senet Bischoff in 1996, who all won the ICSA College Sailor of the Year
trophy.

Other

Tufts Tennis Courts

Men's Squash maintains a top 20 Division I national ranking.

2010 Division III men's lacrosse final.[7] Since then, Tufts has captured NCAA Division III National Championships in women's field hockey (2012),[8] women's softball (three consecutive from 2013 to 2015),[9] men's lacrosse again (2014, 2015),[10] and men's soccer (2014, 2016, 2018, 2019).[11] Tufts teams also reached the 2008 championship game in women's field hockey[8] and the 2011 championship game in men's lacrosse.[10]

References

  1. ^ Tufts University Visual Identity Standards Quick Guide (PDF). Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "Tufts, Grand Valley and Texas Secure LEARFIELD Directors' Cups". National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. June 16, 2022. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  3. ^ "Tufts Journal: Tufts at 150: Elephant tales".
  4. ^ "Gridiron gridlock". The Boston Globe. September 23, 2004.
  5. ^ Smith, R.A. "Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics", New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
  6. ^ "Athletics Department – Tufts University". Ase.tufts.edu. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  7. ^ Mike Preston, Tufts tops Salisbury, 9–6, for Division III title; Sea Gulls fall behind early, can't catch up to Jumbos, The Baltimore Sun, May 30, 2010.
  8. ^ a b "DIII Field Hockey". NCAA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  9. ^ "DIII Softball". NCAA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  10. ^ a b "DIII Men's Lacrosse". NCAA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  11. ^ "DIII Men's Soccer". NCAA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2015.

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